Into Unscientific

Chapter 635 The Problem of Electricity

 After many big names unanimously decided to use "Physical Review Letters" as the first journal of the paper.

 The base quickly reported the news to the capital thousands of kilometers away.

 Two days later.

 The main factory office of the base.

　　咚咚咚—

 There was a knock on the door.

Li Jue, who was in the factory director's office, looked at a document in his hand and said without raising his head:

 “Please come in!”

 After a while.

Crunch—

 Guard Mou Fangdong pushed Xu Yun's wheelchair in from outside the house.

 After entering the house, Xu Yun nodded towards Mou Fangdong, who wisely left the house with Li Jue's assistant Zhou Cai.

 After the door was closed again, Xu Yun couldn't help turning his head to look at Li Jue and asked:

“Director, are you looking for me?”

"Um"

Li Jue waved to Xu Yun. After this period of contact, he and Xu Yun were no longer so polite:

“Xiao Han, wait a minute. I’ll finish reading this list. It’ll only take a few minutes.”

Xu Yun has no objection to this.

Even though Li Jue’s knowledge base in scientific research is almost blank, his management ability is still very strong, otherwise he would not have been selected as the general person in charge of Base 221.

At that time, he was still a top student graduating from Huaxia University in the capital. This university was the predecessor of North China University and Yanjing Normal University.

Nowadays, Li Jue has to deal with a lot of base government affairs every day. Under the pressure, he also suffered from severe high myopia, with the degree soaring from 700 to 1300 in two years.

five minutes later.

Li Jue put the document in his hand on the table, signed his name, and then looked up at Xu Yun apologetically:

 “Xiao Han, I’m sorry for keeping you waiting.”

Xu Yun quickly waved his hand:

“It’s okay, it’s okay, just sit here for a few minutes—factory director, do you have anything to do with me?”

Li Jue pondered for a moment, picked up a document from the other end of the table, and handed it to Xu Yun:

“Well, I came to you mainly because I have news to synchronize with you—the organization has approved your application to publish the paper, and now the relevant content can almost start to be prepared.”

Xu Yun raised his eyebrows when he heard this, took the document and read it.

 As Li Jue said.

The content of this document is not long. It is basically a supplement and instruction for Xu Yun's application.

While Xu Yun was reading the document, Li Jue also took the initiative to introduce:

“Xiao Han, the organization attaches great importance to your application this time and allows you to compile and summarize the related results of meta-hadrons on the premise of ensuring the normal progress of the atomic bomb project research.”

“From now on, the base will set up a thesis project group, with Comrade Zhao Zhongyao as the leader and Comrade Zhu Hongyuan as the deputy leader. You will still be the consultant.”

“As for the team members, there are comrades such as Yang He and Hu Ning. There are probably seven or eight people in total.”

“In addition, the organization has also allocated 300 yuan in funding, part of which is used as a research subsidy, and the other part is the cost of the paper publication process.”

 Xu Yun nodded subconsciously.

 This intensity is indeed very high.

You know, three hundred yuan these days is already more than a year's salary for many people, and it will be worth at least seventy thousand yuan in future generations.

 It is calculated based on the overtime pay of ten yuan per member, and the remaining part will be used for the process of sending the paper abroad.

Five years ago, when Zhao Zhongyao published his paper in "PHYSICAPOLONICA", the organization only approved a cost of 10 yuan.

If Wang Ganchang hadn't helped contact Gilyakov from Mao Xiong, it would have been difficult for Zhao Zhongyao's paper to be published in an international journal.

 Then Li Jue paused and continued:

“In addition, the organization has also made some optimizations to your plan. For example, who is Sherman that you originally wanted to find? After considering it, the organization decided not to take his route.”

“Although he has a good relationship with Comrade Zhao Zhongyao, this happened more than ten years ago after all, and there are too many variables in betting on such a person.”

“So the capital decided to use our old acquaintance Comrade Qu Runpu this time. After all, his application... ahem, in short, he is relatively reliable.”

“In about a month, the seven sets of electrostatic analysis modules we bought from him will arrive.”

Xu Yun was stunned for two seconds when he heard the words, but in the end he said nothing.

