In the back garden of the Imperial Palace, Li Fu has been in a very good mood recently, with the major breakthrough in the field of atomic materials, the empire's science and technology has developed rapidly at an unprecedented speed, the field of materials science is the basic field of all disciplines, and a major breakthrough in the field of materials has naturally led to the development of the entire imperial scientific field, and the good news of science and technology in all aspects has been spread frequently.

"The degenerate material has been created, and the Imperial Space Research Institute has also made a major breakthrough, and the warp engine can now be manufactured, but this degenerate material is too expensive, and the cost of manufacturing a warp engine makes me feel distressed when I think about it."

Li Fu had a smile on his face, because of the breakthrough in material and space theory, there was no problem at all in making a warp engine, but when he thought of the cost of manufacturing a warp engine, Li Fu felt extremely painful, it was too expensive.

The warp engines used in spaceships and space battleships are very large in size, and they need to consume a large amount of degenerate materials, which means that they need to use money to continuously smash down, and hundreds of billions of dollars can be used to make a warp engine, even Li Fu, as the emperor of the empire, can't help but grit his teeth.

"The only problem that has not been solved now is the energy problem, there has been no major progress in controlled nuclear fusion research, there is no powerful controllable nuclear fusion to provide power, even if the warp engine is manufactured, it cannot be started at all, and the current energy technology cannot provide enough energy to meet the big appetite of the warp engine."

Thinking of this, Li Fu couldn't help but frown.

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are naturally unfamiliar to everyone, because this is the most basic principle of hydrogen bomb and atomic bomb in nuclear weapons, the atomic bomb uses the huge energy generated by the fission of matter to implement the huge destructive force that it wants to achieve, and the hydrogen bomb uses the fusion energy generated by the fusion of matter to form a powerful destructive force, and the energy produced by nuclear fusion is more huge than that produced by fission.

As early as the 20th century, human beings have been able to use nuclear fusion and nuclear fission to create terrifying nuclear weapons, with the development of nuclear technology, slowly mankind has also mastered controlled nuclear fission technology, the most widely used of which is nuclear power plants.

However, controlled nuclear fusion technology has never been successful, even if it is a hydrogen bomb, which is an uncontrollable nuclear fusion, and it cannot be said that it can be turned into powerful energy to serve mankind according to human needs.

Because the conditions required to achieve nuclear fusion are too harsh, it is necessary to let the electrons outside the nucleus get rid of the constraints of the nucleus in a high-temperature or high-pressure environment, so that the two nuclei can attract each other and collide together, and the nuclei polymerize with each other to form a new nucleus with heavier mass (such as helium), although the neutron mass is relatively large, but because the neutron is not charged, it can also escape the bondage of the nucleus and release it in the collision process. The release of a large number of electrons and neutrons is manifested by a huge release of energy.

According to scientists' calculations, the temperature must reach hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius to achieve nuclear fusion.

The high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees, which is the temperature only found inside the star, hydrogen bombs need to be exploded with an atomic bomb to produce enough temperature to achieve nuclear fusion of the material inside the hydrogen bomb.

At such a high temperature, any matter will be evaporated into particles, and the most difficult problem to be solved by controlled nuclear fusion is how to control the hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature generated by nuclear fusion.

"The high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees is really a headache."

Li Fu frowned, this warp engine can already be manufactured, but there is no way to develop controllable nuclear fusion technology to satisfy the big appetite of the warp engine, you can imagine Li Fu's mood now, this is like a cat seeing a fish, but it is separated by a layer of glass, and it is as crazy as never being able to eat the fish in the glass.

"Let's go to the Nuclear Research Institute."

Thinking of this, Li Fu immediately set off, ready to take a look at the latest progress on the side of the Imperial Nuclear Research Institute.

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Also somewhere in the Centauri galaxy, a huge space city is brightly lit, and the Imperial Institute of Nuclear Physics, one of the many branches of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, is a research institute specializing in nuclear fission and nuclear fusion technology.

Many people may think that this nuclear technology has nothing to study for the empire, except for a controlled nuclear fusion, which may really be worth studying, as for what nuclear fission, controllable nuclear fission and so on, these technologies are not to mention the empire, that is, the pan-European alliance, the Japanese, etc. have long been thoroughly studied.

In fact, this is not the case, nuclear technology is also a very esoteric technology, other than nuclear fission alone, the current mainstream technology is to use the heavy nucleons at the back of the periodic table to produce fission to release energy, such as uranium or plutonium.

