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Chapter 64 The Ark Reactor

In fact, sometimes this society really looks like a development and operation game with relatively few bugs.

Establish a project in the right direction, invest enough funds, recruit necessary talents and creative geniuses, and then the most important thing is special experimental equipment and time.

Engaging in scientific research, including high-tech hardware research, is a project that requires a lot of investment and unstable financial returns.

For example, the top treasure of modern industry - photolithography machine.

Nowadays, there is only one country in the world that can manufacture the most advanced high-precision lithography machines, the Netherlands, a company called Dutch ASML. However, such a monopoly and dominance means that the EUV lithography machine they manufacture sells for 120 million euros.

Equivalent to RMB 940 million, the money that can be sold and the capital invested are not worth it at all. And just look at the price and it will not be sold to outsiders at all, so the "sales volume" is not high.

Another example is the artificial sun that Daxia is currently leading in global research.

That is to simulate the environment of the solar core on the earth, so the related experimental equipment is also called the "artificial sun", and the full name is the "fully superconducting Tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device (east)".

Of course, Gu Qing couldn't afford these two things.

The former requires too many high-precision manufacturing equipment and needs to be gradually improved; the latter requires too many financial resources. To stabilize the artificial sun and have practical applications, it requires many zero capital investments, which only the state can support.

But as a person whose head is filled with extra-dimensional technology, the latter, energy is actually easier to produce.

But it's not an artificial sun, but a palladium reactor.

Palladium (dium, pd) is chemical element No. 46, and its element is a metal.

The most important thing is that palladium can absorb a large amount of hydrogen, even thousands of times its own volume, and the hydrogen can be released only after being slightly heated. Therefore, palladium has great potential as a hydrogen storage material.

With such great potential, naturally many people are interested in it.

At the end of the 20th century, two giants in the electrochemistry community tried to use palladium to electrolyze heavy water, and then they published a conclusion after the experiment: This experiment had an unusually high energy output, and measured the output of neutrons and tritium, so

They believe that palladium can induce nuclear fusion at room temperature, also known as cold fusion.

You know, usually in order for nuclear fusion to occur, the fuel needs to be heated to tens of millions of degrees Celsius, so that the fuel has enough thermal kinetic energy to overcome the Coulomb repulsion between atoms to cause fusion.

If nuclear fusion can be achieved at room temperature, it will be a real energy revolution.

Thermal power generation that wastes resources and pollutes the environment, wind power generation that is troublesome to maintain and requires regional conditions, and hydropower generation that requires environmental changes and abundant water resources, these power generation projects will all be lost in the dust of history because of this palladium element reactor.

But the reality is not that simple. The experiments of these two giants in the electrochemistry world have never been repeated by the "unscrupulous descendants" of later generations.

And the academic community has raised a lot of doubts about the results of palladium cold fusion. One of the most scientific doubts is:

The thermal motion energy of deuterium at room temperature is far from enough to overcome Coulomb repulsion, making fusion impossible. Previous experiments have found that palladium will intensify the repulsion between deuterium and deuterium, making fusion even less likely to occur.

Therefore, the palladium element reactor is like a farce. It is lively and lively at first, but deserted later, and from time to time someone comes out and spits.

However, there are great differences in the knowledge Gu Qing inherited.

Two big guys invented the Ark Reactor, which uses palladium as a power source, an energy supply device that can provide clean energy to the outside world. However, the first generation Ark Reactor was very large and the energy conversion efficiency was very low. Later, one of the big guys

The boy's children improved the reactor design, successfully miniaturized it and used it as the power source for his own armor.

Physical problems can be described by partial differential equations (mathematical physics equations) about space and time. The theory of partial differential equations tells us that for a set of partial differential equations, there can be any number of sets of solutions, so the determined solutions are the initial conditions and boundaries

Determined by conditions - called definite solution conditions.

Philosophically speaking, the physical process described by partial differential equations is an internal factor, and the initial conditions and boundary conditions are external factors. For a steady-state process, the definite solution conditions are determined by the boundary conditions.

Specifically, it is determined by the wall conditions of the first wall of the vacuum chamber facing the plasma and the target plate of the divertor.

Gu Qing did not fully understand the technology of the Ark Reactor, but he was able to do it step by step based on the knowledge in his mind.

Of course, this is like a crafts enthusiast trying to assemble a very difficult model. Even if there are drawings, construction according to the drawings will require many times of trial and error and correction.

But there is nothing we can do. The Guardian No. 1 mecha lying in the underground laboratory is still relying on cables to transmit energy. December is coming. In order to surprise some people in Korea, the mecha's energy problem must be solved.

So after finishing the last meeting and drawing the cake, Gu Qing returned to the cold underground laboratory. He used Ahao, a modified large-scale sweeping robot, for three meals a day. [Xuanwu] controlled it to order food in the cafeteria.

Then bring the food back.

And while he was still hammering away and working hard.

The College of Harbin Institute of Technology is separated from Xishu University by thousands of mountains and rivers.

In the graduate dormitory, there was a boy wearing black-rimmed glasses who was working on his thesis.

"Check for plagiarism. Damn that hammer, don't you want to cite it? CNKI is so expensive, isn't it just a joke?"

The words of Chu in my thoughts are so angry.

But thinking about the zero-tolerance attitude of relevant departments towards academic fraud and the measures to include academic misconduct in the list of dishonest persons, I still sighed.

It still needs to be checked.

He stretched and lowered his head to look at the laptop screen.

However, Chu Ci suddenly noticed that the penguin icon in the lower right corner of the screen was flashing.

Although he knew it might be an advertisement, he still clicked on it casually and planned to close it due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It turned out that the message prompt came from the tutor's group notification.

His breathing stagnated instantly.

The supervisor of a graduate student is also the boss of the student. Project fees and other issues are the focus. If there are any problems from time to time, you have to be on call.

And the most important thing is that ordinary bosses cannot beat and scold their employees at will, but tutors can... even get diplomas...

Naturally, Chu Ci quickly clicked on the message.

"Look at the robot in this video. Can you tell whether it is a synthesized CG image? By the way, write down your review tomorrow."

Immediately following is a video link.
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