{"id":24028,"date":"2016-03-28T00:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion-reactor-might-change-humanity-forever"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:36","slug":"lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion-reactor-might-change-humanity-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion-reactor-might-change-humanity-forever","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin\u2019s new Compact Fusion Reactor Might Change Humanity Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion-reactor-might-change-humanity-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an invention that might possibly modify the civilization as we know it: A compact fusion reactor presented by Skunk Works, the stealth experimental technology section of Lockheed Martin. It\u2019s about the size of a jet engine and it can power airplanes, most likely spaceships, and cities. Skunk Works state that it will be operational in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation Week had complete access to their stealthy workshops and spoke to Dr. Thomas McGuire, the leader of Skunk Work\u2019s Revolutionary Technology section. And ground-breaking it is, certainly: Instead of utilizing the similar strategy that everyone else is using\u2014 the Soviet-derived tokamak, a torus in which magnetic fields limit the fusion reaction with an enormous energy cost and thus tiny energy production abilities\u2014Skunk Works\u2019 Compact Fusion Reactor has a fundamentally different methodology to anything people have tried before. Here are the two of those techniques for contrast:<\/p>\n<p><center><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion-reactor-might-change-humanity-forever2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" border=\"0\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion-reactor-might-change-humanity-forever2.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/sci-techuniverse.blogspot.co.at\/2015\/12\/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion.html\">http:\/\/sci-techuniverse.blogspot.co.at\/2015\/12\/lockheed-mart...usion.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an invention that might possibly modify the civilization as we know it: A compact fusion reactor presented by Skunk Works, the stealth experimental technology section of Lockheed Martin. It\u2019s about the size of a jet engine and it can power airplanes, most likely spaceships, and cities. Skunk Works state that it will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67899,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24028\/revisions\/67899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}