Chapter 378 Golden Crow No. 1
Chapter 378 Golden Crow No. 1
While many experts and leaders in China were repeatedly watching and discussing the open class that Kang Chi gave at Su Province University, most people on the other side of the ocean were still lying in their warm beds and dreaming.
However, soon, some people were pulled up by emergency calls.
Ministry of Energy of the United States.
Poirot yawned and forced himself to cheer up and start the “class” with everyone.
To be honest, he felt a little irritated and even a little traumatized when he heard the name “Kang Chi” now.
It’s not that Kang Chi is really lethal to him, It’s mainly because the G Club attaches too much importance to Kang Chi.
Whenever there is any movement from him, they will hold various analysis meetings with great fanfare.
And every time they wake people up from their beds, it’s very annoying.
In addition, Kang Chi always deals with some very important scientific research fields. Whether they follow or not, whether they are broken through or surpassed, it will bring them a huge workload.
For example, he was appointed as the chief engineer of nuclear fusion in China some time ago. The final result of the discussion was to follow up on the surface but cut in reality.
And cutting funds is the easiest thing to offend people.
In just half a month, major laboratories have carried out at least dozens of protests in various forms. After returning to be spurned by his peers, Forrest Hughes, who was originally “seeking truth from facts”, gradually changed his direction. He constantly emphasized the importance of controlled nuclear fusion in public, and if China takes the lead in making breakthroughs in this field, how much impact it will have on the world situation.
More importantly, he directly stabbed the Energy Bureau in the back, accusing them of saying one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes, which caused a huge public opinion storm among the people.
The public opinion problem is actually just a small problem.
More importantly, they suddenly found that they could not find a scholar who dared to tell the truth.
Various interest groups have coerced scholars, making their academic world more and more “capitalized”. Scientists who are eager for quick success and instant benefits are losing their pursuit of academics and truth! Last year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory proudly announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) was the first to achieve a nuclear fusion ignition experiment with a Q value greater than 1. This shocked the whole world. However, after professional analysis, it turned out that the calculation method of this Q value of 1.53 was very imprecise. Although they input 2.05 megajoules of laser energy into the target and obtained 3.15 megajoules of energy, they consumed more than 200 megajoules of energy to obtain the 2.05 megajoules of laser energy! They did not mention it at all. If the energy of more than 200 megajoules is taken into account, the actual result of this laser fusion device, which cost a full 3.5 billion US dollars, is only a Q value of less than 0.015…
This is definitely a big joke,
But Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is not ashamed, but shamelessly regards the joke as pride. After boasting to the outside world, it turned around and said two words to them:
Money!
This is simply treating everyone as an idiot!
They have had enough of these scientists’ deception.
Poirot even has a strong premonition that the problems in their academic community may be more serious than the threats from the outside world!
But he is just an energy minister, and it is not his turn to worry about this matter for the time being.
“What do you think about this?”
”I think that Kang Chi is now the king of deception that China has put on the table to deceive us!”
The CIA set up a technical investigation and tracking team for Kang Chi some time ago, and Ollie Bernard, who is speaking now, is the leader of this team.
”Last time he made a public statement, saying that he would conduct anti-gravity research and threatened to spend hundreds of billions to build a collider specifically for capturing anti-mass and charge. What happened?”
”It’s been almost a year, and he never mentioned it again. And according to our current intelligence analysis, they haven’t carried out engineering construction in this area, so it’s 90% certain that he is deceiving us, and it’s this deception that has allowed those guys who do high-energy physics to defraud a full billion dollars in funding!”
In fact, what really makes them uncomfortable is that, this billion investment has not even made a splash,
SSC thisThis is a super unfinished project, and it is still an unfinished project.
This project has been in disrepair for a long time, and the collision pipelines built before have become a paradise for homeless people.
Now, after spending one billion US dollars, they have only simply cleaned up and cold-started the entire project…
So this billion has actually become their sunk cost.
If they give up now, it means that the billion will be wasted. If they don’t want to give up, it means that they have to invest at least 5 billion US dollars…
And this is just to make this device run. Every subsequent experiment here will burn more money for them.
