Chapter 69 Energy Crisis?
In general, for the fact that this technology has achieved leaps and bounds due to its own role in a short period of time, whether it will be a blessing or a disaster in the future... Overall, if you still have an optimistic attitude, you still believe that this overall life in the future will be better and better for most people.
For example, let’s not mention this education that is still in the experimental stage.
With the overall economic trend of the country, as many industries have gradually added more automation and artificial intelligence applications, it has begun to show a sharp increase overall arc... In recent years, the domestic price increase level has been slightly under control of the brakes.
The minimum wage has also increased to a certain extent, and finally got some chance to breathe in recent days...
Of course, this is not at no cost.
The double-edged sword technology of automation and artificial intelligence, after being heavily invested in practical applications, has brought about an obvious consequence in a short period of time, which is in the unemployment rate. In the end, it has inevitably obtained an unnegligible increase in numbers...
Fortunately, all of this is still within a controllable range with the guarantee of homework being copied.
This time, the new jobs such as the "Matrix" world, which are brought back from the world of "Matrix", and are more mature on the technical level, as well as the more advanced [robot parts assembly industry] and [high-performance electric transportation], can be regarded as some of which can ensure that this unemployment rate will not deteriorate further...
But in terms of self-improvement at the domestic industrial chain level, there is only one thing that can be done.
If you want to bring these technologies that have been brought back from the dungeon world to the greatest extent, and to make a leap forward in the country, and then [energy], a top priority, will undoubtedly become the most troubled key point for the current senior executives of the Long Kingdom!
Whether it is photovoltaics, nuclear power, or the thermal power technology in China that is almost at the top of the limit, there is still an insurmountable energy output limit in essence.
And until now, they have not yet deciphered the energy engine of the Alien 1 spacecraft, and the dark matter engine with a higher technological content on the iron-blooded spacecraft... It is indeed awesome.
But due to their current technical level, they are still too low... Therefore, even a few years later, they still cannot solve it...
So compared to these energy technologies that are either relatively inefficient or too powerful - they focus completely on the high-level Long Kingdom who has brought back the [controllable nuclear fusion engine] from the world of "The Matrix", now undoubtedly puts all their hopes on this near-future technology that is about to bring a new energy revolution!
Compared with the energy technologies of the two spacecraft that they are not very familiar with, controlled nuclear fusion has been done by scientists around the world for many years, but until now, no country can develop a new technology of "small commercialization". They are so familiar that they can't be familiar with it anymore!
For example, the "black gold" buried under the underground on the Middle East, the north, and the other side of the ocean has plummeted to ordinary industrial raw materials.
The top priority is to completely break the original world currency settlement system so that your currency can be linked to electricity and then completely turn into a hard-to-wire international currency!
The result of the power cost plummeting dozens of times, or even hundreds of times, will undoubtedly be far more earth-shaking than the "small renovations" brought by the current technological innovation in Longguo!
You should know that the current total energy consumption rate of human beings is about 10∧14W.
If you do a mass-energy conversion, it is equivalent to consuming more than one gram of substance per second.
Then convert it into fusion, consider the energy utilization rate, that is, the "deuterium tritium" (fuel for controlled nuclear fusion)" of more than ten kilograms to dozens of kilograms...
This is the total energy index consumed by the entire Blue Star people at present!
Imagine a little more, the surface of Long Kingdom in the future, especially the desert and plateau uninhabited territory, will be covered with such a sudden change in nuclear power plant that can be immediately converted into more than one million kilowatts of electricity. What changes will the nuclear power plant bring to the world...
Not only can humans finally get the first-level ticket to the [Kardashev Index]—that is, the point of "planetary civilization, which can use all the energy of the planet, and have the ability to build space cities and giant buildings."
The direct consequence of the sudden upgrade from the existing index of level 0.732 to level 1.0 civilization will be that from now on, electricity, water, fuel, tissues, food, and even the house itself will lose all the necessities of saving due to the rapid increase in productivity... Therefore, this can be used without restraint!
Just take the aspect of indoor heating as an example.
After the popularization of controlled nuclear fusion technology, natural gas and heating will not only become a decoration, but will directly convert heating energy into electric heating that is cheap enough to be almost cost-effective for heating.
The winter in the south will naturally be the same as in the north, and from then on, the house will be surrounded by warm room temperature forever.
Not only that, if the local government wants to make heating bigger, it can even lay a large number of electric heating wires under the ground of all roads, so that there will be no snow on the road surface after snowfall.
In the true sense, those northerners who always like to run to the Southern Peninsula and constantly purchase real estate and travel will not have to go so far this time, and they can also enjoy the kind feeling of "spring like spring" in the outdoor area of their homes...
At the same time, cheap electricity can also turn a large amount of seawater into freshwater resources that can be used by people through multi-stage flash evaporation, reverse osmosis, etc., so as to continuously transport it to arid areas in the country and undergo a literal thorough transformation.
As long as the local government is willing to spend money, even desert areas can still become tropical rainforests or fish and rice lands under such extremely simple and crude transformations.
