Chapter 391 What does it mean?
Chapter 391 What does it mean?
The technical seminar of the National Science Council of Country M is still going on. As they discuss the actual research plan and start to involve some “interests” in the division, the atmosphere in the meeting hall becomes more and more intense.
However, compared to the outside world, which has been increasingly boiling with the fermentation of information, they can still sit down and discuss these technical issues…
In fact, it is already quite rational and calm.
[It’s time to wake up. The center of the world has returned to the East at this moment! ]
[Where will Country M go? ]
[How long will it take for us to buy a ticket to the new world? ]
[……]
After the first wave of news spread, the media of Country M quickly began to process the information in the second wave.
“…We have specially connected with Dr. Borol Vasilyevich from the Physics Society of Country M.”
”Hello, Dr. Vasilyevich. The most important question for everyone now is, if the successful ignition of Jinwu No. 1 announced by China is true, then what does it mean for China to master controlled nuclear fusion?”
In the NBC news live broadcast room, the host asked the question that all viewers were most concerned about with a serious face.
“What does it mean?”
Vasilyevich thought for a moment before answering: “It means that China will have inexhaustible energy in the future, which means that the fourth industrial revolution, or the fourth scientific and technological revolution, will officially start from China, and their material life will be greatly improved.”
”Can you give some more specific examples that are easy for everyone to understand?”
”Examples? The most direct benefit of controlled nuclear fusion is the leapfrog improvement of electricity resources.”
”They will become the country with the cheapest electricity prices in the world. People no longer have to worry about the cost of turning on air conditioners in summer and heating in winter. It is even possible for ordinary residents to use electricity for free. At the same time, the cost of transportation will be further reduced.”
”And this is actually just the most At the beginning, it is the most direct and the easiest for people to feel. ”
”With more and more nuclear fusion power stations and cheaper energy, their industrial manufacturing potential will be fully released, and the manufacturing costs of all industrial products will become negligible.”
”But I think that compared with their already strong industrial manufacturing capabilities, the biggest improvement is in agriculture…”
”The reduction in electricity costs can make agricultural technologies such as crop lighting, irrigation, and greenhouse control rapidly popularized.”
”You have all heard of vertical farms, right?”
”Imagine a picture of a thousand-foot farm rising from the ground… The original 10,000 square kilometers of agricultural land can now be directly turned into 100,000, or even 1 million or 10 million. It all depends on what they want, or can do. Build a few floors of the house.”
”Land area will no longer be a problem that limits agricultural development, and the food problem will be solved at the same time. Perhaps in the future, the food produced by one of their agricultural provinces will be able to meet the needs of the whole world. Whether it is tropical fruits or Arctic cod living in extremely cold regions, they may all come from the same building!”
”If they find it troublesome and don’t want to build a house, they can also consider using nuclear fusion heat to desalinate seawater directly, and then use cheap electricity to lead fresh water to the desert to transform the desert, turning it into fertile land out of thin air…”
Vasilyevich kept using his imagination, and he became more and more excited as he spoke, and he couldn’t stop at all. On the contrary, the host’s face became paler and paler.
Until Vasilyevich talked for five or six minutes, he I couldn’t help interrupting and asked, “What does this mean for us?”
Vasilyevich was stunned for a moment, and his originally excited emotions were immediately poured with a basin of cold water…
After a while, he said with a heavy heart: “For us, it means the complete collapse of the M-yuan-oil system and the financial system, and at the same time, our products will completely lose their competitiveness in global trade…”
”M country will decline rapidly and become no longer prosperous and great. Not only us, but the whole world will become highly dependent on China…”
”Is there no way to restrict them?”
After thinking for a while, Vasilyevich slowly said, “It’s not that there is no…”
”After energy is no longer a problem, resources become the only thing that can restrict them.”
”Although China is largeAlthough they are rich in resources, their natural resources are limited in quantity and variety, especially the various metal ores that are most needed for industrial manufacturing. If they cannot use their products to exchange for various resources around the world, then no matter how much energy they have, it is actually useless…”
”…”
Just when NBC News was still live, Wall Street, which had just opened for a short time, had already begun its first day of collapse.
