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Lockheed Martin Claims Fusion Breakthrough That Could Change World Forever

bombadil.360

Andinismo Hierbatero
Veteran
yeah man, I got the meaning of your post, I was just being anal.

there have been a few cases of people asking for funds to develop x or y technology to make next generation electricity sources and what have you, only to never deliver once the money is taken. sad but true.

also there has been crazy conspiracy like stories, of people who have actually developed these new technologies and then disappeared... I stay informed on these things due to having quite a few family members and friends who majored in physics and they can't stop blabbing about it sometimes :D

imo, whatever is going on with the skunkworks is gonna be good... even people hating on their new f-35 are not that well informed on how high tech that thing really is...

peace!
 

NW Wheeze

Member
I think the key to future energy independence will be to get away from the 'heat engine' and 'steam cycle' systems which generate electricity using rotational force(spinning generator rotors). When someone figures out a way to make something that effectively 'pumps' electrons without having moving parts. Something like solar panels, but far more effecient than our current panels. It would be nice if the sun was optional too.

Semiconductors revolutionized our world. This would be the next step, and I would not be surprised if it already exists in somewhere.
 

HempKat

Just A Simple Old Dirt Farmer
Veteran
even people hating on their new f-35 are not that well informed on how high tech that thing really is...

peace!

I bet that F-35 is worth every bit of the money they charge for it. I'm sure they use a ton of those $500 Mil. Spec. Hammers to make them. :D
 

bombadil.360

Andinismo Hierbatero
Veteran
I bet that F-35 is worth every bit of the money they charge for it. I'm sure they use a ton of those $500 Mil. Spec. Hammers to make them. :D


they are not using cessnas' old used parts to make them planes for sure though...those planes are built with materials you do not even know exist... and "professors" upon hearing the names of the materials, will tell you that you are making things up lol...
 

resinryder

Rubbing my glands together
Veteran
I bet that F-35 is worth every bit of the money they charge for it. I'm sure they use a ton of those $500 Mil. Spec. Hammers to make them. :D

I've hear that the next plane, the U-238 will be powered by it's own nuclear reactor which can fly for ever. The pilots seat will be replaced with a $15,000.00 toilet seat update so the pilots can stay in the air indefinably. No more of this, "I got to land to take a shit" stuff.
Maybe i need to sell that idea to the Air Force and Navy
 

NW Wheeze

Member
Nuclear powered aircraft were tested by both the US and Soviets during the Cold War. The projects were cancelled after they realized ICBM's were a better idea. The shielding required to protect the crews from ionizing radiation wieghed too much. It is rumoured that Soviets went through a couple test crews during the testing. They have a history of overexposing their reactor operators, so I believe this rumour.

Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
 

resinryder

Rubbing my glands together
Veteran
Nuclear powered aircraft were tested by both the US and Soviets during the Cold War. The projects were cancelled after they realized ICBM's were a better idea. The shielding required to protect the crews from ionizing radiation wieghed too much. It is rumoured that Soviets went through a couple test crews during the testing. They have a history of overexposing their reactor operators, so I believe this rumour.

Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft


You're correct. The shielding would be to heavy to render the plane effective. No matter how the boxed it in radiation would still escape over exposing the crew and anyone else around it craft.
Russia has a history of over exposing people to radiation. But then again so does the US.
 

Max Headroom

Well-known member
Veteran
Russia has a history of over exposing people to radiation. But then again so does the US.

no shit. i'm reading this at the moment:
http://www.amazon.com/Plutopia-Families-American-Plutonium-Disasters/dp/0199855765/
"In four decades, the Hanford plant near Richland and the Maiak plant near Ozersk each issued at least 200 million curies of radioactive isotopes into the surrounding environment--equaling four Chernobyls--laying waste to hundreds of square miles and contaminating rivers, fields, forests, and food supplies."
absolutely fucking insane.
 

HempKat

Just A Simple Old Dirt Farmer
Veteran
I've hear that the next plane, the U-238 will be powered by it's own nuclear reactor which can fly for ever. The pilots seat will be replaced with a $15,000.00 toilet seat update so the pilots can stay in the air indefinably. No more of this, "I got to land to take a shit" stuff.
Maybe i need to sell that idea to the Air Force and Navy

Why try for something like that when they already have the X-37B?
 

Stoner4Life

Medicinal Advocate
ICMag Donor
Veteran
Russia has a history of over exposing people to radiation. But then again so does the US.

I used to do pick-ups & deliveries to Brookhaven Natl Lab in Upton LI, NY.

I had a radiation badge that I wore while 'on the floor' that otherwise hung in a radioactive proof cabinet when I & others weren't wearing them, at the end of the month the BNL would test all badges to see if any employee's or contractor's (S4L) were over exposed.


BNL was not my favorite place to go but the boss sent me every single time, I'd swear the heavy steel cabinets I installed/moved for them were glowing, they'd be in one of the 'hot rooms' for many months or years.

 

Loc Dog

Hobbies include "drinkin', smokin' weed, and all k
Veteran
I saw article about that. Can produce 10 million times energy of gas at same volume. 5 Years to prototype, 10 years to commercial.
 

NW Wheeze

Member
Once we figure out this 'free energy' thing we can start focusing on improving mankind instead of destroying it. Lets hope greedy assholes keep their hands off the patents.

They will figure out (probably already have) how to use this as a weapon. I guess technically speaking thermonuclear weapons already are. If they can manipulate the magnetic field that contains the reaction. Could you then theoretically direct the energy, to use as either a propulsion system or a energy weapon?

*Disclaimer- User is currently stoned.
 

waveguide

Active member
Veteran
i kinda wish that sometime, they'd figure out a way to leave mankind alone.

it's amazing to me that it takes like a century, and everyone is convinced, somehow energy is necessary for human life.

because i think that would be the most amazing, revolutionary technological advancement, is to figure out, how to leave people alone.
 
remember doc oc in spiderman? he created a mini sun, which is basically what we are talking about here. of course it could be weaponized.
 

bombadil.360

Andinismo Hierbatero
Veteran
according to the guy that came up with the engineering, he says it cannot be weaponized.

anyway, if it could be weaponized, it'd have to be done by someone highly educated and intelligent, and he'd need tons of funding and specialized technology not available to anyone who wants it. he'd need to start from scratch...

technology is not something that anyone can get into and produce... even simple web-page making is not accessible to everyone who claims they know how to do it; just ask anyone who has wanted to go on-line with a serious web-page and see through how many so-called programmers he has had to go through in order to find one that could actually do it...

this fusion thing is not like writing an app for a smart-phone, and even app writing is something that 99% of people who do it fail at.

peace.
 

idiit

Active member
Veteran
great thread. only one fucktard post so far.

i try to and have posted on stuff like this but i usually get pissed on and i'm not into golden showers. :)

military deep underground bases and submarines been using this type of tech for quite a while.

"free electricity" would really change the indoor grow scene, no? lots of off the grid mega grows with no electrical usage red flags.
 

dddaver

Active member
Veteran
Wiki says, "There is currently no accepted theoretical model which would allow cold fusion to occur."
 

mjg132

Member
I could knock you up one of those in my shed in about 10 minutes,anyone up for a star wars type speeder bike?!!....:rolleyes:


This kind of thing is as fantasizing as it is fascinating....more!!!!!!
 
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