Ars Technica
Assume the brace position. Boeing has received a patent for, I kid you
not, a laser-powered fusion-fission jet propulsion system. Boeing
envisions that this system could replace both rocket and turbofan
engines, powering everything from spacecraft to missiles to airplanes.
The patent, US 9,068,562,
combines inertial confinement fusion, fission, and a turbine that
generates electricity. It sounds completely crazy—and it is completely
unrealistic given our current mastery of fusion, or lack thereof—but, in
the future perhaps, this could be a rather ingenious solution.
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