Time suddenly passed.
Nuclear fusion, which has been busy for more than a month, has finally cooled down.
Just like Xiao Yi, he no longer pays much attention to the problems he has solved, but continues to focus on the next problem waiting to be solved.
Of course, for Chinese netizens, although they do not pay attention to the success of nuclear fusion, they are now beginning to pay attention to when the place where they live can start to enjoy the power generated by nuclear fusion, and most importantly, when the electricity bill will drop.
The biggest role of nuclear fusion is to ensure clean energy and reduce power generation costs, so that people can enjoy clean, pollution-free skies and cheap electricity.
Of course, although nuclear fusion has been achieved, there has not been much change in electricity bills.
After all, things like electricity bills are too involved and cannot be decided overnight.
Moreover, only one fusion reactor has been built, and it has not been rolled out across the country. Naturally, it is impossible to reduce prices nationwide. Even in Fei City and its surrounding cities, electricity prices have not dropped to such a low level.
Of course, no matter what, the price of electricity around Fei City has dropped a bit, and one unit of electricity now only costs about 30 cents.
Compared with the previous price of about 5 cents, it is directly reduced by 40%.
Of course, this price is only for household electricity. In terms of commercial electricity and industrial electricity, the price reduction is slightly less, only about 30%.
Even so, Fei City has attracted a lot of investment in a short period of time. Now many companies have begun to decide to build factories in Fei City. Companies that had factories in Fei City before have now decided to continue to expand their production scale.
For these factories, electricity bills already account for a large proportion of their operating costs. Now that the electricity bills have been reduced by 30%, the savings are a considerable amount of electricity bills.
And it is still limited to the factories in the area near Fei City. Factories in other places do not have such advantages. Of course, they must take advantage of this period to expand production and seize more markets with their cost advantages.
At this time, even if the price of their products is reduced to 1 cent lower than the cheapest price of the same product, they will still make a profit.
Although other regions will build nuclear fusion power plants sooner or later, who knows how long it will take?
This is called first-mover advantage!
Therefore, during this period of time, the government leaders of the surrounding cities almost had their faces numb with laughter, and they almost stopped visiting to thank Xiao Yi for being born here.
This is pie in the sky.
There is both investment and production value, so it is completely full.
Even some of their listed companies have seen their market value rise a lot for this reason, so much so that people in the stock market say A-shares has gone down and Anhui stocks has gone up.
Well, although nuclear fusion has been realized in China, logically speaking, the country's potential strength has been improved again, and as the value of controllable nuclear fusion continues to be realized, China's market environment will inevitably continue to improve as a whole.
But even under such a market prospect, A-shares is still declining uncontrollably.
But, even if they can't stand people, some people still like to rush in. After all, there will always be people who feel that the potential of nuclear fusion must not be fully realized yet, and there will definitely be a big bull market by then.
Of course, there is no doubt that it is normal for these people to have this idea.
In other words, everyone today has such confidence that with the addition of nuclear fusion, China's economy will inevitably show a stable and improving situation.
Not to mention the Chinese, even foreigners have the same idea, and this makes them even more anxious about developing nuclear fusion technology.
USA, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, referred to as PPPL.
This laboratory originated from a top secret project of the United States during the Cold War called Project Matterhorn. Its purpose was to realize the application of fusion energy based on the principles of hydrogen bombs.
However, this top secret project did not remain secret for long. In 1961, after Project Matterhorn was declassified, the laboratory related to this project was renamed Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Until now, this laboratory is also one of the major laboratories in the United States that studies controllable nuclear fusion.
As March came to an end, on March 31, the President visited PPPL and met its director, Dr. Steven Cawley.
"Dr. Cowley, nice to meet you."
After the meeting, the president shook hands with Steven Cawley.
"Hello Mr. President, welcome to PPPL."
Others present also applauded and expressed their welcome to Mr. President.
It's just that, although they all look happy, in fact, only they themselves know how they feel.
If the president came to visit them in the past, they would be very happy, which means that the president has begun to pay attention to them, and maybe he will approve a large amount of experimental funds for them in the future.
But what else could be the reason for coming here at this time?
With a smile on his face and mmp in his heart, he probably meant what they are now.
Mr. President's blond hair was still unruly today. After looking around, he said with a smile, "Dr. Cowley, please take me to visit your laboratory first."
"Okay, it's my pleasure."
Cowley nodded, and then walked in front, leading the president to visit their laboratory.
After a while, they came to a spherical device. Cowley said, "Mr. President, you see, this is our national spherical tokamak experimental device NSTX-U."
"This is the flagship device of PPPL. It adopts a unique spherical design and has higher plasma pressure and stronger confinement capability than traditional tokamak..."
Halfway through the introduction, the president suddenly asked, "You mean, this thing is Tokamak?"
Cowley was stunned for a moment, then nodded. "Yes, do you have any questions?"
The president smiled and then asked, "I wonder what you think about UO Device."
Cowley immediately knew what the president in front of him was thinking.
He replied, "UO Device is a very successful nuclear fusion device, especially because it can provide plasma flow to change orbits. It can also provide a special power generation channel for MHD generator, which greatly enhances the utilization efficiency of MHD generator. And the most critical thing is its ability to replace the MHD generator channel without shutting down. It can be said that it is a very critical technology."
He was not stingy with his praise for UO Device. He certainly knew that UO Device had many advantages and could indeed be called the most outstanding of all current controllable nuclear fusion devices.
Even after he learned about UO Device, he wanted to communicate directly with Xiao Yi. As an international master in the field of nuclear fusion, he was very keen on discussions with others.
