Fusion anyone?

[kcshocker11]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-lockheed-fusion-idUSKCN0I41EM20141015

Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.

[1979Shocker]

This teenager built a fusion reactor when he was only 14.

[Aargh]

If that works, it changes everything we know about energy production and usage. The fuel source is water. The output is helium, oxygen, and energy.Lots and lots of energy for the water used.

[pogo]

How pissed is the middle east going to be?

[The Mad Hatter]

I'll get excited once they have actually produced a working prototype or even publishes a scientific paper about their tech.

Although Lockheed Martin issued a press release stating that they have several pending patents for their approach, they have yet to publish any scientific papers on this latest work.
"It's really great that Lockheed has taken an interest in this important challenge of providing carbon-free energy to the world," Michael Zarnstorff, deputy director for research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, told Business Insider in an email. "We haven't seen any results from the Lockheed experiments but the design is an interesting concept and it looks like they are at a very early stage of exploring this configuration."
While Zarnstorff remains optimistic, others are not ready to believe the hype.
Swadesh M. Mahajan, a thermonuclear plasma physicist at the University of Texas, told Mother Jones reporter James West that there were many reasons to be skeptical of the announcement. Specifically, "we know of no materials that would be able to handle anywhere near that amount of heat," for a device as small as Lockheed is proposing.
As of now, Lockheed's results are purely theoretical so it's hard to know whether they will work in reality, Rose Reed, an assistant professor of physics at Wayne State University and researcher at the Large Hadron Collider, told Mother Jones.
When asked if the concept of Lockheed's new design is in any way unique or novel, Zarnstorff told Business Insider that it was too early to tell.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/scien...#ixzz3GHA6ORh6

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

you dont believe in any of this cold fusion mumbo jumbo do ya?

[shocka khan]

The Europeans have tested a smaller cold-fusion reactor, independent study was over 32 days and details are here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline

Maybe this is related to the Rockefeller foundation sell-off of oil stocks?

PS: I have also noted a similar article regarding solar power and that we will soon have major breakthroughs there:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Major-Breakthrough-Solar-Cell-Stores-Its-Own-Power-Doubles-as-Battery-461009.shtml

http://www.timberjay.com/stories/Solar-power-is-reaching-a-tipping-point,11594

[Dave Stalwart]

The Europeans have tested a smaller cold-fusion reactor, independent study was over 32 days and details are here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline

Maybe this is related to the Rockefeller foundation sell-off of oil stocks?

PS: I have also noted a similar article regarding solar power and that we will soon have major breakthroughs there:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Major-Breakthrough-Solar-Cell-Stores-Its-Own-Power-Doubles-as-Battery-461009.shtml

http://www.timberjay.com/stories/Sol...ng-point,11594

If we ever do tap into some of these resources in a significant way, it's going to be absolutely amazing to watch what happens to the world. I have no idea what it will even look like. It's hard to fathom.

[Dan]

The Europeans have tested a smaller cold-fusion reactor, independent study was over 32 days and details are here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline

Maybe this is related to the Rockefeller foundation sell-off of oil stocks?

PS: I have also noted a similar article regarding solar power and that we will soon have major breakthroughs there:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Major-Breakthrough-Solar-Cell-Stores-Its-Own-Power-Doubles-as-Battery-461009.shtml

http://www.timberjay.com/stories/Sol...ng-point,11594

I had the exact same thoughts about the Rockefellers. A group this deep in the oil business doesn't just dump their oil position for environmental reasons.

[Dave Stalwart]

I had the exact same thoughts about the Rockefellers. A group this deep in the oil business doesn't just dump their oil position for environmental reasons.

Exactly. If the ROCKEFELLERS want out of oil, oil is done on some level (it will always be relevant, but it might not be as profitable in their eyes). Either that or they are being blackmailed or they have become tragically idealistic. :) After a century in oil, I feel like they probably know about something.

[wufan]

Oil for plastics will be around for a long, long time, but the demand would drop WAY down. A complete change in fuel resources would result in a major recession and would cripple some governments. First world countries like the US would get through it with difficulty, but some would fail completely.

[Dave Stalwart]

Oil for plastics will be around for a long, long time, but the demand would drop WAY down. A complete change in fuel resources would result in a major recession and would cripple some governments. First world countries like the US would get through it with difficulty, but some would fail completely.

