Lockheed developing airborne fusion reactors?

[Playswithmachine]

I originally did not want to post this as a topic, but rather to infest a few other threads :D
But i guess i will have to breach the topic here, since it doesen't exist as a separate thread.
So here goes; Lockheed are developing a small (ish) fusion reactor. They plan to put it into an F35 or maybe something bigger.
The purpose is to power a big airborne laser, like a pulsed 2MW CO2 laser that could punch through concrete like it was cardboard.
I know this, because i am working on a similar model, it is a pulse reactor. I originally posted this concept in my thread '80 nanoseconds from disaster' on ATS.

Only it is far more than a concept, it actually works.
Even more worrying (and still somehow less worrying than the unmarked choppers that used to circle my house) is the fact that i have heard NOTHING of this anywhere. Those choppers stopped buzzing me around the same time ATS went down.I miss them not.
So what i want, is some feedback. Any one of you know, or have heard rumours, of such a project?

Lockheed are clearly onto something, they may even have had the same source material as me; the original inventor.
He is still alive, but now in exile, a closely guarded secret, just waiting to die.

I am not looking for lengthy moral discussions, just some answers from peeps who may know something.
These reactors could solve most of humanity's problems tomorrow, but instead they (our overlords) are (as usual) purely interested in weaponisation.
I have tried, for decades, to get anyone interested in this, i have offered my findings to all the best universities.
They won't even look at my studies, they refuse to look at my helium samples (proof of fusion) and most of them don't even reply to my messages.
Sure, just bury your head in the sand & try to ignore it. Nothing to see here.....

They tried airborne reactors of course, in secret. Many pilots died as a result. They used Deuterium/Tritium reactors, as they are the easiest to build, but they have a fatal drawback; Too many fast neutrons. As a result, the pilots would often get a lethal dose of radiation before the test even finished.
And even then the airplane itself, would become radioactive at this point. That explains Bushman's photo of a helicopter recovering these remains from the ocean. They weren't trying to recover dead crewmen, but rather the billion dollar reactor that just crashed into the Pacific.

Now i know this sounds like a script from a hollywood movie, but it is, as far as i can tell, much closer to the TRUTH.
So i want some answers. A freind of mine asked an AI to show me a feasable pressure/temperature graph for D-D reactions, and it was exactly as i predicted: Just a tad less than 12 million degrees. My estimate was 10-12 million, but 11.8 seems to fit the bill.
Anybody know anything?

[Mantiss2021]

The last I heard of anything remotely like this rumor was that Lockheed was working on a "fusion reactor" that could fit into the back of a standard American pickup truck.

But that rumor died out years ago. 

Furthermore, and this is also no more than hearsay, I was told by someone with aerospace connections, that this rumored "fusion reactor" was actually just a version of a portable neutron generator for in-field airframe inspection.

But again,, all just rumor and/or "vaporware".

[Sky727]

Lockheed said by 2020 but 5 years later NADA !

[Playswithmachine]

An interesting video, i haven't seen that one before.
However, they hit the same problem the Tokamak has. They want a continuous fusion process using a stable plasma, this is very difficult.
They are using Deuterium & Tritium because it will fuse more easily than other isotopes. The big drawback from using Tritium is that you get a ton of fast neutrons, which pass through the reactor walls (making them radioactive in the process) and then they will pass through humans, making them very ill.
The other drawback (read: stupid idea) is to use the heat of the plasma via a heat exchanger to run a steam turbine.
I have commented hundreds of times, how silly this is. You don't want the heat, trying to use the heat output is the dumbest idea possible, it's terribly inefficient. Steam. Really?
There are other methods that work better, Helion are on the right track, even though they have vastly over-engineered it.

The answer is very, very simple. You use Deuterium-Deuterium reactions. Much harder to initialise, but you get 50% less neutrons coming out, that makes it a lot safer. You use the expanding plasma to generate a current in the coils, you LET it expand.
As it expands it cools, and the fusion process stops.

The current pulse from the expansion is stored momentarily in a capacitor, which is then fed back into the coils to squeeze the plasma again, leading to the next fusion cycle. There are other things also going on, for example, at a high pressure, you don't need 100 million degrees, 12 million is enough.
This type of reactor is 99% efficient, there is no heat, except from the coils, that is where you lose the other 1%

So my guess is that either Lockheed know this, and it has been drafted into a black project, or they don't know, and have given up.
I don't believe they are THAT stupid, it is highly probable that they have a working model, but they will keep it ultra secret until they can make it reliable enough.
And of course, they have more money than God. If you throw enough money at a problem, it can be solved.
I, on the other hand, want this to become not only public knowledge, but i want to see commercial fusion reactors in every town before i kick the bucket.
Yes, it will cause massive chaos, the oil & gas industries will be hit hard, 1000's will lose their jobs. But this change has to happen.
When automobiles appeared on our streets in the 20's, it killed off the horse & cart industry in a year or 2, yet society didn't collapse. It adapted. People stopped breeding horses & started garages instead.

