Chapter 1496 - Explosive Magnetic Compression

Three days had passed since Song Yangwei was taken away.

Since the boss of Yangwei Capital went to jail, the short-selling plan was naturally impossible to continue.

These days, Lu Zhou didn’t pay much attention to the securities market. He shut himself up at home. Mindfully, he continued to study the mysterious “explosive magnetic compression” he had previously read about.

In fact, this thing wasn’t completely mysterious.

As early as the 2050s, related concepts were born, and people had been researching them until today.

Among them, the more typical applications were EMP grenade and electromagnetic pulse gun, which could be called the nemesis of electronic products. Lu Zhou had even seen the latter with his own eyes when an EMP bullet hit Ling.

However, although there had been a lot of research on the “explosive magnetic compression” technology, and certain results had been achieved, most of these results were concentrated on some small and medium-sized microdevices, and most designs did not require high repetitive use.

After all, the rapidly changing magnetic field would generate extraordinary energy, and ordinary electronic devices couldn’t withstand this at all. They could be burned out because of the overload of the induced current.

At this moment, the bottleneck that Lu Zhou was facing was probably similar.

He must find a way to condense the magnetic induction in a very narrow area. It would be best if this area could be filled with the plasma generated by the reactor and the energy released by the fusion reaction could be continuously used to maintain the continuous operation of the magnetic confinement device. Finally, the entire system had to be in a state of dynamic equilibrium.

To be honest, it was very difficult to do this.

Even designing a rough conceptual model for a large electromagnet device consumed a lot of Lu Zhou’s brain cells.

Fortunately, his level 9 materials science and level 8 engineering and energy science provided a lot of help in helping him open up his ideas. Coupled with the experience accumulated in the previous research on controllable fusion devices, he finally broke through the last obstacle.

Although there was still a gap from the electromagnet that could provide a magnetic field of 10,000 Tesla, at least the model used in the experiment was on the right track...

However, just as Lu Zhou was advancing on the academic road, the door of the study room was suddenly opened, and a figure ran in.

“Master, Xiao Ai... has no more bullets. _:( ́□`」∠):_”

Lu Zhou looked at Xiao Ai, who ran to his side and grabbed his arm pitifully. He was slightly stunned, and his ten fingers that were operating the holographic model also stopped.

“Bullets?”

“Yeah yeah, credit points.”

Oh, it turned out that my money was spent...

The f*ck?

Lu Zhou was shocked instantly.

That’s 50 billion! Not fifty bucks!

It’s only been a few days since the loan, how can it be gone?

Even a starship doesn’t cost that much money!

Lu Zhou originally wanted to make complaints, but he restrained himself.

After taking a deep breath, he slowed down and said, “Why is it not enough? Is there anyone else who is shorting East Asia Energy stock...”

To be honest, he would be fine with other people shorting him. He himself was not particularly interested in stocks. He was just unhappy with Song Yangwei’s threat.

Also, if the stock price dropped because of his scientific research reforms, it would affect the board’s confidence in him and hinder his second-generation controllable fusion plan.

Even though the AIIB was on his side now, he was not yet conceited to the extent that he “believes that everyone will always trust himself unconditionally.”

“Probably not... Yangwei Capital is staying quiet.”

Lu Zhou twitched his eyebrows and couldn’t help asking, “Then how did you use up 50 billion...?”

Xiao Ai: “Didn’t Master say that the stock price should not be allowed to fall? As soon as a large sell order came out, Xiao Ai bought it. QAQ”

Lu Zhou: “...”

Xiao Ai: “Did Xiao Ai do something wrong? Can Master not be angry? (.•́__ก̀.)”

“I’m not angry.” Lu Zhou continued, sighing as if giving up, “Whatever, don’t do anything for now... unless I ask you to.”

It’s just 50 billion.

Also...

There are more fascinating things to care about.

As Lu Zhou looked at the completed model in his hand, his mouth curled up with a smile.

Finally finished.

...

Electromagnet research laboratory.

Because almost all researchers had been laid off, besides the robots responsible for cleaning and doing simple maintenance work on the equipment, only Tang Yunge was left in the entire laboratory.

As Tang Yunge looked at the empty office in front of him, he was baffled. Not only did he not feel the joy of being promoted and a raise in salary, but he was suffering from headaches.

