The rise of nanometers

Just after Tangu-1 completed its first actual test, Jinwu-1 in Bazhong was also accelerating the process and improving Jinwu-1 through internal communication.

The domestic field of controllable nuclear fusion, inspired by the successful trial operation of Yutani No. 1, is finally no longer as uncertain as before.

In the development of human science and technology, if a technology is successful, the research and development speed of other forces will also increase accordingly.

Of course, to imitate and learn from experience, there are also prerequisites.

For example, industrial foundation, relevant talents, and obtaining accurate samples or information.

Although the Noah Society, Lucia and other forces discovered the nuclear experimental base in the Mobei Gobi Desert through neutrino detectors, they did not pay much attention to it and thought it was a research and development base for nuclear fission reactors.

All major forces use neutrino detectors to judge the nuclear facilities of other forces. Everyone is doing nuclear research in secret. This kind of thing is a semi-open secret.

The Suiren Department and the country have made a lot of deceptions, and they have used half-truths and half-false news to confuse outside investigations.

Although other forces all know that Greater China's various technologies have shown rapid development in recent years.

But Noah and others do not believe that Greater China can complete commercial mass production of controllable nuclear fusion in the near future.

Huang Xiuyuan and strategic think tanks have done a lot of analysis and derivation. Based on the current external forces and the lack of understanding of the specific domestic situation, there will be a buffer period of at least 5 to 10 years for the exposure of controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Why do we get 5 to 10 years?

This is a reasonable inference based on the scale of investment in nuclear fusion power plants.

If only one or two nuclear fusion power plants are invested, it may be difficult for the outside world to detect abnormalities. However, to complete a qualitative change in social productivity, the entire Greater China region needs to invest in at least 100 to 300 7,500-megawatt nuclear fusion power plants.

According to Huang Xiuyuan's estimate, if no serious fatal flaws are discovered after the trial operation of Tanggu-1 and Jinwu-1 this year, Greater China will plan to build 20 new nuclear fusion power stations in the next five years.

If calculated based on the power of Yugu-1, the total power of the 20 Yugu/Jinwu will reach 150,000 megawatts, which can generate 1.2 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year.

This is under the premise that technology does not advance. If the technology of controllable nuclear fusion continues to improve steadily, the scale of power generation will continue to increase.

Trillions of kilowatt-hours of cheap electric energy are being put into social production, which will attract the attention of some caring people.

This is only the plan for the first five years. From 2021 to 2026, the scale of nuclear fusion power stations will be increased to 100 to 300, achieving the plan of doubling the country's total electric energy.

Electric energy production capacity has doubled in ten years, and the major forces have not yet discovered the tricks of Greater China. Then Huang Xiuyuan will doubt the other party's intelligence analysis capabilities.

In such a short period of time, only controllable nuclear fusion can achieve such a huge increase.

Therefore, Huang Xiuyuan and the strategic think tank came to the conclusion that the emergence of controllable nuclear fusion technology can only be kept secret for 5 to 10 years at most.

Huang Xiuyuan and Qin Lizhang discussed it several times and planned to continue to strengthen confidentiality and increase the release of false news to confuse the public.

On the other hand, he is also promoting the development of aerospace technology, aiming to achieve a major leap forward in aerospace technology within 5 to 10 years.

March 17th.

Another good news came.

Huang Xiuyuan came to the Dezhou Industrial Park through a stand-in robot. After more than a year of dawdling with room-temperature superconductor technology, he finally made a breakthrough.

The temperature of previous superconductors, normal-temperature superconductors, has been stuck near zero degrees Celsius.

Through the efforts of a group of researchers, the superconducting temperature of room-temperature superconductors has reached a level of 42.8 degrees Celsius.

The researcher looked at the bare silver-gray cable on the workbench. After turning on the power, the resistance detected was only a series of zeros.

Huang Xiuyuan praised: "This is a real room temperature superconductor."

The previous zero-degree superconductors could only be considered sub-normal temperature superconductors. Now this superconductor, which can guarantee superconducting properties below 42.8 degrees Celsius, is a true normal-temperature superconductor.

Huang Xiuyuan then asked: "What is the current cost?"

The person in charge thought for a while: "The comprehensive cost after deep processing is similar to that of copper wires. If mass-produced, it can be slightly cheaper."

He flipped through relevant reports on his tablet.

An improved version of normal temperature superconductor, although a lot of nanotechnology is applied.

But the overall raw materials are much cheaper than copper. The only more expensive raw material is trace amounts of lanthanum doped.

Although lanthanum is a rare element, it benefits from the Suiren system's advanced element refining technology and its vast control area.

Blue Star Mining currently reserves 5,771 tons of lanthanum, and the geological reserves are as high as tens of millions of tons. Of course, the mining conditions of the geological reserves are very unfriendly, and large-scale mining is generally not possible.

In the application of new room-temperature superconductors, the doping ratio of lanthanum is not high. On average, 0.243 kilograms of lanthanum are consumed to produce 1 ton of room-temperature superconductors.

With the reserves of Blue Star Mining, the supply of lanthanum is relatively abundant.

If it is not enough, you can also start the mining of geological reserves, but at most the production cost will be higher.

Huang Xiuyuan encouraged: "You have done a good job. The next step is to mass-produce new room-temperature superconductors while reducing production costs."

"Chairman, don't worry, I'm ready to find an alternative to lanthanum."

There is no way around this. In many technologies, especially high-tech materials, once rare elements are used, researchers have to consider the problem of resource depletion.

Especially for equipment with huge output and wide application, rare elements will be exhausted sooner or later.

Therefore, for these high-tech materials, alternatives must be prepared in advance and some cheap elements that can be adapted to changing circumstances must be developed.

In the event of any changes, substitutes can be used to achieve a stable supply of production capacity.

At present, the application fields of room-temperature superconductors are mainly power transmission, controllable nuclear fusion, integrated circuits, magnetic levitation, etc.

Especially for ultra-high voltage cables, if new normal-temperature superconductors are applied to them, hundreds or thousands of tons will inevitably be needed.

Although it requires a lot of raw materials, it is well worth it.

We must know that in the global power system, 10 to 20% of the electric energy is actually wasted due to the existence of resistance.

The energy saved by room-temperature superconductors is equivalent to an increase in supercomputing power by 10 to 20%, which will be an increasing blessing and benefit over time in the future.

In the past, if the zero-degree superconductor was to be used as a cable, it would have to be equipped with a large cooling system. Obviously, this would not be worth the gain.

The performance of the new normal-temperature superconductor is sufficient to ensure that it can operate efficiently below 42.8 degrees Celsius, which is at the safe upper limit of superconductivity.

Coupled with some insulating outer material, the new room-temperature superconductor itself emits very little heat.

Huang Xiuyuan discussed with the research team for more than ten minutes and then left the laboratory.

When he returned to the headquarters, he immediately found Jiang Hailin and began to discuss some application plans for room-temperature superconductors, as well as to guard against leaks.

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