His original idea was to let Gell-Mann or Weinberg serve as reviewers for the paper, so that he could at least build some relationship with these two big guys - this kind of relationship is not the same as cuddling or licking dogs. A concept, purely a matter of mutual benefit.

  After all, Gell-Mann has not yet proposed the quark model, and Weinberg's theory has not yet been proven valuable by Hutft. In Chinese terms, it is "hidden dragon in the abyss".

Let them serve as reviewers for the paper, and they will gain some fame after the paper becomes popular, which in turn will show goodwill to China. This business will not be a loss at all.

But on the other hand.

Xu Yun’s idea belongs to the standard God’s perspective. It is difficult for other people in this era to understand the future achievements of these two people.

 So even though some people have mastered certain secrets, they still choose the more secure Qurunpu route.

 This is considered a bargain.

However, considering that he has helped the country obtain so many supplies, it is understandable to give him some sweeteners. Rabbit never does business at a loss.

As for Gell-Mann and Weinberg, let’s just figure it out slowly.

  Anyway, there are now thirteen years and ten years between the two of them becoming gods, and there is always an opportunity to build a relationship in the middle.

"correct."

 While Xu Yun was thinking, Li Jue thought of something:

 “Xiao Han, there is one more thing I want to tell you.”

“Isn’t it true that a paper has one author and two authors? For the sake of protection, the organization is not going to write your name on it yet.”

“But this would be too unfair to you, so I would like to seek your personal opinion first.”

"I'm OK."

This time, before Li Jue finished speaking, Xu Yun interrupted him directly:

“No matter what the organizational arrangements are, factory director, I still have these consciousnesses.”

Li Jue's expression immediately relaxed when he saw this.

Xu Yun's existence is really too important, and the organization will never allow any risk of leaking intelligence.

 Zhao Zhongyao can appear in the signature column, so can Zhu Hongyuan, even Lao Guo and Lu Guangda are fine, but only Xu Yun cannot.

 Xu Yun is now second only to the local donkey in rareness and is a true state secret.

  Not an exaggeration.

If the people across the sea knew that a person like Xu Yun existed, they would really drop an atomic bomb on the mainland. Not only will it be impossible to dissuade Mao Xiong, but they will probably also provide fuel to the aircraft across the sea.

 After a while.

Li Jue also brought his thoughts back to reality, coughed lightly, and asked Xu Yun:

 “Xiao Han, do you still have any concerns about this document?”

ˆ “.”

Hearing this, Xu Yun's face clearly showed a hint of hesitation, but in the end he remained silent.

After the "Tai Shang" project was formally established in the organization, the base's daily affairs reporting target was also changed from the Second Machinery Department in the capital to a higher decision-making center.

In addition to daily affairs, some important matters basically have to be signed or even commented by some big shots before they are sent back to the base.

 But the document in Xu Yun’s hand today was signed by only one person [read], and there was no other name as usual.

But very quickly.

Xu Yun looked at the document in his hand again and shook his head slightly in his heart.

 Perhaps I’m just too sensitive.

These big guys all have a lot of things to do every day. Maybe they are busy when they need to sign, and it is normal for them to have no time to sign.

I do seem to be a little sensitive recently. It's impossible that the reason the big boss didn't sign is because when the capital received the report, he was still sitting on the train, humming towards the base, right?

 That’s nonsense!

Instead of believing this, Xu Yun might as well believe that the boss is sitting next door and drinking tea leisurely at this time.

 Then Xu Yun shook his head vigorously and put this thought aside:

“Director, apart from this document, is there anything else you want to ask me for today?”

ˆ “.”

Li Jue suddenly had a subtle and complicated expression on his face. He quickly glanced at the next door, looked back, coughed lightly, and said:

“Well, there’s one more thing—Xiao Han, I’m afraid the base’s power supply is insufficient. Is there any way you can solve it?”

Although Xu Yun noticed Li Jue's micro-expression, he didn't think too much about it at this moment. Instead, he focused on what Li Jue said:

 “Electricity?”

 “Yeah, the base’s electricity.”

Li Jue breathed out a sigh of relief and explained:

“Our base’s original power structure mainly comes from two sources. One is the base’s own thermal power plant, and the other is the power diversion from Xihai Province.”

