Naturally, Chen Chen did not need to host the next press conference about the Xingtian project. He had just had a few words with Xia Yin when Xiao X suddenly sent a message.
On the mobile phone, the message from Xiao X was: Just a few minutes ago, there was a suspected atmospheric pressure leakage during the experiment of the inertial confinement reactor.
Therefore, Chen Chen could no longer take care of Xia Yin, turned around and left in a hurry.
After stepping out of the Black Light Dome, Chen Chen quickly got into Cheng Chao's car and said at the same time, "Chaozi, rush to the spire as fast as possible, hurry!"
But before he finished speaking, Little
Chen Chen: "..."
Cheng Chao looked at Chen Chen in the rearview mirror curiously, "Boss, are you still going to the minaret now?"
"Go ahead, I'll take a look around."
Chen Chen waved his hand and said helplessly.
Immediately, the vehicle started slowly and left the Black Light Dome.
The inertial confinement reactor that Little .
Chen Chen even discovered that some of these laser components were actually spare parts for the official NIF facilities in North America. It was unknown what means these families used to even acquire the laser generators for the NIF project.
After the reactor was assembled and after several months of experiments, the inertial confinement reactor had been successfully ignited thirteen times in a row, causing the deuterium and tritium fuel inside to undergo a nuclear fusion reaction, forming a micro sun with a diameter of one centimeter.
Not only that, after multiple parameter corrections, this inertial fusion reaction can be maintained for more than five minutes, and the Q value easily breaks through the number 10, reaching as many as 18 points.
Seeing that the world's first truly controllable nuclear fusion reactor was about to succeed, but when an atmospheric pressure leak occurred, Chen Chen was naturally panicked.
Fortunately it was just a false alarm.
Half an hour later, when Chen Chen took the elevator and arrived at the Minaret Experimental Base, he happened to see a newly built giant building standing in the southwest corner of the underground space.
This is a shed-like building similar to an assembly line factory. There are dozens of black knights coming in and out here at this time, and it looks very busy.
This shed-like building is Chen Chen's newly built inertial constraint power station.
Unlike nuclear fission power plants, nuclear fusion is a completely clean energy source. The only substance produced after the reaction is water. And because of the harshness and particularity of nuclear fusion, once the reactor fails, the reaction will automatically stop and there will be no need to Accidents such as the spread of nuclear radiation will occur.
Therefore, Chen Chen felt comfortable building the nuclear fusion factory in the underground steeple experimental base.
As Chen Chen walked into the factory, what he saw in front of him was a huge cylindrical building with a diameter of more than thirty meters.
The entire building is made of reinforced concrete, and inside the building with an outer wall up to five meters thick is the inertial confinement reactor.
Who would have thought that at this time, this huge building like a building would actually have a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees and an ultra-high pressure of more than 100 billion atmospheres that the earth has never seen before
Chen Chen looked at the control panel aside, then raised his head and asked, "X, how is the situation now?"
"Now it has been successfully ignited fifteen times in a row. The reaction time of the inertial confinement fusion reactor has exceeded an hour. The Q value has exceeded 20 so far."
"Has the lack of stability been resolved?"
Chen Chen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, "I remember in previous experiments, normal temperature superconductors couldn't completely stabilize the plasma, right?"
Xiao Offer a reward, and modify the background data to make the reward for my question worth hundreds of experience points."
"In other words, whoever can solve my bounty problem can get more than a hundred points of experience from the website."
"In order to gain experience, those high-energy physicists have come up with 341 methods, but in my opinion they are useless."
"In the end, I got a really useful answer from an ID named 'Saki Manson Son Sakigawa'—"
Little Plasma temperature and pressure directed toward the center of the sphere."
"Because this pressure is maintained, the small ball does not immediately undergo all-round fusion. Part of the energy of the plasma on the surface will be released to the surrounding reaction chamber, keeping the two in balance. The small ball will neither expand nor shrink, and the fuel in the pellet will be squeezed to the surface to participate in the reaction, making the reaction more lasting and stable... "
"It's so simple?"
Chen Chen looked surprised, "Is that person actually a genius in high-energy physics? X, can you find out his true identity?"
"I have checked and found out that this person has opened a studio with only himself, responsible for writing soft articles, online trolls, trademark squatting and other businesses."
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It has to be said that no matter how sophisticated the nuclear fusion equipment copied by Chen Chen is and how it restores the technology of the "Elysium Space" plane, the technological generation gap will always exist.
However, what Chen Chen didn't expect was that Xiao
In fact, the fundamental meaning of the so-called inertial confinement nuclear fusion is to hit the energy of multiple lasers on a very small target containing nuclear fuel in a very short time, creating a micro nuclear fusion and releasing a large amount of energy. .
After the first nuclear fusion is completed, the reactor will automatically load a new fuel target, igniting nuclear fusion again and again in this way, thereby obtaining a large amount of energy.
The real difficulty in this, in addition to the supersymmetric laser components, is that the laser generator needs to consume a huge amount of electricity to ignite and form a fusion reaction.
In other words, even if it is not enough to form a nuclear fusion reaction, the energy generated by the nuclear fusion reaction must be greater than the energy consumed by the ignition of the laser generator.
Therefore, here we have to mention the gain factor of nuclear fusion energy - the "Q value".
The ratio of "output energy to input energy" is called "Q value". Q greater than 1 means "output is greater than input". Counting the cost, if it is a steam turbine burning a boiler, the "thermal efficiency" is about 40%-70%. Counting some other losses, Q=2.5 can be roughly considered to be a real cost price.
That is to say:
The realization of fusion reaction at Q0 is a sign of a breakthrough in the principle of human fusion reactor.
When Q1.0, the output energy is greater than the input energy, which is a sign of "breakeven".
Q2.5, the output energy is still greater than the input energy after being converted into electrical energy. This is the real sign of the "practical" breakthrough of nuclear fusion.
Q50 is a sign that the output energy can be profitable after being converted into electrical energy and can be "commercialized".
Therefore, there is a common saying in the high-energy physics community: "If you don't talk about controllable nuclear fusion with Q value, you are actually playing rogue."
At this time, the Q value of Chen Chen's inertial confinement fusion reactor has been brushed up to 20, and the maintenance cost has long been more than enough.
The only regret is that Chen Chen did not use the "boiling water" method to generate electricity because there was insufficient underground space to withstand a large amount of hot gas emissions. Therefore, Chen Chen used "magnetic fluid power generation" technology with low power conversion efficiency.
This technology is not a technology in the "Elysium Space" plane, but one of the technologies that already exists in reality, and its principle is also very simple.
The miniature sun in the reactor is actually a high-temperature plasma constrained by a magnetic field. The plasma is also a charged particle system composed of positively charged particles and negatively charged particles. According to the Lorentz force, as long as the positive and negative particles are separated by a magnetic fluid device, The particles of charge are concentrated on the two-pole conductors, which can generate a potential difference. Then, as long as the wires are connected, the current can be directly output.
The advantage of this magnetic fluid power generation technology is that it is simple and easy to operate, with almost no technical difficulties. The disadvantage is that the power conversion efficiency is not high. Otherwise, the Q value of the inertial confinement fusion reactor at this time is likely to have exceeded 50. .
You must know that the Q value of nuclear fusion reactors in the world's leading countries can also be maintained at around 1.5. There is still a long way to go to truly reach a self-sufficient 2.5.
But no matter what, Chen Chen can at least be sure that the nuclear fusion reactor he built in the Minaret Experimental Base has officially succeeded. This will also be the first truly mature nuclear fusion reactor in human history.
According to Xiao