{"id":970,"date":"2006-04-28T11:29:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2006-05-03T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T23:17:37","slug":"really-cool-but-umm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/really-cool-but-umm\/","title":{"rendered":"Really cool but&#8230; umm.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(via my good friend Eric&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/tgifhumor\/\">TGIF Humor<\/a> list)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news-center\/news-releases\/2006\/physics-astron\/hottest-z-output.html\">Sandia\u2019s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 Sandia\u2019s Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin \u2014 hotter than the interiors of stars.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could eventually mean that smaller, less costly nuclear fusion plants would produce the same amount of energy as larger plants. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweet. But doesn&#8217;t.. err that imply that larger fusion plants already exist?<\/p>\n<p>(check out the associated <a title= \"Sandia's Z machine firing. The \u201carcs and sparks\u201d formed at the water-air interface travel between metal conductors. (Photo by Randy Montoya)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news-center\/news-releases\/2006\/images\/z-machine.jpg\">photo<\/a>. It&#8217;s hella-cool.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via my good friend Eric&#8217;s TGIF Humor list) Sandia\u2019s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 Sandia\u2019s Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin \u2014 hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could eventually mean that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}