Stop the presses!
From Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/william...breakthrough-that-could-change-world-forever/
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Lockheed Martin, the aerospace and defense conglomerate based in Bethesda, Md., is claiming to have made a major breakthrough in
nuclear fusion, which could lead to development of reactors small enough to fit on the back of a truck within a decade."
In 15 years, the Elio will be getting infinite mpgs!
You know how I am about getting people to talk. Well, a few years ago I met this man at a jobs fair. He had been working for a well known hightech government contractor, for get the name now, not Siemans but something like that.
I particularly like to get Mensa people talking, this guy appeared to be one of those. Anyway his claim is that before being laid off, he had a bit of time and lots of lab equipment so he investigated his own idea for Fusion power, (under the radar). So get this mix of stuff, as best I can remember;
His idea involved a porous 'substrata' on a piezoelectric block of material immersed in 'saturated' water. Any other mechanical or electrical facts of that he wouldn't say. But initially he would externally bombard the layer with three pulses of ultra sound at different frequencies. The problem he had left to solve was how to not have the thing blow-up on him. If it got past that critical point it was operating and self sustaining. He inferred he did that at least once.
I imagine the piezoelectric material was involved in sustaining one or a another of the ultrasound radiant sources.
He said he wasn't finding work here locally so he was considering overseas. I'm sure Lockheed would have been just fine with him too.
Anyway, if even just getting my leg pulled, it was interesting to dream that Fusion power was possible.
Also interesting that the article seems to address a similar problem.