RNP Chapter 114
Chapter 114
Kong Bai smiled and listened to the little loli chattering there, the good things she had eaten, worn, seen, and played in Zhonghai for more than a month, but her heart was deserting.
In other words, the current "super battery" test has developed to the extent that it costs at least 400 million a day, and at most it costs nearly 900 million a day, and even the shareholders can't stand it!
Moreover, now those shareholders are very satisfied, and I hope that it will end like this, there are 5 batteries that are more than a hundredfold, dozens of times better than the previous performance, that is everywhere!
As the main company of the "super battery" project, the 55 billion yuan in cash raised in the early stage of the 55 billion yuan is now less than 5 billion yuan!
The initial investment of this ultra-large-scale experimental project on the "super battery" is as high as 25 billion, mainly to purchase various expensive test equipment, materials, materials, and various expenses for the rapid reconstruction of the old shipyard.
Since the official start of the experimental project, the consumption of various resources, with the passage of time, has shown a further acceleration upward trend, and the daily capital consumption has also developed from about 250 million yuan per day at the beginning of the project to nearly 600 million yuan per day now!
Among them, there were several days, because the consumption of experimental materials was too large, and it also caused a sharp surge in the price of Zhonghai-related materials, which directly led to the speed of consumption of funds for experimental projects in those days, further accelerated!
Moreover, due to the high-intensity test frequency, many equipment has one or another problem, including several equipment worth nearly 10 million, which is directly scrapped due to excessive use!
Fortunately, the laboratory staff made a prediction in advance at that time, so they urgently found the same equipment from several laboratories in the imperial capital and deep city, bought it back at a high price, and replaced it!
The "Super Battery" project spends the most money on materials!
During this period, Kong Bai spent about 700 million yuan to purchase a large number of man-made diamonds and natural diamonds in order to study the phenomenon of electric current generated by a "nuclear diamond" embedded in ordinary diamonds!
In the reactor of a fissile nuclear power plant, a large amount of radioactive graphite is produced as nuclear waste, which was previously treated as nuclear waste and required a lot of money to process!
Kong Bai pioneered a series of treatments on these graphites to turn it into a man-made "nuclear diamond" rich in radioactive substances, and then placed it and ordinary diamonds without radioactive substances in a closed environment close to each other, which will generate an electric current.
If the "nuclear diamond" is set into the interior of an ordinary diamond, a greater current will be generated, resulting in this "diamond" battery, whose efficiency ratio is almost close to 100%!
The principle behind it is mainly that
carbon 14 in nuclear waste graphite has undergone β decay and can release high-energy β particles. These energetic β particles, with an average energy of 50 kiloelectron volts, create electron-hole pairs when they inelastically collide with other carbon atoms, resulting in electric currents.
The performance of this battery is extremely amazing, although due to the size of the diamond, the current generated is still very small, and can only power low-energy weak current equipment. However, it's the most durable super battery! Because the half-life of carbon 14 is 5730 years, even if it reaches the half-life, the nuclear diamond battery only consumes half of the electricity!
This super battery, if the manufacturing process is appropriate, will be very safe, basically without any risk of nuclear leakage, but also does not produce any waste discharge, no maintenance, no need to replace parts, clean and safe and convenient, after installation has been used!
It can be said that the "nuclear diamond" super battery, in addition to the high cost and low power, does not have any other disadvantages!
Moreover, it can solve the problem of large amounts of nuclear waste generated by fissile nuclear reactors, which are difficult to dispose of or too expensive to dispose of!
The application prospects of this battery are very broad!
Especially used in spacecraft, satellites, deep space probes, pacemakers, artificial pancreas and other implantable medical equipment, the effect is particularly good.
Moreover, once the nuclear fusion power station is put into use in the future, electricity will become very cheap, and by that time, the cost of producing artificial "nuclear diamonds" and ordinary artificial diamonds will also be greatly reduced, and then this super "nuclear diamond" battery will become much cheaper than now!
There is another super nuclear battery, the performance is also very excellent, the power is very powerful, but due to a certain danger, its application range is relatively limited
, the traditional nuclear battery, also called "radioisotope temperature difference generator", can also be called atomic energy battery.
For example, many space probes currently use the kind of nuclear battery that uses plutonium-238 as a heat source.
During the decay of plutonium-238, it produces a α particle that is α slowed down by the obstruction of the semiconductor, releasing heat.
Connecting two different semiconductor components in series into two poles of the battery, using the temperature difference, thermal energy is converted into electrical energy, a phenomenon known as temperature difference electromotive force.
Simply put, the principle of nuclear batteries is to convert heat directly into electricity.
But this battery has two fatal drawbacks:
the first is that it is too large to be miniaturized.
Most nuclear batteries generate electricity by intercepting charged particles, such as α particles, through solid-state semiconductors.
However, because the energy of these particles is very high, semiconductors will continue to be bombarded with particles over time, causing lattice damage.
