"How many more years do you think we can keep extracting things like oil and coal?"
"Of course, that doesn't mean phasing them all out at once. They'll just gradually withdraw from the market."
"To be honest, you actually deserve some of the credit for this!" Elder Zhong gave a faintly teasing smile.
"This has something to do with me?" Chen Jue was rather puzzled.
"It actually has to do with the Ten Body-Tempering Forms..." Elder Zhong slowly explained.
Ever since the practice methods for the Ten Body-Tempering Forms and the Body-Tempering Exercise had been popularized, every aspect of society had been profoundly affected.
Besides the substantial improvements in labor capacity and work efficiency, the development of physical fitness had ushered human brain development into a whole new era.
Within China, a group of scientists who had been among the first to encounter the Ten Body-Tempering Forms had, thanks to their enhanced mental abilities and improved physical fitness, solved previously unresolved problems one after another.
These included some scientists working in nuclear physics and nuclear power engineering. In particular, several teams researching controlled nuclear fusion had reported successive breakthroughs over the past six months.
The actual implementation of controlled nuclear fusion power generation had already been put on the agenda, with the first set of equipment expected to connect to the grid within two years at the earliest.
Controlled nuclear fusion technology was, after all, hailed as the first hurdle humanity had to clear to enter the age of "infinite energy."
Compared with the traditional method of boiling water through nuclear fission to generate electricity, nuclear fusion power generation offered more than twenty times the output alone, without much risk of a nuclear leak.
China had already intended to phase out heavily polluting fossil fuels, and the share of thermal