Magus Tech Chapter 1505: Sun in a Bottle: Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Bright Castle, main building No. 1, basement 15th floor, furnace maintenance room.
Li Cha, Lorenz, Schrödinger and other managers walked in here, and several supervisors from the maintenance room immediately greeted them.
Siemens, the blond-haired steward, said straight to the point: "Lord Richard, all indicators of the furnace are normal. As long as there are no accidents, it can continue to run for a long time. You don't have to worry about anything."
Li Cha listened, nodded his head, and walked to the deepest part of the maintenance room. Through the glass wall, he could clearly see the operation of the furnace.
As you can see, the so-called melting furnace is a huge flat tank-shaped device with an exaggerated volume, twelve meters in height and twenty meters in diameter.
At this moment, the furnace is like a kettle filled with boiling water, and the sound of "gurgling" is constantly coming from inside, making the furnace tremble slowly as a whole, and even the entire maintenance room trembles. And in this process, a massive amount of energy is pouring out of the furnace, along the dense lines laid under the ground, and transmitted to the main energy line of Bright Castle to play a role.
Li Cha looked at the furnace carefully for a while, and couldn't help sighing in his heart: It's not easy.
It's really not easy.
This furnace is the so-called "sun in a bottle" entity, and the principle involved in it is the controllable nuclear fusion that is elusive.
Yes, controlled nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion is relatively simple, and is the exact opposite of nuclear fission - nuclear fission is the smashing of a heavier nucleus, making it into two or more lighter nuclei, and the mass lost in the process is converted into energy, thereby Demonstrating terrifying power; nuclear fusion is to allow lighter atomic nuclei to combine into heavier atomic nuclei under certain conditions, and the excess mass in the process is converted into energy, thereby demonstrating terrifying power.
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are the guiding principles of the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb respectively. In terms of difficulty of realization, the latter is greater than the former.
This is because the nuclear fission of the atomic bomb can automatically detonate only by accumulating a sufficient amount of nuclear materials. Nuclear fusion is different, because it is a light atomic nucleus, generally hydrogen isotopes - deuterium and tritium, no matter how much it accumulates, it will not work by itself. They require a very harsh condition, relatively high temperature, at least ℃, that is, 40 million degrees Celsius.
This is not something that can be achieved casually, and it can even be said to be difficult. One of the few ways that can be achieved is to use the atomic bomb to explode.
The inside of a hydrogen bomb is often filled with a small atomic bomb—the atomic bomb is detonated first, and the high temperature generated by the explosion of the atomic bomb is used to allow the raw materials of the hydrogen bomb to undergo nuclear fusion, thereby releasing its power.
Originating from this technical logic, any nuclear-armed country on earth will first possess the atomic bomb and then the hydrogen bomb, not the other way around.
The reason why countries with nuclear weapons will try to master the hydrogen bomb after mastering the atomic bomb is because the hydrogen bomb is much more meaningful than the atomic bomb.
It must be clear that although the power of the atomic bomb is terrifying, it is not infinite. This is because of the existence of the critical mass - enough atomic bomb raw materials are piled up in one piece, as long as the critical mass is exceeded, a nuclear explosion will occur on its own .
Although this effect can be reduced through special design, the effect exists after all, like an iron hoop, tightly locking the upper limit of the power of the atomic bomb.
Therefore, the most powerful atomic bomb tested on the earth is the Ivy King, with an equivalent of 500,000 tons.
In comparison, the hydrogen bomb is much more free, as long as there are enough raw materials for the hydrogen bomb, the power can be increased infinitely.
For example, the well-known "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb has a power of 50 million tons. This is still a reduced version. According to the original design, it should be 100 million tons.
From this perspective, it can be seen that nuclear fusion has more "future" than nuclear fission.
It is precisely because of this that Richard did not stop researching in this area after he independently produced the atomic bomb. New Black Sun weapon.
However, compared to the destructive power of nuclear fusion, Richard actually values another value brought by nuclear fusion. To put it bluntly, it is the reasonable use of the energy released by nuclear fusion.
The energy released by nuclear fusion is undoubtedly terrifying. It belongs to the level of truly destroying the world. Compared with nuclear fission, this energy is clean and pollution-free. If you can find a way to use this energy, you can fundamentally change this situation. A wizarding world without oil resources.
However, it is not easy to use it.
When the hydrogen bomb detonates, the nuclear fusion produced is uncontrollable and one-time, and all the energy is released in a very short time.
To really use it, nuclear fusion must be controlled and run continuously.
