Chapter 4: A Blueprint for Secretly Moving the World Forward
Nuclear fusion technology! The first step for mankind to truly simulate the principle of stellar operation to achieve the ultimate energy source in the future is also a necessary step for the future to enter the interstellar age and the ideal era of real material abundance. Without the achievements of this technology, mankind would forever be separated from the future sea of stars and the realization of the dream of infinite material abundance and basic energy. If you want to help a plane in the 21st or 20th century leap forward, nuclear fusion technology is indispensable. And now Wang Bu is preparing to inject the equivalent gift of technology and materials he has asked for in this plane - the mature nuclear fusion technology from the time and space of "Alien 2".
Although nuclear fusion is so alluring on the road of industry and technology, there is no doubt that it is a very difficult test subject! Wang Bu's in-situ space-time will not be discharged until 2016. Anyone who knows a little bit of information knows that if nuclear fusion is to be produced, it must require a high temperature of nearly 100 million degrees Celsius and ultra-high pressure at the reaction site to be possible. By the time he began to break through, both the European IEAT and China's FAST used a huge and clumsy tokamak device (magnetic confinement) to control the reaction core of high temperature and high pressure; As for the "national ignition device" made by Lao Mei, it uses laser inertial control in a new way, that is, it uses a laser to shoot at nuclear materials, hoping to touch deuterium-tritium atoms and make a name for itself. As for the results, the tokamak has been tossing for many years, and finally has some results, reaching the 100-second limit, and there is a little discharge harvest. But it will be at least 25 years before the boundaries of practicality are truly broken through (which is still an optimistic estimate). In February 2014, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) used the aforementioned inertial restraint method to heat and compress the fuel pellets with 192 lasers, achieving "fuel gain" for the first time, that is, the energy output is greater than the energy absorbed by the fuel. This is a remarkable achievement, but the overall energy budget is still a loss, as the fuel absorbs only a small fraction of the energy input from the outside laser, and a lot of energy is absorbed by the container in which the fuel is encased. The really important goal is to achieve the "total gain", i.e. the energy output is greater than the total energy input and may take longer.
To be honest, the time and space of "Ghost in the Shell", which seems to have more advanced technology than the original plane, has also stagnated in this field for quite a while, and during this period, it has also been affected by many wars and conflicts, and the progress of international cooperation has been even more delayed! At least according to the information found by Aso, the 500-second upper limit was achieved with a tokamak device 8 years ago, and the American laser ignition program was completely destroyed because of the split of the American Civil War in this time and space! The tokamak project is still being promoted by China and Europe, but there is little progress, and private sources have shown that there has been no breakthrough after reaching the 640-second limit in 2017. And due to the long-term stagnation and some political and economic factors, many international reviews have begun to negatively affect projects in this field. The risk of being laid off and frozen under the influence of public opinion is increasing! So their intervention was just right.
To be honest, the advancement achievements of the Ghost in the Shell have also achieved considerable results, at least according to the analysis of the underground black market technical consulting line in the space-time plane of "Alien 2" according to the information he got here, enough basic conditions have been reached in the field of basic materials and micro numerical control! It's a little bit ahead of Wang Bu's original plane space-time, but it's just a little bit, and it seems that the completion of the specific integration is still a little worse. Then here's the problem! Why is it that when the standard of basic materials and process control has been reached, why is it still so slow and unsuccessful? In fact, this is similar to a long-standing debate in the development of navigation methods in Wang Bu's original plane. A lot of things are not enough with a combination of materials and technologies. A variety of rigorous tests and technical verifications in harsh environments, among which the hardships are not hard to experience! Of course, compared with Hangfa, nuclear fusion reactors are much more technically difficult. At most, the problems of aviation development are that it is difficult to achieve qualified power and stable operation, or an explosion accident, but once there is a problem with nuclear fusion, the consequences of explosion will be catastrophic. Therefore, the people here are just ignorant and inexperienced in the primary technical exploration stage!