Therefore, in order to be able to use for a long time, nuclear batteries will be stuffed with a large number of solid semiconductors to increase the service life.
Therefore, this kind of nuclear battery will be manufactured very large, and there is no way to do it.
The second is that the power and efficiency of power generation are outrageously low! There is no energy efficiency ratio at all!
For example, the nuclear battery used by the beautiful country on the Mars rover was stuffed with plutonium-238 worth hundreds of millions of knives, with a total weight of 45 kilograms!
However, the power it emits is only about 140 watts, which can drive the rover to move forward slowly!
In professional terms, its thermoelectric conversion efficiency, even an average of 10%, may not have, let alone any radiation energy utilization rate!
Kong Bai is a different way, since solid semiconductors are easily destroyed by radiation particles, then hard is not soft!
Kong Bai replaced the solid semiconductor material that is easily damaged by high-energy particles with a liquid semiconductor material that is not easily damaged, and also added a denatured organic semiconductor material as a supplement, and greatly adjusted and optimized the internal structure of the battery, and set a labyrinth-like multilayer structure inside the battery, and filled with a porous silicon carbide structure that can absorb part of the radiation and convert it into heat energy.
Moreover, Kong Bai directly abandoned the original square or columnar battery shape, and directly turned the new super nuclear battery into a sphere!
The core reaction fuel of this new nuclear battery is thorium-232, which has much larger reserves in the earth's crust than uranium, but thorium-232 is relatively stable, and uranium-233 must also be used as an ignition element, thus triggering a series of chain reactions of thorium-232.
The round nuclear battery developed according to the new idea can not only output high power energy, but also greatly reduce weight.
Only the current measured data shows that under the same weight, that is, 45 kilograms, the output power of this new nuclear battery can reach nearly 50 kilowatts, and the design service life can reach about 15 years, which is 200 times higher than the original plutonium-238 nuclear battery.
Moreover, Kong Bai is now looking for better thermoelectric conversion materials and radiation absorption materials to further increase the energy efficiency ratio of this super nuclear battery.
When Bai Qiao happened to come in, Kong Bai was doing research in this area!
However, this kind of battery, there are also disadvantages, that is, there is a certain danger, once the management is not careful, it is prone to the danger of nuclear leakage!
Therefore, it cannot be widely popularized in civilian equipment or equipment, but as a military energy source, at this stage, it should be completely sufficient.
At present, the performance of this nuclear battery has already excited the gang of people in the Ministry of Nuclear Industry!
At present, the energy density of this super nuclear battery is already very terrifying!
And according to Kong Bai, he has made new discoveries and new ideas, and if it is feasible after further experiments, there will be a greater increase in the current performance!
Moreover, Kong Bai's next goal is to prove whether this battery can be scaled up, and if it is feasible, then the warships of the Dragon Kingdom in the future will all be nuclear-powered!
The gang of people from the Ministry of Nuclear Industry listened to Kong Bai's words, nodded happily there, but thought to themselves:
"Even if it can't be large-scale, because large-scale also risks the supercritical state, you can also connect them in series, then the result is still that sentence, the warships of the future dragon country will all be nuclear-powered!"
Of course, not all the batteries studied in the "super battery" project have received such a huge improvement in performance.
For example, traditional biofuel cells have increased by nearly thirty times the previous level.
Kong Bai had great expectations for biological batteries at the beginning.
In the first few days of the experiment, almost half of Kong Bai's energy was focused on the research and development of biological batteries!
He has thought of many ways to improve the performance of biofuel cells, and even optimized the biological fermentation colonies as much as possible!
Moreover, the new type of biofuel cell is no longer a simple fermentation to produce combustible gas, through thermoelectric conversion to generate electricity, but a new biological fuel cell combined with the technology of chemical fuel cells!
The power generation principle of this new type of biofuel cell is mainly through electrochemical reaction, the Gibbs free energy in the fuel chemical energy is partially converted into electrical energy, so it is not limited by the Carnot cycle effect, and the efficiency is much higher than that of the traditional thermoelectric conversion device!
Its power generation device is composed of membrane electrode assembly and bipolar plate, of which the membrane electrode assembly is composed of a proton exchange membrane, a catalyst and a gas diffusion layer, which is the place where the chemical reaction occurs; Bipolar plates are new material sheets with flow channels, whose main function is to deliver reaction gas to the membrane electrode assembly through the flow field, while collecting and conducting current and discharging the water and heat generated by the reaction.
When Kong Bai announced to the shareholders with disappointment and regret that the level of improvement of this traditional biofuel cell was so high, and he did not plan to invest any more energy in this regard, the expressions of the shareholders were first surprised, and then surprised!
Surprised by the Great Devil's expression:
Thirty times is not high? Thirty times this expression? It's really worthy of being a big devil!
The reason for the surprise is that there is finally a direction, and there is no need to continue to burn money!