Nasa.

In a conference room.

I saw a simple title printed on the curtain hanging in front of the conference room.

On the Feasibility of Fusion Battery Technology and Electric Propulsion System Application in Aerospace Field

This is the topic of today's conference and the title of a paper.

Although the words are not very long, the amount of information is unusually large, so that the minutes of the meeting have been sent for a long time, and the meeting has been started for a long time, but no one has spoken until now.

Glancing around at the people sitting in the conference room, Director Sun closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then slowly opened his eyes, broke the silence and spoke.

“…… This paper was written by Professor Lu, and it was completed about two days ago, and after receiving this paper, the central government attached great importance to it, and my superior leader even specially instructed me to hold this meeting in the bureau for everyone to discuss. ”

Speaking of which, Director Sun paused for a moment, and after confirming that no information was missing, he continued.

"About this paper...... Or the Space Shuttle, I'd like to hear your thoughts. ”

When the words fell, there was still no sound in the conference room.

It took a while for a whisper to spread from the room.

"The space shuttle road was personally photographed to death by Mr. Qian, so if you change the route at this time...... Isn't it good? ”

"What Qian Lao said can you manage for a lifetime? Moreover, his old man denied this route, only for the sake of the conditions of the times. If you wanted to build a jet plane a hundred years ago, do you see someone as a normal person? ”

"I agree with Professor Yu that both the NASP program in the United States and the Sanger program in West Germany have made the reusable space shuttle the focus of the future space-to-earth transportation system. I believe that the Americans have suffered so many losses on the space shuttle, and their understanding of the pain should be more painful than ours, and it must have been enough and careful consideration to make them make such a choice. Therefore, even if we don't pay attention to it, we must not ignore it! ”

Sitting at the top of the conference table, Director Sun quietly listened to the discussion.

Although the content of the discussion is superficial, there is no way to do it.

After all, Professor Lu's paper mentions a lot of very sensitive things, which are not suitable for public discussion, and even such a closed-door expert meeting is not suitable, so the materials sent to the participants have undergone certain revisions. For example, the part of the fusion battery is conjectured as an unfinished technology and described in a hypothetical way.

And for this unreliable assumption, most people obviously don't take it into account.

In fact, a similar controversy occurred a long time ago, and even erupted in this conference room, except that there was no such advanced multimedia equipment at that time, and the people sitting here have changed.

Looking at the noisy and chaotic appearance in the conference room, Deputy Director Wang, who was sitting next to Sun Ju, lowered his voice and whispered a reminder.

"Director."

"What's wrong?"

"I said this discussion...... Is it still necessary to continue? ”

Director Sun raised his eyebrows.

"How?"

Deputy Director Wang continued: "The above meaning is that we should take Professor Lu's paper seriously, isn't the meaning obvious enough? ”

The corners of his mouth pulled slightly, and Director Sun said expressionlessly: "The discussion still has to be discussed, or if something goes wrong then, you will be responsible?" ”

The deputy director smiled, and immediately closed his mouth and stopped talking.

The controversy gradually turned white-hot.

Those who support and those who oppose each other, standing on opposite sides, neither of them can convince anyone.

Rolled up his cuffs and looked at the table below, seeing that the time was almost up, Director Sun cleared his throat, raised his voice and said.

“…… In order to ensure that the meeting can be carried out more effectively, I would like to show you some things that have not yet been made public. I would like you to make sure that you are not carrying any communication equipment with you, and that you are committed to keeping what you see today strictly confidential. ”

The room fell silent.

The experts sitting at the table looked at each other, and many of them had a thoughtful expression in their eyes.

Of course, there were also people who were still full of confusion and turned their inquiring eyes to Director Sun, who was sitting at the head of the conference table.

Director Sun didn't explain, just glanced at the secretary standing next to him, and then nodded slightly.

The secretary standing next to the multimedia lectern immediately understood, put a CD-ROM into the notebook computer resting on the multimedia lectern, and then operated the mouse to quickly retrieve the original paper from the CD-ROM, and released the data that were inconvenient to disclose, as well as some information about fusion batteries.

The moment these materials were displayed on the screen, the silence in the conference room was as dead as silence, as if a needle could be heard clearly on the ground.

About five minutes passed, and after reading the materials, the exclamation spread from all corners of the conference room like a sweeping wave.

“100M！ That's impossible! ”

"If the output power of the power supply equipment can reach 100M...... It is not theoretically impossible to produce thrust of the KN class. ”

"That's unbelievable! Even if the power can be 100M, what kind of electric propulsion engine can provide such KN-level thrust?! ”

At present, the world's most powerful electric propulsion engine is NASA's NEXT system, with a power of 6.9K, but the thrust is only 0.236N.

Thrust of the order of KN......

It may be possible to do so with M levels of energy, but there is no electric propulsion system in the world that can handle this energy.

Staring at the data displayed on the screen, the old professor with glasses couldn't help but say.

"What kind of electric propulsion system does it take to do this......

"It can't be a fraud, right?"

"Impossible, it's Professor Lu who wrote this report, that guy will be short of funds?"

"Then you can't just talk nonsense!"

"Maybe he can do it?"

"Quiet!"

A loud voice interrupted the cacophony of voices in the conference room.

Glancing around the experts in the conference room, the director was silent for a moment before speaking.

"This project is unreliable, and I can't evaluate it as a layman. After all, I've been on a plane many times, but I haven't been on a space shuttle once. ”

"You are experts in the field of aerospace, and in the past 20 years, our aerospace industry has made great strides forward with your experience, not only breaking through the blockade of technology, but also completing many other developments. Something that the state can't even imagine. ”

"Therefore, I trust your experience and trust your judgment."

After a pause, Director Sun concluded the debate with one sentence.

"Vote by show of hands."

There was a long silence in the room.

Looking cautiously at the data on the curtain, the experts sitting at the conference table fell into deep thought.

Gradually, a hand was raised.

And then the second one......

The third ......

After waiting quietly for a minute, Director Sun looked around the conference room and counted them roughly.

Eleven of the twenty raised their hands.

Regardless of the number of abstentions, at least there was no majority.

Slowly relieved, looking at the people in the conference room, Director Sun nodded, slowly stood up with his hands on the table, and said succinctly the decision he had already made.

"Approve the project!"

"Adjournment!"