Interstellar Industrial Age

In the outer space of the moon, huge space buildings are quietly suspended in the void.

With the rise of lunar mining and lunar tourism, today's moon has become very lively, and the earth has gradually become congested with the earth's outer space. More and more people have begun to set their sights on the moon. Seize outer space on this side of the moon.

In the void, a spaceship coming from the direction of the earth is flying towards the moon rapidly, and the logo of Galaxy Technology Group is branded on the spaceship.

Inside the spaceship, Qin Yi looked at the scenery outside the window. The moon has also undergone tremendous changes. On the originally barren lunar surface, huge lunar mining bases are brightly lit, and large lunar mining vehicles and transport vehicles are like busy ants. Generally, from time to time, an antigravity spacecraft can be seen rising and falling from the moon.

The anti-gravity spacecraft that Qin Yi took did not park at the space port on the side of the moon, but flew directly to the moon, to the ocean of storms on the moon.

Ocean of Storms is the largest lunar sea on the moon. It is extremely rich in resources, and the terrain is also very open and flat. Now it is also an industry exclusively owned by Galaxy Technology Group.

The spacecraft that Qin Yi was riding in slowly landed in a base in the Ocean of Storms area. This base is different from the large and small mining bases on the moon. It is not a mining base, but a research base. A scientific research base for controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Of course, the brand on the outside is the Lunar Mineral Resources Research Base of Galaxy Mining Group, not for the study of controllable nuclear fusion technology.

The reason why we want to sell dog meat is naturally to avoid attracting attention. This controllable nuclear fusion technology is still nuclear technology in the final analysis. They are not allowed to study nuclear technology.

Qin Yi wants to study nuclear fusion technology. If it is placed on the earth, it is definitely not suitable. Because there are too many eyes to pay attention to, he also chose the moon, and spent a huge price to build a building on the moon. The huge controllable nuclear fusion research institute.

Controllable nuclear fusion technology must be studied. The larger the spacecraft is, the larger the required capabilities are. It is becoming more and more difficult to meet the huge appetite of the spacecraft by relying on atomic matrix batteries alone.

In particular, Qin Yi will study the Dragon-class spacecraft, which is larger and more powerful than the Qinglong-class spacecraft. The Dragon-class spacecraft has a huge thrust and can be used to mine 1 billion-ton or even 10-billion-ton spacecraft. asteroid.

With such a powerful thrust, the energy it needs to use traditional atomic matrix batteries has no way to drive it anymore,

Even though the atomic matrix battery technology is becoming more and more advanced now, and the energy it can carry is also increasing, it is still far from being able to drive the dragon-class spacecraft.

The dragon-class spacecraft, which will also be used to navigate the starry sky in the future, can also be transformed into a space battleship, used to roam the sea of ​​stars, relying on batteries, even if it can be driven, there is definitely no way to provide it for a long time. 's motivation.

At present, only nuclear fusion can generate sufficiently powerful energy, and the energy released by controllable nuclear fusion is large, no nuclear radiation, no nuclear waste, and there are many raw materials needed in nature, which is definitely interstellar The most needed energy technology in the age of sailing.

A long time ago, Qin Yi wanted to study controllable nuclear fusion technology, but due to conditions and various constraints, he has not conducted research.

Since the rise of the lunar mining industry, Qin Yi has secretly built this huge controllable nuclear fusion research institute on the moon to study controllable nuclear fusion technology.

This base is backed by a tall mountain and built on the mountain. It doesn't look like other lunar mining bases from the outside, and it doesn't look too big.

However, when Qin Yi entered the base, he realized that there is a hole in it. He almost hollowed out the entire huge mountain range, and built a large-scale controllable nuclear fusion research base in the ground and the mountain.

Qingwei, this is a good job.

Walking into the unique controllable nuclear fusion research institute, the huge team of scientists is very busy, there are all kinds of advanced research equipment, life, entertainment and other facilities are also very complete.

Qin Yi also praised Lu Qingwei next to him. Lu Qingwei is the person in charge of Galaxy Mining Group, the creator of this controllable nuclear fusion laboratory, and the person in charge here.

He often runs to the moon when he has nothing to do, not really for the Lunar Mining Group, but more for the controllable nuclear fusion research base.

