{"id":76729,"date":"2022-12-28T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesensei.com\/?p=76729"},"modified":"2023-12-25T03:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T08:19:32","slug":"how-the-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-is-bringing-in-a-new-era-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sciencesensei.com\/how-the-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-is-bringing-in-a-new-era-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nuclear Fusion Is Bringing In a New Era of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recently, the U.S. Nuclear Ignition Facility announced that they were successful in creating “ignition.” This basically meant that a nuclear reaction was created and generated more energy than it consumed. In other words, nuclear fusion was created for the first time<\/a><\/strong> in human history. Of course, nuclear fusion is something we see in stars. They produce a lot of energy and routinely generate more energy than they consume. To grasp the concept of nuclear fusion a little easier, imagine you have a portable battery charged at 100% yet you need to charge your dead phone at 0% charge.<\/p>\n You plug the phone into the portable battery to charge, then come back an hour or two later. You then discover that your battery is still at 100% but your phone is also at 100% too. The battery never left the 100% territory but it still charged your phone entirely. Your battery, due to this, produced a lot of energy and was not phased by it at all. Nuclear fusion works the same way in that it can create a ton of energy to help out humanity. The energy levels fusion produces can be so extreme that it can lead to species-altering opportunities. We decided it would be good to dive into some of the things you can likely expect it to be used for.<\/p>\n