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Lockheed Martin Now Has a Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor
When it first announced the project, the company said it could have a working prototype of the revolutionary power source as early as 2019.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...its-potentially-world-changing-fusion-reactor
Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system the size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.
If the system works, it’s hard to underscore just how dramatically it could change not just the future of warfare, but the basic nature of human existence. Running on approximately 25 pounds of fuel – a mixture of hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium – Lockheed Martin estimated the notional reactor would be able to run for an entire year without stopping. The device would be able to generate a constant 100 megawatts of power during that period.
[video=youtube;UlYClniDFkM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYClniDFkM[/video]
Lockheed Martin Now Has a Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor
When it first announced the project, the company said it could have a working prototype of the revolutionary power source as early as 2019.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...its-potentially-world-changing-fusion-reactor
Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system the size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.
If the system works, it’s hard to underscore just how dramatically it could change not just the future of warfare, but the basic nature of human existence. Running on approximately 25 pounds of fuel – a mixture of hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium – Lockheed Martin estimated the notional reactor would be able to run for an entire year without stopping. The device would be able to generate a constant 100 megawatts of power during that period.
[video=youtube;UlYClniDFkM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYClniDFkM[/video]