After dinner, Liu Feng went back to school to rest for a while, drew two sketches by the way, and then said goodbye to the acquaintances of Huada on the phone, and then got into the car that had been prepared at the door.

"Where are we going now?"

While starting the car on the road, Geng Tang asked.

Liu Feng: "Go directly to the Power Research Institute, well, go and be a master!"

Geng Tang didn't know that Academician Jin Donghan assigned Liu Feng a master-level difficulty question, thinking that this guy next to him was joking again, he shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile: "Master, if you can't be considered a master with your current academic status, who else can be considered a master?"

Liu Feng smiled and did not speak.

Of course he wouldn't say that he was just going to solve the problem that Academician Jin assigned to him, not to mention, he wouldn't understand this guy if he said it.

Of course, after thinking about it for most of the day, he generally had two vague ideas about how to solve the matter of the antimatter pulse engine, but it was not very perfect.

It's hard to say, tonight they can design a new antimatter pulse engine to make up for the last shortcoming of the future star and sea business.

After almost two hours of driving, Liu Feng finally came to the power research of the Academy of Engineering.

Because many experiments need to be guarded, this research institute is naturally closed at night.

After settling Zhuo Tingting and then letting Geng Tang go back first, Liu Feng walked into the main building of the research institute alone and found Academician Jin Donghan, who was still doing experiments......

After the official spokesman of the country officially announced the country's space program and two other major initiatives, it caused a sensation not only in the domestic media and netizens, but also in the world.

In particular, the anti-China media, which has always been the most fond of making trouble, reported the news with words full of vigilance and inducement, raising the theory of the Chinese threat to the point of life and death.

Be vigilant, the Chinese will challenge the hegemony of the world!

The Chinese people have kicked off the space race!

The Chinese will make Mars a second home, and the Western world will lose everything!

……

At the same time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in country M commanded the center in Washington.

In the director's office at the top, Algernon, who was sitting in an office chair, looked at the post in his hand, and his brow furrowed into the word 'Chuan'.

After a while, throwing the post in his hand onto his desk, he spoke.

"This is definitely not good news. ”

"We know very well that they are developing engines, whether they are engines for cars, airplanes or rockets, they are decades behind us, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

In addition to being a professor, he is also the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a member of the executive committee of the National Space Administration of M, and an academician of the National Academy of Engineering of M.

Although he didn't get the news from the newspapers, he still knew something about it.

Just a few hours ago, China announced the centennial development plan of their space industry, announcing in a rare high-profile manner that it is ready to develop a controlled nuclear fusion-powered spacecraft, and will land on Mars, build a base on Mars, and finally achieve the goal of transforming Mars and immigrating Mars.

Because of the huge advantage of the Chinese in controlled nuclear fusion, the outside world is generally worried that the Chinese have developed a new spacecraft and finally occupy a dominant position on Mars, but Professor Kenneth, who really understands how difficult it is to achieve a controlled nuclear fusion engine, knows very well that these worries are completely unnecessary.

At least, he believes that within 10 years, the Chinese will not be able to develop such a new engine, even if it seems to be relatively easy to achieve electric propulsion plasma engine, it will not be able to be developed in just a few years.

What's more, once country M obtains the technology of controlled nuclear fusion, with their deep accumulation of decades ahead of China in aerospace technology, they will definitely be able to throw China off nine streets!

At that time, it is uncertain who will land on Mars first!

"No, it's never the ambitious Mars plans of the Chinese that worry me," Algernon leaned back in his office chair and pressed his index finger to his eyebrows, putting down the coffee cup in his hand, "but the Energy Bureau and the Congressional Budget Committee!"

Since China set off a scientific research competition for controlled nuclear fusion, country M has also quickly launched its own national controlled fusion project, and at the same time carried out the construction of tokamak devices and inertial confinement nuclear fusion devices, and has invested tens of billions of dollars.

However, this is not enough, and since the Chinese took the lead in announcing the successful ignition of the controllable nuclear fusion demonstration reactor at the beginning of the year, Congress has once again allocated tens of billions of dollars, most of which have been handed over to China as an "admission fee"?!

For some reason, Algernon vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Are the Chinese people really forced to teach them all the skills under pressure?

Even if this is true, how long will it take for country M to actually build a fusion reactor after learning the technology?

All this, he has always had a big question mark in his heart, but he is only the director of NASA, not the director of the Energy Agency, so he can only be blindly worried!

Moreover, this time, the ambitious space program of the Chinese will undoubtedly have a drastic impact on their NASA, and they will have to pay more for scientific research, because they also need to have a huge Martian immigration program!

However, scientific research funding is not unlimited, and no country can carry out two mega-projects at the same time while keeping its finances running smoothly, and whether it is controlled fusion or Mars, it is impossible for country M to give up.

However, NASA has developed so far, there are not only a few departments specifically set up for the "moon landing", nor is there only a space program of "moon landing", it is foreseeable that once Congress also decides to carry out the Mars program, it will definitely re-examine the existing space research projects and budgets, and cut some less urgent projects.

For example, typical deep space probes, comet probes, exoplanet observations, etc., to ensure the smooth implementation of the Mars program.

When the time comes, how will so many projects and so many people be arranged?

Moreover, many projects have reached a critical period, so should they just give up and fall short?

For example, their comet probe Deep Impact has almost completed 90% of the construction work, and even the launch plan has been planned, but now it seems that it is not so important compared to the Mars landing plan, and with the temper of the old man in Congress, it is very likely that it will be postponed until the Mars program is completed, and perhaps even again, there will never be a chance to pick up this plan again.

