Lockheed Martin keeps investing in its portable nuclear fusion generator

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    Lockheed Martin continues to invest in its portable nuclear fusion generator, with that investment recently entering a more advanced stage, according to the head of the company’s Skunk Works division.
    Rob Weiss told an audience at the Atlantic Council that Lockheed is “about four months into a little bit more significant investment” into the technology, which was first revealed around two years ago.
    At the time of the initial announcement, Lockheed said it was aiming for a 100 megawatt device which could fit on the back of a large truck. Such a reactor, the company claims, could power a city of up to 100,000 people.
    Such a technology would be a revolutionary one for an ever energy-dependent country, but would also potentially have major military applications. If the system could be further shrunk, it could potentially become a powerplant for fighter jets, providing the power needed for directed energy weapons and advanced sensors. It could also help power travel for spacecraft.

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  3. danshawen Valued Senior Member

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    Not to mention a device that might be able to provide power for critical life support of colonies in solar energy poor places like Mars.
     
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  5. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    It's a no-brainer which area will get all the attention and funding and all the potential benefits way ahead of the other - especially given the developer. Interesting if it pans out though.
     
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  7. Walter L. Wagner Cosmic Truth Seeker Valued Senior Member

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    With all these great details, it makes me think they are well on their way to some good government funding.

    Here's someone else looking for such funding: http://www.aesopinstitute.org/
     
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  8. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    So they are after 'Angel investors' willing to sink money into 'soon to be realized' projects. Angels need to remember there are places where they should fear to tread.
     
  9. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    If they heed your advice it will leave the investment opportunity wide open for the fools.
     
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    While hanging on the phone and getting repeatedly bounced around from one department to another over correcting an account charge, got to look over some more material at that AESOP site. it has to be said there is a fair amount of smoke being taken seriously, with maybe a bit of flame there somewhere - e.g. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/10.1063/1.3665238
    Getting somewhat off topic but that's normal for SF.
     
  11. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    I believe it may be mandatory.

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  13. Walter L. Wagner Cosmic Truth Seeker Valued Senior Member

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    I'm just waiting for Aesop to build the prototype Flux Capacitor. THEN we can go back in time and fix things so no one gets scammed.
     
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  14. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    Unless they have found a way to dramatically improve generation efficiency, they should concentrate their efforts on how to dump 200 MegaWatts of heat from back of a truck. They won't as there is no glamor for funding of that.
     
  15. Breakthrough Energy Guy Registered Member

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    AESOP is not seeking government funding.

    A draft paper describing an alternative to the Standard Model of particle physics, that predicted an anomaly supporting the new particle discovered at CERN, has been written by Ken Rauen, AESOP's Chief Technical Officer, and the inventor of six of AESOP's fuel-free engines. Titled: An Introduction to Temporal Wave Mechanics (TWM) - it supplements Quantum Mechanics - copies are available upon request. mark@aesopenergy.com
     
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    Angels are welcome to a WHITE PAPER about AESOP's Fuel-Free engines. Two successful conversions of conventional engines to fuel-free operation have been made by Chris Hunter after a decade of brilliant work. The first was a 1039 Ford 4 cylinder engine that proved the science but had seals that leaked the propane refrigerant which is a key to such conversions. More recently he has converted a Kia 4 cylinder engine. It will go to a recognized lab for tests and Certification. AESOP Institute is converting a Briggs & Stratton as a tabletop demonstrator and a Mitsubishi V6, which will spin a 3 kW generator and can air-condition a house. There is a great deal of information about this new science and technology on the website.
     
  18. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    If true,* then show one of them running. - A foolish "Angel" and his money are soon parted.
    * It aint, so they can't show one running.
    The "White Paper" is needed for collecting funds as no engine will run from only heat without a lower temperature heat sink.
     
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    The two engines that have run without fuel are filled with propane which acts as a refrigerant. When the generator acts as a starter and spins the engine up to speed, the propane goes through a phase change and creates the needed Delta T. Frost forms on the outside of the engines. His second engine, a Kia 4 cylinder, will be validated and Certified at an independent lab in the near future.

    Nikola Tesla suggested than such an engine might prove possible in 1900. He pointed out that it would be the ideal way to tap solar energy and would be the most important engine ever invented.

    In 1902 Jacob Wainwright, a Civil Engineer, began delivering papers suggesting how and why such an engine could be built. He was not a Mechanical Engineer and made a few mistakes and omissions, but he was basically correct.

    Ken Rauen patented an engine that needed no fuel more than a decade ago. However, it could not overcome friction. It did however prove the science was sound and engines could be created that are not Carnot limited. He spoke about his work and presented data at three scientific conferences. None of the physicists present could find a problem with his analysis. When he read the Wainwright papers he recognized that they provided the missing insights to create practical engines. Patents are pending.

    See SECOND LAW SURPRISES, under MORE, on the aesopinstitute.org website for much more information. The WHITE PAPER provides additional insights.

    Chris Hunter converted his two engines after a decade of experiments. The Rauen engines need no propane. A 4 cylinder prototype has been designed and is expected to be completed this year. 100 kW gen-sets will follow and will initially replace several diesel engines in a commercial transaction now in process.
     
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  21. Breakthrough Energy Guy Registered Member

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    Merely opened doors to replacing fossil fuels fast enough to matter.
     
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    Some simple background from Wiki:

    "Perpetual motion is motion of bodies that continues indefinitely. This is impossible because of friction and other energy-dissipating processes.A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.

    These laws of thermodynamics apply even at very grand scales. For example, the motions and rotations of celestial bodies such as planets may appear perpetual, but are actually subject to many processes that slowly dissipate their kinetic energy, such as solar wind, interstellar medium resistance, gravitational radiation and thermal radiation, so they will not keep moving forever.

    Thus, machines which extract energy from finite sources will not operate indefinitely, because they are driven by the energy stored in the source, which will eventually be exhausted. A common example is devices powered by ocean currents, whose energy is ultimately derived from the Sun, which itself will eventually burn out. Machines powered by more obscure sources have been proposed, but are subject to the same inescapable laws, and will eventually wind down."

    "A perpetual motion machine of the second kind is a machine which spontaneously converts thermal energy into mechanical work. When the thermal energy is equivalent to the work done, this does not violate the law of conservation of energy. However, it does violate the more subtle second law of thermodynamics (see also entropy). The signature of a perpetual motion machine of the second kind is that there is only one heat reservoir involved, which is being spontaneously cooled without involving a transfer of heat to a cooler reservoir. This conversion of heat into useful work, without any side effect, is impossible, according to the second law of thermodynamics."
     
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