From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

On various domestic online platforms, the establishment of the Golden Crow Project has become a hot topic discussed by everyone, and it has also been listed at the top of the major search lists for a long time.

This situation directly made many people who had no idea what controllable nuclear fusion was before understand this concept.

Of course, this is mainly because controlled nuclear fusion is closely related to the interests of everyone in society.

Who can not feel excited when they hear that the electricity bill will drop by more than ten times?

Although as a necessary living expense, the electricity bill calculated every month is not unaffordable strictly speaking, but for some provinces with large power shortages, such as Hainan Island, the electricity bill is often more expensive than the inland, and for example Said Canton Province.

As an economically developed area, the power supply pressure here is high, which naturally leads to high electricity bills.

Even a large power generation province like Guangdong Province also needs power transmission from other provinces to barely meet the province's electricity demand, but even so, the problem of power rationing always arises, and this is not to build more The power plant can solve it, after all, there is also an issue of environmental protection and cost involved.

At this time, once there is a super energy supply such as controllable nuclear fusion, these problems will be solved.

As the most ideal clean energy, controllable nuclear fusion will not produce carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and will not bring huge dust haze like thermal power generation. Once controllable nuclear fusion is built, environmental protection issues lingering on human heads , will be greatly improved, and other high-polluting power generation methods can be abolished.

Therefore, all those who know what controllable nuclear fusion means, when they saw the news, felt a kind of ecstasy in their hearts.

This situation has directly caused some stocks related to nuclear fusion in the energy sector to benefit from this.

Of course, after being happy, it brings doubts.

Can this matter really succeed?

Although Lin Xiao's achievements are in front of everyone's eyes, and people have blindly believed in Lin Xiao in the past, but is controllable nuclear fusion, which has been mentioned far more times in science fiction than room-temperature superconductors, really possible? ?

Especially those who understand the difficulties of controllable nuclear fusion technology are even more suspicious at this time.

If the engine turbine blade is the crown of the material world, then the material of controllable nuclear fusion is the ancestor of the crown of the material world-whether the crown has an ancestor or not will not be mentioned.

Therefore, some people still hold a pessimistic attitude towards this Golden Crow project.

However, at the same time, in a certain white palace.

"Oh, buy fucking! Okay, okay, everyone stop talking about God bless America, now I don't believe this sentence, look, now people are going to come up with controlled nuclear fusion , what about us?"

The president was walking back and forth in his office, still talking in a loud voice. Although it was not aimed at anyone present, the secretaries of state present clearly felt that it was aimed at all of them.

"Mr. President, I know this question is worth worrying about, but please think about it, we have been studying controllable nuclear fusion for so many years, and there is no hope of success at all, and in the assessment report of the expert group, no Have you indicated this?"

The Secretary of State spoke up.

He has read the report, and it is very clear about the technical assessment. Among the materials that humans can synthesize currently, none of them can meet the requirements of controllable nuclear fusion. As for the future, it is difficult to say, but at the end of the report In the evaluation, even the tokamak device currently in use maintains a half-positive and half-negative attitude.

At the same time, the report also stated that even if the other party was the famous Lin Xiao, it would be impossible to solve it.

For this report, the Secretary of State naturally believed it.

After all, he was a lawyer, not a professional scientist, so he believed these reports from scientists.

However, it now appears that their Mr. President does not trust their experts.

Of course, the reason why the president didn't believe it also made him wonder how to refute it.

"Hey, when Lin Xiao was working on the lithography machine, that group of idiot-like experts seemed to say the same thing, right?" The president snorted coldly: "They are completely at their level, but Lin Xiao is at the same level." In terms of Lin Xiao's level, do you think those idiots are at the same level as this Lin Xiao?"

"This……"

The Secretary of State hesitated for a moment, but the reason for the report given by the group of scientists was also very good, although he couldn't understand any of those calculation formulas.

Finally he shook his head and said, "Mr. President, although you may have some opinions on those experts, sometimes we can trust them."

"There is another analysis conclusion that I think is very reasonable. Even if the Golden Crow Project is established, it may just be that they want to divert the debate on room temperature superconductors. They want to put pressure on us. We can't It's their trick."

However, the expression on the president's face became even more annoyed at this time, "You still mentioned room temperature superconductors to me! If you hadn't failed in Plan C at the beginning, would we have so much worry now? Well now, we are talking to them about room temperature superconductors. How many times have you negotiated? Up to now they have never changed their terms."

"They often talk about the failure of your plan C, which puts us in a completely unreasonable situation. Once you agree to them, it will affect our loss and the layout for so many years, do you know?"

"I……"

The Secretary of State was helpless, and at the same time cursed secretly in his heart, and frankly said Plan C, Plan C, Plan C, it has been so long, and he is still talking about it.

Is this something he can influence?

