Fusion: Power, Water, Food, Soon!
Lockheed Martin is well known for their ability to keep projects top secret. However, Senior Program Manager Charles Chase has created a video presentation revealing a new project that Lockheed Martin is particularly proud of that could rid the world of its many problems such as global warming, and food and water shortages. What is Lockheed Martin up to? A new, smaller, 100 megawatt fusion reactor. Unlike the massive size of the ITER, these new fusion reactors are said to be able to fit on the bed of a truck and power 50,000-100,000 homes.
“This reactor design will produce 100 MW, enough power to support 50,000 to 100,000 people — more than most cities in the US — consuming only tritium and deuterium, two isotopes of hydrogen gas, and producing only helium, the inert gas that makes your voice sound funny.
This reactor design, unlike the ITER test reactor, will fit on a flatbed truck, potentially replacing power distribution substations in big cities. This will eliminate the energy currently lost to power distribution (sending electricity across the country in power lines), saving roughly 2% of electricity costs — and saving additional infrastructure costs: there’s no need to continue maintaining these high voltage power transmission lines, nor to run new ones to found new towns and cities. Just drive in a new reactor.”
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