Mr. Fusion?

[Darrell]

The promise of fusion power is always 40 years away... but now Lockheed's Skunkworks say they'll have a working prototype in about three years, and a working power plant in ten, 100 MW in a plant the size of a truck trailer:

"Most estimates" do not, apparently, include research being done at Lockheed Martin's secretive advanced development center, Skunk Works. At Google's Solve For X, Charles Chase describes what his team has been working on: a trailer-sized fusion power plant that turns cheap and plentiful hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) into helium plus enough energy to power a small city. It's safe, it's clean, and Lockheed is promising an operational unit by 2017 with assembly line production to follow, enabling everything from unlimited fresh water to engines that take spacecraft to Mars in one month instead of six.

Lockheed's fusion power plant uses radio energy to heat deuterium gas inside tightly controlled magnetic fields, creating a very high temperature plasma that's much more stable and well confined than you'd find in something like a tokamak.

Interesting video at the link:

http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheed ... four-years

The article is from 2013, so three years to go.

[Aesop]

Yeah.

And I'm from Missouri. Show me one when they actually have it.

I want to see the corporation that's going to up-end 20% of the world economy in two years.
Wars have been waged over less.

[MiddleAgedKen]

The description sounds (superficially, at least) like a Polywell.

[Aesop]

And concretely like the Vaporware Phantom, 2016 series...?