Chapter 409: Using controllable nuclear fusion to boil water is a bit too low.
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But the experimental reactor and the demonstration reactor are two completely different things after all.
Relatively speaking, the demonstration reactor requires a lot more supporting equipment.
For example, ultra-vacuum pumps, plasma exchange systems, generator sets, power grid control...a series of related supporting equipment are not available in experimental reactors.
In fact, Xu Chuan is also in the research institute, discussing these matters with two academicians arranged by the Nuclear Industry Group.
"For the generating units, we will tentatively select six groups and reserve space for four groups. There is no problem with this. Just follow your request, Academician Xu."
"But as for the way to generate electricity, we still use heat engines?"
"If you use a heat engine, we have complete design drawings and structural drawings here. You can use it with a few modifications, which is very convenient."
In the office, academicians Wang Yongnian and Hou Chengping from the Nuclear Industry Group, Xu Chuan and Peng Hongxi exchanged details about the supporting equipment for the construction of the demonstration reactor.
Hearing this question, Xu Chuan smiled and said: "Using nuclear fusion to boil water is honestly overkill."
Opposite, Academician Hou Chengping shook his head and said: "But it is undeniable that boiling water is still the most efficient way of generating electricity that we can currently create."
Since Watt and Faraday started the steam age and the electromagnetic age, no matter how energy and social technology have changed, there have never been any big changes in terms of electrical energy and how to generate electricity.
Boiling water is still the most common and most efficient way to generate electricity.
Although countries are constantly optimizing this set of technologies, they have never broken away.
How to tell a joke:
"Hey, look! We have discovered xx new energy again."
"What can we do with it?"
"We can use it to boil water!"
It's a black humorous joke, but it truly reflects the current level of human technology in power generation.
How should I put it? With current human technology, it is difficult to directly convert chemical energy and nuclear energy in coal, petroleum, etc. into electrical energy on a large scale.
The whole thing is still the same as Watt and Faraday did two hundred years ago.
First find a way to convert it into the internal energy of water, then the water vapor drives the steam turbine to convert it into kinetic energy, and then cuts the magnetic field lines and converts it into electrical energy.
Modern thermal power essentially uses fuel (coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, garbage, etc.) to boil water, generate water vapor, convert its kinetic energy into kinetic energy for turbine rotation, and then drive the generator set.
If we expand further, hydropower and wind power can actually be planned into this category, and the core mechanism is the same.
The only difference is solar power generation, the core of which is the photovoltaic effect.
In addition, there is also bioelectric power generation that is almost rarely heard of. This uses electricity generated by a special chemical reaction of organisms themselves, but it has basically never been used commercially and is still being studied in laboratories.
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It is undeniable that the efficiency of boiling water is indeed very efficient among the past power generation technologies."
"For mainstream heat sources such as coal combustion, solar energy, nuclear fission, and geothermal heat, until supercritical carbon dioxide cycle technology matures, no other material can replace water, which seems to be an unremarkable material."
"It can be said that as the source of life, water is very magical. Human beings are very lucky that such a good material can not only be drunk but also used to generate electricity."
After a pause, he continued with a smile: "But when it comes to efficiency, boiling water is not necessarily the most efficient."
"Especially in technology like controllable nuclear fusion."
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