{"id":39087,"date":"2013-10-07T22:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/ah-fusion.html"},"modified":"2013-10-09T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:49:41","slug":"ah-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/ah-fusion.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Fusion!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've had a sneaking weakness for fusion as a power source since I was in high school and used it as a debate topic. \u00a0This sounds like a significant milestone indeed.<\/div>\n

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Fusion milestone passed at US lab<\/a><\/p>\n

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I've had a sneaking weakness for fusion as a power source since I was in high school and used it as a debate topic. \u00a0This sounds like a significant milestone indeed. Fusion milestone passed at US lab View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,131,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-energy","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137592,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/fusion-baby-fusion.html","url_meta":{"origin":39087,"position":0},"title":"Fusion, baby! 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Fusion is tremendously exciting as a power source -- but also tremendously hard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128662,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/fusion-with-a-twist.html","url_meta":{"origin":39087,"position":2},"title":"Fusion with a Twist","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Nov-15 4:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tokamaks may be old hat, as a new generation Stellerator fusion reactor comes online.http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/350\/6259\/369.fullI've been a huge fan of fusion as a long-term electrical source for a very long time. 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