More Power!

Continuing the reasons for optimism for the future, how about a fusion reactor in beta stage operating in 2017 and producing commercial power by 2022? That what the Lockheed Skunk Works says and they have a proven track record for delivering high performance aircraft like the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird to  back it up. The reactor would be small enough to be loaded on a truck and taken where needed. It would produce enough power to supply a town of 50,000 and because it would use radio waves on deuterium gas to create a plasma, there would be no radioactivity or hazardous by products at all. Science fiction? Maybe. But when a company like Lockheed Martin and its famous Skunk Works sticks its neck out so publicly, I would not bet against them. 

www.examiner.com/article/cheap-fusion-energy-a-few-years-away-accoding-to-lockheed-skunk-works