Second-generation controllable fusion...

Yet everyone from the electromagnet research laboratory was fired...

This made him, who originally planned to live up to Academician Lu’s expectations and make some achievements in the field he was good at, fill his whole body with a feeling of powerlessness.

At this moment, the meeting reminder icon flashed in the lower right corner of the desk.

The moment he saw the notification, he immediately sat up from the office chair. He then stretched out his index finger and clicked on the pop-up window of the meeting information.

Light blue light particles floated from all around, and the panoramic holographic projection system installed in the office released a beam of light, which quickly reconstructed the surrounding scenery.

The next thing he knew, he was already sitting in the conference room, and sitting across from him was the new chairman of East Asia Energy—Lu Zhou.

As Tang Yunge looked at Academician Lu sitting across the conference table, he asked respectfully, “Sir, did you ask for me?”

“Yeah, I have an interesting model here, and I want to hear your thoughts.” Lu Zhou put his intention out immediately. He gently pushed his right hand and sent the holographic model floating in his palm to him.

Looking at the strange model in front of him, Tang Yunge was slightly stunned. His face gradually showed a dazed expression.

“What’s this...”

“A1-type pulsed magnetic field generator.” Lu Zhou continued with a triumphant smile, “Although it is a new concept, it works.”

Lu Zhou briefly explained the principle of this thing to him.

In short, after researching the related technologies of explosive magnetic compression, he established the equivalent of compressed current generator by referring to the circuit equation of the multi-branch compressed current generator in the existing research results. A circuit model was used to optimize the design of a blasting magnet compression device with a length of 600mm, a diameter of 120mm, a total mass of 10kg, and a high energy output.

Although this kind of device was small, it had a larger expansion space compared with the current mainstream design ideas and was accompanied by an open energy input interface.

The advantage of this design was that the energy of the compressed magnetic field was not provided by unstable explosions, and the high-frequency “squeezing” of the magnetic field was realized by the heat input from the system.

If it was used in places such as EMP weapons, this design might be a little unsuitable. But on a device that was large enough and had serious heat accumulation such as a controllable fusion reactor, it was just right.

It was almost tailor-made for it...

After watching for a long time, Tang Yunge didn’t see any obvious loopholes in this model. His eyes were getting brighter, and his voice was uncontrollable with a hint of excitement.

“Have you done the feasibility demonstration? No, let me do it, wait for me—”

“It’s done.” Interrupting Tang Yunge’s words, Lu Zhou smiled and continued, “It’s not just a feasibility demonstration, I have already printed a sample with an industrial 3D printer. Although the quality of the 3D printing is average, it is fine. There is no problem with the usage. According to the detection of the magnetic induction device, it can probably amplify the magnetic field stably by more than 50 times at a frequency of 50 Hz.”

50 times!

The moment he heard these words, Tang Yunge took a deep breath. His eyes were almost bulging as he blurted out, “50 times? Are you kidding me? I mean... really, is it that insane?”

Lu Zhou said in a mocking tone, “Do I look like I’m joking?”

“It’s not that I don’t believe you, it’s just... you don’t know what this means.” With obvious shock on his face, Tang Yunge smiled bitterly and continued, “If this thing actually works, I believe that second-generation controllable fusion can be made tomorrow.”

“Not quite. Don’t celebrate too early. There are still many things we need to do later.”

After a light cough, Lu Zhou paused for a while and continued to speak, “The magnetic field provided by this A1 experimental electromagnet is very small. It can even be said to be just a simple conceptual model. It is impossible to expect this thing to be directly used in the reactor, and in the end, whether this pulsed magnetic field can effectively restrain high-temperature plasma is still unknown.

“I need you to refer to this conceptual model and its design ideas to redesign a larger electromagnet to serve as the container of the second-generation controllable fusion reactor.

“As long as this container can provide a magnetic field of 10,000 or more Tesla, our second-generation controllable fusion device will work.”

“No problem, it doesn’t matter if you want 10,000 or 20,000 Tesla...” The look on Tang Yunge’s face gradually became more and more impatient as he said, “The premise is that we have enough manpower. With the whole research lab empty, we can’t start any work.”

Lu Zhou gave him a comforting smile.

“Don’t worry, the job fair is about to begin.

“The manpower you need will be available soon.”