But the particle collider is now producing results more and more slowly. Even if it produces results, it usually takes at least a dozen years to truly promote the development of science and technology.
It makes them very entangled and uncomfortable.
They didn’t want to face all these unpleasant things in the future…
“Alas, there are more and more frauds and lies in this world!”
Poirot rubbed his forehead with a headache, “I don’t know what kind of research project is really worth our bet…”
“If Congress doesn’t find a way to solve the problems in the academic community, maybe we should just give up and wait for China to completely surpass us, and then we can cross the river by feeling their stones!”
After some discussion, they finally reached a consensus without listening to the opinions of experts and scholars: The more Kang Chi clamored about nuclear fusion, the more it showed that he was not optimistic about controlled nuclear fusion for some reason, and he was trying to fool them into increasing investment or changing direction.
The more this happened, the more they had to be vigilant,
Continuing to wait and see might be the most correct choice.
They even thought that they could try to withdraw from the ITER project, or use it as a threat to find a way to kick China out, so as to test their true attitude towards the tokamak device…——Dongyang, Pangu Base.
After Zhong Weijian and Cheng Tao got off the plane, they were immediately taken to the Pangu Base by the National Security Bureau.
In fact, not long after Zhong Weijian and Chen Tao left, they received a notice from Assistant Kang Chi asking them to come to Dongyang for a meeting.
It was a coincidence.
Although they arrived in Dongyang ahead of time, Kang Chi did not meet them in advance. He still needed to organize and check the meeting materials for tomorrow and had no time to receive them one by one in person.
If only Academician Zhong Weijian was received, it would inevitably make others feel unbalanced, so he simply treated them equally and handed it over to the assistant.
This time, he only invited the main leaders of each fusion device project, so the number of people was much smaller than when Kang Chi took office in the Academy of Sciences auditorium last time, and the venue was just an ordinary medium-sized conference room. But everyone knew the importance of this meeting, so not only did Director Lu from the Ministry of Science and Technology come to listen to the meeting in person, but even the Elders Council sent people to come.
The two leaders arrived in the morning of the meeting, so before the meeting started, Kang Chi received them privately and took them on a brief tour of the Pangu Base.
This should be the second time Director Lu has come to the Pangu Base. The last time he came here, more than half of the space in the Pangu Base was still idle, but now basically every laboratory in the entire base has various equipment on display, and there are many more scientific researchers inside than before.
This made Chief Lu sigh: “Why do I feel that such a large laboratory is not enough for you…”
”This is only temporary.” Kang Chi explained with a smile, “Most of these equipment will be returned after a while.”
Although the old man standing next to Chief Lu had heard Chief Lu describe Kang Chi’s laboratory on the way here, and had also seen the mechanical corps built by Kang Chi in the west, he was still shocked when he saw Bai Niu busy in the laboratory.
At the beginning, Wang Weisen and others should have come here to visit and see what artificial intelligence is.
However, Kang Chi also emphasized to them that this is just an intelligent robot, which is fundamentally different from an artificial intelligence robot.
After entering Kang Chi’s private laboratory, a white girl poured them a cup of tea each. Drinking the tea brewed by the robot made the old man feel even more surprised.
”No wonder Academician Kang insisted on setting up a production line for intelligent robots. These things can really change my world…”
Kang Chi smiledSmile: “But before that, the first thing we need to solve is actually the energy problem.”
”Energy is the fundamental problem of the fourth scientific and technological revolution. Only by solving the energy problem can our productivity be completely liberated and intelligent robots can play the greatest role.”
”So have you found the answer?”
”Yes.”
”Is it the magnetized target fusion you mentioned the day before yesterday?”
Kang Chi nodded: “I think this is the most likely technical route to achieve commercialization of fusion under our existing technical conditions.”
”Although it still cannot solve the negative impact of using deuterium-tritium as fuel, compared with traditional nuclear fission power plants, its energy release efficiency can be increased by 4 to 8 times, and the fuel cost is cheaper.”
The old man pondered for a moment and asked again: “How confident are you now?”
