Chapter 613 613 The New Electric Era
China's economic and industrial transformation is still advancing, just like the industrial robot industry is impacting traditional labor-intensive industries, Qi Yiming's various new technologies and the unremitting efforts of domestic scientists to develop new technologies, quickly promote China's economy forward. On the other hand, China is extremely difficult in the process of establishing its own innovation system, many enterprises and even the government are accustomed to doing simple low value-added industries, and even copycat imitation, but when it is really time for independent innovation, it is a black eye, there is neither technical reserves nor talent reserves, and the process of development is weak.
In fact, even in the plane, China's science and technology field is not as productive as the developed countries in Europe and the United States on average, but the Red Police Base, which cannot stand Qi Yiming, is almost upgraded every time, bringing about a small technological revolution, and a large number of high-tech are directly distributed to everyone, like cramming for scientific researchers to master. Learning is always more difficult than innovation, but when the level of knowledge accumulates to a certain level, there are more things that can be applied and developed.
After the Lv3 base, Qi Yiming formulated the concept of "electrified society" for the country in response to a large number of high-tech obtained. This is because the Lv3 base unlocked several super black technologies that were not researched even in 2015 before Qi Yiming crossed over. The first is controlled fusion reactor technology that could revolutionize China's energy mix. The realization of this revolutionary technology is also supported by more systematic black technologies, such as the magnetic field superconductor that confines and holds the plasma produced by the fusion reaction, which is metallic hydrogen, a rationalized material that was also not prepared in 2015. It can also be used in many fields such as power transmission and military.
The Red Alert base itself can build a fusion power plant, although the construction period is long and the investment is huge, but the electricity that can be generated, one can be worth dozens of ordinary nuclear power plants, and the benefits are very cost-effective. Qi Yiming has long built a surplus of the Red Alert power plant and connected it to the national grid to supply domestic civilian use. Moreover, he has also built many Tasla magnetic power plants before, and a large number of new energy power plants, such as wind power, geothermal, tidal power plants, etc. In more than a decade of development, China's power generation has already surpassed that of the United States, and it can fully supply urban and rural residents, even in relatively remote areas, as long as there are people.
The launch of fusion power plants will inevitably provide China with more abundant energy, which means that the normal cost of production and living for the people can be further reduced, and more large-scale and advanced projects can be progressed. Sometimes, electricity, like transportation, as a part of the infrastructure, seriously restricts the development of a region, and when the construction level of this infrastructure is high and the utilization efficiency is good, it can naturally promote the local creation of more economic benefits, and it is naturally conducive to improving the living standards of the local people.
In addition to Qi Yiming's own Red Alert fusion power plant, the country has also begun to try to build a self-produced nuclear fusion power station after mastering fusion reactor technology. After years of preparation, at this time, the first purely self-produced nuclear fusion power station was successfully established. And a number of central bigwigs also took the time to come, symbolizing that this power station represents the future of China.
Qi Yiming is also very interested in taking a look at this large-scale fusion power plant led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and prepared by the State Power, its scale is very large, not inferior to Qi Yiming's Red Police fusion power plant, naturally it is impossible to be as sci-fi as the Red Police building in appearance, but the huge area and the building with a very rugged style of modernism are still easier for people to feel the national power behind it.
He routinely pretended to be an insignificant little character and mixed in with the visiting team, and the people around him were either high-ranking officials or scientific experts, and not many people paid attention to him. Next to him, a researcher who seemed to be from the Chinese Academy of Sciences sighed: "...... It is really extremely difficult to study science and technology, and if we do not advance against the current, we have said that for many years, how many years will the fossil fuels on the earth be used up, etc., if human science and technology do not make a breakthrough and find new energy sources, the development of human civilization may fall into winter. Now that we have developed nuclear fusion, it is equivalent to a big step forward on the road to the development of human civilization! ”
Scientists don't think much about international competition and cooperation, but more about technology itself or from the perspective of humanity as a whole. But Qi Yiming is well aware of the role of the emergence and application of nuclear fusion in China's quest for future world leadership.
There is an unavoidable problem in the development of modern society, that is, power, that is, energy. Whoever masters energy is equivalent to choking the development lifeline of other countries in the world, especially some countries that are small and energy-scarce, and they regard energy security as the top priority of their national strategies.
