Lockheed Martin Claims Fusion Breakthrough That Could Change World Forever

Forbes ^ | October 15, 2014 | William Pentland

[2ndDivisionVet]

Lockheed Martin, the aerospace and defense conglomerate based in Bethesda, Md., is claiming to have made a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, which could lead to development of reactors small enough to fit on the back of a truck within a decade.

In the simplest terms, nuclear fission breaks a single atom into two whereas nuclear fusion combines two atoms into one.

Fusion, the holy grail of nuclear power, creates three to four times as much energy as fission. More importantly, fusion’s key advantage over fission is that it does not produce cancer-causing radioactive waste.

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Tom McGuire, who heads the project, told Reuters that his team had been working on fusion energy at Lockheed’s Skunk Works program for the past four years, but decided to go public with the news now to recruit additional partners in industry and government to support their work....

[dinodino]

They should save their money and talk to Rossi-—he has LENR reactors working with just a nod, a wink, and a pinch between the gum and cheek. Oh, yeah...and as many gullible angel dollars as you care to fork over.

[Mygirlsmom]

reactors small enough to fit on the back of a truck within a decade

How about a DeLorean?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

“It’s safe, it’s clean, and Lockheed is promising an operational unit by 2017 with assembly line production to follow, enabling everything from unlimited fresh water to engines that take spacecraft to Mars in one month instead of six,” Evan Ackerman wrote in a post about Chase’s Google GOOGL -1.5% talk on Dvice.

Sounds too good to be true.

If it IS true... Wow!

[mikey_hates_everything]

I would rather have the flying car by now but a Mr. Fusion is good, too.

[mrsmith]

BS. PR in response to the very promising University of Washington scheme recently announced.

[VTenigma]

And the next Marxist president will sneak it to the Chinese.

[Dagnabitt]

Look forward to seeing the Saudi’s selling their oil for 5 dollars a barrel.

[bigbob]

Not any more, Rossi sold it to Industrial Heat.

So.

I’m still waiting for the home atomic power plant that we were promised in the 1950s.

[WMarshal]

If fusion power becomes a reality The price of oil will drop to the floor and everything made out of it from plastics to fertilizer will drop to the floor. Houston will become a ghost town just like it did in the 70s.

I hope it happens - The standard of living will rise throughout the world and especially in America.

[Paladin2]

I’d settle for the unmetered grid power that was also promised.

[xone]

cancer-causing radioactive waste.

Yeah that's the major problem with radioactive waste, cancer.

[Salvavida]

It's Lockheed Martin. Their management will underwhelm and overbill to the point where steam ships will be a more attractive option.

Said the man who wasted 2.5 years with that worthless company.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“... but decided to go public with the news now to recruit additional partners in industry and government to support their work....”

Mostly government they are especially naive and stupid and can be purchased for a few trips to resorts with complimentary golf, wine and whores.

[I cannot think of a name]

This would be great news, but nothing about this story seems right.

If true, this would be a world changer. Whole industries would be born and whole industries would be born. Changes would occur in every facet of life as we know it.

And such an announcement is being made through a nondescript press release? Somethings wrong here.

[Cats Pajamas]

Sounds like you work somewhere close by Rossi?

[Balding_Eagle]

Read this news report carefully, and treasure it, I don’t doubt the veracity of this news. It is the last and final word we will hear about it.

[MMaschin]

The left will never allow this to happen, as Paul Ehrlich once said - "giving society cheap energy, is like giving an idiot child a machine gun!".

Environmentalists believe that energy, and a higher standard of living results in increased population, and that the one true environmental issue - too many damn people. That is the true purpose behind the push to regulate CO2, increase the cost of energy.

[MV=PY]

"Read this news report carefully, and treasure it, I don’t doubt the veracity of this news. It is the last and final word we will hear about it."

Why do you say that?

[Zuse]

Could be true. Maybe even a Golden Age after Armageddon.