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Texas Proud |
If this became reality it would be epic gamechanger! Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system that size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so. Link to full article. NRA Life Patron | ||
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| Big Stack |
I heard about this a couple of years ago, but considered it a bit pie in the sky. If it works its a HUUUUUGGGGEEEE game changer. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
It is certainly cool, but is it cold? The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
And will it fit in a DeLorean? Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Wait, what? |
If it is truly a working fusion reactor, one of the biggest game changers will be no radiation or radioactive waste. Everything else is gravy. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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"Member" |
It would truly destroy mankind. Can you imagine the whole world prosperous, modernized and industrial. Oh don't get me wrong, it'll be good for a while... _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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Spread the Disease |
It would be a rough start. The world fossil fuel economy would collapse. Wars would begin. Same as usual, but worse for a bit. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Funny Man |
They have committed massive R&D dollars and will look first to recoup and turn a profit on those dollars. Nothing will change overnight and they won't be a cheap alternative to fossil fuel for a very long time. Think along the lines of the big pharma model. People still die all over the world from diseases that we handle easily here with expensive drugs. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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But can they squeeze it into a back back and let it fuel my energy beam Gatling gun?!  Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
does it have a magnetic field when running strong enough to trap a T-X Terminator so you can get to the chopper? | |||
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LV-426. Just sayin'... | |||
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| Shit don't mean shit |
Our goals for work are due in a few days. I am currently working on mine. I work in IT, so I have stuff like, further my Python programming skills, close tickets in a timely manner, move soms Production apps to the Cloud, etc... I can only imagine a goal...Get fusion reactor operational! | |||
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| Thank you Very little |
I hear Musk has an operational Arc Reactor coming out soon... | |||
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It’s applications are quantum. If only we could solve the puzzle of clean, cold fusion... ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Ok, I read the article (can't say I understood it all), and I couldn't find anything that answered the major (IMO) concern with these: Can these be modified into weapons such as fusion bombs? Currently, fusion bombs require an atomic fission bomb to create the intense heat and pressures to create a fusion reaction (in a hydrogen bomb, for example, a 20-40KT first stage atomic bomb would provide the 'kick' to drive the fusion reaction, that could yield multiple Megatons of destructive power). They have been trying to figure out how to make fusion bombs without the first stage atomic device for years, but (as far as I've read) haven't succeeded yet. Could this sucker be used to make a quick and cheap fusion bomb? I'm assuming not, as they are intending these things for commercial use (from the sounds of it). I was just wondering if any physics dudes would have a dumbed-down explanation that I could understand. . . It's a potential game-changer, though. It could be our big chance to negate a lot of the trouble that the Middle East has been causing us for the past 50 years. . . Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| bigger government = smaller citizen  |
Awesome. Getting closer to heaven:  “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom |
I want one. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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Electricity will be too cheap to meter. https://public-blog.nrc-gatewa...story-of-the-phrase/ _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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If my memory serves me, we went from the Manhattan Project to dropping the first atomic bomb in about 5 years. That was fission. We’ve been working on fusion for decades and the last I read, we could make a reaction last a minute. I think we’re a long ways away. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I can relate. That IS totally awesome to have in your goals. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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