On the other hand, a major factor in the United States' control of world hegemony is that it pegges oil to the US dollar, and at the same time enjoys relatively large influence over several major oil-producing countries in the world, and at the same time, overseas US troops all over the world control the shipping lanes for energy transmission, blocking the lifeline of China and a number of other countries. For another example, in the Ukraine crisis, the United States hopes that European allies will impose strong sanctions on Russia, but European natural gas basically refers to Russia's supply, and if Russia cuts off the supply of natural gas to Europe, the economic losses for European countries will be significant, so European countries dare not take too big a shot against Russia under pressure.
As far as Middle Eastern oil is concerned, China is the main one that chokes the oil lifeline of other countries in the world, and the U.S. oil-dollar chain is getting weaker and weaker under China's teasing, and the renminbi has become one of the world's major currencies because of the settlement of transactions with oil. After the issuance of the new renminbi within the SCO at the turn of the millennium, it is likely that the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency will be dealt an even greater blow.
However, there are still some disadvantages to this thing, first of all, it is not unlimited, and if it is supplied to the country, it needs to be imported in large quantities, which brings more trouble. From a purely self-sufficient point of view, fusion power plants can provide a more secure energy supply than oil. Qi Yiming plans to continue to grasp oil with one hand and expand fusion power with the other, fundamentally grasp the world's energy, so as to determine the dominance of the world.
Thinking of these, Qi Yiming looked at this power plant again, and his mood was even more surging, it is no longer just a symbol of national strength, but also the sustenance of national fortune. The Lv3 base unlocks some superconductor materials with practical value, such as metallic hydrogen, which is used for plasma confinement in fusion reactions, as well as graphene, known as "black gold", and a range of other similar products, all of which can improve the efficiency of power transmission, and the transmission network will be cleaner, more efficient and more convenient in the future.
Moreover, using the power grid, China can also send large amounts of surplus electricity to the SCO allies, or to other countries as a form of revenue, just like exporting oil, but exporting electricity is relatively cleaner than exporting oil, and it is less damaging to its own ecology.
In addition to the great improvement from the energy itself, in the specific use of energy, China has a large number of new technology products in the ascendant are slowly launching and entering the market. Their appearance and use are more to change people's lives in appearance, so that people's living standards are greatly improved.
Some large domestic automobile manufacturers are optimistic about the new field of electric vehicles. The two main categories of electric vehicles are fuel cell vehicles and graphene battery vehicles. Fuel cell technology is widely used, and it is used in conventional submarines with absolute propulsion. Fuel cell vehicles can directly rush into hydrogen, and then convert chemical energy into electricity in the car, and the car uses an electric motor to drive, which is more than 10% more efficient than ordinary fuel engine vehicles, and will be cleaner, which is conducive to creating an environmentally friendly society.
The cost of graphene battery vehicles is more than several times higher than that of fuel cell vehicles, even if Qi Yiming has now mastered the production technology of graphene, but the cost is still quite high and in short supply. Graphene batteries have amazing characteristics such as large power reserves and extremely fast charging and discharging speeds, and mass-produced graphene battery cars can run thousands of kilometers in one go, and it only takes a few minutes to charge. It can be said that graphene battery cars are a sign of the future. Of course, this kind of car has not yet been listed, and even if it is listed, I am afraid it will be sky-high, mainly to fight the luxury car market.
The characteristics of graphene batteries make them more popular in the military field, but they are also more demanding. The military has dozens of major projects that are testing the reliability and sophistication of weapons components powered by graphene batteries or with graphene materials. The military is eager to see the emergence of electric tanks, armored vehicles, and even aircraft with longer ranges and combat radius, although these are unlikely to be achieved in a relatively short period of time, but the direction is clear.
Another major application of electricity is the "Intercity Ultra-high-speed Express Rail Plan" proposed by Qi Yiming. The plan will use trains with a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour to be built in major cities across the country, connecting the city and the surrounding towns, counties and cities, so that manpower and logistics can circulate at a faster speed.
This is an important measure to expand China's urbanization, such as the development of Beijing in the past ten years, there has been obvious congestion and housing difficulties, many people need to get up early and stay late to get to work, take the bus for hours. If the construction of the intercity ultra-high-speed express rail is completed, workers who may live in a certain place in Hebei can go out by fast rail at seven o'clock and arrive at their place of work at eight o'clock, evacuating the congested megacity and driving the development of the surrounding area.