The weather in Beijing in the late autumn is actually a bit cool in the morning and evening.
But at this time, the Nano Laboratory of Ark Academy of Sciences was extremely hot.
Especially Liu Zhongmin and Zhang An, they almost jumped with excitement.
"Dean, Brother Zhang, let's calm down. There are still tests to be conducted later."
Xu Zhou said helplessly, but his face was also full of smiles.
Xu Zhou was also very happy that the first phase of the experiment was successful, but subsequent experiments will continue.
The three of them calmed down, and then Liu Zhongmin asked:
"What are the next steps?"
Xu Zhou pointed to the instrument on one side and said:
"Simulate the working conditions under various air pressures."
"Yes, yes! This is also very important!"
Just as he was told, Xu Zhou immediately connected a pipe to a round hole in the glass warehouse, and then he started the instrument to make a buzzing sound.
"Current standard air pressure, test resistance!"
Zhang An immediately nodded to assist, and after a moment he loudly said:
"Resistance: 0Ω!"
Xu Zhou nodded immediately and continued with his actions.
After a while, after the entire instrument operated for a while, Xu Zhou spoke again.
"Now simulate the vacuum environment and test the resistance!"
As soon as these words came out, Liu Zhongmin couldn't help but look up at Gu Fan.
For the vacuum test, Xu Zhou actually went directly to the vacuum environment test.
Liu Zhongmin immediately understood what this meant.
If the test can achieve superconductivity in a vacuum environment, it means that this material can achieve superconductivity in space!
If this succeeds, the significance will be huge!
Zhang An didn't talk nonsense. After Xu Zhou spoke, he directly conducted the resistance test again.
After a moment, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Resistance: 0Ω!"
Liu Zhongmin couldn't help but let out an exclamation on the side. At this point, if he was shocked, it was actually not that shocking anymore.
I'm already a little numb, mainly because...
The subsequent tests went very smoothly. Overall, all tests were basically passed successfully.
Liu Zhongmin also immediately stepped forward to applaud Xu Zhou after he stopped all tests.
Xu Zhou and Zhang An looked at each other, then smiled and said:
"That's it for the normal-temperature superconductor experiment. Dean, it's time for us to prepare for the ignition experiment of controllable nuclear fusion!"
Liu Zhongmin came back to his senses, immediately nodded with a smile and said:
"Don't worry, the Astronaut Dragon Academy has already done it and repaired everything!"
Xu Zhou nodded, then smiled and said:
"Then we will work hard to make an external coil made of room-temperature superconductor. Once this is completed, we can conduct ignition experiments."
"But the amount of work required to make this coil is not small..."
At this time, Liu Zongmin waved his hand and said indifferently:
"There is nothing to worry about. I will report it to the senior management immediately. At that time, all qualified and reliable companies in the country will stop production and fully produce coils!"
"It won't take long for the coils to be produced."
Xu Zhou frowned, and then said worriedly:
"In terms of safety..."
"Don't worry about this. The safety of our own company will definitely be guaranteed. As for those companies with unclear structures and foreign capital behind them, get away as far as they can."
At this point, Gu Fan has nothing to say. Liu Zhongmin is also a senior scientific researcher, so he naturally attaches great importance to technical confidentiality.
So Xu Zhou integrated all the steps of the production plan and handed it over to Liu Zhongmin and said:
"Then I'll continue to study other things. I'll leave the matter of the external superconducting coil to the dean."
"no problem!"
Time passed slowly like this.
The production of coils cannot be completed in just one or two days.
It is large in size, complex in structure, and contains irregularities. Such a structure is extremely time-consuming to make.
The most important thing is that none of the companies have produced this kind of material before, so starting from scratch will naturally take more time.
But after all, Dragon Kingdom is famous in the world for its manufacturing industry, especially after the Dragon Kingdom cabinet issued an order.
Everyone works together from top to bottom, like a huge machine starting to operate!
In this way, Xu Zhou continued to improve other data theories of controllable nuclear fusion in the laboratory until ten days later.
A huge carrier slowly drove into the Ark Academy of Sciences.
When Xu Zhou arrived at the scene, all the things had been unloaded.
At this time Liu Zhongmin also jumped out of the car, and the little old man almost twisted his waist.
