{"id":626,"date":"2013-02-14T23:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2013-02-14T23:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:57:21","slug":"sci-tech-lockheed-martin-fusion-reactor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Lockheed-Martin fusion reactor project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2013\/02\/new-google-solve-for-x-lockheed.html#more\" target=\"_d\">NextBigFuture.com<\/a> points to an interesting talk given at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solveforx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solve for X forum<\/a> about a Lockheed-Martin\u00a0 Skunkworks project about which I believe little has been revealed previously. In the video below,\u00a0 Charles Chase of L-M discusses their compact nuclear fusion reactor design, which he believes could lead to a working 100MW prototype reactor in 5 years and go into commercial production by 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solveforx.com\/moonshots\/ahJzfmdvb2dsZS1zb2x2ZWZvcnhyEAsSCE1vb25zaG90GNKGAww\/solve-for-x-charles-chase-on-energy-for-everyone\" target=\"_d\">Charles Chase on energy for everyone \u2013 Moonshots \u2013 Solve for X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He tells what the design does, i.e. it uses tritium-deuterium, creates a high beta configuration, provides very good containment and stability but unfortunately he gives no details on how exactly it does these things. I hope the reason he is now able to discuss this in a public forum is because they are in the process of publishing scientific papers on it but we will just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JAsRFVbcyUY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NextBigFuture.com points to an interesting talk given at the Solve for X forum about a Lockheed-Martin\u00a0 Skunkworks project about which I believe little has been revealed previously. In the video below,\u00a0 Charles Chase of L-M discusses their compact nuclear fusion reactor design, which he believes could lead to a working 100MW prototype reactor in 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Lockheed-Martin fusion reactor project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-a6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4675,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4675","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Intro video to the Polywell fusion system","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently posted an item about the Focus Fusion technique aimed at achieving power generation from nuclear fusion. 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