With sufficient electricity supply, the contemporary black technology of [carbon dioxide to starch] that has just been developed this year can even be used immediately, and in a literal sense, it will completely solve the problem of people's staple food in the country!
Go to the carbon dioxide component in that atmosphere and conduct interstellar colonization on Mars at a height of 95.3%.
At that moment, the red planet, which is not far away from humans and has mastered the actual transformation method, will completely become a "grain production star" with nearly infinite food sources!
Just build synthetic starch factories all over the mountains and fields directly on the entire surface of Mars, and just need to be a fusion power generation factory.
[Red Line of Cultivated Land] This vocabulary concept can directly become a historical noun.
The concept of farmer will not only completely transform from identity to profession at that moment, but its entry threshold will also be greatly improved.
Planting factories that can be operated with closed greenhouse-style fine operation for all agricultural products will also be taken care of for 24 hours in various 100-story buildings... Anyway, there are power and robots that take care of plant growth.
At that time, the light-emitting diodes in the entire factory will be brighter than the sun's light.
In the eyes of modern people, the main daily work of human farmers at that time should be more like agricultural technicians than farmers.
Daily daily work will probably become a matter of just checking whether the growth status of the crops is healthy, and then you can clock in and get off work...
In addition, future road construction can also completely ignore terrain factors and rely on the shortest route to isolate external interference, which will naturally replace the existing open-ground highways.
If possible, the road can even be used to create a good wind through artificial exhaust, so that ordinary people can easily maintain a speed of more than 40km/h even when riding a bicycle.
Therefore, after all the basic solution is achieved in the aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. This kind of life that is like a "comprehensively prosperous" era for modern people is completely entered. If it is not considered a leap forward in the quality of life, what else can be considered a real growth?
At this moment, the unemployed population will no longer be a government executive who needs to be worthy of that time, and will feel a headache for it.
As for the fact that most unemployed vagrants collectively become fat and resident, it may seem that it will be an inevitable result...
But isn’t this something that most ordinary people who hate the damn 996 and 007 social animals in modern times will like to hear?
Entertainment robots that can tailor-made your partner will also be officially put into the market when the time is ripe.
At that time, ordinary people will not only live a happy daily life with almost free basic staple food and fresh water electricity every day.
Even if you need it, even your wife/husband can tailor one for yourself, so you can stay at home every day and enjoy yourself, so you can do your best to do it...
Well, of course... the premise is that they can really tolerate their daily life. They would rather stay at home and work if they just rely on the welfare of synthetic food, and they would rather stay at home and refuse to go out to work.
Only when we can see hope in the future, as the most hardworking and hardworking nation in the world, the senior executive of the Long Kingdom, is not worried that there will be a majority of people. In this new era where the cake has grown to a huge amount, we will continue to be indifferent to the collective lying equally and death.
As long as you only need salary and benefits, you can all be aligned with modern Nordics and even surpass them... At that time, they naturally don't mind showing the whole world what it means to be "1.5 billion mad dogs out of the cage"...
Therefore, there are various beautiful visions that exist for the coming era of fusion energy that will emerge in the future.
The current senior executives of Long Country are undoubtedly giving deep expectations and attention to those large fusion engines that are being carefully studied by experts and technical personnel from the Academy of Sciences as treasures...
But will all this happen... really go so smoothly?
Zhu Jue, who was onlookers, watched the group of technical experts, after studying the actual reactions of several years, gradually changed from the initial surprise to the diminishing reaction from worry to disappointment...
One day, when I visited the institute and asked the technical experts for information, I got a definite reply that was both unexpected but reasonable:
"...No! Although the "star-imitation device" type [deuterium-tritium fusion engine] created by these robots is indeed useful, it is still too far from the ideal [deuterium-helium 3 fusion engine] and the device of the [proton-boron fusion engine]!"
"I won't mention the cost of this high fusion power station. The most important thing is that the power generation cost is still too unreliable... It's just equivalent to a fission nuclear power station with higher efficiency and cleaner efficiency."
"If you want to do it enough to trigger another industrial revolution in the entire history of mankind, you will never be able to meet that benchmark condition!"
"The controllable nuclear fusion device we are currently studying is a tokamak device that is completely different from the 'starter' model."
"This means that even if we want to improve this physical object at the technical level, it will take a lot of time and manpower and material investment..."
"If you want to achieve the ideal commercial level based on the existing technology... it will take at least another twenty years to see if you have any hope of fully promoting the idealized new energy into various fields across the country..."
"Be optimistic, this is not that bad at all."
"The development of science and technology has never been achieved overnight. I know that Mr. Zhu, you have indeed helped us in this area to a great extent... But you don't have to think that every time you bring you from another world, you will be able to achieve rapid development in this world."
"To be honest, you have helped us a lot in this field just by just helping us determine that this road is indeed accessible..."
"Please leave the next thing to us."
"Although we can't give you much help for the time being, the only thing we can confirm now is that this time the commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion energy will not take a long time for fifty years to wait until the moment when we see the result......"
Chapter completed!