Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 668 Energy Lifeline (seeking a monthly pass)
Yes!

Their goal is to achieve continuous confinement of ultra-high temperature plasma for 30 minutes. The realization of this goal means that controllable nuclear fusion technology can be commercialized.

As for whether the major giants are willing to spend huge investments to build fusion nuclear power plants, it has nothing to do with them. The breakthrough and improvement of this technology cannot be achieved overnight, unless they obtain the "Golden Crow Device" and carry out reverse engineering. This will undoubtedly speed up a lot.

With the current strength of the United States, it is impossible to obtain controllable nuclear fusion technology and the "Golden Crow Device" from Huaxia. High level of confidentiality.

The more they entered the deep water area of ​​controllable nuclear fusion, the more difficult Zhang Dun and others felt, facing many problems, and many problems required great efforts to solve, which involved huge financial, material and manpower resources .

Of course, the most important thing is an extremely outstanding leader. The role that an extremely outstanding leader can play is unparalleled.

Qin Yuanqing is the only one!
And the United States, no!
"Start the experiment!" Zhang Dun said, and then everyone went to the control room together.

What they can do is to keep trial and error, spend money to explore the way, and then solve problems when they encounter problems. This is a normal phenomenon in scientific research, but it is much better than before. They know that magnetic confinement nuclear fusion It's a feasible path, it's better than walking in the darkness before, not knowing whether the darkness will end, I don't know how much.

In the control room, after pressing the button, the experiment started again. In the past five years, they have started dozens of experiments. It is through such trial and error step by step that they move forward slowly instead of standing still.

This 25-minute experiment is the third 25-minute experiment. Although the previous two experiments also achieved a 25-minute continuous running time, there were many problems. This time, hundreds of technical difficulties have been overcome. The target strikes.

The time passed by every minute and every second, and all the scientific researchers were concerned about the experiment. Finally, when the time came to 25 minutes, there was no abnormality, which showed that they succeeded. They cut off the power input immediately, and the whole There was warm applause from the base. They finally took another step on the extremely bright but bumpy road of controllable nuclear fusion. Countless people cheered and celebrated.

"Jonathan, we succeeded. We successfully achieved stable, safe and continuous confinement of high-temperature plasma for 25 minutes. We are only 30 minutes away from the goal of 5 minutes!" Zhang Dun contacted Jonathan immediately and told him the good news.

At the same time, Jonathan, who was attending an important meeting far away in Washington, heard the good news, his frowning brows finally relaxed, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face, and then he said with relief: "Zhang, you are Good job, I think those sons of bitches have nothing to say now."

Then Jonathan hung up the phone.

As the person in charge of the "Helios" project, Jonathan Maynard is actually under a lot of pressure. As the person in charge, the "Helios" project has burned 3000 billion U.S. dollars so far, and the result has not crossed 25 minutes so far. Let Jonathan bear the pressure from the funder and the Ministry of Energy. This time he came to Washington to participate in the meeting. In fact, there was a resolution, that is, he gave in and allowed the Asia Power Group to build a fusion nuclear power plant in the United States. He agreed to all additional conditions and handed over the energy Let people continue to work hard to create their own controllable nuclear fusion.

Naturally, everyone is willing to have their own controllable nuclear fusion, so that they will not be stuck at the critical moment. After all, handing over the energy and lifeline to others is equivalent to handing over the fate to others, and the tone will be weak when talking to others scored three points.

This is the aspect they are most familiar with. They have been doing this for almost half a century.

However, if the controllable nuclear fusion technology fails to break through, the patience of all parties will be limited, because everyone wants to use this clean, safe, and unlimited energy instead of expensive energy. Look at every time they participate in the environment The General Assembly will be constantly criticized.If it's just criticism and accusation, that's all. Their skins are not that thin. They have a skin thicker than the city wall, so they naturally don't care.

Most importantly, benefits!
Yes, when other places start to adopt controllable nuclear fusion energy, they are still using traditional energy, then their products will not be competitive at all, and if this continues, they will have no hope and lose everything.

This is definitely not an exaggeration, but a fact!

Take a look at the fact that China is still maintaining a high-speed growth rate of 6%, and look at the most dynamic global economy in East Asia and South Asia. These are not without reasons, but have very close economic ties.

