Homo sapiens.

There will be no villages and towns in the new cities under planning, only the attached blocks, in order to reduce the growth soil of big families and conservative forces.

After another two hours, Xu Yingcheng's passenger ship finally arrived at the second reclamation point.

This is a small town under construction, 103 kilometers away from Hongku Port, just within a half-hour traffic circle.

The half-hour traffic circle set by Homo sapiens is the area where the high-speed subway can reach within half an hour.

At present, Homo sapiens' high-speed subway runs at an average speed of 241 kilometers per hour, which is 120.5 kilometers in half an hour.

That is to say, after the subway is built in the future, the distance between these reclamation points and Hongku Port must be guaranteed to be able to travel between the two places within about half an hour.

If it exceeds the half-hour traffic circle, it cannot be included in the scope of the Hongku Port Branch, but must be handed over to branches in other cities, or new branches will be established.

Isolated island towns that exist alone are not allowed to appear unless they are special secret bases.

Xu Yingcheng walked around the second reclamation site, but didn't find too many problems, mainly because of the communication problems between some migrant workers who just came from the Nile Delta area, and Southeast Asian employees.

For other construction, supporting facilities, and daily management, Homo Sapiens has already formed a complete set of procedures within the company. No matter how poor the management ability is, as long as it is implemented according to the script, there will be no major problems.

After inspecting the place, he hurried back to make a report, asking the headquarters to approve the Hongku Port Branch to build a high-speed subway.

Chapter 379 Important Discovery

Ceylon Ocean.

Diego Garcia Island.

This island that the Homo sapiens company acquired from America before has been remodeled inside and out by the external security business.

Moreover, using the surrounding shallow sea island reefs, three small bases hidden on the seabed and a secret diving port base were built.

At this time, it was in the No. 57 subsidiary base about [-] kilometers away from the north side of Diego Garcia Island.

All personnel inside the base were evacuated, leaving only an empty base.

Inside the main base under Diego Garcia Island.

The base chief, Le Gong, had a dignified and nervous expression: "Dr. Levi's, is there really nothing wrong with that thing?"

Dr. Levi's, who came from Hongshawadi on a nuclear submarine, replied calmly: "Don't worry! Everything is in my calculations. The three-layer composite lead plate, plus the special compressed air absorption layer, is enough to resist the dense air. gamma rays."

"Alright then!" Le Gong could only bite the bullet and carry out the task.

Dr. Levi's was very calm: "There is no personnel in that subsidiary base, even if there is an accident, it will be abandoned immediately."

"Doctor, the inspection has been completed."

Dr. Levi's immediately ordered: "Then start the test!"

"Yes."

"Countdown 30 seconds..."

30...20...10...0...

drop!The detonation command followed the wires and quickly detonated the nuclear device 57 kilometers away.

In a special nuclear explosion test site, a 100-ton equivalent hydrogen bomb exploded instantly. Since the entire room was pumped into a sub-vacuum state, no strong shock waves were produced, only light radiation, neutron jets, and radioactive substances.

The various detectors buried in the defensive wall of the test site also received a large amount of data.

At the same time, more than 73% of the detectors on the first floor were destroyed in an instant.

Dr. Levi's looked at the real-time data on the computer, with a hint of excitement on his face: "Successful! My idea is correct! The firefly configuration can indeed be done!"

At this time, in the radiation index on the computer, the amount of gamma rays released is very high, almost hundreds of times that of ordinary hydrogen bombs.

This means that in the nuclear explosion just now, a large amount of radioactive material was produced, and it was radioactive material that could release gamma rays.

Dr. Levi's quickly ordered: "Substitute the data into the reaction model, and calculate how much cobalt 59 is transformed into cobalt 60."

"clear."

Substituting the data into the prepared reaction model, and through supercomputing analysis, a total of data was quickly obtained.

"The conversion rate is between 71.6% and 74.2%."

Dr. Levi's clenched his fists: "It has met expectations, it seems that we have added another hole card."

What they are researching is the infamous cobalt bomb.

After developing the firefly-shaped hydrogen bomb, Dr. Levi's and others were not satisfied with the status quo, but continued to study other nuclear technologies in depth.

