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Post by alpineboard » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 9:16 pm

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact ... usion.html
This will change the world as we know it, if it can be done economically as stated. It can already be done, it just takes more energy to produce what the output is producing. There are plenty of info sources on this with many opinions.
Anyone on how it will effect coal. This may be sooner than you think, in our life time.
How about warp drive space travel. Warpdrive.org lots of info on this if you hunt around, the theory is already there, we just need the technology to catch up.

 
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Post by urdahere » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 9:51 pm

Achievement of this process would be incredible. Incidentally, back in 2011 I had the privilege of leading a Rotary International Group Study team to Japan. One site that we visited was the Japan Atomic Energy Institute - Naka Fusion Lab. ( http://www.jaea.go.jp/english/news/p10020402/index.shtml ) I had no idea what I was looking at, but I knew that the temperature of the sun was reached for 1 second in this facility. It will happen some day and hopefully will solve our energy issues.


 
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Post by confedsailor » Fri. Oct. 24, 2014 8:31 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor

All the technical bits if you wanted to see.

The only downside I see to this is the D-T fuel is going to give off a massive amount of Neutrons, so the Gadget is going to be very "hot". However, with no decay heat requirements like a fission reactor, the safety engineering aspect will be much much simpler.

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