Chapter 362, Super Power

Time has passed silently like running water, and in a blink of an eye, it has come to 2150, the middle of the 22nd century.

In the void somewhere in the Kuiper Belt of the Centaurus Galaxy of the Empire, the originally dark and silent void is now brightly lit. Huge spaceships illuminate everything around them, and countless small spaceships are constantly flying on these huge spaceships. All spaceships are marked with the logo of the Imperial Scientific Research Institute.

In a large spaceship, Li Wanzhou's face is full of excitement at this time. The whole person seems very excited. After decades of research, the cold nuclear fusion he proposed has now been successfully realized, and the final step of testing is about to be carried out.

Cold nuclear fusion technology uses high-density and high-intensity magnetic fields to control neutrons to achieve nuclear fusion technology. The scientists of the Empire have already thoroughly studied this technology in theory, but it is still difficult to implement it.

Although the powerful magnetic energy technology was used to successfully control neutrons and achieve nuclear fusion, the huge energy generated during nuclear fusion still failed the experiment again and again.

Cold nuclear fusion is to achieve nuclear fusion at room temperature or relatively high temperature, but the powerful energy generated during nuclear fusion will also produce extremely high temperatures. This problem has always troubled the scientists of the empire.

Li Wanzhou and others were even ready to give up the research on cold nuclear fusion and return to the research on thermonuclear fusion technology until a scientist proposed the concept of the tokamak device. The superconducting tokamak device is a toroidal container that uses magnetic confinement and vacuum insulation to achieve controlled nuclear fusion. It makes the continuous steady-state operation of the magnetic confinement configuration a reality.

In fact, this tokamak device is a kind of imaginary thing proposed by a great physicist in the 20th century to control nuclear fusion. The principle is to use strong magnetic confinement and vacuum insulation to control the terrifying temperature generated by nuclear fusion.

It's just that human scientists have never been able to truly realize it. It's reasonable for the scientists of the Empire to bring up this concept again, because the Empire's magnetic energy technology and other scientific and technological technologies are already quite advanced, and the Tokamak device can be developed to successfully realize controlled nuclear fusion technology.

After decades of struggle and research, using cold nuclear fusion technology and Tokamak devices, the scientists of the Empire finally succeeded in developing controlled nuclear fusion technology.

This experiment also attracted much attention. The Emperor Li Fu of the Empire, the President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Chen Bin, and many veterans of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Yu Liang, Cao Haitao, Yang Yiping, Yao Tianyi, Li Qianyu, Bai Cai, Gu Feng, Liu Jun, Dong Zhifei, Tang Boyuan, etc. were all present.

At this time, in the void, in the huge spaceships, the elite scientists of the Empire were looking forward to the experiment, and from time to time they looked into the void in the middle.

In the void in the middle, there is a huge spaceship. This spaceship is different from other spaceships around. Now the general spaceships of the empire all use anti-gravity power systems, so they are all elliptical flying saucer-shaped spaceships. No matter whether the spaceship is big or small, all spaceships are like this, unless they do not use anti-gravity power systems.

The shape of this spaceship is a rectangular parallelepiped, more than ten kilometers long, 5 kilometers wide, and 3 kilometers high. The most peculiar thing is that there is a huge tube-like thing at its tail. This tube alone has a diameter of 1 kilometer, which is a bit similar to the tail of a space fighter powered by a plasma engine.

It is obvious that this spaceship is definitely not a spaceship with an anti-gravity system. Otherwise, with such a shape, the anti-gravity system cannot operate well and stably. The engines it installs are warp engines and nuclear fusion power engines.

"Start!"

With Li Wanzhou's order, everyone focused their attention on the spaceship in the distance, and various monitoring instruments began to record everything.

There was no one on the spaceship in the middle, and everything was controlled by computers. However, there were also many animals, plants, etc. on the spaceship used as experimental subjects.

Under Li Wanzhou's order, the supercomputer began to operate, and the nuclear fusion power system on the spaceship began to operate. The powerful magnetic energy beam instantly ignited the He3 in the nuclear fusion reactor. Because there are no neutrons in the nuclear fusion reaction using helium-3 (the thermonuclear reaction of helium-3 and deuterium will only produce non-radioactive protons), when helium-3 is used as an energy source, it will not produce radiation and will not harm the environment. It is the most ideal nuclear fusion fuel.

