Technological power starts with upgrading lenses.

What does Chapter 391 mean?
The technical seminar of the National Science Council of Country M is still going on. As they discuss the actual research plan and begin to discuss the division of some "interests", the atmosphere in the meeting hall becomes more and more intense.

However, compared to the outside world, which has been getting more and more agitated as the information ferments, they can still sit down and discuss these technical issues...

In fact, it is 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 M country media quickly began a second wave of processing of the information.

"…We have specially connected with Dr. Borol Vasilyevich from the Physics Society of the United States."

"Hello, Dr. Vasilyevich. The question that everyone is most concerned about now is, if the news that China announced that the Jinwu No. 1 had been successfully ignited is true, then what does it mean for China to have mastered controlled nuclear fusion?"

In the NBC news live studio, 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. It means that the fourth industrial revolution, or the fourth scientific and technological revolution, will officially begin in China, and their material life will be greatly improved."

“Can you give some more specific examples that are easy for everyone to understand?”

"Example? The most direct benefit of controlled nuclear fusion is a leapfrog increase in 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 air conditioning in the summer and heating in the 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 beginning, the most direct, and the easiest thing for people to feel."

"As more and more nuclear fusion power plants are built and energy becomes cheaper, their industrial manufacturing potential will be fully unleashed, and the manufacturing costs of all industrial products will become negligible."

"But I think compared to their already strong industrial manufacturing capabilities, the potential for improvement is actually in agriculture..."

"The reduction in electricity costs can lead to the rapid popularization of agricultural technologies such as crop lighting, irrigation, and greenhouse control."

“You’ve all heard of vertical farms, right?”

"Imagine a scene of thousands of square kilometers of farms rising from the ground... Ten thousand square kilometers of agricultural land can now be directly turned into 100,000, or even 1 million, or 10 million, depending on what they want, or how many floors they can build a house on."

"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 entire world. Whether it is tropical fruits or Arctic cod living in extremely cold regions, they may all be produced in the same building!"

"If they think it's troublesome and don't want to build houses, they can also consider using the heat energy of nuclear fusion to desalinate seawater directly, and then use cheap electricity to bring fresh water to the desert to transform the desert, turning it into fertile land out of thin air..."

Vasilyevich kept on using his imagination, and became more and more excited as he spoke, and could not stop at all.
On the contrary, the host's face became paler as he listened.

It was not until Vasilyevich had been talking for five or six minutes that he could not help but interrupt and ask: "What does this mean for us?"

Vasilyevich was stunned for a moment, and his originally excited emotions were immediately poured with a bucket of cold water...

After a moment, he said with a heavy heart: "For us, it means the complete collapse of the M-yuan-oil system and the financial system. At the same time, our products will completely lose their competitiveness in global trade..."

"Country M will decline rapidly and no longer be prosperous and great. Not only us, but the whole world will become highly dependent on China..."

"Is there no way to restrict them?"

Vasilyevich thought for a moment, then said slowly: "It's not that there is no..."

“Once energy is no longer an issue, resources become the only thing that limits them.”

"Although China is vast and rich in resources, the number and variety of their natural resources are limited, especially the various metal ores 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 will actually be useless..."

"..."

While NBC News was still broadcasting live, Wall Street, which had just opened for trading, had already begun its first day of collapse.

All stocks regardless of sector collapsed!
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 heated debate also never stopped.

During their discussion, words like 'war', 'assassination', 'beheading' were even mentioned several times.

The entire country of M was burned into an abyss of panic and despair by the fire of Jinwu No. 1.

And this panic and despair quickly spread to the entire Western world.
I guess what they are hoping for the most right 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 long been clearly positioned in the East.

After hearing the news, the younger brothers immediately called the eldest brother 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 there...

The Chinese response to this is roughly as follows:
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. Only if the operation is good and stable, will we consider large-scale construction of nuclear fusion power plants.

Don't worry, 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 was invited 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, the Economic Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other relevant departments also sent representatives to attend the meeting.

The first topic of the meeting was about transforming the Jinwu No. 1 of the Luzhou Plasma Research Institute into a nuclear fusion demonstration reactor that can actually generate electricity. This step can be said to have basically no technical difficulty and only requires a little time.

The second topic is to discuss the issue of benefit distribution.