Of course, in reality, due to political reasons, this kind of thing is still not possible, but he still sent a special email to Xiao Yi to discuss it.
Listening to Cowley's answer, the president asked a very clear question, "So, why don't we adopt such technology?"
Cowley said helplessly, "Sir, what I need to tell you is that the structure of the device is not critical."
"The key is the material. As long as material technology can achieve breakthroughs, whether it is Tokamak device or UO Device, it can achieve success."
The president asked, "So, when will we achieve a breakthrough in this material technology?"
"This..."
Faced with this question, Cowley was silent for a moment and then said, "Sorry, Mr. President, I can't answer this question because I am only a nuclear fusion expert, not a materials expert."
"Huh? I thought you all should know something about this stuff." The president said, "After all, China's Xiao Yi knows everything."
Cowley smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Not just anyone can become a scientist like Xiao. He is a genius, a true genius, as if he was created by God himself."
"That's enough!" The president frowned and said, "I don't want to hear such words again. This is America, a place blessed by God."
"We have had so many geniuses in the past, including the theory of relativity and Einstein, computers and von Neumann, and Oppenheimer who realized the atomic bomb. Why can't we find such geniuses now?"
Cowley was keen to say that, except for Oppenheimer, neither of the other two were born in the United States.
But after thinking about it, he still didn't say such words. After all, he himself was not born in the United States.
The president shook his head, turned around and looked at the many nuclear fusion scholars present, and then said, "Okay, PPPL is one of the most important fusion energy research laboratories in the United States. I believe you all know that we have established the Joint Controlled Nuclear Fusion Experimental Organization JNEO, At that time, researchers from PPPL, MIT PSFC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fusion Energy Division, etc., as well as other countries, will conduct experiments in the Green River area of Utah."
"We must successfully achieve controllable nuclear fusion within at least three years. Otherwise, China()! will be three years ahead of us in nuclear fusion, and it will be even longer!"
"I will never allow this to happen!"
The scientists present rolled their eyes involuntarily.
Three years later, you will not be the president. Even if you will never allow it then, so what?
Do you still want to imitate President Roosevelt?
Unless a world war begins...
Hiss~
After taking a look at the president who was impassionedly declaring his confidence in the United States, many scientists present suddenly felt that it was not impossible according to this person's character, right?
For a moment, they all felt a little numb, as if they had discovered some important secret.
As for Cowley, he hasn't thought that much yet, but has a helpless look on his face. At this time, he wants to take off his reputation as a nuclear fusion expert and replace him with a nuclear physics expert.
After all, when others think he is a nuclear fusion expert, they will think he is proficient in all aspects involved in nuclear fusion, including materials.
Finally, with a sigh, he said, "Of course, Mr. President, I agree with you 100 percent."
"That's good."
The president nodded with satisfaction, and then said some encouraging words, "Finally, I hope that you can all participate in the Joint Controlled Nuclear Fusion Experimental Organization JNEO and contribute to our nuclear fusion reactor."
"Light up our own artificial sun!"
After saying these words, the president did not stay any longer and left PPPL.
A group of scientists watched the president get on his Air Force One, and then followed the motorcade away from Princeton University.
"Steven, how do you feel?"
Candi Weir, the deputy director of the laboratory, came to Cowley's side and asked with a smile.
Cowley sighed and said, "I don't know either. I hope that because I was born in the United Kingdom instead of the United States, I won't be asked to be the person in charge."
Cawley's idea came as no surprise to Kandi Ware.
Probably, except for the politicians who announced the establishment of JNEO, no scientist will be interested in this organization.
After all, ITER is indeed a scientific organization, but this JNEO, looking at the member states, is obviously not only a scientific organization, but also a political organization.
Achieve controllable nuclear fusion within three years... Isn't it obvious who is in charge and who is unlucky?
"Oh, I really can't believe that these people think of controllable nuclear fusion as such a simple thing." Kandi Weir also sighed, "They don't understand it at all."
"Three years... If the CIA can't hire Tom Cruise to be their agent, or develop a brainwashing machine and successfully brainwash Xiao Yi, maybe it won't be possible for thirty years."
Steven Cawley spread his hands. "Okay, don't think so much now, just hope it won't be our turn by then."
Candy Weir shook his head, not very hopeful.
In the next few days, their president went to various nuclear fusion research laboratories in the United States to personally convince these scientists to join JNEO.
In order to promote JNEO, the United States will bear 50% of the funding this time, and the remaining 50% will be borne by dozens of other countries, so that it can be determined as soon as possible so that research on nuclear fusion can begin as soon as possible.
Of course, this is the reason why the final location was set at Utah in the United States.
But obviously, many scientists no longer have the same spirit of overcoming difficulties as Manhattan Project. Although they all agreed to join JNEO, no one was willing to take responsibility.
Regardless of the large amount of funds, there will be at least 10 billion US dollars in the first year, but this money is not easy to get. God knows what the consequences will be if the task is not completed by then.
In the end, the president simply designated an unlucky guy, the person in charge of PPPL, Dr. Steven Cawley.
Finally, JNEO started construction despite all kinds of embarrassing obstacles.
On the day when construction officially started, Mr. President happily announced, "This will be the most important day for all mankind! Our controllable nuclear fusion reactor will surely achieve a brilliant victory! This time, we will personally bring Apollo's fire to mankind!"
In response, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, "We sincerely wish JNEO success. In addition, if JNEO needs project contracting, you are more than welcome to seek help from our related companies."