Chapter 344: The Fatal Raw Material Problem
"Sir, I'm here mainly to control nuclear fusion!"
"Controllable nuclear fusion?" Su Chen raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Hasn't the controlled nuclear fusion been successfully studied? Are they all going to ignite? Is there any other problem?"
The so-called nuclear fusion is actually equivalent to an artificial sun in a sense. However, this artificial sun is artificially controlled.
Compared with nuclear fission, no neutrons are generated during the nuclear fusion reaction, that is, no nuclear waste with radiation is generated, and it is an extremely clean new energy source.
Once nuclear fusion research is successful, pollution on the earth will quickly reduce to half, and all energy-related industries will usher in new changes.
More importantly, the power provided by nuclear fusion is stronger and longer lasting than that provided by ordinary power stations.
In other words, with controlled nuclear fusion, humans can completely create electrically driven rockets and even electrically driven space shuttles and spacecraft!
By then, the earth will enter a new era of technology at an extremely fast speed, and at that time, aerospace will not be just a dream.
And the beginning of all this stems from controlled nuclear fusion.
Therefore, no matter what, controlled nuclear fusion cannot be lost.
Originally, the senior management was still skeptical about whether the Jiangnan Laboratory could develop controllable nuclear fusion, because according to normal development, it would take at least fifty years for humans to invent controllable nuclear fusion, and now many methods are extremely immature.
The so-called controlled nuclear fusion is just a concept.
But no one expected that just a few months later, the controlled nuclear fusion reactors at Jiangnan Laboratory would be ignited.
Upon hearing this news, the entire senior management was shocked.
The main reason is that the news is too amazing.
For this reason, the superiors directly dispatched the great leader to go to Su Chen to confirm with him.
After confirming with Leng Mo, Su Chen also gave a positive answer.
At this point, the entire senior leaders were completely shocked.
If this project is successful, China will completely overtake, stand at the peak of the new era again, completely get rid of the negative impacts of the first three industrial revolutions, and directly let China stand at the bridgehead of the fourth industrial revolution.
Not only that? The so-called fourth industrial revolution is the industrial revolution with artificial intelligence, new material technology, molecular engineering, graphene, virtual reality, quantum information technology, controlled nuclear fusion, clean energy and biotechnology as technological breakthroughs.
And these? They will be the key projects that Jiangnan Laboratory will take over. Even the project application has been completed.
Before this, senior leaders actually didn’t really value Jiangnan Laboratory, and even thought Jiangnan Laboratory was a group of experimental madmen who liked to attract attention.
After all, no laboratory in the world is like Jiangnan Laboratory. The engineering projects applied for are all key projects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which sounds like a joke.
Until the news came out of Jiangnan Laboratory that controlled nuclear fusion was about to be ignited.
It can be said that this ignition? �
Once the ignition is successful, the benefits are self-evident. Once it fails? The consequences are also very serious.
However, because of Su Chen's character and status accumulated in the past, the senior executives decided to maintain full trust in Su Chen.
This time going south? The senior management not only sent major leaders, but also asked CCTV to follow up and report the whole process. If possible, they would even consider conducting live broadcasts around the world!
It can be said that this ignition ceremony? Maybe it was a world-class carnival? It is absolutely not allowed to have any problems.
However, now Leng Mo suddenly found Su Chen about this problem? This made Su Chen feel a little nervous.
Fortunately, Leng Mo is still very reliable as a robot.
"Don't worry, sir? There is no problem with the controllable nuclear fusion itself? I promise? The ignition ceremony is foolproof? It will definitely succeed!"
Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the character has been preserved.
"Then are you looking for me?"
"That's right? Sir, because the controlled nuclear fusion technology you gave me is extremely advanced technology. According to the current classification standards, our controlled nuclear fusion reactor should belong to the third generation reactor, which is far beyond the research technology of other countries in the world."
"Then is this a good thing?"
Su Chen was not surprised? After all, it was produced by the system, so it is normal for awesome b-points to be used.
"But the problem is? The materials used in the third generation reactor are deuterium and helium 3. There is no need to worry about deuterium, because deuterium is very rich in seawater on the earth, up to 40 trillion tons. If all used in fusion reactions, the energy released will be enough for humans to use for tens of billions of years.
But another reaction material, Helium 3, is extremely rare on Earth. It is said that the entire Earth's Helium 3 reserves are only hundreds of kilograms. If the reactor can supply global nuclear fusion reactions, it will take at least 100 tons of Helium 3 every year!"
When Su Chen heard these data, his heart thumped.
My mom!
Is it too much difference between hundreds of kilograms and 100 tons?
Doesn’t this mean that the so-called nuclear fusion reactor is equivalent to throwing a mobile phone into ancient times, and the other party can only use it to brighten it, listen to a song, and then there will be no electricity before having fun.
In ancient times, a mobile phone was scrapped if it was out of power!
How about this?
"There is no Helium 3 on the entire earth?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, there will definitely be not much. Helium 3 actually mainly comes from the sun. Inside the sun, the process of hydrogen element fusion to helium element is carried out. One step of the reaction is a fusion of nuclei and deuterate nuclear, which combines into helium-3.
This reaction is mainly carried out in a core area of a very small star. Most helium-3 will continue to fusion into stable helium-4. Only a very small part of helium-3 elements will leave the reaction zone, then reach the surface of the sun, and blow around by the solar wind.
Because the earth has a thick atmosphere and a geomagnetic field, it blocks the helium-3 element and cannot reach the ground at all, so the helium-3 resources on the earth are very scarce."
"Where is helium 3?" Su Chen asked.
"Moon! The moon has no magnetic field or atmosphere. The helium-3 elements in the solar wind will reach the moon surface and be evenly distributed in the lunar soil. Moreover, according to the research institutes of Earth scientists, the moon contains at least 1 million tons of helium 3 resources, which is enough for the earth to use for 10,000 years!"
Su Chen was speechless.
Moon? What's the use of the moon you said?
Not to mention ten thousand years, ten thousand years have been too long. Now the earth is confusing every day!
Su Chen's head was in a state of pain.
"What did you say about such a big thing?"
Leng Mo's face looked embarrassed. "Sir, because the experimental materials for controlled nuclear fusion are provided by you, there are a lot of helium 3 resources in it, so I haven't paid attention to it. I don't know much about the earth either. It was not until yesterday when an Earth scientist assistant asked me about this that I discovered this problem!"
Su Chen shook his head, OK! Is this considered a defect of the robot?
Su Chen shook his head.
What to do now? Without helium 3, the controlled nuclear fusion is a joke. The series of consequences caused by this will be very troublesome.
Although Su Chen was not worried about what these consequences would do to him, Su Chen had a headache just by thinking about those troubles!
Resources! Resources!
However, Su Chen's eyes suddenly lit up and he slapped his forehead!
I'm so stupid! Why did you forget it?
Chapter completed!