manynovel Chapter 158
Chapter 158
After a detailed discussion with Kong Bai, Dean Zou and Academician Li were also a little anxious, and they experienced the feeling of being forced into a corner by the group of Zhonghai back then.
Now 301, there is really nothing to shirk, purely from the difficulty of the construction of continuous and controllable nuclear fusion facilities, the biggest difficulty lies in the overall design of the facility itself!
Unlike some other technologies, controllable nuclear fusion facilities are an inseparable whole, and any important spare parts and components must be further refined and targeted research and design on the basis of determining the overall device parameters.
Almost every part of the fusion reactor and the core system needs to be customized on demand, even the size of a bolt, it must be subject to the requirements of the overall design of the system!
Now with the support of high computing power and the participation of artificial intelligence, Academician Kong promised to give priority to helping them produce 100 Wu doppelgangers, and all the prerequisites for controllable nuclear fusion construction are already complete and can no longer be complete!
Just with Wu's use of that crazy demon plus real strength, he can give you the details to make a screw and a few turns of threads, the design of the anti-detachment self-fastening structure, can give you a list of several schemes, according to the actual processing capacity and the required effect is different, choose by yourself!
The Great Demon King gave 301 schools here, all of them have done the preparatory work to this extent, what else can they do, only to hurry up!
Dean Zou and Academician Li were not in the mood, and at the same time they had no face, they continued to talk to the Great Demon King here, hurriedly left and went to busy making a report to the North Sea side, intending that within two days, the civil engineering of the standard reactor of the Zhonghai nuclear fusion power station would be carried out first, and it could not be delayed any longer!
Kong Bai smiled and watched them walk out of the room, but in his mind he was thinking about what else behind the overall technical layout of this series he hadn't thought of.
In fact, at present, Kong Bai has a series of technologies on hand, and each technology has many subdivision directions, which can continue to dig deeper.
For example, continuous controllable nuclear fusion, there are many directions, can carry out further applicability research, for example, the direction of the giantization of the nuclear fusion reactor naturally does not need to be mentioned, 10,000 MW monomer reactor, certainly not the end of this technology, in this aspect, let 301 Institute and Wu use themselves to do it.
As for miniaturization, the main direction is the research of microfusion reactors fueled by helium-3 and deuterium-2.
During the operation of the hydrogen fusion reactor, a large number of neutrons will be released, resulting in equipment and personnel being vulnerable to radiation damage, it is necessary to deploy a liquid lithium wall inside the reactor body, absorb neutrons while exchanging heat, and attach a thick and clumsy neutron absorption device outside the reactor body to resist and eliminate the harm of neutron escape.
Theoretically, as long as the temperature is high enough, fusion reactions can occur between any two atoms lighter than iron, and fusion reactions between atoms heavier than iron are not nothing, but have no value, because that fusion reaction not only does not produce energy, but also absorbs a lot of additional heat.
In nuclear fusion, the fusion between helium-3 and deuterium-2 requires the lowest conditions, as long as the temperature of tens of millions of degrees, can meet the requirements of fusion reactions, and the reaction process is easy to control.
This fusion does not produce neutrons, so the radioactivity is small, it can be regarded as a clean energy source that is both pollution-free and safe, and does not require the design of a complex shelter system, which can greatly reduce the volume and weight of the reactor.
Therefore, helium-3 can not only be used in small nuclear fusion power plants on the ground, but also particularly suitable as a rocket or spacecraft fuel, used to provide energy and power for deep space navigation, the only problem is that helium-3, the perfect nuclear fusion fuel, is too rare!
Helium-3 has a half-life of only 12.4 years, which is almost non-existent on Earth, accounting for only 0.0001% of all helium on Earth! Moreover, these small amounts of helium-3 are also produced by geological activities and nuclear weapons tests.
However, there is also good news, according to the data obtained by several explorations, there is a large amount of helium-3 in the soil on the surface of the moon, and its reserves are estimated to be millions of tons, which is 2 million times the earth's helium-3 reserves, according to the current level of human energy consumption, these helium-3 can be used by all mankind for thousands of years!
Moreover, through the lunar exploration project carried out by Longguo in 2015, the lunar surface soil and lunar soil thickness estimation data are obtained, and it is believed that the previous estimation method may generally underestimate the lunar soil thickness and total helium-3 reserves.
Although extracting helium-3 from lunar soil still faces great engineering challenges and relatively low efficiency, it is also the only feasible way to mine helium-3 on a large scale currently known to mankind.
What's more, there is not only helium-3 in the lunar soil, but also more valuable minerals and metals!
In the lunar soil samples obtained so far, scientists have found that it contains more than 100 mineral components. Among them, the titanium metal in the lunar sea basalt, it is estimated that there are tens of billions of tons, and they can be mined.
It was also found that lunar soil contains cerium, rhenium, and zinc, among which "cerium" can only be obtained by artificial synthesis on Earth. "Rhenium" is extremely rare on Earth.
These are the precious resources needed in the era of human astronautics, just hanging above our heads out of thin air, waiting for our exploitation!
If in the past, this idea of going to the moon to mine was tantamount to a dream, but now, with the construction and launch of the space-space multi-purpose strategic platform, the next step is to rely on this platform to build a space elevator, greatly reducing the cost of entering space, then the establishment of a mining field on the moon, or even a smelting and processing plant, is not such an unattainable dream!
At that time, directly engage in several special function "pyramids", as soon as you land anywhere on the moon, then start digging, you don't need to apply for a mining license, and no one will ask you to collect resource taxes, this good thing, think about it makes people tremble with excitement!
Also, I heard that a valuable mineral deposit has been found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter!
There is an asteroid belt there, and a huge asteroid called Spirit Star is very special, an irregular star with a diameter of about 225 kilometers, which is an asteroid made almost entirely of metal, and the total mass is quite amazing.
According to a paper published in the Journal of Planetary Science, a man-made probe flew close to Lingjin, studied the asteroid's surface with ultraviolet light, and found that its interior was almost entirely metal, and only nickel and iron. Based on the size of the asteroid and the price of these two metals on Earth, estimate the mineral content of this planet, which is worth up to trillions (10^19) dragon coins!
Kong Bai couldn't wait to open his cute "pyramid" now and pull that golden little baby back!
What's more, there is Mars, there must be a lot of resources on it, and relatively speaking, Mars is still very enthusiastic, and its natural environment is not particularly harsh, so you must start with her first!
There is also Jupiter, not to mention that Jupiter itself is a huge treasure trove of hydrogen resources, just talking about her cute little moons, of which Europa has a lot of water on it, and Ganymede is covered with methane lakes, all of which save humans to compress, just a tube!
The more Kong Bai thought about it, the more he couldn't sit still, and he had already stood up and walked around the room, thinking as he went, and his spring heart rippled....