03-11-2013, 05:41 PM | #11 |
Dog of Lysdexics
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
people though the same thing about their Blackbird project too...
|
03-11-2013, 05:51 PM | #12 | |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Quote:
Not that cautious developers can hide "Ground Breaking Research!" from the idiot media, though.
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
|
03-11-2013, 09:21 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Buffalo NY
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
That prototype might be ready by 2117, but they aren't anywhere near having one working by 2017. Figure that they'll need at least 10 years of a working, power providing permanent setup first, and they aren't within 10 years of getting one of those working either as far as I've seen.
|
03-11-2013, 09:24 PM | #14 | |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Quote:
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
|
03-12-2013, 12:30 AM | #15 | |
Join Date: May 2008
Location: CA
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Quote:
Basically: If they can actually build the compact version and already have a design for it, then it makes sense that the timescale would be greatly shorter, because there'd be no need to do the massive engineering challenge that the larger building-sized experiments require. |
|
03-12-2013, 01:06 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Estonia
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Hmm so they'd be able to have the same or even more time for running thing and futzing up and rebuilding thing and futzing up again etc.
But they'd win a considerable amount on the building time as they are not using a holy s**** that's huge gargantuan model like ITER is. |
03-20-2018, 03:38 PM | #17 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
|
Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
There was an update in 2016. They're now looking at a much larger reactor. The square-cube law is implacable.
__________________
The Path of Cunning. Indexes: DFRPG Characters, Advantage of the Week, Disadvantage of the Week, Skill of the Week, Techniques. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|