However, if you can use elements such as iron, gold, silver, and so on, which are close to each other in the periodic table, to carry out nuclear fission, these technologies are also very worth studying. In the same way, nuclear fusion is the same, if the iron element is used for nuclear fusion, the energy released will definitely be more terrifying and terrifying.

Of course, for the current Imperial Institute of Nuclear Physics, the main research direction is still controlled nuclear fusion technology!

"In the final analysis, nuclear fusion is actually the use of various methods to free electrons from the nucleus of atoms, so that two or more nuclei can be fused together to produce new and heavier nuclei."

"We have been trying to overcome the problem of hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature generated during nuclear fusion for many years, and now we look at the problem in essence, in fact, it is not necessary to use high temperature and high pressure to achieve nuclear fusion."

"If we can free the electrons outside the nucleus from the nucleus at room temperature or at a lower temperature, or block neutrons or direct neutrons with a high-intensity, high-density magnetic field at a higher temperature, we can use more common and simpler equipment to produce a controlled cold nuclear fusion reaction, and at the same time make the fusion reaction safer."

In a conference room of the research institute, an Imperial scientist in a white coat is discussing the issue of controlled nuclear fusion technology, the empire has made significant progress in various fields, and the warp engine can now be manufactured, but there is no way to provide the powerful energy required by the warp engine.

Therefore, during this period of time, Emperor Li Fu, President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Chen Bin, and veterans of the Imperial Academy of Science have also frequently come to the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

As a scientist at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, everyone is under great pressure, watching other people's achievements emerge like a spring, and there has been no progress on their own side, which is a serious drag on the Empire's centennial plan, and everyone can't sleep or eat well.

People fight for a breath of Buddha to receive a stick of incense!

They are all engaged in research, and no one is worse than the other, and the scientists here at the Institute of Nuclear Physics are also holding their breath, and they are bound to research out controlled nuclear fusion technology.

At this time, on the podium of the conference room, a handsome and extraordinary young man was talking about the technology of cold nuclear fusion, the person looked very young, but in the empire, it was difficult to see the size of a person and his appearance, because there were many people who had achieved Yuan Force cultivation even if they were very old, but they still looked very young.

"Recently, our empire has developed rapidly in the field of materials science, and the creation of atomic materials relies on powerful magnetic energy technology, since this magnetic energy can be used to create atoms, why can't we use it for cold nuclear fusion, we can also control neutrons by using high-density and high-strength magnetic fields, and successfully achieve nuclear fusion reactions."

"The above is my personal opinion, and I would like to ask you for more advice."

Li Wanzhou bowed slightly to everyone, and then slowly walked off the podium, as the eldest son of the emperor, Li Fu's eldest son, Li Wanzhou has been in the spotlight since birth, of course, Li Wanzhou himself is also very good, he became a scientist of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at a very young age, and the main direction of research is controllable nuclear fusion technology, and now he is one of the few top scientists in the field of imperial nuclear physics research.

The cold nuclear fusion technology he said is also a technology conjectured by scientists, different from thermonuclear fusion technology, cold nuclear fusion technology does not need to produce hundreds of millions of tons of high temperature when nuclear fusion, the principle of nuclear fusion is the same, thermonuclear fusion technology is achieved by using high temperature and high pressure, and cold nuclear fusion technology is achieved by using non-high temperature and high pressure technology.

It is still difficult to conclude which of the two technologies is superior or inferior, and now the scientists of the empire are unable to come up with a way to overcome the hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature generated by human nuclear fusion, so the cold nuclear fusion technology is also placed in front of everyone, especially with the emergence of magnetic energy technology, the cold nuclear fusion technology that was originally only in conjecture does not seem to be out of reach, and it is possible to achieve it.

"Cold nuclear fusion technology?"

No one noticed that at the back of the conference room, Li Fu came in quietly, listening to the cold nuclear fusion technology that his son Li Wanzhou was talking about, Li Fu couldn't help but nod slightly.

Li Fu, who has the seeds of civilization, naturally knows that the early days of the Han Science and Technology Empire used thermonuclear fusion technology, but it was opportunistically using the Yuanli magic array to control the high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees generated during thermonuclear fusion, but with the development of science and technology, cold nuclear fusion technology was slowly researched later, and the principle and method were the same as what Li Wanzhou said.

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