{"id":13796,"date":"2017-01-24T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:15:39","slug":"sci-tech-tedxla-video-harry-hamlin-nuclear-fusion-and-tri-alpha-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13796","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: TEDxLA Video &#8211; Harry Hamlin, nuclear fusion, and Tri Alpha Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\u00a0Harry Hamlin gives an entertaining TEDxLA talk on how he got involved with the development of nuclear fusion power and the formation of the company <a href=\"http:\/\/trialphaenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tri Alpha Energy<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13771\" target=\"_blank\">recent posting here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-L6C3SPdhxs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=videogames&amp;banner=01P8JKMA2YDAAKYSSSR2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=884aaf5823d775bbba0b1eaff4d628ae&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor\u00a0Harry Hamlin gives an entertaining TEDxLA talk on how he got involved with the development of nuclear fusion power and the formation of the company Tri Alpha Energy (see recent posting here): &nbsp; ====<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Aw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2312,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2312","url_meta":{"origin":13796,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Helion Energy update + Tri-Alpha Energy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Helion Energy is a spinoff firm from research led by\u00a0Dr. John Slough\u00a0 at the University of Washington that is seeking to build a practical nuclear fusion power system. 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