Chapter 236: The Impact of Laser Fusion
The first people to hype up Connie's revolutionary breakthrough in lenses and the ability of the NIF device to ignite were domestic intellectuals.
"We are still at least fifty years behind Da Piaoliang! This is the fact. Is it so hard to admit that they are powerful? Think about it, they were able to land on the moon decades ago, and they had aircraft carriers decades ago. Now look at the new technology. Although Umbrella is friendly to us, it is also because they can make money from us. This is the commonality of capital!"
"The footage produced with Connie this time has been embargoed against us. They have to abide by the Wassenaar Arrangement, so why should we confront them? In fact, as long as we destroy all nuclear weapons and show enough friendliness, we can coexist peacefully."
“This is a civilized country.”
“This is the kingdom of justice.”
“…”
These guys, who had never spoken out before during the Great Beauty's invasion of other countries, now kept calling things justice, civilization, and power.
The key is to be careless and you will not be able to win. It is better to surrender early and enjoy the benefits by drinking soup with them.
In fact, my country's application level in the field of lasers is not bad, and there have been reports of some breakthroughs in the past.
At this time, these public intellectuals excitedly dug them all out.
Pointing at the headlines of these breakthrough reports and making a lot of sarcastic remarks.
"So what? What can we do?"
"A frog in a well!"
"I won't play with you at all!"
“Wake up!”
"When others use nuclear fusion to create unlimited energy, what will you do?"
“Haha, is it useful for us to spend so much money every year?”
“…”
It has to be said that this group of cheerful guys jumping up and down can really affect morale sometimes. An ignition device with an energy generation rate of less than 1% and a thing that needs to cool down for several hours after being ignited is blown up as if it is about to usher in an innovation.
In fact, this is just using clickbait titles to bully others for being less educated.
Anyway, not many people will go deep into it, so it’s enough to prove that it has achieved positive gains ideologically! The rest is left to the public intellectuals to brag about!
In fact, the two mainstream directions of controlled nuclear fusion are both very simple and clear.
At present, the mainstream tokamak device in China relies on strong magnetic field constraints to ensure the reaction and to block the terrible high temperature. The disadvantage is that strong magnetic fields usually require the use of low-temperature superconductors and powerful electricity. The advantage is sustainability and can produce a continuous reaction.
Theoretically, as long as the tokamak device runs long enough, it can achieve positive gain. For example, the international controlled nuclear fusion project ITER is currently preparing to use the tokamak device to achieve this goal. The goal is to achieve an energy conversion Q of 10 or even higher within 20 to 30 years.
So usually reports of breakthroughs are about being able to run continuously for x number of seconds.
The other is the ignition device called NIF. In fact, to put it simply, NIF is to make a mini hydrogen bomb. The only difference is that the orthodox hydrogen bomb is detonated by an atomic bomb, while the mini hydrogen bomb of NIF is made into a capsule, which is then detonated by high-energy lasers emitted from all directions at the same time.
But here, for the sake of ideological and public opinion offensive, and a little funding fraud, the announcement of "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" adopted a rather speechless concept substitution.
That is, the input and output of energy are only counted during the reaction process, that is, 1 laser is replaced by 1.5 neutron energy.
There is no mention of the consumption when the machine is running.
In fact, if you read the information they publish carefully, you will find that, taking into account the use of instruments, the neutron energy ultimately produced is less than one percent of the consumption.
The amount of electricity consumed just to start the instrument to create the laser is more than a hundred times the energy ultimately generated!
This doesn't even take into account the losses in the power generation process and the cost of making that little capsule.
If you take everything into account, the only way to describe it is horrific.
And the cooling time after ignition can last for several hours.
Even how something like neutron energy should be used and what the utilization rate should be is a big question mark.
Even if we exclude utilization rate and assume 100% conversion, to meet the energy output of an ordinary power plant, at least ten reactions per second and one million reactions per day are required.
Of course, with the improvement of laser technology and the continuous upgrading and transformation of equipment, the proportion can be improved to some extent. After all, such a big "victory" has been announced to the public, and money will definitely continue to be invested. The funding problem has been alleviated for the time being.
