Both of these concepts require significant advances in fusion technology, and therefore cannot be built at present, unlike Orion.
This work has implications, in particular, for nuclear fusion technologies.
Technical and theoretical difficulties have hindered the development of working civilian fusion technology, though research continues to this day around the world.
Like the fusion technology for which it was being traded, nanotech had turned out to be an enormously complex technical challenge.
You can prevent the ongoing damage by providing fusion technology one hundred years ahead of what the primary culture is capable of developing.
Only for the geniuses in the Federation who would teach a planet the secret of fusion technology without also teaching them how dangerous it is!
There are high hopes that fusion technologies will one day replace most fission reactors but this is still a research area of nuclear physics.
In the long term, we have to develop fusion technology" as the only sure solution to energy problems.
Not much is known about Sol cutters world but they have flying cars that use cold fusion technology.
Martin questions how Todtman reached his breakthrough in the development of cold fusion technology.