{"id":77310,"date":"2018-04-01T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/lockheed-martin-receives-patent-for-world-changing-fusion-reactor"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:12:19","slug":"lockheed-martin-receives-patent-for-world-changing-fusion-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/lockheed-martin-receives-patent-for-world-changing-fusion-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Receives Patent For \u2018World Changing\u2019 Fusion Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-receives-patent-for-world-changing-fusion-reactor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>CBS Local \u2014<\/em><\/strong> Lockheed Martin has reportedly been working on a revolutionary new type of reactor that can power anything from cities to aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland-based defense contractor recently <a href=\"https:\/\/patentimages.storage.googleapis.com\/24\/5a\/0c\/0b80839516d6f0\/US20180047462A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received a patent<\/a> for the compact fusion reactor (CFR) after filing plans for the device in 2014. According to reports, one generator would be as small as a shipping container but produce the energy to power 80,000 homes or one of the U.S. Navy\u2019s Nimitz-class carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed\u2019s advanced projects division, Skunk Works, has reportedly been working on the futuristic power source since 2014 and claimed at the time that a CFR could be ready for production by 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2018\/03\/28\/fusion-reactor-power-lockheed-martin\/\">http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2018\/03\/28\/fusion-reactor-power-lockheed-martin\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Local \u2014 Lockheed Martin has reportedly been working on a revolutionary new type of reactor that can power anything from cities to aircraft carriers. The Maryland-based defense contractor recently received a patent for the compact fusion reactor (CFR) after filing plans for the device in 2014. According to reports, one generator would be as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77433,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77310\/revisions\/77433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}