Regardless of how anxious the Capitol was about this sudden situation, the global market had already responded.
The day after Everyone Daily reported the launch of the demonstration reactor project, the global steam coal futures market panicked, and there was panic selling in the market.
What did the demonstration reactor mean?
How far away was China from controllable fusion technology?
No one could answer these technical questions.
However, one thing was for sure. China was the world's largest coal consumer, consuming more than 50% of the world's coal.
If China didn't need that much coal in the future, who would pay for their coal?
Everyone knew that this wasn't going to happen immediately. However, futures itself was about trading in the future. When investors lost their expectations for a commodity, it was only a matter of time before the price of the commodity fell.
At this time, the faster you ran, the less you lost.
Similar things didn't only happen in the coal market.
Because a massive amount of money was withdrawn from the energy sector, panic began to spread to the propane, natural gas, and crude oil markets, which led to the entire energy futures market falling.
Even though the losses of other futures products weren't as bad compared to coal, they still maintained a downward trend. The decline continued from the opening of the market to the end of the day.
This was the case for both the futures market and the stock market.
The energy sector took a huge hit, leaving nothing but dust.
After the event, major financial institutions around the world conducted a statistical analysis of the day's trading. In just one day, the global energy sector lost hundreds of billions of dollars in market value.
As the initiator of all of this, Lu Zhou didn't know that he had unintentionally done an incredible thing.
However, even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care. At most, he would just think about how much better it would be for him to spend this money.
At least, in his hands, this money could be burned more meaningfully …
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[Congratulations, User, for mission completion!]
Lu Zhou stood in the pure white system space and looked at the text projected on the holographic screen. He reaped the fruits of his victory.
Just like the last time, he had completed two side quests of the quest chain.
First of all, the LPC-1 material brought him 100,000 engineering experience points and 500 general points.
After the demonstration reactor project was launched, the state invested all of the funds it originally planned to pay to ITER into the STAR-2 demonstration reactor project. Since the total investment had reached 10 billion USD, it brought him 50,000 experience points and a lucky draw ticket.
Lu Zhou looked at the two remaining level 2 experience points in his characteristic panel. After thinking for a moment, he finally allocated the 50,000 experience points to energy science.
Information Science had already unlocked the branch of artificial intelligence. As long as Xiao Ai leveled up, his level would basically be upgraded at the same time. There was no need for him to invest any additional experience points.
In comparison, energy science was far from his research field, and experience was not that easy to obtain.
Considering that the generator connected to the reactor belonged to this field of research, it was better to upgrade this field just in case.
After completing the distribution of the EXP, Lu Zhou refreshed the Attribute Panel. Very quickly, the updated Attribute Panel appeared in front of him.
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A. Mathematics)
B. Physics: Level 5 (83215/300,000)
C. Biochemistry: LV4 (74000/200,000)
D. Engineering: Level 4 (0/200,000)
E. Materials Science)
F. Energy science: Level 3 (0/100,000)
G. Information science credit: 5,475 (one lucky draw ticket)
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Lu Zhou briefly looked at his characteristic panel and shook his head.
"I don't know when I'll be able to see the world after level 8."
1.2 million experience points.
This was even more than the total experience points of all the other disciplines combined.
After turning off the characteristic panel, Lu Zhou was about to leave the system space.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered that completing the second mission chain seemed to have rewarded him with a chance to draw a prize?
Speaking of which, it's been a while.
Ever since the mission chain was opened, he almost forgot that the system had this function.
This was a lucky draw opportunity that was exchanged for ten billion yuan.
Even though Lu Zhou did not have any expectations for the system's lucky draw system, he could not help but look forward to it.
He pressed the lucky draw button, and the roulette began to spin at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
Lu Zhou's index finger poked the button again.
The roulette spun dozens of times before it finally stopped.
[Congratulations, User, for drawing a blueprint!]
Lu Zhou: "?!"
When he saw this line of text, he was instantly shocked.
The f * ck?
Was he really possessed by the God of Luck?
Now that he thought about it, the last time he drew a blueprint was four or five years ago.
[Received: LPC-1 composite material production process.]
Lu Zhou: "???"
Although he had some expectations of the system's moral integrity, he still didn't expect it to be this shameless.
Speaking of which, wasn't the LPC-1 composite material something that he researched?
Lu Zhou stood in front of the holographic screen for a while before he finally sighed.
Whatever, whatever.
He was also thinking about how to solve the problem of industrial production of LPC-1 materials. After all, even though Hou Jinli's modified method was a laboratory preparation method, it was still a small amount of samples. However, it was almost impossible to use those samples to make a reactor.
The system's plan saved him a lot of time at least.
After receiving his prize, Lu Zhou left the system space and returned to reality.
Over the past few days, he basically stayed in Haizhou, presiding over the construction of the demonstration reactor. Obviously, he couldn't return to his Jinling mansion every day.
The China National Nuclear Corporation arranged a house for him. It was located near the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant. The house was renovated and it was around ninety square meters.
Even though it wasn't big, it wasn't small either.
After all, most of the work was done at the factory site. All he needed was a place to sleep.
Lu Zhou turned on his computer and inserted the black USB he took out from the system space.
Unsurprisingly, the moment he finished copying the data, the black USB began to degrade at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was like a sand dune that had lost its support and disappeared into the air.
Lu Zhou blew at the USB port and immediately opened the file without hesitation.
Theoretically, the blueprints rewarded by the system were all theoretical or technical problems that were one to two levels higher or lower than his academic level.
Lu Zhou roughly scanned the blueprints in the folder. Even though there were a lot of novel designs, they were still within the scope of what he could understand.
Most importantly, with China's production conditions, it was completely feasible to recreate the production process on the blueprints.
Lu Zhou looked at the blueprints in the folder and smirked.
The first wall material was stable.
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