"Actually, according to the current growth plan of Laos and the United States, there is no problem in replacing thermal power and traditional nuclear power for commercial operation." Ye Ming picked up the cup and said with a smile: "At worst, the conversion rate will be lower and the dependence on tritium will be higher, but these are all possible
It can be solved on a large scale.”
"Can the United States still carry out large-scale infrastructure construction now?" Professor Huo Liang looked at him, and then at Engineer Luo, in disbelief.
Academician Luo is the chief engineer of the State Nuclear Corporation. When it comes to the ability of Laos and the United States to build power stations, no one knows better than him.
"Haha, how should I put it, now history has entered a new stage, everything is possible." Mr. Luo didn't say it to death, but you could tell by the look in his eyes...
He really didn't believe it.
The last time the United States engaged in major infrastructure construction was during the Roosevelt era. At that time, the people were deep in the quagmire of the Great Depression, and they had to rely on many complicated reasons, including World War II, to get up.
Now nearly a hundred years of good times have passed.
Do you want them to build infrastructure again?
Disaster!
"In the energy field, the cost of one penny per kilowatt hour of electricity is an advantage." Academician Luo continued to smile: "And deuterium and tritium fusion cannot get around boiling water - 80% of the energy is in neutrons, how can you get around it?
So Musk’s deuterium-tritium fusion engine, I think, is just bragging. Unless he does a miracle with great power and only uses 20% of the plasma - in this case, there will not be enough tritium in the world to cause disaster for him alone."
A group of people nodded in agreement.
Ye Ming also smiled and nodded.
In the past few months, the Kuafu project team has divided into two groups, one to verify tritium value-added, and the other to verify helium-3 fusion.
Today's meeting, in addition to talking about tomorrow's trial power generation, mainly discusses these two directions.
"Okay, let's not ridicule the old beauty." Mr. Luo looked at the time: "Let's have a meeting. Let me summarize it first."
The experts in the Kuafu group come from all over the world. Although Chief Engineer Luo is nominally the project leader and presides over every meeting, in fact, everyone's status in the project team is fair and consistent - this is a clear cooperation project.
Groups only differ in division of labor, not positions.
"One month after the last successful operation, Lao Chang, Lao Lao, Lao Lao, Chen Laojiang and others have implemented a very good proliferation plan, which can increase our proliferation recovery rate to 98.5% - an increase of 0.5% compared to the plan. Don't worry.
We really underestimate this point. When we can’t find a new way out, 0.1% is progress.”
Ye Ming took the lead in applauding.
Professor Chang Wendao and others were also smiling - the row over them was responsible for this work.
After the applause stopped, Professor Chang Wendao coughed lightly: "Mr. Luo, let me interrupt."
"you say."
Chang Wendao looked at Ye Ming: "Professor Xiaoye, after Aita gets on the quantum computer, will the computing power be infinite?"
Ye Ming was slightly startled. How dare he guarantee this... something that didn't happen?
However, everyone here is an acquaintance and acquaintance, and naturally he will not hide it. He nodded immediately and said: "As long as nothing unexpected happens, Aita is indeed the bridge connecting quantum computing and classical tasks."
Although there is no positive answer, the meaning is already obvious.
Professor Chang smiled slightly: "Well, after quantum computers can solve classical problems, maybe we can make another breakthrough and achieve true self-sustaining operation."
"You're not going to exhaust your efforts, are you?" Ye Ming was startled.
"Is Aita still afraid of exhaustion?"
"Well... I'm not afraid, but I'm not afraid." Ye Ming coughed and said with a smile: "It's just that we don't know yet how resistant the quantum well computing unit is to fabrication. In short, we'll have to wait and see."
Professor Chang waved his hand: "It's okay, we believe in Aita."
Everyone smiled and nodded in agreement.
——Everyone here has unlimited access to Alta's computing, and they know very well how terrible Alta's ability to coordinate computing tasks is.
Let's put it this way, a traditional computer system can easily be filled with computing power by a computing task with extremely high privileges, causing it to "crash".
