There was silence in the lab for about a minute.

Professor Lazersson rubbed his nose and said, "I'm sorry, what did you just say?" I didn't hear much. ”

Lu Zhou: "What I'm saying is that I can solve the problem of funding. ”

Looking at Lu Zhou with the eyes of an alien, Professor Lazersson said in disbelief.

"Are you sure?"

It wasn't just Professor Lazersson who couldn't believe it, but the engineers standing next to him couldn't believe it either.

Lu Zhou: "I'm sure. ”

Professor Lazersson smiled, shook his head with a smile and said, "Your prize money is not enough, even if you win both the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize next year, and auction them together with the medals, you will definitely not be able to make up that money." ”

There are really talents in history who have sold Nobel medals, but Lu Zhou will definitely not do this kind of thing of burning the piano and cooking the crane......

At least for now, he is not short of money.

Seeing that these people didn't believe it, Lu Zhou sighed, and didn't intend to explain, but asked directly: "How much does it cost?" ”

Professor Lazersson apparently didn't really think that Lu Zhou would be able to come up with the money, so he joked in a joking tone: "If you can raise ten million dollars, I guarantee that our project will not be short of money in the future." ”

Without saying anything, Lu Zhou walked outside the laboratory, took out his mobile phone, and called his manager, White Sheldan.

The phone was connected, it was quiet over there, and Sherdan was probably at work.

"Hello?"

Lu Zhou: "It's me." ”

By the time he saw the caller ID, Sherdan already knew who was calling.

After hearing the familiar voice, he said respectfully, "May I ask you something?" ”

Lu Zhou: "Help me check how much money is in the account of Star Technology." ”

Sherdan was slightly stunned: "...... I'll have to check with the finance manager for the exact amount, and I'll send you the financial report to your mailbox afterwards. ”

Star Technology is registered in the Cayman Islands, and its North American branch in Philadelphia is financially independent of the Star Technology parent company.

Sherdan is mainly responsible for patent management, and if you want to know how much money is in the parent company's account, you have to contact the financial staff there.

However, Lu Zhou does not need to know the specific number, only needs to know a rough one.

"Is there 10 million?"

Hearing this number, Sherdan sweated.

"10 million must have ......"

This boss ......

Perhaps they underestimate their business capabilities.

If nothing else, the income earned from licensing HCS-2 materials alone is more than that.

As for the income generated by the patent licensing of modified PDMS materials, it has not been touched much in the account until now, and Umicore Group has paid money into the account on a quarterly basis.

If you want to talk about the only expense, I am afraid that the boss spent 100 million yuan to invest in a laboratory in China some time ago.

For Star Technology, 10 million dollars is really nothing.

After hearing Sherdan's answer, Lu Zhou nodded.

"I'll give you an account in that moment, and you can transfer 10 million dollars."

The shareholding structure of Star Technology is very simple, Lu Zhou is the sole shareholder, what he says is the holy will, and no board of directors can restrain his power.

Without asking the boss what he was going to do, Sherdan just said respectfully.

"Okay, boss."

……

Lu Zhou rarely talks about his assets to outsiders, because to be honest, the money comes so easily that he doesn't have much real feeling about it.

Except for a few people who pay too much attention to him, few people even know that he owns Star Technology, a company registered in the Cayman Islands, and has earned him hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties through patents for modified PDMS materials and HCS-2 materials.

This money, even if it is lying on the account of Citibank, is a lot of income every year.

Lu Zhou, who is not interested in luxury cars, private jets, yachts, can only think of spending money on experiments.

When $10 million was deposited into the research account of the "He-3" project team, when the auditor of the project team rushed into the laboratory in embarrassment because of a large transfer of unknown origin, when the auditor slipped a printed transfer information into the hands of Professor Lazersson......

The entire laboratory fell into a dead silence.

Looking at the stunned Professor Lazersson, Lu Zhou coughed lightly and confirmed again.

"Is 10 million dollars really enough?"

He always felt that the money was still too small for the particle accelerator.

However, this is because he does not know that the annual research funding of PPPL laboratories is only 40 million US dollars.

The amount he injected into the research account of the "He-3" project team is equivalent to a quarter of the annual budget of the entire PPPL laboratory......

Swallowing and foaming, Professor Lazersson, who came back to his senses, nodded reluctantly.

"Enough ......"

Noticing that the researchers in the laboratory were quietly looking at him, Lu Zhou coughed lightly.

"We don't have much time left for us."

The researchers and engineers in the lab looked at each other and dispersed to return to their jobs.

Glancing at the A4 paper in his hand, and then at Lu Zhou standing in front of him, Professor Lazersson couldn't help but confirm: "This is solved?" ”

Lu Zhou: "Solved. ”

"Unbelievable! Where did you ...... from" Not knowing how to express the shock in his heart, Professor Lazersson was stuck for a while, and did not finish the sentence.

Probably guessing what he wanted to ask, Lu Zhou thought about it and gave an ambiguous answer: "Actually, I studied chemistry for a while some time ago, and I just made some money because of patents. ”

As he spoke, Lu Zhou got the idea of the apple book on the desk, and pointed to what it said.

"For example, the battery in this thing is probably made of the electrode material I developed."

Professor Lazersson's eyes widened: "But in any case, that's ten million...... Are you crazy? ”

Lu Zhou smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, I can't spend it anyway." ”

Professor Lazersson: "......"

Engineers: "......"

Researchers: "......"

This evil capitalism!

What an abominable face!

What a ......

Enviable!

……

The lack of helium-3 particles carrying energy is the only difficulty encountered by the "He-3" project team at present, and this can be solved by increasing the strength of the constrained magnetic field of the atom gun's accelerated orbit.

And increasing the strength of the constrained magnetic field of the atomgun's acceleration trajectory can be solved with money.

Yes, scientific research is such a reality, and if you have money, you can do whatever you want. If Lu Zhou invests more than a billion dollars into it, maybe he can ask SpaceX to help shoot a rocket to the moon to get some helium-3 rich lunar soil back.

Of course, only if he has so much money......

In short, with this 10 million dollar funding, the "He-3" project team can directly purchase the accelerator components that have been obsolete from Brookhaven National Laboratory or even CERN, and then use the experienced engineers of PPPL to retrofit them.

This is a bit of a big expense, though.

But Lu Zhou believes that it is worth it......