Xinyue and Professor Murray talked about Ning Fei's situation, mainly to see if Professor Murray could help Ning Fei, although there was no ready-made treatment, Professor Murray was still very interested in Ning Fei's situation, and invited Ning Fei to go to his work laboratory when he was free, after all, he was the only one who was hit by a space crystal ray and was still alive.

In addition, with Ning Fei's assistance, Crescent's controlled fusion project has progressed more smoothly than before, and progress has been made after many twists and turns. Fortunately, in the case of serious twists and turns, that is, the extremely expensive instrument parts were damaged, and there were no devastating accidents, and the nuclear fusion device achieved a certain period of stable operation, which has exceeded the previous world's longest time several times.

After all, this is a first-generation device, and the cost spent is extremely limited.

However, this greatly encouraged the confidence of the two men, and the phased success of the trial verified the feasibility of the direction of the project.

"We're going to have to build a smaller, more stable device, and then we'll have to build a smaller one!"

The plan for the new moon was clear, and Ning Fei understood the difficulty and radicalism involved. Everything has physical limits, and achieving the same effect with smaller machines requires more advanced technology and design, and more sophisticated processes.

The controlled nuclear fusion laboratory had to be upgraded, the fusion reaction room and the operation room were separated, the old equipment was dismantled, a small and large circle device was redesigned, the performance of the magnetic confinement system was greatly optimized on the original structure, and the microwave heating device was improved, which allowed the ionic atoms to maintain a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees.

The assembly and maintenance of these equipment is also a busy job, and finally the resources of the laboratory were used to create three working robots, which can allow two people to control the robot to complete some routine and dangerous work through instructions, because the shape of the working robot is three cylinders of different sizes, Ning Fei named their identification code number Trash Can No. 1, Trash Can No. 2, Trash Can No. 3.

So that's often the case in the lab.

"The temperature is overheated, the circuit of the B1 node is faulty, turn off the power of the device!"

"Trash can No. 1, extinguish the fire, clean the scene."

"Trash can No. 2, remove the faulty equipment, replace it with new parts, check it out."

"Trash Can No. 1....... Trash can No. 1, there is still a need to extinguish the fire over there, not that direction, not that direction, stop the fire extinguishing procedure, do not rotate, stop! ”

"Hell~ It's entangled in a cable, trash can 3 go save it."

"It's a mess, let's do it myself~"

Ning Fei hurriedly wore a self-designed disaster relief version of the mechanical skeleton into the fusion laboratory.

......

Dr. Crescent looked at the test data in the control room, and on the whole, the phased goal of achieving stable operation of nuclear fusion had been successful, but his expression was not relaxed.

Ning Fei, who had just finished the work at hand, noticed that Xinyue, who liked to write her emotions completely on her face, couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong, doctor?" Got something on your mind? ”

Crescent Moon rubbed her temples with her fingers, trying to soothe her head, "I'm just thinking about something. ”

"Is the Hellfire Legion progressing in its research?"

Crescent Moon shook her head and pointed to the screen, it was still about the second-generation fusion device.

Ning Fei looked at it, and as far as the latest sets of test data were concerned, the working state was stable.

The crescent moon retrieved several sets of parameters from the control screen, calculated with a calculation program, displayed two dynamically changing data, and integrated them into a trend chart, the crescent moon pointed to the calculation results, "This group is the energy generated when the nuclear fusion device works stably, and the other group is the energy consumed by the entire machine to maintain operation, in the past nuclear fusion experiments, the value of the latter is far less than the former, the machine consumes more electrical energy, and creates less energy, and now, the two are close, and even the former is 6% higher, This is a significant improvement over past technologies, but it is not enough, because when we consider the efficiency of the energy generated by the reaction, it is still a machine that does not outweigh the benefits, and it is simply not practical. ”

Ning Fei checked the details of the data and said: "The proportion of energy consumed by the liquid helium shunt system is too high, liquid helium can reach a low temperature below minus 269 degrees, only at about minus 271 degrees, the low-temperature superconducting coil can work well, there is no resistance, and creating this environment close to absolute zero consumes too much energy." ”

"It's cooler than the temperature in outer space, there is no such low temperature in nature, we need new superconducting materials, and existing materials don't work."

Both Xinyue and Ning Fei fell into deep thought.

"Crystal ......"

The two of them spoke in unison, thinking of the same way, or that space crystal is the most likely to have an answer.

"Trash Can 4, connected to the Albert Data Centre – Space Crystals Research Project Data Domain", Crescent Moon gives instructions to the virtual assistant in the operation room.

"It's connected, Doctor!" , the voice of the virtual assistant sounds.

"Search all materials related to superconducting materials."

"Wait a minute!"

A series of search materials on the screen automatically scrolled through and sifted, and finally revealed a document called "Discovery of Special Physical Properties of New Alloy Materials", which was shared by the 11th Physics Research Group.

This document describes the study of the shell of space crystals, the discovery of several alloys with special structures, these alloys were copied and manufactured, and some of their strange physical properties were found in the test, among which one alloy is a new class of superconducting materials, but its particularity is that it can achieve 0 resistance and repulsion of magnetic field lines without approaching absolute zero.

"Take alloy samples and test them in detail."

Moments later, the alloy metal test data for the critical transition temperature, critical magnetic field strength, and critical current density were displayed on the screen.

"The test data looks ideal, and this should solve the problem we are currently facing", Ning Fei looked at the screen and said excitedly: "It can achieve superconductivity at a temperature of 110 degrees, and there is even room for improvement and optimization!" ”

"Let's try it out, Trash Can No. 4, contact Albert Materials Industries, and prepare to manufacture high-temperature superconducting alloy coils", the new moon is like a lock that is about to open the last door to the energy of the future, and the mood can't wait.

"This may take some time due to the shortage of raw materials and the purification process, Doctor!"

"I want the fastest."

"The estimated manufacturing time is about 38 hours, do you want to start now?"

"Start now!"

"A production order has been sent for you."

......

The two of them have been working continuously for a long time because of the time limit for the manufacture of superconducting materials, and Ning Fei wants to leave the operation room for activities, and has not exercised for a while recently, and has been in a highly concentrated work, and there is some fatigue.

"Let's take a short vacation, continuous high-intensity work is harmful to health, the combination of work and rest can burst out of inspiration, I have to go back to make up for sleep", Xinyue plans to turn off the instruments in the operation room and go back to rest.

"Good advice, but I've been sleeping relatively lightly lately, and it's easy to lose sleep in the middle of the night when I go to sleep at this point, so I'm going to make an appointment with Professor Murray."

Crescent Moon nodded, squeezing out an encouraging smile, "Good luck!" ”

"Thank you."

"See you later", Crescent Moon waved back and walked out of the operation room.