But Aita is different. Aita never freezes.
Because her dynamic management level is "anthropomorphic" and can even be said to be beyond human.
——Aita can arrange countless tasks in parallel at the same time to instantly call different computing units. Even if she performs ten thousand π operations in a row, she can still accept other tasks with ease.
This mechanism does not mean how many computing units are reserved, but that it can automatically allocate computing cores when receiving tasks.
Therefore, Aita has never stopped responding because of exhaustion of computing power - of course, due to limited computing power and the need to ensure commercial application, she will be a bit slow when doing a large number of calculations.
Some people even joked that when computing power is tight, Ye Ming might as well do mental arithmetic.
"So, the Western media's public opinion against Aita a while ago is purely a sour grape mentality." Academician Luo sighed with a smile.
After Academician Luo completed his summary, Professor Huo Liang also made a summary on behalf of the helium 3 direction, saying that the calculation demonstration had been passed and that the next step could be to build a demonstration reactor.
But this demonstration pile can really only serve as a demonstration.
Helium 3 is abundant on the moon, but on Earth...
Let’s put it this way, current he3 can only come from the beta decay of tritium in heavy water reactors - but tritium is also in short supply!
And unlike deuterium-tritium fusion, it is a consumable product and cannot achieve self-sustaining proliferation.
…
When it was Ye Ming's turn at last, Ye Ming looked at Mr. Luo.
"Mr. Luo, I have a question. How is the current progress of domestic heavy water reactors?"
"The planning has been completed, and eight are expected to be built within five years. After the construction is completed, it will be able to produce about 200 kilograms of tritium and helium 3 every year. It is indeed a bit of a headache. Now all research directions are actually focused on the moon. Domestic progress is also going well.
It’s relatively high up, and there’s no difference between it and the old America.”
As he spoke, Chief Engineer Luo sighed with emotion: "To be honest, once helium-3 fusion is ignited by us, whoever is the first to deploy it on the moon will have the upper hand."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "So the United States has accelerated the Artemis project." Professor Huo Liang said with a smile: "Five years ago, we said it would be launched before next year, but it turned out that it is about to end this year.
Yes, there is no sign of him yet."
Ye Ming smiled and shook his head: "It's useless for Artemis to go up. They still use traditional fuel propulsion, which can only be said to have greater political influence."
A group of professors burst into laughter.
What they want to do is not fuel propulsion, but fusion engine propulsion.
After laughing, Ye Ming pursed his lips: "Since helium 3 is in short supply and it is fusion fuel, then we have to think about installing the first helium 3 reactor on the spacecraft."
"Does that mean that the domestic fusion reactor will be based on deuterium and tritium fusion first?"
"Well, I'm already so skilled at boiling water anyway, so it doesn't matter if I boil water for a few more years." Ye Ming raised his head and calculated silently: "If it's 200 kilograms, based on the current growth recovery rate, it can probably satisfy domestic demand.
More than 80% of electricity usage."
"Absolutely." Mr. Luo smiled and nodded: "The grid electricity price can be reduced to about 3 cents."
“What is the current price of grid-connected electricity?”
"About two or three cents."
"That means...the overall electricity price is only 20 cents cheaper?"
Chief Engineer Luo spread his hands: "You know that power plants earn hard-earned money, right?"
Everyone laughed.
"It mainly depends on the quantitative change and helium-3 fusion." Engineer Luo sighed: "When a redundant helium-3 fusion reactor is built in one city, the money for buying the power grid will be saved. Until then.
The hourly electricity bill is estimated to be as high as the industrial price of five cents per degree. Moreover, the heat generated can also be used for heating and refined crop production."
"Well, so it's important to build a base on the moon first and grab helium 3." Ye Ming breathed out softly, smiled and clicked.
"Mr. Luo, I think we can contact the aerospace department." After a pause, Ye Ming looked at everyone.
"Recently when I was working on a stabilization solution for a quantum computer, I seemed to have touched the door of the gravity field."