“According to the original situation, the power provided by these two components is still enough for the base’s daily production needs.”

“But now that there are so many more people in the base, and a neutron bomb research and development project team has been added. Coupled with the consumption of the tandem electrostatic accelerator, it is a little nervous now.”

 Say it.

Li Jue also shook his head helplessly.

 Mentioned earlier.

Since the domestic industrial level is just in its infancy, the power supply in Xihai, or to be precise, the entire China is also in its infancy.

For example, in a borderland like Xihai Province, it was not until three years ago that the first 35 kV power transmission and transformation line was built, and it was only put into operation in Shanzhou, the provincial capital.

 Then a year and a half ago.

The power supply line officially covers Guide County. The starting point of this line is the 1,250-kilowatt turbine generator unit of Qiaotou Power Plant.

 Other than that.

 In the entire Xihai Province, only the hydroelectric power plant in Shanzhou is left.

 Allocate according to the earliest resource.

38% of the power generated by the Shanzhou Hydropower Plant and 28% of the power generated by the Qiaotou Power Plant are supplied to the 221 base. There is also a small thermal power plant inside the base with a generator specification of 300 kilowatts.

 That's right, 300 kilowatts, no less than ten thousand words.

There are five such generators in total, with a power generation capacity of 1,500 kilowatts.

However, the power consumption of the base is not particularly high these days, and with some peak shifting measures, the power consumption of the base has not been a big problem for a long time.

 But things are different now.

 First, there are more than 5,000 new employees in the base. No matter how much you save in the living area and work place, you will definitely have to spend some electricity.

The second one is the tandem electrostatic accelerator. This thing can be called an electric tiger. When it is started, it consumes almost half the power of the entire base - the accelerators of later generations are even more outrageous than this.

Taking CERN's LHC as an example, its specifications are a circular diameter of 25 meters, a length of 44 meters, and a weight of 7,000 tons.

The peak power consumption of this thing is 200,000 kilowatt hours, which is about 200,000 per hour.

　Including other supporting storage rings and analysis equipment, the start-up cost is almost 500,000 per hour.

 The energy consumption of particle accelerators is terrible, which can be seen from this.

Next, if the rabbits want to study the microscopic particle model in more depth, they must frequently enable particle collisions—after all, it’s impossible to do everything in waves, right?

 Hence, the power consumed by the tandem electrostatic accelerator is also high visible to the naked eye.

 In addition to the above two, there is another reason that Li Jue did not explain clearly.

That is.

 The reason why the power consumption of the base could be controlled by peak shifting in the past was mainly because the base’s previous focus was mostly on theoretical research.

 The theory is not clear, and the components of the atomic bomb will definitely not officially enter trial production.

The refining of enriched uranium is carried out at the 504 plant in Jincheng, so the power consumption of the 221 base can be maintained "smoothly".

 But things are different now.

Leaving aside the two big guys, the neutron bomb and the hydrogen bomb, with the breakthrough of the neutron transport equation in the theory of the atomic bomb, the rabbits are very close to the day when they can fully master the chain reaction.

 If it’s fast, maybe in two or three months, this barrier will be completely broken by the rabbits.

By then, the center of the base will inevitably begin to tilt toward the production and casting of equipment. The power consumption of this process cannot be solved by simply shifting peaks.

 The simplest example is the electroplating process of the atomic bomb body.

Unless the base can find a Canadian electric eel to provide power on site, this process will inevitably use a large amount of production electricity.

There are also the pouring of special steel and the forging of reflective layers. These are all inseparable from the support of power equipment.

 Therefore there is no doubt.

 In the shortest three months, the power consumption of the base will become a huge problem.

If it were just the third point, then it would be okay. Li Jue and the others might be able to cope with it if they piece together things and control the base's daily electricity consumption.

 But the appearance of the first two completely made Li Jue or some higher-level will give up this idea.

 So after some discussions with some big guys, we finally focused on a certain medium ripe person.

  After all, whether it was the arrival of these new employees or the emergence of the tandem electrostatic accelerator, Xu Yun was the initiator.

more importantly.

If some of Xu Yun's ideas can solve the problem of the base, will this method be equally useful in larger maps?

Note:

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 (End of this chapter)