{"id":3482,"date":"2013-07-18T01:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2013-07-18T01:42:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:42:44","slug":"sci-tech-kickstarting-a-new-inertial-electrostatic-confinement-fusion-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Kickstarting a new Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University students James Parkin and Thomas Clayson believe they have found a highly optimized design for an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inertial_electrostatic_confinement\" target=\"_blank\">inertial electrostatic confinement<\/a> nuclear fusion reactor (often called a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fusor\" target=\"_blank\">Fusor<\/a>) that should produce a far higher fusion rate than standard IEC devices. It might even approach breakeven (i.e. energy out equal energy in).<\/p>\n<p>They are looking to crowdsourcing to raise the \u00a328,000 they need to build and test it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/211656667\/advanced-inertial-confinement-fusion-reactor\" target=\"_d\">Advanced Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion Reactor by James Parkin and Thomas Clayson \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/211656667\/advanced-inertial-confinement-fusion-reactor\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University students James Parkin and Thomas Clayson believe they have found a highly optimized design for an inertial electrostatic confinement nuclear fusion reactor (often called a Fusor) that should produce a far higher fusion rate than standard IEC devices. It might even approach breakeven (i.e. energy out equal energy in). They are looking to crowdsourcing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Kickstarting a new Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion reactor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-3482","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-Ua","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9036,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9036","url_meta":{"origin":3482,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Updates on five fusion power projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm quite optimistic about progress with LENR energy production, it's great to see progress being made on more conventional fusion approaches as well. 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