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Lockheed announces fusion breakthrough. Practical reactors within a decade
Posted on 10/15/14 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 10/15/14 at 3:56 pm
Science, bitches
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(Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.
Tom McGuire, who heads the project, said he and a small team had been working on fusion energy at Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works for about four years, but were now going public to find potential partners in industry and government for their work.
Initial work demonstrated the feasibility of building a 100-megawatt reactor measuring seven feet by 10 feet, which could fit on the back of a large truck, and is about 10 times smaller than current reactors, McGuire told reporters.
In a statement, the company, the Pentagon's largest supplier, said it would build and test a compact fusion reactor in less than a year, and build a prototype in five years.
In recent years, Lockheed has gotten increasingly involved in a variety of alternate energy projects, including several ocean energy projects, as it looks to offset a decline in U.S. and European military spending.
Lockheed's work on fusion energy could help in developing new power sources amid increasing global conflicts over energy, and as projections show there will be a 40 percent to 50 percent increase in energy use over the next generation, McGuire said.
If it proves feasible, Lockheed's work would mark a key breakthrough in a field that scientists have long eyed as promising, but which has not yet yielded viable power systems. The effort seeks to harness the energy released during nuclear fusion, when atoms combine into more stable forms.
This post was edited on 10/15/14 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 10/15/14 at 3:57 pm to Jim Rockford
already posted...bitch
Posted on 10/15/14 at 3:58 pm to kingbob
Meh, I looked back two pages, and did a search for "fusion"
Posted on 10/15/14 at 3:59 pm to Jim Rockford
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nuclear fusion
Back to the future already did this. Germans in multiple ways.
Posted on 10/15/14 at 4:03 pm to Jim Rockford
It would be amazing if they could pull that off in a decade. :fingerscrossed:
Cheap, clean energy and no need for taxes disguised as "free-market"solutions.
Cheap, clean energy and no need for taxes disguised as "free-market"solutions.
Posted on 10/15/14 at 4:05 pm to Jim Rockford
3rd board to be posted in...
Posted on 10/15/14 at 4:13 pm to WeeWee
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Cheap, clean energy and no need for taxes disguised as "free-market"solutions.
You just hold your breath.
Posted on 10/15/14 at 4:15 pm to Jim Rockford
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100-megawatt reactor measuring seven feet by 10 feet, which could fit on the back of a large truck
Cool! I could use one of those at my duck camp.
Posted on 10/15/14 at 4:15 pm to Clames
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You just hold your breath.
I probable shouldn't. Government will find a way to regulate or tax it to where it isn't cheap.
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