Chapter 569 Interview at Station C

Go to Beijing.

Chang'an Street.

After a morning meeting, Wang Yongping, the CEO of China Petroleum Corporation, walked out of the meeting room, looking at the meeting notes in his hand, with a subtle and complicated expression on his face.

Since the beginning of the month, the high-level executives have made a series of adjustments to the energy development strategy, and at the previous meeting, they made detailed deployments for the development plans of several domestic energy companies for the next five years.

As far as what was decided at the meeting...

At least it is not a good thing for Sinopec.

The first is that the upper limit of overseas investment has been cut by about 130 billion US dollars, and the second is that the signed contracts will remain unchanged, and the expansion of overseas oil and gas fields will be stopped within three years.

And not only that, there are also a series of hard indicators such as "50,000 charging piles in two years", "installing at least four charging piles at each gas station along the expressway within one year" and so on.

Judging from all signs, the country seems to be determined to remove the attribute of fuel from civilian petroleum products.

In fact, it's not that he can't understand the decision made by the top management. After all, Huaguo's annual consumption of foreign exchange reserves on energy imports is really astonishing.

However, understanding belongs to understanding. It is impossible to say that there is no heartache in my heart.

Especially overseas investment, but the most lucrative place.

After such a knife, it still made him feel a little heartache.

But they are not the worst.

At least they are considered lucky compared to the bunch of coal companies that were wiped out.

Not to mention anything else, just that one sentence to reduce production capacity lightly, I don't know how many people have to pluck out the hair of the ground.

Especially the resettlement of laid-off workers, the local finances of several coal-producing provinces...

Wang Yongping just thought about these problems for them, and felt his scalp tingling for a while.

In addition, not only their energy mining companies, but also the two major power grids and the five major power groups have also been assigned their own tasks.

In particular, clear regulations have been made for the total installed capacity of fusion reactor power generation and the adjustment plan for industrial electricity prices and residential electricity prices.

However, compared to the price paid, the power company still reaped a lot of benefits from this meeting.

Especially the cross-regional power transmission projects leading to Laos and Myanmar.

If this project is completed, whether it can make money or not is secondary, this is Hong Guoguo's political achievements...

Exporting energy to neighboring countries means that the country will have a stronger say in the region.

Wang Yongping admitted that he was jealous.

This is simply sitting at home, and the credit automatically falls on the head.

But there is no way, who wants people to be lucky?

...

With the breakthrough of controllable fusion technology, both domestic and foreign political situations will usher in a new round of reshuffle in this new round of productivity changes.

Among them, there are naturally some people who are happy and some people who are worried.

However, the fate of individuals is often insignificant in the changes of the times.

Just as the tide of history is irreversible, nothing can stop it from moving forward.

In such a general environment, I am afraid that the entire 2020 will not be peaceful.

However, compared to the "actors" who are busy on the stage, Lu Zhou himself, who kicked off this new era, seems much more relaxed.

There is even time to drop by the nearby TV station.

On the eve of the new year, at the studio of Light of Science, the auditorium was crowded with people.

Walking into the studio amidst applause, Lu Zhou who walked onto the stage smiled and waved to them, then sat on the sofa prepared for him in advance.

While sitting on the sofa, Lu Zhou simply glanced at the audience.

The faces of these audiences are relatively young, most of them seem to be students from local universities, and some are from nearby high schools or even junior high schools.

When seeing him, the expressions on everyone's faces were very excited, and the applause from the audience was quite warm.

The only thing I don't know is whether these people are extra performers invited by the TV station...

emmmmm...

Just treat it as bad.

Sitting opposite Lu Zhou, the host He Ying looked at Lu Zhou and said with a smile.

"Professor Lu, are you feeling better?"

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded: "It's almost recovered, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here."

There was good-natured laughter from the audience.

As prearranged, the camera suspended above the studio showed a few close-ups of the audience's expressions.

The propaganda department hoped that he would send a signal of his health improvement to the public and the international community through this program.

Although it is not clear whether there is any objection to doing so, Lu Zhou still readily agreed to their request.

After all, my body is almost in good shape.

Let so many people worry about their own health, it still makes him feel a little bit sorry.

