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.
(Excerpt) Read more at twaddle.newsvine.com ...
Yes. It’s up on the shelf next to the 100 mpg carburetor.
Believe it, before you know it, it will be here.
I expect this to be the next step in the evolution of energy generation, as well as another step forward in the evolutionary process of mankind. The same process which powers the Stars and Suns of our universe. Just consider how far we have come in only a little over one hundred years. From the discovery of radium in a tedious process of separating it from pitchblende by Marie Sklodowska, who by the way was the only woman ever to receive a Nobel Prize in two disciplines, physics and chemistry.
Fast forward, utilizing that discovery only about fifty years later the first nuclear exchange leveled Hiroshima and while Japan was still attempting to come to grips with what actually happened, three days later a second nuclear device annihilated Nagasaki. Both nuclear exchanges where milestones in the evolutionary process of “Modern Man” Even so it was nothing to be proud of, with the exception of settling a conflict which otherwise would have taken many more life’s would it have continued.
But by no means was it the first time that mankind had witnessed the application of nuclear power in a destructive manner. The first time around, at least in recorded history was about 4040 years ago, which is no more than a blink of an eye within the scope of time and eternity.
The previous or last known nuclear event took place on the Sinai Peninsular approximately 4000 years ago or 2024 BC and found its way in to history books as the event which became known as Sodom and Gomorrah.
The winds carry the radioactive cloud to Sumer. People die a terrible death , animals perish, the water is poisoned, the soil become barren. Sumer and it’s great civilization lie prostrate. Its legacy passes to Abraham’s son he begets-at age 100 - a legitimate heir: Isaac
And by the way, the remaining scars from this first nuclear exchange in that region can still be seen from a satellite photograph. The question remains will mankind learns from its mistakes or are we condemned to repeat them until we learn from history.
History has a nasty habit of wanting to repeat itself. If it happens it should come as no surprise, as sooner than later scores will have to be settled on a political as well as religious level. Since humans are habitual slow learners when it comes to certain issues, unfortunately and invariably it may take another conflict to settle such issues.
At least it is refreshing to see and know that humans also strife for a more useful utilization of nuclear power as the foregoing article points out.
I’m sure we are only 10 years away, just like the last 50 years.
How many other Fortune 100 companies are investing in this?
If it is the SK, then they already have it working, likely powering some sort of air or space craft.
It’s the commercial version which will see the light in the coming decades. And no, you won’t see it until a public version is available.
It does NOT quench out real quick. It quenches out really, really, really, really quick.
“Wait a minute... I thought you were bought out by the oil companies so they could keep it out of the market.”
I’m working on it, but they’re not biting ... yet.
I've BEEN imagining it. I'd like to see it.
Yeah. Fusion is the energy source of the future. And it always will be.
Nevertheless I can still hope.
Do you have the inside track with the Robert Heinlein mentioned in reference to a listing of a Shipstone?
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