There are also three regions in Northeast Asia, still because of their manipulation, the economy has maintained negative growth for many years.

"Everyone, I want to tell you some good news before initiating the vote. It will not be too late to vote after everyone hears the news!" Jonathan walked briskly into the conference room.

"Oh? Jonathan, what's the good news?" An energy tycoon looked at Jonathan calmly and said.

"Gentlemen and ladies, the good news is that we have achieved continuous confinement of ultra-high temperature plasma for up to 25 minutes in one operation. This is very close to our goal of 30 minutes, and only the last 5 minutes are left. said Jonathan.

"Jonathan, don't talk to me about those technical terms. I don't understand them. Just speak in terms we can understand." Another energy giant said impatiently. In the past five or six years, oil and natural gas prices have been hit hard, although There are still profits, but the profits are already very thin, which is very unaccustomed to the giants who are used to making huge profits.

Officially facing the risk that their wealth might be wiped out, the energy giants united and invested a lot of money in the 'Sun God' plan, even going so far as to offend other interested parties and squeeze their funds.

Also united are industries such as manufacturing, because they have already felt the huge impact brought about by controllable nuclear fusion technology. Opponents often use the low cost created by low energy sources to carry out nuclear fusion at a much lower price than theirs. Competition snatched orders one by one, but the profit margin was still higher than them.

If controllable nuclear fusion technology is lost, the present and the future will be lost. The collapse of the building has reached a critical point. This is already a dangerous building that may collapse at any time.

Very helpless, but no one can stop it.

Want to turn on the money printing machine to print money crazily, and flood it with floods, but unfortunately this road has long been blocked.Once this is done, the building will really collapse, and no one dares to really tear down the building.

"Yes, it can be considered that, maybe in another three to five years, we will completely master controllable nuclear fusion technology!" Jonathan said: "Gentlemen and ladies, wait another three to five years, and we will once again consolidate the nuclear fusion technology!" The building, let the building continue to stand. I think we should continue to hold the lifeline of energy in our hands instead of handing it over to others. In this way, when we are stuck in the neck, we will be super uncomfortable and even collapse to death. "

As Jonathan said, he stopped talking, and there was a heated discussion in the conference room. The discussion lasted for an hour before a formal vote was made. As a result, the voices in favor of waiting for a few more years accounted for the majority, and got 5 more votes. A majority of 55% voted for victory.

Seeing the voting results, Jonathan breathed a sigh of relief.

As a scholar who has been engaged in the study of controlled nuclear fusion all his life, Jonathan knows very well that controlled nuclear fusion must be mastered. If you don’t master it, you will be a fish on the backing board and will be slaughtered unless it is a critical moment. Otherwise, you should master this technology as much as possible. Only with this technology can you have a future, otherwise you will lose everything.

And just when the United States was encouraged by the 25-minute major breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion research, the three astronauts in the spaceship on the ground fire migration orbit were arguing after a long performance.

At the beginning of the launch, they were apprehensive, excited, and excited. Once they set foot on Mars, they will become human warriors who conquered Mars. Just like Columbus who discovered the New World, they will be recorded in the annals of human history. Become a hero of mankind and become famous all over the world.

And since they promised to be astronauts to go to Mars, they each received 1000 million dollars, as long as they successfully return to Earth, they will be heroes and rich people, and they will live a rich life instead of unemployed bums.

"Damn it, I think we've been cheated. The technology for landing on Mars is not mature at all. They are using us as an experiment!" Brown said angrily. In the narrow space of the spaceship, it was alright at first, but after a long time, It's going to make people crazy, the weightlessness makes people uncomfortable, maybe it's night at this time, and it will be dawn in the next hour, and you have to wear blindfolds to sleep.

"Brown, can you be quiet? If you talk too much, you will consume more supplies. Supplies are very precious. I don't want us to go to Mars and return to Earth, but starve to death on the way." Christiana said angrily.

NASA claims that they are highly educated, physically fit, and professionally trained astronauts. In fact, they are not. They are highly educated, but they are all unemployed homeless men. After training for a while, they were put on the spacecraft, and after the BFR rocket was launched, they left the earth and embarked on a journey to Mars.

They never thought that the long journey from the earth to Mars would be so difficult. This is not the first time they have quarreled, it is already the 20th time, and this quarrel has become the seasoning of their lives.

(End of this chapter)