He now feels extremely regretful about the implementation of this plan C. He heard that this plan was proposed by his predecessor, and he even hated his predecessor for it. Big mess.

But putting aside this mess, talking about room temperature superconductors really gave them a headache.

You must know that several countries have already obtained the right to purchase room-temperature superconductors, and even the annual purchase volume is higher than their conditions.

Yes, the purchase volume, if foreign countries want to buy room temperature superconductors, there is a purchase limit, 2.5 kilometers or [-] kilometers per year, and the cross-sectional area is limited to [-] square millimeters.

Especially now, they have also discovered that this room temperature superconductor has a characteristic that it cannot be melted and recast. Once the CCD-I is melted, it will be quenched and cannot return to the state of a superconductor.

This further limits the use of room-temperature superconductors after they buy them.

But even if this is the case, it does not prevent these countries from pursuing this kind of thing, and even the price is as high as 1000 million US dollars for 1000 meters.

They don't know the actual cost, so they think it's a good deal to buy 1000 meters of room-temperature superconductors for $1000 million.

However, America has not yet successfully negotiated, and the conditions given by the other party are too harsh for them to accept, including their previous sanction projects, as well as strategic layout, and most importantly, their purchase quota in the conditions , only ten kilometers per year!

Thinking of this, the Secretary of State had a toothache.

"Okay, I won't say anything else, you can find a way for me, so that they can't create controllable nuclear fusion!"

Chapter 414 Is there such a thing?

The president's order is lingering on the heads of the Secretary of State and others, but to prevent the other party from giving out controllable nuclear fusion?

No matter what they think, the Secretary of State and the others don't know what to do.

Technological breakthroughs are not something that foreign countries like them can intervene in. Otherwise, how could that country reach this point?

Unless they can restart the plan C that didn't succeed at the beginning, come up with plan D, and decapitate the Golden Crow plan, but obviously, for now, it is impossible for the other party to allow them to use this kind of plan that has already failed the second time.

Therefore, this most effective method can be completely ignored.

And thinking of Plan C, the Secretary of State had a headache again. At this time, he remembered the room temperature superconductor that was being negotiated again, which made him regret the original Plan C even more. It could be that the failure of Plan C has led to their current impasse.

Even if they want to buy another batch from other countries that have already bought it, or even increase the price to 1000 million US dollars for [-] meters, those countries will not sell it, because once they are discovered, they will not be able to buy it in the future.

"Ugh."

He sighed for a long time, now he can only pray, that Lin Xiao can have an accident when going out, such as other car accidents, or when the screen on the top is smashed down when he is giving a speech Getting hit on the head, or being struck by lightning, or something like that.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to lose your life, even if you are in a vegetative state - after all, vegetative people still have a chance to wake up, which is just very low.

But obviously, these ideas are just fantasies in the minds of the Secretary of State and others. They all know that these things are basically impossible to happen, and it is even harder than winning the lottery, so basically they can be ignored.

So the only way now is for them to develop controllable nuclear fusion themselves, so that they can be one step ahead of Lin Xiao and produce their own infinite energy. It's a big killer, and it's fine if it is mastered by others.

But the question is, where do they find scientists with this ability?

Controlled Fusion... Controlled Fusion...

Thinking about the reports of those experts he read, even he himself is pessimistic about the realization of this technology.

Those experts also told him that it will take at least 50 years for human beings to use energy from controlled nuclear fusion—strictly speaking, it will be 50 years forever.

Because whether it is 2010 or 2020, or now 2024, in the field of controllable nuclear fusion research, "There are still 50 years to realize commercial controllable nuclear fusion reactors" is a statement that has never changed.

As for whether Lin Xiao can realize it...

The Secretary of State was reluctant to believe it before, but after talking with the President just now, he doesn't know how to think about this issue now.

Finally, he sighed.

"It seems that some special means must be used."

As for the special means?

He tracked down the FBI director who had left the White House with him.

"Hey, Frank, I want to ask, have you planted some spies with sufficient identities over there..."

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China.

Jinmen City.

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei circle also belongs to the developed regions in China and is generally called the capital economic circle.

Of course, as a developed region, the demand for electricity here is also very large, but as the capital region, it is at the core politically, so this economic circle's demand for stable electricity is also relatively important.

It is also for this reason that the Jinwu pile planned to be built in the Jinwu project is located here in Jinmen City.

"Jinmen is close to the sea, which is very helpful for us to build a factory to extract deuterium and tritium. In addition, before we find a better way to generate electricity, if we boil water, we can directly transport seawater there, which is also a more economical solution. "

The Golden Crow Project is located in Jinmen City's temporary office, and the Golden Crow Project working group is in their meeting.

It was not Lin Xiao who was talking, but another person, Song Tao, the director of the Plasma Institute.

