This is how black technology should be used

Chapter 118 Dongfang Super Ring Fusion Experimental Reactor

After the second industrial revolution, human beings have entered the electrical age. With the development of time, electric energy has entered thousands of households along with wires.

Even in that era, the steam car, the internal combustion engine car and the electric car were "three pillars".

However, although the upper limit of the steam car at that time was not high, it was the most well-developed and the most used.

The newly developed internal combustion engine has many problems, but it is full of vitality, and many people are optimistic about its future.

As for electric cars...

Unlike the other two, it is firewood, coal, and oil, and it has to be ignited. A battery can be put on it, which is very clean and convenient.

But clean and clean, the battery technology at that time was not good, and the single driving distance could not be improved, so not only did it not do the hegemonic internal combustion engine vehicles, but even the steam vehicles that were already in decline at that time.

That is, in recent years, because of the environmental protection issues that have been clamored internationally and the development of various technologies, electric vehicles have stood up again.

If it is narrowed down to a country full of stars, there are many reasons, and it can even be said that it must be done.

From the perspective of national energy strategy, it is to reduce oil consumption and reduce or get rid of dependence on oil imports.

Electric vehicles "burn electricity", and the source of electric energy is enough. Even though most of Fanxing's electricity sources come from thermal power plants, what is burned is coal, and Fanxing itself has quite a lot of coal.

From the perspective of automobile technology, it is to bypass the strict technical barriers of traditional automobiles and seek opportunities for overtaking on curves in new technical fields.

Because the development of traditional internal combustion engine vehicles is very early, many patent barriers have been set early. If Fanxing wants to manufacture traditional vehicles, it has to obediently pay patent fees to others, and even they will not let you use certain patents. There is nothing you can do.

But Fanxing found that everyone's electric vehicle level seemed to be on the same level, so he began to vigorously promote the development of electric vehicles.

In terms of environmental protection, although thermal power plants also pollute the environment, compared with hundreds of millions of cars, the number of thermal power plants is undoubtedly much smaller.

If the number is small, it must be relatively easy to manage.

And when it comes to power generation pollution, we have to talk about clean energy. Now solar power, wind power, hydropower, nuclear power, etc. are already being developed and applied.

Although pollution will also be produced when manufacturing their parts and equipment, these are controllable. Among them, nuclear energy has high hopes.

Nuclear energy has many advantages. For example, nuclear power generation does not emit huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere like fossil fuel power generation, so nuclear power generation will not cause air pollution.

Moreover, nuclear power generation does not produce carbon dioxide that aggravates the global warming effect.

The uranium fuel used in nuclear power generation has no other purpose other than power generation.

The most important thing is that the energy density of nuclear fuel is several million times higher than that of fossil fuels, so the fuel used in nuclear power plants is small in size and easy to transport and store.

A 1000-megawatt nuclear power plant only needs 30 tons of uranium fuel a year, which can be transported in one flight.

Fuel costs account for a lower proportion of the cost of nuclear power generation. The cost of nuclear power generation is less susceptible to the impact of international economic conditions, so the cost of power generation is more stable than other power generation methods.

Of course, with so many advantages, there are also many disadvantages, and many times the advantages are mixed with disadvantages.

Although nuclear energy does not pollute the environment, nuclear power plants produce high and low-level radioactive waste.

Spent nuclear fuel doesn't take up much volume, but it's radioactive, so it must be handled with care, and dealing with this stuff involves considerable political headaches.

Moreover, the current nuclear power plants mainly use nuclear fission power generation, and their thermal efficiency is relatively low, so they will emit more waste heat into the environment than ordinary fossil fuel power plants.

Heat pollution is actually a kind of pollution.

Then, the investment cost of nuclear power plants is too high, and the construction requirements are particularly high, so the financial risks of power companies are relatively high.

Finally, once an accident occurs, the danger of nuclear power plants is much greater than that of ordinary thermal power plants, because there are a large amount of radioactive substances in the reactors of nuclear power plants. Once released into the external environment in an accident, it will cause considerable harm to the ecology and the public.

Accidents in thermal power plants are local events, and accidents in nuclear power plants are major international events.

And this is not a theory, but many accidents, especially the world-famous super accidents, directly tell people.

Now people in many places are "talking about nuclear discoloration", and even clamoring for the abolition of nuclear power plants.

But there is a kind of nuclear power plant that can avoid this situation, and that is the controllable nuclear fusion power plant!

At the current level of science and technology, human beings have been able to perfectly use nuclear fission to generate electricity, but despite the mere one-letter difference between "nuclear fission" and "nuclear fusion", they are actually two fundamentally different things.

This difference is not only reflected in the amount of energy produced, but also in the demand for "fuel".

According to relevant statistics, the proven nuclear fission raw materials are only enough for human use for nearly a hundred years, while the raw materials for nuclear fusion are almost endless. For example, there are about 40 trillion tons of deuterium in the earth's oceans. If it is fully utilized, 1 kg Deuterium can generate almost 1 million degrees of electricity, which is an astonishing figure.

Not to mention that there is still a huge amount of helium-3 on the moon, which is also a very good nuclear fusion raw material.

This is still close to the earth. If you include more distant planets, it will be an even more amazing number.

If human beings can completely control nuclear fusion, not only can they greatly reduce their dependence on the sun, but even relying on huge energy to get out of the solar system is not an unattainable dream.

In addition, nuclear fusion is also a clean and efficient energy source. If it is fully popularized, it is bound to greatly improve and restore the earth's ecosystem. This is the development direction that human beings have been pursuing after realizing that industrial development will cause great damage to the environment.

However, the development of controllable nuclear fusion with such a bright prospect has not been smooth. Due to the slow progress in some fields of human beings, it has been "only 50 years" before humans can truly master and popularize controllable nuclear fusion.

Fanxing has a very promising advanced superconducting tokamak experimental reactor, code-named "Oriental Superring". It has only recently achieved a plasma operation of 1.2 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds, setting a new world record.

This is the result of more than ten years of research.

No way, the conditions required to produce controllable nuclear fusion are too harsh.

The sun brings light and heat to the solar system through nuclear fusion reactions, and its central temperature reaches 1500 million degrees Celsius. This is due to the huge pressure generated by its huge volume and mass to make nuclear fusion react normally, but there is no way to obtain huge on the earth. pressure.

Therefore, the nuclear fusion device designed by humans needs to make up for it by increasing the temperature, but in this way, the temperature must reach hundreds of millions of degrees.

No solid substance can withstand the high temperature of nuclear fusion, and it can only be restrained by a strong magnetic field.

The "Oriental Super Ring" was built for this purpose.

However, the plasma of hundreds of millions of degrees is really not easy to carry, but... a coincidence.

Metal hydrogen is a metastable substance, which can be used to make a "magnetic cage" that confines the plasma to "contain" the hot ionized gas!
In this way, the controlled nuclear fusion reaction converts atomic nuclear energy into electrical energy!
And now Li Weiwei is standing next to the "Oriental Super Ring".

Beside the truth, experiments with new ideas must not be done directly on it.

Not only is it afraid of breaking it, but also because the output of metal hydrogen is too small to cover the "magnetic cage" of the entire equipment, so the researchers have built a small "magnetic cage" next to it.

This small container is purely for experimenting whether the metal hydrogen "magnetic cage" can withstand ultra-high temperature plasma?
If you can bear it, how long can you bear it?
Can it remain stable for a long time?
If this experiment is successful, then...

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