1.8 trillion yuan, which is really a lot of money, and the global GDP at that time was about 120 trillion!

Almost all conglomerates, banks, governments, and tycoons are involved in this "gambling" operation.

If they do succeed, they can reap huge benefits, so these consortia are willing to gamble.

And a large number of people with lofty ideals also participated in this operation ambitiously, willing to contribute their wisdom.

The Great Sage had really done his best, he had used up all the connections he had accumulated throughout his life, gambling on his almost perfect reputation, and the government's support for him had reached its limit.

I have to say that after the physics and other basic disciplines of the Knicks civilization almost came to a standstill, biology flourished.

The next few generations of great sages have almost eliminated all kinds of diseases, making the medical system unprecedentedly developed......

There are even certain life-increasing technologies, such as organ cloning technology, free radical longevity drugs, etc., which greatly extend the lifespan of the Knicks. As the inventor of the free radical longevity agent, Baxter has created tremendous value in this patent alone.

After all, longevity is something that everyone desires and has the most economic value, and every Knicks will pay for longevity.

Therefore, there is no shortage of investment in this area of research, and the speed of research and development is the fastest.

At that time, the average life expectancy of Knicks had increased to one hundred and fifty years!

But that's just the average life expectancy, and the oldest and well-maintained ones are over 200 years old!

It is precisely because of this that the population growth is still growing by leaps and bounds even as the annual birth rate of the whole planet is getting lower and lower, because the mortality rate is lower!

Whether this increase in longevity is good or bad, who knows......

In the process of entropy increase of a civilization, there will always be heroes who will appear to try to slow down its entropy increase. Baxter is undoubtedly a hero, selling his valuable shares in a biological company, switching from biology to nuclear physics, and starting a new scientific career......

At that time, it was ninety years old!

Controlled thermonuclear fusion is essentially an engineering project, with technical difficulties, and there are no insurmountable theoretical blind spots in "seemingly". Therefore, under the premise of having high-level technical talents, the Knicks believe that using money can greatly speed up the progress and improve the success rate.

But money does not solve all the problems in the world.

This group of last saviors of the Knicks civilization soon suffered.

They first adopted the most mature and most studied magnetic confinement, that is, the "tokamak" device.

It stands to reason that this thing has been studied by our ancestors for seven hundred years. For such a long time, even a herd of pigs, even if there is not enough money, something can be researched.

A group of smart Knicks got together and discussed wildly, 1.8 trillion, although it seems like a lot of money, but it has to be spent on the blade.

In fact, scientific research is burning money, burning and burning, and they must find a suitable direction.

In the idea of "magnetic confinement", there are three technical difficulties in controlled nuclear fusion:

First, the energy output should be greater than the energy input, which means that the triple product should be high enough.

Second, the first wall material should be able to withstand thermal shock, 14mEV neutron irradiation, and hydrogen helium ion damage for a long time.

Third, tritium production is extremely expensive and must be self-sustaining (recycled).

In the course of previous experiments, the "tokamak" device did solve some problems, and it groped more thoroughly than the earthlings, and could be lit up for a few minutes, and the output was about the input. But...... It's not enough to get the power generation into full force!

Formal power generation needs to be stable, stable for a long time, and it needs to be stable for at least a few months, not the kind that says a few hours or a few days are enough!

So, the whole degree of completion, which is 100 progress bars, is 1% or 2% complete, and ...... It looks like it will go backwards at any time.

Really attach importance to this project, nuclear fusion is really painful.

The end result is like a radish hanging in front of a donkey, dangling right in front of your eyes, as if you can reach it with one foot further on...... But I just can't eat it!

The main idea of the "tokamak" is to couple the magnetic field generated by the plasma current using an external magnetic field.

If the plasma is unstable, the system may collapse and the instrument will be scrapped.

The scrapping of instruments is equivalent to burning tens of billions.

So, can the plasma be stably controlled?

The answer of the predecessors is...... Hard!

Ultra-high temperature (more than 10 million degrees), coupled with the control of ultra-high current (more than 1 million amperes), makes people painstaking, and there are no sufficiently stable materials and technologies.

Coupled with the unique turbulence phenomenon of plasma, it is essentially a chaotic problem, a mountain that cannot be physically attacked for hundreds of years, and can only be forcibly fitted with quantum computers. But the fitting is also only a fit, and there is no exact solution.

Baxter et al. tried it for a while, and their scalp was numb, and they felt the thorniness of the problem for the first time......

This thing will be scrapped if you use it, what should I do?

What our ancestors could not do for hundreds of years is bound to have its infeasibility and huge difficulties.

Time is of the essence, and it is difficult for this group of scientists to conquer in just a few decades, so let's change it: a stellar!

Or rather...... The tokamak is carried out at the same time as the stellar, anyway, it is smashed with money!

Technicians also have!

Multiple projects at the same time! Whichever succeeds, use whichever is successful!

The stellarator is another kind of nuclear fusion device design, and the plasma current inside is too violent, troublesome, and difficult to control, so don't just don't do it!

Scientists tried to create a closed, twisted magnetic cage on the inside through a complex coil on the outside.

In other words, the difficulty of controlling the plasma current is transferred to the difficulty of designing and processing the three-dimensional magnetic field and coil......

The whole "stellarite" device is like a mess, and the processing technology is extremely complicated.

This year, the news about nuclear fusion gradually precipitated, and no one cared about it anymore...... Ordinary people in Knicks still sing and dance, and comfort and pleasure continue to be the norm for hundreds of years.

An interesting thing happened this year please. The accidental car accident of a famous acting star has caused tens of thousands of onlookers. This behavior caused a major traffic paralysis and even affected ambulances, which is rare big news......

The Knicks got into a scuffle online, with sympathy or schadenfreude.

There are also some online public notices calling for ethics and so on......

They don't know that the last saviors of this world are killing red-eyed people in the laboratory.

This group of the brightest Nix scientists, confused and flustered, is lonely in the face of this "big filter" that is difficult to overcome on a "cosmic scale......

All the work has encountered almost insurmountable difficulties......

turbulence problems, which can be forcibly fitted with a quantum computer; Radioactive material issues that need to be replaced regularly......

It seems that many problems have been solved reluctantly, but all the things add up, and they still can't generate electricity...... There are still so many questions, some of which are almost unsolvable.

The Great Sage Baxter, a Knick with an IQ of over 220, learned the cutting edge of nuclear physics in only three years, but it could not conquer this majestic mountain.

Its temper grows louder and tougher, and it fights for years until late at night, but ...... Fruitless.

These researchers feel like a mountain climber. Looks like the target is close at hand. As they struggled to climb one mountain after another, they suddenly came across a cliff.

At this time, they were exhausted, and only then did they realize that their goal was just a mirage.

They're climbing the wrong way, they're completely on the wrong path!

This is a real majesty, 1.8 trillion funds, decades of time, only one path has been proved wrong.

Nothing came out.

The heads of departments were replaced several times, and the money was quickly burned, and they were faced with ...... It's the whole world complaining and skeptical.