"You are Xiao Chu? I heard from the comrades at the State Council that you have made a breakthrough in the field of studying smog control? ”

Xu Chunli stood behind his desk and looked at the young man who knocked on the door and walked in, his eyes burning.

He is 56 years old this year, graduated from the University of Frankfurt in Germany at the age of 28 with a double doctorate in environmental science and geology, and entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences after returning to China, and has the title of academician of more than 10 national academies of sciences in the world, chairman of the Chinese National Association for Environmental Sciences, and senior professor of the Department of Natural Sciences and Environment of Yenching Shuimu University. If you don't read the information, it's hard to believe that this person who is plainly dressed, has white hair, and exudes an intellectual temperament all over his body, has so many brilliant titles.

Xu Chunli is currently the director of the Ministry of Technology and Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in a place like the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where experts gather, it is also quite heavy. For scientific and technological personnel of this level, it is not unusual to have direct dialogue with the highest levels of the country.

But Xu Chunli didn't understand the young man sent to him by the state this time. The problem of smog is a worldwide problem, how many countries have studied it for many years, and there is no good way to deal with it, can this young man solve this kind of thing by himself?

Xu Chunli is a pure scientist, and he has never known much about things outside of his own research. However, he has the good qualities of many scientific researchers, that is, he has a skeptical and inquisitive attitude towards everything, rather than being killed with a preconceived stick. Although this young man named Chu Yang does not seem to have anything to do with the word "scientist", Minister Xu still attaches enough importance to him.

After all, the state does not recommend a person to him casually, and this is not a place to raise idlers. doesn't have any real skills, even if it's a big backstage. I can't stay here either.

Chu Yang was also looking at the old scientist in his fifties from the time he entered the door. From his body, Chu Yang felt a pure power. This person should be a very simple person, Chu Yang can judge the person in front of him. It should belong to the kind of real scientists who are immersed in research.

For such a person, Chu Yang is very respectful. No matter what kind of work you do, you can only achieve real achievements if you are truly immersed in it. This is especially true of science, and it is impossible to do a good job in scientific research without a truly sinking attitude.

He nodded at Xu Chunli and said with a smile: "Hello Minister Xu, I'm Chu Yang. ”

Xu Chunli glanced at Chu Yang again, nodded slightly, and said, "Sit down." Specifically, what do you think? ”

Xu Chunli got straight to the point, and came up to talk about specific problems, obviously not knowing how to understand the human accident. However, Chu Yang didn't mind this. This matter was originally promised to the country, and the reason why we want to cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences is just to make the whole thing more smoothly. After all, there are some things that need to be coordinated by Chu Yang himself. Although he can handle these things too. But after all, it's troublesome.

With the golden sign of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in front, things are much easier. Chu Yang only needs to move his mouth, and let them implement the rest of the things.

Of course, the state also has some careful thinking in this arrangement, but it is just thinking of relying on these technicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to "steal" from themselves to get a little ability. For this matter. Chu Yang didn't mind, the Pure Spirit Array was just a low-level use of the Spirit Gathering Array, but even so, the formation knowledge of the cultivation realm involved in it was incompatible with the technology of this world. These are the ones who have received the most orthodox scientific education since childhood. If you want to figure out the principles of these formations, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

Even if they really figured it out, it wouldn't be a bad thing. Chu Yang wished that among these people, there would be a few people with high understanding. At that time, trust these people to make the right choice on their own. The Chinese Academy of Sciences may be a good place, but compared to Xiuzhen, I believe that the temptation is not so great.

Chu Yang nodded, and at the suggestion of Minister Xu, he sat down on one side of the small coffee table in the room, and Minister Xu sat down on the other.

Looking at this young man, Xu Chunli was also very curious, wanting to see what good way he had in front of the global problem of controlling haze.

As a student from a school background, Xu Chunli understands too well where the crux of the current smog problem is. In the final analysis, it is China's extensive economic growth that has led to environmental degradation. However, if this issue is really pursued, it is really difficult to say who is right and who is wrong.

Is it wrong to develop the economy? Apparently not. Without economic development, how can the national strength be strong? If the national strength is not strong, how can it safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity?

However, there is a process of economic development, and when the People's Republic of China was first founded, the heavy industry base in China was almost zero, and everything had to be started from scratch. The West did have advanced technology at that time, but the question was whether people would give it to you?

Everything has to be explored by oneself, and if the technology is insufficient, it will rely on the tactics of the sea of people, and rely on the brutal development of extensive and inefficient development, all of which are helpless.

And now, this stage has clearly passed. After decades of development, China's economy has ranked among the top in the world, and can even compete with developed countries in Europe and the United States. However, the rapid development has also allowed Huaxia to suffer the consequences of the environment.

