Developed a technology to achieve a stable thermonuclear reaction
At the Solve for X conference, which Google arranges for cooperation in solving global problems, Charles Chase made a sensational statement that Lockheed developed a technology for achieving a stable thermonuclear reaction. According to him, this technology will allow creating a prototype of a compact thermonuclear power plant within 5 years, and in 10 years to build an industrial design. If things go uphill, then by 2050 this technology will allow to cover all the energy needs of mankind.
The representative of Lockheed claims that they managed to create a hot-fusion plant in which plasma heated by microwave radiation is kept inside the installation by a magnetic trap that does not have “holes” in the magnetic field through which the plasma could escape. They claim that they have reached an equilibrium between the plasma pressure and the magnetic field of the trap in which the plasma is located at the facility. Due to this, such a setup turns out to be very simple from an engineering point of view and compact, plus it does not have all those minuses that have tokamaks, and because of which the design of tokamaks is extremely complicated - just problems with plasma confinement and pressure. Their current laboratory setup works with an efficiency of 0.9 - that is, the energy output practically covers the cost of holding and heating the plasma. The full-size engineering sample that they plan to assemble will be about two meters in size, and already with an efficiency of more than 1 and an output of about 100 megawatts. By 2022, the production of serial models is planned. More or less compete in efficiency with such facilities can only promising nuclear reactors on a slow wave.
The representative of Lockheed claims that they managed to create a hot-fusion plant in which plasma heated by microwave radiation is kept inside the installation by a magnetic trap that does not have “holes” in the magnetic field through which the plasma could escape. They claim that they have reached an equilibrium between the plasma pressure and the magnetic field of the trap in which the plasma is located at the facility. Due to this, such a setup turns out to be very simple from an engineering point of view and compact, plus it does not have all those minuses that have tokamaks, and because of which the design of tokamaks is extremely complicated - just problems with plasma confinement and pressure. Their current laboratory setup works with an efficiency of 0.9 - that is, the energy output practically covers the cost of holding and heating the plasma. The full-size engineering sample that they plan to assemble will be about two meters in size, and already with an efficiency of more than 1 and an output of about 100 megawatts. By 2022, the production of serial models is planned. More or less compete in efficiency with such facilities can only promising nuclear reactors on a slow wave.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/170483/
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