The Right Detour

Li Dong did not really care how low Huaxia could drive the cost of electricity.

At that moment, he was sitting in his own apartment at the Weiming Institute, entering the last set of pulse-control parameters into the design file before stretching deeply.

"Done!"

The 3D structural diagram on the screen was still slowly rotating.

It was a flattened ring less than one meter in diameter.

The ring consisted of a circle of symmetrically converging current plates. Pulsed current would flow inward from all directions toward its center, ultimately compressing the protons and boron inside the reaction chamber together.

Outside the reaction chamber was another ring of induction coils. The helium nuclei pushed out by fusion would strike the magnetic field, and once the magnetic flux changed, the coils could directly generate electricity.

It already differed from the design shown in the video.

After all, in Li Dong's view, that device had been designed to compress fuel to densities comparable to those of a white dwarf.

Whether it would work if built exactly that way, Li Dong did not know.

But according to the nonequilibrium distribution he had calculated, there was clearly no need to build it to the extent shown in the design.

Li Dong then zoomed out the entire model, revealing rows of data beside it.

[Ion temperature: 3.510? Kelvin.]

[Electron temperature ≤ 15 electron volts.]

[Peak mass density under pulse compression: 4 kg/m³.]

[Electron Fermi energy: ...]

[Relative to the classical Coulomb collision value: ...]

...

Below those parameters were Li Dong's derivations.

[_f＝(?2\/2m?)(3π2n?)^(2\/3)＝4.1 kv]

[ν_(Degenerate)＝ν_(Classical)·(kt?\/_f)^(3\/2)·Λ_p,Λ_p＝0.31]

[p_f-p_bm-p_＝＋17.8%_f...]

The collision integrals containing Pauli-blocking factors, along with the energy-exchange terms between electrons and ions, were what had exhausted him over the past week or so.

Finally, Li Dong deleted the temporary serial numbers at the