Chen Xiao frowned after receiving the emergency notice.
He was aware of the bad weather in the northwest region. When building the energy block factory, he also took the weather into account. Therefore, the output of the energy block factory is relatively low for two or three months every year, which was also included in Chen Xiao's calculations.
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But I didn't expect that it was already spring, and the sandstorm and bad weather continued to subside.
Chen Xiao called Gao Miao and asked him to come to his office.
"Gao Miao, I just received an emergency notification. The weather conditions in the northwest region are very bad. We need to contact the local energy plant immediately to verify the situation."
When Gao Miao heard Chen Xiao's words, his expression became solemn. "Okay, I will contact the person in charge of the energy factory in the northwest region right now."
Gao Miao immediately called Li Tao, the person in charge of the northwest energy plant of Galaxy Energy Company, to verify the situation.
Li Tao sighed softly and reported, "The weather conditions in the northwest are now much more serious than before, which has indeed had a great impact on our energy factory. The production of energy blocks has been reduced a lot, and the supply is difficult to guarantee."
"How long do you expect this weather condition to last?" Gao Miao asked.
"This is difficult to determine. In previous years, the early spring wind and sandstorms lasted for up to half a month, but there is no end in sight. We can only continue to deal with it according to the current situation. But I will continue to keep in touch with the local meteorological department." Li Tao replied.
"Okay, if there is any new situation, be sure to report it to me in time." Gao Miao put down the phone.
Gao Miao knew that this weather condition would have a great impact on energy companies and that measures must be taken as soon as possible. She immediately transferred the data on the national output of energy blocks.
According to the current production and inventory, it is enough to cope with the bad weather in the northwest region, but if the weather in the northwest region continues to be bad, it will be difficult to handle later.
Gao Miao took the initiative to apply: "I want to go to the northwest region to understand the specific situation and see what measures can be taken."
Chen Xiao thought for a moment and then agreed: "Remember to pay attention to safety. This is also a good scientific research topic to see how our colonies survive under severe weather conditions.
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"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Gao Miao gave Chen Xiao a positive answer, and then started packing.
However, she received surprising news that all flights in Lan City, Gansu Province were canceled due to yellow sand blocking the sky.
Gao Miao had no choice but to fly to Chang'an Airport, the nearest airport to the northwest region, with his team members, and then drive to the northwest.
The journey was long, and the sights along the way frightened her even more.
The sand and dust weather was not very serious when we first arrived in Chang'an, but the situation became more and more serious as we got closer to the northwest.
The air is filled with more and more dust, and visibility is getting lower and lower.
When she arrived in Lan City, Gan Province, what she saw was this scene:
The entire city is surrounded by yellow sand, and the view is severely restricted. High-rise buildings, streets and highways are covered with orange-yellow sand, giving the impression of a lake.
The sunlight was completely blocked, and the air was filled with a strong smell of sand and dust.
There are few pedestrians on the road, and even if there are, they are wearing masks and thick scarves.
Visibility is extremely low, only a few dozen meters, making it difficult for cars and pedestrians to see the road ahead. Driving and walking have become dangerous, so drivers have to drive carefully and slowly.
Although the air filter is installed in the Cangqiong car, as time goes by, the dust from outside gradually invades the car, causing the air quality to drop significantly.
After driving for two consecutive days, when the car arrived at the factory, Gao Miao already felt a sense of suffocation.
She looked up and saw only flying sand and rocks, making her vision blurry. Faced with such bad weather, the person in charge of the factory immediately took Gao Miao into a closed conference room.
The person in charge of the factory reported the current situation to her.
"Due to the recent dusty weather, our colony tank had to stop production. A batch of colonies were dying due to lack of sunlight."
All colony tanks are on strike, which means there is a serious problem in the factory, affecting the normal operation of the production line.
The energy block production in the northwest region accounts for 60% of Galaxy Energy Company's total output. The continued suspension of production here has a great impact on the production of energy blocks.
Energy blocks are currently used in bio-new energy vehicles, mobile phones, and laptops, and also supply bio-power stations for power generation.
A stop here will affect the energy layout of the entire group company.
Gao Miao wanted to see the situation in the factory, and the person in charge handed her protective clothing and goggles: "Mr. Gao, please bring this and pay attention."
Against the howling and suffocating weather outside, Gao Miao and the person in charge, Li Tao, walked into the workshop.
The ground was covered with a thick layer of sand, and the transparent ceiling of the factory was filled with sand. Any more sand would crush the factory.
