Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Ranch

“Cough ——”

On the lunar rover, when I heard the light cough from the communication channel, the man sitting next looked towards Lu Zhou and asked with concern.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, just a little itchy nose …”

Lu Zhou, who couldn’t touch his nose across the mask of the space suit, sucked a bit awkwardly. It feels really uncomfortable to want to sneeze but can’t make it.

I don’t know who is thinking about himself.

Setting this aside for a moment, Lu Zhou cast his eyes out of the car window and looked towards the city not far away leaning on the edge of the crater.

“That blueprint was designed by me, but didn’t expect a hundred years later, it will be so prosperous here.”

The man sitting next to him laughed.

“It looks like everything you expected has come true.”

Lu Zhou ordered nodded.

“Okay, at least half of it is already implemented.”

At this moment, the man in his early thirties, sitting next to him, was named Ye He, the mayor of Guanghan City. After hearing that East Asia Electric Power led the expedition to the second-generation controllable fusion reactor site, the mayor Ye personally came to receive his own entire group.

After hearing Lu Zhou ’s sentence, Ye He said with a smile in a joking tone: “Can you ask what is the remaining half? Also ask Academician Lu for advice.”

Lu Zhou: “Energy.”

The moment he heard these two words, Ye He froze slightly, a slight surprise in his eyes.

Although this is no secret, for a Scholar who just woke up from the dormant cabin last month and from the era of a hundred years ago, in one sentence, it points out the biggest development facing Guangzhou City. Bottleneck is unavoidable.

“You see it?”

Lu Zhou said slightly.

“Okay.”

Strictly speaking, the moon is not suitable for the development of densely populated cities. The single resource and excessive maintenance costs have severely limited the industrial development threshold here.

Different from Earth, compared to Earth, where controllable fusion technology has blossomed everywhere, the energy cost of a wide cold special economic zone that still uses solar energy can be said to be quite high.

It’s not that people here don’t want to popularize controlled fusion technology, but because it is too difficult to build a nuclear fusion reactor on the moon.

The first trouble is the heat buildup in vacuum. According to a rough estimate, the heat sink required to build a first-generation fusion reactor can cover almost half the moon.

Lu Zhou estimates that without the support of the second-generation controllable fusion technology, Guanghan City can grow to its current scale, which is basically the end.

This is different from Earth. The entire artificial ecosystem and life support facilities are completely maintained by energy. In other words, people consume precious energy from the moment they set foot on the moon.

Guanghan City was not crowded in the early days. It was just the scale of a scientific research station. A circular array of solar arrays and a scientific research base-sized energy storage facility could fully meet the needs of a day and night rotation in the entire colony.

However, the entire Guanghan City rarely says that there is also a resident population of One hundred thousand. As a tourism, business and scientific research center of the Diyue system, the floating population here is ten times higher.

The energy consumed every day is an astronomical figure. Most of this energy gap has to be filled by solar facilities, so that the overall urban planning of Guanghan City is very compact. In order to leave space for solar facilities, Peak has almost reached the minimalist architectural style.

And that’s why most countries simply skipped the moon and moved the colony directly to the fire star.

The second-generation controllable fusion has not seen hope. Whether the helium III buried in the lunar soil can be used as a strategic material of the space age has been questioned. If it is only for titanium ore and rare earth resources, the asteroid belt It can fully meet the supply of fire star and Earth Moon system. There is no need to die on the hard bone of the moon.

After arriving at the destination, the entire group got off.

Looking at the crater in front of him, Lu Zhou nodded with satisfaction.

The terrain is perfect, and the angle facing Earth is also good. The next step is the analysis of the geological composition. As long as the geological structure of the lower lunar soil is not loose and porous, the location of the experimental reactor is not a problem here.

“The conditions here are quite suitable. If you are OK, I plan to build the experimental reactor of the second-generation controllable fusion here.”

“To be honest, according to the blueprint I designed that year, if there is no second-generation controllable fusion technology, the one hundred thousand resident population is almost the limit of Guanghan City. The reason why I circled that many helium mines , That’s exactly what was taken into account. “

“As a result, beyond my expectations, I originally thought that these good things would definitely benefit my compatriots a hundred years later, didn’t expect that you did not even drink the broth.”

Listening to Lu Zhou’s ridicule, Ye He looked awkward, and coughed softly.

“This … I can’t decide whether the second-generation controllable fusion technology can be solved. And I’m confused here, I don’t know if it’s inappropriate to ask.”

Lu Zhou said with a smile: “If you don’t understand, ask, what’s wrong with this?”

Mayor Ye said earnestly: “There is a problem of thermal accumulation in the first-generation controllable fusion. Isn’t there a similar problem in the second-generation controllable fusion? I don’t quite understand why you chose to build a fusion power plant on the moon Up. If there is a long-distance transmission method … why not build a power station on Earth and then send electricity directly to this side? “

Lu Zhou: “Thermal accumulation is indeed a problem, but it can be solved for the second-generation controllable fusion. Let’s say that, because the first-generation controllable fusion will generate additional neutrons, the design idea of ​​the reactor shell is Recovery of additional neutrons, such as liquid lithium neutron recovery technology, etc. Although these designs can effectively recover neutrons, they do not solve the problem of overheating the core and occupy at least 70% of the design space . “

“… That is, because the second-generation controllable fusion does not generate additional neutrons, you can omit many redundant designs and leave more design space to solve the problem of thermal accumulation?” looking thoughtful Touch the chin, Ye He seemed to understand nodded, “I seem to understand what you mean.”

Lu Zhou applauded nodded.

“Your perception is very high-”

“Oh, don’t be fooled by his nonsense!”

Just then, a discordant voice suddenly came from the communication channel.

After hearing this, the entire group subconsciously moved towards and looked behind him, and saw an old man wearing a space suit, striding toward the side of moving towards meteor.

Behind him, he followed a youngster, chasing the old man’s footsteps with a wry smile.

I recognized the youngster as his own secretary, but not at all recognized who the old man was. Mayor Ye slightly frowned, but kept it politely.

“May I ask the elderly?”

The old expression glanced at Lu Zhou badly, then looked towards Ye He, said displeasedly.

“Qiu Mingrui! You guys invited me here, I don’t know who I am?”

When he heard the old man’s name, Mayor Ye suddenly had a faint expression on his face, and then laughed.

“It was Autumn Academician, disrespectful. But why are you here today?”

Qiu Mingrui hehe said with a smile.

“If I come later, you must not be fooled by this guy.”

It’s okay to flicker …

Do people in the 22nd century know this old stalk?

Looking at the inexplicably hostile old man, Lu Zhou asked curiously.

“What the hell is this?”