Technological power starts with upgrading lenses.

Chapter 457: The Delay in the Application of Technology

Kang Chi's words made everyone present fall into deep thought.

Researching for future technologies…

This is a fairly new and bold idea.

The application of cutting-edge technologies has always been accompanied by a long period of popularization.

After all, scientific research is a high-risk activity.
If you still bet on a technology that has not yet been realized, you should study the application methods of this technology in advance...

The risk of its return will definitely increase exponentially!
Therefore, the usual practice is to wait until a technology is stable and mature before starting related supporting research.
The time for the research and development, maturity and promotion of these related technologies is the application period of the technology.
This is also what most applied research researchers are doing now.

The time it takes to apply technology can be as short as a few years or as long as dozens or even hundreds of years.

For example, Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction in 1831 and invented the first primitive generator based on it. Edison also invented the practical light bulb in 1879.

But it wasn't until the early 20th century that electric lights became common in ordinary households.

The same is true for internal combustion engines. After French inventor Etienne Lenoir built the first practical internal combustion engine in 1860, it took nearly a hundred years for it to become popular in Europe, let alone other places.

Even now, cars are still a rarity in many countries.

This shows that the hysteresis of many common technological applications is much greater than people imagine.

However, if, as Kang Chi said, we directly assume that these core technologies have been achieved and thus plan and research related industries in advance, we can definitely significantly shorten the application period.

To a certain extent, this is also the best way to occupy the technological high ground first and transform from a follower to a leader.

But all of this is based on the premise that those hard bones must be gnawed.

Otherwise the consequences will be catastrophic.

Some professors subconsciously wanted to raise objections, but after seeing Kang Chi's confident demeanor on the podium and thinking of his god-like achievements,

The words that were already in my throat were held back...

Yes, with such a powerful God of Death helping them to clear the way, they were still limited to whether they could help the God of Death share the tasks and the fruits of victory, instead of considering how to occupy and consolidate the territory he had conquered...

That's a bit too narrow-minded.

No matter how powerful Kang Chi is, he doesn't have the ability to clone himself. He can invent the electric light and the generator, but he can't be asked to build a power plant and lay wires, right?

And as he said, the technology tree is constantly expanding and upgrading,
Compared with inventing the light bulb generator, building power plants and laying wires are actually technical jobs. Even technologies like high-voltage transmission and transformers are no less valuable and difficult than inventing the light bulb.
Kang Chi not only did not block their way, but instead opened a bigger window for them.

Outside the window there is a more beautiful and rich land waiting for them to cultivate.

Seeing that everyone had a thoughtful expression and no one raised any objections, Kang Chi knew that they had preliminarily accepted his views and suggestions, so he continued:

"Next, we can move on to the free-speaking phase of this seminar. Everyone can use their imaginations. Opportunities may lie in these wild and unrestrained ideas."

"Let's start with controlled nuclear fusion. In fact, this topic has been discussed for a long time even by ordinary people, but so far, it seems that no one has really taken practical action for these fantasies."

"The main reason is that everyone subjectively believes that it has not been realized yet. Now I hope everyone will regard it as having been realized today. Our electricity costs are controlled at an extremely low level. What do you think is the most promising research direction?"

"Electric vehicles!" A student immediately raised his hand and said, "All vehicles, including large passenger aircraft, may move towards full electrification."

"I think it is the electrolysis of hydrogen technology and then the development of hydrogen energy, which can directly skip the bottleneck of battery technology."

"What they are talking about is actually an area that is being vigorously researched. I am talking about a small track."

"Now that energy is no longer a problem, the most important thing we should do is to build a nuclear reactor that can synthesize specific materials to synthesize scarce precious metal materials such as gold, silver, lutetium, and palladium."

"We have been dreaming about vertical farms for so long, but I don't see any company really researching this, such as how to convert electrical energy into the most suitable light source for plant and animal growth, thus completely solving the food problem."

"In fact, food can also be synthesized artificially."

“But the taste is different, right?”

"Well... this needs further study."

"The speed of desalination plants is still too slow. We can build a reactor to boil seawater and cool the steam to obtain fresh water resources. The rising steam can also solve the problem of water level and flow directly inland after cooling." "So the problem of seawater scaling needs to be solved as a priority."

"Calcium carbonate in seawater scale is a building material and chemical raw material, and magnesium hydroxide can be used as a flame retardant and adsorbent. These by-products also have certain economic value. How to efficiently utilize these scales is also a topic worth studying."

"..."

After some brave students started to speak, the atmosphere gradually became lively.
Even some more stable professors occasionally expressed their opinions under the influence of the atmosphere.

They have developed controlled nuclear fusion and efficient and cheap ground-to-air round-trip systems.
From biomedical technology to the era of space development,
Everyone is constantly imagining the future, while also discussing some practical technical difficulties and dilemmas from time to time.

The seminar lasted until 1:00 p.m.

Only then did everyone realize that their stomachs were growling with hunger, but everyone's face was still filled with genuine excitement and anticipation.

You won’t know until you discuss it. Once you discuss it, you will find that there are so many interesting topics worth studying.

Moreover, many topics still have high research value even if the core technology has not yet been broken through.
It’s just that before the core technology is broken through, their priority and benefits are not that high.

After Kang Chi left the National University of Defense Technology, Academician Bi and others immediately held a small internal seminar to discuss the signals released by Kang Chi.

"There were many people at the meeting today, and Academician Kang obviously only spoke briefly, but I think he has actually sent us a strong signal."

"His system of round trip between heaven and earth will probably break through soon."

"That's obvious. Didn't Academician Bi's missile range extension project fail because of the booster he developed? Now that the booster has been completed, it's only a matter of time before the entire system is completed."

"Ahem." Principal Yuan suddenly interrupted, "Well, today Director Lu from the Ministry of Science and Technology revealed some news to me."

"what news?"

"It seems that the higher-ups discussed the feasibility of orbital bombers and even space fortresses in a closed-door meeting..."

"!!!"

After hearing President Yuan’s news, the professors at the conference were stunned.

Forget about the orbiter.

Even the space fortress was brought up?

Shame on you,

Unexpectedly, the vision of the upper echelons is more advanced than that of these researchers.

"In that case, we should really consider space attack and defense, and even the security of deep space enclaves..."

"Well, if missiles are launched from space, due to their extremely high initial speed and gravity, only a small amount is needed to change the trajectory to achieve a global strike..."

It was not until this time that Academician Bi finally understood why his project was stopped so quickly.

Compared with the research on increasing the range of missiles, the most urgent task is to improve existing missiles to make them more suitable for launching from space.

I believe that at this very moment, some more confidential advanced research institutes are already conducting research on this.

As a university researcher who needs to train the next generation of talents for the country, he can only find some topics that are not so difficult and have a lower level of confidentiality.
For example, long-term storage observation experiments of different fuels in space environment?

However, people at this aerospace institute may already be working on it.

Academician Bi pondered for a moment and soon came up with a general direction that suited him:
A small, split missile that can fire ordinary bullets to attack multiple enemy satellites...

Summary and analysis meetings similar to the one held by the National University of Defense Technology are being held in many universities and research institutes.

Different from the somewhat empty discussions at the daytime seminar, what they conducted after the meeting was some serious research on the necessity and feasibility of the technology.

Of course, these studies are limited to discussions. Whether they can be truly put into action depends mainly on the attitude of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

So the pressure naturally came to the Ministry of Science and Technology...

(End of this chapter)