Chapter 151: Helium-3
It rained heavily for three or four days.
Originally, there were still some hot and dry magic capitals, and they became a lot cooler.
Today is a good day, and the first Hercules production line at the TechGate production center has begun to be put into operation.
Wang Chen currently has only three Hercules left, and the others have all been sent to the factory.
Although it cannot achieve 100% work efficiency, it can basically meet the most reluctant production needs.
The line will also be the first in the world to require no human involvement.
The whole process is under the supervision of Ergouzi and robots.
It is estimated that it will not be long before the produced Hercules will be able to meet Wang Chen's daily needs.
However, sending out most of the robots in his hands still affected the research and development progress of the electromagnetic cannon.
Wang Chen simply gave himself half a month's vacation, except for letting Lu Ban continue to slowly assemble the remaining three Hercules.
I slipped away to the island and carefully observed the progress.
At present, the island has entered a state of full construction.
Naturally, the venue of tens of thousands of people is also very lively.
Every day, four or five freighters come in and out, constantly bringing in materials and equipment.
Especially in the central mountains, seventy or eighty pieces of equipment are digging day and night.
Wang Chen's original hut has now become the command center of the construction site.
In order to ensure quality, CCCC also has a permanent inspection team here.
And next door is the third-party supervisor found by Jin Sanshi.
Their task is to inspect the materials they bring in every day with equipment and equipment.
Even if it is a project undertaken by CCCC, the process that should be followed still has to be followed.
After all, this is a large order of more than 60 billion US dollars, and there is too much oil and water in it.
After wandering around the island for a few days to check the construction progress, Wang Chen pondered around the port area for a while.
When I designed the port, I set aside one-third of the empty space.
Even before the start of construction, Wang Chen hadn't thought about what to place in this vacant land.
But now Wang Chen has already figured it out.
Or according to the old idea, a large shipbuilding platform was placed in the port area.
With this remaining space, it is possible to put down three huge enclosed factories with a length of 500 meters and a width of 200 meters.
In addition to building conventional ships, Wang Chen also looked at deep space.
With its current technological prowess, it should only be a matter of time before it goes into the universe.
Wang Chen pondered that it was time to start the construction plan of the dock.
When the research and development of electromagnetic weapons is completed, Wang Chen will find time to complete the research on nuclear fusion.
Even Wang Chen plans to directly hand over the technology of nuclear fusion to the top to complete.
After all, this thing and artificial intelligence are almost impossible for a single company to control.
However, Wang Chen is still pondering this matter, and the only thing that can be determined is that the time to unlock nuclear fusion will not be too far away.
Once nuclear fusion is unlocked, the corresponding space program will naturally begin.
It is an inevitable process for human beings to go to deep space.
The earth is a cradle and a cage.
The development of civilization requires more and more abundant resources, if it is not possible to enter the universe before the earth's resources are exhausted.
There is only a dead end for humanity.
Then the earth re-enters a new cycle of reincarnation.
In hundreds of thousands or millions of years, new intelligent life will emerge and re-follow the path that mankind has already taken.
However, it seems that the scientific and technological development of mankind is still quite stable.
Even if Wang Chen doesn't show up, it's only a matter of time before he unlocks nuclear fusion.
It may be a hundred years or two hundred years, but there should be no problem in rushing out of the earth.
As long as we can get out of the earth, the problem of resources will no longer be able to limit human development.
It is estimated that it is possible for gold to become the price of cabbage in the future.
There was even a wave of Renaissance, and traditional energy vehicles directly rose for the second time.
These are all possible.
After all, oil and gold are limited in the earth's reserves, but in the universe it is about infinite.
But that's a bit of a stretch.
What Wang Chen values most now is helium-3 on the moon.
While helium-3 is not the only option for nuclear fusion, it is the best.
It's so rare on Earth.
Helium-3 was first formed on the Sun as a result of a thermonuclear reaction and then scattered in all directions by the solar wind.
Because of the atmosphere and magnetic field resistance, it is difficult for them to fall on the surface of the rock layer, so the entire planet has only 500 kilograms of helium-3 storage.
It can be described as pitiful.
As a perfect energy source, helium-3 can undergo nuclear fusion reactions with hydrogen isotopes, but unlike general nuclear fusion reactions, helium-3 does not produce neutrons during the fusion process, so it is less radioactive, and the fusion reaction process is easy to control, which is both environmentally friendly and safe.
Therefore, with this raw material as the foundation, mankind will soon be able to master the controlled nuclear fusion technology and achieve efficient, safe, cheap, clean and pollution-free power generation.
In addition, if helium-3 is used, even if the world generates electricity every year, 100 tons of helium-3 is enough.
Wang Chen's idea is to first use deuterium and tritium, which are the easiest to achieve fusion reactions, and these two raw materials are very rich in reserves on the earth.
Even if there were no helium-3 on the Moon, the deuterium stored in the Earth's seawater alone would be enough for tens of billions of years of human use.
One liter of deuterium extracted from seawater can produce as much fusion energy as 300 liters of gasoline released by complete combustion.
It's just that tritium that fuses with deuterium is a bit troublesome and needs to be artificially made, after all, the global stock of this thing is only a few kilograms.
This is also the reason why Wang Chen is greedy for helium-3 on the moon.
Because the fusion process of deuterium and tritium is too cumbersome, a large number of supporting devices need to be designed.
Helium-3 is much simpler, and there are few of them on Earth, but there are quite a lot of them in the universe.
No matter from what direction, it is the best energy partner for mankind in the future.
At best, deuterium-tritium fusion can be used as a transition product.
Therefore, Wang Chen's next goal is very clear.
That is to unlock nuclear fusion and make a spaceship go straight to the moon.
When helium-3 arrives, the nuclear fusion upgrade can be considered for the possibility of flying to Mars.
Compared with the moon, Mars is the springboard that human beings need to pay the most attention to in the future.
That place doesn't look like a dead place now, but as long as the technology is in place, Mars also has a chance to become a second Earth.
Once Mars is successfully transformed, humanity will have a perfect springboard for the universe.
Wang Chen is also looking forward to the day when his family's spacecraft lands on Mars.
I believe that this time will not be too long.
As long as nuclear fusion is unlocked, anything is possible.
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