When energy is abundant and uranium ore is easy to mine, no one wants to pay for nuclear fusion technology that they don't know when it will be available.

When energy became scarce and the entire economic edifice was in jeopardy, the Knicks civilization suddenly realized that ...... "controlled nuclear fusion" was still too far away from itself, and even, it had never progressed!

This project requires too much energy and resources, which is already unbearable for the entire civilization! Even the whole world combined can't complete this project, what should I do?

This in itself is a paradox!

One...... Mission impossible!

Even, the death of the Knicks civilization does not know whether the project of "controlled nuclear fusion technology" can be completed......

Does "controlled nuclear fusion" exist?

This is not just a question for the last generation of Knicks, but also in the hearts of every human in this room.

Humans have seen interstellar civilizations, and everyone subconsciously thinks that they have fusion reactors, but ...... No one has ever actually seen it, who knows?

There was a great silence in the room, and there was not even the slightest discussion......

Is this the truth about the big filter?

Everyone was silent, their faces were blue, and the humans themselves didn't have any answers!

It's 24 degrees Celsius, but everyone feels an endless, irresistible chill......

Many people began to whisper to each other, especially some nuclear physicists, who grimaced in the face of inquiries.

"If there is no way to complete controlled nuclear fusion, then it will undoubtedly be a huge disaster for the industry of the future, and interstellar voyage will become a distant dream."

According to human history, the explosion of hydrogen bombs was achieved in 1952, and the first magnetic confinement device was built in 1954, that is to say, in the 50s of the 20th century, there was the idea of "magnetic confinement fusion"!

But so far, human research has been on this project for almost a hundred years, and even the most basic balance of payments has not been achieved, let alone stable burning.

Fifty years ago, people said that in 50 years they could achieve fusion power generation, but 50 years later, the fusion world still said the same thing: we have to wait another 50 years.

This is called "50 years forever......

How could a reliable project fall into such an embarrassing situation?

Is it inherently unreliable?

Throughout human history, the nuclear fusion project is also the most difficult project encountered by mankind, more difficult than the Apollo program and the lunar base construction program!

In the past, many difficult projects will be gradually overcome over time, such as launching satellites, such as landing on the moon, people will always slowly accumulate experience and technology, and then overcome the difficulties.

There has never been such a project, which took almost a hundred years without even a fart......

That's a hundred years!

In the past 100 years, has people's technological progress bar advanced by one percent?

Facing everyone's puzzled gazes, Professor Ding Yidong shook his head decadently.

As a nuclear physicist, he knows this kind of problem best.

Essentially, humanity has not made much progress in controlled nuclear fusion.

In fact, Ding Yidong still can't believe that "controlled nuclear fusion technology" has become a big filter in the universe!

It's just inexplicable!

Is it really not engineeringly viable?

Ding Yidong subconsciously thought that it was just that the funds invested were not enough...... yes, it's just not enough money.

But, ask yourself, is there really progress in human fusion engineering?

Not at all!

Or rather, there is a little bit of experimental data, 0.1% of the process...... Professor Ding Yidong shook his head in frustration.

The two main stars in the sky are fading, and it is destined to be a dark night......

It was also a pitch dark night.

Baxter, the contemporary "Great Sage" of the Knicks Star, and his wife, the mathematician Judith, are entertaining more than eighty guests at their home.

Half of them are scientists, half are wealthy people with good personal connections, and a small number of high-ranking government officials.

They were eating, drinking, drinking, and eating, and it was a high-class banquet.

The food is very exquisite, made by high-class chefs, and even some guests who usually have a small appetite eat quite a bit.

Right now...... It has been more than 700 years since the death of the proposer of the mass-energy equation, the Great Sage of Euterton.

Seven hundred years have passed, and the descendants of Euterton have not invented "controlled nuclear fusion" technology.

Resources are being depleted too fast, and the number of Knicks has reached an unprecedented 5 billion! At this rate, in 100 years, all uranium resources will be depleted, and they will face a huge energy crisis!

If nuclear power is lost, most of the area will be without electricity, except for some megacities built on craters.

Without nuclear power, the Knicks will return to the era of magma energy, and more than 90% of the population will starve to death! Because magma alone cannot feed a huge population of 5 billion.

This is a naked life and death crisis!

However, such a crisis occurred in the form of boiled frogs in warm water.

Everyone knows it's going to happen, but ...... Everything is still far away. Before society as a whole really reacts, the Knicks think this life will go on forever.

This is an age of capital, an age of entertainment, but not an age of science, and the decline of the sage class has become a fact.

More than 700 years ago, during the Euterton period, more than 80 percent of elementary school students, middle school students, and even college students had the ambition to become a "sage". At that time, the Knicks had a crazy worship of science.

Yet the world has been at peace for 700 years......

A thought called "inertia" or "pleasure" has permeated society for far too long.

Scientist? Can you make money?

If you can't make money, who will!

Being a scientist is difficult, energy-consuming, and not as good as being a boss or a star.

A star singing a song is comparable to a scientist's struggle for a lifetime.

Such social changes are a torrent and a general trend.

In the face of this general trend, no one can stop it.

"I don't know about nuclear energy...... I only know biology. ”

Baxter, the "great sage" of the Knicks civilization, said worriedly: "But I hope that everyone here can think of a way, and I also hope that the government can give more financial support...... In the face of the impending energy crisis, we cannot afford to drag it out any longer. ”

"It's been a long time since a new uranium mine has been discovered, which shows ...... There is not much left on the surface to be mined. ”

As some of the brightest Knicks, they are keenly aware of the energy crisis that is coming a century from now.

Baxter believes that it is necessary to react in advance, and the province is really boiled to death by the frog boiled in warm water.