Castle of Light, Main Building No. 1, 15 basement floors, Furnace Maintenance Room.

Richard, Lorenz, Schrödingler, and other stewards walked in, and several directors of the maintenance room immediately greeted them.

The golden-haired steward Siemens said straight to the point: "Lord Richard, all aspects of the furnace are normal, as long as there are no accidents, it can run for a long time, you don't have to worry about anything." ”

Richard listened, nodded his head, and walked to the deepest part of the maintenance room, where he could clearly see the furnace running through the glass wall.

It can be seen that the so-called furnace is a huge device in the shape of a flat water tank, which is quite exaggerated in size, with a height of 12 meters and a diameter of 20 meters.

At this moment, the furnace was like a kettle filled with boiling water, and there was a constant "gurgling" sound from inside, which made the furnace slowly tremble, and even the entire maintenance room trembled a little. In the process, a huge amount of energy is pouring out of the furnace, along the dense lines laid under the ground, and transmitting it to the main energy trunk of the Bright Castle.

Richard looked at the furnace carefully for a while, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It's not easy.

It's really not easy.

This furnace is the so-called "sun in a bottle" entity, and the principle involved in it is the unattainable and controllable nuclear fusion.

Yes, controlled nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion is relatively simple, and it is the opposite of nuclear fission - nuclear fission is to break a heavier nucleus, so that it becomes two or more lighter nuclei, and the lost mass in the process is converted into energy, thus showing terrifying power; nuclear fusion is to let the lighter nuclei combine into heavier nuclei under certain conditions, and the excess mass in the process is converted into energy, thus demonstrating terrifying power.

Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are the guiding principles of the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb, respectively, and the latter is more difficult to achieve than the former.

This is because the nuclear fission of an atomic bomb only requires the accumulation of nuclear materials to a sufficient amount before it can be automatically detonated. Nuclear fusion, on the other hand, is different because it is a light nucleus, which is generally isotopes of hydrogen atoms - deuterium and tritium, and even if they are piled up, they will not exert their own effect. They require a very harsh condition, relatively high temperature, at least 4000,0000°C, or 40 million degrees Celsius.

This is not something that can be achieved casually, or even very hard, and one of the few ways to achieve it is by means of an atomic bomb.

The inside of a hydrogen bomb is often filled with a small atomic bomb - the atomic bomb is detonated first, and the high temperature generated by the explosion of the atomic bomb is used to make the raw materials of the hydrogen bomb nuclear fusion, so as to release the power.

Stemming from this technological logic, any nuclear-armed country on the planet will first possess an atomic bomb and then a hydrogen bomb, not the other way around.

The reason why nuclear-armed countries will try to master the hydrogen bomb after mastering the atomic bomb is because the hydrogen bomb is much more important than the atomic bomb.

It must be clear that the power of the atomic bomb, while terrifying, is not infinite, and this is because of the existence of a critical mass – enough atomic bomb raw materials to pile up together, and as long as the critical mass is exceeded, a nuclear explosion will occur on its own.

Although this effect can be reduced through special design, the effect exists after all, like an iron hoop, locking the upper limit of the power of the atomic bomb.

Therefore, the most powerful atomic bomb tested on earth is the Ivy King, with a yield of 500,000 tons.

In contrast, the hydrogen bomb is much freer, and as long as there are enough raw materials for the hydrogen bomb, the power can be increased indefinitely.

For example, the well-known "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb, with a power of 50 million tons of equivalent, is still a reduced version, according to the original design, it should be 100 million tons of equivalent.

From this perspective, it can be seen that nuclear fusion has more "promise" than nuclear fission.

It is precisely for this reason that Richard did not stop his research in this area after creating the atomic bomb alone, and after the establishment of the Black Sun Castle, he guided the personnel of the Black Sun Castle to develop a lot of large-yield hydrogen bombs, which are the so-called new Black Sun weapons.

However, compared with the destructive power of nuclear fusion, Richard actually values another value brought by nuclear fusion, which is the rational use of the energy released by nuclear fusion.

The energy released by nuclear fusion is undoubtedly terrifying, belonging to the level of real destruction of the world, and compared with nuclear fission, this energy is also clean and pollution-free, if you can find a way to use this energy, you can essentially change this wizarding world without oil resources.

However, it is not easy to take advantage of it.

The detonation of the hydrogen bomb produces uncontrollable, one-time nuclear fusion, and all energy is released in a very short time.

To really use it, it has to make nuclear fusion controllable and continuous.

This is a big problem.

