Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details

yeah, but look at all those potential sources of free money!

The fools and their money..

I think the break through will come from a person or persons with funding of their own and have a working device.

Unfortunately, that person would most likely end up missing and some big business name, will all of a sudden, have a similar working device.

Thats what you call a free market, have someone else spend their money to develop it and then pay a hit man, lot cheaper that way. I'm sure there are others here that share my sentiments.

:) Jamie

Then you've left it too late - the Joint European Torus (JET) has already been decommissioned.

But JET won't. Their super-conducting magnets never gave them any trouble that made it into the newspapers.

But the Skunk Works isn't just anybody.

Den onsdag den 22. oktober 2014 06.09.51 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

I was just reading through some of my granddads old popular mechanics from 1964. There was an article on nuclear reactors, they predicted that by 1980's they might be able to generate electricity cheaper than conventional means

-Lasse

I want my fuel-cell powered flying car!

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:20:07 -0400, "Tom Miller" Gave us:

It's not a fusion reactor either.

Lockheed-Martin is a big boy: 116,000 employees and US $45 billion per year turnover. This effort is probably costing them a few million per year. Chump change.

I would guess we are seeing a carefully planned PR campaign now, and that very soon the full technical details will be published in a major peer-reviewed physics journal. The patent applications having been accepted a few months ago.

Joe Gwinn

Instantly (~0.1Sec) noticed it; patched them together. Did it twice. Same result.

You'll have to settle for a hoverbord.

-- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.

I know who Lockheed-Martin are and I have to wonder why if they have this advanced technology as close to working on the claimed scale they have to issue vacuous half baked press releases at this stage.

I guess that we are seeing a loose cannon in the PR dept. YMMV

Time will tell which of us is right!

That is incorrect the infamous nuclear electricity "too cheap to meter" speech was done in the UK by Walter Marshall in the UK but was in fact first coined by Lewis Strauss in the USA 1954.

And it was repeated by a hapless Minister in Harold Wilson's government in 1965 referring to the new AGR nuclear plants. Was he ever wrong!

It has hung around to haunt the nuclear industry ever since.

Probably not. I've never seen a leading dot cause broken formatting in usenet

some software lets you post ling lines some doesn't, some requires special techniques some does't

slrn lets me post long lines, all I have to do is answer yes to the warnining it gives.

His software apparently doesn't OTOH maybe his software regognises URLs but because it was mixed with non-url characters it judged to be not-url,

if I want to say

Were you born obnoxious, or did you have to take lessons?

I had to take out the angle brackets for Firefox.

On 24 Oct 2014 11:34:12 GMT, Jasen Betts Gave us:

But the server you post it on may not accept such a post.

You are, what you grow up with.

Jamie

I took lessons from you.

Robert has done this dozens of times. Every time a link braks, he complains rather than look to see what happened.

Horsemanure. Every complainer about my "page not found" post IGNORES the fact that i instantly saw the problem,fixed what i saw, and still got the badlink message,and tried a fix twice.

Manure yourself.

It worked for me, as usual. If it wasn't an obvious problem a lot of people would be complaining, not just you.