The boss has won the prize. This controllable nuclear fusion technology is something we must study. Without this technology, even if we can manufacture the engine of the dragon-class spacecraft, we will not have enough energy to drive it. There is no way to conquer the sea of ​​stars and open the era of interstellar navigation.

It's just that this side of the earth has not allowed us to engage in reliable nuclear fusion research, and we can only go to the moon. In the future, after the transformation of Mars is completed, we will finally build Mars into our private territory, and conduct controllable nuclear fusion research. If we move the institute to Mars, then we can be open and aboveboard and study various technologies with confidence.”

Lu Qingwei said with a smile, while taking Qin Yi to visit this huge base, he also introduced it in detail.

This is the helium 3 refining factory area. The refining of helium 3 is extremely complicated and troublesome. We must first heat the soil on the moon to a high temperature of more than 700 degrees, and then use complex processes to extract helium 3 from it. already.

Fortunately, there are very large reserves of helium 3 on the moon, and we don't have to worry about the problem of raw materials.

Here is our ignition, the same technology as Uncle Sam's national ignition, but ours is more advanced than theirs.

Using the characteristics of lasers, we converge many beams of lasers to one point. After the powerful lasers are gathered at one point, it is enough to generate hundreds of millions of tons of high temperature and the pressure exceeds 100 billion atmospheres, thereby triggering a nuclear fusion reaction.

We spent 500 billion Chinese dollars just to build this ignition device.

Lu Qingwei took Qin Yi to a special place, where there are laser transmitters. The laser transmitters are all aimed at a sphere-like device. There is an extremely small point on the device. This point scientists imagined The point used for nuclear fusion ignition.

Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are two completely different nuclear reactions. Nuclear fission is the process of changing from heavy atomic nuclei to light atomic nuclei. This process will release a huge amount of energy. For example, the energy released by the explosion of an atomic bomb is very powerful.

Nuclear fusion, also known as nuclear fusion, means that atoms with small masses, such as deuterium and tritium, under certain conditions (such as ultra-high temperature and high pressure), the nuclei polymerize each other. The energy released by nuclear fission is even more huge and terrifying.

The sun that I see every day has a nuclear fusion reaction happening all the time on it, and the released energy, even if it is extremely trivial, illuminates and warms the earth, and then there is life.

Now human beings have mastered the technology of nuclear fission, can manufacture atomic bombs, and can also use nuclear fission technology to generate electricity, realizing the application of controllable nuclear fission technology.

Compared with nuclear fission technology, in terms of nuclear fusion technology, human technology is only generally mastered at present. At present, only nuclear fusion can be achieved, but there is no way to achieve controllable nuclear fusion.

One of the most critical points is that nuclear fusion requires extremely harsh conditions. To fuse hydrogen atoms together, it requires very high temperature or very high pressure.

The temperature required for nuclear fusion is as high as hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, and the pressure required exceeds 100 billion standard atmospheres.

Such a high temperature and pressure is very difficult to achieve on Earth. The explosion of a hydrogen bomb requires the terrifying high temperature generated by the nuclear fission of the atomic bomb to detonate.

Therefore, the realization of controllable nuclear fusion has never been successful, because it is a very difficult subject to ignite the nuclear fusion reaction alone. It is impossible to use an atomic bomb to ignite this controllable nuclear fusion.

Of course, there are more ways than difficulties, and the wisdom of scientists is infinite.

Scientists have thought of the method of using laser ignition. Lasers can carry huge amounts of energy, and a large number of laser beams can be concentrated on a point, just like the sun's light converges on a point, as long as the aggregated beams are enough to carry enough energy. It is huge, and it can also generate extremely terrifying high temperatures, so as to ignite the nuclear fusion reaction.

Uncle Sam's National Ignition Device is a device used to study controllable nuclear fusion technology. In 2000, this ignition device alone cost Uncle Sam £2.4 billion to build.

The power of the ignition device displayed in front of Qin Yi is also very amazing. When many laser beams are gathered together, they can also generate extremely terrifying high temperature, and this high temperature is enough to promote the generation of nuclear fusion reactions.

Of course, the light is able to ignite, but the nuclear fusion reaction is still far away, and there is still a very long way to go before controllable nuclear fusion.

Because nuclear fusion not only requires extremely high temperature or pressure, nuclear fusion will also generate terrifying high temperatures and release enormous energy. At present, there is no technology that can control the horror generated by nuclear fusion. High temperature, this is the most difficult point to achieve controllable nuclear fusion.

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