I built an armada.

As for the widespread adoption of controlled nuclear fusion reactions, an energy gain factor of at least 30 is likely just wishful thinking.

After so many years of research on controlled nuclear fusion reactors, the progress in energy gain factor is simply appalling.

In 1991, Europe was the first to achieve deuterium-tritium fusion, and at that time their energy gain factor was 0.11.

Just two years later, the Eagle Tribe raised that number to 0.28.

A few years later, the Eastern Wilderness Tribe achieved a breakthrough, reaching 1.25. Although this data is slightly inflated, it is at least an improvement.

Everything seems to be moving in a positive direction...

And then it got stuck here.

Indeed, for decades afterward, the energy gain factor of controlled nuclear fusion reactors did not improve at all.

According to Su Dingping's memory, 22 years ago in his previous life, the Eagle Tribe achieved a positive energy gain factor for the first time, with the value even reaching a breakthrough of 1.53.

As soon as the news came out, various media outlets hyped it up wildly, as if controlled nuclear fusion was about to be realized.

But in reality, the specifics are something only those who know will understand.

They used a laser with a power of about two megajoules, which generated about three megajoules of energy.

The problem is how to convert this energy into electricity and how to utilize it.
As for how much power was consumed to fire that laser beam of about two megajoules, don't worry about that for now.

Therefore, this data is only suitable for laymen.

That's right, decades have passed, and this data remains around 1, without much change.

Even figuring out how to utilize the energy generated is a huge challenge.

On the screen in front of Su Dingping, the energy gain factor data finally stabilized at 17.2.

Su Dingping leaned back heavily and let out a long sigh of relief.

After several iterations, the final data far exceeded his expectations.

And this is not even the limit.

The current data is the result of Su Dingping's efforts to streamline the process based on existing technological capabilities and circumstances.

If you build the complete version according to the plan given in the blueprints, the stats will easily exceed 30.

Moreover, there's no need to worry about how to utilize it; the solution has already been prepared on the blueprints.

The only thing to consider now is whether or not to take out the blueprints.

Su Dingping's heart was pounding.

He could even feel the heavy pounding of his heart in his chest.

I could even hear the sound of my blood rushing to my ears!

If we were to discuss the changes that controlled nuclear fusion would bring to the world once it is truly implemented, the impact would be enormous.

It is well known that controlled nuclear fusion provides energy that is not only clean but also very cheap.

How cheap is it? So cheap that there are no costs involved, so cheap that obtaining energy is almost free.

Because during the entire power generation process, nuclear fusion reactors also produce other byproducts.

The production of these byproducts alone can not only cover the maintenance costs of controlled nuclear fusion reactors, but also bring certain economic benefits.

Once a controlled nuclear fusion reactor is successfully implemented, it will be a matter of paying people to provide electricity.

The near-free availability of energy and electricity affects more than just the daily electricity use of ordinary people.

The industrial sector was the most affected.

The abundant and free energy supply will drastically reduce the costs of decomposing minerals, smelting metals, and logistics transportation.

It has even been reduced to a point where the cost is almost entirely time, and the cost of manual design and maintenance.

Don't think this is an exaggeration; these are all things that are set in stone!

This means that the prices of various industrial raw materials will be extremely cheap, which in turn will stimulate a drop in the prices of finished industrial products.

The cost of various large-scale machinery has dropped significantly, which in turn drives down the price of raw materials, thus creating a cycle until the price drops to the point where it can no longer be reduced.

This means that various personalized production tools will become mainstream, and you can buy things that you couldn't buy before for one-tenth, one-hundredth, or even one-thousandth of the price Huawei currently offers!

In addition, the biggest challenge facing seawater desalination is also solved: as long as energy is unlimited, freshwater is practically free.

Therefore, the implementation of controlled nuclear fusion technology will not only significantly reduce electricity bills for ordinary residents, but even water bills will drop rapidly. Oh
In agriculture, soilless cultivation is a concept familiar to many people.