In the case of Yanjing Province alone, a province with two important metropolises, the capital and Haijin, it is common sense that there should not be so much heavy industry. However, the reality is that almost half of China's iron and steel enterprises are concentrated in Yanbei Province, and these enterprises are large consumers of high pollution and high energy consumption. When it comes to smog, these companies are the biggest culprits. There was once a ridiculous joke on the Internet: Looking at the world's steel production, China is the first, Yanbei is the second, and Tanggang is the third! And how far Tanggang City is from Yanjing is only more than 100 kilometers. With so many heavily polluting steel companies at such a close distance, can the smog not be serious?

However, can the economic structure of Yanbei Province be blamed for being unreasonable? Can we shut down those highly polluting steel companies for this reason? Apparently not. From a historical point of view, the iron and steel enterprises in Yanbei Province have also had a glorious history and have made indelible contributions to the economic development of China. Although today. The development of the times has made him seem a little out of place, but these achievements cannot be erased.

Let's talk about the status quo. If any of these large iron and steel enterprises are large state-owned enterprises with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of workers, and if they really want to shut down or cancel them, how many problems will they face? When many people mention smog online, they shout about how many factories they want to shut down. How much backward production capacity has been eliminated, to put it lightly, if you don't do it specifically, how can you know the difficulties in this?

The Huaxia government is now proposing to reduce 60 percent of Yanbei province's steel production capacity within five years, and the significance behind this figure is self-evident for anyone in the industry. To make such a decision, it takes the determination of a strong man to break his wrist!

The real problem is that the smog is getting worse and worse. People suffer from it every day, to the point where they can't solve it. Five years is really not a long time for this huge plan, but it is still too long for the air situation in Yanbei Province, especially the capital!

As for other methods, those so-called environmental experts and professors have also thought a lot, but they are very little. Everyone actually knows it in their hearts. If we don't fundamentally solve the source of pollutant emissions, any other means will not have much effect!

And any country in the world. In the great era of industrial development, almost all of them will encounter the same problem. London, England, is the most obvious example.

From December 4 to 9, 1952, the sky over London was controlled by a high-pressure system, and the exhaust gases from a large number of factory production and residential coal-fired heating were difficult to diffuse and accumulated over the city. The city of London was shrouded in a dark fog. There are almost no cars on the road, and people cautiously grope their way along the sidewalks. The electric lights on the street were as bright as they were in the smoke, like starlight in the dark. Until 10 December, a strong westerly wind blew away the terrifying smoke that hung over London.

At that time, the concentration of pollutants in the air in London continued to rise. Many people experience discomfort such as chest tightness and suffocation, and morbidity and mortality increase dramatically. More than 5,000 people were killed during the five days of the fog, and more than 8,000 died in the two months after the fog passed. The incident became known as the "London Smog Incident" and became one of the top 10 environmental pollution incidents of the 20th century.

And now Yanbei Province, if no effective measures are taken to deal with it, I am afraid that it is very likely to repeat the mistakes of the London smog incident!

It is precisely because of this that these veteran experts in charge of the environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including Xu Chunli, feel the pressure. Last year, the chief appeared on the street against the fog of Yanjing. At that time, newspapers and the Internet used headlines such as "Breathe the same breath, share the same fate", for ordinary people, it is undoubtedly inspiring that a country's leaders can do this, but for them, experts engaged in environmental governance, seeing this scene is undoubtedly shameless!

In the past few days, Xu Chunli is starting a new round of collective discussion on the plan to control smog among the old academicians in the United Academy. It's just that he also knows in his heart that if there is no breakthrough technological progress, if he wants to solve the haze problem, I am afraid it will still be far away!

Some developed countries in Europe and the United States already have a set of well-formed methods to control the problem of haze, and from a technical point of view, the difficulty of implementing them is not very great. But in Huaxia, many problems can be solved more than just technically.

For example, in the United Kingdom, the reason why such obvious results have been achieved in controlling smog is inseparable from their vigorous use of clean energy. Take the "three-way catalytic converter" of the filtration system for motor vehicle emissions that most people know, which is not installed on some large transport vehicles in China, although there is a mandatory installation on small cars, there are many problems in the later maintenance. Not to mention the quality of oil products, some things are already "secrets" that the Chinese people know.

Solving these problems is technically easy to implement, but on other levels, it's not the same thing. This involves many complex issues of interest, and to paraphrase the prime minister's words, "it is more difficult to touch interests than to touch the soul"!

For example, those enterprises with high polluting emissions, is there no way to reduce their emissions? Yes, of course. It's just that the cost of using these pollution treatment systems is very high, and it will greatly increase the production cost of enterprises, obviously. For businesses, that's not what they want to see. In addition, if a standard cannot be implemented, some enterprises use it and some enterprises do not, resulting in an increase in the cost of products of enterprises that comply with the system, but cannot compete with those unruly enterprises, "bad money drives out good money".

