Skunkworks says: Fusion Prototype in 5 Years

[Jacob]

Your Timmysquee of the day: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lockheed-martins-new-fusion-reactor-design-can-change-h-1646578094

[garbon]

This sentence seems odd:

It is the size of a jet engine, power airplanes, spaceships, and cities—and they say it will be operative in only 10 years.

[viper37]

This sentence seems odd:

It is the size of a jet engine, power airplanes, spaceships, and cities—and they say it will be operative in only 10 years.

no, not really.
It's small, about the size of a jet engine, and it delivers a lot of power, enough for an 80 000 homes city or an airplane, or a spaceship.

[Ideologue]

This sentence seems odd:

It is the size of a jet engine, power airplanes, spaceships, and cities—and they say it will be operative in only 10 years.

It's the size of a dream, and the shape of the future!

[Ender]

The is awesome!

[garbon]

This sentence seems odd:

It is the size of a jet engine, power airplanes, spaceships, and cities—and they say it will be operative in only 10 years.

no, not really.
It's small, about the size of a jet engine, and it delivers a lot of power, enough for an 80 000 homes city or an airplane, or a spaceship.

Yeah but that's not what they wrote.

[ulmont]

Your Timmysquee of the day: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lockheed-martins-new-fusion-reactor-design-can-change-h-1646578094

Last year they said it would only take 4 years, so they're at least 2 years behind schedule now:  http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promises-fusion-power-four-years

[Valmy]

If they do it in 50 years I will be impressed.  Of course since I will be 87, probably just having control over your bladder will impress me by that point.

[Josquius]

There's no money to be made in cheap and easy power.

[Valmy]

There's no money to be made in cheap and easy power.

Only if you are an industry that uses power.  Which is almost all of them.  But besides enormous money to be made in almost every single industry...

[Malthus]

Your Timmysquee of the day: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/lockheed-martins-new-fusion-reactor-design-can-change-h-1646578094

Last year they said it would only take 4 years, so they're at least 2 years behind schedule now:  http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promises-fusion-power-four-years

Fusion tech: the tech that has gone from being perpetually 20 years in the future to perpetually 5 years in the future. Progress! 

[Valmy]

Fusion tech: the tech that has gone from being perpetually 20 years in the future to perpetually 5 years in the future. Progress! 

Eventually it will always next week, like my Senior Project.

[grumbler]

This sentence seems odd:

It is the size of a jet engine, power airplanes, spaceships, and cities—and they say it will be operative in only 10 years.

Yep.  Missing the "might" between "engine" and "power."

[Siege]

If they do it in 50 years I will be impressed.  Of course since I will be 87, probably just having control over your bladder will impress me by that point.

If you survive the next 50 years, you will be immortal according to Ray Kurzweil.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/07/how-close-are-humans-to-immortality/

[jimmy olsen]

This update should have gone in the Fusion Power Megathread!

This project is what I made the opening post about!

http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,9398.0.html