Chapter 609 Grid-Connected Power Generation

Since he went to school for a physics class that day, Lu Zhou hasn't been out of the house much this week.

When he was in Princeton before, he would drive to the nearby Wal-Mart to buy groceries, but now he even handed over the groceries to others.

Although Lu Zhou was always embarrassed by asking Wang Peng to help him with things other than work, but the more times he was embarrassed, he got used to it.

On the other hand, during his week of retreat, many things happened outside.

The most important one is probably the East Asia Power Company.

Probably on the second day of his retreat, the restructured East Asia Electric Power reached an agreement with the State Grid Suzhou Electric Power Company. At the same time, the twelve ferrofluid generator sets of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant have finally completed the final commissioning, officially connected to the grid for power generation, and delivered clean and cheap electric energy to the whole province of Suzhou at a very cheap and still profitable price .

In the entire Suzhou Province, the most intuitive place to feel the changes brought about by the integration of the Pangu Fusion Reactor into the grid is probably Gusu in Suzhou Province, apart from Haizhou, which is close to the water and has the first access to the moon.

This important industrial town located in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta can be said to support half of the country's high-tech industries. With a population of just over 10 million, the annual power consumption is almost equal to that of Shanghai next door. A few years ago, it broke through the order of 150 billion kWh, and now it is rushing to 200 billion kWh.

With the official integration of the Pangu fusion reactor to the grid, and under the coordination of policies, the industrial electricity price in Suzhou Province has been cut by nearly half.

For those manufacturing owners in Suzhou Province, this can be said to be a blessing from heaven.

Especially for a power-hungry powerhouse like the semiconductor industry, the production cost has dropped at a visible rate.

In the current global economic downturn, the grid connection of fusion reactors is like a nectar for the entire Suzhou manufacturing industry.

On the surface, the drop in energy costs only lowers the cost of electricity for factory owners and entrepreneurs, but in fact it changes the future of the entire city, and even all the people in this urban agglomeration.

Production costs have dropped and enterprises have money, so they have the confidence to update production technology and the capital to develop automation and electrification. When the cost of electricity is cheaper, the industrial structure of the entire city and even the province will shift towards the core area of ​​the industrial chain.

This kind of economic effect brought about by the subversive revolution of the energy structure is much more effective than directly sending money to subsidize and raise a bunch of moths who cheat.

At the same time, in addition to industrial electricity prices, residential electricity prices in cities such as Haizhou, Gusu, and Jinling have also experienced a stepwise reduction of 10% to 20%.

However, it is spring now, and it is not yet the peak season of electricity consumption in summer. Most people have not clearly felt the impact of the reduction in electricity prices on their lives. At most, they are surprised when they see the electricity bill, or even surprised. There are no expressions.

After all, the process of a society moving from the past to the future is often not accomplished overnight, but is completed subtly.

However, from the perspective of macro data, with the reduction of electricity prices, the demand for the entire electrical appliance and new energy vehicle markets has seen a considerable increase.

Maybe after a while, there will be two or three more electric buses driving in front of the Gusu Garden.

Perhaps in another year or two, smart devices such as sweeping robots have spread to every household without knowing it, and electric piles for wired or wireless charging have also spread from gas stations to parking lots in every shopping mall without knowing it.

And in three to five years, maybe even the express delivery and takeaway of small items will start to be done by drones shuttling between high-rise buildings.

Human pursuit of efficiency is eternal.

Now is 2020, which is only the first year that Pangudui has been connected to the grid for power generation.

As for what the more distant future will look like, I am afraid that only the future will know.

...

It was the first time for Lu Zhou to settle down and focus on a certain pure mathematical proposition since he was promoted to LV8 in mathematics, and this was also the first time he realized the gap between LV8 and LV7.

This difference is not reflected in the calculation.

It is reflected in a kind of transcendence of thinking.

It's hard to describe this feeling in detail, but if he had to talk about his own feelings, it would be that when he was devoting himself to thinking about mathematical propositions, everything in the outside world seemed to slow down.