All stocks, regardless of sectors, collapsed across the board! What most investors want to do at this time is to sell all their assets into cash as soon as possible, and then use the money to invest in China.
Even if it is converted into RMB, it is safer than putting it in the stock market…
In the Bai Palace of M country, the fierce debate has never stopped.
During their discussion, the “War The words “struggle”, “assassination” and “beheading” were even mentioned many times.
The whole country of M was burned into the abyss of panic and despair by the fire of Jinwu No. 1.
And this panic and despair quickly spread to the entire Western world. It is estimated that what they most hope for now is that China is just playing a little joke on them…
But in the third world, the situation is completely different.
As we all know, China is the big brother of the third world, and most of this group has clearly stood in the East.
After hearing the news, the younger brothers called the big brother as soon as possible and sent warm congratulations.
Then they proposed to come over for a visit and exchange to discuss the feasibility of building a nuclear fusion power station in their country…
And China The general meaning of the country’s answer to this is: Thank you, but Jinwu No. 1 is just a test reactor. Next, we need to build the test reactor into a demonstration reactor to further verify its commercial feasibility. If the operation is good and stable, we will consider building a large-scale nuclear fusion power station.
Everyone rest assured, we will definitely try our best to bring you on board when the time comes, and we will create brilliance together! —— Yanjing, National Energy Administration.
The day after the successful experiment in Luzhou, Kang Chi received an invitation to attend an important meeting on the future development of China’s nuclear power. In addition to the Energy Bureau and the three major nuclear power groups, relevant departments such as the Economic Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also sent representatives to attend the meeting.
The first topic of the meeting was about the transformation of Jinwu No. 1 of the Luzhou Plasma Research Institute. The second topic is to discuss the distribution of benefits. Strictly speaking, Kang Chi is not a member of a national scientific research institution, and has never received a salary from the state, so the technology he brought out actually belongs to Longteng Technology Group. Kang Chi also knows that energy companies are all Y-enterprises. Unlike state-owned enterprises, private capital is absolutely not allowed in Y-enterprises. Unless the three major nuclear power plants are downgraded to state-owned enterprises… Fortunately, Kang Chi did not ask for technology in exchange for shares, but proposed the most direct and easy-to-accept model of “selling core equipment” + “5% profit patent commission”. In this way, things become much simpler, and it does not violate the principles of all parties. However, when they were discussing how many fusion power stations should be built in the next five years to completely eliminate thermal power generation, Kang Chi suddenly raised an objection. “…According to the technical standards of Jinwu No. 1, the optimal range for each reaction to generate energy is 1200 megajoules. Without considering cogeneration, if we simply calculate the power generation efficiency at 40%, we can generate about 23 million kWh of electricity every day.”
”And our national average daily electricity consumption is 28 billion kWh. If we rely entirely on nuclear fusion to generate electricity, it means that we have to build 1217 Jinwu No. 1s.”
”In order to deal with the radiated neutrons produced by deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion, Jinwu No. 1 is subject to very large technical limitations, both in terms of the material of the liquid metal on the first wall and the structure of the device. At the same time, the price of tritium is too expensive. In order to obtain tritium stably, we have to build a nuclear fission reactor specifically made to collect tritium elements.”
”To be honest, this is still a long way from the controlled nuclear fusion I imagined…”
After hearing Kang Chi’s words, everyone was suddenly puzzled and couldn’t help whispering.
The leader of the Energy Bureau couldn’t help but ask: “Academician Kang, what do you mean by this?”
”I suggest that the first generation of controlled nuclear fusion should only be used as a transition and should be promoted normally. There is no need to rush to use it.Very big efforts are needed to fully roll out the replacement. ”
Kang Chi analyzed in a deep voice: “Haven’t we proposed to establish a permanent scientific research base on the moon? I believe that soon, we will have the ability to mine helium-3 on the moon.”
