03-09-2013, 10:20 AM | #1 |
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Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Lockheed Skunkworks expects to have a 100 megawatt compact fusion reactor prototype ready by 2017 and production models ready by 2023.
The reactors would use a breakthrough cylindrical magnetic containment system and would be small enough to ride in the back of an 18 wheeler...or fit inside an Ogre Mark III. http://www.icosa.co/2013/02/lockheed...ompact-fusion/
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03-09-2013, 10:47 AM | #2 |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
I really hope they can do it, not for the sake of having Ogres but for the sake of energy abundance and all the things that would bring.
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03-09-2013, 01:16 PM | #4 |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Several prototypes have been built but none work well or cheaply or give back much more energy than what is pumped in.
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03-09-2013, 02:51 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
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The claim that Lockheed will build a "compact" reactor (with more power than anything experimental that I know of) in 4 years and have it commercialized in 10 years (after six decades of failures and a decade before ITER lights up) seems laughable. If they were proposing to have a prototype by 2107 rather than 2017, it might be plausible... |
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03-10-2013, 06:05 PM | #6 |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Oh... the fifties?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak |
03-10-2013, 10:01 PM | #7 | |
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If memory serves, the best Tokamak (JET) has managed to operate at a loss of "only" 30% of the input energy. Not quite the performance one would normally require before pursuing a compact version. |
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03-11-2013, 01:51 AM | #8 |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Watch the video on the linked page. The new design is ten times stronger than what is possible with a Tokamak. Comparing this to a Tokamak is a little like comparing Edison's DC to Tesla's AC.
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03-11-2013, 12:39 PM | #9 |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
Seems mainly like boasting.
But hell if they are going to actually pull this off - then it would be really good idea to buy some shares now :D |
03-11-2013, 04:03 PM | #10 |
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Re: Lockheed Skunkworks to build Ogre fusion reactor prototype by 2017
And I'm sure their unicorn breeding program will take off any time now too.
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