Vol 3 Chapter 214 Rhenium ore

The energy produced by a continuously operating fusion reactor is extremely astonishing. Even if at least 40% of this energy is used to maintain its own operation, only 60% of the energy output is already Beyond the efficiency of thermal power plants.

Moreover, the core pile is extremely small, only five cubic meters in size, and even with the outer casing, it will not exceed ten cubic meters.

With such a small volume, the actual reaction range is less than one cubic meter, and the amount of helium three consumed per hour is about one hundred grams, but the power generation capacity is close to five million kilowatts per hour.

A thermal power unit has an installed capacity of about 300MW, or 100,000 kilowatts, which is only one-fiftieth of the reactor above.

The huge Three Gorges Power Station has an installed capacity of only 22.5 million kilowatts. That’s a little more than four times that number.

Therefore, as long as the entire core stack is expanded a little, the helium three consumed per hour can be increased by five times, and it can replace the Three Gorges Power Station.

But after all, this is not a blue star, but a barren moon. The base has just stood up, so it can’t consume so much electricity, nor can it consume the aura converted by electricity.

Of course, the most important thing is that there are not so many blank spirit stones that can be used as storage for spirit energy.

Although spiritual energy is not like electricity, it is difficult to store, but if you put it outside, it will disappear within a few breaths.

But turning on the fusion reaction is also not easy. It almost exhausts the spiritual energy transmitted from the nearby solar panels, and by the way, also exhausts the spiritual energy in the 200,000 spirit stones.

So up to now, the energy put into the reactor has not been fully recovered.

Therefore, Yang Qing didn’t intend to stop this experiment pile unless it was absolutely necessary, so here, build a spirit stone production workshop, and find a way out for the spirit energy before it is consumed.

At this time, Yang Qing remembered the plan that he had planned but had to postpone when he got to the moon.

That is to establish an activity area similar to the blue star on the moon.

It is similar to Blue Star, so the gravity is similar, and more importantly, it needs air around the standard atmospheric pressure.

Of course, to achieve this, a lot of effort is still needed, such as how to keep the air out of the control range of the base.

If you use the ability of runes, you will obviously have great difficulties, but with Blue Star’s technology, it will be easier, isn’t it just to build a greenhouse, although this greenhouse is a bit bigger and more demanding, it is not a greenhouse!

Naturally, this greenhouse will not be as large as 10,000 square kilometers, but a few thousand square meters is also an appropriate number.

The construction of the greenhouse is not difficult. The pure steel structure uses titanium alloy as the skeleton, high weather-resistant glass is laid on it, and soft metal edges are sealed, which can resist the unscrupulous erosion of the sun and the temperature changes in the morning and evening.

However, all of this is obviously still early, and further construction can only be carried out after the base has started its own metal smelting road.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of metal minerals on the moon. In such a short period of time, the base has discovered common mineral deposits on blue stars, including elemental iron, bauxite, iron-titanium alloy, copper, gold and silver.

In addition, there are rare earths, lithium and other minerals, the content of which is much higher than that on the blue star.

In addition, the most important thing is to find an existence of rhenium metal.

This magical metal, which is widely used in fighter jets, has only one billionth of its reserves on Blue Star, and its annual output is only forty or fifty tons.

Seventy percent of them were taken away by aero-engine manufacturers. It is precisely because of this that the engines of the United States firmly occupy the top position in the world’s engine thrust and service life, and it also gives the United States Air Force the invincible arrogance of the world. .

This time, a large range of rhenium was found in the base, which basically exists as a single metal substance, but the particles are small, but the spread is very large, and the reserves are at least over a thousand tons, and there is no need to use the usual purification method on Blue Star. method because most of them are elemental rhenium.

Although these, exposed to the surface of the moon for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be a large amount of radioactive rhenium 186, but only the remaining part is enough to satisfy the people on the blue star.

Yang Qing reckons that if this news gets out, people all over the world, especially in the United States, will jump their feet.

Because the hegemony of the United States is based on its own military power.

The representative of his military power is a formation of more than a dozen aircraft carriers headed by the Kitty Hawk, as well as military bases all over the world.

In the era of never-ending days, the only country that can deploy globally and strike globally within twelve hours is represented by the F-22 with the F-119 engine and the F-35 equipped with the F-135. These two stealth Five generations of fighters.

In Huaguo, the J-20 was trapped by the engine, unable to achieve supersonic cruise for a long time, and the number of service was insufficient. Xiong Guosu 57 was still lying on the test bench and could not be equipped, so he was the overlord of the sky.

Rhenium has a melting point of 3180 degrees and is one of the metals with the highest melting point on the planet.

The power of the F-135 engine lies in its turbine blades doped with 3 to 5 percent rhenium, which reduced the use of rhenium in the later stage, but its performance may not be better, but compared to the scarce rhenium, other Metal, some more readily available.

Although these rheniums are of greater significance to the great power struggle on Blue Star, it does not mean that Yang Qing and the base have no idea about it.

In the eyes of Xiaomei, who advocates crowd tactics, puppet robots using cheap materials are the first choice for the development of the base. With the help of the talisman array, there is almost no blue star firepower to destroy them before the aura is exhausted.

But this kind of scarce metal ~www.readmtl.com~ is also needed by the base, especially in the high temperature and high pressure environment like Jupiter’s core, the requirements for the detector are also extremely high.

Even if there is a talisman array that can bear a lot of pressure, the material of the detector itself is also very important.

Because of a better shell, more talisman arrays can be engraved, so that things like detectors can truly penetrate into places that were originally unknown.

Listening to Xiao Ai’s voice from the earphones, Yang Qing still gave up the idea of ​​notifying the news during the development conference.

Now that the fusion reactor has been completed, it is possible to officially replicate the same reactor inside the base. After a series of verifications, the efficiency of the improved reactor has exceeded 75%.

In the future, even if it is separated from the solar power station and completely shrouded in darkness, the base will be completely self-sufficient.

Of course, what is most needed is the spaceship parked on the top of the base. Although the spaceship seems small, after the space has been expanded, it has become very easy to accommodate a fusion engine that has been reduced several times.