Military Technology

Faced with Zou Xiaodong's doubts, Zhou Xiangming smiled and shook his head and said: "There is no waste, every penny we spend is strictly calculated and very necessary.

Although it will cost more money to adopt a step-by-step strategy for development, the risk is much lower than doing it all at once.

Although we extracted 300 grams of helium-3 through a lunar soil 3D printer, this efficiency is really too low. Therefore, we must explore and develop more efficient mining technologies and equipment. This does not mean that we can just rely on our research and design or computer simulation. We still need to conduct field tests.

But the moon is too far away from us, and there is definitely no way to test and improve like we do on the earth. In this case, the cost for us to test once will be very high.

Because of this, we must adopt this step-by-step strategy to develop and improve our technical equipment in the mining and extraction of helium-3 resources bit by bit.

If you rush to achieve success in one step from the beginning, the risk will be too great, and you may even invest more than a step-by-step strategy, and it may not be successful. "

At this point, Zhou Xiangming paused, and then continued: "Actually, these equipment will not be wasted after being sent to the moon, but will continue to be used. Anyway, they are all unmanned and automated operations. Even if the efficiency is low, they can still be used." A little adds up to a lot.

Therefore, these equipments, which are delivered step by step, can still function and generate value for a long time. In that respect, they are not a waste. The value of their output is also much lower than themselves, so from that aspect, it is still very worthwhile. "

After hearing the explanation from the project manager, everyone present nodded in agreement. Indeed, it must be said that it is worth investing less.

Zou Dadong, who raised the question, and Zhang Jun, who was more sensitive to money, both acted based on low-level tactics before listening to Zhou Xiangming's explanation.

Hearing what Wu Hao said, the little guys present nodded. It’s true. There is no helium-8 under the earth, and it cannot be extracted from seawater. It’s just that the reserves are too thin, which makes the cost of extraction very low. That’s why scientists turned their attention to helium under the moon. Eight reasons.

Therefore, both Yu Chengwu and Zhou Xiangming paid great attention to Wu Hao's questions. As for other people, they are also very curious about Wu Hao's problem. After all, Wu Hao is the president of Micro Media. In charge of such a small company, he must have outstanding abilities and broad vision. So Xiaojia also wants to hear it. Wu Hao doesn't have any questions to ask.

On the one hand, it is certainly because the price is high, but on the other hand, the demand is not large, so how to solve the problem, everyone present is also thinking about it.

"Although you know that asking your question may make Xiaojia feel rude, you still want to ask. When they mine those helium-8, is it true that no one will buy it at a low price?"

Everyone knows that helium 3 is used as a controllable nuclear fusion material, and it is also the most important clean nuclear fusion material in the future.

Indeed, as Zhen Yun said, although helium-8 is a very ideal future nuclear fusion fuel, this is the future. Although it is excellent, it does not have its problems. In the final analysis, it is not a low starting point. At this stage, humans still cannot control the technology to use it, at least it is a technology for commercial use.

That's why people focus on the moon, hoping to get a small amount of helium-8 from the moon. "

Being able to operate it commercially means that Xiaojia's demand for helium-8 will naturally not be so low. This is indeed the case. As for the helium-8 needed for scientific research experiments in various countries, there is not much less.

So at that time, we mined so little helium-8 from the moon and probably sold too little.

Wu Hao, who was silent at that time and was sitting next to Lin Wei, suddenly spoke.

You have no problem.

That's why. On the one hand, of course, it's because there is too much helium-8 available on the earth and it is too expensive.

Asking that question, Wu Hao glanced around the crowd, then glanced at Lin Wei, and then said: "Influenced by the people around you, you are also very concerned about that project. During that time, you also made up for it. Multiple lessons.

Although Wu Hao was talking about technology on the surface, he was actually talking about economic benefits.

While everyone was thinking, Lin Wei smiled at Zhen Yun next to him and joked: "No, that person has been apart for eight days, so we should look at each other with admiration. Yes, we get along day and night, and you have also noticed that he has such a deep understanding of that aspect. ah."

For example, you still know something about the helium eight you are talking about now.

After hearing Zhen Yun's words, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they all looked at you. Although Zhen Yun is considered a member of Haoyu Technology, you are Zhen Yun's boyfriend, our boss lady, and the president of Micro Media.

In this case, Xiaojia's demand for helium-8 will be too low, at least at this stage.

However, in the rotation of the Tokamak device, the materials for controlled nuclear fusion are the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, because the fusion conditions of deuterium and tritium nuclei are the highest and the energy released is also quite small.

On the other hand, it is because the melting conditions of helium 3 are lower than those of hydrogen or deuterium and tritium.

It will probably take a long time to truly develop controllable nuclear fusion commercial reactor technology using helium-8 as the controllable fusion material.

Upon hearing that question, everyone present nodded and started talking loudly.

"That doesn't mean that even if you actually transport helium 8 back, it will be immediately used in the commercial operation of controllable nuclear fusion, and can only be used as research materials in the research of controllable nuclear fusion.

Hearing Zhen Yun's joke and inquiry, Wu Hao showed a proud smile, and then turned to me and asked, "Why, can you just learn to regress?"

Wu Hao saw everyone nodding in agreement with what you said, and then continued: "As far as you know, the main fuel of the current controllable nuclear fusion technology is not helium-8, but the hydrogen isotopes tritium and deuterium. , but helium eight.

So what if they brought back so little helium-8 resources and sold the backlog? "

Therefore, deuterium fusion is the most practical in terms of ease of implementation. Therefore, the very few controllable nuclear fusion research projects in the world currently use deuterium as the preferred method for controllable fusion research. "

As far as you know, helium-8 light does not exist under the moon, nor does it exist under the earth. However, compared with the abundant reserves of the moon, helium-8 under the earth is very scarce and can only be extracted from seawater, so the price is very low.

In this case, the world's demand for helium-8 will not be so low. At least it will not be so low at this stage after there is a breakthrough in helium-8 application technology.