Interesting concept. Not a lot of details, but a company like Lockheed Martin doesn't often make a webpage like that on theory and conjecture. Looks different than the other quacks that have been claiming "Fusion is around the corner"

I could see a neighborhood fusion generator or something like that, no high tension power lines needed.

Not enough detail to see how it would work on a plane, but getting a C-5 flying take more than gas. Need a few jackstands too!

 

1 dec 14 conversions posted on DLnet.

 

Idk, we do these five leg days with 35 min turns, it's enough to walk off and grab something. Maybe not eat it at the restaurant but there's usually something. Best is a sandwich that you can have at your side, Panda express is jfk is pretty fast. Just immediately walk off when the door opens, maybe kick the tires and then go.

Every airport in South Florida sucks for food though.

Of course if your partner is not being helpful, that's a different story. Use the magic words, "I'm starting not to feel good". Just be ready for him to respond with "did I tell you I do cross fit?"

But you can't fly hungry either and protein bars/recycled Chinese newspapers smashed together, don't help.

 

Anyone else having trouble with the Travelnet app on an iPhone 5? It loads but displays the circle going round and round (infinite loading loop.) I can't even load the HTML page.

 

What browser are you using? I use Chrome and Safari. If one doesn't work properly(usually Safari) the other one works.

 

Try shutting down the phone completely, then restarting it.

 

There's lots of interesting fission reactor tech out there. Liquid sodium, thorium, "breeder", and they certainly solve the solid waste issue far better than the current generation.

But any kind of fission is a hard sell these days, specially anything that can (or potentially) produce enriched materials usable for "other purposes".

Fission certainly scales, but gets fiendishly complex as you do so...sort of like the last generation piston engines for airliners. They put out the power, but were nightmarish in complexity.

Fusion, on the other hand, is turbine like in simplicity if you get the tech right. Fuel is everywhere, scales well, and no pesky emissions or solid waste products that someone could do bad things with.

If what they say is true, and (sooner, rather than later) you could just drive a semi up, plug it in, and start chugging out the megawatts, then that is not only a game changer, but really, a revolution that will change human society forever. Just the socio-economics alone will re-write international relations as we know it. It also opens up the solar system to cheap (relatively) exploitation.

I would expect a novel solution would come from in the industrial complex like LM/SW but we've seen this show many times before. Sometimes all it takes is someone to put the tech pieces together in a new way....like the fascinating story like how the polymerase chain reaction was turned from a complicated novelty to something so ubiquitous that it's absence would now be almost unthinkable.

That said, what LM put out was light on details and rich in promises, so I'll remain skeptical until people start paying to have crude oil hauled away as waste.

Nu

 

Thank you.

 

My wife uses one of these to power her rabbit. We save a ton on batteries and I'm not so exhausted all the time.