In a simulated nuclear explosion, Levi's had a whim and replaced the uranium casing in the three-phase bomb with a cobalt-59 casing.

He found that the firefly configuration has a special magnetic field confinement mechanism, which can prolong the detonation of the nuclear reaction by about 0.6 seconds, which leads to the extremely low conversion rate of cobalt 59, and its conversion rate can be increased to about 70%.

The cobalt bomb is not a direct-destructive nuclear bomb, but a super dirty bomb.

In the 50s, physicists proposed the theory of cobalt bombs. The major powers also studied cobalt bombs at that time, and found that cobalt bombs were difficult to realize. The key difficulty lies in the efficiency of cobalt 59 into cobalt 60.

The firefly configuration developed by Levi's is very suitable for cobalt bombs.

This time the actual test is to verify the cobalt bomb technology.

Judging from the data generated by the explosion, it is clear that Levi's idea succeeded.

According to the current conversion rate of about 70%, as long as a cobalt bomb containing 5 tons of cobalt 800 is detonated in the stratosphere at an altitude of 59 meters, the whole world can be wiped out.

800吨钴59，可以产生560吨钴60，而地球表面积只有5.1亿平方公里左右，平均每平方公里将分到1克钴60。

The radioactivity of this thing is terrible, with a half-life of 5.27 years. During the decay process, a large amount of gamma rays will be released.

Gamma rays are extremely penetrating, and there is basically no possibility of survival for humans on the surface, unless they are in a thick nuclear bunker.

Even if it can survive 5.27 years in the underground base, it will take about 100 years for the radioactive concentration on the surface to barely fall back to the tolerance range of human beings.

Moreover, the cobalt bomb does not need to be launched into the territory of the opponent at all, even if it is detonated in the sky above its own territory, it can still cover the whole world.

This means that those so-called interception systems have no effect at all.

Although a cobalt bomb cannot achieve a scale of 800 tons, an 8-ton bomb can still be achieved.

The 8-ton solid-fuel carrier rocket can be launched directly to a height of 5 meters in the stratosphere.

From now on, the Homo sapiens company only needs to be equipped with 100 cobalt bombs to deter the world with extinction.

Of course, 100 cobalt bombs alone are definitely not enough. After all, once this thing is used, Homo sapiens itself will suffer heavy losses, so it can only be used as a strategic deterrent.

Conventional low-hazard hydrogen bombs are Homo sapiens' main tactical deterrent.

Levi's led a group of nuclear physics researchers and nuclear engineers to carefully analyze the various data generated in this test explosion.

While the cobalt bomb was a success, they didn't get carried away.

In the development of this kind of world-destroying weapon, everyone is actually a little bit stressed and uneasy in their hearts.

three days later.

Levi's and others conducted a comprehensive analysis and supercomputing simulation review of the data generated by this test explosion.

In the holographic projection of the temporary studio.

Various details of the explosion of the experimental cobalt bomb have been restored bit by bit.

Suddenly nuclear engineer Du Hai's eyes narrowed, he turned his head and said, "Xiao Gao, play it again, stop at 3.7 seconds, and then slow down 100 times."

"OK."

The supercomputing simulation was played again until the 3.7-second juncture, where it was slowed down by a factor of 100.

Dr. Reeves asked curiously: "Have you found anything?"

"Electric current!" Excited light flashed in Du Hai's eyes.

"Electric current?" Dr. Levi's carefully checked the changes in various data, and soon he saw the electric current that Du Hai mentioned.

The compressed air absorbing layer in the gamma ray blocking layer, after 3.7 seconds, began to generate a dense current.

According to the calculated results, these currents are basically stable in the range of 2.63-2.77 kilowatts.

Levi's reacted instantly: "This is the energy generated by gamma rays..."

After the transformation of the compressed air absorption layer, these gamma rays turned directly into electric current.

Du Hai's voice trembled slightly: "We installed a total of 200 grams of cobalt 59, of which 144 grams were transformed into cobalt 60. Based on its half-life and the energy generated by decay, it should be able to generate a power equivalent to 4 kilowatts."

