Chapter 236: The Energy of Fusion
Planet Helfa.
Dakeng base.
After nearly two years of environmental transformation.
Looking up at the sky overhead, the yellow sand is quite scarce, most of it is a pale blue sky, and you can see a somewhat hazy sun during the day.
Rainfall has increased significantly.
Some drought-tolerant plants have emerged near the base.
In the base, dozens of plants cultivated in the biological laboratory are planted by robots in flower beds, green belts, rooftops, and roadsides, and are often irrigated and fertilized.
Today, the lawn is verdant, flowers are blooming, and every corner is full of green.
The whole site is full of life, like a city in a garden.
The obvious improvement of the environment and the quiet and peaceful atmosphere have significantly increased the number of times Chen Jin came here for leisure and relaxation.
The restless minds on the other side of the earth, which are noisy and flashy, seem to have a place here.
After all, he is the only one on this planet.
Inside the office building.
Turning on the telecomm, Chen Jin contacted Nuwa, who was mining He3 on the moon, and asked her about her recent situation.
"Nuwa, how is the mining of He3? How many have been collected? ”
"At present, the mining efficiency is not very high, about 3 tons are separated every day, and a total of more than 150 tons have been collected in the past two months, but this is far from enough, my goal is to collect more than 1,000 tons."
"Aren't you going to spend a year on the other side of the moon?"
After simply calculating it, Chen Jin's brows furrowed slightly, not that he was worried that Nuwa would run, but that the mining efficiency was a little low.
"No, I will increase the collection efficiency to more than 10 tons per day within a month, so that I can return to Haierfa in more than two months, and it will take about half a year."
"Master, please rest assured, I also want to complete the environmental transformation task as soon as possible, I am as anxious as you."
After all, when the task of environmental transformation is completed, you can devote all your energy to more important things.
Like what...... Develop powerful starships and explore more mysterious and advanced technologies.
Chen Jin nodded, he believed in Nuwa's overall performance, and all the 150 tons of He3 resources collected were sent back to the Dakeng base through a small cargo spaceship, and they were sent every two to three days, without any private collection.
It is normal for the efficiency to be low in the early stage, and it is good to speed up it in the later stage.
And at the same time that Nuwa kept sending "He3", Alice on the Helfa planet side was even more efficient.
She commanded a million robots to build a large-scale nuclear fusion power station in the southern sea, more than 500 kilometers away from the Dakeng base, and was basically completed in just three months.
Power generation can be started immediately.
The name of the fusion power station, Chen Jin named it "Yangyang No. 1".
"Yangyang No. 1" covers an area of more than 5 acres.
The core equipment weighs more than 20,000 tons.
The maximum power generation is more than 3 billion kilowatts.
The rated power generation is about 1 billion.
With just such a nuclear fusion power station, the energy problem of the entire Mizhou continent will be completely solved, and there is no need to provide additional power resources.
As for the entire planet of Haierfa, the construction of 3 to 5 "Yangyang 1" is completely sufficient, and the environment can be transformed as much as you want, and a large amount of seawater can be desalined and then pumped deep inland.
The efficiency of transformation will naturally be greatly improved.
Hey?
No, didn't I say earlier that with the technical reserves of the base, it will take several years to realize the nuclear fusion power generation technology, why is it that Alice has now mastered the nuclear fusion power generation technology?
It was true that I had to wait a few years before, but now I don't have to.
One is to build a large-scale fusion power generation device operating on the surface of a planet, which is less technically difficult than the fusion reactor inside an interstellar battleship...... The smaller the thing, the harder it is to make, and the bigger it is, the easier it is.
In addition, after cracking the unification formula and thoroughly grasping the essence of force, Alice found an easier way to achieve the controllable nuclear fusion reaction, which greatly reduced the material requirements and reduced the difficulty of construction a lot.
So Alice can build a few large fusion power stations more efficiently and easily.
Using the huge energy generated by the fusion reaction of D+He3, about 100 tons of He3 are burned every year, and the energy is inexhaustible.
A few days later.
Alice reported: "Master, the construction of 'Yangyang No. 1' has been completed, will it start ignition and put into power generation?" ”
"It's OK to go."
Chen Jin nodded, and then witnessed the ignition process of the nuclear fusion reactor.
Reaction chamber with a ring-shaped structure.
It was pitch black at first.
With the enhancement of the magnetic confinement field.
The deuterium atoms and He3 atoms in the plasma state begin to emit yellowish and bluish light due to the friction of collision with each other.
The temperature gradually increases.
50,000,000 kWh ...... 100 million kWh ...... 200 million kWh......
The speed of the particle flow is also getting faster and faster, and it is getting flattened and flattened, like a circle of planets as thin as cicada wings, emitting a blue glow, brilliant as the polar aurora.
500 million kWh ...... Close to 600 million kWh......
The moment the critical reaction temperature is reached!
A light 10,000 times more dazzling than a star lit up in the reaction chamber in an instant.
The infinite amount of energy contained in the nucleus of the atom gushes out and is converted into a huge amount of electrical energy in the ferrofluid generator.
The reactor was successfully ignited in one attempt!
Stellar energy is controlled with ease in man-made devices and is used with maximum efficiency.
"What a spectacular and beautiful scene, and only advanced and powerful technology can do this."
Chen Jin was stunned and sighed.
Thanks to this device, the tiny human being has become comparable to the legendary sun god...... Man is God.
Or the scientists who created this miracle are gods.
Considering that on the other side of the earth, controlled nuclear fusion has not yet been achieved, and the sun has not yet been lit.
Still plagued by energy issues.
In other words, whether to bring controllable nuclear fusion technology to the earth, build a "Yangyang No. 1" on the other side of the earth, 1 billion kilowatts of power generation, the electricity generated is definitely enough for the people of the whole country, even if it charges 1 cent per kilowatt of electricity, it can collect 2.4 billion per day.
Multiply by 365......
A "Yangyang No. 1" makes much more money than all the companies, assets, and investments in Chen Jin's hands.
"Do you want to enter the energy industry?"
Chen Jin came up with this idea in his mind, and felt that there was still a certain degree of feasibility, because with the technical level of the earth, it was not too difficult to manufacture "Yangyang No. 1", and it could definitely be realized within five years.
The source of the technology can be explained in terms of a "virtual factory".
The fuel used is D+T, which is more prone to fusion reactions, but can make the device much larger and more complex.
But.
After thinking about it, Chen Jin temporarily dispelled this idea.
"The electricity is under the management of the state, involving millions of power workers, trillions of interests every year, and a unified power supply and transmission system.
"This is the cake that belongs to the country! There's no way to get away. ”
"What's more, the country has engaged in several fully superconducting tokamak devices (also called 'artificial sun'), including a device called EAST, which has achieved continuous operation for more than 600 seconds at a high temperature of 100 million degrees, and is only one to two steps away from complete success, and in an optimistic situation, it is entirely possible to light up the artificial sun before 20X5 years ago and take the lead in commercial operation."
Therefore, Chen Jin doesn't need to worry too much about the energy part, and there is no need to go in and mix it.
However, Xinghai Technology can provide some technical assistance free of charge based on national interests rather than commercial interests to speed up the progress of the 'artificial sun' project.
If an energy crisis breaks out and the price of oil skyrockets, it is necessary to use the 'artificial sun' as soon as possible.
In this case, Chen Jin may be able to provide assistance.
It's true that money is a good thing, but he's also willing to do things that seem silly but make sense.