This is crazy news because US Navy has patented some technologies the people would think is UFO technology. They had done this in recent months, and they are not used to do so.
Not sure if this is patent troll or hoaxes meant to demotivate international competition.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...ted-a-compact-fusion-reactor-but-will-it-work
The reactor seems close to what Lockheed Martin was developing, a kind of Polywell reactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Compact_Fusion_Reactor
Another crazy news is that Boris Johnson, UK actual prime minister, just dropped a small budget to put in place the future commercial British fusion reactor, meaning, as UK is the only country fully aware of US military advancement, may trigger the fact that UK knows something.
The advances in fusion are fascinating.
Most known experiment is the future Tokamak ITER reactor in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
This kind of reactor uses an toric magnetic field retained plasma. It's kind of an international Open Source project. After 20 years of international investment (tens of billions) the very blunt test reactor faces many unsolved problems, is very expensive technology, will produce a lot of radioactivity which may destroy the reactor and faces huge plasma instability problems. A commercial post ITER reactor is above our knowledge and spending of today. In fact ITER has become a way to spend money for the administration without results in the wrong direction. The countries only relying on unclever ITER solution are lost in the competition for the future of fusion energy.
Meanwhile, for instance, Germany made a smaller, much cheaper and very clever Tomakak, of stellerator type which actually may surpass ITER. The stellerator adapts the toric ring to the form of the field needing much less confinement energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator
The Z-Machine uses inertial confinement, meaning the retention of the fused elements are put into a tiny solid material.
https://phys.org/news/2006-03-machine-billion-degrees-kelvin-hotter.html
The Z-Machine was at first used to mimic nuclear bomb reaction, but it went much beyond that. It seems that the temperature are nowadays in US but also supposedly in Russia at tens of billions of degrees (much more than in the Sun) and the goal is to obtain aneutronic fusion, meaning no radiation at all, not only no radioactivity on the fused materials but also no self-destruction of the reactor (This is actually an unsolved problem in ITER). A commercial Z-Machine reactor will use pre-prepared pills of material containing the elements to fuse, will cost much less than a Tokamak. However the Z-Machine may actually be an experiment to produce nuclear weapons without uranium and plutonium, only containing compartmentalized fused elements for a chain reaction and the energy to light the first one.
There are other ways tested but Lockheed Martin seemed confident it will obtain a compact fusion reactor by using a confined plasma into another electromagnetic field than the Tomakak which permits much better confinement. Actually it seems this is working very well and Lockheed Martin already put patents on most of his technology in 2018.
Why we don't hear news about this is probably because the it is not already commercialized and because there are huge stakes.
For instance US Navy also dropped in the past months a bunch of patents on UFO like technologies which are only feasible, but quite so, if they own the knowledge to build a compact nuclear fusion reactor, which seems to be the case.
https://thelifehacker.org/2019/05/2...ircraft-with-ufo-technology-documents-reveal/
Not sure if this is patent troll or hoaxes meant to demotivate international competition.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...ted-a-compact-fusion-reactor-but-will-it-work
The reactor seems close to what Lockheed Martin was developing, a kind of Polywell reactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Compact_Fusion_Reactor
Another crazy news is that Boris Johnson, UK actual prime minister, just dropped a small budget to put in place the future commercial British fusion reactor, meaning, as UK is the only country fully aware of US military advancement, may trigger the fact that UK knows something.
The advances in fusion are fascinating.
Most known experiment is the future Tokamak ITER reactor in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
This kind of reactor uses an toric magnetic field retained plasma. It's kind of an international Open Source project. After 20 years of international investment (tens of billions) the very blunt test reactor faces many unsolved problems, is very expensive technology, will produce a lot of radioactivity which may destroy the reactor and faces huge plasma instability problems. A commercial post ITER reactor is above our knowledge and spending of today. In fact ITER has become a way to spend money for the administration without results in the wrong direction. The countries only relying on unclever ITER solution are lost in the competition for the future of fusion energy.
Meanwhile, for instance, Germany made a smaller, much cheaper and very clever Tomakak, of stellerator type which actually may surpass ITER. The stellerator adapts the toric ring to the form of the field needing much less confinement energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator
The Z-Machine uses inertial confinement, meaning the retention of the fused elements are put into a tiny solid material.
https://phys.org/news/2006-03-machine-billion-degrees-kelvin-hotter.html
The Z-Machine was at first used to mimic nuclear bomb reaction, but it went much beyond that. It seems that the temperature are nowadays in US but also supposedly in Russia at tens of billions of degrees (much more than in the Sun) and the goal is to obtain aneutronic fusion, meaning no radiation at all, not only no radioactivity on the fused materials but also no self-destruction of the reactor (This is actually an unsolved problem in ITER). A commercial Z-Machine reactor will use pre-prepared pills of material containing the elements to fuse, will cost much less than a Tokamak. However the Z-Machine may actually be an experiment to produce nuclear weapons without uranium and plutonium, only containing compartmentalized fused elements for a chain reaction and the energy to light the first one.
There are other ways tested but Lockheed Martin seemed confident it will obtain a compact fusion reactor by using a confined plasma into another electromagnetic field than the Tomakak which permits much better confinement. Actually it seems this is working very well and Lockheed Martin already put patents on most of his technology in 2018.
Why we don't hear news about this is probably because the it is not already commercialized and because there are huge stakes.
For instance US Navy also dropped in the past months a bunch of patents on UFO like technologies which are only feasible, but quite so, if they own the knowledge to build a compact nuclear fusion reactor, which seems to be the case.
https://thelifehacker.org/2019/05/2...ircraft-with-ufo-technology-documents-reveal/
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