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Lockheed Martin Claims Sustainable Fusion Is Within Its Grasp
twaddle.newsvine.com ^ | 2015-03-04 | twaddle.newsvine.com

Posted on 03/05/2015 8:06:11 PM PST by Dallas59

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works claims the ability to generate cheap energy from nuclear fusion with little waste or global warming is within its grasp.

Imagine a source of electrical power that uses water for fuel, produces byproducts that are totally safe and releases no air pollution.

Then imagine that once it's up and running, it'll be so portable that an entire power plant could fit into the cargo hold of an airplane. Now, imagine that it'll be running in prototype form in five years and operating commercially in ten.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheap; energy; fusion; lockheedmartin
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To: Dallas59

I wish them the very best of luck, but how many times have we heard this same crap over the last 20 years.


21 posted on 03/05/2015 8:51:11 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: aquila48

“Fusion power has been just around the corner for 50 years.”

Yep. And I’ve got this miracle battery that’s ALMOST ready to manufacture. It’s a 6” cube that weighs 100 pounds, doesn’t require exotic materials, charges in 4 hours, lasts for 20 years without maintenance, holds enough power to run a car for a week and will cost only $1,000.00.

And did I mention it’s almost ready to manufacture? I figure about one more year and the few remaining kinks will be worked out. I’m in the process of gathering investors right now too, you know, if you want in on the deal. A much better deal than some fusion reactor that’s always just around the corner.


22 posted on 03/05/2015 8:54:34 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Vince Ferrer
It will be banned in America. The Chinese will build them, though.

You joke, but a lot of people would like to try and keep us dependent on middle eastern oil.
23 posted on 03/05/2015 8:54:54 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Dallas59
Electricity too cheap to meter.

It's 1950.     Again.


24 posted on 03/05/2015 8:56:23 PM PST by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: Dallas59

The King prohibits such devices.


25 posted on 03/05/2015 8:56:59 PM PST by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: The Duke

Well, if it was not about the bucks, we would have very little inovation now wouldn’t we? You sir are so wrong as to almost be of another generation!


26 posted on 03/05/2015 8:58:35 PM PST by Deagle (gardless of)
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To: Dallas59

Liberals would still complain.


27 posted on 03/05/2015 9:02:06 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: aquila48

The promising thing that I saw in this is that LM is spending their own money on it. Not their usual tactic of bleeding the govt. Very unusual for them. They must want sole and undisputed ownership.

Another thing is that they are a greed driven entity that is ruthless & strong enough to withstand bribery & threats. With trillions of dollars and national economies at risk, concerned parties will bribe or kill people (Ask yourself what would Putin do?). Just sayin...


28 posted on 03/05/2015 9:03:09 PM PST by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: af_vet_rr
You joke, but a lot of people would like to try and keep us dependent on middle eastern oil.

I am not joking. If you really look at the philosophy of the lilly whites, you will find that deep down their environmentalism is a vehicle for mass murder of people they don't like to produce a garden of eden in which they are in charge. The only way the environment can be fixed in their minds, is through mass depopulation. Environmentalism is mostly just a cover story. Fusion would allow the current population to exist, and in a much cleaner environment. This is not what the lilly whites want, and so they will ban it.

However, the lilly white's policies are getting less and less traction overseas. China will work in its own interest. So will India. None of them will commit suicide just because our ruling class wants them to.

"When two scientists announced last month in Utah that they had achieved room-temperature nuclear fusion, the news shot through the halls of science like a scalded cat. "It was," one Berkeley physicist said, "like seeing your car suddenly jump on the roof." It was that unexpected and stunning.

But now that the first waves of astonishment, wonder and euphoria have passed, a few scientists, environmentalists and ecological activists have begun to have more troubling thoughts. For one thing, they say, even if desktop fusion really works--a matter still very much up in the air--it is unclear that the power produced will be as cheap or clean as many have suggested it might be.

And even if it were, given society's dismal record in managing technology, the prospect of cheap, inexhaustible power from fusion is "like giving a machine gun to an idiot child," Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich says. Laments Washington-based author-activist Jeremy Rifkin, "It's the worst thing that could happen to our planet." Inexhaustible power, he argues, only gives man an infinite ability to exhaust the planet's resources, to destroy its fragile balance and create unimaginable human and industrial waste. "

- Fear of Fusion: What if it Works?

29 posted on 03/05/2015 9:14:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Dallas59

Sounds like 1950 all over again.


30 posted on 03/05/2015 9:20:39 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: bunkerhill7

Fusion reactors aren’t terribly useful as WMD.


31 posted on 03/05/2015 9:26:31 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Slow neutrons will kill you very fast but leave your clothes very neat and unwrinkled.


32 posted on 03/05/2015 9:43:30 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))
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To: 867V309

“too cheap to meter”

Yep very cheap for them to produce, and it will cost the consumer an arm and a leg!


33 posted on 03/05/2015 9:58:48 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: Dallas59

The left will find a way to vilify fusion and tax it out of existence. Energy is freedom from drudgery. The left hates drudgery but wants other to suffer it.


34 posted on 03/05/2015 10:10:14 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: Deagle
I am suggesting that they are in quest of funding, and that the science itself may be no more correct than that of global warming.

This smacks of cronyism to me.

35 posted on 03/05/2015 10:18:33 PM PST by The Duke
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To: The Duke

Funding is just a means to power! Of course so isw global warming science so I guess that if you think that funding is the means to corruption, you are right!

It matters little whether it is politics (including global warming - global politics) or save the whales, it is all the same... One of these days, the stupid will awake, but not in my lifetime. I’m hoping for death before idiots become our leaders again (as seems to have happened the last election - love all these liberal whites who voted for absolution) but have my doubts as it seems to be coming so fast. Wish that I did not have a Son that has to put up with the future!


36 posted on 03/05/2015 10:31:51 PM PST by Deagle (gardless of)
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To: The Duke

Sorry, did not really mean to take it out on you, you just happen to be the last one that made sense...


37 posted on 03/05/2015 10:36:11 PM PST by Deagle (gardless of)
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To: Dallas59

wake me when you’re there, boys and girls.


38 posted on 03/05/2015 10:51:10 PM PST by Reverend Saltine (Don't say, "the administration," or "the EPA"--say "OBAMA." Give him full credit)
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To: catnipman

“Yep. And I’ve got this miracle battery that’s ALMOST ready to manufacture. It’s a 6” cube that weighs 100 pounds, doesn’t require exotic materials, charges in 4 hours, lasts for 20 years without maintenance, holds enough power to run a car for a week and will cost only $1,000.00.”

Wait a minute... I thought you were bought out by the oil companies so they could keep it out of the market.


39 posted on 03/05/2015 11:03:02 PM PST by aquila48
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To: FreeInWV

“Another thing is that they are a greed driven entity...”

Aren’t we all.


40 posted on 03/05/2015 11:03:50 PM PST by aquila48
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