It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 459 There is always a thunderbolt

"Who is this?"

Chen Yuanguang looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with typical German appearance, and tapped his fingertips lightly on the conference table to make a rhythm.

He noticed the faded DLR badge on the lapel of the other man's suit, as if it was some kind of identity mark that was deliberately retained.

The representative of Volkswagen Group stepped forward quickly and said, "Mr. Chen, this is Dr. Markus, a consultant of Volkswagen Group and the former chief engineer of propulsion system of German Aerospace Center.

Dr. Marcus will be deeply involved in future technical exchanges between Germany and China in the aerospace field.

This time, Germany sent Dr. Marcus here ahead of time, hoping that he could adapt to the Chinese environment ahead of time."

After the representative of Volkswagen Group finished speaking, Xiao Zhu added two more specific words about Marcus's background.

From just a few sentences of introduction, Chen Yuanguang sensed Berlin's temptation. Germany obviously hoped to develop in-depth cooperation with China.

China naturally hopes to achieve such cooperation. However, Chen Yuanguang does not know and does not care which companies China plans to select from its huge system of aerospace state-owned enterprises to be managed by foreign executives.

It is obviously impossible for the most core group, and the most likely ones are the state-owned enterprises that have been marginalized and are undergoing market-oriented reforms, Chen Yuanguang speculated.

"Welcome to Shenhai." Chen Yuanguang extended his hand as if to shake hands.

The cooperation with Europe six years ago was based on fair trade. China obtained Vulcan engine technology and France obtained reusable rockets.

Now the technological strengths of the two sides are no longer comparable. Even in Europe's traditional strengths, materials and engines, China has caught up.

Before the cooperation talks even started, the top talents in Germany's aerospace field had to come to China in advance to adapt, which just shows the reversal of the situation.

But even a rotten ship has three pounds of nails, not to mention that Europe is far from being a rotten ship. In the future, from the overall level of China, there are many areas where we can cooperate with Europe.

Marcus suddenly said in stiff Chinese: "You are the North Star of our generation of astronauts."

After speaking Chinese, he spoke a long string of German.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Marcus said that he has heard of you for a long time. You are a banner figure for mankind's march into the solar system. He has heard of your name many times in Europe. He expresses his highest respect to you." Xiao Zhu helped Marcus translate.

After Xiao Zhu finished speaking, sporadic applause broke out in the conference room.

The two sides exchanged a few brief greetings, which left Chen Yuanguang with a preliminary impression. The German side felt that it had achieved its goal.

After visiting the smart factory and returning home, Lin Jia loosened his champagne-colored scarf to let in some air, and fell on the sofa, complaining:

"While Brussels is still arguing over who to choose, the Germans have taken fence-sitting to a new level. Even the top talent in Germany's aerospace field is willing to work for Volkswagen as a consultant."

She pulled out her phone and pulled up the latest briefing: "Washington is building an academic iron curtain. Neon and India have already joined, and the Kangaroo Country has also signed a technology blockade agreement. Europe is still holding on, and the supporters and opponents are arguing fiercely."

Lin Jia continued:

"It's all business after all. After the European telecommunications industry gave up the principle of industrial protection, Ericsson was like a beggar wearing Prada under the iron hoof of Huawei. American companies even wanted to offer one euro to take it away.

Even worse is ABB Electric. Once China's power grid transformation project in Hungary is successful, ABB will become like Ericsson, either lingering on and then being sold at a super low price, or being sold outright.

Lin Jia also participated in the entire visit to the smart factory today. She was very clear about Marcus's actual identity and Germany's plans.

Americain is now building its own academic ecosystem, which will keep academic achievements in some sensitive fields highly confidential.

As for what kind of ecology it is, it is naturally our own ecosystem.

It’s just that the EU as a whole is arguing very loudly, with the biggest opposition coming from France. France does not want to join this ecosystem because it has a lot of common interests with China.

The main voices of support come from Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and other countries.

This has both historical and industrial reasons.

Take Sweden as an example. If Europe continues like this and allows Chinese products and services to invade the European market on a large scale, Sweden's economy will be on the verge of collapse.

Unlike Norway, which can maintain its residents' high quality of life by relying on resources and financial capital operations, Sweden has a large-scale manufacturing industry.

