Lockheed surprised the industry with news that they made a breakthrough in generating practical fusion power. Generate fusion power and create a wealth of energy that avoids the nuclear waste issues of fusion and the power interruptions of solar and wind. A device about 23 feet by 42 feet would power 80,000 homes, a far smaller footprint than any power plant, coal, solar, wind, or geothermal. The goal is operations in 5-10 years.
The innovation was to abandon the many variations on the massive tokamaks based on an old Russian concept.
“Lockheed-Martin’s New Compact Fusion Reactor Might Change Humanity Forever” – Physics-Astronomy
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