Guangling Cloud began a new round of large purchases and construction.
He spent a lot of money to purchase a large number of construction robots and industrial robots. The robot's intelligent program was too outdated and rigid. Blue Moon directly upgraded the intelligent program. The hardware was strengthened by spraying nano-paint, and the fragile and important parts were replaced.
He purchased a limited number of excavators, shovels, cranes, and other construction machinery, disassembled them into parts, and transported them to Peach Blossom Spring for installation and restoration. As for the main force of this construction, Guangling Cloud planned to use the construction 3D printer.
3D printing was not only a new way of building, but it was also a way to subvert the traditional architectural model. It was more durable, protected the environment, efficient, and energy-saving. It not only liberated manpower, but also greatly reduced construction costs. The biggest highlight of 3D printing was environmental protection, which was exactly what Guangling Cloud was interested in.
The 3D architectural printer purchased by Guangling Cloud was 6.6 meters high, 10 meters wide, and 32 meters long. The bottom area was as big as a basketball court, and the height was three stories high. The length of the printer could also be extended, and it was 150 meters long when fully extended.
Sand, stones, steel bars, and cement were prepared according to the model of the Taoyuan Science and Technology Laboratory last time. Sand and gravel materials were prepared locally, and steel bars, cement, and various other ingredients were purchased externally. It was a familiar process, but this time, a stone breaker and a particle grading sieve were added.
The controllable nuclear fusion laboratory needed various electronic components, wires, super-strong magnets, large and small instruments, embedded pipes, and steel shells. Orders had been sent to relevant companies and were in the process of being purchased.
As for the materials and equipment that were not available or difficult to purchase, Guangling Cloud planned to use nanobot technology and 3D printing technology to manufacture them. Therefore, Guangling Cloud purchased iron, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, titanium, alloys, rare earth, and other necessary materials on a large scale.
This large-scale purchase was not directly sent to the Medicinal Herbs Villa. Instead, it first arrived at Taoyuan Technology Company in City X, and then it was transported to Peach Blossom Spring for the second time. Before the transfer, Guangling Cloud carried out a strict seal, and then it was divided into batches. Many freight companies delivered the goods to the Medicinal Herbs Villa. Finally, through the temporary excavation of the underground tunnel railway transportation system, similar to the coal mine's coal transport track car, it was transported to Peach Blossom Spring by the transportation robot late at night.
This big purchase cost Guangling Yun more than three billion yuan just for the materials and robots. This didn't even need Guangling Yun to pay for the land, stamp duty, entertainment fees, labor costs…If there were these items, it was estimated that the early stages of building this nuclear fusion laboratory would cost at least one billion yuan! If he added in a large number of high-paying scientists, various managers, workers, huge daily expenses, and so on, Guangling Yun would be rich!
Great science research was indeed a bottomless pit! No wonder only a few big countries in the world could afford it. Who had ever heard of a small country doing this? Could a small country afford to invest a lot of money in physicists, mathematicians, and mathematicians?
Spending money was also a tiring job! Guang Lingyun sighed.
However, looking at the mountains of equipment and materials in front of him and the hundreds of new robots lined up neatly on both sides, Guangling Yun felt that everything was worth it.
Not far away from Tongtian Peak in the west of Peach Blossom Land, Guang Lingyun and Lan Yue stood side by side.
"Begin the operation!"
With Guangling Yun's order, the neatly arranged robots walked towards the construction site. Some walked towards the construction machinery, some walked towards the 3D printer, some walked towards the engineering materials, and more walked towards the welding and pipeline installation positions... The entire construction site rumbled. Machinery roared, various materials flowed, and countless electric sparks flew. It was a magnificent sight.
Hundreds of robots had detailed engineering blueprints, plus a 3D printer that could print layers of buildings. There was an automated division of labor and cooperation process, and with the support of intelligent programs, Blue Moon and Guangling Cloud's overall control. All the robots worked 24 hours a day, day and night, and the entire nuclear fusion laboratory was built at an astonishing speed!