This is actually something that concerns me a little. It's too nebulous for me to wrap my mind around, but I think you may be right. It almost feels like it would make the world more of a utopia in regards to how it gets energy, but since energy is a HUGE source of employment and economic structure, it could make the world a very confusing place to live in. I wonder exactly how many jobs would be lost if we could get safe, renewable energy from the sun and from water. It seems to me like the only way "utopia" works is if things start becoming free. If someone monopolized solar energy and you had to pay for it, you'd have to have a job to pay for it...and there isn't a job because energy is completely renewable, 100% available, and doesn't require much "help" to get it (other than servicing the infrastructure). :) It gets murky. Am I crazy here? Someone figure this out for me and explain it.

I know this is a stupid stretch, but it's like if someone invented a teleporter. What happens to the entire travel industry...and aerospace, etc.?
What if our cars only needed water and our homes and businesses only needed solar panels? I need to stop thinking about it because it's too big of a paradigm shift for my mind to comprehend.

[wufan]

This is actually something that concerns me a little. It's too nebulous for me to wrap my mind around, but I think you may be right. It almost feels like it would make the world more of a utopia in regards to how it gets energy, but since energy is a HUGE source of employment and economic structure, it could make the world a very confusing place to live in. I wonder exactly how many jobs would be lost if we could get safe, renewable energy from the sun and from water. It seems to me like the only way "utopia" works is if things start becoming free. If someone monopolized solar energy and you had to pay for it, you'd have to have a job to pay for it...and there isn't a job because energy is completely renewable, 100% available, and doesn't require much "help" to get it (other than servicing the infrastructure). :) It gets murky. Am I crazy here? Someone figure this out for me and explain it.

I know this is a stupid stretch, but it's like if someone invented a teleporter. What happens to the entire travel industry...and aerospace, etc. What if our cars only needed water and our homes and businesses only needed solar panels? I need to stop thinking about it because it's too big of a paradigm shift for my mind to comprehend.

Eventually, the industry would simply shift from oil to other renewable energy and we'd continue to live in a capitalistic society. The national power would shift to the first world in a big way though as tech and infrastructure would be huge for 50 years.

[Steeleshocker]

This is actually something that concerns me a little. It's too nebulous for me to wrap my mind around, but I think you may be right. It almost feels like it would make the world more of a utopia in regards to how it gets energy, but since energy is a HUGE source of employment and economic structure, it could make the world a very confusing place to live in. I wonder exactly how many jobs would be lost if we could get safe, renewable energy from the sun and from water. It seems to me like the only way "utopia" works is if things start becoming free. If someone monopolized solar energy and you had to pay for it, you'd have to have a job to pay for it...and there isn't a job because energy is completely renewable, 100% available, and doesn't require much "help" to get it (other than servicing the infrastructure). :) It gets murky. Am I crazy here? Someone figure this out for me and explain it.

I know this is a stupid stretch, but it's like if someone invented a teleporter. What happens to the entire travel industry...and aerospace, etc.?
What if our cars only needed water and our homes and businesses only needed solar panels? I need to stop thinking about it because it's too big of a paradigm shift for my mind to comprehend.

I'd worry about the same thing, but then I realize some people have their careers based on social media skills.

[Kung Wu]

The Europeans have tested a smaller cold-fusion reactor, independent study was over 32 days and details are here:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline

Maybe this is related to the Rockefeller foundation sell-off of oil stocks?

Good Lord, Koo Koo. I recommend you invest every single dollar you can in that "company" with this unbelievable invention that burns at a million times the energy levels of gasoline which doesn't spew out gamma rays that would make the Incredible Hulk look like Bill Gates -- yet for some reason they just can't get a product to ship out.

My guess is this "independent study" was done by the same people that verified NOAA's "adjusted" weather data that proves anthropogenic global warming.

This scam says this under their primary product page:

Production & Manufacturing plans are under way 2013. Current delivery time is estimated to four months.

[source]

Uhhh, where can I order the product -- it's October 2014? Oh, I can't .. I just have to prepay like the rest of the suckers to get on the waiting list, right?

Maybe Andrea Rossi is in prison and unable to update his website?

HOLY CRAP ... I was just making a joke but decided to Google this dude and he DID IN FACT spend 4 years in prison for tax fraud and dumping toxic waste in another scam which didn't produce what he claimed it would.

Come on Koo Koo, I know you are a liberal goon that probably sucks on the anthropogenic global warming pacifier all day long but I didn't think you were this big of a sucker.

Where's that eye rolling icon when you need it?