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Fusion: Power, Water, Food, soon
- lutusp 14y ago> A safe, clean, inexpensive, 100 Megawatt fusion reactor that fits on a flatbed truck, consumes lithium and sea water, and produces electricity, heat, pure water, and helium. I'm not from Missouri, but ... show me. From another online article (http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2013/02/lockheeds-skunk-works-promises-fusion.html http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2013/02/lockheeds-skunk-...): > Lockheed's fusion power plant uses radio energy to heat deuterium gas inside tightly controlled magnetic fields, creating a very high temperature plasma that's much more stable and well confined than you'd find in something like a tokamak ... Note how this device is described -- "fusion power plant uses radio energy to heat deuterium gas". Not "might be able to use radio energy to heat deuterium gas in a future planned device." If this device had moved beyond theory, it would be headlines all over the world. It's a hypothesis, not a device, and certainly not a "fusion power plant". This is hype, and I call shenanigans. In the original video, the real source for this story talks about it in realistic terms -- it's a hypothesis, an idea that might or might not actually work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JAsRFVbcyUY# http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J...! The project is interesting, but it's not reduced to practice as suggested in the text accounts. This represents more irresponsible science journalism.
- gus_massa 14y agoThanks. While reading the article it seems to be toooo good to be true, but it has too few details and I had not enough time to research. Now I'm sure it's only hype.