It rained heavily for three or four days in a row.

The originally hot city has become much cooler.

Today is a good day. The first Hercules production line in the Science and Technology Gate Production Center has begun operation.

Wang Chen currently only has three Hercules left in his hands, and the others have all been sent to the factory.

Although it cannot achieve 100% work efficiency, it can basically meet the most reluctant production needs.

This production line will also be the world's first intelligent production line that does not require manual participation.

The whole process was under the supervision of Ergouzi and the robot.

It is estimated that it won't be long before the Hercules produced can meet Wang Chen's daily needs.

However, sending out most of the robots at hand still affected the development progress of the electromagnetic gun.

So Wang Chen simply gave himself half a month's leave, except for letting Lu Ban continue to slowly assemble the remaining three Hercules.

I slipped away to the island to carefully observe the progress.

Currently, the island is fully under construction.

The place with tens of thousands of people was also very lively.

Four or five cargo ships come in and out every day, constantly transporting materials and equipment.

Especially in the central mountain range, seventy or eighty pieces of equipment are excavating day and night.

The small room that originally belonged to Wang Chen has now become the command center of the construction site.

In order to ensure quality, the Communications Construction also has a permanent inspection team here.

Next door is the third-party supervisor hired by Jin Sanshi.

Their task is to use instruments and equipment to inspect the shipped materials every day.

Even if it is a project undertaken by the Communications Construction Company, the required procedures must still be followed.

After all, this is a big deal worth more than 60 billion U.S. dollars, and there is a lot of money in it.

After wandering around the island for a few days to check the construction progress, Wang Chen pondered around the port area for a while.

When I designed the port before, I specifically set aside one-third of the open space.

Even before the construction started, Wang Chen had not yet decided what to put in this open space.

But now Wang Chen has already thought about placing a large shipbuilding platform in the port area.

With this remaining space, three huge enclosed factories with a length of 500 meters and a width of 200 meters can be placed.

In addition to building conventional ships, Wang Chen also looked to deep space.

With our current technological strength, it should only be a matter of time before we go to the universe.

Wang Chen thought it was time to start the shipyard construction plan.

After the research and development of electromagnetic weapons is completed, Wang Chen will find time to complete the research on nuclear fusion.

Even Wang Chen planned to hand over the nuclear fusion technology directly to the higher authorities for completion.

After all, neither this thing nor artificial intelligence can be controlled by a single company.

However, Wang Chen is still thinking about this matter. The only thing that is certain is that the time to unlock nuclear fusion will not be too far away.

Once nuclear fusion is unlocked, the corresponding space program will naturally begin.

It is an inevitable process for mankind to move towards deep space.

The earth is a cradle and a cage.

The development of civilization requires more and abundant resources, if we cannot enter the universe before the earth's resources are exhausted.

Then there is only death waiting for mankind.

Then the earth will enter a new cycle of reincarnation.

After hundreds of thousands or millions of years, new intelligent life will appear again and walk the same path that humans have already traveled.

But now it seems that human science and technology development is quite stable.

Even if Wang Chen doesn't appear, unlocking nuclear fusion is only a matter of time.

It may take one hundred years or two hundred years, but it should be no problem to break out of the earth.

As long as we can get out of the earth, resource issues will no longer limit humans.

It is estimated that it is possible for gold to become a cabbage price in the future.

There may even be a renaissance, with traditional energy vehicles rising again.

After all, the reserves of petroleum and gold are limited on earth, but in the universe they are almost unlimited.

But these are all a bit far-fetched.

What Wang Chen values ​​most now is helium-3 on the moon.

Although helium-3 is not the only option for nuclear fusion, it is the best option.

This thing is really rare on earth.

Helium-3 was first formed on the sun due to thermonuclear reactions, and then spread to matter in all directions by the solar wind.

Because of the obstruction of the atmosphere and magnetic field, it is difficult for them to fall on the surface of rock formations, so the storage capacity of helium-3 on the entire earth is only 500 kilograms.

It can simply be described as pitiful.

As a perfect energy source, helium-3 can undergo nuclear fusion reactions with hydrogen isotopes. However, unlike ordinary nuclear fusion reactions, helium-3 does not produce neutrons during the fusion process, so it has low radioactivity and the fusion reaction process is easy to control.

Environmentally friendly and safe.

Therefore, with this kind of raw material as the basis, humans can carry out nuclear fusion power generation efficiently, safely, cheaply, cleanly and without pollution.

And if helium-3 is used, even the current annual power generation in the world would be enough to use 100 tons of helium-3.

Wang Chen's idea is to first use deuterium and tritium, which are the easiest to achieve fusion reactions, for fusion. Both of these raw materials are very abundant on the earth.

Even if there is no helium-3 on the moon, the deuterium stored in the earth's seawater alone is enough for human use for tens of billions of years.

The fusion energy produced by deuterium extracted from one liter of seawater is equivalent to the energy released by the complete combustion of 300 liters of gasoline.

It's just that tritium, which fuses with deuterium, is a bit troublesome and needs to be made artificially. After all, the natural reserves of this thing in the world are only a few kilograms.

This is why Wang Chen covets helium-3 on the moon.

Because the fusion process of deuterium and tritium is too cumbersome, a large number of supporting devices need to be designed.

Helium-3 is much simpler, and although it is rare on the earth, it is quite abundant in the universe.

No matter what direction you look at, it is the best energy partner for mankind in the future.

Deuterium-tritium fusion can at best be regarded as a transitional product.

So Wang Chen's next goal is very clear.

That is to unlock nuclear fusion and build a spaceship to go straight to the moon.

Once helium-3 is obtained and the nuclear fusion is upgraded, the possibility of flying to Mars can be considered.

Compared with the moon, Mars is the springboard that humans need to pay most attention to in the future.

Even though that place seems to be a dead place now, as long as the technology is in place, Mars has a chance to become a second Earth.

Once Mars is successfully transformed, humans will have a perfect springboard to the universe.

Wang Chen is also looking forward to the day when his spacecraft lands on Mars.

I believe this time will not be too long.

As long as nuclear fusion is unlocked, everything is possible.

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