Why hasn't hydroponics been successfully implemented? Why hasn't it been widely adopted until now?
There is only one reason, and that is energy consumption.

Soilless cultivation has an extremely high energy requirement. Even up to the point in Su Dingping's previous life, there were not many factories that could fully realize the profitability of soilless cultivation.

With energy nearly free and freshwater readily available, the cost of industrial construction will be greatly reduced, and dozens of high hydroponic buildings will appear along the coast.

Farmland is no longer the main limiting factor for grain production.

Moreover, this soilless cultivation technology doesn't consider whether the arable land is fertile; as long as you're willing to build it directly in the desert, there won't be any problems at all.

At the same time, the increase in crop yields will further promote the prosperity of the livestock breeding industry.

Nearly free energy will allow livestock and aquaculture to overcome geographical and spatial limitations.

Finally, and most importantly, in terms of transportation, fossil fuel vehicles will be completely phased out.

By then, electric cars will be driving on the streets and alleys.

As raw materials become cheaper, large-scale equipment becomes more widespread, and energy becomes virtually free, construction costs will drop significantly, leading to the increasing prevalence of multi-level highways.

At that time, there will truly be highways floating in the sky, just like in science fiction movies.

This will also lead to a significant reduction in logistics costs and prices.

All sectors of society will form a complete closed loop, and the cost of human survival will be reduced to almost nothing.

It is no exaggeration to say that once controlled nuclear fusion technology is truly implemented and widely adopted, it will mean that society's productivity will be greatly liberated.

For individuals, basic survival will no longer be a problem, and the era of struggling for food for millions of years since the dawn of mankind will come to a temporary end.

Just thinking about such a society is exhilarating.

While looking forward to the future, Su Dingping also had to consider the present.

Rubbing his temples, Su Dingping pulled his wandering thoughts back.

"Let's finish what we need to do first."

Su Dingping sighed and pulled up all the data graphs from the previous simulations.

Then he added the last result to the equation.

A beautiful curve appeared before him.

Looking back at the blueprints, Su Dingping could only marvel at how consistent the mathematical model was, how clear the physical principles were, and how closed the engineering logic was. It couldn't be more perfect!
The theoretical verification has been passed, but there are still many difficulties that have not been resolved.

Su Dingping pulled up another core sub-module of the blueprints.

This module can be said to be the most important module in the entire nuclear fusion reactor, namely the first wall and divertor material system.

In the innermost layer of the reactor, this module needs to directly face plasma with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees!

Even trillions of high-energy neutrons per second per square meter!
Without a sturdy suit of armor, there is absolutely no way to withstand these impacts.

This drawing details the material system of the first wall and the divertor.

The most crucial element is a composite gradient functional material.

The structure of this material is extremely complex; at first glance, it might even be mistaken for a natural crystal peeled off from some kind of organism.

The most outrageous thing is that this material is composed of seven different rare elements and isotopes, making it extremely difficult to synthesize.

Theoretically, it needs to be deposited and self-organized layer by layer with atomic precision under extreme high temperature, high pressure and directional neutron irradiation environment.

What's even more outrageous is that this material has extremely stringent, even insane, requirements for the orientation of each crystal layer, the elemental ratio, and even the defect density!
However, looking at the characteristics of this material, Su Dingping felt that such a terrifying and perverse requirement was not so outrageous.

This material exhibits neutron irradiation tolerance and thermal conductivity far exceeding those of all currently known materials.

In addition, this material has sufficient strength and toughness to resist the mechanical stress caused by plasma instability.

Finally, this material can also generate as little long-lived radioactive waste as possible!
Compared to so many advantages, it's normal for the synthesis path to be a little more complex.

Looking at the blueprints in his hand, Su Dingping gave a wry smile.

In fact, the theory of controlled nuclear fusion is no secret.

You can easily find the basic principles of controlled nuclear fusion by simply searching online.

