Chapter 430: Reputation and Prestige

And then the most can make him achieve the world's attention, is the energy aspect, nuclear energy has a huge development prospects, but the current nuclear energy only improves the research of nuclear fission, although it can produce huge energy, but the actual use is not at all.

What Chen Yang hopes for is to be able to develop a controllable nuclear fusion like Iron Man's energy core, just a small little bit is enough to provide a huge power source, which is also the best energy core for Chen Yang's combat robots.

If the combat robot has a controllable nuclear fusion energy core, then it is enough to meet the needs of the battle, or a further breakthrough, he can also design his own steel suit, refine it with the treasure refining system, and get the assistance of a more advanced intelligent life control system with powerful life intelligence, then what terrible combat power will it have!

Energy and materials, the two most powerful industries, the cutting-edge core of science and technology of the times, Chen Yang wants to occupy, which is also the key to his ability to truly unify the world in the future!

After all, if you want to unify the world by force, there is actually too long to go, but if you can control the world in other aspects, then with his ability and the strength of his treasure refining system, he can lay a perfect foundation for unifying the world and finally achieve his goal.

Do it when you think of it, this is Chen Yang's consistent style, so after getting along with Leng Yan for a while, after the lucky draw, Chen Yang returned to the laboratory in a hurry!

The process of nuclear fusion is very simple, that is, a deuterium nucleus is accelerated with an accelerator and collides with a tritium nucleus at a very high speed, and the two nuclei are fused to form a new nucleus - helium plus a free neutron, releasing 17.6 trillion electron volts of energy in the process.

This process is also the principle of the sun's continuous 4.5 billion years of light and heat.

At present, the world's research direction of nuclear fusion is focused on magnetic confinement, and the principle of this method is based on the positive charge of the atomic nucleus, if our magnetic field is strong enough, the atomic nucleus will not be able to escape, as long as a ring magnetic field is established. Then the nucleus can only move in the direction of the magnetic field lines, along the spiral, and cannot escape the range of the magnetic field, and at a little distance outside the annular magnetic field, a large heat exchange device is established, and then the heat energy is converted into electrical energy using a method that is already familiar to mankind.

But this is not what Chen Yang needs, such a nuclear fusion, the facilities required are still too harsh, Chen Yang needs a small nuclear fusion facility like Iron Man. And it's not the first generation of Iron Man, which has a strong radiation source, but a nuclear fusion facility that can perfectly shrink the radiation source!

Miniaturization, safety, and no radiation pollution, this is what Chen Yang needs to achieve, and if this can be achieved, then the world's energy structure will be greatly adjusted in an instant, and energy will no longer be a world crisis. And the benefits that Chen Yang can get from it are really amazing!

However, the difficulty is also quite amazing, among Iron Man. One of the most important aspects is palladium, which adsorbs hydrogen to obtain a controllable nuclear fusion reaction. Naturally, it is more advanced!

The first step in nuclear fusion currently being studied around the world is that the gas mixture as a reactor must be heated to a plasma state, that is, the temperature is high enough that the electron energy can be freed from the nucleus, and the nucleus can move freely.

This is where direct contact between the nuclei is possible. At this time, a temperature of about 100,000 degrees Celsius is required.

And that's not enough!

The repulsion force between the nuclei of the same positively charged, the nuclei need to run at an extremely fast speed, and the easiest way to get this speed is to continue to heat up, so that the random collision of the nuclei reaches a crazy level, and to make the nuclei reach this operating state, it takes a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.

The final step is to collide the nucleus of tritium and the nucleus of deuterium at a tremendous speed, without concealment, creating new helium nuclei and new neutrons, releasing a huge amount of energy. After a period of continuous input, when the reactor no longer needs to be heated by external energy, the temperature of the nuclear fusion is sufficient for the nucleus to continue to fuse.

In this process, helium nuclei and neutrons will be eliminated in time, and a new mixture of tritium and deuterium will be fed into the reactor, and nuclear fusion can continue, and a small part of the energy produced will remain in the reaction body to maintain the chain reaction, and most of it can be exported and used as an energy source.

There is only one question with this approach, where do we put this reactor that is up to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius?

To date, humans have not created any chemical structure that can withstand 10,000 degrees Celsius, let alone hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. That's the only reason why 50 years after the hammer has been made, humans haven't been able to effectively extract energy from nuclear fusion.

Of course, the fact that humans can become the masters of the earth shows that their intelligence is much smarter than that of other creatures, and the problems that cannot be solved in terms of chemical structure are turned to physics. This is how magnetic confinement nuclear fusion comes about.

At present, the well-known method is the "tokamak" type magnetic field confinement method. It uses a strong magnetic field generated by a strong electric current to confine the plasma to a small area to achieve nuclear fusion. Although it has been close to success under laboratory conditions, it has not lasted long.

Technically speaking, there will be a turbulent phenomenon in the process of plasma movement, and the disordered and irregular particle motion is unpredictable, while the tokamak high-temperature and high-density plasma will have a lot of instability, if a probe is inserted into the center of the plasma, it will immediately excite instability and the whole plasma will fall apart.

In terms of engineering, if we want to achieve the ignition conditions of fusion, then we need to generate a strong enough magnetic field in a large enough volume, about 10T.

Now the maximum stable magnetic field that human beings can achieve is about 10T, the electromagnet that produces such a large magnetic field must need a huge current, and the huge current will heat up, and the material will burn itself after heating, so the largest tokamak project ITER is now under construction is the way of using the superconducting coil, which does solve the heating problem, but the coil wants to maintain superconductivity, it needs to be extremely low-temperature, liquid helium immersion.

So you can imagine a scene like this: "In a room, the internal temperature is 100 million degrees Celsius, and the surface temperature is a few Kelvin ultra-low temperatures!" "The difficulty of engineering implementation can be imagined.

The last difficulty is economic, to make such a large superconducting electromagnet, the cost is definitely hundreds of billions! It's dollars!

So now the largest tokamak project ITER is not done by one country at all, but seven countries together to pay for cooperation, once the budget is exceeded, then this number will grow without limit, it may be trillions of dollars, or ten trillion or trillion dollars.

This process depends on the wisdom and creativity of the researchers.

Compared with this, if Chen Yang can complete the nuclear fusion reaction of the key palladium element adsorption hydrogen element, then the research of nuclear fusion will really enter the practical stage, and he will become famous in one fell swoop!

Thinking of this, Chen Yang immediately asked the sun to establish a new task, that is, to analyze the feasibility, after all, this is just a flash of his sudden inspiration, if you want to succeed, it is naturally not as easy as in the movie, what is needed is continuous verification! (To be continued.) )