Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The entire controllable fusion battery project was dismantled into 13 sub-projects covering all components from laser ignition devices to generator units, with a total of six scientific research institutes participating in the study.

Success stories with Pangu fusion heap were put forward, and there was still considerable confidence in the project's ark.

However, differences still emerged in the discussion on nuclear fuel for fusion cells.

Listening to the insane plan described by the Ark, Sheng Xianfu opened his mouth in surprise. After a while, he opened his mouth in an incredible tone.

“Are you sure you want to use Helium Three as fuel? The reaction cross section of Helium III and Deuterium is only one-tenth of the DT reaction, and igniting it will be tens of times more difficult than igniting a DT blend fuel! ”

He was not the only one holding this view, but the chief engineer of the nuclear industry group, Academician Wang Zenguang, nodded.

“I also think it might be impractical to go directly to Helium III, although it saves the space and cost of the core, as you say, but in fact this part of the cost has just been passed on to other components such as laser ignition or microwave ignition devices. ”

I'm not familiar with the Ark Ship. The Yakuza Jiannan did not oppose it directly, but expressed his opinions obscurely.

“It's not necessarily a good thing to go too far. ”

The index finger tapped gently on the table and the ark pondered for a long time.

This is a trade-off issue.

If the DT mixture is selected as fuel, the liquid lithium neutron recovery system will be loaded on the reactor core and the volume energy density of the entire fusion cell will be reduced. If He-3D is selected as the reactant, at least 15% of the core volume can be saved and the volume energy density of the entire battery pack can be increased accordingly.

However, the words of Master Wang did speak of his heart, and with the current laser ignition technology in the country, he chose this radical technological route, which may not have the effect he hoped for.

The silence lasted for about five minutes, and the ship had an idea in its heart, he said.

“Then give it a break. ”

Sheng Xianfu: “A compromise? ”

The ark nodded: “Like the ignition device, we take two technical routes. One fusion cell that makes DT fuel, one that makes He-3D fuel. We can agree on a unified standard for interface sizes, and if the fusion battery technology bottlenecks of He-3D fuel really don't work, we can also use DT fuel immediately. When the dilemma of helium trifusion technology is solved one day, even if the technology is upgraded in the future, it will be easier to replace the equipment. ”

Wang Zengguang thought about it and nodded: “I think so. ”

Yu Jiannan still said very little, just nodded: “As long as the budget is fine, I have no problem. ”

After looking at several other people, he saw that no more opinions had been put forward, and the ark slapped the board: “Well, that settles the matter. ”

Straight up to Helium Three, that's a little too far ahead.

The persuasion of several old “teammates" also sobered the ark.

He admits that when the technological route of controllable fusion miniaturization was excavated from the wreckage of the higher civilization, he did expand a bit to the point of neglecting the industrial level of the Earth's civilization.

In fact, being able to make fusion batteries is already a very difficult thing in itself.

As for completely restoring the technology on that engine, I'm afraid even by the end of the century it won't be possible, let alone now...

After leaving the conference room, the ark had intended to go back to the underground lab and continue to work on the Hall propulsion unit, but then returned to its own office, thinking that one more thing had not been dealt with.

At the same time as approving the project, senior executives suggested that he submit the paper on the feasibility of fusion battery technology to the relevant academic journal.

Though I guess what the higher echelons are up to, I don't have a problem with the ark.

What he wrote in his thesis was his academic opinion.

Nor, of course, would he object to taking the paper for submission if senior officials had no objection to what was in the public paper.

The earlier paper was taken out and translated, deleting what might be instructive, and the ark retained only a few vague concepts similar to "detachable core”, “laser heating”, “microwave heating” and then translated into English.

In fact, this technical feasibility argument does not matter even without deletion and direct submission. After all, this kind of paper with strong subjective colors does not involve specific research ideas and experimental solutions, but only “feasible” or “not feasible” discussions.

And if you can't do it, you still have to do it.

After looking through the deleted paper from beginning to end, I stared at the ark of the PDF file on the screen and thought about it.

Which journal would be better?

After a while, he had a smile in the corner of his mouth and had an idea.

Turning over a list of mailboxes that had not been used in a year, he found the mailbox edited by PRL, which he had discretioned and sent the manuscript to the mail.

When clicking Send, the look on the ark can't help but have some fun.