But if we follow their calculation, then isn't the Tokamak device more advanced? The magnetic field I use to constrain the reaction doesn't participate in the reaction, right?
Theoretically, if the magnetic field limitation is not taken into account after the tokamak device is ignited, the subsequent reaction can be achieved by continuing to add reactants. Wouldn't it be a positive gain sooner or later? Or is it sustainable?
We can't just ignore the facts and talk about theory.
In fact, both the tokamak device and the NIF ignition device are too immature at present. Not to mention waiting for nuclear fusion to be commercialized, it will take at least decades of research to wait until controlled nuclear fusion can achieve true "positive gain" and the output energy is greater than the input energy after reasonable conversion.
It has to be said that when it comes to ideological output and remote animal husbandry, Da Piaoliang is really good at it. And they are not lying, they are just changing the concepts, but the effect is absolutely lethal.
Even though they are just launching a satellite now and saying that they will be able to ignite it once the lens arrives and the modification design is completed, it still makes too many people on the Internet excited.
Many people are excited because humans are about to master nuclear fusion and endless clean energy is waiting for us in the future. This is completely understandable.
But some public intellectuals are quite speechless about the exciting direction.
This kind of technology must be in the hands of the "just side" and the "civilized side".
Maybe even their masters don’t know how powerful they are.
This suppression of morale has made the atmosphere on the Internet somewhat depressed, allowing them to celebrate, ridicule, and be sarcastic at will.
If we can dampen enthusiasm and at the same time make the country fall into self-doubt, inferiority and even self-hatred, then we will already be successful.
It is best to stop trying when you realize you will never catch up.
Finally, Wang Yi sent a tweet on Weibo
"It hasn't even started yet, don't get too excited yet. But according to the principle, it's just purely calculating the input and output energy, so it's definitely possible to achieve positive gain. This is indeed a breakthrough. For example, a hydrogen bomb has a large positive gain, right? This thing can be considered a small hydrogen bomb."
Wang Yi first made a relatively objective statement expressing his approval, but then listed a series of mathematical formulas to estimate the actual energy consumption of the experiment compared to the final energy generated.
"...So, without considering the conversion of power generation consumption, the consumption of making instruments, and the consumption of making projectiles, the amount of electricity consumed is probably hundreds of times the energy ultimately generated. It is still a long way from true positive gain. It is probably a scam to get the money, and then bring in a wave of ideological output. In fact, we have already achieved positive gain in nuclear fusion, and hydrogen bombs can do it~'smiley face'.
"Then can I propose a new device, which is to continuously detonate small hydrogen bombs in the desert, and we find a way to absorb and convert the energy of the explosion, so that we can also achieve positive gain. For example, we can build a row of large windmills at a long distance and generate electricity directly. Haha, I'm just kidding, don't take it seriously."
Wang Yi is currently recognized as the world's number one mathematician, a leader in artificial intelligence algorithms, and the father of Red Queen.
The credibility of his words is still there, and many netizens who were originally feeling lost were immediately encouraged after seeing it.
Is love such a positive energy gain?
Isn’t this cheating!
The power consumption just for starting up the instrument is more than a hundred times higher. How can you tell me this thing has positive gain?
"What can neutrons do? They can't even boil water..."
"Oh my god! Look how scared I was! I thought they could really do it!"
"A hundred times, what the hell! How dare they say that in the title?"
"How can it be scary if I don't say that?"
"How can you defraud funds if you don't say that?"
"If you don't say that, where do the public intellectuals get the material?"
"At first I felt really uncomfortable watching them being so weird. I never expected it to be like this."
"My goodness, after reading what the public intellectuals say, I feel like Da Meili will soon build a power plant."
"It's time to build a power plant . Build a power plant to meet the consumption of their experiments."
"It's so scary..."
I felt so depressed at the beginning, but after listening to Wang Yi’s explanation, I felt much better immediately.
They have been doing this all along, constantly exporting ideology and using spiritual domestication to make people in third world countries accept their fate and accept that they cannot earn money with high added value.
The GPS chip originally cost 2,000 yuan per piece, but after the emergence of Beidou, it now costs 6 yuan per piece.
What kind of 100% huge profits can make capital take risks?
this……
It seems to be a kind of beautification...
