Chapter 249: Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Back in the future spaceship, Hara, Smith and Lynn are looking forward to the most - to sort out the spoils of this exploration. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"You pry into a military factory today?"
Looking at the things that Yuan Haochen and Smith brought back, Lynn asked with interest.
"That's all I can move out, and some of the big guys are still down there. The owner here is very picky, and he didn't leave us any real guys. Smith began to complain again, "I'm afraid I took everything valuable with me when I left." ”
"Sure enough, we're still picking up interstellar trash, haha." Lynn smiled a little helplessly.
"We can't take away the huge weapons and equipment, and those semi-finished products that we use as a reference for scientific data have to be left behind. Now, as long as you have access to more valuable science and technology, it is the best situation. Yuan Haochen patted Lynn and Smith on the shoulders and said.
"Is there any weaponry that could be integrated into the Mirai spacecraft?" Smith had a whim.
"This ......"
Lynn's eyes lit up, and her mind began to leap rapidly.
Yuan Haochen thought for a while and said: "It is theoretically feasible, because the future spacecraft has a perfect conversion bridge system, maybe we can use electromagnetic energy to drive some light weapons and equipment, and there is definitely no way for weapons and equipment with excessive energy consumption." ”
"The key is whether we have to do this, for now, the likelihood of our war in the Alpha Centauri system is extremely low."
"Maybe we can use these weapons to break through the ice barriers, or deal with some asteroids that stand in our way."
Smith immediately offered some constructive suggestions.
"Well, maybe you have some truth in what you said......" Lynn nodded.
"Okay, let's figure out what these half-finished products are before we make a final decision."
Yuan Haochen was going to figure out all these guys first.
"Then let's take a look at the computers captured from the alien military base."
Lynn and Smith were immediately interested, and they got busy with their work.
"These alien computers seem to be very different from what we found before, are there any differences in models?" Smith first got a computer onto the operating platform.
"Yes, although they are also hemispherical, these ones are slightly larger."
"Bigger, more advanced? Not necessarily! It can't be an old hat from an earlier era. ”
Smith struggled.
"Since it was found in a military research institute and the largest city, it shouldn't be a native hat." Yuan Haochen judged.
"Whatever, we only care about the information inside, prepare to convert the bridge, and see if it can still work."
Hara, Smith and Lynn have been quite skillful and tacitly operated, and this is the 221st extraterrestrial computer they have handled.
In the previously discovered computers, they have found a large number of important materials for the earth's civilization in the fields of information science, agricultural disciplines, engineering and materials science.
"It doesn't work, I guess it's damaged."
Lynn tried to turn on the computer, but failed.
"Tear down the storage unit and install it on a good computer." Yuan Haochen said decisively.
"Okay."
This is not the first time they have encountered this situation, and they have naturally found a solution.
"It's okay, it's connected."
"Start reading the data."
"Start the translation process."
"Translation takes time, so let's get the next computer first."
The computer that can run will be installed with the translation software compiled by Yuan Chen, and the materials will be translated into Chinese directly on the computer. If the computer is unusable due to damage, the storage unit will be disassembled and transferred to another good computer for further processing.
"There's something wrong with this computer!!"
"What's the situation?!"
"A large part of the information is encrypted!"
"Crypto!! It's new, it's never been seen before! ”
"Did you try to decrypt it?"
"A simple decryption method will definitely not work, and a complex decryption method without a corresponding code, how can it be unfolded!?"
In the process of researching other extraterrestrial computers in the past, Yuan Haochen found that there is a big difference in the habits of the creator and the earthlings when using computers.
One of them is that the Creator's computer is largely unencrypted.
Smith speculated that perhaps the creators were more "simple"?
God knows, maybe for some other unknown reason. You know, there will definitely be huge cultural and thinking differences between different cosmic civilizations.
Perhaps, when the creator arrives on the earth, he will also wonder why the computers of the earthlings have to set up various passwords, and there is no basic trust between people......
Therefore, it is the first time that Yuan Haochen has encountered such encrypted data as today.
"It's not scientific......" Lynn muttered.
"It has something to do with science!" Smith complained.
"Keep this part of the information properly first, and then dispose of it when you have time."
Yuan Haochen's pupils shrank, and he judged that this matter must be extraordinary.
"Understood, let's look at other translated materials first." Lynn suggests.
Half an hour later.
"Look, there's a mention of controlled nuclear fusion technology in this gamma-ray weapon system document!!"
"As the geoscience research team deduced, controlled fusion is one of the key technologies for gamma-ray reactor operation."
Yuan recalled the [Source of Creation] on Mars, in which the gamma-ray reactor was not included in the scientific research goal. He speculated that this must be related to the deterrence and panic psychology of the core members of the Interstellar Exploration Alliance.
"The significance of controlled nuclear fusion to the current civilization of the earth is too great!!"
Hara, Lynn, and even Smith all know that if they master controlled nuclear fusion technology, it will have a drastic impact on the earth's energy system!
The ultimate goal of using nuclear energy is to achieve controlled nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fission is the release of energy by the division of atomic nuclei, while nuclear fusion is the release of energy by the fusion of lighter nuclei into heavier nuclei. The most common is the fusion of the isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium (also known as heavy hydrogen) and tritium (also known as super heavy hydrogen) into heavier nuclei such as helium to release energy.
Compared with nuclear fission, nuclear fusion has two major advantages.
The first is that the earth contains far more nuclear fusion energy than nuclear fission energy. It is estimated that there are 0.03 grams of deuterium per liter of seawater, so there are 45 trillion tons of deuterium in seawater alone on Earth. The deuterium contained in 1 liter of seawater, through nuclear fusion, can provide the equivalent of the energy released after the combustion of 300 liters of gasoline. The nuclear fusion energy contained on the earth is about 10 million times that of the total nuclear fission energy that can be released by the elements that can be used for nuclear fission, which can be said to be an inexhaustible source of energy. As for tritium, although it does not exist in nature, it can be produced by the interaction of neutrons with lithium, and seawater also contains a large amount of lithium.
The second advantage is that it is clean and safe. Because it does not produce radioactive substances that pollute the environment, it is clean.
Compared with the tall black hole energy, antimatter and other energy sources, controlled nuclear fusion technology, although much backward, is currently the most accessible way to obtain energy for the earth's civilization. It can be said that as long as the earth civilization masters this technology, it will immediately be upgraded to a standard I-level cosmic civilization. (To be continued.) )