Now, take a Tesla or other EV, remove the 800kg flammable battery & replace it with a 300kg reactor. Now you have a car that will run 10,000 miles on a small tank of D2, and it won't catch fire. I think everybody will want one, and the same goes for every other mode of transport.
Shipping, transport, energy, will become so cheap, there would be an abundance of food for the entire planet.

All i need is funding. Any millionaires on this forum?

[Playswithmachine]

Furthermore, and this is also no more than hearsay, I was told by someone with aerospace connections, that this rumored "fusion reactor" was actually just a version of a portable neutron generator for in-field airframe inspection.

I thought they used heavy isotopes like Californium or Strontium, but Sandia developed this about 12 years ago;

[putnam6]

An interesting video, i haven't seen that one before.
However, they hit the same problem the Tokamak has. They want a continuous fusion process using a stable plasma, this is very difficult.
They are using Deuterium & Tritium because it will fuse more easily than other isotopes. The big drawback from using Tritium is that you get a ton of fast neutrons, which pass through the reactor walls (making them radioactive in the process) and then they will pass through humans, making them very ill.
The other drawback (read: stupid idea) is to use the heat of the plasma via a heat exchanger to run a steam turbine.
I have commented hundreds of times, how silly this is. You don't want the heat, trying to use the heat output is the dumbest idea possible, it's terribly inefficient. Steam. Really?
There are other methods that work better, Helion are on the right track, even though they have vastly over-engineered it.

The answer is very, very simple. You use Deuterium-Deuterium reactions. Much harder to initialise, but you get 50% less neutrons coming out, that makes it a lot safer. You use the expanding plasma to generate a current in the coils, you LET it expand.
As it expands it cools, and the fusion process stops.

The current pulse from the expansion is stored momentarily in a capacitor, which is then fed back into the coils to squeeze the plasma again, leading to the next fusion cycle. There are other things also going on, for example, at a high pressure, you don't need 100 million degrees, 12 million is enough.
This type of reactor is 99% efficient, there is no heat, except from the coils, that is where you lose the other 1%

So my guess is that either Lockheed know this, and it has been drafted into a black project, or they don't know, and have given up.
I don't believe they are THAT stupid, it is highly probable that they have a working model, but they will keep it ultra secret until they can make it reliable enough.
And of course, they have more money than God. If you throw enough money at a problem, it can be solved.
I, on the other hand, want this to become not only public knowledge, but i want to see commercial fusion reactors in every town before i kick the bucket.
Yes, it will cause massive chaos, the oil & gas industries will be hit hard, 1000's will lose their jobs. But this change has to happen.
When automobiles appeared on our streets in the 20's, it killed off the horse & cart industry in a year or 2, yet society didn't collapse. It adapted. People stopped breeding horses & started garages instead.

Now, take a Tesla or other EV, remove the 800kg flammable battery & replace it with a 300kg reactor. Now you have a car that will run 10,000 miles on a small tank of D2, and it won't catch fire. I think everybody will want one, and the same goes for every other mode of transport.
Shipping, transport, energy, will become so cheap, there would be an abundance of food for the entire planet.

All i need is funding. Any millionaires on this forum?

Just be careful, big oil and gas have low friends in high places, and the security and safety concerns are off the charts

But yes, this is the logical next step. 

Electric vehicles aren't exactly totally clean, green energy. Landfills will be packed with solar panels, EV batteries, and windmill blades

[Playswithmachine]

TBH i have given up trying to keep anything a secret anymore.
Companies like Helion are not being suppressed, and i haven't seen an unmarked chopper for a few years now.
Back in the day, when i had a lot of followers, and 20 people actively researching all of this, is when we had 'problems'.
Now, i just don't give a hoot.
I have backups, other people doing the same research, so i'm not particularly bothered.

EV's are just a stopgap measure until we have gravity control, and that will make everything with wheels obsolete....

[Raptured]

Gotta power them drones somehow...

[Playswithmachine]

Hell, i wanted to enter a diesel powered robot for robot wars. But depending on terrabytes of cloud storage for LLM's isn't going to help a drone when it can no longer communicate. But 25 lines of code will enable it to survive and defeat it's enemies. AI is full of hype, it cannot understand, nor does it need to. I develop all my machines to run independently. At the TI factory in Coventry we had robots full of IR sensors that would detect humans, and just stop, and beep at them to get out of the way, it's that simple. Maybe Tesla could learn from this.
Energy is by far our biggest problem. Filling the planet with datacenters that use up all the energy isn't the answer, in fact, the coming years we will need 20 zetabytes of data storage just to run the AI.
There isn't enough room, or energy, on the entire planet, that can support this, it's a dead end.