Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

“Cough--”

On the lunar cart, hearing the light cough coming from the communication channel, the man sitting next to him looked to the side of the ark and asked with concern.

“What's the matter? ”

“Nothing, just a little itchy nose...”

Through the mask of the costume, he couldn't touch the ark of his nose, and some sucked his nose uncomfortably. It's kind of hard to sneeze and not sneeze.

I don't know who's thinking about me.

Leaving the matter aside for a moment, the ark cast its gaze out the window and looked at the city not far away, leaning on the edge of the roundabout mountain, and a little emotion arose in its heart.

“I designed that blueprint, but I didn't expect it to be so busy a hundred years later. ”

The man sitting next to him smiled and said.

“Looks like everything you've been expecting has been achieved. ”

The ark nodded.

“Well, at least half of it has been achieved. ”

At this moment, the man sitting next to him, in his early thirties, named Yeh Hu, is the mayor of Guangdong City. After hearing that East Asian electricity had led its own expedition to select sites for the second-generation controllable fusion reactor, the Mayor of Ye himself came forward to receive his own people.

After hearing the words of the Ark, Ye Hu smiled jokingly and said: "Can you ask what the other half is? Please also ask Master Lu to instruct you. ”

Ark: “Energy. ”

The moment I heard these two words, Yeh Hu slightly stunned and a clear surprise appeared in his eyes.

Though it's no secret, for a scholar from that era a hundred years ago who just woke up from the dormant compartment last month, it's inevitable that the biggest bottleneck to the development of Guangdong City will come as a surprise.

“Did you see that? ”

The ark smiled slightly and said.

“Kind of. ”

Strictly speaking, the moon is not suitable for the development of densely populated cities, with a single resource and excessive maintenance costs, severely limiting the threshold for industrial development here.

Unlike on Earth, the energy costs of the SSEA, which is still using solar energy, are arguably quite high relative to a planet where controlled fusion technologies have blossomed everywhere.

Not because people here don't want to spread controlled fusion technology, but because building nuclear fusion reactors on the moon is too difficult.

The first of these problems is the problem of heat build-up in the vacuum. It is roughly estimated that the heat sink needed to build a generation of fusion reactors can cover almost half a moon.

The Ark estimated that, without the support of second-generation controllable fusion technology, Guangdong City could develop to this scale, which is basically the end of the line.

Unlike on Earth, entire artificial ecosystems and amenities are maintained entirely by energy, in other words, people consume precious energy from the moment they step onto the moon.

There were not many early Guangdong cities, but the size of a science station, a solar array of circular mountain areas and an energy storage facility the size of a science base could fully meet the needs of the entire colony for one day and one night rotation.

Today, however, the entire city of Guangdong has at least 100,000 permanent residents, and as a tourist and commercial scientific research center of the local moon system, the mobile population here jumps ten times higher.

The energy consumed every day is an astronomical figure, and most of this energy gap has to be filled by solar facilities, so compact that urban planning throughout Guangdong City has been designed that the peak of minimalist architectural style has almost been reached in order to give solar facilities room for light.

And that's why most countries later simply skipped the moon and moved their colonial steps directly to Mars.

Second-generation controllable fusion has never seen any hope that the three helium buried in the moon's soil could be used as a strategic material for the space age. If only for the sake of titanium ore and rare earth resources, the asteroid belt could fully satisfy the supply of Mars and the Earth's moon system, and there was really no need to eat the hard bone of the moon.

Upon arrival at the destination, a walker disembarked.

Looking at the circular mountain in front of him, the ark nodded satisfactorily.

The topography is perfect, and the angle towards the Earth is good, followed by the analysis of the geological composition. As long as the geological structure of the lower lunar soil is not loose porous, the location of the experimental stack is not much of a problem here.

“The conditions are right here, and if you don't mind, I'm going to build a second-generation fusion-controlled experimental reactor here. ”

“To be honest, according to the blueprint I designed back then, without second-generation controllable fusion technology, 100,000 permanent residents would be almost the limit of Guangdong City. The reason why I circled down so many helium tri-mines was to take that into account. ”

“As a result, as I expected, I thought these good things would definitely benefit my fellow citizens a hundred years later, and I didn't even expect you to drink the broth. ”

Listening to the tone of the ark, Yeh Heh looked a little embarrassed and said softly.

“This… second-generation controllable fusion technology cannot be solved, nor can I decide. And I have a confusion here, I don't know if it's appropriate to ask. ”

The Ark laughed and said, "If you don't understand, ask what's wrong with it. ”

Mayor Ye said seriously: "The generation of controllable fusion has heat accumulation problems, don't the second generation of controllable fusion have similar problems? I don't quite understand why you chose to build a fusion power station on the moon. If there is a means of long-range transmission… why not build a power station on Earth and deliver electricity directly to this side? ”

Ark: “Heat build-up is a problem, but it can be solved for second-generation controllable fusion. Let's put it this way, because a generation of controllable fusion produces additional neutrons, the reactor housing is designed to recycle additional produced neutrons, such as liquid lithium neutron recycling technology, and so on. These designs, while effective in recycling neutrons, do not solve the problem of overheating the core well and take up at least 70% of the design space. ”

“… that is, because second-generation controllable fusion does not produce additional neutrons, you can skip a lot of cumbersome designs and leave more design space to solve heat build-up problems?” If you touch your chin thoughtfully, Yeh Heh seems to understand the location of the chin, "I think I see what you mean. ”

The ark praised the location downstairs.

“Your enlightenment is very...”

“Oh, don't let his nonsense fool you! ”

At this point, the sound of discord suddenly comes from the communication channel.

After hearing this, the walker looked behind him unconsciously and saw an old man in a costume walking meteorically this way.

Behind him, he followed a young man, smiling at his old man's footsteps.

The young man was identified as his own secretary, but he did not recognize the old man in front of him. Mayor Ye frowned slightly, but maintained his style.

“Who are you, old man? ”

The old man looked at the ark in disgrace, then turned to Yeh Hu, unhappy to say.

“Chi Ming Rui! You invited me. Don't know who I am? ”

When he heard the old man's name, Mayor Ye suddenly appeared on his face and laughed and said.

“Autumn academician, disrespect. But why are you here today? ”

Qiu Mingrui said with a smile.

“If I were to come any later, you wouldn't have to be limped by this guy. ”

It's okay to be crippled...

Does anyone in the 22nd century know about this old infarct?

Looking at the old man who was unnamed hostile to himself, the ark asked curiously.

“Who the hell is this? ”

“This is Dean Chu Mingrui, an expert at the Pan-Asian Institute of Engineering Institute of Nuclear Physics!” Mayor Ye also smiled and said, "We invited the elderly to do a feasibility assessment of the project. After all, you took such a large plot of land and there are certain security risks, which is normal procedure. ”

“Yes,” the ark nodded, then looked at the disgraceful Autumnist and said after a few seconds of reflection, "it seems that you came to stop me, so in that case, go straight to the point. ”

I don't know where the fire came from, or if it was a grumpy person.

When the old man in the suit heard the statement, he stared at the canoe and aggressively stopped.

“Don't be ridiculous. I'll ask you three questions. Do you dare answer? ”