After the end of the second purification battle of Blue Star, Huang Mingzhe has been busy with meetings, and in October, he has time to devote himself to scientific research projects.

The project that Huang Mingzhe is currently working on is called the "Multiple Controlled Nuclear Fusion Reactor", which is an advanced version of the controlled nuclear fusion reactor.

In the absence of a large-scale production of antimatter, multiple controllable nuclear fusion is the next stage of energy technology for the new humans.

In the Lianhua Mountain Nuclear R&D Base in Lingnan.

Huang Mingzhe was in the laboratory with Wei Feng, Dong Kuan and others.

Lines of formulas for fusion reactions and structural improvements to controlled fusion reactors appear on the virtual display.

Dong Kuan reluctantly stopped and said: "We can only fuse the hydrogen nucleus to the carbon atom stage now, and there is still a very large distance from the iron atom. ”

"We must improve the nuclear fusion reactor, and in the future age of interstellar exploration, if you can only fuse heavy hydrogen to carbon atoms, the use of nuclear fuel will be too inefficient." Huang Mingzhe is very determined.

He personally established this project, and although the particle collider in Xi'an can produce antimatter, they have collected only a pitiful 0.000026 milligrams of antihydrogen.

Even the super-large particle collider, which is going to be built on the moon, is estimated to produce up to 0.02~0.03 milligrams of reverse hydrogen per year.

This little bit of anti-hydrogen is not very useful at all, and it is too little to use it for experiments, and as for the use of energy generation, the new humans may have to lose their pants.

Before the production of antimatter reached one kilogram, nuclear fusion technology was still the most advanced energy production technology of the new human race.

"From DD nuclear fusion to carbon atoms, the energy production efficiency has actually improved a lot." Wei Feng felt that he had reached a bottleneck.

Huang Mingzhe touched the stubble on his chin and thought for a long time: "We need to start from two aspects, on the one hand, we need to improve the power generation efficiency of the nuclear fusion reactor, that is, the heat utilization rate and the light utilization rate. ”

"It makes sense." Dong Kuan nodded.

Everyone else understands this truth, and the current energy composite utilization rate of Jinwu nuclear fusion reactor is between 76.53~77.21%, which means that 22.79~23.47% of the energy is wasted.

You must know that the current controllable nuclear fusion power generation of new humans in Blue Star alone has reached 127 trillion kilowatt hours.

In the future, after the large-scale expansion into outer space, the scale of the application of controlled nuclear fusion will be even larger, and this waste is very large.

Wei Feng suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I remember that I obtained that Nibelon Heart before, there was not an energy siphon system, how was the research?"

Huang Mingzhe shook his head and replied: "The material research has been analyzed, but the problem is that there is no way to synthesize, and the laboratory has tried many methods, but they are helpless. ”

"What material? Is it so hard?" Dong Kuan was very surprised.

With the current material technology of new humans, coupled with the fact that there are samples in hand, there should be no problem in replicating it.

"You will understand when you read it." After Huang Mingzhe finished speaking, he shared a top-secret document with the two of them.

Wei Feng glanced at it, his eyes condensed and studied it carefully, and after a while, he shook his head with a wry smile: "I understand." ”

"It turned out to be 8 neutron materials? No wonder. Dong Kuan also suddenly realized.

The so-called 8 neutron material is an atom composed of 8 neutrons, which is a special atom that has been speculated by the new human academic community but has not been confirmed to exist - pure neutron atom.

Huang Mingzhe spread his hands and said, "You understand now! There is no way to reverse engineer it for the time being, because pure neutron materials are a completely new field. ”

After casually deleting the file, Wei Feng asked, "Pure neutron material?" Mingzhe, I think this is a general direction for the future, what is the attitude of the Scientific Committee on this?"

"I've talked to others about it, and I've stepped up our investment in that." Huang Mingzhe is not a fool.

With the heart of the Nibelon in hand, if he doesn't pay attention to this research, then he is not worthy of being the chairman of the scientific committee.

The crowd brought the conversation back to nuclear fusion.

At present, it is possible to fuse heavy hydrogen atoms into carbon atoms, which does not improve much energy production.

The atomic weight of the heavy hydrogen atom is 2.016, the atomic weight of the helium atom is 4.003, the atomic weight of the carbon atom is 12.011, and the atomic weight of the iron atom is 55.845.

84 heavy hydrogen (169.344) = 42 helium atoms (168.126)

84 heavy hydrogens (169.344) = 14 carbon atoms (168.154)

78 heavy hydrogen (157.248) + 12 neutrons (12.084) = 3 iron atoms (167.535)

From the above reaction raw materials to the final product of the reaction, it can be seen that heavy hydrogen → helium and heavy hydrogen → carbon, and the mass loss in these two processes is instead heavy hydrogen→ helium is more than heavy hydrogen → carbon.

According to Huang Mingzhe et al.'s test of the Jinwu nuclear fusion reactor, the energy output power of the nuclear fusion reaction to the carbon atom stage is only increased by 4.36~4.61%.

If the iron atom stage can be reacted, it is expected that the energy output power can be increased by 50~60%.

The difference between the two is huge, so the carbon atom phase is just a transitional phase.

Of course, this does not mean that the carbon atom stage is useless, and the carbon stage does not necessarily need to use heavy hydrogen as nuclear fuel, and helium, lithium and the like can also be used as nuclear fuel.

As nuclear fusion moves closer to iron atoms, it means that more types of nuclear fuel elements can be used, and more types of nuclear fuel can be used, which can improve the convenience of spacecraft in outer space.

After all, the elements before the iron atom grasp a lot in the universe, even in the empty interstellar space, there are more or less free hydrogen atoms and helium atoms.

For example, helium-3 and the like brought out by the solar wind are very large.

No matter how bad it is, there are asteroids and the like that can be captured and used as nuclear fuel supplies.

Huang Mingzhe said excitedly: "Let's work harder, anyway, there are a lot of scientific researchers now, and I don't believe that the new human race, with hundreds of millions of engineers and scientists, will be weaker than the poor fifties and sixties." ”

"That's just as well." Dong Kuan replied with a smile.

Now the engineers and scientists of the new human race are the main body of social personnel.

There are currently 460 million engineers and scientists on the register, and many more have not had time to certify, or simply have no interest in certifying.

With so many engineers and scientists, there are now thousands of large and small fields involved, and on average, tens of thousands of engineers and scientists can be allocated to a project.

Compared with the fifties and sixties of the last century, there has not only been a qualitative leap in quantity, but also in terms of personnel quality, the new humans who have installed biological computers can almost do a dozen or ten.

If they can't make a name for themselves, they just buy a piece of tofu and kill it.

The scientific committee, which is going all out, is vigorously developing various fields, and many projects have been launched.

If 10,000 laboratories are followed by only 100 results, it will not be a loss for the new humanity and the scientific committee.

In the new era of great abundance of materials and energy, the new human beings have long since broken away from the mode of operation of the capital economy.

It is no longer the capital market that determines R&D, but the civilization that needs to decide R&D, which is a fundamental difference.

If the capital market is used to operate controlled nuclear fusion and biocomputers, it is estimated that the gap between the rich and the poor and the social solidification of human society will further widen.

This is a different purpose, which leads to a different result.

One is for money, the other is for civilization, and the two are very different in height.