On the earth, scientists have a lot of research on this, in order to obtain endless clean energy, in order to achieve nuclear fusion conditions in a controlled environment, several major countries on the earth have adopted many methods, such as electromagnetic confinement method, such as inertial confinement method, and even developed cold fusion.

What is the result?

It cannot be said that it has not been successful at all, or even on the contrary, it can be said that it has succeeded in achieving controlled nuclear fusion. But one problem is that the controlled fusion that can be achieved has more energy to input than to output.

What do you mean?

To explain, in order to achieve and maintain the conditions for controlled nuclear fusion, a certain amount of energy must be consumed with the help of special devices. Due to technical limitations, the amount of energy consumed is so large that the energy obtained after successful controlled nuclear fusion cannot be replaced.

To give an example, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build equipment, which consumes ten units of energy, and the final output is ...... Five units of energy.

To give another example, this is like investing 100,000 yuan, a lot of hard work, and finally making a ...... Counterfeit money worth 50,000 yuan.

Even if you don't consider the various consumables and risks, it is a loss.

Naturally, this does not make sense.

Only when the output energy of controlled nuclear fusion is greater than the input energy can it have real practical value and motivation to promote it.

Many scientists on Earth have been researching and hoping to do this, constantly claiming that it will be possible within fifty years...... As a result, it was like this ten years ago, and it is still the same ten years later – the slogan of 50 years of realization has not changed.

After all, the reason why stars such as the sun emit light and heat is because they use nuclear fusion to obtain endless energy, and transfer the energy to the planets, giving life power to all things.

Mastering controlled nuclear fusion, even if it is mastering the power of the stars in a sense, is naturally extremely difficult.

But even so, Richard didn't think about spending fifty years on the same problem as Earth, and from the beginning, his plan was to take a few years to get a result.

It's not that he's arrogant enough to think he's superior to all the scientists on Earth, it's the extraordinary power of the current world that gives him confidence.

There are many reasons why the earth has been preaching for 50 years, the most important of which is that the scientific development in many fields has been slow, and there are many ideas for the realization of controlled nuclear fusion, but few can be tested in practice.

For example, a scientist on Earth suddenly announced one day that he had created a new model of controlled nuclear fusion, which is low-cost and low-risk, and can eliminate the energy crisis as long as it is made. But there is a small problem, and that is that the core part of the model needs a material that can withstand ultra-high temperatures and ultra-high pressures, which does not exist on Earth.

As a result, no matter how good the model is, it has become a utopian dream.

In comparison, the current world is slightly different, although there are no materials that can withstand ultra-high temperatures and ultra-high pressures, but a series of spells can be used to amplify a certain material to this state.

In a sense, supernatural power is like a cheat that can help Richard solve the difficulties of controlled nuclear fusion in a way that conventional Earth disciplines cannot.

In this process, a lot of ancient magic knowledge obtained from the Balta of the ancient wizarding civilization came in handy, and even achieved an effect beyond expectations.

The first is for Richard to work with the many stewards of the Castle of Light to create a "furnace" - if you take the furnace apart, you can see that there are layers of complex structures inside, each layer of structure has a magic pattern in play to achieve the specific effect required on the blueprint.

After the many test runs of the "Crucible", Richard and the people of the Castle of Light collected a lot of data, and in this high-energy process, they reversely studied some properties of ancient mutilated spells, transcendent factors, ethereal spirits, etc., and further understood the underlying principles of the transcendent power of this world.

In the end, the "furnace" was successfully operated, achieving a positive energy output, that is, the output energy is greater than the input energy, and in addition to proving many conjectures of extraordinary power research, valuable and controllable nuclear fusion was successfully achieved.

It's not easy.

It's easy to say, but it took Richard and the Castle of Light more than three years to achieve it, and countless resources were invested.

Anyway, though, it was done.

Although it is not yet clear how much has changed the world, the seeds have been planted.

After that, it will give the world a big surprise as the seeds germinate.

Squinting at the furnace in action, Richard began to think about the next arrangement...... Now that controlled nuclear fusion has been successful, the next step is to try to scale down and expand the equipment...... Downsizing devices is meant to be portable and widely used, while enlarged devices are used where they matter.

In this process, there should be a lot of problems that need to be solved, and it will take a short time to achieve the effect he expected. If the Truth Society still sends people down from Heaven to cause trouble, it may be longer, but in any case, the end result will not change.

When this stage is completed, it is necessary to take out some follow-up plans that have been prepared for a long time and implement them......

When the follow-up plan is almost implemented, it is time to really deal with the heavenly things......

It won't be too long to wait...... The seed has been planted, and sooner or later it will bear fruit.

"It won't be ......too long," Richard whispered, looking at the furnace.

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