When the speed of thinking is fast enough, time cannot catch up with the pace of thinking?

This statement may be somewhat idealistic, but it is indeed Lu Zhou's most intuitive feeling.

Of course, even though the speed of thinking has become faster, when he is immersed in research, his sense of time is thinner. Often without knowing it, a whole day passes by, so that in the end he has to rely on his stomach to remind himself.

Stopping the pen in his hand, Lu Zhou pinched the center of his eyebrows, and looked at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen.

"Is it already ten o'clock?"

It was obviously dark outside the window just now, but it was so bright in the blink of an eye.

Of course, what surprised him more than the time was the date.

Unexpectedly, a week had passed since the last physics class, and he didn't even feel a little bit.

Reaching out to open the curtains, looking at the wastebasket stuffed by the corner of the table, and the handwriting on the draft paper on the table, Lu Zhou sighed, pushed his chair away and stood up.

"It's really not that easy to solve..."

However, he has not gained nothing these days.

At least for the proof of the existence of the solution, he is only short of finishing the last point.

Objectively speaking, the mathematical difficulty of the Yang-Mills equation is not as maddening as the NS equation.

Especially after solving the problem of the existence of solutions to the NS equations, the L-manifold and the "differential topology research method of differential equations" obtained in his research are also very effective in solving the problems of the existence of solutions to the Yang-Mills equations , at least saved his workload of more than a month.

If it weren't for something today, he would probably continue to retreat.

However, today is the tenth week.

He has a computational materials science class to attend in a while.

If his doctoral student is good enough, he can entrust this task to him.

But unfortunately, Wu Shuimu's current level of computational materials science is far from reaching the level of being independent, at least a little bit behind the two apprentices he led in Princeton, one master and one doctor, so this matter is still up to him. Do it yourself.

Standing at the door of the study, Lu Zhou thought for a while, cleared his throat and said.

"Xiao Ai, clean the room for me... except for the things on the table."

A string of clean bubbles popped out from the lower right corner of the computer screen.

【Okay, master! ()】

After a while, a drone flew in through the open window, and flew out of the window dangling with a wastebasket hanging on it. Immediately afterwards, the sweeping robot wiped Lu Zhou's trouser legs and rushed into the study room, and began to clean up the garbage on the floor.

The corner of his mouth curled, and Lu Zhou glanced at the busy little guys in the study with satisfaction. After handing this place over to Xiao Ai, he turned and walked downstairs.

I haven't been out for a week, and it's not just the room that needs to be cleaned up.

After taking a hot shower and drying his hair, Lu Zhou came out of the bathroom, changed into clean clothes, stood in front of the mirror for a while, and then walked towards the entrance.

However, just as he was about to put on his shoes, the doorbell rang outside.

Through the camera at the gate of the courtyard, Lu Zhou was slightly taken aback when he saw the person standing at the gate.

Yan Yan?

What is she doing here.

Although he had some doubts in his heart, Lu Zhou still pressed the button to open the door, and opened the anti-theft door smoothly.

After a while, Yan Yan, who was dressed in casual clothes, walked into the house after crossing the path on the lawn in the front yard.

After meeting, she didn't say hello, but just glanced at him.

"You failed the physical examination yesterday."

"...Uh, is there such a thing? I don't seem to remember clearly."

Lu Zhou vaguely remembered that Wang Peng told him about it the day before yesterday, but when he answered the phone, he was thinking about something, and he couldn't remember exactly what he said.

Seeing Lu Zhou's bewildered expression, Yan Yan sighed: "I know you're busy, so I brought you everything... By the way, you haven't had breakfast yet, have you?"

"Preparing to eat..." Looking at the plastic cup and cotton swab she handed to him, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned: "...is this?"

Yan Yan raised her eyebrows: "One is for excrement collection, and the other is for urine collection, don't you need me to help you?"

Lu Zhou: "...No, thank you."

Originally, he planned to have a meal before going to class.

Now it's all right, after being messed up by her like this, he has no appetite anymore.

Thank you for your concern, I slept for almost a day yesterday, and I feel a little better from the cold...