Among the manufacturing industries, automobile manufacturing, communications and electricity are facing a full-scale invasion from China.

Ericsson and Volvo are some of the more well-known iconic companies, and they are in bad shape.

Volvo was acquired by a Chinese company a long time ago, so I won’t go into details here.

Let’s talk about Ericsson. In Sweden, there are a total of 1.7 upstream and downstream companies in the telecommunications industry represented by Ericsson, of which there are approximately 30 direct employees, accounting for 3% of the Swedish population.

That number has dropped by more than 2028 percent today in .

In the past three years alone, more than 10 people in Sweden's telecommunications industry have lost their jobs due to Huawei's invasion.

Ericsson has reached the point where it will collapse immediately if the government does not provide subsidies.

In the power sector, Sweden also has a Fortune 500 giant - ABB Electric, which brings more upstream and downstream employees than the telecommunications industry.

China's invasion of the European market in the power sector has already begun. In traditional fields, ABB's technological accumulation is not inferior to that of China Power, and even has an advantage.

However, the existence of large-scale household photovoltaic power stations has led to extremely high requirements for dynamic power distribution in the power grids of European countries and for the application of artificial intelligence technology in power systems.

This is precisely the shortcoming of ABB or old Europe.

What's even more terrible is that if the backward application of artificial intelligence technology in the power sector is a disease in the skin, which can be cured, then China's huge lead in cost and efficiency is a disease in the bone marrow, which is unavoidable.

For the same project, China only needs to spend US$50 billion a year, while ABB needs to spend US$ billion in three years.

Therefore, the Swedish media bluntly stated that if China is not driven out of the European electricity market, the day when Hungary's power grid transformation is completed will be the beginning of the countdown to ABB's bankruptcy, and ABB Electric will become the next Ericsson.

The reality is so cruel.

In many areas, the only defense Europe has left is administrative bans. If you were Sweden, seeing such a cruel reality, you would have no choice but to resist China.

France also has Schneider, a giant in the electrical industry, but power grid is not Schneider’s main business.

Power transmission and distribution, power grids, and power systems are ABB's main businesses. They have participated in the construction of the Three Gorges Power Station and power transmission and distribution projects, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the West-to-East Power Transmission Project, and a large number of China's ultra-high voltage transmission projects.

Schneider's main business is terminal power generation, such as stadium power generation.

Therefore, China Electric Power's entry into the European market is a matter of life and death for ABB Electric, and for Schneider, there is even a lot of room for cooperation.

It will be difficult for China Electric Power to adapt to the requirements of the European market in a short period of time. Schneider Electric can help you circumvent legal provisions and environmental issues. The two parties can bid together. China Electric Power will be responsible for the work, and Schneider will help you solve other worries.

Therefore, Sweden opposes cooperation with China, while France supports cooperation with China. In essence, this has nothing to do with freedom or not. Both are based on national interests.

Lin Jia went on to say: "But this is also normal, Germany has seen how much benefit France has gained from cooperating with us.

The opportunity to become the European leader, a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, is a huge opportunity for them."

"But this academic alliance will soon go bankrupt." Chen Yuanguang seemed confident.

"Why?" Lin Jia first wondered, then came to a conclusion: "Is it because of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology?"

Chen Yuanguang was a little surprised, "How did you guess so quickly?"

Lin Jia stood up and said, "Besides this, I can't think of any other way to make the American side give up."

Chen Yuanguang explained: “It can be called a breakthrough because it has met the technical standards, but it is not enough for large-scale commercialization.

From the perspective of power generation costs, it will take time to reduce them to the same level as traditional energy.

But that’s enough.”

Lin Jia said: "In other words, we can start large-scale fundraising now?"

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "Yes, all technologies are mature, and from all angles, we can start the next round of large-scale fundraising.

This fundraising plan is 10 trillion RMB, which should be the largest fundraising plan in the world's history.

It is tied to China's Academic Freedom Alliance, and only countries that join the Academic Freedom Alliance are eligible for financing.

So I say that in this case, America's calculations will fail."

As mentioned earlier, Shenhai has a company that does controlled nuclear fusion - Energy Singularity.

