Combustible ice is an ice-like crystalline substance formed from natural gas and water under high pressure and low temperature conditions over a long period of time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Because it contains a large amount of combustible gas, plus it is solid, the same volume of one cubic meter of combustible ice is 16 times more than natural gas.

At room temperature and pressure, combustible ice will volatilize off on its own, ignite and burn, and naturally have no residue, which is cleaner than natural gas. It's simply the Nambowan of clean energy.

Moreover, the reserves of this thing are also very abundant, and once it is used on a large scale, it can completely replace coal and natural gas energy.

However, extremely harsh mining and storage conditions limit the development of combustible ice.

It is buried in the depths of the Yongdong soil layer, at the bottom of the sea thousands of meters deep, on the Antarctic continent. And combustible ice is solid, as strong as coal, and it simply cannot be drilled a deep well and pumped out by pipes in the same way that oil is extracted.

Taking advantage of the low temperature, Professor Cai Chenning opened three samples of combustible ice and took a little from each with a tool.

Samples in the Yongdong soil layer of Siberia are mixed gray, samples from the Yellow Sea are pale blue, and those on the Antarctic continent are completely transparent, like crystal.

Three samples, upon contact with the air, slowly emitted visible gases.

Professor Cai Chenning quickly packed the samples into smaller metal containers, labeled the place of origin, and packed them into incubators.

Combustible ice isn't too rare, but it volatilizes when it sees air. Originally, Zhongyun University had a stock of a few hundred grams, but after many experiments, the combustible ice in front of him had volatilized to the size of a fingernail.

After thanking him, Ye Qing didn't leave immediately, after all, he had just taken a gift from someone else.

Sitting in the lab, we chatted about the energy topic of combustible ice. Chatting and leaning, the topic talked about the most technologically advanced nuclear energy at present. Ye Qing was half-joking, and said with a smile that the factory's electricity bill is tens of millions a month, and he really wants to build a nuclear power plant to supply power to the factory.

"The technology of nuclear power plants is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in safety management. Professor Cai Chenning quipped: "If you want to build a nuclear power plant, it is estimated that at least half of the people in Zhongyun will take to the streets to protest." ”

"I just sighed, even if I have this technology, I can't get it to concentrate plutonium, and the government can't approve it. ”

"Plutonium is so good!"

"You can get weapons-grade plutonium, and there are a lot of nuclear bombs in the sea. Professor Cai Chenning said with a smile: "During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States were tense, and strategic bombers and nuclear submarines on both sides cruised with high intensity of combat readiness, and there were many accidents that fell into the sea. ”

"I clearly remember that the first nuclear bomb of the United States was lost in 1950, called Mark 4, carried by a B-36 bomber, but the bomber malfunctioned when it returned home and the nuclear bomb fell into the sea. ”

"Ahh

Ye Qing was stunned for a moment, and looked at Professor Cai Chenning in disbelief: "There is such a thing. ”

Sensing Ye Qing's surprise, Professor Cai Chenning happily gave this former student, who is now a well-known Mr. Ye, another impressive history lesson from that era.

"Haha~ Yes, more than once. ”

"I wasn't born in 1950, but when I was born, we hadn't built nuclear weapons yet. The Yankees and the Soviet Union have already lost several nuclear bombs in the sea because of various bomber accidents. ”

"At that time, the Chinese people, who had been subjected to nuclear blackmail, were eager to jump into the sea to catch nuclear bombs and hand them over to the state after reading in the newspapers about the loss of nuclear weapons by the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. ”

"Alas~ At that time, the gap between us and European and American countries was so big that everyone despaired. ”

Professor Cai Chenning sighed: "Take the most impressive time for me, it was in 1968, a few years after our country's first nuclear bomb was tested. The nuclear submarine of the old beauty family is already cruising everywhere in the Pacific Ocean. ”

"As a result, one of the nuclear submarines with nuclear bombs on board sank in the deep sea. ”

"At that time, dozens of nuclear submarines in the United States were cruising, and on nuclear submarines, there were nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs, what do we have in China. ”

“……”

Without going through the years of the Cold War between the two superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, Ye Qingzhen did not expect that there would be so many bizarre and absurd things happening.

The nuclear bomb is the greatest invention in human history, and at the same time the most terrifying invention. It can even be said that it is lost, and it is dozens of pieces if it is lost.

However, thinking about the tens of thousands of nuclear weapons of the two countries during the Cold War, Ye Qing felt that everything was reasonable.

Even today, in the 21st century, there are many examples of plane crashes that fall into the sea, and no matter what, there are many examples. Not to mention during the Cold War, when the level of electronics was extremely underdeveloped.

Continuing to talk about this topic, Professor Cai Chenning gave Ye Qing a few levels of science popularization and the unexpected situation of the United States to the nuclear arsenal.

They are "broken arrows", "broken spears", "blunt blades", and "empty arrow barrels", among which the loss of nuclear bombs is the highest, and it is also the time when "broken arrows" occur.

There have been hundreds of "broken arrow" accidents, but most of the nuclear warheads have been successfully found, but dozens of them have not been accounted for so far. The first one is decades old, and the United States has long stopped looking for it. There are also a few cases where the approximate sea area is known, but the sea is too deep to be searched.

Even the Soviet Union had more of this than the United States.

It is really a village with no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright.

After continuing to chat for a while, Ye Qing got up and said goodbye with that little bit of combustible ice.

This way, Ye Qing was no different from when he came, walking on the path dotted with plum blossoms, and drove out of the school gate leisurely.

However, after turning a corner, Lagonda roared violently and sped in the direction of the Longxitan factory.

Ye Qing, who was holding the steering wheel, had a slightly excited expression,

Sure enough~ Monster Factory will not give impossible tech projects. A trip to his alma mater not only solved the problem of combustible ice for Ye Qing, but even pointed out the way to obtain weapons-grade plutonium.

The combustible ice went directly to the Antarctic for mining, and Professor Cai Chenning told Ye Qing that the combustible ice in sample C was brought by the research ship Xuelong, which was brought from the extremely cold Antarctic.

Due to its unique climatic conditions, Antarctica preserves the purest and largest resources of combustible ice. And some combustible ice is directly sealed on the surface by the ice, which can be found by breaking through the ice. Unlike mining from the sea, at present, it can only be brought up little by little by relying on drill bits.

As for nuclear weapons......

That's right, Ye Qing decided to dive into the vast deep sea to salvage the nuclear weapons that had been lost by the United States, because there was weapons-grade plutonium there.

A nuclear bomb contains at least five kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium, which is also pure enough to meet the requirements for building energy towers.

The United States does not have the technology to find salvage, but Ye Qing has.

The Lord Battleship is simply a tailor-made product for this project, and it is most suitable to mine combustible ice in Antarctica.

In this way, the energy tower can be erected at the factory in Longxitan!

Wait a minute!

Ye Qing suddenly thought that the monster factory had been upgraded to the sixth stage, and the lord battleship had of course also been upgraded by one level.

Busy coming and going, Ye Qing actually forgot to look at the upgraded lord battleship.