Super black technology island

Chapter 157 Helium-3
It rained continuously for three or four days.

The city, which was still hot and dry, has become much cooler.

Today is considered a good day, the first Hercules production line in the Technology Gate Production Center has started to operate.

Of all the Hercules currently in Wang Chen's hands, only three are left, and the others have all been sent to the factory.

Although it cannot achieve [-]% work efficiency, it can basically meet the most reluctant production needs.

This production line will also be the world's first intelligent production line that does not require human participation.

The whole process was under the supervision of Ergouzi and the robot.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the Hercules produced can meet Wang Chen's daily needs.

However, dispatching most of the robots in his hands still affected the development progress of the electromagnetic gun.

So Wang Chen simply gave himself a half-month vacation, except that Lu Ban continued to slowly assemble the remaining three Hercules.

I slipped to the island to observe the progress carefully.

At present, the island has fully entered the start-up state.

The venue with tens of thousands of people is also very lively.

Every day, four or five freighters come in and out, constantly transporting materials and equipment.

Especially in the central mountain range, [-] or [-] pieces of equipment are excavating day and night.

Wang Chen's hut has now become the command center of the construction site.

In order to ensure the quality, CCCC also has a permanent inspection team here.

And next door is the third-party supervisor Jin Sanshi found.

Their task is to check the incoming materials with instruments and equipment every day.

Even if it is a project undertaken by CCCC, the process that should be followed still needs to be followed.

After all, this is a big list of more than 600 billion US dollars, and there is too much oil and water in it.

After wandering around the island for a few days to check the construction progress, Wang Chen pondered around the port area for a while.

When I designed the port before, I set aside a third of the open space.

Even before the construction started, Wang Chen hadn't thought about what to put in this open space yet.

But now Wang Chen has already figured out that a large shipbuilding platform should be placed in the port area.

With this remaining space, three huge enclosed workshops with a length of 500 meters and a width of 200 meters can be put down.

In addition to being able to build conventional ships, Wang Chen also set his sights on deep space.

With their current technological strength, it should only be a matter of time before they go to the universe.

Wang Chen thought it was time to start the construction plan for the dock.

When the research and development of electromagnetic weapons is over, Wang Chen will take time to complete the research on nuclear fusion.

Even Wang Chen intends to hand over the nuclear fusion technology directly to the higher authorities.

After all, neither this thing nor artificial intelligence can be controlled by a single company.

However, Wang Chen is still thinking about this matter, the only certainty is that the time to unlock nuclear fusion will not be too far away.

Once nuclear fusion is unlocked, the corresponding space program will naturally start.

It is an inevitable process for human beings to go to deep space.

The earth is both a cradle and a prison.

The development of civilization requires more and richer resources, if they cannot enter the universe before the earth's resources are exhausted.

There is only a dead end waiting for human beings.

Then the earth re-enters a new round of reincarnation.

After a few hundred thousand years or millions of years, new intelligent life will appear and walk the path that human beings have walked again.

But now it seems that the development of human technology is quite stable.

Even without Wang Chen, unlocking nuclear fusion is only a matter of time.

It may be 100 years or 200 years, but there should be no problem breaking out of the earth.

As long as it can go out of the earth, the problem of resources will no longer be able to limit human beings.

It is estimated that it is possible for gold to become the price of cabbage in the future.

There will even be a wave of renaissance, and traditional energy vehicles will rise again directly.

After all, the reserves of oil and gold on the earth are limited, but in the universe it is almost infinite.

But these are a bit far-fetched.

What Wang Chen values ​​most now is the helium-3 on the moon.

While helium-3 isn't the only option for nuclear fusion, it's the best option.

This stuff is really too rare on Earth.

Helium-3 was originally formed by thermonuclear reactions on the sun, and then scattered to the material in all directions by the solar wind.

Because of the obstruction of the atmosphere and magnetic field, it is difficult for them to fall on the surface of the rock formation, so the helium-3 storage capacity of the entire earth is only 500 kilograms.

It can be described as pitifully small.

As a perfect energy source, helium-3 can undergo nuclear fusion reaction with hydrogen isotopes, but unlike general nuclear fusion reactions, helium-3 does not produce neutrons during the fusion process, so the radioactivity is small, and the fusion reaction process is easy to control, both Environmentally friendly and safe.

Therefore, with this kind of raw material as the foundation, human beings can efficiently, safely, cheaply, cleanly and pollution-free conduct nuclear fusion power generation.

And if helium-3 is used, even for the current annual power generation in the world, it is enough to use 100 tons of helium-3.

Wang Chen's idea is to first use deuterium and tritium, which are the easiest to achieve fusion reactions, for fusion. These two raw materials are very abundant on the earth.

Even if there is no helium-3 on the moon, the deuterium stored in the seawater of the earth alone is enough for human beings to use for tens of billions of years.

The fusion energy produced by the deuterium extracted from one liter of seawater is equivalent to the energy released by the complete combustion of 300 liters of gasoline.

It's just that the tritium that fuses with deuterium is a bit troublesome and needs to be produced manually. After all, the natural reserves of this thing in the world are only a few kilograms.

This is why Wang Chen is greedy for helium-3 on the moon.

Because the fusion process of deuterium and tritium is too complicated, a large number of supporting devices need to be designed.

And helium-3 is much simpler, and this thing is rare on the earth, but there are quite a lot in the universe.

No matter what direction you look at, it is the best energy partner for human beings in the future.

Deuterium-tritium fusion can be used as a transitional product at best.

So Wang Chen's next goal is very clear.

That is to unlock nuclear fusion, create a spacecraft and go straight to the moon.

The possibility of flying to Mars can be considered after the helium-3 is upgraded to nuclear fusion.

Compared with the moon, Mars is the springboard that humans need to pay most attention to in the future.

Although that place is now a dead place, as long as the technology is in place, Mars has a chance to become a second earth.

Once Mars is successfully transformed, humans will have a perfect springboard to the universe.

Wang Chen is also looking forward to the day when his spaceship lands on Mars.

I believe this time will not be too long.

Anything is possible as long as nuclear fusion is unlocked.

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