"Dean, this is..."
"External coil!"
Xu Zhou's pupils shrank suddenly, and he exclaimed:
"So fast?"
"It's already slow. After all, it's the first time I'm doing it. Otherwise, it could be done within a week."
Liu Zhongmin then looked at Xu Zhou with a very serious look on his face and said:
"Time is a bit tight, and the seas around the world are not very peaceful recently!"
"World Seas?"
Xu Zhou asked subconsciously.
"Originally, I was planning to tell you this when I came here last time, but I just happened to be watching your test to detect room-temperature superconductivity, and I forgot to tell you later."
As he spoke, Liu Zhongmin paused, looked at Xu Zhou and said solemnly:
"There are now more than 50 cases of attacks by unknown giant creatures on the seabed in the world's waters! The death toll has exceeded 500 people!"
Xu Zhou's eyes suddenly shrank.
During this period of time, he was basically in the laboratory and did not pay much attention to the external information media.
But how long did it take for it to develop into all the seas of the world so quickly?
"Dean, isn't this development too fast?"
Liu Zhongmin shook his head, then smiled bitterly and said:
"It's not that they develop too fast, but that we discover it too slowly..."
"After the discovery of a large creature in the waters of Sakurajima, people all over the world began to conduct searches in the waters."
"As a result of this investigation, such large creatures have basically appeared in sea areas all over the world. At present, except for our Dragon Kingdom sea area..."
Xu Zhou felt an inexplicable sense of urgency. If there were more and more giant creatures in the sea, it would be harder and harder to clear them out.
"It seems time is running out."
Afterwards, Liu Zhongmin and Xu Zhou directed the coils to be transported to the experimental warehouse that had been prepared earlier.
Then Liu Zhongmin arranged for someone to transport the repaired star-simulating device.
In the experimental warehouse in the afternoon.
Xu Zhou and Liu Zhongmin looked at the huge coil in front of them that had been installed on the outside of the stellarator.
"The cost of this coil is not cheap, right?"
Liu Zhongmin twitched his lips and said:
"One, more than 300 million!"
"hiss……"
Xu Zhou couldn't help but take a breath of air.
He knew this thing was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive.
A coil costs more than 300 million yuan, and a normal temperature superconductor... costs money and lives!
"Now the stellarator has been completely updated and iterated. The external coils have all been replaced with coils made of room-temperature superconducting materials, and the internal ones have been replaced with new molecular materials that you deduced some time ago."
"According to the test, the new molecular material you deduced can indeed withstand its terrifying temperature. Now it depends on the ignition experiment."
Liu Zhongmin sighed unconsciously in his heart as he spoke.
Every time I compare myself with Xu Zhou, I feel like my group of scientific researchers have wasted decades of their time, almost like primary school students.
New molecular materials that can withstand hundreds of millions of temperatures, and normal-temperature superconducting materials that can operate perfectly in vacuum and normal pressure.
There is also a controlled nuclear fusion ignition experiment that is about to be carried out.
Not counting the previous achievements, just the accumulation of these on any one person now seems very science fiction.
It's not science, it's science fiction!
Xu Zhou looked at the staff on the stellarator who were busy connecting to the device.
The entire stellarator looks like an egg roll with the support of superconductor coils.
Then Xu Zhou laughed and said:
"Dean, please look here for a while. There are still a few data that need to be calculated."
Liu Zhongmin nodded and said no problem.
Afterwards, Xu Zhou returned to the office and began to continue the last few tasks.
Finally, after more than two hours of verification, he put down his pen and entered everyone's data into the construction model on the computer.
Then he hit Enter. After a string of data appeared, Xu Zhou showed a relieved smile.
"Okay, this should be no problem. It's a perfect cage."
Xu Zhou is using precise calculations to determine the exact position of each superconducting wire, so that when each wire emits a magnetic field, it can be seamlessly spliced together to form a super large magnetic cage.
Because the magnetism is invisible, you can see whether there are gaps with the naked eye unlike the usual iron welded cages.
Whether the magnetic cage is closed or not depends entirely on calculating the magnetic field. Any calculation error will lead to gaps or failure of the magnetic cage that restrains the plasma. The consequences at that time are no joke.
