When I first saw this news I was a bit confused. Was this a "hot" fusion reactor or the newer and more reasonable "cold" fusion type?

[The "cold fusion" type is now called "LENR" meaning "Low Energy Nuclear Reaction" to avoid invoking association with the original now-famous flap called "cold fusion"].

So I went to the best source I know of about "free energy" topics PESN and saw that the Lockheed device is indeed a form of hot fusion. I thought "that's a crazy idea" since developments in LENR have by now moved WAY beyond anything in hot fusion. So much so that I thought hot fusion was pretty much a dead idea by now.

It didn't take long to find out what Sterling Allan, founder of PESN had to say. It was pretty much what I was already thinking myself. Here are his thoughts about this much publicized Lockheed thing.

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Lockheed Martin Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor

source article here

Compiled by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
October 18, 2014

Several of you have been giving me links to stories about Lockheed Martin's Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor.

Here is an excerpt from their recent press release :

PALMDALE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2014 – The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Skunk Works® team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR) that can be developed and deployed in as little as ten years. Currently, there are several patents pending that cover their approach.

While fusion itself is not new, the Skunk Works has built on more than 60 years of fusion research and investment to develop an approach that offers a significant reduction in size compared to mainstream efforts.

“Our compact fusion concept combines several alternative magnetic confinement approaches, taking the best parts of each, and offers a 90 percent size reduction over previous concepts,” said Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works’ Revolutionary Technology Programs. “The smaller size will allow us to design, build and test the CFR in less than a year.”

After completing several of these design-build-test cycles, the team anticipates being able to produce a prototype in five years. As they gain confidence and progress technically with each experiment, they will also be searching for partners to help further the technology.

What astonishes me is that people are getting all excited about this. LM hasn't even built a prototype yet, and they're looking at ten years to market.

Meanwhile, in the Cold Fusion sector, we know of many companies that have built prototypes, several of which are working on production prototypes, which could be in the market in 1-3 years -- possibly before Lockheed Martin even has their first prototype built. And the cold fusion iterations are 1) much more energy dense, 2) much more simple, 3) much more affordable, 4) emit little or no radiation.

Yet the mainstream press gets all excited, and even the alternative media, while they ignore the recent cold fusion developments.

So compared to the more promising "exotics" that are in the hopper, I say "Ho Hum" to Lockheed Martin, as exciting as their development may seem to the mainstream world. At least they are pushing the envelope in the mainstream, making the mainstream more open to such revolutionary breakthroughs.

The reason this development has received a flood of news coverage, while the E-Cat 3rd party test
news got barely a trickle, is that this one is coming from Lockheed Martin, so journalist can put their brain in a jar and trust the source without having to think for themselves, even though this development is far less impactful and much further away.

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There is much more info about the Lockheed thing here at the source article excerpted above:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Lockheed_Martin_Compact_Nuclear_Fusion_Reactor

For info on the whole broad range of free energy research see the home page of Peswiki here:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

There is an often changing page which lists the top five most promising technologies here:

Top 5 Exotic Free Energy Technologies
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Top_5_Exotic_Free_Energy_Technologies

One technology that has been on this list for a long time (in varying positions) is called the "E-Cat"

Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator (E-Cat)
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Andrea_A._Rossi_Cold_Fusion_Generator

"On January 14, 2011, they gave the Worlds' first public demonstration of a nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor capable of producing a few kilowatts of thermal energy. At its peak, it is capable of generating 15,000 watts with just 400 watts input required. In a following test the same output was achieved but with only 80 watts of continual input."

As you browse the Peswiki site you will see that what Allan states, that MANY whole areas and lines of research are WAY WAY BEYOND any kind of hot fusion and that many of them have built working prototypes and that many prototypes have already been replicated and proven by third parties.

It is these devices that are worthy of getting excited about. Next to these the Lockheed so far non-existent device is like nothing.