So. Dealing with smog is too complicated, far from being as simple as it seems!

Because of this, Minister Xu is very curious, this big boy who looks no more than 20 years old and looks very handsome, has made so many achievements in research that the country attaches so much importance to it?

Chu Yang has been in the limelight on the Internet during this time, but Xu Chunli doesn't know anything about it. For him. The only purpose of surfing the Internet is to look up some technical information, and other than that, he almost does not go online, nor does he watch those entertainment news. Therefore, Chu Yang has almost become a global figure now, but he doesn't know anything about Chu Yang's previous "scenery".

After Chu Yang sat down, he didn't make too many detours in the face of Minister Xu's question. Instead, he said directly: "I invented a system that runs on pure electricity." It can effectively purify the fine dust in the air and at the same time isolate the intrusion of external pollutants. I plan to build such a system with Yanjing as the center, which should be able to effectively improve the current haze weather. ”

Listening to Chu Yang's words, Xu Chunli's face showed curiosity. Listening to the meaning of this young man's words, it is actually a direct solution to this problem from the technical level. That's kind of interesting. Their previous thinking was to start directly from the root cause and think about reducing the source of pollution, but they never thought about this.

It's not that I didn't think of it, but it's useless to think of it. For contamination that has already formed. What can be done to get rid of pollutants that are not visible to the naked eye as they float through the air? Unless with the help of the wind, but the question is, can people control the wind? The wind may blow the pollutants away, and it may even blow over.

Xu Chunli looked at Chu Yang with some curiosity and asked, "Can you explain how your system works?" ”

Chu Yang frowned when he heard this question.

Seeing Chu Yang's expression, Xu Chunli mistakenly thought that this was someone else's secret, and hurriedly said: "Of course, if it involves trade secrets, if you don't want to say it, forget it." ”

He also knows that after all, for such a system, if it is really as he said, it has that effect, and the economic benefits it produces must be quite amazing.

When Chu Yang heard Minister Xu's words, he knew that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly explained, "Minister Xu, I didn't mean that. In fact, I didn't think about keeping anything about this system, because environmental issues are also related to the vital interests of everyone in China, and I didn't think about making any money from this system. It's just that the principles in this are a bit complicated to explain, and some things are not used in the principles of modern natural science, so I don't know how to talk about it for a while! ”

Hearing Chu Yang's explanation, Minister Xu suddenly realized, waved his hand again and again and said, "It's okay, it's okay, since you were recommended by the State Council, I believe that your technology has also been recognized." Let's say, what do we need to do with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we will fully cooperate! ”

In this regard, Minister Xu is very aware of the overall situation. Although he was curious about how the young man said the system worked, he knew that now was not the time to pay attention to it. If this system is really feasible, the sooner it will be implemented, the better!

In recent days, the air quality in Yanjing has been getting worse and worse, and there have been many PM2.5 explosions. In such weather, even travel will be seriously affected, and the public has become very sensitive to environmental issues, and some people have even suggested that Yanjing is no longer suitable for human habitation, calling on the government to consider moving the capital.

But where is it so easy to move the capital? I am afraid that the problems involved in this are greater than the control of haze!

Hearing Minister Xu's words, Chu Yang nodded and said bluntly: "The materials required for this system are not complicated, but they may be a little expensive. First of all, I need at least 100 tons of jade, at least white marble or above, of course, if it is Tianshan jade or Hetian jade, it is better. ”

Chu Yang's latter sentence was put forward tentatively, after all, white marble is easy to say, although it is also a precious building material, but after all, it does not belong to real jade, but only has some attributes of jade. However, for Chu Yang, none of this mattered, as long as this material could withstand the impact and operation of the formation energy.

In fact, the reason why many formations require the selection of jade as the basic raw material is that they fancy this. These naturally formed jades contain a small amount of heaven and earth aura inside, which can be stimulated by the formation to form an automatic cycle. Of course, the better the quality of the jade, the more aura it contains, and the better the effect of naturally arranging it into a formation.

Hearing Chu Yang's words, Minister Xu frowned and said, "Jade? At least 100 tons? ”

He was a little strange and couldn't figure out what jade had to do with smog control. However, since it was Chu Yang who proposed it, he must have his reasoning. Although 100 tons of jade is not a small amount, if you report to the above in the name of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, you can still apply for it.

"This is fine, what else do you need?" Minister Xu continued to ask.

"We need a power station of at least 100,000 kilowatts to supply the power of this system and maintain its operation!" Chu Yang said directly.

"100,000 kilowatts? Exclusive? Hearing this request, Minister Xu was not much surprised, after all, if it is a system that can control the smog in an city, it is not surprising that it consumes so much electricity.

"That's fine." Minister Xu thought for a moment and replied.

"Alright, when both are ready, I'm ready to go!" Chu Yang said loudly! (To be continued......)