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Chapter 847 745: Energy Shield

The development of technology requires gradual progress, and the breakthrough of scientific research projects requires accumulated knowledge, but this can only apply to projects that already have a foundation.With a foundational accumulation, one can progress gradually on top of it.

If it is a research project with no basic accumulation, then it's completely groping in the dark, needing to create a path from scratch.

In such a situation, even if Chen Xin doesn't really want to push things too fast, the country hopes to accumulate more research and development experience, but still has to let Chen Xin make the thing first, and then reverse-engineer it.

The Energy Shield is evidently such a research project.

For human technology, the theoretical foundation of the Energy Shield doesn't exist, only some possible or impossible concepts in various science fiction works.

Among these concepts, the more reliable or potentially achievable is the Electromagnetic Force field.

In fact, each of us is enveloped in a giant Energy Shield—the planetary magnetic field.

The sun isn't as benign as one might imagine; while providing us with light and heat, it also maliciously emits a large stream of high-speed charged particles towards us.

Without the protection of a strong magnetic field, the atmosphere we rely on for survival would be stripped away, and there would be no life on the Blue Planet.

However, not all substances are affected by the Electromagnetic Force, so no matter how strong it is, it's impossible to "ignore all attacks." Therefore, to turn an Electromagnetic Force field into a usable Energy Shield, other elements must be added to it.

It is widely known that charged particles are influenced by magnetic fields, and a powerful magnetic field can cause charged particles to move around it.

In this context, if an adequate number of charged particles are moving rapidly around a magnetic field, a barrier can be formed, and by superimposing magnetic fields, this barrier can be shaped into any desired form.

Theoretically, such an Energy Shield can withstand all attacks based on electromagnetic principles.

According to the formula of kinetic energy in relativity, when an object's speed approaches the speed of light, its kinetic energy increases infinitely.

Based on this principle, magnetic fields can accelerate charged particles to very high speeds, allowing each particle to carry extremely high kinetic energy.

When an attacking entity comes into contact with this Energy Shield, the high-speed charged particles will impart their kinetic energy onto it, causing it to disintegrate and explode instantly.

The fragments from the explosion will be blocked outside the shield by dense high-energy particles, and part of the energy released from the explosion will be absorbed by these particles, converting back into their kinetic energy, while the rest dissipates into the surrounding space.

But from the law of energy conservation, it's clear that accelerating charged particles to very high speeds and carrying high kinetic energy requires consuming a tremendous amount of energy.

Thus, it can be deduced that two critical factors are needed to manufacture an Energy Shield: powerful energy and efficient, mature magnetic confinement technology.

Using magnetic confinement technology to bind charged particles into a shield, and employing electromagnetic fields to propel these charged particles to move at high speed within the confines of the magnetic field, is theoretically the form of Energy Shield that current human technology can achieve.

The two most crucial points, powerful energy and magnetic confinement technology, have actually been resolved in the small fusion reactor that Chen Xin has already implemented.

Just that, the technical accumulation on these two issues is not yet deep enough, as the current researchers have yet to thoroughly analyze the small fusion reactor that Chen Xin manufactured, and even a giant fusion power plant hasn't been built. To leap over this theoretical construction and directly start building the Energy Shield is evidently premature.

With the current state of human technology, aside from the technological enhancements provided by Chen Xin, creating a stable magnetic confinement device still has quite a long way to go.

Thus, the "Directional Energy Shield Defense Technology" that Chen Xin personally oversees still relies solely on him to fabricate the product using system upgrades, then handing it over to others for reverse-engineering and theoretical construction.

Fortunately, because of previous reverse studies on the small fusion reactor, some good results had been achieved in this area domestically. After Chen Xin created a relatively simple Energy Shield generator, they could quickly grasp the framework and find the starting point.

Unlike some experts from other countries, who looked at the Energy Shield generator created by Chen Xin and were utterly clueless like a mouse trying to handle a turtle.

"Academician, I think the shield generator shouldn't always remain in this activated state. We should adopt a reactive shield design, activating the shield only when something is detected to be coming. In normal flight mode, I don't think it's necessary to keep the shield fully operational, as it consumes too much energy," a researcher suggested to Chen Xin.

Chen Xin nodded, affirming, "That's a good suggestion, indeed. It's unnecessary to keep the shield on all the time. We can link the shield with the radar, so when the radar starts to alert, the shield can begin to preheat, effectively saving energy.

And we can also equip the shield with high-density energy storage devices, storing energy usually, and when the shield needs activation, releasing energy from these high-density capacitors to drive or reinforce the shield to withstand high-intensity attacks."

As a former online novelist, Chen Xin is someone with a rich imagination, coupled with having played many science fiction games, some of which are quite hardcore.

As a common science fiction setting, the Energy Shield naturally has its representations in games, with many expressions that can serve as references.

"A high-density, large-capacity capacitor? That can indeed work! Storing energy usually and then releasing it when the shield is activated can significantly enhance the shield's instantaneous strength, allowing us to use a smaller reactor or Nuclear Battery to charge a high-power shield!" A researcher clearly understood the benefits of this approach and immediately voiced strong agreement with Chen Xin's suggestion.

However, there is no ready-made high-density, large-capacity capacitor; the current electrical energy storage devices developed by humanity obviously don't have the capacity to meet the Energy Shield's energy consumption needs.

After a round of discussion with the researchers, Chen Xin had to add a new sub-project for developing high-density, large-capacity capacitors in the research project.

Luckily, since Chen Xin is the general manager, he can make decisions like adding a research project without needing to file reports for approval. Therefore, this project team quickly assembled and began operations.