Bright Castle, main building No. 1, fifteen underground floors, furnace maintenance room.
Richard, Lorenz, Schrodinger and other stewards walked in here, and several supervisors from the maintenance room immediately came to greet them.
The golden-haired steward Siemens said straight to the point: "Lord Richard, all indicators of the furnace are normal. As long as there are no accidents, it can run for a long time. You don't have to worry."
After hearing this, Richard nodded lightly and walked towards the deepest part of the maintenance room. Through the glass wall, he could clearly see the operation of the furnace.
You can see that the so-called furnace is a huge flat water tank-shaped device with an exaggerated size, reaching twelve meters in height and twenty meters in diameter.
At this moment, the furnace was like a kettle filled with boiling water. There was a constant "gurgling" sound inside, causing the entire furnace to tremble slowly, and even the entire maintenance room to tremble. In this process, a massive amount of energy is pouring out of the furnace, along the dense lines laid under the ground, and is transmitted to the main energy line of the Castle of Light to play a role.
Richard looked at the furnace carefully for a while, and couldn't help but sigh 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 is controllable nuclear fusion that is elusive.
Yes, controlled nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion is relatively simple, just the opposite of nuclear fission - nuclear fission breaks a heavier nucleus into two or more lighter nuclei, and the mass lost in the process is converted into energy, thus demonstrating terrifying power ; Nuclear fusion is to combine lighter atomic nuclei into heavier atomic nuclei under certain conditions. In the process, the excess mass is converted into energy, thus demonstrating terrifying power.
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are the guiding principles of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs respectively. In terms of difficulty of implementation, the latter is greater than the former.
This is because the nuclear fission of the atomic bomb only needs to accumulate a sufficient amount of nuclear materials to automatically fuse. Nuclear fusion is different, because it is a light atomic nucleus, generally hydrogen atom isotopes - deuterium and tritium. No matter how much it is piled up, it will not work on its own. They require very harsh conditions, relatively high temperatures, at least 4,000,000°C, or 40 million degrees Celsius.
This is not something that can be achieved casually. It can even be said to be difficult. One of the few ways to achieve it is to use the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Inside the hydrogen bomb, a small atomic bomb is often loaded - the first atomic bomb uses the high temperature generated by the atomic bomb explosion to cause nuclear fusion of the hydrogen bomb raw materials, thus releasing its power.
Based on this technical logic, any nuclear-armed country on earth will possess atomic bombs first and then hydrogen bombs, 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 important 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 critical mass—enough atomic bomb raw materials are piled together. As long as the critical mass is exceeded, a nuclear explosion will occur on its own.
Although this impact can be reduced through special design, the impact still exists, like an iron hoop, tightly locking the upper limit of the power of the atomic bomb.
Therefore, the most powerful atomic bomb ever tested on Earth was the Ivy King, with a yield of 500,000 tons.
In comparison, hydrogen bombs are much freer. As long as there are enough hydrogen bomb raw materials, the power can be increased infinitely.
For example, the famous "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 "prospects" than nuclear fission.
For this reason, after Richard created the atomic bomb on his own, he did not stop researching in this area. After establishing Black Sun Castle, he guided the staff of Black Sun Castle to develop many high-yield hydrogen bombs, which are the so-called new Black Sun. arms.
However, compared to the destructive power of nuclear fusion, what Richard actually valued more was another value brought by nuclear fusion. To put it more clearly, it was the rational utilization of the energy released by nuclear fusion.
The energy released by nuclear fusion is undoubtedly terrifying and can truly destroy the world. Compared with nuclear fission, this energy is clean and pollution-free. If we can find a way to utilize this energy, we can essentially change this world without oil resources. The wizarding world.
However, it is not easy to take advantage of it.
The nuclear fusion generated by the hydrogen bomb explosion is uncontrollable and one-time, and all energy is released in a very short time.
If we really want to use it, we must make nuclear fusion controllable and operate continuously.
This is a big problem.
On Earth, scientists have done a lot of research on this. In order to obtain endless clean energy and to achieve nuclear fusion conditions in a controlled environment, several major countries on Earth have adopted many methods, such as electromagnetic constraint method, inertial constraint method, and even Develop the freak that is cold fusion.
what's 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 one problem is that the input energy of the controlled nuclear fusion achieved is more than the output energy.