Song Tao is now appointed by Lin Xiao as the head of the pre-planning team of their Golden Crow Project. Naturally, the pre-planning is mainly responsible for the preparatory work in the early stage, including but not limited to the engineering construction of the surrounding facilities of the reactor, and also includes specific selection. At the same time, it also undertakes the work of providing other researchers with the services required for specific research.

This work seems to be completely chores, but in fact, it is very important to the whole plan. After all, it is preparation work. As the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood, so Song Tao's responsibilities are very crucial.

As for why Song Tao was appointed to take on this task, it was because of Li Gang.

After all, Li Gang agreed to free up the Dongfang Chaohuan for future experiments by Lin Xiao, and the Dongfang Chaohuan does not belong to Li Gang alone, but to the entire Plasma Institute, so in view of this, Lin Xiao Song Tao was invited to take up this important position.

Although Song Tao is the director of the Plasma Institute, this does not prevent him from coming to carry out this work, not to mention, the total investment of their country is as high as 500 billion for the Golden Crow Project!

Moreover, this is only the initial investment, and there will be continuous planned investment in the later stage. Being able to come to such an important project and take on such an important responsibility, if Song Tao wants to participate in the selection of academicians in the future, this is obviously a very rich reward. curriculum vitae.

So Song Tao was naturally very grateful for Lin Xiao's invitation.

Of course, it wasn't just Song Tao, many researchers from the Institute of Plasma were invited by Lin Xiao to become a member of the Golden Crow Project.

In this way, it is not only a good thing for the people in the plasma institute, but also a good thing for Lin Xiao.

Although the Golden Crow Project has been established, it is obviously impossible for him to study it on his own. If all aspects of a controllable nuclear fusion reactor technology are printed on A4 paper, it can hardly fit in a small room. It is obviously impossible for him to do it alone. Even if he does not think at all, and then shows a typing speed of [-] words per hour, without eating, sleeping, or drinking water, it will probably take at least half a year, or even a year. to complete.

Not to mention that he obviously still needs to eat, sleep, and think as well.

So at this time, it is very important to have a group of experienced researchers who can help him save a lot of time.

In the field of controllable nuclear fusion research in China, the most experienced is obviously the Institute of Plasma. There are many experienced researchers here, so being able to find them here almost saves a lot of things.

So this obviously has a great effect on Lin Xiao, at least, he won't become a polished commander, after all, Dingguang Research Institute does not have such talents.

In this way, not only does it mean that he went to Dongfang Chaohuan for free, but also gave all the people inside for free, which is simply a big profit.

Of course, it is also a good opportunity for the researchers of these plasma institutes.

After all, the previous research at the Plasma Institute had limited funds and limited venues, and the research on controllable nuclear fusion had no end in sight, so for many people, they probably thought about how to change careers.

And now that they have joined the Golden Crow Project, they can give full play to their talents again, especially this time they are led by Lin Xiao. Although most of them still don't know the most difficult material problem, how will Lin Xiao solve it? , but thinking that Lin Xiao even solved the problem of room-temperature superconductors, it still gave them a little hope.

What if Lin Xiao really solved it?

In that way, they will certainly be able to enjoy enough honor as members of the Golden Crow Project, and even brag to their friends in the future.

All in all, this is a win-win situation, both for Lin Xiao and for the Plasma Institute.

"Then, the best location for us to choose now is here."

Song Tao, who was speaking, pointed to a location on the map.

"It is along the Qinbin Expressway to the north of the wharf in the industrial zone. The transportation here is convenient, the terrain is flat, and it is on the coast, far away from the urban area."

"So this is the most suitable place for the establishment of our Golden Crow Heap!"

After Song Tao finished speaking, everyone present also started discussing.

After a long while, Lin Xiao said: "Okay, don't worry about it, after all, Jinmen City is a relatively developed city, even along the entire coast, there is basically no such a large area of ​​open space, so - everyone can directly Let’s vote with a show of hands, if more than two-thirds of the people raise their hands, then let’s pass it.”

After speaking, he raised his hand.

And the people present also smiled and raised their hands one after another. Indeed, as Lin Xiao said, the position Song Tao chose is the best position.

"Okay, then it seems that the vote was passed unanimously, so it's decided."

Seeing this, Lin Xiao nodded, "Let's inform the city government later, and let them prepare the relevant procedures as soon as possible."

"Then, let's move on to the next topic, the grouping of the research group..."

The meeting continued. For such a large project with an investment of more than tens of billions, the meeting will probably take a long time.

Of course, after all, Lin Xiao was the chief designer of the X-ray project. Although the names of chief designer and chief engineer are different, the nature of their work is quite similar, so Lin Xiao is quite familiar with it.

In this way, the meeting continued day by day. At the same time, after making preparations for the site selection, Song Tao's preparatory team began to make various arrangements.

As time passed, the first phase of the Golden Crow Project, that is, the construction of infrastructure, began.