Workers were divided into teams and used tools such as shovels, brooms and vacuum cleaners to remove as much sand and dust from the work area as possible.
Their work was intense and orderly, and they did not delay even a single second due to the many adverse factors of the weather.
"Factory production needs to maintain the environment. In this case, we can only clean it manually," Li Tao said helplessly.
Some workers are using various tools to carefully clean the air system filters.
Li Tao said: "These filters are extremely important for the normal operation of the production line. In the current weather, they need to be replaced every once in a while."
Gao Miao looked at the workers working hard to maintain the factory amid the sand tide, and nodded repeatedly.
However, the situation in the factory is not optimistic. Even if the weather improves, it will take time to re-cultivate the colonies and restore the equipment.
And this is not an option. The sudden reduction in energy block production in the northwest region has had a huge impact on the local area.
When Gao Miao and Li Tao walked back into the office, the window was already shrouded in thick fog, the wind and sand were howling, and the sky was getting darker and darker, and the temperature was gradually dropping.
This is a sandstorm that is rare in ten years.
Li Tao said: "This has something to do with the extreme climate in recent years, mainly due to the serious degradation of grassland in northern Xinjiang."
Gao Miao immediately entered the virtual world and had a face-to-face meeting with Chen Xiao.
"Mr. Chen, the situation is a bit serious. A large number of bacterial colonies have died. Without sunlight, the production capacity will not be restored for a while."
Chen Xiao had already prepared for this and made a prompt decision to immediately arrange for factories in Nanhai Province to expand production in order to cope with the crisis.
The increased output in Nanhai Province can ensure the stability of the supply of energy blocks and effectively reduce the adverse effects caused by production shutdowns.
At the same time, Chen Xiao also realized that it was risky to simply rely on a certain area to produce energy blocks.
Once an unexpected situation occurs, production interruptions can easily occur.
In order to ensure the safety and stability of the energy block supply, Chen Xiao decided to decentralize the energy block production base.
The location will not be limited to China, Africa with relatively abundant sunshine is also an option.
At the same time, nuclear fusion technology must also be utilized.
Energy Fast is a technology for storing energy.
If we could store solar energy in the past, we can store nuclear energy in the future.
Compared with nuclear fission, nuclear fusion has almost no pollutants and is actually an artificial sun.
Considering the strategic thinking of long-term development, he decided to take the controllable nuclear fusion data to Yanjing to meet with Dean Qian of the Xia Academy of Sciences.
Changtian Technology has nuclear physics professionals at its disposal, but it is far from enough and needs to cooperate with the Xia Academy of Sciences.
Yanjing, Xia Academy of Sciences.
Yanjing in spring is full of vitality and the best weather of the year.
Dean Qian met Chen Xiao in the office.
Dean Qian also paid attention to the sandstorms in the northwest region and asked with concern: "Is the production of energy blocks seriously affected?"
Chen Xiao got straight to the point: "Production has been severely damaged. That's what I'm here to talk about today."
Chen Xiao spent nearly two hours explaining his plan to build a nuclear fusion laboratory.
Dean Qian was stunned when he heard that Chen Xiao was Wang Zha.
Controllable nuclear fusion is a technical field that has attracted much attention and attention around the world, and many countries have invested huge funds and manpower, but it still cannot be completely conquered so far.
However, Chen Xiao told him that Changtian Technology had successfully developed controllable nuclear fusion technology.
Dean Qian looked at the information sent by Chen Xiao in detail, and quickly called Xiao Shan, director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, over.
Xiao Shan was teaching doctoral students. After hearing the news, he trotted to the office without saying hello to the students.
Because he has been engaged in nuclear physics research for decades, he is well aware of the importance and difficulty of controllable nuclear fusion technology.
He wondered in disbelief how it was possible for one company to master this technology.
Controllable nuclear fusion technology is regarded as the next generation of energy for mankind.
The energy density is much higher than traditional energy, and no harmful gases or waste are produced.
Secondly, it does not rely on environmental erosion and destructive mining, and its environmental protection effect is also very obvious. Most importantly, this energy can be continuously supplied.
Currently, the European Union, the United States and Japan are conducting this research.
But no country has been able to develop sustainable and controllable nuclear fusion technology.
Humanity's technological bottleneck seems to be stuck here.
Xiao Shan listened to Chen Xiao's introduction to Changtian Technology's controllable nuclear fusion technology and carefully read the information. He was shocked.
