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   From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com   
      
   Will Lockheed Martin Change The World With Its New Fusion   
   Reactor?   
      
   By Ariel Cohen   
   Forbes, forbes.com   
   Wednesday, August 1, 2018   
      
   [Caption] Artist's rendition of concept Compact Fusion   
   Reactor (CFR) Lockheed Martin   
      
   Lockheed Martin's secretive Skunk Works® laboratory   
   registered a patent in March for a revolutionary technology   
   that could solve the world's energy problems for good – but   
   don't pop the champagne yet. The design is for a compact   
   fusion reactor (CFR) which theoretically produces cheap,   
   clean, near limitless energy – all from a device that could   
   fit on the back of a semi. If it sounds far-fetched, that's   
   because it is. The sustained generation of a fusion   
   reaction has evaded scientists since the idea was first   
   conceived over 70 years ago.   
      
   Lockheed Martin thinks they can change that.   
      
   A controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction is the holy   
   grail of energy technology. When two hydrogen atoms join   
   together to form a single, heavier atom, a vast amount of   
   energy is released. This process is the same that gives the   
   sun its power. Think of a star as one massive fusion   
   reactor.   
      
   No carbon emissions or radioactive waste are produced in   
   the reaction, and ocean water is all the fuel you need for   
   a hundred thousand years of operation. Oh, and a fusion   
   reactor is incapable of melting down -- when a fusion   
   reaction fails it simply snuffs itself out.   
      
   The challenge with fusion lies in harnessing and   
   controlling the unstable reaction.   
      
   Though the fusion process has been theorized since the   
   early 1900s, research did not begin in earnest until the   
   1940's when Soviet scientists unveiled their design for a   
   Tokamak reactor -- a device which uses strong magnetic   
   fields to contain hot globs of plasma (around 540 million   
   degrees Fahrenheit) generated from atomic fusion.   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2018/08/01/will-lockheed   
   martin-change-the-world-with-its-new-fusion-reactor/#4fd86a8a4c49   
      
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