According to this development, the development of the whole society seems to be very smooth, and there is nothing particularly unusual.

Even the human footprint is like this......

With the progress of science and technology and the affluence of life, of course, we must pursue peace, democracy, and equality.

What is it that is holding back the development of nuclear fusion and allowing it to drag on for 50 years and 50 years?

Is it the extreme difficulty of the technology itself, or is it a lack of awareness of the dangers? Is it a social system, or something else?

The venue was very quiet, and Yu Yifeng also fell into his own contemplation.

A breath of decadence continued to ferment in the venue.

In particular, many of you are scientists, engineers, and even nuclear physicists, and they can associate with much more......

Many people were already sitting in their seats with pale faces, stunned.

Controlled nuclear fusion technology has always been an inconspicuous project, and a lot of energy and money have never been invested.

Because of the large amount of cheap uranium resources on Knicks, even if this kind of nuclear fusion is developed, it will not be cheaper than the current uranium ore for a while, so it becomes dispensable.

Occasionally, there would be a little bit of news, and then it would immediately go cold again.

All the Knicks, so caught up in the tide of scientific progress that seem to ignore the technology......

They are misled by the media and are in the midst of the Big Bang of technology, where science is growing exponentially. Fusion is achievable, and the occasional positive news suggests that the work is progressing.

Well, there is indeed news, it's just that some plasma was ignited, and then how long and how long it lasted, but it didn't work for the official power generation......

Full-scale power generation requires stability, stability for a long time.

If it takes so much effort to ignite, where will the official power generation come from?

These news just pop up from time to time to reassure the public and tell everyone that scientific researchers are not lazy and do not waste taxpayers' money...... That's all.

There was once a sage who studied superconductivity, and in an interview, he said: "Nuclear fusion will be ready when society needs it!" ”

On the surface, it seems to say that nuclear fusion is achievable, and everyone can rest assured that the future energy problem is.

In fact, it is complaining that it is entirely because the government does not invest enough money that this technology cannot be developed for a long time......

But no one noticed the subtext.

Everyone is immersed in the prosperity of the "technology explosion", and it is too far away from the energy crisis.

With the development of the Nix civilization to the present, all privileged classes have been wiped out, of course...... It also includes the sage class, which was formerly detached.

Capital, which began to become the dominant part of civilization.

It is also impossible for a dictator to jump out and try to study a certain project with the power of the whole country, such a government has long been overthrown, and really think it is an era of war?

Now is an era of democracy and peace, and everything must be centered on economic construction and vigorously develop productive forces.

The happiness and stability of the people is the first priority, and everything is closer to the economy.

But capital has a common characteristic: it is profit-seeking. Capital is profit-seeking.

Studying nuclear fusion? Ask for money!

Where does the money come from, out of the pockets of taxpayers!

If there is too much, social and public services will inevitably decline, and the people will not want to.

Research funds need to be spent on the cutting edge, and it is impossible to waste it on nuclear fusion, which seems to be unimportant, because there are so many uranium ores, too cheap, enough for 100,000 years!

So what's the effort involved in studying nuclear fusion? Let's talk about it when it's more developed in the future!

The class of sages, from ancient times to the present, has defeated nature and religion, but they have been defeated in the face of money.

Without money, are you a bird? Without money, scientific research materials cannot be bought.

In this way, the development of science has been put under a tight spell by the economy. Of course, it's not just nuclear fusion, there's more to it......

People are not willing to sacrifice their quality of life to study something that seems to be worthless. Ordinary people only pay attention to the life in front of them, and science that can serve economic development is good science.

Like what kind of Large Hadron Collider, many Knicks people find it difficult to understand, so much money is better than helping poor areas? There have also been demonstrations and the like.

In particular, nuclear fusion, a difficult problem that has been studied for so many years, is unlikely to achieve much in the short term. So it's better to let other countries study it, and when the time comes, it will be confirmed that it is feasible, and then plagiarize, how cost-effective!

As far as government departments are concerned, the issue of public opinion is the big issue, which is related to the appointment and resignation of high-level officials. No one dares to push against the will of the people, not even the president, and there are congressional constraints.

However, there are still people of insight in government workers, and the sage class still has a good influence even if its status is no longer transcendent. Therefore, many sciences that seem to have no economic effect for a while are still slowly promoted...... Although the funds given are not very abundant, they still have funds.

In this way, time flies, two hundred years have passed, and controlled nuclear fusion technology has ushered in the fifth ...... "50 years"!

In more than 200 years, without an existential crisis, the total population of Knicks has increased tenfold, from 230 million to 2.3 billion.

Many cities don't even need to rely on volcanoes to build and rely entirely on nuclear power for heating.

It's not just the population, but the personal electricity consumption has increased by more than 10 times compared to before!

In the past, Nixs only needed an electric light and some heating equipment to meet their electricity needs.

But now...... A variety of electrical appliances, a variety of personal transportation, better entertainment, and more personal items have been added.

There are many more factories that also need a lot of electricity.

The Knicks suddenly discovered that the share of energy for 100,000 years needs to be divided by 100!

As a result, this time was directly reduced to a thousand years...... And with the increase in population and the increase in electricity consumption, this time is still shrinking rapidly.

1000 years......

“…… Will you worry about an energy crisis in a thousand years? Professor Heigl asked from the stage.

All the elite human beings present couldn't help but laugh, this is a miserable laugh or a bitter smile......

In contrast, how long can human fossil fuels be used by humans?

Some scientists and analysts say that 40 years, the most optimistic is 200 years, but this does not take into account the growth of total energy consumption, in fact it is shorter.

In general, fossil fuels alone will not survive the 21st century......

Let's take an average, 100 years.

In the face of the imminent energy crisis, mankind has not yet had a strong sense of worry.

So, how could it be possible to ask these big lizards to worry about what would happen a thousand years from now? Their lifespan is comparable to that of humans, or even lower.

A thousand years later, the ashes are gone, who will remember me?

"Yes, that's true, we don't even have a sense of the energy crisis in 100 years, let alone a thousand years later."

Haigl sighed: "What if...... The project of controlled nuclear fusion itself requires a huge amount of resources and a huge amount of energy......"

"This is a real mass, for example, a hundred times or even more than a thousand times the annual GDP of the world!"

"So, when the energy crisis really comes, how do the Knicks go about getting it done?"

"Faced with this problem, they no longer have enough energy and fighting spirit to complete this project! How are they done? ”