In Chen Xiao's report, the logic is completely reasonable and the calculated data is completely feasible. The most important thing is that some of the materials used have never been used in previous experiments.
It was hard for him to believe that a company like Changtian Technology could successfully overcome problems that even the world's top research institutions could not solve.
Xiao Shan said: "If these are completely true, the future... my God, I can't imagine it."
Chen Xiao said seriously: "Currently, there are several difficulties in our nuclear fusion technology. One is how to design and manufacture fusion beam tubes that can accommodate high-temperature and high-pressure fusion reactions. Fusion beam tubes need to be able to withstand huge mechanical stress and thermal stress.
, and must be able to prevent the heat and high-energy particles generated in the fusion reaction from damaging its structure.
The other is how to obtain enough fusion fuel. The fusion fuel currently used is mainly tritium-3, but the reserves of tritium-3 are limited, and its manufacturing process is very complicated and expensive.
The last technology is how to effectively capture and utilize the energy generated by fusion reactions. The energy generated by current fusion reactions is mainly released in the form of thermal energy."
"The second and third problems are easy to solve, but the first one is the most important, so we created the most perfect stellarator and built a huge electromagnetic chamber..."
From the morning until the early morning of the next day, Chen Xiao explained and demonstrated the relevant technical principles in detail.
After listening, Xiao Shan and Dean Qian did not feel sleepy at all, but instead felt excited and excited.
They can't believe that Changtian Technology has actually come up with an absolutely perfect solution! This means that they will grasp the important development direction of future energy.
At this time, Chen Xiao took advantage of the situation and proposed, "I want to use the Changtian Academy of Science and Technology as a team to cooperate with the nuclear physics graduate students of the Xia Guoan Academy of Sciences to jointly develop controllable nuclear fusion."
Dean Qian immediately agreed to the suggestion and decided to set up a cooperation group.
They even directly provided Chen Xiao with a list of nuclear physics experts with excellent political qualities and strong technical abilities, who were selected by Chen Xiao.
"This is our family fortune!" Dean Qian said.
Chen Xiao immediately entered the personnel information into the supercomputer, and Xiaoying evaluated the personnel.
At the same time, internationally.
News that this rare sandstorm caused a massive production reduction at Galaxy Energy's main energy plant, the Northwest Energy Plant, also spread.
A large number of media also reported on this incident.
American technology alliances such as Google, Facebook, and Apple saw this news and realized that this was an opportunity to intervene.
The American media took the lead and reported extensively on the insufficient mass production of energy blocks.
Under their operation, the accident was clearly caused by the weather, but the media reports changed the story.
:According to the latest news, the cause of the production shutdown accident at Changtian Technology's new energy factory may be related to the aging and improper maintenance of the company's equipment, resulting in a serious shortage of mass production after problems with sand and dust weather.
BBC: A production shutdown accident occurred at Changtian Technology's new energy factory, resulting in injuries to some employees. It is understood that the company's new energy output is unstable and safety issues have arisen.
In the self-media, these problems are deliberately connected in series, pointing directly to the possibility that Hanhai mobile phones, Zemeng equipment, etc. will not have bio-based batteries to use in the future.
Some netizens have begun to worry that insufficient battery inventory and production of Changtian Technology New Energy Company's products will lead to an inability to meet demand in the future.
Twitter user: "Safety accidents of Changtian Technology New Energy occur frequently. In the future, you may not even be able to buy energy blocks. The equipment is just a decoration. It is a pure IQ tax. Whoever buys it will be dumbfounded!"
"As shown in the picture, this is a picture of the scene in the United States. Due to the lack of energy blocks, a large number of users queued up to buy energy blocks, and a large number of equipment went on strike."
"There is a major crisis in bio-battery, and the price of bio-energy blocks on the market has begun to rise! From now on, when you buy equipment, you are buying a dad."
At the same time, in the domestic media, many public opinion warriors serving the United States began to forward the articles that had been set.
Even though Changtian Technology solved the problem by adjusting the production of bioenergy blocks in Nanhai Province, so that the supply of energy blocks on the market was not affected at all, it still could not escape the attacks of netizens.
"Bioenergy blocks are not perfect. They are essentially the same as oil and gas, and they are even more affected by weather."
"The global energy block is out of stock. If you buy a lithium battery car and there is a place to charge it, if you buy a bioenergy battery car, you really have to use rice every day. I'm going to cry!"