Rossi has stated that his 1 MW reactors was delivered to a military customer. It logically follows that he would setup his company in close proximity to that customer.
Florida’s Mayport Naval Station and Jacksonville Naval Air Station was also where the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aerial system was developed. I suspect that the LENR version of the Navy next generation drone power plant will be directed by the BAMS project management. With a number of naval facilities in the Florida panhandle, Florida provides a natural R&D location for Robot development. It is probable that the factory to produce the LENR power units for these robots will be located close to if not at Florida’s Mayport Naval Station and Jacksonville Naval Air Station. In 2007, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed a program to develop technology for a UAV with an endurance capability of over 5 years. The program, entitled VULTURE (an acronym for Very-high altitude, Ultra-endurance, Loitering Theater Unmanned Reconnaissance Element), entered Phase II on September 14, 2010, with a contract signed with Boeing for development of the SolarEagle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_SolarEagle>flight demonstrator. If a LENR drone power plant is available, it would be a good backup power plant solution for the SolarEagle to increase its low attitude and surveillance instrumentation package c*a*pability. Is it a coincidence that Northrop Grumman received the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance contract and is also working on the nuclear drone? In DOD contracting parlance, such a serendipitous situation is called a discriminator. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I suspect the requirement for the 45 MW LENR systems originally came from >> the US Navy to power their aircraft carrier based drones. >> > You don't need 45 MW for a drone! Okay, maybe for the upcoming X-47B > drone, but you would not start with that. They would start with a small > drone. > > - Jed > >