In just two months, the five-story nuclear fusion laboratory, which covered an area of 12399 square meters, was completed. This was just to wait for the concrete to solidify, and to wait for the pre-installation of large equipment and underground facilities. Otherwise, it would have taken even less time.
The rest was the necessary renovation, further equipment installation, and testing. These delicate tasks were slowly completed by Blue Moon's command robots. In addition to the time needed to do experiments, it would probably take a lot of time.
There was also the lack of electricity in the Peach Blossom Land, which had to be solved. Therefore, Guangling Yun spent money to install an industrial power transformer through the local power bureau in the Medicinal Herbs Villa and buried the cable underground to the nuclear fusion laboratory. Guangling Yun got a few broken machines that consumed electricity in the Medicinal Herbs Villa and hired a few old men and women who were often at home to decorate the shop and produce some things that were at a loss. They would work a few days a month and receive their salary. It was really troublesome, but these seemingly useless measures were much safer for Peach Blossom Land.
The raw materials needed for the controllable nuclear fusion experiment also needed to be solved.
According to Einstein's mass-energy equation E= mc2, when the nucleus underwent fusion, a portion of the mass was converted into energy and released. As long as a small amount of mass was converted into a large amount of energy.
Nuclear fusion was the process of combining light atomic nuclei (such as tritium and neutrons) into heavier atomic nuclei (such as helium), which released a huge amount of energy. This was because chemistry was the science of studying the properties, composition, structure, and laws of change of matter at the molecular and atomic level. Nuclear fusion occurred at the atomic nucleus level, so nuclear fusion was not a chemical change.
Deuterium-tritium fusion could only be considered the " first generation " fusion. The advantage was that the fuel was cheap, but the disadvantage was that there were neutrons.
The second generation of fusion was the reaction of helium-3 and helium-3. This reaction itself did not produce neutrons, but since there was helium in it, the reaction would also produce neutrons, but the total amount was very, very small. If the first-generation power station had to be far away from the downtown area, the second-generation power station could probably be placed directly in the city center.
The third-generation fusion was a reaction between helium-3 and helium-3. This kind of fusion would not produce neutrons at all. This reaction could be called the ultimate fusion.
There were usually three ways to produce nuclear fusion: gravitational field confinement, inertia confinement, and magnetic confinement. There were two main types of controllable nuclear fusion: laser inertia confinement fusion (such as China's Shenguang project and the United States 'national ignition project); Magnetic confinement fusion (Tokamak, stellarator, magnetic mirror, reverse field, spherical ring, etc.) was currently considered the most promising method.
The raw materials for nuclear fusion were easy to find. There was a lot of helium on Earth. One out of every 10,000 hydrogen atoms was helium. In the best case, the energy released by the fusion of helium in each liter of seawater was equivalent to burning 300 liters of gasoline. A million-kilogram nuclear fusion power plant only needed 600 kilograms of raw materials per year, but a thermal power plant of the same size would need 2.1 million tons of fuel coal per year.
Although tritium did not exist on Earth, it could be made by bombarding lithium with neutrons. Helium-3 was also the most ideal nuclear fusion material. Although it could not be found on Earth, the amount of helium-3 on the Moon, Saturn, and Mars was enough for people to squander for hundreds of thousands of years. Based on the total amount of helium in the oceans on Earth, nuclear fusion energy could be used by humans for hundreds of millions of years, or even billions of years.
There was no seawater in the Peach Blossom Land, so Guang Lingyun moved the nanomachines and the entire set of related equipment to the sea. He gathered the seawater into a large pool through the pipeline and used the nanomachines to produce enough helium raw materials. Then, he would purchase a large amount of lithium metal, obtain a neutron source through a neutron accelerator, and bombard the lithium with neutrons to obtain a large amount of tritium.
Using this method, Guangling Cloud obtained enough experimental materials for the laboratory.
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