HBWnovel Chapter 583: Copycat is also a skill
Chapter 583: Copycat is also a skill
Chapter No.16, Shanzhai is also a technical activity
Among the many advanced technologies in the Marvel world, the most coveted thing for the modern Chinese government is Iron Man's Ark Reactor: it is safe, cheap, and small in size, but it can provide infinite energy, which is enough to trigger A new energy source for the next industrial revolution!
Its great historical significance to the progress of human civilization is no less than Watt's invention of the steam engine!
So, how much energy can an Ark reactor in the Marvel world output?
Leaving aside those large ark reactors, Tony was captured in the plot of "Iron Man 1".In the terrorist organization prison in Afghanistan, Stark used various weapon parts to piece together the first Iron Man armor energy core, the simplest version of the miniature ark reactor installed on his chest to drive the electromagnet, and the other The output power has reached an astonishing 30 billion joules per second!
This figure is roughly equivalent to 300 million kilowatts of power generation.But in China in the real world, what is the total installed capacity of the so-called "Century Project" Three Gorges Dam?That's about 250 million kilowatts!In other words, the total installed capacity of the entire Three Gorges Project is only equivalent to seven and a half power sources of the earliest version of Iron Man!Moreover, considering that the water level of the Three Gorges Reservoir will fluctuate, it is impossible to maintain the ideal state of full power generation. The actual power generation can drive three Iron Man.Just imagine it, Tony.Stark can create a portable energy source equivalent to one-third of the Three Gorges hydropower station by himself in an illegal small workshop for two or three days...
So, now that there is such a strong and exaggerated energy core, Iron Man Tony.Stark wants to play supersonic flight, vertical lift, palm cannon, diving, laser weapons, all of them are just a drizzle not worth mentioning!Don't talk about Tony.Stark, the iron man, is unscientifically tough. Tony is using enough energy to drive an aircraft carrier to drive a small iron man. Can he not be tough?What does it matter if Iron Man's armor isn't aerodynamic?Have you never heard that as long as the power of the engine is large enough, even bricks can go to the sky? !
——Don't say that Iron Man's reactor is so small, but its power is so large, it is definitely unscientific.In fact, the progress of human technology is increasing by orders of magnitude.For example, the same power machinery, the early Watt steam engine generally only had three to five horsepower in power, but its size was as large as a house.Later, after improvement, even the most powerful marine watt steam engine can only reach about 75 horsepower (the steam turbine used on modern aircraft carriers is a completely different thing).And the engine of a modern car, which is slightly better, needs [-] horsepower to start... If you take the engine of a modern car and bring it to Watt through time and space, it is said that such a small thing has a power of [-] horsepower , then this poor Mr. Watt probably thinks you are crazy, or is going to shout "this is not scientific"...
In short, if you can master Iron Man's Ark reactor technology, you only need to manufacture a palm-sized reactor to meet the daily power supply needs of a city, while the cost of power generation can be reduced to almost zero: users only need to bear the daily maintenance costs of the power grid enough!For the Chinese who need to import huge amounts of fuel oil and natural gas every year, such endless and cheap energy is simply an irresistible temptation!
With such clean, non-polluting, portable and miniaturized energy power, not only can China’s manufacturing industry get rid of the bottleneck of energy shortage, but many current science fictions, such as space travel, space cities, orbital elevators, alien colonies, etc., There is also the possibility of realization.
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So, what is the working principle of such an amazing ark reactor, which can provide endless energy and is like an artifact?
To put it simply, it is the way the sun burns: nuclear fusion - as early as the Cold War era, nuclear fusion has been considered as the main choice to solve human energy problems.One kilogram of nuclear fusion material generates electricity equivalent to [-] tons of coal.Compared with the nuclear fission reactors of various existing nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion produces less nuclear waste, and the radioactivity will disappear in a short period of time. It can be called a wonderful clean energy.
Nuclear fusion is divided into cold nuclear fusion and thermal nuclear fusion.The application product of the latter is the hydrogen bomb, but the former is still in science fiction until the appearance of the Ark reactor. .It is significantly different from most nuclear fusion reactors under test, mainly in the reaction mechanism.
First of all, the Ark reactor does not use the light elements in the periodic table to achieve fusion.At present, the vast majority of fusion experiments in the world use hydrogen and its two isotopes "deuterium" and "tritium" as the ignition fuel for the core.Fusion ignition and control are relatively easy to achieve when using these light elements as fuel.No harmful substances will be produced during the reaction, and the end product is water, which is a clean fusion method, so it is favored by many scientific research institutions.The Ark Reactor does the opposite. It is a nuclear reactor that uses the fusion of heavy elements. Howard invented it.Stark uses the metal palladium as the fuel for the fusion core.Because it is one of the heaviest elements known, palladium is the easiest to ionize compared to other heavy platinum elements, so it is an ideal core fuel.
But the problem is that, compared with the fusion of light elements, the fusion process of heavy elements like metal palladium is much more complicated.The formulas for the changes in physical and chemical properties involved in the reactions can fill a blackboard.In the process of actual production and use, each reaction step in the reactor must be controlled very precisely, otherwise it is likely to explode directly after igniting the core.
Of course, if these technical problems are perfectly solved, then the Ark reactor is a very practical and reliable energy source.After the mature Ark reactor is started, it only needs a very short time to output a large amount of energy, and can maintain the combustion of the core for a long, long time.
On the contrary, although the hydrogen element reactor popular in the real world is easier to ignite, it is difficult to maintain a long-term fusion reaction.
However, even with the above advantages, the Ark reactor cannot be said to be a perfect fusion reactor.Because unlike traditional nuclear fusion reactors that rely on hydrogen fusion to generate energy, the Ark reactor that relies on heavy metal fusion is not a clean energy source.Because palladium has serious toxicity, and the treatment of heavy metal poisoning is a medical problem, Tony installed the Ark reactor directly on his chest at the beginning. It is impossible to avoid the damage of palladium poisoning (during the bombing attack in Afghanistan, There are many small shrapnel left in his blood vessels. An electromagnet must be placed on his chest at all times to attract the shrapnel and prevent it from entering the heart, causing Tony to die. The Ark reactor is to power the electromagnet).
Moreover, he has to be Iron Man flying around all day long, punishing evil and promoting good, naturally the consumption of palladium is getting worse, and the poisoning is even more serious.
Therefore, in the early stage of the plot of "Iron Man 2", Tony found that he was already seriously poisoned. Tony, who probably wouldn't live for a year, once gave up on himself, was extremely decadent, and did many absurd things... However, after Wang Qiu and the others entered Before entering the Marvel world, Tony has successfully solved this problem-relying on his father Howard.According to the clues left by Stark, Tony used the particle accelerator ingeniously to create a safe and non-toxic new element to replace the palladium that would poison him, so that he successfully defeated the life crisis of palladium poisoning.
Next, the civilian version of the Ark reactor sold publicly by Stark Industries also used this new element instead of palladium.
However, the discovery and application of this new element, for Iron Man Tony.This is of course good news for Stark, but it is tantamount to a nightmare for Chinese researchers in the real world who want to reverse-map these civilian version of the Ark reactors and make fake copies...