[ RadSafe ] Boeing just patented a jet engine powered by lasers and nucle...

[Ted de Castro]

Laser Induced Inertial fusion - Hmmmmm.  All of the LLNL National 
Ignition Facility - including the lasers - in a jet engine!!??

Yes - this may be a bit ahead of the times.

But then an LBL researcher is very close to reproducing SLAC on a 
desktop!!  Using lasers of course - what else these days.

I've heard of "getting a jump on things" but to actually get a patent on 
technology that doesn't even exist yet.

I'm not so much surprised that someone might apply - but that the patent 
office would approve.....

I guess the strategy is to patent whatever wild dream you might have and 
then when someone works very hard and applies their genius to invent it 
- its yours!!

I guess I'll submit my patent for time travel!

On 7/21/2015 1:39 PM, JPreisig at aol.com wrote:
> Radsafe,
>   
>        Something called nuclear bomb propelled  rockets was described in an
> early issue of Adventures in Experimental Physics  (Bogdan Maglich, editor).
>   Don't know if this is similar to this.   This issue has some explanations
> of the basic physics.
>   
>       Joe Preisig
>   
>   
>   
>   
> In a message dated 7/21/2015 4:09:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV writes:
>
> I see  some non-trivial technical and political issues.  Just to pick one,
> neutrons plus U-238 equal, in varying amounts, fission fragments and
> plutonium.  I can see people being unenthusiastic about an engine that  spews
> fission fragment as it goes.  The fact that the engine would become
> progressively more radioactive the more hours of use is on it would be an  issue, too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of  H.Estabrooks at cns.doe.gov
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:33 AM
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> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Boeing just patented a  jet engine powered by lasers
> and nuclear explosions - Business  Insider
>
> Now THIS is  cool!
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-just-patented-a-jet-engine-powered-by-
> lasers-and-nuclear-explosions-2015-7
>
> Bates  Estabrooks
> Y-12
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