The US will NOT allow Lockheed to produce energy from their fusion process, even if it were viable.
Folks, do you really think that the US will allow for Saudi to go down the drain?
We are so thick in bed with them it’ll make your head swim.
Who in hell do you think build all these mosques in the country and how many Saudi students are there in the country paying those high tuitions keeping many universities afloat?
Folks, do you really think that the US will allow for Saudi to go down the drain?
Tell us how Lockheed's fusion process would have anything more than a negligible impact on the Saudi economy?
Petroleum isn't used for power generation. Fusion can't produce plastic feedstocks. But fusion can be an economical means of desalinization.
Actually, the Saudis would probably be a major market for the fusion units.