This is a big problem.
On the earth, scientists have done a lot of research on this. In order to obtain endless clean energy and achieve nuclear fusion conditions in a controlled environment, several major countries on the earth have adopted many methods, such as the electromagnetic confinement method, such as the inertial confinement method , and even developed the freak of cold fusion.
What is the result?
It cannot be said that it was completely unsuccessful. On the contrary, it can be said that controllable nuclear fusion has been successfully achieved. But there is a problem that the input energy of controlled nuclear fusion is more than the output energy.
What do you mean?
To explain, in order to achieve and maintain the conditions of controllable nuclear fusion, a certain amount of energy must be consumed to complete it with the help of special devices. Due to technical limitations, the amount of energy consumed is so large that the energy obtained after successful controllable nuclear fusion cannot be filled.
To give an example, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build equipment, consumes ten units of energy, and the final output is... five units of energy.
To give another example, it's like putting in 100,000 yuan, and after a lot of hard work, it's hard to make... 50,000 yuan worth of counterfeit money.
Even without considering various consumables and risks, it is still a loss.
Of course this doesn't make sense.
Only when the output energy of controllable nuclear fusion is greater than the input energy can it have real practical value and motivation to promote it.
Many scientists on the earth have been researching, hoping to achieve this, and constantly claiming that it can be realized within fifty years... The result was like this ten years ago, and it will still be like this ten years later-the slogan of realizing it within fifty years has not changed.
Having said that, the reason why the sun and other stars emit light and heat is because nuclear fusion is used to obtain endless energy, and the energy is transmitted to the planets, giving life to all things.
Mastering controllable nuclear fusion, even mastering the power of stars in a certain sense, is naturally extremely difficult.
But even so, Li Cha didn't expect to spend fifty years on research like the earth. From the very beginning, his plan was to use a few years to get a result.
It's not that he is so arrogant that he thinks he can surpass all the scientists on Earth, but that the extraordinary power of the current world has given him confidence.
The earth has been propagandizing for fifty years, which is caused by many reasons, the most important of which is the slow progress of scientific development in many fields. There are many ideas for the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, but very few of them can be actually tested .
To give an example: one day a scientist on earth suddenly announced that he had created a new model of controllable nuclear fusion. But there is a small problem, that is, the core part of the model needs a material that can withstand ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure, and this material does not exist on the earth.
Therefore, even the best model has become a fantasy.
In comparison, the current world is slightly different. Although there are no materials that can withstand ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure, a certain material can be amplified to this state through a series of spells.
In a sense, extraordinary power is like a cheating device, which can help Richard solve the difficulties in controllable nuclear fusion in a way that conventional science on the earth cannot do.
During this process, the knowledge of many ancient spells obtained from Balta, an ancient wizard civilization, came in handy, and even achieved unexpected effects.
First of all, Li Cha and many stewards of Guangming Castle cooperated to create a "melting furnace"-if you disassemble the furnace, you can see that there are layers of complex structures inside, and each layer of structure has magic lines It is playing a role to achieve the desired specific effect on the design drawing.
Afterwards, the multiple test runs of the "melting furnace" allowed Richard and the people in Bright Castle to collect a lot of data. Nature, and a further understanding of the underlying principles of the extraordinary power of this world.
Finally, the "melting furnace" was successfully operated, achieving a positive energy output ~IndoMTL.com~, that is, the output energy was greater than the input energy. In addition to proving many supernatural power research conjectures, it successfully realized valuable and controllable nuclear fusion.
It's not easy.
It's easy to say, but it took Richard and Guangming Castle more than three years to achieve it, and countless resources were invested.
However, in any case, it was finally done.
Although, it is not yet clear how much has changed the world, but the seeds have been planted.
After that, as the seeds germinate, the world will be given a big surprise.
Squinting at the furnace in operation, Li Cha began to think about the arrangements behind... Now that the controllable nuclear fusion has been successful, the next step is to try to shrink and expand the equipment... The reduction of the equipment is for portability, Wider application, expanding equipment is used in more important places.
During this process, there should be many problems that need to be solved, and it will take time to achieve the effect he expected. If the Truth Society still sends people from heaven to make trouble, it may take longer, but no matter what, the final result will not change.
When this stage is completed, it is time to implement some follow-up plans that have been prepared for a long time...
When the follow-up plan is almost implemented, it's time to really deal with the things in the sky...
It won't be too long... The seed has been planted, and sooner or later it will bear fruit.
"It won't be too long..." Looking at the furnace, Li Cha said softly.
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