Energy Singularity Before Chen Yuanguang invented room-temperature superconducting materials, he had been working on controlled nuclear fusion devices. He developed a device called a fully high-temperature superconducting tokamak device and named it Honghuang 70.

The size of Honghuang 70 is one-fiftieth of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the cost is fifty times lower, and plasma discharge is achieved.

This is based on high-temperature superconducting magnets.

After the proposal of room-temperature superconductivity, the mixed-ownership enterprise - Frontier Technology took control of Energy Singularity.

Prior to this, Energy Singularity was also a star enterprise, and both NIO and miHoYo had invested in this Shenhai company.

Frontier Technology is a state-owned enterprise directly under the central government. Chen Yuanguang personally owns a portion of the shares in it, and Guangjia Aerospace owns a portion of the shares. If you look deeper, Chen Yuanguang holds about 24% of the shares.

The operation of room-temperature superconducting materials is fully responsible by Frontier Technology. For this reason, Frontier Technology is considered to be the most mysterious state-owned enterprise.

After Frontier Technology acquired the shares, Chen Yuanguang naturally became involved in this project.

Energy Singularity requires the use of room-temperature superconducting materials to reconstruct the entire project.

During the theoretical demonstration process, they found that if the entire project used room-temperature superconducting materials instead of high-temperature superconducting materials, even if it was only one-dimensional superconducting materials, it would help them skip the deuterium-tritium equivalent energy gain verification originally planned for 2027 and directly enter the demonstration power generation stage.

Because the theoretical basis of nuclear fusion power generation is to release energy by imitating the reactions inside the sun.

The tokamak device uses a circular magnetic field to heat deuterium-tritium fuel into a plasma above 1 million degrees Celsius. The magnetic field is used to confine charged particles, causing them to suspend in a vacuum chamber to avoid contact with the container wall and causing energy loss.

"The controlled nuclear fusion project led by Chinese scientist Dr. Chen Yuanguang has passed the deuterium-tritium equivalent energy gain verification at 5:30 this afternoon. The passing of the deuterium-tritium equivalent energy gain verification shows that the Tokamak nuclear fusion device based on room-temperature superconducting materials has initially possessed the potential for commercial application. Combined with the current progress of my country's lunar development, the world has taken another big step towards the goal of carbon neutrality."

The Chinese are always so calm about big news. On an ordinary evening, the News Broadcast directly broadcast this earth-shaking news.

The moment the news was broadcast, "controlled nuclear fusion" remained at the top of Weibo's hot search list for the next three days and never came down.

"Fuck!!! Can Mr. Wang release more albums? I saw you say this morning that there was big news today, and I was still wondering what the big news was. Then in the afternoon I saw you post on Weibo saying that your final work would be released soon. I didn't expect that Mr. Wang's final work would not be an album but controlled nuclear fusion!

All I want to say is, can you please not close the mountain and bring more!"

"Wang Feng is so miserable. Not to mention his last album, even if he divorces and remarries again, in the face of controlled nuclear fusion, he can't top the trending search list even if he divorces and remarries a hundred times."

"I actually want to know one thing, that is, how much does the God of Light hate Musk? Every time Musk comes to China, he makes big news. Last time it was about the nuclear bomb's trajectory change, this time it was about controlled nuclear fusion. Can you be a little kinder? But I like it."

"This is truly a community with a shared future for mankind. When the Chinese elders want to speak, who agrees and who opposes?"

"The most basic power problem of artificial intelligence has been solved by the Chinese. Traditional energy will have no future. The rich people in the Middle East should quickly embrace the Chinese."

As mentioned earlier, Singapore's synthetic sand is selling well around the world. The technological development behind this has caused the wealthy countries in the Middle East to feel uneasy about how long they can continue to make a living from oil. They hope to learn from Dubai and create some wonders before that.

Most of these countries are not good at capital operation. Qatar's level is considered first-class in the Middle East. You can imagine the capital operation level of these people.

"Can you give us some warning next time, old Chinese? It's the age of smart glasses, why are these kinds of news still being broadcast on the news broadcast?

And Guangshen, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Musk and the rest of them are recording podcasts and letting everyone hear their voices every day, but you are the only one who is so cool, right? Can you make more short videos? Why don’t you make short videos for such a big thing? "

(End of this chapter)