Chapter 178: Cold Nuclear Fusion

Du Gangxi was very fast.

As for the spare parts that Wang Chen needs to help process, just make a list, and Du Gang will help to contact them.

Seeing Du Gang flashing, Wang Chen also sat on the sofa with a smile.

I don't have to worry about these two things not being able to sell at all.

Not to mention the bulletproof vest, this single soldier mecha alone will definitely be asked for no matter how expensive it is.

With this physique, it shouldn't be a problem for a brocade guard to carry three to five anti-tank canisters.

Relying on the high mobility of the mecha, the king of land warfare, the tank, is afraid that he will be seconds before he even sees it.

In fact, the design of the mecha has not changed too much, and it is estimated that I can get a full set of drawings by myself in a week at most.

The factory can then start producing the relevant spare parts.

Now Wang Chen's main energy has been drawn from the individual mecha and this special alloy.

With the help of artificial intelligence, many things no longer need Wang Chen to do it himself.

In this case, Wang Chen also decided to officially start the research of the new project on March 10.

And this time, Wang Chen plans to study the "nuclear fusion project" that has been delayed for a while.

This time it can't be delayed any longer, the issue of energy is already related to the core development of the company in the future.

Especially after the construction of the island, the problem of electricity must be solved.

Not to mention entering the universe in the future, it is impossible to reduce costs without unlimited energy.

The current global nuclear fusion technology is actually developing quite fast.

In addition to hydrogen energy, the most promising energy source for mankind at present is nuclear fusion.

One of the big advantages of nuclear fusion is the lower consumption, a 1,000 megawatt thermal power plant consumes 9,000 tons of coal per day, equivalent to the load of a train with 120 wagons.

If a power plant with the same amount of electricity is used for nuclear fusion, it will only need to consume 27 tons of fuel per year, and 270 tons of raw uranium, or two wagons, will be needed to process and refine this nuclear fuel. So just from the point of view of the quality of consumption, the difference between the two is as much as 14,000 times.

Not to mention the wide range of raw materials for nuclear fusion, the fuel required is the isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. Deuterium can be obtained in seawater, where one out of every 6,000 hydrogen atoms is deuterium, and tritium can be made by irradiating lithium.

If we could extract all the deuterium from the seawater, we would have about 10 to 13 tons of deuterium, which is far more than the amount of coal, oil or gas on Earth.

Even one hundredth of the total amount can be obtained at a time, enough to last many years for all mankind.

There are currently more than 30 private companies engaged in fusion technology in the world; Among them, 18 companies that have publicly raised funds have received a total of more than $2.4 billion.

And that's not even counting the housekeeper's R&D institutions.

The biggest challenge in studying this technique is how to confine the fusing charged plasma at a temperature of about 100 million Kelvin (much hotter than the center of the sun).

The current mainstream technology is to use a magnetic field to confine and levitate the plasma inside the reactor. But because the plasma is so unstable, its confinement is so difficult that so far the fusion reaction has not been able to sustain long enough to achieve an energy output greater than the input.

Temperature control is an important difficulty in obtaining nuclear fusion, and its difficulty is far greater than that of the current high-tech crystallography lithography machines on Earth.

As the world's most sophisticated equipment, the crystallization of the most cutting-edge technology of all mankind, the equipment and technology on the lithography machine is combined with the research results of dozens of top enterprises around the world, and the ASML boss once said that no country can manufacture the lithography machine alone.

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But even so, if the country is determined to do it, it will be about 5 years to produce results, and within 10 years, the most advanced lithography machine will be produced. As for controlled nuclear fusion, the woolly bear has been studying it since 1968, but if you want to fully grasp it, scientists can only answer that there is hope that you can see it in your lifetime.

In 1954, Mao Xiong built the first "tokamak device", which is equivalent to a small reactor in Iron Man's chest, although small but can provide huge energy, which also laid the direction of global nuclear fusion research and development.

In 1968, woolly bear scientists obtained plasma through the "tokamak device", which was also the first time in human history to obtain plasma.

But after so many years, the study of nuclear fusion is still in a theoretical state.

Even if Wang Chen is hanging now, he can't ignore the current scientific and technological background.

In Wang Chen's view, nuclear fusion under normal conditions is basically difficult to achieve, and even if it can, its cost will be very high.

Because to achieve a stable energy output at such a high temperature, the requirements for the material aspect are too high.

So the method that Wang Chen intends to use is not conventional nuclear fusion technology.

Rather, it is a technology called "cold nuclear fusion".

Cold fusion, also known as cold nuclear fusion, is a colloquial term for the more formal name "low-energy nuclear reaction" and falls under the umbrella of nuclear science of condensate matter.

At present, the global understanding of cold nuclear fusion is still a hypothetical state.

After all, I haven't even figured out thermonuclear fusion, and cold nuclear fusion is especially so easy to get started?

Indeed, if it is a cold nuclear technology that can be equated with thermonuclear fusion, then what is needed in it is not something that Wang Chen can handle now.

However, if it is a partial version of the method, there is still a chance to get nuclear fusion out.

And in a very low-cost way.

Everybody knows that the biggest problem with thermonuclear fusion is temperature.

But the wonder of nature is that when you give a problem, you also bury the solution you need.

If thermonuclear fusion can't be controlled by normal channels, there are hidden methods.

For example, a recipe written in a library in your head.

It is a special catalyst that allows fusion materials to fuse at a certain temperature.

This is a product of other civilizations researching cold nuclear fusion, but in the eyes of that civilization, this product is really not worth mentioning to those who have already mastered thermonuclear fusion technology.

Because although this catalyst can forcibly fuse the material, it will damage the energy of fusion.

Suppose the normal fusion power is 100, and less than 60 are fused in this way.

The conversion rate is almost half.

But just because people don't look down on it doesn't mean that the earth doesn't look down on it now.

Until anyone finds the right way to use thermonuclear fusion, this kind of fusion can still play a huge role.

After all, the total amount of energy of nuclear fusion is there, and it is not a space jump, and the loss of four layers is still a huge amount of energy.

It is fully capable of supporting the Earth for development within the solar system.

It's already a very good technology for transition.

Wang Chen also consulted a lot of information before deciding to take this technology as the main development direction.

There is no way, the earth's resources are too small, and when it enters the universe, many of the so-called problems on the earth are not problems at all.

Let's go out first.