"That's it?"
Lu Zhou looked at the empty conference room and wasn't used to it.
When he gave a lecture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, it was packed with people. People who couldn't fit into the lecture hall had to sit in the hallway.
But now, he roughly counted, and there were only twenty people in the conference room.
He even recognized half of the faces in the group.
For example, Brother Qian, Brother Liu, etc …
"There aren't many formal researchers in our research institute. I thought you were going to talk about something confidential, so I didn't invite some of the interns and research assistants." Yang Xu, who was standing next to Lu Zhou, was a little embarrassed. He immediately said, "Should I notify them now?"
Lu Zhou paused for a second and smiled. "No need, it's fine if they don't come. Everyone here is the backbone of the research institute, I'm just going to say a few words. "
He plugged the USB into the multimedia desk and turned on the projector.
The curtain behind him was lowered. Lu Zhou cleared his throat and spoke.
"You might have already heard that the controllable nuclear fusion project has officially landed in Jinling."
When Lu Zhou said this, there was a commotion in the conference room. The researchers looked at each other and saw the shock and surprise in each other's eyes.
Even though they had heard some rumors before, it was obviously far less shocking than hearing Lu Zhou confirm it in person.
If someone else said they were going to work on something as cutting-edge as controllable nuclear fusion, most people would laugh at it.
However, Lu Zhou was different.
Not only did he solve the Navier – Stokes equation, but he also used his original L Manifold to establish a mathematical model for the elusive plasma turbulence.
Lu Zhou's godlike boss said he was going to work on nuclear fusion. Even though there wasn't even a stellarator in sight, the researchers sitting here still believed him.
However, what confused them was why Lu Zhou was talking about this here?
After all, the Institute of Computational Materials wasn't the Institute of Plasma Physics. They researched materials problems, which had nothing to do with controllable nuclear fusion.
However, Lu Zhou's following words answered everyone's doubts.
"… Some people might ask, what does this have to do with you? After all, most of you have a chemical engineering background and chose materials as your direction of development. Even if some of you have a condensed matter physics background, it has nothing to do with plasma physics or nuclear engineering."
"However, breakthroughs in energy technology and advances in material technology are inseparable. We need a larger magnetic field to restrain the unpredictable plasma, and we also need a stronger first wall to withstand the light and heat of the fusion reaction. "
Lu Zhou looked at the researchers in the room and paused for a second before he spoke.
"In the future, our research will focus on two main directions. One is superconducting material. As I said earlier, we need a material that is more simple in engineering and has a superconducting temperature closer to room temperature to strengthen our magnetic field. "
"The second is heat-resistant material. We need a high temperature resistant first wall to block the plasma escaping from the magnetic field."
"So far, we have made some progress on superconducting materials. The SG-1 that was demonstrated at the MRS Autumn Conference last month has reached a superconducting temperature of 101K. Compared to many other superconducting materials, this number is far from impressive. However, the plasticity of graphene material itself still has great potential waiting for us to discover. "
On the PowerPoint behind him, Lu Zhou listed the prerequisites needed to complete controllable nuclear fusion on a picture.
These were all open problems, which were the bottlenecks of controllable nuclear fusion.
No matter how good Lu Zhou was, he was only one person. It was impossible for him to cover everything. The best way was to break a large research project into countless small research projects and subcontract them to the researchers.
As for himself, he would choose a few of the more difficult problems to solve to research.
In fact, when it came to major scientific research projects, many research institutes in China used this model.
An academician received a large project with tens of millions of dollars in funding. Then, they would split the project into several sub-projects with millions or hundreds of thousands of funding. These sub-projects would then be given to professors like the Changjiang Scholars. If the research project could be further subdivided, there would be Jie Qing, etc., under the Changjiang Scholars, the sub-projects would be spread out like a pyramid …
Of course, this was just a figurative but inappropriate metaphor. After all, in the pyramid of academia, whether it was the Changjiang Scholars or Jie Qing, they were all big names compared to ordinary researchers. Only among them could there be a hierarchy.
As for the bottom of the pyramid, there was no debate. It was obviously the most tiring and hardworking researchers in academia.
Lu Zhou looked at the pairs of eyes in the conference room and paused for a second.
"Everyone, we are engaged in a great undertaking.
"If we succeed, our country, our people, and even our civilization will all benefit from it. And the value of this cannot be measured by any currency. "
"I know that this is not a project that can be completed overnight. Every step will be full of difficulties.
"But I am confident that we can overcome this obstacle together!
"I am willing to work with you all!"
…
After the meeting ended.
Liu Bo was holding the conference notebook as he muttered to himself, "Controllable nuclear fusion … Do you think this thing is reliable?"
Qian Zhongming: "What do you mean reliable?"
Liu Bo: "Our research institute only has a hundred people, and that includes the undergraduate students from Jin Ling University. There are only about 20 official researchers, and have you seen the topic on the PowerPoint? I don't think we can do it in terms of manpower. "
Qian Zhongming didn't answer this question. Instead, he asked, "Other than our boss, how many Nobel Prize winners are there in China?"
Liu Bo paused for a second and didn't know why Lu Zhou was asking this question.
"Academician Yang, Old Tu … Mo Yan?"
Qian Zhongming: "I'm talking about the academic community."
Liu Bo: "Then it's two."
Qian Zhongming then asked, "How many are still on the frontline of scientific research?"
Academician Yang was already 95 years old. Even though he had trained a lot of outstanding physics talents for China and put forward a lot of constructive suggestions for the development of physics in China, he was clearly far away from the frontline of scientific research.
Old Tu was the same. She was already 87 years old, and she was at the age of retirement. Regardless of whether the old man was still in a scientific research position or not, it was unrealistic to expect the old man to produce any major research results.
Liu Bo thought for a second and said, "I think God Lu is the only one."
"Yeah." Qian Zhongming nodded and said, "So do you think a lack of manpower will be a problem for him?"
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