If LM was really able to do this they wouldn’t be making a press release looking for partners.
Not necessarily.
I don’t think they’d be making this type of claim unless they had a working model somewhere. You are looking at only two years between whatever they might have in the lab and the potential for it to be marketed to every home in America.
It depends on the nature of the partnership they are looking for. Just because they are one of the best R&D companies in the world does not mean that they are good at everything, like mass marketing for example.
It's fairly common for companies to issue press releases to attract investors. Their other main option is to look for government funding.
i figured they released this to get some grant money from some alphabet agency, to keep them in the govt loop and make sure their other current projects don’t get dropped - whether this claim is real or not.
You wanna cut the f-35? so you’re not interested in our nuclear fusion project going on...?
Latest entrant in the fusion sweepstakes: Lockheed Martin - February 15th, 2013