A restaurant near the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Lu Zhou was sitting at a table and looking at his phone screen. He had a strange expression on his face.
[Shocking! Professor Lu, the chief designer of the controllable fusion project, is leading the manned moon landing?!]
[Lu Zhou: Our journey is the sea of stars!]
[His three words accidentally revealed a shocking secret!]
[Chief Designer Lu's words hit the nail on the head. The ultimate goal of the moon landing project was actually this?!]
Lu Zhou: "???"
Didn't I say I'm not the chief designer?
Don't these reporters listen to me?
Xu Yuanming noticed the stiff expression on Lu Zhou's face. He coughed and said, "Our journalists are more optimistic. They have a good point of view."
Is a positive rumor even considered a rumor?
Lu Zhou put down his phone and looked at the soy braised pork foot on the table. He sighed and said, "You really gave me a lot of trouble."
"Let's stop chatting and eat. This pork foot won't taste good when it's cold." Xu Yuanming pretended like he didn't hear Lu Zhou. He smiled and said, "This is the best dish in this restaurant. I used to come here to eat when I was in school. I can't believe the taste hasn't changed after so many years. "
Lu Zhou: "…"
Wasn't this change of topic a little too stiff?
However, since Lu Zhou was paying, he decided not to care about these details …
After dinner, Lu Zhou said goodbye to Xu Yuanming. He then got into the car that was waiting at the door.
"Take me to the bus station."
Wang Peng started the car and asked, "We're going back to Jinling?"
Lu Zhou: "Yeah, I've been away from the laboratory for too long, I'm worried."
Wang Peng smiled and said, "Aren't you on vacation? Why are you still so busy? "
Lu Zhou smiled and didn't say anything.
Of course, he wouldn't say that what he was worried about wasn't the unfinished experiment, but the fact that an artificial retard was playing with a new toy in his laboratory.
Of course, even without the unstable factor of Xiao Ai, it was about time for him to go back.
Debris No. 3 still had a lot of secrets waiting for him to uncover.
It might be the key to solving the problem of landing on the moon …
After arriving at the station, he got on the nearest high-speed train from Beijing to Jinling. After a few hours of driving, Lu Zhou finally got off the train at Jinling South Station.
Lu Zhou didn't ask Wang Peng to take him home. Instead, he went to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
Because there were many experiments that needed to be guarded, the research institute didn't close at night.
After asking Wang Peng to go back first, Lu Zhou walked into the main building of the research institute alone. He passed through the alloy door at the end of the sample warehouse corridor on the second underground floor and arrived at the laboratory on the third underground floor.
However, when he walked into the laboratory and saw the situation inside, he was stunned.
What the hell?
Bumblebee?
…
The resumption of China's manned moon landing program and the implementation of the three policies caused a sensation not only in the domestic media, but it also attracted a lot of attention around the world.
In particular, the British Daily Mail, which was one of the originators of the headline party and loved to stir up trouble, used a rather misleading headline to report the news.
"China's Moon Landing Program! The Prelude to a New Space Race? "
At the same time, Tri Alpha Energy.
In the president's office on the highest floor, Benderbauer, who was sitting in an office chair, looked at the newspaper in his hand and frowned slightly.
After a while, he spoke.
"This isn't good news."
"They are still far from second-generation controllable fusion, you don't have to worry at all."
The person who spoke was Professor Burton Richter, a particle physics expert at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In addition to being a professor, he was also a member of the advisory board of Tri Alpha Energy and the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Even though he didn't get the news from the Daily Mail, he still knew a little about this matter.
Just a few hours ago, China announced specific measures to implement the manned moon landing program and announced that it was preparing to establish a permanent scientific research station on the surface of the moon to explore the reserves of helium-3 in the lunar soil.
The outside world generally speculated that this was paving the way for second-generation controllable fusion, but Professor Richter, who really understood how difficult it was to achieve helium-3 fusion, knew very well that these speculations were just nonsense.
"No, what worries me isn't second-generation controllable fusion." Benderbauer put down the newspaper in his hand and leaned back in his office chair. He pressed his index finger between his eyebrows and said, "It's the Congressional Budget Committee …"
After China announced the successful ignition of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor at the beginning of the year, the United States also quickly launched its own national controllable fusion project. A giant demonstration reactor was built between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the funding for the first phase of the project reached tens of billions of US dollars.
In this demonstration reactor project, Tri Alpha successfully defeated its competitor, General Atomics, with the excellent heating performance of the FRC field reverse configuration, and obtained the heating component order.
If everything went according to plan, this order would bring hundreds of millions of US dollars in revenue to his company, and he would be worth far more than just hundreds of millions of US dollars on the NASDAQ stock market.
However, China suddenly announced the launch of the moon landing program, and even announced the strategic layout of the exploration of helium-3 resources on the moon. This would undoubtedly have an impact on the demonstration reactor project in California.
After all, scientific research funding wasn't unlimited. No country could carry out two super projects at the same time while maintaining stable financial operations.
However, whether it was controllable fusion or the moon, the United States was unwilling to give up.
It was foreseeable that once the United States was pulled into this space race, the Congress would almost certainly re-examine the existing scientific research projects and budgets, and cut some of the less urgent projects to ensure that NASA's appetite was satisfied.
For example, the plasma heating component, which was relatively less important …
Perhaps it would be delayed until after the main body of the demonstration reactor was completed.
This obviously wasn't a pleasant thing for Benderbauer, and it was almost certain to happen.
He could even imagine how happy the NASA people would be when they saw this news.
These people were worried about not having an excuse to ask Congress for money. Now, the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean had already given them an excuse.
Benderbauer was flipping through the newspaper with a heavy heart. Suddenly, his hand stopped flipping through the newspaper.
His eyes were locked onto a line in the newspaper interview with Lu Zhou.
"Plasma engine …"
He muttered to himself. He thought of something, and his voice gradually became excited.
"Plasma engine! That's it! "
Benderbauer threw away the newspaper in his hand and stood up from his office chair. He put his hands behind his back and walked around his office with excitement.
"Ion thruster propulsion, controllable fusion, it's completely feasible! We can completely combine these two concepts! "
At least on a PowerPoint, it wouldn't be difficult to do it.
"Sir, I'm not trying to discourage you …" Burton Richter looked at him strangely and said, "We haven't solved the most critical controllable fusion problem yet. What are you planning on miniaturizing to the plasma engine?"
Benderbauer stopped walking and looked at Professor Richter with a smile.
"My dear Professor Richter, of course I know that we have to have bread before we can heat it up.
"However, this is not the past. Before we can put bread on the table, we have to first convince the people that we can do it!"
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