Great Power Technology.

Chapter 524 More Than 5 Years of Struggle

At two o'clock in the morning, Ye Zhou, Chen Hao, and Lin Ling sat on the balcony used for rest outside the master control office of the Shenguang No. big moment.

Ye Zhou was holding a cup of Tieguanyin that was so bitter that his tongue was numb. Chen Hao sat far away smoking a cigarette, while Lin Ling leaned back on the recliner, sipping on the straw with a relaxed expression.

"Actually, you can see the results directly tomorrow. I heard that you have been working overtime very seriously recently. If you continue to suffer like this, you will lose all your hair."

Ye Zhou put down the cup in his hand, and spoke in a tone half teasing and half concerned.

"It's okay, I don't suffer every day, I can't miss such an important thing."

Lin Ling smiled and continued:

"Besides, if nuclear fusion can be successfully ignited, it will be of great significance to my research direction. More electric energy means more high-energy experiments. At least I don't have to worry about electricity bills in the future."

"Also, if the fiber laser performs normally this time, it can also be used in laser pulse acceleration technology in the future, and then we can use super particle beams to conduct collision experiments."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou nodded and replied:
"Then I didn't think of that. However, from this perspective, the derivative range of this technology is wider than I originally expected, and there will be more marginal benefits in the future."

"This is a good thing. The technology begins to have a marginal impact before it is actually applied. This is crucial for the stable development of a technology life cycle."

"If a technology can only have a single purpose, its development will be greatly restricted-this is why many people are more optimistic about inertial confinement fusion. From the technology itself, it has a certain degree of self-sustainability. Sexuality, self-sufficiency can be achieved at an early stage of development."

Chen Hao on the side put out the cigarette, leaned over and said:
"This is just one of the reasons. After all, such a large-scale project requires a large amount of financial support anyway. But then again, how is the development of magnetic confinement fusion now?"

Ye Zhou shook his head slightly, then replied:

"Magnetic confinement, or tokamak devices, have actually been developed faster than inertial confinement technology. Now there is ITER in the world and CFETR in China. These facilities are directly aimed at fusion power stations. The technology is also Relatively mature."

"In principle, the progress of a fusion research is mainly measured by the three indicators of plasma density, temperature, and effective discharge time, and the product of the three in the tokamak device is much larger than that of inertial confinement fusion. many."

"But that's just a lot bigger—it's not up to commercial standards either."

"It's as if everyone is trying to jump over a cliff. The width of the cliff is ten meters. The inertial confinement technique jumped 3 meters before, but the magnetic confinement technique jumped 8 meters, but the result is the same, and they still have to fall. Go down the cliff."

"So, no matter how close you are, it doesn't really mean much until you actually jump off the cliff."

"And our Shenguang No. [-] device this time is to jump over this cliff."

"Can you jump over?"

Chen Hao asked slightly worried.

Ye Zhou laughed and replied:
"You should ask how many meters we can go over that cliff."

"The goal of Shenguang-[-] is not to achieve a fusion reaction, or even to achieve a self-sustainable fusion reaction, but to achieve a self-sustainable fusion reaction with steady-state discharge."

"Achieving a fusion reaction means crossing a 10-meter cliff and achieving a self-sustainable fusion reaction. This means jumping over the cliff and then walking down the mountain for a while, halfway up the mountain."

"Only when a self-sustaining and steady-state discharge reaction is achieved, is the real descent from the mountain and the path to the sky."

Hearing Ye Zhou's words, Chen Hao sighed with emotion, and said:
"It's happened so many times that I'm hallucinating -- I always feel like we have to do everything right once, be the best once, or fail."

"In the past, I always felt that those who said that 'Huaxia is either the first or the failure' were outrageous. Now that I think about it, I am even more exaggerated than them."

"Not only do we want us to be the first, but we also have to take the second lap."

Lin Ling on the side laughed when he heard the words, and interjected:
"Mr. Chen, your chief technical office should be ambitious. If you don't even dare to set a goal, why do you want to coordinate it?"

"Of course, of course, I just think it's magical."

Having said that, Chen Hao sat down beside Ye Zhou, and then continued to speak:
"Actually, I have been having an idea for the past two days, that is, the realization of this device is a very sci-fi thing."

"Think about it, how long did it take us from when our cutting-edge technology was completely suppressed by the ugly country to now that we have actually achieved a comprehensive lead?"

Lin Ling stared and recalled for a moment, then said:
"Five years? The first breakthrough started with chips and lithography machines, followed by engines, large aircraft, batteries... and a lot of derivative technologies. All of them caught up at once."

"I didn't know it before. I thought it was like opening it all of a sudden. I didn't know until the secrecy level was raised a while ago. It was Ye Gong who did it."

"Hey, do you count as a bug in history? Just like Huo Qubing, Wei Qing, etc., you don't know it."

Having said that, Lin Ling said twice:

"Unlucky, unlucky, don't count."

Ye Zhou looked at her movements with a smile, and said:
"You think too much of me. In fact, this kind of overtaking didn't start recently at all, and it didn't even start from this century. Since the last century, since the beginning of our founding, we have been Get ready for this moment today."

"Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about inertial confinement fusion. You all know that the principle of inertial confinement fusion is the same as that of a hydrogen bomb explosion, so you should also know how much effort Academician Yu Min has made for today's situation. .”

"Think about them at that time, at the golden age of 40 or [-], abandoning their wives and children, sitting in the barren land in the desert, unable to share and discuss top-secret projects with anyone, and even writing letters to their families could only Use a pseudonym."

"At that time, we didn't have a particle accelerator, so we couldn't screen fusion materials. The researchers of that generation used hand-cranked calculators, abacus, or even pen calculations to derive the fusion route equation."

"Not to mention the natural environment, drought, lack of water, desolation, and remoteness. We are now building a six-nose base in Kunlun Mountains. Even the cigarettes that researchers smoke every day have to purchase hundreds of different brands. What about them at that time? "

"It is estimated that the dishes they ate all year round at that time were not as diverse as our current researchers eat in one meal."

"That's the case, they made the atomic bomb, they made the hydrogen bomb, and then they did the miniaturization of the nuclear bomb before the Comprehensive Nuclear Ban Treaty."

"Without their contributions, the development of our entire country's nuclear industry would probably have been locked at the level of the 60s. If that's the case, what kind of inertial confinement fusion is still delusional?"

"I can only pick up the leftover bones of other people, like Korean, and make some experimental tokamak to masturbate."

"Don't talk about nuclear fusion, do you know when our battery technology research first originated?"

"It was 1958, and it has been nearly 80 years since today."

"Sometimes I think, in fact, I'm not really a technology pioneer, I'm just the last tooth on a key."

"Without the efforts of those predecessors, even if there is technology, it is just a castle in the air."

What Ye Zhou said made the other two deeply agree. Just when Chen Hao was about to continue chatting on this topic, the balcony door was suddenly pushed open, and then a figure familiar to everyone appeared at the door. It was Qian Lixun.

"Old Qian, why are you here?"

Ye Zhou asked in surprise.

According to the previously discussed plan, he originally planned to participate in the ignition remotely, but obviously, he still couldn't bear his curiosity.

"I'll come and have a look, Xiaoye, it's almost 4 o'clock, let's go."

"Let's go and see together, what's going on with this first ignition."

(End of this chapter)