There was an article in Aviation Week and Space Technology. Give me a moment to search online....
Edit - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...oves-forward-with-larger-more-powerful-design
Same technology referenced in AW&ST, less detail but enough to give us hope they’re close to having a functioning prototype to research the materials science required to meet DOE, EPA, etc requirements for power generation infrastructure. It’s going to be disruptive when it hits the streets, no doubt. I wouldn’t be suprised if it’s classification level changes. It’s a major technologicical leap forward. Clean, reliable energy. Zero emissions. Safe.....
Their unique containment solution is the secret sauce. Rings has a huge footprint and doesn’t scale. Containment field constraints has been one if not the barrier to reducing the footprint/complexity and increase efficiency and simplifying what has in the past required a huge, complex design that hadn’t evolved much in decades.
The caveat is I’ll beleive it when they get it to work reliably and it doesn’t cost $100,000,000 to generate 1kw of electricity.
Edit - https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...oves-forward-with-larger-more-powerful-design
Same technology referenced in AW&ST, less detail but enough to give us hope they’re close to having a functioning prototype to research the materials science required to meet DOE, EPA, etc requirements for power generation infrastructure. It’s going to be disruptive when it hits the streets, no doubt. I wouldn’t be suprised if it’s classification level changes. It’s a major technologicical leap forward. Clean, reliable energy. Zero emissions. Safe.....
Their unique containment solution is the secret sauce. Rings has a huge footprint and doesn’t scale. Containment field constraints has been one if not the barrier to reducing the footprint/complexity and increase efficiency and simplifying what has in the past required a huge, complex design that hadn’t evolved much in decades.
The caveat is I’ll beleive it when they get it to work reliably and it doesn’t cost $100,000,000 to generate 1kw of electricity.
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