For Algernon, this is obviously not a pleasant thing, but it is almost a sure thing to happen.

He can fully imagine how disappointed many colleagues will be in him, the director of the National Aerospace Administration, when they are facing layoffs or transformations......

Perhaps, he could think of the best of both worlds?

Just as Algernon was flipping through the post with a heavy heart, the hand that was flipping through the newspaper suddenly stopped.

I saw that his eyes were locked on the column of the official spokesman of the newspaper for Liu Feng.

"Chief Engineer of Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering, Chief Consultant of Huaguo Aerospace Engineering, Chief Engineer of Mars Program......"

There were words in his mouth, and when he thought of something, his voice gradually became excited.

"Why can't I?"

Throwing away the newspaper in his hand, Algernon jerked up from his office chair and walked around the office with his hands behind his back, talking excitedly.

"That's right, for the time being, we can merge with the controlled nuclear fusion project, and at the same time as the reactor research, directly carry out miniaturization research, and combine it with the electric propulsion plasma engine, so that we can completely waste additional money and manpower! We can completely combine these two concepts!"

"Man, that's a good idea, but ......" Kenneth reminded him with a strange look on his face, "Let's not say whether the Energy Bureau guys will agree with our idea of borrowing chickens and laying eggs, and even if they do, can we really be sure that they can solve the miniaturization of controlled nuclear fusion? When the time comes, what will we do to send our Mars landing spacecraft into space? My suggestion is that we should develop chemically powered rockets first, and then launch a controlled fusion-powered spacecraft when they really solve the problem of controlled nuclear fusion." ”

Stopping, Algernon smiled and looked at Professor Kenneth.

"Man, of course I know that this may not happen in the short term, but it is precisely because of this period of buffer that we can use the limited funds to other projects first, and after these projects are settled, we can wait until the controlled nuclear fusion research is successful, and then we can start to move forward with our Mars landing program, isn't it right?"

"After all, whether it's our people or the old men in Congress, all they want is what we're doing, we can do it, and how we do it, no one cares. ”

Professor Kenneth was stunned for a long time before he slowly spoke, "Perhaps, you are right. ”

"Actually, I'm just planning for the worst," Algernon smiled optimistically, "You don't have to worry, what if this time the old men in Congress are not so stingy and support us NASA as directly as they support controlled nuclear fusion?"

……

No matter how anxious the foreign organizations represented by NASA are, and no matter how surprised the media and the people who eat melons, Professor Jin Donghan in the laboratory of the Institute of Power Research is completely shocked by Liu Feng's demonic talent.

At this moment, what was in front of him was still a sketch.

It's just that, unlike last time, the same pulse energy engine, this time the design idea is more strange and breathtaking.

In view of the fact that most of the energy generated by antimatter bombs is converted into high-energy γ rays with high-energy mesons, and then it is difficult to be restrained, he thought that Liu Feng would most likely think of directly developing a new spacecraft disc energy-absorbing material.

Of course, if this is really solved, he will admit that Liu Feng is a master of materials science at most, but he has nothing to do with other masters at all.

However, the fact is that in addition to this method just now, Liu Feng has really found a new method that is cheaper and more efficient!

"You guy," Jin Donghan sighed, "I really want to knock on your brain to take a good look at how the genius's brain will be different from our ordinary people's." ”

However, this kind of thought can only be an idea, and he is not the first person to have such an idea, and he will definitely not be the last.

"How did you come up with this approach. ”

How did he come up with this method, can he say that he actually came up with it when he was eating pig's trotters?

"Actually, there are still a lot of imperfections," Liu Feng smiled embarrassedly, "It was also transformed from the original idea of Professor Xu to use the atomic bomb, you are the master of power engineering, and I am about to ask you for advice." ”

Kim Donghan shook his head.

It is not a big deal to be able to go from the atomic bomb explosion to the idea of replacing it with an antimatter explosion, but to be able to think of a way to apply a layer of uranium-235 on the propulsion disk, and then rely on a small amount of positive and antimaterial to annihilate the uranium-235 coating on the propulsion disk to produce nuclear fission to release energy and use it to propel the spacecraft forward.

Although in essence, this method is still driven by the energy produced by nuclear fission, antimatter has become a means of induction. Rather than the main force, but there is no doubt that this method not only avoids the embarrassment of the need to use atomic bombs, but also avoids the loss of a large amount of γ-ray energy from antimatter annihilation, and is easy to harvest, and can also set up an ionization chamber on the push plate, and ionize the collected energy to form plasma, through which some Hall propulsion units are made, which are integrated in the rear of the ionization chamber.

By special design, these Hall propulsion units are able to handle the high-temperature plasma in the ionization chamber more efficiently and eject them out of the engine, increasing the thrust of the propulsion discs.

According to his estimates, using this method to accelerate the spacecraft can achieve at least 50% of the thrust of direct antimatter acceleration, and the efficiency of energy use can reach more than 3 times that of relying on antimatter 'explosion', which is completely enough for the spacecraft to use.

Although, it seems that there are still many details that need to be improved, but what they provide is not just a kind of thinking, a design plan, and the specific details of the design drawings cannot be completed by one person, otherwise, what do you need such a huge research institute for?

"In short, I have nothing to say, and even if it were me, I wouldn't have been able to do it to your level. ”

However, Liu Feng waved his hand: "Where, Academician Jin, you don't have to be polite to me, I sincerely ask you for advice." ”

Kim Donghan: "......"

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