Chapter 304: Super Large Project

In February of the year 0010 in the new human calendar, it was more than ten years before the Earth exploded...

After two months of research, calculation, discussion, and verification, the scientific group finally figured out the preliminary budget for the entire nuclear fusion project...

That is, the entire project budget for the "nuclear explosion reactor" plus the "spacecraft".

This meeting was very grand, and it was also the first big meeting after the Chinese New Year.

It is said that there is a real plan to cross the "big filter", and many government officials and engineers rushed from the surface. Of course, they also heard some gossip in advance and had some preparation in their hearts.

But this preparation was soon shattered by the more crazy reality...

During the meeting, Yu Yifeng looked out the window with a sullen face...

Not only him, many people also looked around, or held their heads with their hands, or discussed in a low voice to hide their inner panic...

"Things in the world are always so difficult."

Yu Yifeng thought secretly in his heart: "It is always not easy to want endless energy... It is really not easy."

The universe is boundless and vast, unimaginable. Similarly, the dangers of the universe are unimaginable. Supernova explosions, gamma-ray bursts, black hole swallowing, planetary collisions, and all kinds of astronomical disasters can cause life to become extinct with just a little ripple.

But strangely, the universe is full of life!

Life here is like garbage, everywhere. Even intelligent civilization is the same, everywhere...

In this case, the Great Filter is in the middle, and civilizations are so lonely, like an isolated island in the vast ocean.

Civilization, in this isolated island, enjoys its own dream.

Civilization, just like this, is trapped alone on its own planet, unaware of each other's existence, unaware of each other's life... Just like this, never interact with each other until death.

True interstellar civilization is like a gem in the desert, so rare and terrifying.

Fortunately, humans have encountered a low-probability event among low-probability events, and humans have seen real interstellar civilizations!

Yes, it is also a kind of good luck to have seen it!

Otherwise, there will definitely be a feeling that the road ahead has been broken.

But ordinary civilizations may not have encountered interstellar civilizations. What would they think if they encountered the "Great Filter"? Would they be as resolute and crazy as the new humans?

Very likely, no...

Yu Yifeng came back to his senses and stopped thinking about these messy things. A number popped up on the screen in front of him, which also made him feel extremely troubled.

"34.86 billion tons?!" He grabbed his head and pulled off a few strands with force.

Turning his head, he suddenly saw Wang Yufan's confused eyes. The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly at the same time.

This bitter smile has a reason, and it is also brought by this number.

34.86 billion tons, when Yu Yifeng thought of this number, he felt a sense of emptiness, and even lost some of the concept of numbers.

More than a thousand engineers and scientists were sitting in the conference room, and there was a group of government officials. They all showed incredible expressions...

"As you can see, yes, we plan to build four huge reactors with a diameter of about 15 kilometers. It can easily eat a nuclear bomb with a million tons of equivalent..."

Professor Ding Yidong explained enthusiastically on it, and at the same time spit out a bunch of incredible terms.

"The total consumption of steel is about 34.86 billion tons, various super alloys accumulate 1.33 billion tons, aluminum alloys, superconducting materials... I'm sorry, these are just preliminary estimates, and it is still unknown whether they will exceed the target at that time."

The senior executives of Noah were already stunned. They had no idea what the hell Ding Yidong was talking about.

What do you mean... 4 super-large nuclear fusion reactors with a diameter of 15 kilometers?

One is fine, but you have to build 4?

4!

34.86 billion tons? !

Billions of tons?

Billions...

Not only that, there are other miscellaneous things!

Do you really think it is hundreds of billions of tons of mud? This is metal, which needs to be refined with energy! And so much steel can't be piled up randomly, it needs to be built properly!

...Build!

And the annual steel production of the earth is only 1.6 billion tons... It takes a total of 22 years to produce more than 30 billion tons of iron!

How many people are there on the earth, and how many people are there in the new human civilization!

The group looked at the report in their hands with confused eyes. The content was written very clearly, with various formulas and data. Some people even pinched their thighs hard to prove that they were not dreaming.

"Everyone, don't you think about it? This is a big filter! If it is really so easy to achieve, will there be fewer interstellar civilizations?"

"There are only two ways to achieve the big filter. One is to fight against "magnetic confinement" and the other is this? If there is any better way, you can tell me."

Ding Yidong saw the shocked look of the crowd and roared impatiently.

"Four reactors are not many at all. They are for replacement at any time and can be used alternately. Do you think such reactors do not need maintenance? There are real nuclear explosions inside!"

"Of course, the economic scale of these super-large reactors alone is enough to strangle low-level civilizations. It is at least hundreds or thousands of times the global GDP. Ordinary civilizations simply do not have the power to do such projects!"

"But we are a new human civilization! If it is realized, we can get almost infinite energy, infinite!"

Ding Yidong roared crazily. When he thought about doing such a huge project, he became extremely passionate, regardless of whether he could complete it in this life...

As soon as he said this, everyone present was suddenly awed. There were many people who supported him, and there were no fewer who remained silent.

It is indeed the case. Is the big filter that simple?

This road looks simple, but it is actually not easy to walk... The huge amount of engineering has become the biggest problem.

Yu Yifeng also shook his head and smiled. Although he had been mentally prepared, the reality was more exaggerated than he imagined.

To generate electricity through nuclear bomb explosions, the material needed is nuclear bombs. The universe has played a joke on civilization again, as if it was intentional.

Tritium, which can cause nuclear fusion reactions at tens of millions of degrees, does not exist in nature;

Helium-3, 100 million degrees, extremely rare;

Deuterium, 500 million degrees, exists in large quantities;

Protium, which is ordinary hydrogen, requires more than 1 billion degrees for reaction, a huge amount!

This fucking... The universe is definitely intentional!

The only ones that can be obtained on a large scale are tetrahydrogen bombs or deuterium bombs. The "ball-shaped" structure of these two nuclear bombs means that their equivalent cannot be too small.

Then... the reactor can only be made large enough and strong enough to reduce the difficulty of nuclear fusion with a large amount of engineering!

A nuclear bomb with a yield of one million tons can release 4.184*10^15 joules of energy, which is equal to... 1.152 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, about one-tenth of the daily electricity consumption of the entire China.

Even if people can only collect 10% of the energy of the nuclear explosion for power generation, it is more than 100 million degrees...

How much is 100 million degrees?

This number may not be intuitive enough.

According to Ding Yidong's plan, a nuclear explosion reactor is equipped with a generator with a power of about 1 billion kilowatts, that is, 1 trillion watts.

After an explosion, it can last for more than 400 seconds, that is, seven minutes, to generate more than 100 million degrees of electricity.

Well, this is nuclear fusion. A power generation capacity of 1 billion kilowatts seems really exaggerated...

Very, very exaggerated. The power consumption of people nowadays is less than 100 million kilowatts...