But if you want to help it speed up its development, there is no other way, the easiest is to find an experienced mature party to give guidance or assist in program planning! Just like Wang Bu's original plane of a country looking for other major aviation companies to help design the aviation engine, it is much more convenient. Although it may not be up to the mark, it is at least a huge increase in speed up the completion and barely usable. Although Wang Bu's intelligence is exploding at the moment, even if he has information, he is not to the point where he can independently help a country design a nuclear fusion reactor! But fortunately, he is a plug-in channel for "Alien 2" time and space
In "Alien 2", the space-time nuclear fusion technology has matured for more than 2 centuries, and it has also become a stable source of energy for colonies on various planets! Of course, there are many corresponding derivative technology research and development, but in the context of the monopoly of large conglomerates, the development of new nuclear fusion furnace technology is tightly blocked by the market. But in the interstellar development, there is always room for some unscrupulous people to operate. There are also ways to find a stable energy supply on their own to avoid the legal environment that is monitored, and there is also a way to use local resources to build on their own in an environment where there is no stable transportation. Anyway, in the interstellar era, with the background of faster-than-light communication technology, there is still no shortage of technical support channels in all aspects! There is such a company on the Black Market of Sattarinn that specializes in providing technical 'consulting' services for such covert technology projects, with experienced design engineers and advanced quantum computer design support services. Of course, the price is not cheap~~ But in the interstellar era, there are always various people who want to hide their whereabouts, and this kind of technical support service will never lack customers, and it can be regarded as another expansion of market space corresponding to the monopoly operation of large companies!
Wang Bu and Aso are very happy to find this line, so that many technical problems have a faster channel, and of course, the scope of business of such a company will not only provide 'technical advice' in the field of nuclear fusion. Many people who want to privately seek to build an independent ecosystem and biochemical human construction will be useful, of course, in this era of technological proliferation. There are more people who buy spot directly on the black market, and there is no need to worry about affecting market business. After all, being able to produce and being able to sell on the black market are two different things. The former can have a certain resource and technical base, while the latter can require the cumbersome field of faster-than-light transportation to support and deal with special relationships in various social contexts. Therefore, the production line under this kind of technical support is basically only used for some closed circles for self-production and self-use. And in order to avoid conflicts with black market sales, they are definitely not new and good! Of course, it has no impact on Wang Bu and Aso's plan, they are supposed to guide those social countries with initial ability to make breakthroughs in this field! In terms of actual resources and technical manpower, those real countries are much stronger than some interstellar black households. Therefore, after Wang Bu used the approximate data obtained by the Dream Technique to send it to the other side, the other party happily provided more than 10 sets of detailed plans for different responses. When Wang Bu said that the follow-up cooperation in this area is promising, the other party is very happy to sign a long-term cooperation agreement. And as a third party, he sold an old-fashioned small nuclear fusion production line to Wang Bu (mainly to cooperate with old customers as a middleman). This also strengthened Wang Bu's desire to realize his technical team as soon as possible, and at the same time, he also learned a lot from absorbing and transferring the knowledge and data of the nuclear fusion reactor.
According to the secret spiritual data channel conversion of the Dream Technique, and the data fed back from Xu Kelei's side, the "Alien 2" plane is compared and calculated by the 'technical consulting company' and re-planned using the quantum computer scheme. The Chinese nuclear fusion project on the time and space side of "Ghost in the Shell" quickly made an explosive breakthrough, and Wang Bu also took the opportunity to greatly exercise his new field of psionic energy, and the huge data transmission and perceptual thinking made him have a deeper pursuit of goals in the field of science and technology. Of course, on the news, "It is expected that nuclear fusion will be put into practical use within 5 years!" The news still made him happy and not in vain, and although Wang Bu couldn't continue to advance faster, he still gave up the tempting idea under Aso's suggestion that he couldn't show too much abnormality. Anyway, under their covert guidance, the nuclear fusion project has broken through the 8-hour barrier and is on the right track, and a large number of basic data research has been completed. Even if they don't intervene, the project will be automatically put into use in no more than 8 years. In fact, according to their receipts, internal data calculations show that the Chinese side will also complete a small military experiment project within three years at the latest. In short, the goal is basically achieved!
As for asking them what future benefits they will gain from such efforts in this project, in addition to being able to bring out some supporting nuclear fusion technical achievements in the near future, some important peripheral projects such as materials or magnetronics products that will upgrade nuclear fusion in the future are also in their hands to obtain huge benefits in the future! Sometimes you can't do business too much for immediate gains. And out of long-term planning, Wang Bu also moved the dream support equipment into his original plane space-time and prepared to launch new variables. Secretly advancing two or even more time and space, this sense of accomplishment and mission is really good~!