The only thing that might involve secrets is probably the laser ignition control system; otherwise, there are basically no secrets.

However, the biggest challenge in controlled nuclear fusion is not the technical principles, after all, tokamak, stellarator and various other design configurations have been operating for many years.

The real bottleneck in controlled nuclear fusion has never been how to ignite the sun, but how to build a furnace that can contain the sun!
This composite gradient functional material is the key to containing the sun.

Staring at the blueprints in front of him, Su Dingping remained silent for a long time.

This is one of the reasons why he hesitated.

If there were no technical difficulties, and all that was needed were the blueprints, a controlled nuclear fusion reactor could be built immediately, Su Dingping would not have hesitated so much.

The reason for the hesitation is that even though the blueprints have been provided, there is currently no way to synthesize this most crucial material.

It's not that the synthesis is difficult or too costly, but rather that with the current knowledge of materials science and even considering all available preparation methods under extreme conditions, it is impossible to stably synthesize this crucial material on a macroscopic scale while meeting the quality requirements of engineering!
Even if we take into account extreme methods such as the highest power ion implantation, laser cladding, magnetron sputtering, and even underground nuclear explosion simulation environments, it still won't work.

This is not a problem with equipment precision or process parameters at all.

However, within the existing theoretical framework of material synthesis, the synthesis environment required for this material can only be described as theoretically feasible.

Unfortunately, the blueprints only provided the theoretical details of how to assemble the components, leaving Su Dingping to figure it out himself.

This means that once China is determined to push forward the development of controlled nuclear fusion using stellarators, it will not only require China to reject the current tokamak approach.

It may even require allocating a considerable amount of manpower and resources to study this extremely special material.

However, the synthesis conditions for this material are extremely demanding.

The so-called synthesis theory is only theoretically feasible.

It faces the same challenges as current controlled nuclear fusion technology.

It is technically feasible, but it will probably be 50 years away from being actually implemented.

There's nothing wrong with the synthesis theory, but it's hard to say how many years it will take to actually prepare and apply it in practice.

Su Dingping rubbed his temples and read the entire synthesis theory again from beginning to end.

Looking at these synthesis conditions and requirements, he really couldn't figure out how to create a suitable synthesis environment.

Su Dingping even doubted whether he had gone astray.

Perhaps the synthesis and preparation method of this material is actually quite simple and very inexpensive.

But soon, Su Dingping banished this unrealistic idea from his mind.

"in the end……"

Su Dingping looked out the window at the night scene.

"What are you thinking about? Why are you so melancholy?"

Guo Xueyun knocked on Su Dingping's door and came in.

"I haven't seen you much in a while. You're always out early and back late. What have you been researching lately?"

Guo Xueyun did not touch the documents on Su Dingping's desk, which was her way of showing respect to Su Dingping.

This is also for safety reasons.

After all, working in such a classified unit, who knows when you might come across secrets that cannot be spoken of.

With just a glance from Su Dingping, Guo Xueyun immediately understood whether it was a secret or not, and whether it was something he could see or not.

"I don't recall having any recent assignments."

"There really aren't any missions."

Su Dingping gave a wry smile.

"You'll know just by looking at it."

As he spoke, Su Dingping handed the documents on the table to Guo Xueyun.

Guo Xueyun opened the file and flipped through it casually a few times.

A moment later, she froze on the spot.

Seemingly a little hesitant to believe her own judgment, Guo Xueyun rubbed her eyes and read the document over and over again.

Although there was a lot of content in the document that she couldn't understand or comprehend.

But she still recognized the words "controlled nuclear fusion reactor".

"You actually managed to make this thing?"

Guo Xueyun's voice trembled, and she could hardly believe it.

After calming down, Guo Xueyun quickly discovered the blind spot.

"The mainstream research in China should be tokamak, right? How come yours is a stellarator?"

"Don't you think the tokamak isn't the mainstream technology of the future?" (End of Chapter)