In the nuclear fusion reactor, the nuclear fusion fuel instantly began to generate terrifying energy, and the temperature also began to rise rapidly, reaching a high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees almost instantly. Such a high temperature was enough to melt everything.

But at this time, the strong magnetic field began to play a role, coupled with the design of vacuum insulation, the strong energy and high temperature were instantly ejected from the tail of the spaceship in the set direction.

A dazzling white beam of light shot out from the tail of the spacecraft, with a length of more than 100 kilometers, releasing extremely powerful energy. The originally cold void around it began to heat up rapidly due to the powerful nuclear fusion energy and high temperature, and even the energy fluctuations could be seen faintly with the naked eye.

At the same time, as the powerful white tail flame was ejected, the spacecraft with a mass of 10 billion tons also began to fly forward rapidly in the void. The spacecraft, which was originally stationary, began to soar rapidly, and this soaring speed was far faster than that of the spacecraft using the anti-gravity power system.

You should know that the mass of this spacecraft has reached 10 billion tons. According to the mass, it is definitely a large spacecraft. However, driven by the powerful nuclear fusion power system, its speed soared very easily. It is estimated that in less than an hour, its speed will reach 1,000 kilometers per second.

"What a terrible power, this acceleration is really too powerful!"

Chen Bin looked at the spacecraft that was rapidly accelerating in the void, and then looked at the acceleration calculated by the computer next to it, and a smile appeared on his face.

"The nuclear fusion power system directly uses powerful energy as power to propel the spacecraft forward, and no energy is wasted in the middle. This is not comparable to converting nuclear fusion energy into electrical energy and then converting point energy into other energy."

Yu Liang's eyes were also shining, as if he saw a rare treasure, carefully admiring the spacecraft that was constantly moving away in the void.

"Increase the power!"

On the other side, Li Wanzhou was also satisfied with the data. It was similar to the data simulated by the supercomputer, with no big difference. However, the nuclear fusion power system has just started to operate, and it is only one-tenth of the power.

As Li Wanzhou's order was passed down, the tail flame at the tail of the spacecraft began to stretch rapidly. Originally, it was only a tail flame of hundreds of kilometers. Slowly, this dazzling white tail flame began to become 200 kilometers, 300 kilometers... The speed of the spacecraft also began to soar, and soon it slowly became smaller in everyone's field of vision, until only a dazzling light spot was left, and the surrounding void seemed to still have the heat left by the white tail flame.

Although the spaceship slowly disappeared from everyone's sight, everyone could continue to track the traces of the spaceship through the monitor. Everyone looked at the display, which was playing the operation of the spaceship.

"Originally, I just wanted to use nuclear fusion power to provide enough energy for the warp engine. I didn't expect that it would be so powerful when used alone as a power source, and it would be even better than the anti-gravity power system."

Li Wanzhou always paid attention to the data, but he was constantly thinking in his mind that the performance of the spaceship actually depends to a large extent on the power system of the spaceship.

The anti-gravity power system is very powerful, there is no doubt about it. The anti-gravity power system that the empire has now can only be regarded as an entry-level one. Once the anti-gravity power system is fully mastered, it will also be very powerful.

The nuclear fusion power system is the kind of unintentional planting of willows and willows. Originally, controlled nuclear fusion was only used to provide energy for the warp engine on the spaceship. Scientists thought that they could also try to use it as a conventional power to propel the spaceship forward.

In this way, the spacecraft can fly quickly in the normal void without installing an anti-gravity power system, and the design of the spacecraft will not be limited to the elliptical flying saucer shape.

Sure enough, the powerful nuclear fusion power did not disappoint. It is very powerful. The powerful energy generated by nuclear fusion is used as power. Even large spacecraft can be easily pushed up. This acceleration is even more powerful than the anti-gravity power system currently mastered.

The spacecraft continued to accelerate in the void, the speed became faster and faster, and soon broke through the speed of 1000 kilometers per second, and continued to accelerate, 1500 kilometers per second, 2000 kilometers per second, the speed became faster and faster, and the tail flame at the tail of the spacecraft became longer.

"It's perfect. In the future, our empire will have two powerful technologies in conventional power: anti-gravity and nuclear fusion power systems."

Li Wanzhou nodded with satisfaction. All the data were very perfect.

"The next step is to start the warp engine power. It's really exciting!"