I wonder if anyone would praise their internationalist spirit after seeing this paper?

In addition to researching our colleagues in controllable fusion, you might want to come...

……

While completing the PRL submission, the Ark handed the paper over to Arxiv and left it out of control.

What he did not know, however, was that almost the afternoon after his thesis was published on Arxiv, his thesis was integrated into his PPT.

Los Angeles International Hotel.

Hundreds of square meters of conference room.

When Mr. Bendbauer, president of Trialpha, announced that the company's next plan was to build a plasma engine with nuclear fusion batteries for the United States lunar program, the podium was silent.

While investors sitting here don't necessarily know what controlled fusion means, that doesn't mean they're stupid.

Pangu demonstration heap ignited less than three months ago, even the shadow of controllable fusion was not seen here across the Pacific coast, now come out to talk about the miniaturization of controllable fusion, not circling money or what?

A lot of people even started looking at the watch and seemed to have an idea, and if they didn't hear anything valuable in five minutes, they were going to get up and leave.

However, in the face of this situation, Bendbauer did not panic at all.

Only in a plaid T-shirt, dressed very silicon valley, he cleared his voice, faced the investors in the field, and continued with a frustrating voice.

“Miniaturization of controllable fusion! ”

“I know this may sound incredible, but it's actually not as high as we thought it would be. ”

Soon, PPT turned to the next page.

Appearing on the screen is a paper hanging from Arxiv.

As for the author of the thesis, he was, of course, the controllable fusion engineer designer of the ark.

Seeing the paper, the audience under the stage was once again silent, and the voice of the discussion spread from the middle to the surrounding area.

Even those who didn't care about the launch couldn't bear to look at the PPT twice more.

After all, this is an ark, recognized father of controllable fusion!

People say that miniaturization of controllable fusion may be farted on by them, but what the bull says makes a whole different sense.

At this moment, sitting in the back corner of the room, Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil, is staring at the name on the screen with complexity.

To be honest, he doesn't really like the exaggerated Silicon Valley company Tri-alpha, but he prefers to invest in a longer-term General Atomic Energy Company.

When he saw the name, however, his mind was shaken.

I can't help it, just because that name impressed him so much.

Now the lithium battery market is more than a hundred times bigger, watching this cake get bigger and bigger, and the whole of Wall Street is pounding its chest.

From the anode material of lithium-electric to the cathode material of lithium-sulfur batteries, this cream-soaked cake originally belonged to them, and as a result, they spend a lot of money in the new energy field, and now they can only watch others lie down and get rich.

With breakthroughs in nuclear power technology and further reductions in power generation costs, the lithium battery market will only grow in size.

And precisely because such a large piece of cake had been missed, he couldn't afford to lose sight of this paper on the technical feasibility argument completed by the Ark.

On the other side, Bendbauer, standing on the stage, with the paper on the ark, continued his conversation.

“… This is a detachable structure that allows us to make the reactor core into something similar to a battery that allows us to neglect, to a limited extent, damage to the structure of the irradiated control material. ”

“Based on this design, this disposable controllable fusion battery is much less difficult to engineer than a fusion heap! Although its cost is a problem, it's nothing compared to what we spend on space. ”

Looking down the stage at the investors' gaze had gradually changed from suspicion to heat, Bendbauer knew that the time was almost right, so he threw his last bait and smiled brightly.

“You don't have to worry about whether our products will find a market. ”

“In fact, just yesterday, we entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Space-X to develop fusion batteries that can be applied to spacecraft. Miniaturized controllable fusion devices will be applied to space on a priority basis and related topics have been reviewed on the desk of the Congressional Budget Committee! ”

“It is believed that soon our rockets will have access to clean and endless nuclear energy, and our footprints will be all over space. I can even assert that this day will be faster than California's National Controlled Fusion Device! ”

That... overflowing voice seemed to ignite the mood in the entire room.

Looking at the secretary next to him, Woods lowered his voice and said.

“I need a brief on Tri-alpha's finances, business operations! ”

The secretary moved slightly and immediately clarified the CEO's thoughts.

“Yes, sir, what you want will be on your desk tonight. ”

Woodstock said with a face: "Do it now, I want to see it before the 6: 00 dinner. ”

The secretary nodded with his scalp when he heard the difficult demands of the strong man.

“Yes.”