Chapter 183 Cold Fusion

Du Gang slipped away very quickly.

As for the spare parts that Wang Chen needs help processing, just make a list and Du Gang will help contact them.

Watching Du Gang escape, Wang Chen also smiled and sat on the sofa.

I have no worries at all about not being able to sell these two things.

Let’s not talk about bulletproof vests. I will definitely buy this single-soldier mecha no matter how expensive it is.

With such a physique, it shouldn't be a problem for a Jin Yiwei to carry three to five anti-tank tubes.

Relying on the high mobility of the mecha, the tank, the king of land warfare, might be killed without even meeting him.

In fact, the design of the mecha has not changed much. It is estimated that I can get a complete set of drawings in a week at most.

Then the factory can start producing related spare parts.

Now Wang Chen's main energy has been taken away from individual mechas and this special alloy.

With the help of artificial intelligence, Wang Chen no longer needs to do many things himself.

In this case, Wang Chen also decided to officially launch the research on the new project on March 10th.

This time, Wang Chen plans to study the "nuclear fusion project" that has been delayed for some time.

There can be no delay this time. The energy issue is already related to the core development of the company in the future.

Especially after the island is built, the power problem must be solved.

Not to mention that in future expansion into the universe, costs cannot be reduced without unlimited energy.

The current global nuclear fusion technology is actually developing quite rapidly.

In addition to hydrogen energy, which is extremely popular, the most promising energy source for mankind at present is nuclear fusion.

A great advantage of nuclear fusion is its low consumption. A 1,000-megawatt thermal power plant consumes 9,000 tons of coal every day, which is equivalent to the load of a 120-car train.

If a power plant with the same power generation uses nuclear fusion, it will only consume 27 tons of fuel every year. Processing and refining these nuclear fuels will require 270 tons of raw uranium, which is the amount of two train cars. Therefore, only from the perspective of consumption quality, the difference between the two

As much as 14,000 times.

Not to mention that nuclear fusion raw materials come from a wide range of sources. The required fuels are hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium. Deuterium can be obtained from seawater. One out of every 6,000 hydrogen atoms in seawater is deuterium, and tritium can be produced by irradiating lithium.

manufacture.

If we could extract all the deuterium from seawater, we would obtain about 10 13 tons of deuterium, which is far more than the reserves of coal, oil or natural gas on the earth.

Obtaining even one hundred millionth of the total amount each time would be enough for all mankind to use for many years.

There are currently more than 30 private companies engaged in fusion technology around the world; 18 of them have disclosed their financing status and have received a total of more than US$2.4 billion in financing.

This does not include Guanjia’s R&D facility.

The biggest difficulty in researching this technology is how to confine the fusion charged plasma at a temperature of about 100 million Kelvin (much hotter than the center of the sun).

The current mainstream technology is to use magnetic fields to confine and suspend the plasma in the reactor. However, because the plasma is very unstable, its confinement becomes extremely difficult, so that so far, the fusion reaction cannot be maintained long enough to be realized.

Energy output is greater than input.

Temperature control is an important difficulty in obtaining nuclear fusion, which is far more difficult than the current high-tech crystallization lithography machines on earth.

As the most sophisticated equipment in the world and the crystallization of the most cutting-edge technology in all mankind, the equipment and technology on the lithography machine are combined with the research results of dozens of top companies around the world. The boss of ASML once boasted that no country can manufacture the lithography machine alone.

But even so, if the country is determined to do it, the results will be available in about five years, and the most advanced photolithography machine will be available within 10 years. As for controllable nuclear fusion, Mao Xiong had already begun research in 1968, but

If they want to fully grasp it, until now scientists can only answer that they hope to see it in their lifetime.

Mao Xiong built the first "Tokamak Device" in 1954. This device is equivalent to the small reactor on Iron Man's chest. Although it is small, it can provide huge energy. This also established the direction of global nuclear fusion research and development.

In 1968, Mao Xiong scientists obtained plasma through the "Tokamak Device", which was also the first time in human history that plasma was obtained.

But after so many years, the research on nuclear fusion is still in a theoretical state.

Even if Wang Chen is cheating now, he still cannot ignore the current technological background.

In Wang Chen's view, nuclear fusion under normal conditions is basically difficult to achieve, and even if it can be achieved, the cost will be very high.

Because it is necessary to stably output energy at such a high temperature, the requirements for materials are too high.

Therefore, the method Wang Chen planned to use was not conventional nuclear fusion technology.

It's a technology called "cold fusion".

Cold fusion, also known as cold nuclear fusion, is the popular name for the more formal name "low-energy nuclear reaction" and belongs to the category of condensed matter nuclear science.

At present, the world is still in a hypothetical state regarding cold nuclear fusion.

After all, I don’t even understand thermonuclear fusion, so why is cold fusion so easy to get started with?

Indeed, if it is cold nuclear technology that can be equivalent to thermonuclear fusion, then the things required are not what Wang Chen can handle now.

However, if it is a more beggars' version of the method, there is still a chance to achieve nuclear fusion.

And in a very low-cost way.

Everyone knows that the biggest problem with thermonuclear fusion is temperature.

But the wonder of nature is that when it presents problems, it also buries the solutions needed.

If thermonuclear fusion cannot be controlled through normal channels, there are still some hidden methods.

For example, a recipe recorded in the library in my mind.

By refining a special catalyst, nuclear fusion materials can produce fusion reactions at a certain temperature.

This is a product of other civilizations studying cold nuclear fusion, but in the eyes of that civilization, this product is really not worth mentioning for them who have mastered thermonuclear fusion technology.

Because although this kind of catalyst can force materials to fuse, it will damage the energy of fusion.

Assuming that the normal fusion capacity is one hundred, the amount that can be fused in this way is less than sixty.

The conversion rate is almost half.

But just because people don't like it doesn't mean that the current earth doesn't like it.

Before everyone has found the correct way to use thermonuclear fusion, this beggar's version of fusion method can still play a huge role.

After all, the total amount of nuclear fusion energy is there, and it is not a space jump. After four levels of energy are lost, it is still a huge amount of energy.

It is fully capable of supporting the earth’s development within the solar system.

As a transitional technology, it is already very good.

Wang Chen also consulted a lot of information before deciding to take this technology as the main development direction.

There is no way, the resources of the earth are too few, and after entering the universe, many so-called problems on the earth are actually not problems at all.

Let's go out first and then talk.
Chapter completed!