As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 162 A Difficult Choice
“We made the right choice.”

"We can only say that we didn't lose anything. As for Light and Hand of the Mage, we can't say that we didn't lose anything until we see the specific content of this technical material."

“Even for basic magic, two basic magics require 10 magic coins, and it will take a long time to collect them all.

It would be nice if Merlin could be sold separately.”

China claimed to Russia that it only had five magic coins, but in fact they had seven in total.

After spending five to exchange for biological storage technology data with Russia, there are still two left.

There is a huge gap between the requirements for exchanging Light Spell and Hand of the Mage.

"Instead of thinking about basic magic, it is better to consider the analysis of the essence of magic for 20 magic coins. I think this is the most valuable."

“It’s still a long way from 20 magic coins, unless you complete the bounty mission. If you only rely on finding the cosmic coordinates of intelligent life, it will take too long.

However, we have recently made new discoveries through the calculation of the Heber algorithm and have located another magic coin. We estimate that we will be able to calculate its precise cosmic coordinates in just two months."

The recipients of the magic brains from China will communicate with each other regularly. The next magic brains in China were given to physicists, mathematicians and biologists respectively.

The biggest share went to the mathematicians.

After reading the technical information of biological storage and implementing it in practice, everyone realized that it was not a loss at all.

Because it includes how to directly interfere with matter through will and change the properties of matter from active to stable.

In a sense, this is magic. If we can research more methods to influence the properties of matter based on Merlin's information, the value it contains is immeasurable.

To give a very simple example, how to use magic to improve existing materials so that they can better confine ultra-high temperature plasma after heating.

The desired effect can be achieved simply by willfully making the properties of matter more stable.

Being able to better confine ultra-high temperature plasma means that a breakthrough has been achieved in the most difficult aspect of controlled nuclear fusion.

The potential of controlled nuclear fusion mainly depends on the nuclear energy in lithium and deuterium, which can be utilized through DT thermonuclear reactions. This could be a very large energy source with strong resource and environmental advantages.

China has made significant progress in recent years in controlling the high-temperature materials required to achieve controlled nuclear fusion.

In a tokamak-type annular pinch, China has achieved generation, maintenance and control of temperatures of 10 MK for up to one hundred and one seconds.

The ion temperature can be increased by auxiliary heating and is already close to 20 MK, less than three times the ideal minimum ignition temperature.

The energy confinement time τ improves at near-reactor values ​​of the number density n, so that values ​​of n τ approach 10 13 cm -3 s which are 10 times the Lawson criterion and are sufficient for energy production in special systems.

These results were achieved in a device with a relatively modest plasma torus size of small radius of approximately 20 cm.

Controlled nuclear fusion and grid-connected power generation will not only bring magic coins, but more importantly, it will give China more energy sources that are not restricted by others.

In recent years, China has vigorously developed green energy such as photovoltaic industry, wind power, and hydropower. On the one hand, it is for environmental protection, and on the other hand, it is to avoid being strangled.

The country is heavily dependent on oil and is the world's largest importer of crude oil, with an import dependence rate of over 30 percent.

If you want to develop new energy vehicles, your power generation must increase. Otherwise, it will not be able to replace oil-powered vehicles.

It is difficult to achieve a fundamental increase in power generation using current means. Even with the development of new infrastructure in the next few years, the increase will still not be able to achieve a 30% penetration rate for electric vehicles.

Controlled nuclear fusion and grid-connected power generation can completely solve this problem.

Moreover, with the widespread promotion of controlled nuclear fusion, the cost of electricity will drop, which will also benefit China's manufacturing industry.

The price of industrial electricity is much higher than that of residential electricity, which is a heavy burden for the manufacturing industry. The decline in industrial electricity consumption can boost production capacity. China is one of the few countries on the planet where residential electricity consumption is lower than industrial electricity consumption.

"You have recently been involved in a controlled nuclear fusion project. Do you have any ideas?"

“I think we can experiment with more materials that we haven’t considered before.

Like SiC, this material has the advantages of low activation, high temperature resistance, relatively low neutron absorption and radiation resistance. However, due to the consideration of the material lifetime in nuclear fusion, SiC is less considered.

We can use magic to process SiC and see if we can make up for the defects.

There are a lot of materials stored in the database of the Huaguo Sun project, and we can all try them out.

It’s just that our current knowledge of magic is limited, so I don’t think we need to rush into researching how to apply magic to technology.

Instead, we need to understand the essence of how will affects materials in the biological storage that Merlin gave us.

If you cannot figure out the essence, try to conduct research in an extended way and figure out what role will plays first.

It would be more reasonable to think about what controlled nuclear fusion can do.

A worker must first sharpen his tools if he wants to do well.

You should know that the Russians also have this material. This is an epoch-making revolution, and we cannot be left behind."

The cooperation between China and Russia is a helpless one, as they can only choose each other.

"It seems that only we and Russia have obtained biological storage materials. America and the Europa League have not yet reached a cooperation."

“Yes, if they reach a cooperation, then their biological storage server will definitely be the first to announce the successful development.

Instead of taking administrative measures to prevent China’s biological storage servers from entering their market.”

"We now have a rare time advantage that we must seize."

"The problem is that magic has advantages in improving materials, and we need to choose one to study in depth.

Controlled nuclear fusion or aerospace engine research? Both require breakthroughs in materials, but we only have five people.

In fact, mathematicians need to focus on studying artificial intelligence and the unified time rules of the universe.

There are only three of us who have the energy to do this work, and Jiang Yan also needs to focus some of his energy on breeding.

We need to focus on one of them; it's difficult to do both.

Obtain the magic coin for Merlin's bounty mission.

We need to make a decision as soon as possible.

After we make the decision, we will issue an analysis report, and the higher-ups will decide whether to first achieve controlled nuclear fusion or land on Mars.”

If it were before, landing on Mars would be simpler than controlled nuclear fusion.

At least there is hope for landing on Mars, which is equivalent to an advanced version of landing on the moon.

Controlled nuclear fusion has been proposed for many years. There was a lead-cooled fast reactor experiment for controlled nuclear fusion in 1950, but there is still no sign of success.

But with magic, things are different.

(End of this chapter)