Because strictly speaking, Kang Chi did not belong to a national scientific research institution, nor did he receive a salary from the state, so the technology he produced actually belonged to Longteng Technology Group.

Kang Chi also knew that energy companies were all private enterprises. Unlike state-owned enterprises, private capital was absolutely not allowed to appear in private enterprises.

Unless the three major nuclear power plants are downgraded to state-owned enterprises...

Fortunately, Kangchi did not ask for technology in exchange for shares, but instead proposed the most direct and easily acceptable model of "selling core equipment" + "5% profit patent commission" to all parties.

In this way, things become much simpler and do 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. 1200, the optimal range for each reaction to generate energy is 40 megajoules. Without considering cogeneration, if we simply calculate the power generation efficiency at 2300%, we can generate about million kilowatt-hours of electricity every day."

"Our national average daily electricity consumption is 280 billion kWh. If we rely entirely on nuclear fusion power generation, we would have to build 1217 Jinwu No. s."

"In order to process the neutron radiation 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 specially made to collect tritium."

"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 confused 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 a lot of force to fully roll out the replacement."

Kang Chi analyzed in a deep voice: "Haven't we already 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 are produced. Not only are they non-radiative, but high-energy protons can also be controlled by electric and magnetic fields. Therefore, we can use the kinetic energy of protons to interact with the electromagnetic field to directly generate net electricity..."

"The efficiency of this method of power generation is theoretically 40% or even 20% higher than the 40% of water heating."

"If helium-3 is used as the fuel for nuclear fusion, Jinwu No. can be further upgraded to Jinwu No. , which is the second-generation nuclear fusion technology. Not only can the power generation efficiency be greatly improved, but it is also pure and pollution-free."

"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 substances as fusion fuel is the ultimate answer to energy acquisition... I think this is the nuclear fusion technology that is truly worth rolling out and promoting."

"If we rush to fully deploy the first generation of technology now, then in a few years, Jinwu No. 1 will have to upgrade to the second generation of technology, and we will have to make changes all over again. This would be too wasteful and troublesome..."

"..."

After listening to Kang Chi's analysis, everyone present was almost petrified...

Good guy!
This first generation of technology has just come out and hasn’t even started to be rolled out, but our Academician Kang is already considering the troubles and waste of resources that may result from upgrading the technology too quickly…

If this were to get out and be heard by other countries, wouldn't they be so angry that they would 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 also has to wait until 2050, and this plan is only to build a scientific research base. Mining will probably have to be postponed for another ten years. By this calculation, the first generation of technology still has an application period of about years..."

Kang Chi smiled and shook his head: "Didn't they say that controlled nuclear fusion would take at least 2050?"

"..."

The leader of the Energy Bureau was stunned again, and then asked, "Are you going to go into aerospace?"

"We will definitely get into aerospace... but not so soon. We have to wait until the current projects are finished, probably... by the end of this year, or we can take a break and wait until next year."

The leader immediately smiled and nodded: "I see... I guess all the people at the space agency will be so excited that they won't be able to 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 for the time being.

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 station. The planned annual power generation is about 1.679 trillion, accounting for about 16% of the country's electricity consumption.

This 16% will mainly be used to phase out some old and inefficient thermal power plants while meeting the increasing demand for electricity.

As for clean energy sources such as hydropower, wind power, and solar power, they will be allowed to work until the day they are scrapped. At the same time, to some extent, this is also a buffer period for these energy industries to upgrade and transform...
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Kang Chi came to Yanjing this time, not only to participate in this important meeting on the future development direction of China's nuclear power, but also to attend a major event.
In other words, 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 the next morning, Kang Chi put on a neat 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 indeed very handsome..."

"Mr. Kang, please stop joking with us. Don't you know that you look handsome in anything you wear?"

Kang Chi quickly retracted the 30-meter-long machete.

OK,
These people's desire to survive and their ability to flatter are all maxed out...

The venue of the conference is the Yenching Grand Hall.

When Kang Chi and Chen Hai followed the etiquette lady into the venue, the place was already crowded with people.
After Kang Chi entered the venue, almost everyone who saw him immediately stood up, smiled and nodded to him. Some who had met him before even came forward to congratulate him.

This row of noodles,
It’s fully loaded!

In addition to congratulating him on the successful ignition of the Golden Crow No. 1, of course, the highlight of the day was...

(End of this chapter)