How Did You Do It?!

Although it had not yet been connected to generator units and could only channel heat into water through the heat exchange system, the energy produced by the system far exceeded the energy input, and the neutrons bred by the reaction could already sustain Tritium production. By those two measures, the design of the entire fusion reactor was undoubtedly a success!

Once the supporting Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Units were officially installed, the ultrasonic wave generation device would no longer need an external power supply. At that point, all it would need was a high-capacity Lithium-Sulfur Battery to melt the lithium metal in the core and power the initial rounds of ultrasonic emissions. The reactor would then be able to rely entirely on the electricity it generated itself to keep the whole system running.

The moment the experiment ended, Academician Wang eagerly grabbed Lu Zhou and pressed him for an answer.

"How did you do it?"

A faint smile curled at Lu Zhou's lips as he gave a simple answer.

"Sonoluminescence."

Hearing those four unexpected words, Wang Zengguang visibly froze for a moment before frowning.

"That technical route... wasn't it proven long ago to be a dead end?"

As research into Magnetic Confinement and Inertial Confinement ran into bottlenecks, research into Sonofusion had briefly become highly popular from the 1980s through the 1990s. Yet even now, the controversy surrounding that line of research had never ceased.

As for why it had sparked so much dispute, aside from two completely contradictory experimental reports, the most critical reason was that the physics community still had no definitive conclusion regarding the seemingly ordinary natural phenomenon of Sonoluminescence.

"There are two possible reasons a road cannot be traversed. One is that the road itself is wrong; the other is that you're walking it the wrong way. Research