”When helium-3 and deuterium in seawater undergo fusion reaction, only helium-4 and protons will be generated. Not only are they non-radiative, but high-energy protons can be controlled by electric and magnetic fields. Therefore, we can use the kinetic energy of protons to interact with electromagnetic fields to directly generate net electricity…”
”The efficiency of this power generation method is theoretically 20% or even 40% higher than the 40% of boiling water.”
”If helium-3 is used as the fuel for nuclear fusion, Jinwu No. 1 can continue to upgrade to Jinwu No. 2, which is the second-generation nuclear fusion technology. Not only can the power generation efficiency be greatly improved, but it is also pure and natural without pollution. ”
”There are millions of tons of helium-3 on the moon, enough for us to use for tens of thousands of years, and there is an inexhaustible supply of deuterium in our oceans. Using these two things as fusion fuel is the ultimate answer to energy acquisition methods… I think it is the nuclear fusion technology that is truly worth rolling out and promoting.”
”If we rush to roll out the first-generation technology now, and then Jinwu No. 1 will be upgraded to the second-generation technology in a few years, and it will have to be changed again and again, it will be too wasteful and troublesome…”
”…”
After listening to Kang Chi’s analysis, everyone present was almost petrified…
Good guy! This first-generation technology has just come out and has not yet started to be rolled out, and our Academician Kang is already considering the troubles and waste of resources that may be caused by upgrading the technology too quickly…
If this is spread out and heard by other countries, won’t they be so angry that they will chop people with kitchen knives on the spot?
”Ahem… Well, helium-3 is indeed a good thing. “The leader of the Energy Bureau smiled stiffly, “But our lunar base plan will also have to wait until 2050, and this plan is only for the scientific research base. Mining will probably have to be postponed for more than ten years. By this calculation, the first generation of technology still has an application period of about 30 years…”
Kang Chi smiled and shook his head: “Didn’t you say that controlled nuclear fusion will be at least in 2050 before?”
”…”
The leader of the Energy Bureau was stunned again, and then blurted out: “Are you going to do aerospace?”
”Aerospace is definitely going to be done… But not so soon, at least wait until the several projects on hand are finished, probably… the end of this year, or take a break and wait until next year.”
The leader immediately smiled and nodded: “I understand… I guess all the people in the Space Bureau will be so excited that they can’t sleep tonight! ”
So after Kang Chi revealed that he would soon be involved in the aerospace field, the leaders directly followed his advice and did not rush to vigorously promote the first-generation nuclear fusion technology.
Their initial plan is to build only 20 first-generation nuclear fusion power stations in the next few years, with an average of 10 units in each power station, and a planned annual power generation of about 1.679 trillion, accounting for about 16% of the country’s electricity consumption.
This 16% is mainly used to eliminate some old and inefficient thermal power stations and meet the increasing demand for electricity.
As for clean energy such as hydropower, wind power, and solar energy, they will be allowed to work until the day they are scrapped. At the same time, to a certain extent, this is also to upgrade these energy industries. Transformation buffer period…—— Kang Chi came to Yanjing this time, in addition to participating in this important meeting on the future development direction of China’s nuclear power, there was another major event waiting for him. Or rather, this conference, which was supposed to be held a few days ago according to the original plan, was postponed for a few days because of Kang Chi and the ignition of Jinwu No. 1.
Early in the morning of the next day, Kang Chi put on a neat formal suit with the help of his life assistant.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Kang Chi couldn’t help but sigh: “To be honest, although this dress is very uncomfortable to wear, it is really handsome…”
”Mr. Kang, don’t joke with us, don’t you know that you look handsome in anything? ”
Kang Chi quickly retracted the 30-meter machete,
That’s fine, these people’s desire to survive and their ability to flatter are all maxed out…
The venue of the conference is the Yanjing Grand Hall.
When Kang Chi and Chen Hai followed the etiquette lady into the venue, the scene was already crowded with people. After Kang Chi entered the venue, almost everyone who saw him would immediately stand up, smile and nod to him, and some of them who had seen him before would immediately stand up and nod to him.Those who had passed the meeting came forward to congratulate him.
This row of noodles was completely full!
In addition to congratulating him on the successful ignition of Jinwu No. 1, of course, there was also the highlight of the day…
(End of this chapter)