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Boeing patents new "jet" engine






Looks more like a fusion drive for spacecraft than for jets, and there are already a few fusion drive patents. They're just trying to protect their work in case they have thought of something useful.

Alan
 
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I happen to know that it is though! lol I can also say the military will get this tech first as always lol



 
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diachi said:
The folk at Lockheed Martin might disagree with you!
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"Compact fusion - it's closer than you think"

Uh huh, they've been saying that for 50 years now. :tired: . They don't even give an estimated time of arrival, so I don't see where the disagreement is.

It's one thing to build a prototype in a lab. It's quite another to build it into a viable commercial vehicle. And it's an entirely different issue to get the technology approved by all the regulatory agencies. ESPECIALLY something as "scary" as nuclear fusion. It won't happen in 20 years, I can pretty much promise that.
 
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Cyparagon said:
"Compact fusion - it's closer than you think"

Uh huh, they've been saying that for 50 years now. :tired: . They don't even give an estimated time of arrival, so I don't see where the disagreement is.

It's one thing to build a prototype in a lab. It's quite another to build it into a viable commercial vehicle. And it's an entirely different issue to get the technology approved by all the regulatory agencies. ESPECIALLY something as "scary" as nuclear fusion. It won't happen in 20 years, I can pretty much promise that.
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I can't tell you the military will "WILL" have it in less than 15 years! That's a fact!
 
I can remember reading in magazines way back in the late 1970's that we would have refrigerator sized fusion reactors in only several years, at least one company even advertised this. I would not be surprised if they really developed this technology back around 1980 and it has been buried in black projects that will never see the light of day, and only now are they preparing to let this out for commercial use.

Alan
 
noobphaser215 said:
I can't tell you the military will "WILL" have it in less than 15 years! That's a fact!
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This sentence just doesn't make sense.
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Why is the word will there twice?
Why the quotes? quotes aren't for emphasis, they often denote the opposite, actually.
You can't tell me the military will have it? I don't see how that's a useful statement.
 
This is a genious, currently impractical, futuristic aerospace enginnering idea. It's absolutely crazy too...

I LIKE IT!
 
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Still not true nuclear propelling, but I'll take it ;). This isn't going to work and boeing knows too. Wonder why they still patented it...
 
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