Anonymous ID: bb0b73 July 27, 2022, 4:10 p.m. No.16857273   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7576 >>7587 >>8249 >>8476

Pentagon Contracts Private Firms to Put Fusion Reactor in Space by 2027

 

July 4, 2022

 

Fusion reactions are phenomena that power stars by merging pairs of nuclei into a single, heavier nucleus, creating energy from the leftover mass. Humanity has the capability to trigger nuclear fusion through the detonation of hydrogen bombs, but its use for peaceful purposes is yet to be achieved at costs below those of input energy costs.

 

The Pentagon has tasked a pair of Seattle-based startups with developing a miniature fusion reactor for use in space, setting the ambitious goal of demonstrating the workability of the technology for use in space-based propulsion and power systems in the not-too-distant future.

 

The Department of Defense’s "Defense Innovation Unit" has signed contracts with Ultra Safe Nuclear and Avalanche Energy after floating program requirements asking contractors to “demonstrate the next generation of nuclear propulsion and power capability for spacecraft.”

 

In a statement put out by the Pentagon’s research arm, the military said it expects the companies to create operational prototype demonstrators for use in space by 2027.

 

The Pentagon did not specify the value of the contracts, with the prototype "nuclear propulsion and power" systems expected to be used by spacecraft the DoD hopes will one day police the area of space between the Earth and the Moon.

 

Ultra Safe Nuclear is working on a promising nuclear radioisotope battery known as "EmberCore", which it says can be used for propulsion and power generation, and which can generate over a million kilowatt hours of energy (one gigawatt) – enough to power about 750,000 homes for a year, using “just a few kilograms of fuel”, either cobalt-60 or thulium, in a device about the size of a small filing cabinet.

Avalanche Energy, meanwhile, assures that its patented lunchbox-sized fusion reactor, known as “Orbitron,” can create between 5 and 15 kilowatts of power by trapping high-speed ions generated by a magnetron in orbit around a negatively charged electrode, packing ions into the reactors and increasing the chances that they’ll fuse to generate power. “The resulting fusion burn then produces the energetic particles that generate either heat or electricity, which can power a high-efficiency propulsion system,” the DIU explained.

 

The DIU aren’t the only ones funding research into fusion-based energy generation for use in space. In early May, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced plans to develop a nuclear thermal rocket engine and build a working demonstrator for use in Earth orbit by 2027.

 

NASA has also sought funding for fusion-based propulsion systems, asking Congress for a $15 million cash injection as part of its collaboration with DARPA for nuclear propulsion systems that could enable a high-speed trip to Mars.

 

moar @ https://sputniknews.com/20220704/pentagon-contracts-private-firms-to-put-fusion-reactor-in-space-by-2027-1096952818.html

 

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Anonymous ID: bb0b73 July 27, 2022, 4:10 p.m. No.16857345   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8686

Video is from April

Article is from today

 

Missing North Texas teen was a sex trafficking victim in Oklahoma, police say

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Od6AMA4vzQ

 

Texas Teenager's Parents Speak Out on Sex Trafficking Case from Mavericks Game

June 18, 2022

 

The parents of a 15-year-old Texas girl who went missing from a Dallas Mavericks game in April and was allegedly sex-trafficked publicly spoke about the case Saturday.

 

Kyle Morris, who is the girl's stepfather, detailed what happened during an April 8 game between the Mavs and Portland Trail Blazers at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

 

Brooke Morris added that her daughter told her she met several other girls in the same situation during her harrowing experience in Oklahoma, "And she said, 'I wonder how long they have been in this life, but no one looked for them.'"

 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10039103-texas-teenagers-parents-speak-out-on-sex-trafficking-case-from-mavericks-game

 

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Anonymous ID: bb0b73 July 27, 2022, 4:13 p.m. No.16857924   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8347

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DOG COMMS???

 

Shelter Hope Pet Shop - Business or Charity?

Thousand Oaks, CA

Owner and Founder Kim Sill

Connections to FBI and the the 2018 Borderlands Bar and Grill Shooting on Thousand Oaks, CA.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/shelter-hope-pets-guns-nra

 

Californai pet shop bars gun control opponents from adopting animals and threatens to sue anyone who lies about supporting the NRA

 

If you support the National Rifle Association and want to adopt a pet, you won't be able to get your furry friend from the Shelter Hope Pet Shop in Thousand Oaks, California.

 

The shop has announced that you will not be eligible to get an animal if you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own assault rifles. And if you lie about backing the NRA, you will be slapped with a lawsuit.

 

"We do not support those who believe that the 2nd amendment gives them the right to buy assault weapons. If your beliefs are not in line with ours, we will not adopt a pet to you," a newsletter notes. "If you lie about being a NRA supporter, make no mistake, we will sue you for fraud. If you believe that it is our responsibility to protect ourselves in public places and arm ourselves with a gun–do not come to us to adopt a dog."

 

The newsletter states that "if you are pro guns and believe that no background check is necessary, then do not come to us to adopt. We will grill you before you even get an appointment and visit our rescue. If we ask you 'do you care about children being gunned down in our schools?' If you hesitate, because your core belief is that you believe teachers need to carry firearms, then you will not get approved to adopt from us. If you foster for us and believe in guns, please bring our dogs and/or cats back, or we will arrange to have them picked up. Shelter Hope Pet Shop in no way will continue to operate if we are even remotely part of the problem. We support teachers, children, and businesses who provide services to the public, but we've had enough of all the senseless killing."

 

Founder Kim Sill told NBC News that some people have threatened to stop donating money if she does not drop the gun control inquiry from the pet adoption screening process.

 

"I say, fine, keep your money," Sill noted, according to the outlet. "If I go out of business, as a result, I go out of business. But I have to do something. And this is the only thing I can do to make the point that mass killings by people armed with guns have to stop."

 

In 2018, a gunman perpetrated a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, killing himself and others — according to NBC News, Sill said that around three months prior, the perpetrator had gone to her facility to carry out community service linked to an arrest.

 

"When he walked in, one of the other volunteers noticed he was wearing flip-flops and told me," Sill said. "When I told him he really should be wearing something like gym shoes, he got real snappy with me."

 

Sill assigned the man to work with an individual named Larry. "After a day, Larry said we can’t work with him, and I had to let him go," Sill noted.

 

Sill said that following the mass shooting, the FBI and police informed her that the killer had scoped out her facility out as a potential target.

 

"Their advice to me was to hire security, and for a time I did," she noted, according to the outlet. "It was unarmed security, but it was security. Somebody standing at the door. The other advice I got from the police was come up with an escape plan."

 

"An escape plan? What I have here are lots of senior citizens and dozens of dogs and cats," Sill said. "How would we escape a gunman who came inside here to kill us?"

 

"I found myself looking over my shoulder whenever I came to work," she noted. "And after a while, I realized I just couldn’t live like that."

 

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