Homo sapiens.

The prototype is still spewing horrible plasma.

During this period, Carl's team successively tested the extreme operation of the power generation system, low power operation, engine power regulation, power regulation of the power generation system and other items.

When Carl's team designed it, the initial design plan was a Levi's ring and a helical magnetic field device.

But in the simulation test, they found that a Levi's ring is not only huge in size and weight, once it fails, it means that the spacecraft loses power.

In order to solve these problems, they discussed more than 100 schemes back and forth, after supercomputing simulation tests hundreds of trillions of times.

Finally, the system was designed.

The six Levi's rings are not only convenient for maintenance, even if five of them are broken, as long as one of them is still working, the spacecraft will not lose power.

In addition, the parts of the Levi's ring device are all common. In case of an emergency, you can find some usable parts from the faulty Levi's ring. Maybe two damaged Levi's rings can also piece together a good one. of.

The power generation system composed of Levi's rings has been tested very smoothly.

In the open spiral magnetic field device, some problems appeared in the nitrogen-enriched plasma project tested.

The reason is that nitrogen does not ionize well.

"It seems that the plasma engine needs to be adjusted." Carl bit the capacitive pen and thought.

Mikoyan reminded: "I heard that there is a laboratory on Venus that has developed a highly efficient ionizing electric field. You can contact them."

"Oh? Then you can learn from it."

In fact, the engine researched by Karl’s team is prepared for generation spacecraft, so the working fluid of this engine must not be fixed on one or two elements.

For example, many Hall engines can only choose xenon as the working fluid for efficiency, but in the universe, the content of xenon is not high, so enrichment and extraction are very troublesome.

Karl hopes to integrate a plasma engine whose working fluid can use elements 1 to 26 including iron.

In this way, the working fluid required by the engine does not need to be specially searched, and when encountering asteroids and planets, materials can be quickly obtained on the spot.

The generation spacecraft must not be too picky, otherwise it will not be able to persist in the long flight that started for decades.

With this prototype as the power standard, it only takes about 150 years to fly from the earth to the six-claw superstar.

It only takes about 200 years to compare neighbors.

At present, the life span of new humans is about 150 to 170 years. Using absolute zero freezing technology, the life span can be extended by hundreds of years.

In this way, Homo sapiens corporations can completely colonize their neighbors.

However, the company management has no relevant plans at present.

Instead of building spaceships for generations to cross the planetary system, it is better to continue farming in the solar system and try to break through the speed of light navigation technology.

In Li Qingye's view, it is difficult for a first-level civilization without light-speed navigation technology to colonize other planetary systems, unless the distance between the two parties is within one light-year.

But the solar system is in the spiral arm of Orion, not in the core region of the Milky Way. The distance between the planetary systems here starts at a few light-years, and there are very few two planetary systems within one light-year.

With a distance of several light years and no light-speed navigation technology, sending generations of spaceships to engage in interstellar colonization is too cost-effective, and there is still a risk of loss of control and separation.

After all, one or two generations is nothing. Once more than five generations, the human forces between the two planetary systems will inevitably be divided.

Instead of sending a spaceship for generations, it is better to launch the fire of civilization.

Of course, the Generation Spacecraft Technology Company will definitely continue to invest in research, after all, this is one of the ways out for mankind.

In case something goes wrong in the solar system, or encounters a powerful first-level civilization, at least the company can escape.

When it comes to planning for a rainy day, Homo sapiens will never let up.

Of course, the engine researched by Carl's team has also greatly improved the transportation within the solar system.

Mikoyan saw that there were no major problems in the test, so he asked Karl's team to continue their efforts, and he went to another project for investigation.

After 17 hours of trial run.

Suddenly the test system popped up an alarm.

[Local degradation of neutron-absorbing layer detected...]
Carl frowned: "Continue testing."

He then took a few colleagues to look at the degradation of the neutron-absorbing layer.

A researcher said helplessly: "The rate of deterioration is much faster than the predicted model. If this rate of degradation is followed, it is estimated that the entire neutron-absorbing layer can only last for 30 to 40 days, and it must be replaced with a new one."

"What do you think?" Carl turned his head and asked the others.

Huang Xiaoyu, a researcher in plasma fluid mechanics, looked carefully at the data. He saw that the degradation was not comprehensive, but local small spots, which indicated that the neutron flow was extremely irregular.

He entered some data again, substituted it into the plasma operation model, and soon analyzed an unexpected reason.

Huang Xiaoyu's face was full of disbelief: "The gravity of the moon? It turned out to be the gravity of the moon?"

"Gravity?" Karl was also very surprised.

In the simulation analysis of the model, it can be clearly seen that the nuclear fusion defense process in the magnetic field restraint, the high-energy neutrons ejected by it, under the interference of the moon's gravitational force, appeared chaos.

This confusion is very troublesome because it leads to a local uneven distribution of high-energy neutrons, which rapidly degrades a part of the neutron-absorbing layer.

"What shall we do?"

"We don't have current efficient gravity adjustment technology, unless we go to outer space to test."

"There is actually no way to completely avoid the interference of gravity in outer space."

A group of researchers fell into deep thought.

There are actually only two roads before them.

One is to use thicker lithium carbon nanolayers.

The other is to adjust the magnetic field to make the nuclear reaction more uniform, so that the ejected neutrons are more uniform.

Increasing the thickness of the lithium carbon nanolayer may seem like nothing, but it is actually very troublesome.

Because when Carl's team designed this scheme, it took into account the amount of lithium carbon produced during the nuclear fusion reaction, combined with the service life of the lithium carbon nanolayer.

About 70 days is an optimal value, just during the nuclear fusion reaction, the newly born lithium carbon element is just enough to make up the element of the lithium carbon nanolayer.

It is not that the lithium carbon elements in the lithium carbon nanolayers have disappeared, but that a large part of these elements have been transformed into radioactive isotopes.

The radioactive isotope lithium carbon cannot be used as a neutron absorbing layer material.

Therefore, the best solution now is actually to adjust the confinement magnetic field and accelerate the wake field so that it can make the nuclear fusion reaction more uniform. This is the solution to the root cause.

Otherwise, when it comes to interstellar voyages across planetary systems, this problem will be rapidly magnified due to the resource-poor environment.

Just to adjust the magnetic field confinement model and the wake field acceleration model, it needs to be adjusted according to local conditions, because in the universe, there are slight differences in the gravitational force of each point.

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