Pistol shrimp is the key to nuclear fusion? British company imitates the shock wave of pistol shrimp attack to achieve fusion breakthrough

The development and progress of mankind is essentially a process of energy consumption. In the agricultural era, we used land resources and the natural fertility of the land to grow crops to fill our stomachs.

After entering the industrial age, the energy we use is mainly fossil energy: oil, natural gas and other materials produced by the earth in billions of years of evolution. It is also in this process that our society and science have made rapid progress, and humans have gradually become a powerful earth civilization.

Therefore, the continuous improvement of resource quality is an important condition for the progress of our human social system. In the current era, fossil energy and other energy sources that damage the earth's natural environment have gradually been criticized, and everyone has begun to look for an energy source that is both environmentally friendly and efficient.

Nuclear fusion research has become mainstream in this era. Many countries have made significant achievements in related research, and a British company has overcome a major problem related to nuclear fusion in the process of imitating pistol shrimp. What is going on?

Pistol shrimp attack pattern

Pistol shrimp is an inconspicuous creature in nature. It is mainly distributed in the ocean near the equator. They are usually small, usually only five or six centimeters long. It is a bottom-level creature in the food chain.

But pistol shrimps are not vegetarians, they also hunt other small marine creatures. Their hunting tools are actually huge claws. Although their bodies are only 5 cm long, the claws of pistol shrimps can reach about 2 to 3 cm.

When hunting, they will quickly close their claws, thereby compressing the surrounding water and air flow. The water originally inside the claws is squeezed out in an instant, just like the water gun we use for entertainment.

This attack method of the pistol shrimp can launch water streams at speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour, and these water streams will also produce bubbles when they explode. The size of these bubbles is extremely small, and it only takes about 1/100 million second from their appearance to their breaking, but the instantaneous temperature of the bubbles can even reach 4700℃.

Therefore, once the creatures targeted by the pistol shrimp are attacked to this extent, they will immediately lose the ability to fight back and become the pistol shrimp's delicious meal.

Many pistol shrimps can also attack the glass that holds them in captivity in this way when they are farmed by humans. The impact of the bubbles is so strong that even the glass can be broken. Therefore, pistol shrimps are actually quite dangerous small creatures.

Human Thoughts

After learning about the living habits and hunting methods of pistol shrimp, many scientists began to study how to apply the body structure of pistol shrimp to modern science.

In fact, it is not uncommon to apply the body structure of animals to human society. The sonar and radar technologies that we currently use in large quantities were actually created by scientists inspired by bats; the shape of gas masks is also very similar to pig noses.

Therefore, as long as conditions permit, scientists will certainly apply this efficient attack method of pistol shrimp to human science.

Research on controlled nuclear fusion

Humans have been researching controlled nuclear fusion for decades, but our achievements have not reached a satisfactory level. When humans want to conduct nuclear fusion research, the method they use is mainly to conduct isotope reactions of deuterium and tritium. These two substances will consume themselves to generate energy during the conversion process.

However, the production of tritium on the entire earth is actually very scarce. There are only a few kilograms of this substance stored on the earth. We humans cannot use it on a large scale with confidence. Although the difficulty can be solved through artificial production, the manpower, material resources and financial resources consumed in the whole process cannot be underestimated.

Normally, we need to build a lot of high-speed colliders and laser guns to use this material. However, British scientists pointed out that they can do the same thing with less money, and their approach is to learn from the attack mode of pistol shrimp.

Pistol shrimp and controlled nuclear fusion

While conducting research on controlled nuclear fusion, British researchers discovered that we can use the accelerator chamber to compress tritium fuel. Just like pistol shrimp compress water to produce bubbles, we can also form a bubble-like collapse shock wave during the compression of the fuel.

This shock wave, like a bubble, will self-explode in a very short time, but in this process, we can overcome the repulsion in the nuclear fusion reaction and achieve controlled nuclear fusion.

Such talk sounds like a fantasy, but the British took action and manufactured two large air guns weighing 40 tons, each with 15 kilometers of cables and 21,000 square meters of film insulation.

After being activated, the air gun can emit a shock wave with a maximum speed of about 7 kilometers per second, which is nearly a billion times the instantaneous pressure at sea level to cause the tritium fuel inside to self-destruct.

When the reaction occurs, a large amount of energy will appear inside the air gun. After being absorbed by researchers with materials such as lithium metal, this energy can be put into production and life. Although the whole process sounds very troublesome, the British approach is indeed the most economical and efficient way of nuclear fusion production in the current era.

Conclusion

“When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher.” It seems that this sentence can not only be applied to human society, but we can also find our own "teachers" in the blue ocean to overcome scientific research difficulties.

British scientists said that they will further carry out research on controlled nuclear fusion and improve their related technologies to better achieve high-efficiency energy conversion.

If this technology becomes popular, there will be a large amount of cheap and available energy on our planet, which is undoubtedly a great thing for us humans.

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