”Very big.”
”I understand. We will fully support you at the meeting later.”
”Thank you.” – When the three arrived at the venue, the experts and scholars invited to attend had been waiting for a long time.
More than 20 pairs of eyes immediately focused on Kang Chi.
After Kang Chi walked up to the podium, he smiled and greeted them before saying, “Thank you all for coming all the way from all over the country. I’m afraid your vacation is coming to an end.”
Someone below immediately said, “We are all people who can’t sit still. We have been waiting for Academician Kang to speak.”
”That’s right. If you don’t assign us tasks, we will take the initiative to come to you.”
Their words made the atmosphere in the venue relaxed a little, but most people’s expressions were the same as Zhong Weijian and others, still serious and solemn, because they knew very well that if Kang Chi’s public statement two days ago was not for political purposes, then their projects would most likely be directly cut now.
As expected, Kang Chi did not disappoint them. After a simple greeting, he announced an important decision: “From today on, all previous controlled nuclear fusion projects, including international cooperation projects such as EAST, will be cancelled.”
Although they had already guessed that this result would happen, when Kang Chi actually said this, there was still a burst of laughter at the scene.
“Everyone, be quiet!” The old man sitting in the front row patted the table and said in a deep voice, “If you have any questions, just ask. What’s the point of making so much noise?”
So everyone stopped discussing, and then someone immediately raised his hand and said, “Mr. Kang, even if you are optimistic about the magnetized target fusion route, isn’t it a bit unsafe to cancel all other projects directly?”
”That’s right, isn’t this putting all the eggs in one basket? What if the magnetized target route doesn’t work?”
”Four months!” Facing their doubts, Kang Chi said loudly, “After four months, I guarantee that the device will be ignited! If it can’t be completed, I will directly resign from the position of chief engineer.”
The people below were stunned.
Four months? What can be done in four months?
The International Thermonuclear Fusion Project next door has not been completed for more than ten years. Even if China’s infrastructure capabilities are strong, it is too difficult to build a demonstration reactor in four months, right? “But in these four months, I need you to fully cooperate with me.” Kang Chi continued, “Didn’t your device upgrade during this period? It should be almost dismantled now…”
”As you know, the magnetized target focusing device is actually composed of two tokamaks and an inertial confinement device.”
”In order to speed up the progress, I need to requisition some of your parts and assign some tasks to you. I hope you can complete the transformation and adjustment of the parts within the specified time.”
After hearing what Kang Chi said, Zhong Weijian was shocked.
Good guy, It turns out that Kang Chi has been planning to take over their device for a long time!
Under the guise of upgrading the device, they have unknowingly helped Kang Chi prepare their own parts…
This guy is so shrewd that he doesn’t look like a young man in his early thirties, okay? But more importantly, what he has to do now is not to cancel everyone’s project, but to directly requisition their equipment…
There is no turning back after this requisition!
When everyone was speechless due to Kang Chi’s words, Kang Chi’s assistant had already assigned the tasks to each research institution.
Zhong Weijian simply looked at the tasks on his side.
First, it is to formally takeEliminate the Dongfang Super Ring project, dismiss all international cooperative R&D personnel, and re-select R&D personnel to join the “Jinwu No. 1” project.
Second, it is responsible for manufacturing the plasma injector of Jinwu No. 1.
This plasma injector is actually a small tokamak device,
However, compared with the tokamak used to produce nuclear fusion, its requirements are much lower. It does not need to be really ignited, but only needs to pressurize the nuclear fuel into plasma, and then spray it into the magnetized target device where the fusion reaction is really needed. It is a bit like the “fuel tank” and “fuel injector” of an internal combustion engine.
The technical difficulty is much lower than the core device of the magnetized target.
After seeing this task, Zhong Weijian breathed a sigh of relief. He is best at this kind of device, and it is indeed suitable for them to do it.
Only in this regard, their research on tokamak has not been wasted.
And the magnetized target fusion does not necessarily mean that the tokamak route is completely abandoned. After all, the tokamak itself is a part of the magnetized target device…
(End of this chapter)