In today's "I'll believe it when I see it" news

[NFUN]

Wishful thinking? Funding request? Promising advancement? You decide!

[cubinator]

I think "10 years" might just break off that asymptotic exponential threshold and make it start actually getting closer to fruition.

[AngrybobH]

The article reads more like an advertisement than anything else. It was light on actual information. I'll file it under wishful thinking with a touch of looking for investment money so they can figure out what seems to be an extremely long list of technologies they need to make it work before they go broke.

[sevenperforce]

1 hour ago, AngrybobH said:

The article reads more like an advertisement than anything else. It was light on actual information. I'll file it under wishful thinking with a touch of looking for investment money so they can figure out what seems to be an extremely long list of technologies they need to make it work before they go broke.

Yeah, there's nothing in this article that says what they are doing, only that they claim to do it.

[Nuke]

what ive learned following polywell and other small scale fusion concepts is how far they are behind tokamaks in their development/testing. they might come out ahead in the long run, when they need to solve the economy problems with gargantuan tokamaks beyond engineering breakeven. but i very much doubt they will be first. 

at worst i think some of them are trolling for patents. they know fusion is coming and if they can patent the one or two little tricks that make it all work, they would be in a good financial situation later on. they are doing real research, so i cant really fault them for wanting a return on investment. if you buy stock in one or more of those companies you could be rich in 30-100 years. 

[Kerbart]

Ah yes, nuclear fusion as an energy source, just ten years away. Should be right on time to power my flying car!

[kerbiloid]

Has anybody already patented "concrete support for fusion reactors"?

[DDE]

They're making the leap straight to proton-boron fusion, too.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

14 hours ago, NFUN said:

Wishful thinking? Funding request? Promising advancement? You decide!

Popular Mechanics. 

 

'nuff said? 

[DDE]

6 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Popular Mechanics. 

 

'nuff said? 

There's always Mechanix Illustrated

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[NFUN]

20 minutes ago, DDE said:

There's always Mechanix Illustrated

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They flatten enemy's what????

[YNM]

1 minute ago, NFUN said:

what????

Tank ?

[DDE]

19 hours ago, NFUN said:

They flatten enemy's what????

Well, in reality these had been just trucks, which was certainly within the bounds of the plausible. The Red Star began the inflation, which in turn spurred the imagination of the author of the Associated Press newswire.

[kerbiloid]

Landkreuzer's are tanks. These are just tankcicles..

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And what if put a compact fusion reactor on a landkreuzer?

[DDE]

6 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Landkreuzer's are tanks. These are just tankcicles..

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And what if put a compact fusion reactor on a landkreuzer?

Then it will just fall prey to enemy air support.

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[wumpus]

In other news, NASA is paying BWXT ~$9.4M for one year's development of a nuclear thermal rocket.  Granted, I'm sure they are using fission, but it seems more likely than some powerpoint slides will progress quickly towards fusion.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/rocket-report-spacex-abandons-catching-fairings-ula-bets-on-upper-stages/

 

[NFUN]

vasimir's what you're looking for in that regard