What's the meaning
To explain, in order to achieve and maintain the conditions for controllable nuclear fusion, a certain amount of energy must be consumed with the help of special devices. Due to technical limitations, the amount of energy consumed is so large that it cannot be filled with the energy obtained after successful controllable nuclear fusion.
To give an example, a lot of manpower and material resources are spent to build equipment, which consumes ten units of energy, but the final output is... five units of energy.
To give another example, this is like investing 100,000 yuan, working hard, and finally creating... counterfeit currency worth 50,000 yuan.
Even if you don’t take into account various consumables and risks, you will still be losing money.
This naturally makes no sense.
Only when the output energy of controllable nuclear fusion is greater than the input energy can it have real practical value and be motivated to promote it.
Many scientists on the earth have been studying, hoping to achieve this, and constantly claim that it can be achieved within fifty years... The result is that it was like this ten years ago, and it will still be like this ten years later - the slogan of realization in fifty years has not changed.
Having said that, the reason why stars such as the sun emit light and heat is because they use nuclear fusion to obtain endless energy and transfer the energy to the planets, giving life power to all things.
Mastering controllable nuclear fusion, even mastering the power of the stars in a sense, is naturally extremely difficult.
But even so, Richard didn't think about spending fifty years on solving problems like Earth. From the beginning, his plan was to use a few years to get a result.
This is not because he is so arrogant that he thinks he can beat all the scientists on the earth, but because the extraordinary power of the current world gives him confidence.
It has been promoted on the earth for fifty years. This is due to many reasons. The most important one is the slow progress of scientific development in many fields. There are many ideas for the realization of controllable nuclear fusion, but very few can be actually tested.
For example: A scientist on earth suddenly announced one day that he had created a new model of controllable nuclear fusion. The model is low-cost and has low risks. As long as it is produced, the energy crisis can be eliminated. But there is a small problem, that is, the core part of the model requires a material that can withstand ultra-high temperatures and ultra-high pressures, and such materials do not exist on earth.
Therefore, no matter how good the model is, it becomes a fantasy.
In comparison, the current world is slightly different. Although there are no materials that can withstand ultra-high temperatures and ultra-high pressures, certain materials can be amplified to this state through a series of spells.
In a sense, extraordinary power is like a ***, which can help Richard solve the difficulties in controllable nuclear fusion in ways that conventional earth sciences cannot.
During this process, a lot of ancient magic knowledge obtained from the ancient wizard civilization Balta came in handy, and even achieved effects beyond expectations.
First, let Richard work with many stewards of the Castle of Light to create the "melting furnace" - if you take the furnace apart, you can see that there are layers of complex structures inside, and each layer of the structure has magic patterns at work. To achieve the specific effects required on the design drawing.
Afterwards, multiple test runs of the "Melting Furnace" allowed Richard and the people from the Castle of Light to collect a lot of data. During this high-energy process, they reversely studied some properties of ancient incomplete spells, extraordinary factors, virtual spirits, etc., and even more Learn more about the underlying principles of extraordinary power in this world.
In the end, the "furnace" successfully operated and achieved positive energy output, that is, the output energy is greater than the input energy. In addition to proving many extraordinary power research conjectures, it successfully achieved valuable and controllable nuclear fusion.
It's not easy.
It sounds simple, but it took Richard and the people from Guangming Castle more than three years to achieve it, and they invested countless resources.
But, no matter what, it was finally done.
Although it is still not possible to see much change in the world, the seeds have been laid.
Later, with the germination of passion, it will give the world a big surprise.
Squinting at the operating furnace, Richard began to think about the subsequent arrangements... Now that controllable nuclear fusion has been successful, the next step is to try to shrink and expand the equipment... Shrink The equipment is for portability and wider application, while the expanded equipment is for use in more important places.
During this process, there should be many problems that need to be solved, and it will take a long time to achieve the results he expected. If the Truth Society will still send people from heaven to cause trouble, it may take longer, but in any case, the final result will not change.
After this stage is completed, some follow-up plans that have been prepared long ago will be implemented...
When the follow-up plan is almost implemented, it’s time to really deal with things in heaven...
You won't have to wait too long... The seeds have been planted, and sooner or later they will bear fruit.
"It won't be long..." Richard said softly, looking at the furnace.
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