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http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/10/lockhe ... n.html?m=1
Lockheed says they dun made some breakthroughs. Fallout three boys!

By the Emperor, this changes everything!

Finally. Fusion.

If only Elon musk had got there first and made the patents free to use, then YOU GET FUSION, AND YOU GET FUSION, AND YOU GET FUSION...

Fun fact: the world's first large-scale fusion power plant was to be built in Canada before government political fuckery got it relocated to France.

This isn't even large scale. This is tiny; jet engine sized, truck sized. This article states 100 MW of power; another stated 500. I'm going with 100 MW of power for now.

But consider this; the smallest nuclear power plant in the U.S makes 500 MW of power. Just five of these, at 100 MW, would match that. At a fraction of the size, cost, with NONE of the radiation hazards.

If Lockheed Martin (and Skunk Works, WHICH I MIGHT ADD made the SR-71 Blackbird, F-22 Raptor, etc) can deliver, we'll have solved so much.

Also, a unit this size could very well be launched into space.

Fusion power IN SPACE would certainly be handy. Beamed power satellites? Fusion drives? Hyperefficient engines? tick off god? Who knows.

Fusion-thermal rockets are a possibility now, so yay for efficiency.

Professor Fenway wrote:This isn't even large scale. This is tiny; jet engine sized, truck sized. This article states 100 MW of power; another stated 500. I'm going with 100 MW of power for now.

But consider this; the smallest nuclear power plant in the U.S makes 500 MW of power. Just five of these, at 100 MW, would match that. At a fraction of the size, cost, with NONE of the radiation hazards.

If Lockheed Martin (and Skunk Works, WHICH I MIGHT ADD made the SR-71 Blackbird, F-22 Raptor, etc) can deliver, we'll have solved so much.

Also, a unit this size could very well be launched into space.

I wouldn't mind seeing some large scale permanent spaceships, Fussion power would definantly help that.

About time, they have until november or september 2015, don't remember quite, to invent DeLorean-compatible Mr. Fusion minireactors.

And hover boards!

AFAIK we've sort of had those for years.
Admittedly not as sleek or useful as the one in Back to the Future, though.

Hoverboards? Call me when we got hoverbikes.

Once we have hoverbikes, all of humanities problems will be solved. Because you just have too much fun riding it to argue with other humes.

Hoverbikes...
with a Mr. Fusion.
And a hoverboard slot.
And supercrops and designated farming areas close to or even inside towns to supply the rapidly growing human population.
And some way to solve the water issue.

Daynel wrote:Hoverbikes...
with a Mr. Fusion.
And a hoverboard slot.
And supercrops and designated farming areas close to or even inside towns to supply the rapidly growing human population.
And some way to solve the water issue.

Desalination plants and large artificial saltwater lakes with water drawn from the sea.

ACH0225 wrote:

Daynel wrote:Hoverbikes...
with a Mr. Fusion.
And a hoverboard slot.
And supercrops and designated farming areas close to or even inside towns to supply the rapidly growing human population.
And some way to solve the water issue.

Desalination plants and large artificial saltwater lakes with water drawn from the sea.

I'm with the owl on this one, if we really wanted to we'd have those things solved within four years tops.

Let's face facts: anyone with the funds and i fluence to do that is either too lazy, too greedy, or too derp to do it.

Three cheers for Fucking-Itself-Over Humanity.

Step one: Remove China, North Korea, and the greedy US corporations.
Step two: Look as the rest of the world now can work out our errors and stuff.