{"id":618,"date":"2008-01-10T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=618"},"modified":"2008-01-10T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:39:44","slug":"speaking-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s news that the team continuing the late Dr. Bussard&#8217;s work on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polywell\">inertial electrostatic fusion<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/iecfusiontech.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/wb-7-first-plasma.html\">fired up their first test machine<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a long way to go towards replicating Dr. Bussard&#8217;s results &#8212; true nuclear fusion that produces net power <i>without<\/i> any residual radiation &#8212; but it will be revolutionary if they do.<\/p>\n<p>Current approaches to nuclear fusion may well turn out to produce net power, but they have the nasty habit of turning all their machinery radioactive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s news that the team continuing the late Dr. Bussard&#8217;s work on inertial electrostatic fusion have fired up their first test machine for the first time. There is still a long way to go towards replicating Dr. Bussard&#8217;s results &#8212; true nuclear fusion that produces net power without any residual radiation &#8212; but it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaking of Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}