The group followed Lu Zhou's footsteps and moved from the main building to the assembly center.
The moment Academician Zhang Jianrong stood at the entrance of the factory, he looked at everything in the factory, and he froze.
The two researchers behind him were the same. Their mouths were wide open, and they couldn't say a word.
The industrial equipment in the factory was like gears running non-stop, running at high speed on the completely unmanned production line, processing raw materials into the required parts and assembling them. They had seen a lot of domestic processing bases, but this was the first time they had seen a factory with this level of automation.
Lu Zhou looked at his phone and tapped on the screen a few times.
[How much longer?]
Xiao Ai: [It's almost done! (?????)????】
Soon after, an AGV logistics vehicle carrying a cylinder with a diameter of about two meters slowly came out from the side of the factory. It then drove next to the two ferrofluid electric energy generators, and the long-awaited robotic arm completed the final assembly.
Academician Zhang Jianrong finally snapped back to reality. He closed his mouth and slowly opened it again.
"What is this?"
Lu Zhou walked next to the strange-looking equipment and reached out his hand to tap on the cylinder. He smiled and spoke.
"This is the sound fusion reactor you saw on the blueprints, as well as the ferrofluid electric energy generator. The design here might look a bit crude, but it's going to be installed in a space shuttle, so it doesn't matter. "
The researcher standing next to Academician Zhang Jianrong couldn't help but ask, "Did you just make this thing?"
Lu Zhou gave a simple reply.
"Sort of."
Precisely speaking, it was made half an hour ago.
The two ferrofluid electric energy generators and the reactor core container began production at the same time. When Lu Zhou left, they were almost finished. While these three components were being produced, the vacuum isolation room next to them was pouring and sealing the nuclear core mold at a high temperature.
When Lu Zhou brought the three of them here, Xiao Ai had already completed the assembly of the two ferrofluid electric energy generators, as well as the seamless connection of the nuclear core and the nuclear core container. As for the final assembly step, it was no longer a challenge for it. It was completed easily.
Academician Zhang Jianrong composed himself and spoke.
"Can you demonstrate it for us? Its operation. "
"Of course."
Lu Zhou gestured to the camera in the factory.
After seeing its master's gesture, Xiao Ai immediately operated several robotic arms and connected the wires to the reactor.
The control program had already been installed, and the final debugging had also been completed. With the start of the heating device and ultrasonic generator, the entire device entered a preheating state and began to prepare for the activation of the nuclear core.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the liquid lithium in the nuclear core had been heated to a high temperature of hundreds of degrees, and it was slowly flowing under the drive of the sound field.
At the same time, the air inlet began to release the deuterium-tritium mixture that had been heated to a plasma state. These restless bubbles floated from the bottom of the container to the top, and they constantly collapsed and expanded under the effect of the ultrasonic sound pressure.
After that, there was a subtle buzzing sound. The green signal lights on both sides of the reactor lit up, and a large amount of electric energy gushed out from the ferrofluid electric energy generator and was transmitted to the outside of the factory through a dedicated circuit …
Academician Zhang Jianrong waited for a long time, and he couldn't help but ask.
"It's already activated?"
Lu Zhou nodded and spoke in a confident tone.
"It's already activated."
A researcher next to him complained in a low voice.
"How come I don't feel anything at all?"
Lu Zhou smiled and spoke.
"Of course we can't see anything here, let's go outside."
After that, Lu Zhou turned around and walked out of the factory with the three people who were full of doubts.
When they passed through the factory gate, a gust of wind blew past them.
Academician Wang was wondering why the wind was blowing from the east. He looked at the source of the wind, and he suddenly froze.
Not far away from the factory, there were a few towering windmills spinning steadily.
Wind turbines?
Wait a minute … No way!
Academician Zhang Jianrong was shocked, and he immediately spoke.
"This … is powered by that reactor?"
Lu Zhou nodded, confirming his speculation.
"Of course." Lu Zhou looked at the row of towering windmills and smiled as he said, "We have to find a place to test the electricity generated by the fusion battery. There are no lakes or rivers nearby, so this is the only method we can use."
Academician Zhang Jianrong suddenly turned his head and looked at Lu Zhou. He quickly asked, "What's the maximum power? That sound fusion device! "
Lu Zhou thought for a bit and spoke.
"In theory, the maximum power can reach 100M. We just need to control the injection rate of the deuterium-tritium gas mixture. However, this thing is a bit expensive to generate electricity, and we can't find a place to consume the excess electricity, so I won't be demonstrating it to you."
Lu Zhou made a helpless expression.
The 10M of electricity could be "blown away" by the windmills outside. If he really wanted to increase the power to 100M, he would have to find a laser launcher to convert the energy into a laser and shoot it into the sky.
Although Lu Zhou spoke casually, Zhang Jianrong and the two researchers behind him were shocked.
100M！
This number wasn't very high. Many thermal power stations could reach five or six hundred megawatts. However, this thing wasn't used to power fixed facilities; it was a "portable" controllable fusion battery!
Take the two A1G pressurized water reactors and four steam turbines on the Nimitz aircraft carrier as an example. The total power of the two A1G pressurized water reactors and four steam turbines was only 194M, and a single set of equipment weighed 900 tons!
Even though this fusion battery didn't look light, it shouldn't weigh as much as 900 tons.
The most important thing was the size.
One of the biggest factors in the construction of a nuclear power device was how to reduce the size of the power generation device. With the advantages of this fusion device in terms of energy density and mass energy density, it was undoubtedly better than the fission reactors used on the world's mainstream nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
What surprised Academician Zhang Jianrong the most was that this thing was only a first-generation fusion reactor battery.
When the technology matured and the maximum power and stability increased, wouldn't that be amazing?!
As for the two researchers standing behind Academician Zhang Jianrong, they had a complicated expression on their faces.
Actually, before they came here, they didn't believe that the sound fusion device could really output electricity.
However, at this moment, the truth that was displayed before their eyes completely shattered their originally firm and unwavering belief.
Even though they didn't want to believe this was true, they had to admit that Lu Zhou did it.
Lu Zhou had completed the miniaturization of controllable fusion.
Lu Zhou had completed this almost impossible task!
Lu Zhou had memorized this site's address:. Mobile version:.
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