Chapter 631 Levi's Ring
The dense spots of light emitted by the six-clawed giant star lasted for more than three months.
It was not until the beginning of the eighth year of Xinghe that various cosmic monitoring stations stopped detecting dense light spots, although there were still occasional one or two light spots appearing.
This is obviously the result of the civil war within the Six-Clawed Civilization.
However, the Space Reconnaissance Department was unable to determine which side had won.
However, during three months of fierce fighting, the Space Reconnaissance Department detected at least 286,000 flashes, which means that at least 286,000 nuclear bombs were detonated during the fierce civil war of the Six-Clawed Civilization.
It's so terrifying.
You have to know that this is not the miniature hydrogen bomb used by Sapiens to propel spacecraft, but a nuclear bomb with a yield starting from tens of thousands of tons and generally in the millions of tons.
This shows how cruel the civil war in the Six-clawed Civilization was.
As for the civil war within the six-clawed civilization, the Sapiens company also released a lot of relevant information within the company, allowing all employees to feel a little "six-clawed shock".
Moon.
In the Mendeleev crater on the back.
There is a large base here called Mendeleev Base City.
The base city is mainly engaged in spacecraft scientific research and is affiliated to the Space Business Department. At this time, a new engine is being tested inside the base.
Even Mikoyan came in person, and the person in charge of researching this new engine was Karl.
Engineer Carl previously worked in the research and development of aircraft engines. Later, as the major aviation groups of the Homo Sapiens Company deepened their research and development of aircraft engines and various talents emerged, Carl felt that he should do something new.
In view of the exploration of outer space by the Space Division and the invitation of an old friend, Engineer Carl decided to transfer to the Space Division.
This lasted for more than four years.
Today we are finally going to check the results.
"Karl, are you sure?" There was a trace of worry on Mikoyan's synchronized robot's face.
Because the previous research on spacecraft engines at the Mendeleev Base did not go smoothly. This was not because there was a problem with the scientific research level of Carl and others, but because the direction of their research was very difficult.
The research direction of the aerospace engine of Mendeleev Base City is nuclear fusion engine, and it is not a nuclear explosion propulsion engine.
They had conducted research on Earth for two years before. As the progress of lunar development increased, the Space Business Division moved the research institute to the back of the moon, and Carl's team continued to conduct research on the back of the moon for more than two years.
During this period, their research has been in a difficult stage.
Today's test made Mikoyan worried.
"Don't worry! I have confidence this time." Carl's synchronized robot had a confident look on its face.
Through the observation window, the two people could see a large engine with a nozzle diameter of about 5 meters being installed on a huge aerospace engine test platform .
A large number of synchronized robots are busy with inspection work, preparing for the first actual test.
The nuclear fusion engine designed by Carl's team uses a variant of the tokamak device.
Specifically, it is to transform the closed annular magnetic field of the tokamak device into a closed annular magnetic field combined with an open spiral magnetic field.
There are six tokamak rings in total and only one spiral magnetic field. The channels between the six tokamak rings and the spiral magnetic field can be opened or closed.
The tokamak ring technology has been difficult to develop before. It’s not that it can’t generate electricity, but the Q value (output ratio) is too low. Even though Sapiens has strong technology, it has not been able to refresh the Q value to 3.
In addition, the miniaturization of the tokamak device is also very difficult.
It was not until Dr. Lewis improved the tokamak device, using tailfield acceleration and magnetic field confinement, combined with gamma-ray plasma heating technology, that a variant tokamak ring was reassembled.
The variant of the tokamak ring not only easily heats the temperature of atoms to 1.27 billion degrees Celsius, but also greatly improves the acceleration of atoms by an order of magnitude, and the control accuracy is also further improved.
The improved version of the tokamak ring, also known as the "Levi's ring", has a very fast nuclear fusion reaction, and ordinary hydrogen atoms can be used as raw materials, without the need to refine heavy water and other radioactive elements.
Of course, Levi's rings can also carry out other nuclear fusion reactions, such as helium fusion, lithium fusion, beryllium fusion, and boron fusion.
That is to say, after hydrogen is put into the Levi's ring, hydrogen nuclear fusion will occur first. After the hydrogen is converted into helium, helium nuclear fusion will occur again, and so on.
This advantage is really amazing.
Not only does it increase the Q value of nuclear fusion to 76.2, but it also means that the fuel for nuclear fusion is no longer limited to radioactive isotopes such as deuterium and helium-3.
This advantage allows spacecraft to easily obtain nuclear fuel supplies during their voyage in interstellar space.
Although interstellar space appears to be empty, it is actually filled with a large amount of interstellar dust and asteroids.
If the escape ship of the six-clawed civilization had mastered the technology of Levis Rings, they would not have been wiped out due to lack of supplies.
After all, in interstellar space, the core components of stardust are hydrogen and helium. In addition, asteroids contain water ice, which can also be used to extract hydrogen.
Levi's rings can carry out multiple controlled nuclear fusions and can squeeze the hydrogen element to the extreme.
Now the Earth Headquarters has begun to phase out nuclear fission reactors and is preparing to fully upgrade to the Levis torus nuclear fusion reactor.
Another advantage of the Levi's Ring is that it can be miniaturized. The current smallest Levi's Ring prototype weighs only about 372 tons.
This weight is considered miniaturized for Sapiens' spacecraft.
After all, the nuclear explosion furnace technology, equipment and auxiliary buildings combined would weigh hundreds of thousands of tons, which is simply impossible to stuff into a spacecraft.
This is also the reason why the Space Division directly adopted the nuclear explosion propulsion plan instead of underground furnace nuclear fusion.
The Levis ring-ton device can be compressed to several hundred tons, which is not considered heavy for medium and large spacecraft.
That is why Engineer Carl dared to use the Levis ring as the power of the spacecraft.
Of course, since outer space is different from Earth, Carl's team will definitely need to adjust the Levis rings and redesign the engine.
Currently, Carl's team has the fastest research progress among all the contract engine teams, and has even developed a prototype.
The only problem is that this prototype is a bit heavy. Six Levis rings plus the helicoid magnetic field device have a total weight of 3,521 tons, which is a weight that can only be installed on large spacecraft.
After more than half an hour of final inspection, the prototype was finally ready for testing.
Soon Engineer Karl took Mikoyan and others to the control room of the test platform.
