Skunk wirks have built a fusion reactor?

[Lefty]

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/gasp-lockheed-sku...

Really?

[benjj]

Hope it's true and works.

Lockheed are one of only a few firms in the world who could get this out into the real world without getting clipped by some oil firm stooge.

[Foliage]

I hope this is true, ive read the odd story here and there about experiments on tritium finding that it could be possibly be made into an energy source.

[superkartracer]

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-...

So a new method of killing people to death

Edited by superkartracer on Thursday 16th October 10:28

[Gargamel]

Buy some shares quick

[McWigglebum4th]

Pah far too big

That will never fit in an ironman suit

[Einion Yrth]

McWigglebum4th said:

Pah far too big

That will never fit in an ironman suit

Or in a DeLorean for that matter.

[paranoid airbag]

Well I trust them a hell of a lot more than I do the cold fusion guy.

If anything bugs me - I specialised in probably the wrong area of physics (and just plain didn't study hard enough) and might not ever be able to contribute to this. The number of problems fusion energy could solve is astounding.

[richie99]

So they've drawn a fusion reactor. Don't know if they can build if, or if it would work if they did. Some way to go then.

[greygoose]

richie99 said:

So they've drawn a fusion reactor. Don't know if they can build if, or if it would work if they did. Some way to go then.

Reality doesn't match the headline sadly.

[DJRC]

Amusing.

That is what they have allowed out into the public knowledge. Which means where they actually are is invariably 2 yrs further on.

Id hazard a fair guess what they really have is impressive. Probably the best professional engineers in the world. Note the "probably" before anyone starts to whinge.

[Tycho]

greygoose said:

richie99 said:

So they've drawn a fusion reactor. Don't know if they can build if, or if it would work if they did. Some way to go then.

Reality doesn't match the headline sadly.

Have you noticed that this kind of stuff is always 10 years off?

[With these feet]

DJRC said:

Amusing.

That is what they have allowed out into the public knowledge. Which means where they actually are is invariably 2 yrs further on.

Id hazard a fair guess what they really have is impressive. Probably the best professional engineers in the world. Note the "probably" before anyone starts to whinge.

I'd agree,considering how ground breaking their stealth development was they must have something concrete to demonstrate, unless its some great jolly jape thats gone further than an inter-departmental prank!

[vescaegg]

I wish this were true but sadly I think Ill be a very old man if and when it actually comes about.

[raftom]

This was originally presented in 2013 at Google Solve for X.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reac...

[scorp]

Reading some other articles on this earlier, from what I can gather it's a theoretical idea, no prototypes built yet.

[PhillipM]

There's a few fusion reactors about. It's just at the minute, we have to put more energy in to power them than we get out...

[loafer123]

[Put's on tinfoil hat]

That might explain the oil price...oil producers pumping and dumping stock as quick as possible before the news comes out...

[/removes tin foil hat]

[FredClogs]

Tycho said:

greygoose said:

richie99 said:

So they've drawn a fusion reactor. Don't know if they can build if, or if it would work if they did. Some way to go then.

Reality doesn't match the headline sadly.

Have you noticed that this kind of stuff is always 10 years off?

They're trying to raise $45million in funding to turn the drawings into reality, even though as a company they posted profits of $2billion last year. They're obviously not that confident in their drawings.

[Crush]

McWigglebum4th said:

Pah far too big

That will never fit in an ironman suit

Oh yeah?