After some lively greetings, He Ying smiled and said to Lu Zhou: "Before the show starts, I would like to ask you a few questions for our audience friends."

With his index fingers crossed on his knees, Lu Zhou, who was leaning on the sofa, smiled and said, "Ask, as long as I can answer, I will know everything."

"Professor Lu, don't worry, it must be easy for you." After speaking, He Ying flipped over the card in her hand and said with a smile, "The first question is from a netizen from Suzhou Province."

"During the question, he expressed concern that the thermal pollution brought about by controlled fusion may exacerbate global warming. What do you think, Professor Lu, about this issue?"

Does anyone know about heat pollution?

The eyebrows were raised with interest, and a hint of surprise appeared on Lu Zhou's expression.

It seems that the level of audience this year is not bad.

At least I didn't ask some dumb questions like "Will the explosion power of the fusion reactor be greater than that of the fission reactor?"

Leaning on the sofa, Lu Zhou thought for a while, smiled and said: "Global warming is a systematic topic, let's not discuss the possibility that this friend mentioned for now, just from the scientific Think about it from a thinking point of view.”

He Ying: "Scientific thinking?"

Lu Zhou: "Yes, junior high school physics probably mentioned that when we study a moving object, the first thing we need to do is to choose a suitable reference frame, and then study the relative motion of the object to the reference frame."

"For example, when we discuss a running athlete, when we discuss his speed, we will not study the size or frequency of his steps alone, nor will we discuss the speed at which he swings his arms, but we will discuss him as a whole, in terms of the track or other East and west as a frame of reference, to discuss his displacement relative to the runway and time, and discuss at the same time.”

"For a huge system, such as the earth. When we study it, we can't just study a certain sample in the system in isolation, but should discuss it as a whole from the same spatial scale and time scale."

"Taking out controllable fusion separately and placing it on an equal footing with the earth's environment is in itself a practice that goes against scientific thinking."

"Because whether it is thermal power or nuclear power, it is only a way of generating electricity. It is not the way of power generation that determines the total calorific value of social production and life, but the demand."

He Ying: "Need?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "That's right."

To a certain extent, controllable fusion will accelerate the development of productivity, but would it not develop without nuclear fusion? This is obviously impossible.

As long as the need for development exists, civilization will eventually develop to that point as time goes by, but at a slower pace and with a heavier price to pay along the way.

Looking at the half-understand expressions on the faces of the audience, Lu Zhou guessed that most of them didn't understand, so he replied in a more easy-to-understand way.

"On a shorter time scale, controllable fusion technology is beneficial to alleviate global warming. The median energy conversion efficiency of traditional thermal power technology is about 35%, which means that we produce 1 unit of electricity , It is necessary to release 2.85% of the total heat by burning coal, and release the corresponding carbon dioxide and other sulfur-containing gases, etc. "

"But this problem does not exist in controllable fusion. According to the magnetic fluid generator set on the STAR-2 demonstration reactor, the current theoretical energy conversion efficiency can reach 50%, and there is still room for further improvement. Based on the data of 50% Calculated, to produce 1 unit of electricity, we only need to release 2 units of total heat, and there is no greenhouse gas emission.”

"Huaguo is a big energy consumer, and its annual coal consumption accounts for half of the world's total consumption. If we make changes in carbon emissions, the whole world will change because of us."

As for the longer time scale, not only human behavior must be considered, but other factors with longer periodicity must also be considered.

For example, the cycle of solar activity.

In the middle of the 21st century, there is a high probability that solar activity will enter the Maunder minimum period, and the amount of heat reaching the earth will be 0.3% smaller than that during the maximum period.

And what is the concept of this 0.3%?

Referring to Mr. Zhu Kezhen's "History of Meteorology in China", the four Little Ice Ages in history happened to be the special period of the change of four dynasties: the alternation of the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. Taking the late Ming Dynasty as an example, according to historical records, in the winter of the seventh year of Emperor Wuzong's Zhengde reign in the Ming Dynasty, Dongting Lake froze a foot, and the Yangtze River froze for a full moon, which shows its power.

Compared with solar activities, the heat released by human activities is not in the same order of magnitude at all.

At least for now, it's still too far away.

But time is limited, these things don't need to be extended too much in the program...