Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Restaurant near the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, sitting at the table waiting for food, looking at the words on the phone screen, the look on the ark was a little unnatural.

[Shocked! Professor Lu hangs handsome to mount people on the moon?!

[Ark: Our journey is the sea of stars!

[His three words accidentally reveal amazing secrets!

[Lu General Designer said that the ultimate purpose of the moon climbing program is for it?!

Ark: “???? ”

I thought you said you weren't the chief designer.

Don't these reporters listen to people?

Noting the stiff expression on the face of the ark, Xu Yuanming held his laugh in his heart and coughed dry: “Our journalists are more optimistic and optimistic. ”

Positive energy rumors. Is that a rumor?

Dropping the phone and looking at the yellow bean halo hooves just served on the table, the ark sighed: “You've caused me a great deal of trouble. ”

“Let's not talk about it. Let's eat. This elbow is going to get cold.” Pretending not to hear it, Xu Yuanming broke the chopsticks and said with a smile, "This shop just made a good dish. I used to come here to eat when I went to school. After all these years, the taste hasn't changed at all. ”

Ark: “…”

It's too hard to change the subject.

However, for this meal, he decided not to care about the details...

After dinner, Ark and Xu Yuanming arrived individually and then boarded a car waiting at the door.

“Take me to the station. ”

Wang Peng asked, "Are we going back to Jinling? ”

Ark: “Well, I'm not too relieved to be away too long from the lab. ”

Wang Peng smiled and said, "Aren't you on vacation? Why are you so busy? ”

The Ark laughed and didn't speak.

Of course, he wouldn't say that he wasn't relieved that he was not doing unfinished experiments, but that someone with an artificial retard was playing in his lab with a new toy.

Of course, even without Em, an element of instability, he should probably go back.

There are still a lot of secrets on Wreck Three waiting for him to discover them.

I don't know, that could be the key to solving his moon climbing problem...

Arriving at the station, he boarded the nearest high-speed train from Shangjing to Jinling. After a few hours of driving, the ark finally got off at Jinling South Station.

Instead of sending Wang Peng home directly, he took himself to the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies.

Because many experiments need to be left unattended, the institute is not closed at night.

After allowing Wang Peng to go back first, the Ark went into the main building of the Academy alone, through the alloy door at the end of the sample warehouse corridor on the second floor of the basement, and into the laboratory on the third floor of the basement.

However, when he walked into the lab and looked at the situation inside, the whole person stood still.

Grass?

Bumblebee?

……

With the resumption of the Chinese People's Moon Climbing Program, the landing of the three policies, not only the domestic media, attracted a great deal of attention worldwide.

Especially the British Daily Mail, one of the nose ancestors of the headline party and favorite of all things to do, reported the news under quite an inductive headline.

China Lunar Program! A prelude to the new space race?

Same time, Trialpha.

Sitting at the top of the CEO's office, Bendbauer, sitting in his office chair, looked at the newspaper in his hand and frowned slightly.

After a while, he said.

“That's not good news. ”

“They're a long way from second-generation controllable fusion, and you don't have to worry about it at all. ”

Speaking was Professor Burton Richter, Particle Physics Specialist at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, who, in addition to being a professor, was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Trialpha Energy Corporation and a '76 Nobel Prize winner in physics.

Although he did not receive information from the Daily Mail, he knew something about it.

Just a few hours ago, the Chinese State announced concrete initiatives to implement a human moon climbing plan and, rarely in a high-profile manner, announced its readiness to establish a permanent scientific observation station on the surface of the moon to explore the three reserves of helium in the lunar soil.

It is widely assumed that this is paving the way for second-generation controllable fusion, but it is clear to Professor Richter how hard it is to really understand helium trifusion, and these assumptions are just bullshit.

“No, it's not second-generation controllable fusion that worries me," put down the newspaper in hand, Bendbauer leaned against the office chair, his forefinger pressed his eyebrows, “but the Congressional Budget Committee...”

Following the announcement of the success of the ignition of the STAR-2 demonstration reactor in China at the beginning of the year, the United States side quickly embarked on its own national controllable fusion project, selecting a site to build a giant demonstration reactor installation between Los Angeles and San Francisco and allocating tens of billions of dollars for the first phase of the project.

In this demonstration reactor project, Trialpha successfully beat its competitor General Atomic Energy to obtain orders for heating components thanks to the excellent heating performance of the reverse configuration of the FRC field.

If not unexpectedly, the order will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for his company and far more than hundreds of millions of dollars in price growth for himself on the Nasdaq segment.

At that time, however, the sudden announcement by the Chinese State of a plan to launch the moon, and even the announcement of a strategic layout for exploring the three resources of helium on the moon, would undoubtedly have an impact on the demonstration reactor project in California.

After all, funding for scientific research is not unlimited, and no country can carry out two superprojects simultaneously while maintaining the smooth running of its finances.

Yet neither controllable fusion nor the moon are willing to give up.

It is foreseeable that once the United States is pulled into the space race, Congress will almost certainly re-examine existing research projects as well as budgets, and cut off some less urgent projects to ensure that NASA's appetite is also met.

For example, relatively insignificant plasma heating components…

It may also be possible to postpone bidding until the main body of the demonstration reactor has been completed.

This is clearly not a pleasant thing for Bendbauer, and it is almost certain that it will happen.

He could even imagine how NASA people cheered when they saw the news.

These people are worried that there is no excuse to ask Congress for money, which is comfortable, and the country across the Pacific has already helped them put the excuse to their mouths.

Just as Bendbauer turned over the newspaper in a heavy mood, his hand suddenly paused.

Seeing his gaze, he hooked up to a line in a newspaper interview with an ark piece.

“Plasma engines…”

I read words in my mouth, and I thought of him or something, and my voice got excited.

“Plasma engines! That's it!”

Dropping the newspaper in his hand, Bendbauer stood up from the office chair with his hands behind his back and walking around the office, excited to speak.

“Electric propulsion, controllable fusion, works perfectly! We can totally combine these two concepts! ”

At least on PPT, it won't be very difficult.

“Sir, I'm not throwing cold water at you...” Looking at him strangely, Burton Richter cautioned, "We haven't solved the most critical issue of controllable fusion yet, and you're going to miniaturize something onto a plasma engine. ”

Stopped, Bendbauer looked at Professor Richter with a smile.

“My dear Professor Richter, I know, of course, that bread must first be available before it can be roasted. ”

“However, it is not the past, and before we put the bread on the table, we must first convince those who support us that we can do it! ”

“This is more important than anything! ”