In the lunar colony ground command center, the staff was busy.
Today is an extraordinary day. The nuclear fusion generator set placed on the surface of the moon will be officially powered on. This not only means that the shortage of electricity in the moon colony will be completely solved, and the excess power can be sent to the Star City through long-distance transmission and then to the surface.
"Ready?"
"of course."
"Let's get started." Jiang Chen nodded and gestured, indicating that Kervin could start.
The entire command center is like a clockwork. Everyone has come up with ten times and twenty times the energy and struggles in his position. The parameters on the big screen in the center are flashing, and every few hundred thousand kilometers of nuclear fusion generators can be monitored.
“The magnetic restraint is activated and the third fuel is loaded into the reaction chamber!”
"The magnetic restraint is operating normally."
“The super fluid thermal cycler starts... stable operation.”
“氘 Fuel is filled!”
"..."
"ignition!"
The lights all jumped green, and Kerwin immediately pressed the red button. In the holographic screen, a single progress bar is instantly filled, and the power output power instantly reaches a horrible 5000mw. In the spherical reaction chamber dozens of kilometers away, the magnetic confinement has become a group of invisible light spheres, and its internal reaction temperature has also broken through the horror of 10 million degrees!
It is no exaggeration to say that this is equivalent to a small sun.
If the violently reacting atom breaks through the magnetic confinement, its power is no less than the detonation of a million-equivalent hydrogen bomb. If it is placed on the earth, it is enough to erase a modern city from the map.
However, everyone present is well on the way.
As early as the completion of Penglai City, the nuclear fusion generator has been secretly used by the international community. The people present here are not the first to operate the nuclear fusion generator set, but this nuclear fusion generator is the future person. Heavy industry produces itself and is located hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
5000mw, this is far from the limit of this nuclear fusion generator set. As the fuel continues to fill, the output power of electric energy continues to climb. The reaction temperature also exceeded 15 million degrees, and after a slight fall, it stabilized at 14 million degrees.
Kervin sighed with a smile on his face and picked up the intercom on his shoulder and announced to everyone.
"No. 01 nuclear fusion generator, boot successfully!"
There was a burst of cheers in the command room, and the staff members walked down the seats, punched and punched, and cheered.
As a result, Jiang Chen’s face also showed a smile.
Unlike most nuclear power plants, the Star Ring trade abandoned the inefficient steam turbine power generation design after absorbing the technology from the end of the world. Instead, it used a more advanced thermal ion reactor than it is now.
In simple terms, the yin and yang poles are connected by wires, the cathode is heated to release the electron beam, and the anode absorbs electrons to form a circulating circuit. However, the whole set of equipment will certainly not be so simple. It is like saying that a simple nuclear power plant is boiling water, but in fact the technical connotation involved is far more than just boiling water.
How to solve the power generation limitation, how to recycle the heat absorbed by the anode to the power generation... These are the problems that need to be solved in the world. If there is no accident, after another thirty or fifty years, the controllable nuclear fusion technology is also born here, and most of them are also using steam turbines to boil water to generate electricity. Just because neutrons are easily absorbed by light materials, a second-loop heat exchanger can be eliminated compared to nuclear fission.
At the same time, the same cheers also sounded on hundreds of thousands of kilometers of lunar colonies.
A steady stream of electricity was transferred from nuclear fusion generators to various parts of the colony, replacing solar generators that had been off for two weeks in two weeks. The reaction temperature has been reached and the fusion reaction can continue as long as the supply of fuel in the reaction chamber is maintained.
Although the tens of millions of degrees of high temperature are scary, this generator is far safer than any nuclear power plant generator set. The thermonuclear reaction between helium-3 and helium produces only protons that are not radioactive, so the use of helium-3 as an energy source does not produce radiation, and even if an accident occurs, the cost of salvage will not be high.
With 10,000 steps back, there is no air on the moon, and even if the entire explosion of the reactor, there will be no shock wave that will destroy the earth. The killing effect of nuclear weapons in a vacuum environment is extremely limited, far less intimidating than its explosive equivalent.
"Congratulations." Jiang Chen smiled and grasped Kervin's hand. "Excellent command."
"Thanks to your promotion." Kervin accepted the praise humbly.
After a moment of pause, Jiang Chen went on.
"I intend to reorganize some of the business of the Star Trade."
Kervin looked at Jiang Chen puzzledly and didn't understand why he said this to himself. The space launch center he manages is only a part of the star-ring trade. Although the budget is amazing, it is almost outside the core of power.
Jiang Chen did not explain, but continued.
“The restructuring is mainly in the aerospace business. The establishment of the Space Launch Center will be cancelled and replaced by the newly established Space Department. The department is in charge of the Star Colonization Program and all projects in the Group that involve the development of outer space resources.”
"And the manager of the space department, I hope that you will serve."
Kervin was a glimpse first, and then the brain was occupied by dizziness.
“Thank you for the promotion of the chairman, I will not let you down!”
Jiang Chen smiled and patted him on the shoulder.
"I believe you won't let me down."
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In mid-February, Xinghuan Trade spent S$2 billion to acquire Panu Power Company, which supplies power to the entire Panu Islands, and changed its name to the global power company, integrating the power generation companies and power grid units in the new country.
At the same time, the engineering ship of Xinghuan trade once again went to the equator line and started construction under the sea-level base station of the space elevator. It is ambitiously preparing to build a submarine cable extending from the equator line to Anga Island and merged into the new national grid. in.
Everything is paving the way for the long-distance transmission plan for the lunar nuclear power plant.
Jiang Chen apparently did not satisfy the power market in the new country. At the same time as the construction of the submarine cable, he then found the governments of the Moro and the Philippines to open their own electricity market.
Almost no trouble, Jiang Chen easily put these two vassal countries on his own chariot. Both the Philippines and the Moro countries have agreed to cooperate with the new country to build transnational submarine cables and access the country's power grid. The electricity cost of the Philippines is the highest in the world, and it is a model for the poorer and the poorer. Of course, they will not refuse the Star Ring trade, which may lower their domestic electricity prices.
What's more, they have not refused to suffocate. The garrison of the Star Ring trade in Manila has not yet been completely withdrawn.
As for the Moro country, it is not necessary to say that Santos has simply recognized the identity of his younger brother. Where will he refuse the request of the sovereign state? What's more, the recent rise in oil prices, the Moro country that relies on imports of oil itself is facing the problem of energy shortage, how can it refuse Jiang Chen?
After wooing the Philippines and Moro, Jiang Chen then found Malay...
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