Chapter 165 Liquid Metallic Hydrogen
The development of the Huomu Hub did not lag behind that of the Blue Star Hub.
On the contrary, as a concentration of heavy industries such as materials, energy, and metal processing in Daxia today, the space occupied by its construction is much larger.
In the huge port, thousands of giant elephant ships seem to be crowded, but under A-Dai's management, they are loading and unloading, entering and leaving the port in a tight and orderly manner.
The current scale of this place even exceeds the Utopia City that Xinghai spent three years to build.
The Peregrine did not stay here for long, but continued to move towards the more distant rings of Jupiter, dragging a long plasma tail.
Three days later, densely packed unmanned mining craft appeared in the Peregrine's sight near Jupiter's rings.
Fan Ren looked at the scene in front of him, which was like an ant moving house, and couldn't help but take a breath.
"Ah, how many Chargers are under your control now?"
"Boss, the current number is a little over 12. According to the plan, the construction of the Charger will only increase production if the transportation limit of the Mammoth is met.
However, the tri-titanium alloys we produce can currently meet the needs of various factories. I have been adjusting the resource balance in this regard. I try to ensure that there is no overcapacity and waste of resources. "
Fan Ren nodded and no longer cared about the situation here. In Ah Dai's words, currently supervising the entire Daxia industry, scientific research, transportation planning, and resource balance projects only took up 1% of the computing power of the photon computer on the Conqueror.
It also proves from the side that there is a huge gap between the current human civilization on Blue Planet and the former human civilization on Mars.
The Peregrine slowly slowed down, and finally approached a space above Jupiter's rings at an almost exquisite low inertia speed.
"Deactivate the cutting-edge cloaking device."
As Ah Dai's voice sounded, the Conqueror's silhouette, which seemed to block out the sky and the sun, began to appear in front of the Peregrine.
Soon, the huge dock under the Conqueror opened, and after the Peregrine slowly slid in, it closed again.
Fan Ren looked at the huge docking space in the dock and was stunned for a moment.
There was no information on the entire Conqueror to explain why this spaceship was an empty ship.
According to the manual, the Conqueror in full condition is a super spaceship capable of long-term voyages and cross-star system operations.
Previously, when the Young Dragon attacked it, the Conqueror did not have the ability to launch an effective counterattack. Fan Ren had speculated about this at the time, and it was later confirmed by A-Dai.
Although the Conqueror's armor is invincible, its huge body causes its movements to be very slow.
At the same time, the flexibility of the eight super-electromagnetic railguns also makes them incapable of targeting high-speed small boats.
Then, the hangar on this spacecraft must have a large number of small spacecraft capable of conducting high-speed mobile warfare in space.
What a pity, there is nothing.
After getting off the Falcon, Fan Ren and Shan Wu went directly into the express lane and took the high-speed elevator inside to the door of the command room.
After the door of the command room was opened, several top scientists in Daxia's energy science had been waiting there for a long time.
"Mr. Fan, you are here. We are all ready."
Fan Ren greeted these half-gray-haired old men with a smile, and then without much delay, he was the first to step into the cockpit.
A group of scientists and Shan Wu followed suit.
Today, Fanren will refuel the Conqueror.
Unlike the nuclear fusion reactors that humans are currently using on a large scale, this spacecraft uses liquid metallic hydrogen as its basic energy source.
The embarrassing thing is that with current scientific methods, scientists are simply unable to conduct effective unit energy tests on this metal 'fuel'.
They won't even use it. The environment in which liquid metal hydrogen is produced is extremely harsh, and it requires external pressures of millions or even tens of millions of atmospheres to be produced.
The extremely high pressure can cause hydrogen molecules to dissociate into hydrogen atoms, and these hydrogen atoms will continue to approach each other in the process.
But when these hydrogen atoms get close enough, the electron clouds around them begin to overlap, allowing electrons that were originally only able to move under the current atom to begin to move freely among all atoms.
In this case, liquid hydrogen can exhibit metallic properties and thus form in the form of liquid metallic hydrogen.
Obviously, humans currently do not have the ability to generate pressure exceeding 400 million atmospheres.
It is naturally impossible to prepare such extremely highly compressed fuel.
However, although the production environment of liquid metallic hydrogen is extremely harsh, it also has an advantage.
That is, hydrogen exists on almost all gas planets.
Another characteristic of gas planets is that they are extremely large. Take Jupiter, the gas planet with the largest volume and mass in the solar system, as an example.
Its volume is greater than the total mass of all the planets in the solar system, and its mass is 318 times that of the Blue Star.
So on Jupiter, the atmospheric pressure is extremely terrifying.
Similarly, for this reason, liquid metallic hydrogen exists on most gas planets.
and many more!
Fan Ren suddenly thought of something.
The Conqueror's combat method requires a long inter-galactic voyage, so after arriving at the destination, it is impossible for it to have the conditions to refine and prepare nuclear fusion fuels such as helium-3.
Then isn't liquid metallic hydrogen on gaseous planets, which has difficult production conditions but is widely present in the universe, a very suitable fuel source?
Fan Ren immediately put forward this idea.
After hearing this, Ah Dai and a group of scientists decided that although they could not be sure based on guesswork, the theory proposed by Fan Ren was currently the closest to the facts.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why liquid metallic hydrogen was chosen instead of helium-3, which has lower preparation conditions, as the main fuel.
Fan Ren also has a bold guess, but it is too advanced to bring it up now. Even if it is true, it has no practical significance.
The cockpit door dropped, and the familiar nanobuffer flowed out again.
"Dumb, let's start."
Following Fan Ren's order, the Conqueror's huge body began to slowly "fall" downwards.
In the command room, the surrounding scenery also changes with the movement of the spacecraft.
The scientists' hearts suddenly rose to their throats.
"When we enter the outer reaches of the atmosphere, the pressure is extremely low."
Ah Dai's voice rang in everyone's ears, and as if to comfort everyone, he continued, "Don't worry, the building materials of this spacecraft have been rearranged through molecular rearrangement to form a new metal material with strong interaction and extremely stable structure.
This gas planet alone should not be able to destroy it.
Moreover, this method of obtaining fuel is also a relatively safe operation as recorded in the operation manual.”
As he finished speaking, a sky full of colorful crystal-like objects suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.
(End of this chapter)
