Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 158
When Zhong Cheng, Liu Yuzhu and others were discussing this matter, they had already rested in Wanzhou, more than 400 kilometers away from Beishan.

Wanzhou is the "Three Gorges Gateway" and the starting point of the new Three Gorges tour. It is a world-famous immigrant area, named after "Wanchuan Bihui, Wanshang Gathering", and is one of the top ten ports on the Yangtze River.

In addition to the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Wanzhou's Daninghe Small Three Gorges, Baidi City, Shibaozhai, Zhangfei Temple, Tiankeng and Ground Fissures and other tourist attractions are also well-known both at home and abroad.

There are a total of 16 people on their trip excluding security personnel, 9 old members of the team, 5 newcomers from last year, and 2 newcomers who joined this year.

This year, after Jiang Yan's work relationship was transferred to the 804 Institute, Yi Dongmei, her assistant from the original unit, was also transferred here. Liu Yuzhu chose a young technician named Zhou Bo as his assistant in the power battery work.

In this way, the team members have assistants except Zhong Cheng and Zhou Hu. Zhou Hu said that Qin Wenyu and him are mutual assistants, and they don't need it for the time being.

Considering the complexity of his work, Zhong Cheng only needs to have Zhou Hu as his assistant, so he plans to hand over the new employees assigned to the R&D Institute this year to Director Luo, until there is a suitable one.

Because there were too many people, the company denied Zhong Cheng's plan to travel by car, saying that they were going out in seven or eight military vehicles, whether it was for an exercise or a trip?

In the past few years, the company has allocated special cars to the old members of the team. Zhou Hu and Liu Yuzhu also got an Alloy Fortress each in the form of making up the difference, which can be regarded as their wish.

Yang Xi's alloy fortress was specially applied for by Zhong Cheng in a report, and he didn't pay a penny more, which can be regarded as Zhong Cheng's words.

The company sent them a tourist bus with a local license plate, and the security department sent more than a dozen security personnel to drive three civilian cars to escort them, traveling in the name of a travel agency in Beishan.

Wanzhou is the starting point of the Three Gorges Scenic Area. After a one-night rest in Wanzhou, the Zhongcheng tour group started to tour formally the next day.

Traveling and traveling all the way, seeing all the scenery of the Three Gorges, they came to the Three Gorges Dam scenic spot at noon on the third day.

After a group of dozens of people went through the security check at the Tourist Transfer Center, they transferred to the scenic spot sightseeing bus and arrived at the 185 viewing point in the scenic spot.

The 185 platform is located on the left side of the crest of the Three Gorges Dam.

Standing on platform 185, you can watch the top of the dam up close, and overlook Maoping, the new county town of Zigui.

Upstream, you can experience the magnificent landscape of Gaoxia Pinghu, and downstream, it is the best viewing point for visiting the Three Gorges ship lift.

Zhong Cheng didn't take pictures with the crowd. He stood on the edge of the viewing platform, looking at the mighty water, thoughtful.

What attracted him to come here to take a look?
What was in his mind when he drove Suzaku-[-] over here that day?
The conversation between Yang Xi and his assistant Lorna caught his attention.

"Mr. Yang, I don't think we can just increase the temperature in the ionization chamber. The walls of the ionization chamber can withstand a high temperature of 3800 degrees. To increase the power of Zhurong's electric pusher, we must start with the acceleration magnetic field."

This is Lorna's voice, followed by Yang Xi's answer.

"We can consider applying the principle of magnetic confinement to Zhurong's electric drive, and it is enough to prevent the high-temperature plasma from touching the wall. This is easier to achieve than increasing the power of the accelerating magnetic field."

Lorna asked suspiciously: "Using the means of controlled nuclear fusion to the ion engine will greatly increase the manufacturing cost of the ion engine?"

Yang Xi smiled and said: "We don't want to heat the plasma to hundreds of millions of degrees, and the plasma in the ion engine is ejected at a high speed, so the heat will not accumulate, and it does not need to be restrained by a strong magnetic field. It's not an order of magnitude at all."

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Zhong Cheng laughed secretly, these two people are really a couple, and they are still discussing the improvement of Zhu Rong's push when they are traveling.

But suddenly, an inspiration flashed in his mind!
The words "Using the means of controlled nuclear fusion to ion engines" reminded him, what would happen if, in reverse, the principle of ion engines were applied to controllable nuclear fusion?

He looked at the Three Gorges Dam, and suddenly understood in his mind what attracted him.

Not the Three Gorges Dam, but the relationship between the Three Gorges Dam Project, the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River, and the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project gave him hints.

The rushing water of the Yellow River is like nuclear fusion in a chain reaction, and the turbulence is unstoppable.

The Three Gorges Dam project is like the current method of controllable nuclear fusion. The magnetically confined 'dam' wants to block the rolling 'Yangtze River'.

However, when the energy 'flood' caused by the chain reaction comes, the flood discharge measures cannot keep up, so that the accumulated heat burns the device.

However, the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project has provided a clear path. Blocking is worse than dredging. Instead of blocking the energy generated by nuclear fusion, it is channeling and spraying it, and using its energy in the process.

In ancient times, the story of Dayu and his son's flood control is the best proof!
Specifically, it adopts the basic working principle of the ion engine.

The deuterium and lithium atoms are first injected into the ionization chamber, and then the electron gun injects electrons, and the electrons are accelerated by the coil to bombard the mercury atoms to produce deuterium and lithium ions.

Deuterium and lithium ions are positively charged, and are heated while being accelerated by the electric field behind, and the high-temperature and high-speed deuterium and lithium ions are injected into the vacuum chamber behind.

A circumferential magnetic field is added at the back end of the vacuum chamber to slow down the speed of deuterium and lithium ions, so that the deuterium and lithium ions entering the vacuum chamber will collide violently with them.

During this collision, if one percent of the ions undergo nuclear fusion reactions, the heat generated should be able to exceed the electrical energy consumed before.

After the nuclear fusion in the vacuum chamber occurs, the temperature in the vacuum chamber will rise sharply, but these nuclear fusion products also have high-speed forward momentum, and will continue to eject backwards with heat.

How to use these high-temperature and high-speed ion torrents to generate electricity is very simple.

After Zhong Cheng figured out this truth, he suddenly became enlightened.

He raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, expressing his depression over the past few months, but it aroused everyone's astonishment.

Isn't Zhong Cheng out of his mind?

It is inconvenient for him to say more, because without experimental verification, the news is a bit too shocking.

And if nuclear fusion can't happen in the vacuum chamber, it will be a bit shocking.

He just told the crowd that he had some new ideas about controlled fusion.

He can't continue to travel with everyone, and has to rush back to the R&D office to conduct experiments and verify ideas.

But everyone unanimously agreed to accompany Zhong Cheng back to Beishan, and everyone would help together. Who would be in the mood to continue traveling when there is such a big event.

However, everyone asked Zhong Cheng to make up for this unfinished trip in the future.

In this way, Zhong Cheng's tour group hurriedly ended their trip on the third day, and rushed to Beishan in a hurry.

This time, Zhong Cheng did the math and was 77.7% sure of success.

(End of this chapter)