Chapter 328: There is still a long way from science fiction to reality

"That's the fact. It's impossible to use chemical fuels to drive a spacecraft? Even our initial goal is to build a spacecraft that sails in the solar system. It's impossible to use chemical fuels as energy!
However, the most important thing for you, boss, should be to determine the direction of research and development. 1. Gravity field constraints; 2. Inertial constraints; 3. Magnetic constraints. Which of these three methods should we choose?
The main controllable nuclear fusion method: laser confinement (inertial confinement) nuclear fusion (such as my country's Shenguang Project and the National Ignition Plan of the United States and America).
Magnetically confined nuclear fusion (tokamak, star simulator, magnetic mirror, reverse field, spherical ring, etc.), this method is currently considered to be the most promising.
We must first determine the direction of the research and development, and then plan the future research and development work, otherwise it will be like a headless fly without a clue! "Kuafu suggested.
Lei Tiantang nodded in agreement. Through such a long period of study, he has already understood the research and development direction of nuclear fusion. To be honest, Lei Tiantang admires the brains of these scientists very much. They use their own The wisdom of the company laid the foundation for the birth of nuclear fusion energy in the future, but at present everyone is still in the preliminary stage of research and development on nuclear fusion power generation.
For the development of fusion energy, it has been studied for 50 years, and it is expected that it will take 50 years to be widely used. What are the reasons? The answer now is:
First, the understanding of plasma is still preliminary. Plasma () is also called plasma, which is an ionized gas-like substance composed of positive and negative ions generated after some of the electrons are deprived of atoms and ionization of atomic groups. The scale is larger than the Debye length. The movement of macroscopic electrically neutral ionized gas is mainly dominated by electromagnetic force, and it exhibits significant collective behavior.
It exists widely in the universe, and is often regarded as the fourth state of matter in addition to solid, liquid, and gas. Plasma is a very good electrical conductor, which can be captured, moved and accelerated by a cleverly designed magnetic field.
The development of plasma physics provides new technologies and processes for the further development of sciences such as materials, energy, information, environmental space, space physics, and geophysics.
Many of the engines used by the spacecraft in science fiction movies and novels are so-called "plasma engines", that is, plasma engines, which can provide sufficient kinetic energy for the spacecraft, allow the spacecraft to travel at a speed close to the speed of light, and even enter the super The speed of light!
Lei Tiantang does not think that these applications of plasma can only be realized in science fiction movies or novels. As long as he continues to work hard in this area, science fiction will come into reality! His spacecraft also needs such abundant kinetic energy!
The second is that the various technologies that support magnetic confinement (superconductivity, low temperature, ultra-high vacuum, microwave, materials, etc.) are very complicated, because the deuterium-tritium reaction produces 14MeV strong neutron radiation, and it also needs to convert hundreds of millions of degrees of high temperature plasma The body lasts for a long time, which poses a challenge to the existing technology accumulation of mankind;
Third, the world has not yet formed a consistent timetable for the tremendous changes in development, and it is difficult to concentrate human, material and financial resources. In this regard, Lei Tiantang really wants to complain. Capitalists will never let inexhaustible energy like nuclear fusion be available before fossil energy is exhausted.
There is no way to research such technology without money, and the capitalists who provide the funds can control the research and development process. Why is nuclear fusion power generation always 50 years away from success?
The people are not all fools, but even if everyone knows the reason, there is no way to change the status quo, because without capital there is no right to speak! This world is so realistic! The capitalists will never really make the nuclear fusion power generation project successful before cutting off the wool of fossil energy. Even if it succeeds, it will delay the construction and use of this energy!
It is also a joke to count on cooperation between countries to promote such research and development projects. Take the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, the most famous international cooperation project at present.
He has several investors, with a total investment of more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, but everyone does not want to pay more. Just start to wrestle about who should pay more. After all, it is a matter of money. , No one wanted to do more, and it took a long time to reach an agreement.
Then there is the issue of construction. The entire project has not been completed yet. The reactor plans to achieve its first plasma in December 2025. This means that the reactor will be able to generate large amounts of charged gas called plasma inside its core. Deuterium-tritium fusion experiments are planned to start in 2035.
It can be seen from this cooperation project that international cooperation is also unreliable, unless the world is now unified into one country, and then such things can be achieved.
Lei Tiantang can't wait that long, who knows what will happen in such a long time? What if a big meteorite smashed down all of a sudden in which year, and the entire earth's civilization is finished?
So it’s better to do it on his own. He does research in private, but he can research whatever he wants. He can manufacture everything without using company funds to support his own research~EbookFREE.me~I believe research The speed will definitely not slow down anywhere.
"We chose the research and development direction of magnetically confined nuclear fusion! I am very strong in this research and development direction. The celestial body with the strongest magnetic field is undoubtedly the black hole, and the strongest magnetic field in the black hole is the giant black hole with the largest volume.
Although the black hole owned by my boss is a small black hole, the strength of the magnetic field is almost unmatched except for the super-large black hole. There is such a best physical target for studying the magnetic field. I want to develop a magnetic field that binds nuclear fusion energy. I think it's easy for me!
As for the choice of tokamak, star simulator, magnetic mirror, reverse field, spherical ring, these structures, we have to consider and study it, and even in the end, we may choose at least two structures for research. , Because I think large nuclear fusion power generation equipment and small nuclear fusion power generation equipment may not be a structure!
Let's study these things slowly. Anyway, it is impossible to complete the research in one step. There are more possibilities for multiple paths!
By the way, you told me last time that your computing power is not enough to increase so many R&D projects at once? I'm going to add units to you tonight. How many units need to be added this time to meet the research and development needs in the future? "