All the people present were professionals, and soon calculated that the conversion rate of electric energy was 67%.

Du Hai already felt hot all over: "The key is the voltage. The current absorbed and transformed by the compressed air has a voltage of about 3 to 7 volts, which is easier to transform than the natural lightning with hundreds of millions of volts."

Although Levi's specializes in the research and development of nuclear weapons, it does not mean that he does not understand nuclear power. After reading these data, he is also a little excited:

"This is an important discovery."

Du Hai suggested: "Doctor, I suggest extracting the cobalt-60 in the test field, and then redesign an experiment."

"can."

Chapter 3 Resonant Frequency

144 grams of cobalt 60 can continuously generate 2.7 kilowatts of power generation.

This is an extremely high power generation efficiency.

You must know that currently only Lucia and America have mastered the comprehensive nuclear battery production process in the world, and the power generation power is extremely impressive.

Using plutonium as the raw material of nuclear batteries and using thermoelectric power generation technology, a nuclear battery device weighing tens of kilograms can only generate a few watts of power.

The characteristic of thermoelectric power generation technology is that the system is simple and rude, but the disadvantage is that the thermal efficiency is very low, only 10% to 20%.

And the compressed air absorbing layer they inadvertently created in front of them can actually achieve an output power of 2.8 kilowatts and a thermoelectric efficiency of 67%. This unexpected joy made Du Hai tremble with excitement.

While writing a report to report the discovery to the Ministry of Science, Levi asked Du Hai to lead people to re-research.

The key now is to reproduce the experiment and study the principle of power generation.

This discovery immediately alarmed the management of the Science Department.

Even Li Qingye, who has been immersing himself in the study of genetic issues, also received this news.

Although he was surprised by this discovery, he did not interfere with the research plan of the Nuclear Power Research Institute, but only asked Sanzibada Laierdo to pay attention to the report in this regard.

After redesigning the experiment.

The Nuclear Power Research Institute's 1377 laboratory in Hongshawadi is responsible for repeated experiments to see if it can be replicated.

In the 1377 laboratory at this time.

According to the design of the nuclear explosion test site, 144 grams of cobalt-60 was placed in the production area. As the barrier layer was released, a large number of gamma rays and beta rays entered the compressed air absorption layer after passing through the first layer of composite lead plate.

"Report, detected current generation..."

"The voltage is 3.2-8.6 volts, the current is... the power is 2.617-2.75 kilowatts..."

"The temperature of the compressed air is 23.4 degrees Celsius, and the flow rate is 12 meters per second..."

The person in charge of the laboratory widened his eyes: "It's really possible! How does this generate electricity?"

Suddenly he narrowed his eyes, seemed to think of something, and muttered to himself: "Gamma rays, air... resonance frequency... I understand! That's how it is."

He made a video call with Levi's, Du Hai and others on Diego Garcia Island through the internal communication channel.

Then I told them about my findings and guesses.

After listening to Du Hai on Diego Garcia Island, he suddenly realized: "So that's how it is..."

Specifically, the generator mechanism in this experiment is mainly due to the resonant frequency formed by gamma rays and compressed air.

The fast-flowing compressed air and the composite lead plates on both sides form the positive and negative electrodes.

Thus, the energy of gamma rays is quickly converted into electrical energy.

In fact, this phenomenon also exists in nature, that is, after cosmic gamma rays enter the earth's atmosphere, they will turn into lightning.

Of course, not all lightning is excited by gamma rays, only a small part is lightning inspired by gamma rays.

Since this kind of gamma-ray lightning is rare, the time and place of its appearance are full of uncertainties, and human research on this phenomenon is almost blank.

And this cobalt bomb experiment accidentally allowed them to discover the formation mechanism of gamma ray lightning.

Du Hai immediately communicated with the person in charge of the 1377 laboratory, readjusted the experiment, and prepared to study the currents generated by gamma rays under different gases, compression degrees, flow rates, and metal barrier layers.

After the redesign, they roughly prepared hundreds of control groups and prepared to test them one by one, trying to figure out the best conditions for the formation of gamma-ray lightning as soon as possible.