Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon-Chapter 299 - 298 Technological Breakthrough
Chapter 299: Chapter 298: Technological Breakthrough
Chapter 299 -298: Technological Breakthrough
No one opposed the suggestion and it was quickly passed unanimously.
“For the second part of the meeting, I represent the research institute’s experts in reporting to you the current progress of our scientific research,” Gao Wei opened a new PPT and began his report.
This part was much more relaxed.
The leaders listened happily, and the participants communicated without reservations, after all, it did not involve political right or wrong, nor would it have to bear the severe losses that erroneous future decisions might bring.
Moreover, the results in this part really could be considered extremely fruitful.
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“Our department’s collaboration with the Nuclear Institute on the Tokamak Fusion Reactor has successfully operated for forty-eight hours, during which the output power reached 1.5 million kilowatts, equivalent to the total power of a large-scale wind and solar power station. The latter usually occupies about one thousand square kilometers, whereas this experimental reactor only requires a factory room of three hundred square meters.”
“Experiments have shown that the superconducting energy-gathering device developed by Professor Fu’s team, led by Yaoshi, is fully capable of confining the fusion plasma flow, which is a core part of the device, and the improved prototype’s structure is simpler and operates more stably. Both our department and the Nuclear Institute believe that it has met all performance indicators for formal production. The preliminary development plan has been included in the appendix, which you are all welcome to read.”
Xue Quan listened to Gao Wei’s report while clicking on the appendix button at the bottom of the screen.
He wasn’t very knowledgeable about technical matters, but that didn’t prevent him from understanding the significance of this project.
The preliminary plan, led by the Nuclear Institute, was also clearly written with the leaders in mind for easy reading.
In brief, they planned to construct a fusion power station underground on the Qingzhou Plateau in the west, which could be integrated into the power grid, with the first phase of the project planning for two hundred generators and a total installed capacity of thirty million kilowatts. From the parameters, it was evident that the practical generator and the experimental reactor were nearly identical, indicating that the latter was very mature or, in other words, that the nuclear experts were very satisfied with the experimental reactor and could hardly find much fault with it.
Xue Quan vaguely remembered that at the last meeting, Professor Fu had mentioned that the installed capacity of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station was around twenty-five million kilowatts, meaning that the first phase of the new nuclear power station had already surpassed the total generating capacity of the Three Gorges.
It was undoubtedly an audaciously ambitious plan.
It was well known that the state usually preferred to take small and quick steps, finding improvements in practical application.
“Why choose the Qingzhou Plateau, and moreover, underground?” someone asked, “Doesn’t the new nuclear power station require a large amount of live water for cooling?”
“Building underground is mainly for safety reasons, the world has become increasingly unstable, and we need to be well-prepared,” Gao Wei explained on behalf of the experts. “The site has two underground rivers that can provide the water necessary for power generation. Traditional nuclear power stations are often coastal for safety reasons, in case of a loss of control so they can use seawater for cooling. However, fusion power stations do not have this problem. Once the core is shut down, the energy and pressure required for fusion disappear, and the nuclear reaction will not continue. In other words, fusion power stations do not risk core meltdown.”
Xue Quan focused his attention on the words “being prepared.”
It seemed that the international friction and disputes had reached an irreconcilable point.
Thus, research into the otherworld became even more important… The advancement of new technologies may well become an unforeseen trump card for our enemies.
“Another breakthrough is the study of the remains of the parasitic species. Dr. Ding’s team found that this black strip-like material can absorb not only electrical energy but also neutrons. The former allows it to change from soft to hard, while the latter enables it to proliferate.”
“To proliferate the remains…?”
“Uh, according to Dr. Ding’s observations, it means it grows vertically, that is, it gets longer and longer. But it still doesn’t exhibit signs of life; it doesn’t react on its own. However, ‘remains’ can indeed be misleading, so we internally now refer to it as Baina Steel.”
Wow… the more neutrons it absorbs, the longer it gets; in a sense, couldn’t this mean mass production is possible? Thinking this, Xue Quan turned on his microphone and asked, “Have you already found an application?”
“The application prospects are very broad,” Gao Wei opened another PPT, “Please look, leaders and comrades, it can be considered a kind of variable shell material for use in armor, construction, the arms industry, and so on.”
“Take armor as an example its weight is far lower than that of the same volume of steel, and it is soft and deformable under normal conditions, allowing it to wrap around any shaped framework. The instant it absorbs electrical energy, it becomes extremely tough, with a yield strength of up to one thousand gigapascals, and the transformation only requires 2-3 microseconds. Whether it is a tank, an airplane, or a naval submarine, it can have an immediate effect and may even change the existing rules of combat.”
“For example, this experiment—”
The attendees then saw a video: a silicone mannequin was fixed in place by a metal frame, and then a 12.7mm machine gun, less than 100 meters away, fired violently at it! The mannequin’s clothes were instantly torn to shreds, and sparks even burst from its body. Logically, at this distance, even a concrete brick wall wouldn’t withstand the concentrated fire from a heavy machine gun, but the mannequin remained intact and endured to the end.
When the cameraman approached the mannequin and took off its “black vest,” everyone couldn’t help but gasp! They were shocked to find that not only was the mannequin’s structure intact, but the skeleton, organs, and blood vessels beneath the translucent silicone were also largely undamaged.
Xue Quan just felt his scalp tingle and a chill run down his spine… Honestly, the previous thirty million kilowatt power output and the highland underground power station sounded incredible, but the actual impact felt nowhere near as strong as this video. Coming from a military background, he naturally knew what this meant… If a soldier could charge under the suppression of a 12.7mm machine gun, and even if they were shot, remain unscathed, that would be truly terrifying!
If such an infantry battalion appeared on the battlefield, in the enemy’s eyes, they would undoubtedly be a hellish legion, the arrival of death itself!
The scene was suddenly in an uproar, and the reaction was even stronger than when Xue Quan presented his report!
This was not hard to understand, as those focused on scientific research would not attend such decision-making meetings, and those present were mostly senior leaders and military officers sensitive to military technology.
“That black vest was made of Baina Steel, wasn’t it? I can understand it not being penetrated, but why did the impact force also disappear?” an officer immediately asked.
High-grade bulletproof vests with plates can also withstand close-range direct shots from rifles, but the body of the vest would deform significantly, not only causing bruising to the wearer, but the deformed composite ceramic plate would quickly lose its bulletproof capability. Logically, even if 12.7mm bullets couldn’t penetrate Baina Steel, the deformation and impact force they caused should have been enough to shatter the mannequin’s ribs.
“That’s the magical aspect of it,” Gao Wei said, equally filled with emotion, “Just add a few more layers of Baina Steel—it’s thin to begin with, and then adjust the sequence and frequency of each layer hardening, and it can offset part of the force like an oscillating wave. Everyone here knows, force transmission is essentially a mechanical wave that can be easily influenced by the medium it travels through, so the varying states of softness and hardness of multiple Baina Steel layers, their mutual suppression, might be the reason for this result. Of course, this explanation is only a guess by Dr. Ding’s team, and it has not yet been scientifically verified.”
