In a quiet villa at the foot of Purple Mountain, warm yellow light shines through the glass windows.
The guard who was patrolling outside looked up at the window, which was still lit even in the early hours of the morning, and walked silently to the other side.
In the study, Xu Chuan was kneeling in front of the table, writing vigorously and waving the black pen in his hand.
The Daybreak Fusion Device broke the operating record of controllable nuclear fusion and achieved a brilliant performance of forty-five minutes. It was true, but this had almost consumed the first batch of scientific research funds.
If the money to purchase the old ADE device was not paid in installments, or if the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material of Dawn was not renovated, it was provided by the Western Superconducting Group itself.
I'm afraid that the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project can no longer even pay the salaries of researchers and engineers.
Fortunately, the results are gratifying.
Forty-five minutes of high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation time was enough for him to write a letter to ask for a new batch of scientific research funds.
While Xu Chuan was busy writing letters late at night to request funds, on the other side, the Germanic Planck Institute for Plasma Research, the Spiral Stone 7 located in the northern city of Greifswald, was slowly stopping operations.
Stimulated by the forty-five minutes of high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation time of the Daybreak Fusion Device, the Planck Plasma Institute finally became anxious.
After paying a large amount of overtime wages, they finally asked the researchers and engineers who were unwilling to work overtime to work overtime to complete the transformation of Spiral Stone 7 ahead of schedule, shortening the two weeks to one week.
At this time, under the leadership of Professor Tillman Lunt, the Spiralite 7, which was modified using high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, completed the operation experiment.
Looking through the surveillance screen, his eyes were locked on the piece of equipment that was gradually shutting down. Robert Mack, the middle-aged supervisor standing in the main control room, looked at Tillman Lunt who was standing aside.
"What's the result?"
Tillman Lunt looked at the various parameters on the control screen, took a deep breath, and slowly said: "Our earliest expectations have been met."
After a slight pause, he continued: "But there is still a slight gap from the forty-five minutes created by Professor Xu."
Robert Mack frowned and asked: "How much difference?"
"Fifteen minutes." Tillman looked at the data on the main control screen, shook his head and replied.
If Spiral Stone 7 had set this record a month, no, half a month ago, it would definitely be an extremely exciting thing.
With a running time of half an hour, this can not only be used as a great interim result to hold a press conference and be widely reported in newspapers, but they can also continue to ask for more scientific research funds from high-level officials and the European Union.
But now, this data is no longer exciting.
The forty-five-minute operation time of the Daybreak Fusion Device is ahead, and the half-hour operation time of the Spiral Stone 7 seems a bit insignificant.
After all, everyone knows that stellarators have natural advantages in controlling the operation of high-temperature plasmas.
Now after replacing the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material as the external field coil, they still have a gap of more than ten minutes with their opponent.
Ten minutes sounds very short, but in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, this is already a big gap.
After all, just a few months ago, the record-breaking EAT only ran for seven and a half minutes.
Other research institutes are still pursuing results in seconds.
Fifteen minutes, which is equivalent to two meals.
Of course, the operating time in the field of controllable nuclear fusion cannot be calculated in this way. Even if two eats are combined together, it is impossible to exceed fifteen minutes.
Even the combination of Eat Spiral Stone 7 may not be able to defeat the 'Daybreak' bought from them.
On the side, Robert Mack frowned and asked: "Why is there such a big difference?"
Compared with the financial sponsor who provided funds in the office before, that is, the people from the Energy Institute, he, who is also from the Planck Plasma Institute, has a much better attitude towards Tillman Lent.
After all, the two have worked together for many years.
As for the previous ade installation, he had nothing to do.
It was not just Tillman Lunt who was responsible for that incident. As a supervisor, he was also under considerable pressure.
After all, the equipment sold from them achieved miraculous results, but this was a major blunder anyway.
Tillman was silent for a moment and then said: "I'm afraid there is only one problem now."
"that aspect?"
Tillman sighed and continued: "Control model of plasma flow in the reactor chamber."
After a pause, he added: "To be honest, apart from this, I can't think of anything else that can widen such a big gap."
"After being modified using the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material provided by Professor Xu, the performance of Spiral Stone 7 is definitely better than that of Daybreak. I firmly believe this!"
"After all, you and I know the performance of the ade device very well. Even if Professor Xu has modified it, he will not be able to surpass us in a short period of time."
"In this case, the only thing that can provide additional assistance is the control model of plasma turbulence, and this happens to be what we lack."
As he spoke, he sighed: "No wonder Professor Xu doesn't care about the deal in high-temperature superconducting material technology."
He didn't finish his words, but Robert Mack also knew what he meant.
Because compared to high-temperature superconducting materials, the control of plasma turbulence is the real key.
After a moment of silence, he asked: "Aren't you very familiar with Professor Xu? Is there any way to get the model in his hands? Buy it or through other means?"
Tillman smiled bitterly and said: "Will you sell this crucial killer weapon to others? As for other methods, this is not something I need to consider. You can decide for yourself."
After thinking for a while, Robert said: "What if the water-cooled divertor technology on Spiral Stone 7 is used for trading?"
Hearing this, Tillman Lunt glanced at the old man next to him in surprise and said, "Are you sure? This is our real lifeblood?"
Compared with the first-generation technology on the old ADE device, the water-cooled divertor on the Spiral Stone 7 is truly complete.
If the performance of the previous generation is one, then the latest technology of Spiral Stone is at least twenty or more. The gap is so huge that it is difficult for outsiders to imagine.
This can be said to be the real pinnacle technology of the Planck Institute of Plasma Research.
Robert Mack was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "What if it is to survive?"
"The experiment led by Dawn has reached 45 minutes. This result is believed to attract a lot of funds to rush to invest in the Tokamak route."
"If our stellarator can't keep up, I'm afraid it will be eliminated soon."
"Even if it is not eliminated, it will be slowly dusted due to lack of scientific research funds. As for when it can be restarted, it may be a few years, it may be more than ten years, or even longer or it may never be known."
"Are you willing to see your life's work come to an end like this?"
"At least, I don't want to."
Listening to Robert Mack's words, Tillman Lunt fell into silence.
Yes, Spiral Stone 7 is their hard work.
He has been studying this since Wega. Counting the time, more than ten years have passed.
Compared with tokamak, stellarator does have its own unique advantages, which is why he firmly believes that only stellarator can achieve controllable nuclear fusion.
If it ends like this, he won't be reconciled.
However, the initiative is no longer in their hands.
To be fair, if it were him, would he use the control model of plasma turbulence to trade for the water-cooled divertor of Helix Stone 7?
If he were asked to answer, his answer would be: "No."
He doesn't want to deceive himself.
Although this fact is frustrating, it is the fact.
Just like they could choke each other's neck before and refused to use icrf heating technology to trade water-cooled divertor technology.