Chapter 675 100MW!
Following in Lu Zhou's footsteps, the group moved from the main building to the workshop of the assembly center.
The moment he stood at the gate of the factory building, Academician Zhang Jianrong looked at everything in the factory building, and he froze there as if he had been petrified.
As for the two researchers behind him, it was the same, their mouths were wide open and they couldn't say a word.
I saw that the industrial equipment in the factory building was like gears running non-stop, running at high speed on a completely unmanned production line, processing raw materials into required parts and assembling them. They have seen many domestic processing bases, but this is the first time they have seen a factory that can achieve this level of automation.
Lu Zhou didn't care about the three people who were there in a daze. He glanced at his phone and quickly poked his thumb on the screen a few times.
【How long? 】
Xiao Ai: [It will be ready soon! ()]
Soon, an AGV logistics vehicle supported a cylinder with a diameter of about two meters, and the movable door on the side of the factory building slowly opened. Then it drove to the side of the two magnetic fluid generator sets that had been processed, and the long-awaited robotic arm completed the final assembly.
After finally recovering from the surprise, Academician Zhang Jianrong closed his mouth and then slowly opened it again.
"……This is?"
Walking to the side of the strangely shaped device, Lu Zhou reached out and knocked on the cylinder, and said with a smile.
"This is the acoustic fusion reactor and the matching magnetic fluid generator set you saw on the drawings. The shape here may look a little crude, but it's installed in the space shuttle anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's ugly or not. gone."
The researcher standing next to Academician Zhang Jianrong couldn't help asking, "Did this thing just be made?"
Lu Zhou simply replied.
"That's right."
To be precise, it was created half an hour ago.
The production of the two magnetic fluid generator sets and the reactor core container was started at the same time, and it was almost completed when Lu Zhou left here. While producing these three components, the vacuum isolation chamber next to it was not idle, and the core mold was poured and packaged at high temperature.
By the time Lu Zhou brought the three of them here, Xiao Ai had already completed the assembly of the two magnetic fluid generator sets, as well as the seamless joint between the core and the core container. As for the final assembly link, it is no longer a challenge for it, and it was completed very easily.
Gathering his mind, Academician Zhang Jianrong asked.
"Can you demonstrate it for us? It works."
"sure."
With that said, Lu Zhou gestured to the camera in the factory.
After seeing the master's gesture, Xiao Ai, who understood the meaning, immediately operated several robotic arms to connect the lines to the reactor,
The control program has been installed before, and the final commissioning has also been completed. With the activation of the heating device and the ultrasonic generating device, the entire equipment has entered a preheating state and began to prepare for the start of the core.
After waiting quietly for about ten minutes, the liquid lithium in the core has been heated to a high temperature of hundreds of degrees, and it flows slowly under the drive of the sound field.
At the same time, the air inlet began to emit a mixture of deuterium and tritium heated to a plasma state. These restless bubbles are constantly collapsing and expanding under the action of ultrasonic sound pressure as they float from the bottom of the container to the top.
Immediately afterwards, accompanied by an insignificant buzzing sound, only the green signal lights on both sides of the reactor were lit up, and a huge amount of electric energy gushed out from the magnetic fluid power generation that had also completed preheating, and was exported to the outside of the plant through a dedicated line...
After waiting for a long time without seeing any special reaction, Academician Zhang Jianrong couldn't help asking.
"Already activated?"
Lu Zhou nodded and said in a positive tone.
"It has been activated."
A researcher next to him murmured in a low voice.
"I don't feel anything at all."
Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled and said.
"Of course there's nothing to see here, let's go outside and have a look."
After that, Lu Zhou turned around and walked out of the factory with the three people full of doubts.
Through the gate of the factory building, a noisy wind blows.
Just wondering how the wind came from the east, Academician Wang, who followed the source, was stunned for a moment.
Not far from the factory building, several tall windmills were turning smoothly.
Wind Turbines?
Wait... No!
A flash of shock flashed between his brows, and Academician Zhang Jianrong immediately spoke.
"These...is the power supplied by that reactor?"
Lu Zhou's nod confirmed his guess.
"Of course." Looking at the row of towering windmills not far away, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "We have to find a place to consume the electricity generated by the fusion battery, and there are no lakes or rivers nearby, so we can only In this way."
Before he could vent the shock in his heart, Academician Zhang Jianrong suddenly turned his head to look at Lu Zhou, and hurriedly asked, "What's the maximum power? That acoustic fusion device!"
Lu Zhou thought for a while and said.
"Theoretically, the limit power can reach 100MW, and it can be done only by controlling the injection rate of deuterium-tritium mixed gas, but the cost of generating electricity is a bit expensive, and there is currently no place to consume excess power here, so I disagree with You demonstrated."
Having said that, Lu Zhou made a helpless expression.
The 10MW electric energy can also be "blown off" by the few windmills outside. If he really wants to increase the power to 100MW, he may have to find a laser transmitter to convert the energy into laser light and shoot it into the sky.
Although this sentence was an understatement, Zhang Jianrong and the two researchers behind him showed shocking expressions after hearing Lu Zhou's words.
100MW!
This figure may not be very high. Many thermal power plants can reach five or six hundred megawatts now, but you must know that this thing is not used to supply power to fixed facilities, but a "portable" controllable fusion battery!
Taking the 2 A1G pressurized water reactors and 4 steam turbines on the Nimitz aircraft carrier as an example, the combined maximum total power has only reached 194MW, and the weight of a single set of equipment has reached 900 tons!
Although this fusion battery does not look light, its weight is not as terrifying as 900 tons.
And the most important thing is size.
As for one of the biggest factors on boarding nuclear power plants, it is how to reduce the size of the power plants. With the advantages of this fusion device in terms of volumetric energy density and mass energy density, it has undoubtedly set aside at least half a block from the fission reactors used on the world's mainstream nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
And what surprised Academician Zhang Jianrong the most was that this thing is just the first generation of fusion stack batteries.
If this technology matures, and the maximum power and stability are increased, then it will be fine? !
As for the two researchers standing behind Academician Zhang Jianrong, the expressions on their faces were not only shocked, but also complicated.
In fact, before coming here, they didn't believe that the so-called fusion device could really output electricity.
However, the facts presented before their eyes at this moment shattered their originally unwavering thoughts.
Even if they don't want to believe it's true, they still have to admit that he did it.
The miniaturization of controlled fusion has indeed been completed.
This almost impossible task was indeed accomplished!