Chapter 679 - 435: Controlled Nuclear Fusion (Part 2)
Regarding this, Wang Ye actually had many ideas for improvement. This is also why he suddenly began researching controllable nuclear fusion. Over the past period, by studying advanced controllable nuclear fusion technology and combining it with his firsthand experimental experience, he had formed a new technological prototype in his mind: the Primordial Qi Biological Force Field Confinement Technology.
He could use Primordial Qi to generate a dynamic biological force field, simulate a star simulator, and achieve plasma self-organization stability through molecular-level fine-tuning.
The star simulator was originally one of the nuclear fusion technology routes. It is a type of magnetic confinement fusion device, very similar to the current mainstream tokamak. Both create a toroidal geometry system with a closed magnetic field to limit the range of plasma motion, allowing plasma to endlessly circulate along these field lines.
The advantage of the tokamak is its simple geometric structure, with the amplitude and vector of its magnetic field being toroidally symmetric, essentially a very regular circle.
The star simulator, on the other hand, uses a series of twisted coils to produce field lines, avoiding the problem of induced current saturation and achieving more stable long-term operation, albeit in an asymmetrical and irregular form.
This design lacks toroidal symmetry, making it difficult to ensure the nesting of magnetic surfaces, leading to particle escape and energy loss.
The star simulator is not the first choice for two main reasons.
First, the ripple of the magnetic field in traditional star simulators is greater than in tokamaks, leading to higher levels of neoclassical transport and high-energy particle loss than in tokamaks.
Second, the star simulator requires a three-dimensional coil structure, which is complex, difficult to manufacture, and costly.
However, the star simulator is better than the tokamak route because its operation is more stable, avoiding the main drawback of tokamaks: major plasma disruptions, which pose a risk of device damage.
Wang Ye’s dynamic biological force field generated by Primordial Qi can well compensate for the manufacturing complexity defect. The force field he generates can change as he wishes, which is the main reason he can dominate current science and technology.
Additionally, there is the reactor material made of carbon acetylene. The current bottleneck in materials is that the tungsten diverter surfaces melt after 10⁷ pulses, and neutron irradiation causes material embrittlement.
Wang Ye can use a carbon acetylene skeleton as a base, integrating the special molecular level structures brought by the crystal cluster to develop a special material. According to his calculations, its sustainable high-temperature endurance is about fifty times that of WEST’s tungsten materials.
Next is the most crucial energy conversion system. Currently, the most advanced thermoelectric conversion technology only has an efficiency of about thirty percent, with serious waste of residual heat. This results in the very low energy yield from nuclear fusion, unable to effectively alleviate energy issues.
However, Wang Ye’s evolved special mitochondria can directly increase conversion efficiency to nearly one hundred percent. His mitochondria no longer rely on ATP for energy but on Primordial Qi, which is the foundation of all things. This means any energy source can be directly used by Wang Ye. He can convert alpha particle kinetic energy directly into biological energy that he can mobilize at will, achieving local energy utilization. The comprehensive energy utilization rate reaches ninety-two percent.
In other words, as long as Wang Ye successfully creates a controllable nuclear fusion device within his body, he can directly mobilize the energy from nuclear fusion for his use.
The current energy shortage problem would then be easily solved,
although he appears to not lack energy,
only he knows that he does not lack energy only during daily activities,
when using high-tier abilities like Vertical Earth Golden Radiance and Law of Heaven and Earth, his energy rapidly depletes like sand slipping through his fingers, often requiring him to stop and allow his body to absorb matter or light energy for recovery.
Furthermore, the new high-elasticity muscle fibers he acquired would significantly increase his energy burden.
The reason there is no reaction now is that the high-elasticity muscle fibers only cover his right arm, and the exertion of force through just his right arm does not lead to intense energy consumption. But when the high-elasticity muscle fibers cover his thighs, the energy burden will start to sharply increase.
Even ordinary people experience this; arm activity alone rarely results in hypoglycemia, but once you start using both legs, like when running or climbing stairs, hypoglycemia easily occurs because the thigh muscles cover the largest area, exhibit the greatest force explosion, and consume the most energy.
Therefore, once the high-elasticity muscle fibers cover the whole body, Wang Ye’s running speed and energy burden will significantly surge.
At that point, without the support of controllable nuclear fusion, Wang Ye would have to be very restrained, constantly weighing whether his energy reserves could sustain his energy consumption. But if he develops controllable nuclear fusion and implants it within his body as an organ, such concerns would disappear.
After making a plan, Wang Ye left the laboratory,
To avoid causing damage to nearby buildings, he specifically went a hundred kilometers away from land to perform nuclear fusion experiments on the ocean.
He stood alone on the dark ocean, a hundred kilometers from land, without any light source except for moonlight and starlight.
Wang Ye stretched out his hand and created an ideal Primordial Qi Field, then compressed the prepared carbon atoms in front of him into a silver-gray fluid, solidifying them along a preset topological path into the cavity of a star simulator.
A surreal scene unfolded over the vast sea, as a man stood aloft the ocean, his arms moving like strumming strings. In front of him surged silver-gray fluid with a faint glow, instantly solidifying at the moment of formation into a striking irregular cavity. As the man gave a fierce wave, it was as if he threw something inside. The next moment, the cavity began emanating high temperatures, rotating at a high speed, transforming into high-temperature turbulence rotating within it at an astonishing speed.
Wang Ye continuously used the Primordial Qi Field to correct turbulent flows at the microscopic level in real-time, the terrifying heat gradually erupting. His body began absorbing the dissipating residual heat, but as the heat released became more astonishing, his muscle fibers also started to fail to withstand such fearsome energy, with the skin’s texture glowing like molten lava.
Gradually, all the muscle fibers covering his body started to burn away, except the high-elasticity muscle fibers of his right arm, which continued absorbing energy.
Yet, despite this, Wang Ye remained calmly standing mid-air, calculating the energy his body absorbed per second.
"One hundred gigajoules per second... Constraint time of twelve hours." Wang Ye’s eyes grew more excited.
One hundred gigajoules per second.
What does this mean?
In conversion terms, one hundred gigajoules is equivalent to one hundred million kilojoules or two hundred million kilocalories.
For those who may not have a sense of pure numbers, here’s an example: an adult male consumes only two thousand kilocalories daily.
This means the controllable nuclear fusion Wang Ye created outputs an energy per second equivalent to the daily consumption of one hundred thousand adults.
Translating this into modern society or other natural energy levels,
one hundred gigajoules is equivalent to the energy of twenty-five trains running simultaneously,
or seven thousand one hundred fifty trucks running simultaneously,
or the energy of twenty-five tons of TNT explosives detonating simultaneously.
Or even the energy of two Chernobyl nuclear disasters.
With such comparisons, the concept becomes clear.
And these terrifying energy levels are merely the energy released per second by Wang Ye’s nuclear fusion in front of him.
"Is this the energy provided by nuclear fusion?" Wang Ye looked at the massive star simulator device before him,
pondering how next to fit such a large device into his body to serve as an organ.
Creating this thing is simple, but reducing its size is difficult.
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