Chapter 554 Saturation Research
78 years,
An interstellar spacecraft powered by a Proxima-1 electric propulsion system,
From one ship, it expanded to three ships.
Due to the extremely large energy demand of the Proximity series electric propulsion system,
The three newly built interstellar ships are also several times larger than the previous interstellar ships, an order of magnitude larger.
However, the transportation capacity of a single interstellar spacecraft has also increased a lot.
In fact, considering the manufacturing cost and transportation cost alone,
At this moment, the interstellar spacecraft using the Proxima series as the propulsion system has no advantages compared to before.
However, in an era when productivity is sufficient, cost issues do not require much consideration.
For Qiusuo Research Institute and Modao, saving more time is more valuable.
With the increase in the number of new interstellar spacecraft,
Triton, which had earlier been identified as one of the industrial centers, was also changing rapidly.
Completed from the Mars Industrial Center that has gradually taken shape,
A large number of intelligent production equipment designed based on the environmental improvement of Triton have been put into the orbits of Triton and Neptune.
The ‘four-piece set’ of ground cities,
As a controllable nuclear fusion reactor for energy supply,
Three-dimensional farms as a source of food for permanent residents, industrial clusters needed by industrial centers,
As well as the basic computing units built for Suigu intelligence to function, the scale is rapidly expanding at the location of Triton.
At the same time, the area occupied by the Triton resident base, which is the main living and research work area for the resident personnel, is also growing.
By 1978, the number of researchers and other personnel stationed on Triton had expanded from the initial few hundred to nearly 10,000.
This is because in the smart era, no one is actually required to participate in the construction of the Triton Industrial Center.
Otherwise, when the research institute's development of Triton gradually reaches the stage of self-sufficiency,
The number of permanent staff can expand even faster.
Then,
Next year, that is, 1979,
Human civilization has entered the twentieth decade of the intelligent age.
This year, Qiusuo Research Institute and human civilization have created another milestone-like achievement.
The total number of extraterrestrial permanent bases on various planets, satellites, and key node locations in the solar system has exceeded one hundred.
This would still be a lunar base or a Mars base that crawls on the surface of the planet and occupies a vast area.
It is enough to accommodate millions of people living at the same time. It can be said that the interstellar city's permanent base is the result of calculations.
Even in Mo Dao's long life, human civilization has never been as powerful as it is now.
And against this background,
Qiusuo Research Institute is also under the leadership of Mo Dao,
Towards the Research Institute, which is the final key issue that Mo Dao wants to achieve in this life, the energy issue continues to challenge him.
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The direction to solve the energy problem has been determined a long time ago.
In fact, there is no choice.
At present, human civilization or research institute,
Influenced by Mo Dao, on the energy technology route, the most mastered and understood technology is controllable nuclear fusion technology.
On the basis of the existing controllable nuclear fusion technology, there are still some clues.
I changed the route again and couldn't touch the edge at all.
From the beginning, the relevant teams involved in the research at Qiusuo Research Institute have already reached a consensus on this.
The third generation of controllable nuclear fusion technology, heavy nuclear fusion is the best choice.
But some clues are relatively speaking,
From the second generation of controllable nuclear fusion technology to the third generation of fusion technology, there is a huge generation gap.
For Mo Dao, this is also an extremely difficult question.
As for the attempted research on this issue,
Under the leadership of Mo Dao, Qiusuo Research Institute started with ‘ignition’.
First try to create conditions that can achieve heavy nuclear fusion, such as a temperature one order of magnitude higher and a pressure several orders of magnitude higher.
As for how to maintain harsh conditions and restrain the heavy nuclear fusion in the reaction under such conditions, these are things that need to be considered later.
As for the research method of Qiusuo Research Institute’s third-generation fusion project research team,
Basically, theory and experiment go hand in hand.
That is to say, we should not consider other issues at the beginning, but try out all the possible attempts to achieve the conditions for heavy nuclear fusion that we can think of.
Since 1975, the theoretical design of the Lin series electric propulsion system has been basically completed.
Mo Dao began to shift his focus to heavy nuclear fusion research.
With Mo Dao’s consent, the relevant research team of Qiusuo Research Institute,
About one million kilometers away from the moon, far away from all interstellar routes, a testing ground in space has been designated.
In this testing ground, frequent experiments were started.
Quite a 'mad scientist' look.
As we get to the back, some of the experimental attempts become more and more unimaginable.
However, such frequent experiments are not without some gains.
Every experiment can always yield some data, and occasionally it can provide some inspiration to the relevant research teams of Qiusuo Research Institute and Mo Dao.
Essentially,
This is similar to the time when Mo Dao first started researching controllable nuclear fusion, using the actual construction of experimental reactors and super-large projects to infer related technology research.
Find a way through actual experiments.
However, the scale and frequency of this experiment are much exaggerated.
This is also the advantage of the intelligent era.
Enough productivity that there is no need to choose among various research routes,
All ideas put forward by researchers and research teams, no matter how low-feasibility they may seem, are queued up to try.
This is the time,
Putting it earlier, even if we ignore whether the technical conditions can support the current experiment,
In terms of productivity, Qiusuo Research Institute, under the leadership of Mo Dao, is currently conducting
This is an almost exhaustive research and experiment method, which is enough to bankrupt human civilization before the era of controllable nuclear fusion, or even before the era of intelligence.
Also in space, the rapid advancement of extraterrestrial development plans in the solar system, the increasing changes in extraterrestrial planets, satellites, and permanent bases,
As well as the exhaustive research on heavy nuclear fusion by Qiusuo Research Institute, both aspects are progressing in this era at the same time.
Time continues to pass.
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From 1975 to 1979,
During the accelerated construction of the Triton Industrial Center,
The research team related to Qiusuo Research Institute also conducted a large number of experiments in the space test site, including some that were extremely exaggerated and occasionally made some big noises.
For Qiusuo Research Institute, and for Mo Dao,
Since some clever methods cannot be used, then use some "dumb methods".
If you don’t know which technical route is possible, just try them one by one.
If you can't find a suitable theory to guide the experiment, then use a lot of experiments to find some empirical formulas and use them first.
Just like the research on deuterium and tritium fusion technology, before Mo Dao made a breakthrough in the end-flow theory, it was just grinding forward little by little, regardless of the cost.
It can be said that Qiusuo Research Institute’s research on heavy nuclear fusion started with huge, saturated resources and productivity.
And during this repeated testing process,
Mo Dao also gradually gained more knowledge about heavy nuclear fusion technology.
79 years,
In the ignition technology of heavy nuclear fusion,
Under the auspices and participation of Mo Dao, the research route began to gradually narrow from the barbaric growth stage.
A large number of experiments were initially focused on only a few of the technical routes.
This does not mean that Qiusuo Research Institute’s research has reached a dead end.
Instead, I got some real clues.