Chapter 657: Jiangcheng's Energy Problem

There are many nuclear materials, C14 material is definitely not the only option, others such as nickel-63, cobalt-60 and even uranium-235, which is commonly used in nuclear reactions, and so on.

However, C14 is currently the safest radioactive material, while ensuring energy supply, the radiation dose of C14 will be very low, even if there is no anti-radiation shell, the clothes worn by human beings and even a thin piece of paper can effectively block nuclear radiation, and Pangu Technology currently has a very good grasp of the performance of C14, and can achieve zero radiation spillover through certain isolation means.

If nuclear energy is to be used for civilian use, the most important thing is safety. You don't want to have a nuclear reactor in your community or home, if you accidentally go wrong, it will cause serious nuclear pollution.

In this case, C14 is the best choice at the moment.

In the most extreme case, in the event of force majeure such as earthquakes, fires, or even wars, the C14 battery pack has an accident, and the big deal is that it burns into carbon dioxide.

In this extreme case, any protection for the battery pack fails, allowing carbon dioxide C(14)O2 to disperse into the air. Carbon dioxide is also quickly thinned out of the air, and the inhabitants breathe a little, and the radiation dose received by the human body is only the radiation received by doing a few C14 breathing experiments, and even compared to doing two CT scans, after all, C14 can be used everywhere in nature.

What's more, if M applies C14 batteries in residential areas, Pangu Technology will use the safest means to protect the battery pack, and natural disasters such as earthquakes and fires must be within the scope of response.

To sum up, nuclear batteries with C14 as raw materials are certain and reliable in terms of safety factor.

Then the second question is whether the nuclear batteries are arranged in a centralized manner or separately for each household in the civil and commercial residential fields.

"The centralized layout is easy to manage, and there is no need for large-scale renovation of existing power lines. ”

"The separate arrangement will facilitate the promotion and commercialization of nuclear batteries. Xu Limin analyzed: "Imagine the future, go out to buy a nuclear battery in the supermarket, and install the battery in the room when you get home, many aspects. ”

"It's a matter of the future. Xiao Ming waved his hand and said: "At present, we should not do major surgery on the existing community power grid, so the centralized layout is better, and it is very important to facilitate management and maintenance." ”

After these two issues are clearly discussed, the next step is the issue of technology and application.

Xu Limin analyzed: "In this way, it seems that the performance of energy companies in the future will explode." ”

The law of conservation of energy is one of the cosmic rules that are constant in human cognition.

The application of nuclear batteries in cities is actually to store the nuclear energy of the Nananfei nuclear power plant in nuclear batteries (the specific storage method is to use nuclear energy to simulate the cosmic environment and convert C12 into C14), and then apply the nuclear energy in the batteries to life.

The installed capacity of the Nan'an non-nuclear power plant is not high, and it is okay to support the electricity consumption of Jiangcheng City, but the number of cities is too large.

So the physics lab has been doing two things:

One is to use the physical properties of C14 to improve the effective utilization rate of electron crossing per unit area by crystal folding, which can reduce the volume of the battery while ensuring energy

There is also the Experimental Controlled Nuclear Fusion project. Traditional nuclear fission nuclear power plants will never be able to meet the energy needs of future cities. Xiao Ming also doesn't want the future to be full of nuclear power plants on the land of China, so he can only use nuclear fusion instead of nuclear fission.

Tritium and tritium undergo nuclear fusion to form helium-4.

Nuclear fusion occurs with one tritium atom and one deuterium atom into particles.

The relative molecular mass of deuterium is m1 = 2.014u, tritium is m2 = 3.016u, helium is m3 = 4.002u, and neutron mass is m4 = 1.008u.

Then m=m1+m2-m3-m4=0.018884u.

According to Einstein's mass-energy equation, E = mc(2), the energy produced by nuclear fusion is 17.59 MeV (megaelectron volts).

And through nuclear fission, taking uranium-235 as an example, the energy produced by nuclear fission of a uranium atom is 17.6Mev.

On the surface, the fission of a uranium nucleus produces more energy than the fusion of tritium and deuterium nuclei, but on average, the energy produced by each nucleon is four times that of tritium-deuterium fusion.

When it comes to a complete nuclear power plant, controlled fusion will produce more energy than fission, less nuclear materials, and a smaller footprint.

In the future, only a few controlled nuclear fusion power plants need to be built in specific places, and all the electricity generated will be injected into nuclear batteries, which will meet the needs of all people in the world, and the energy released by 1 kilogram of hydrogen fusion is about 6300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 It will also achieve real clean energy.

Xiao Ming once again talked about the construction of a green city in the concept. "Jiangcheng is an inland city, and our energy mainly comes from thermal power and hydropower, of which the proportion of hydropower is not high, and our projects have promotion significance. ”

When he was in college, in the course of "Resource and Environmental Economics", Xiao Ming and the teacher had the same attitude, and the development of hydropower must go through the process during the special energy demand period, but the two did not approve of the long-term sustainable development of hydropower.

Under the current economic conditions, hydropower can provide a good supplement to human energy, and the construction of dams can also play a certain role in flood control, which will definitely have more advantages than disadvantages. However, the ecological and geological impact of damming major rivers and shutting off the natural rivers and throttling them upstream is incalculable. If we take a long-term view, a hundred or a thousand years, it is difficult to determine whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

With our current understanding, it is difficult to talk about whether the impact of hydropower on the future geological ecology is good or bad, but it is better not to make large-scale changes to the landform and stable system formed by nature over tens of thousands or even tens of millions of years.

"In the past few years, because the rise of Panguco Group has driven the emerging technology industry chain, Jiangcheng has also closed down many more polluting enterprises in the city, and the air in Jiangcheng has been improved to a certain extent. But this improvement is far from sufficient. ”

"In winter, there are still more smog days than sunny days in Jiangcheng, and there are still a few days with good air quality. ”

Jiangcheng, which is dominated by thermal power, has a large thermal power plant in the suburbs 50 kilometers away, and the output of the power plant accounts for more than 60% of the electricity demand of Jiangcheng. These thermal power plants supply the development of Jiangcheng city and the daily life of citizens.

Pollution from large thermal power plants is already under control, but smaller ones are not so disciplined.

The huge river city really can't get rid of its dependence on small thermal power plants for a while.

Coal-fired power plants, which use coal as the main energy source, are one of the sources of air pollution in Jiangcheng.

"Our Pangu Science and Technology Park can first change the energy structure and abandon the use of thermal power. ”

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