Chapter 479 What do we need to do?
"According to data from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and a supplementary survey of tens of thousands of U.S. energy industry employers, Amelika Energy and Employment Report, shows that the energy industry, including photovoltaics, wind power, and oil, has provided a total of 7 million direct jobs for the federal government. If the upstream and downstream are counted, the total number of jobs will exceed 20 million, accounting for 6% of the total federal population."
In the picture of the TV, the voiceover sounded appropriately:
"The emergence of controllable nuclear fusion will directly impact these 20 million jobs and Amelican citizens."
"The next question, in the face of China's technological breakthroughs, can this White House government solve this problem?" the female host continued.
"No." Alexander asked without hesitation.
In fact, there is a long list of words behind him: "No one in the White House can solve this problem.
Amelican's backwardness in the field of technology is all-round, and it is very inappropriate to blame someone or the White House.
This is the consequence of countless White Houses advocating happy education in the past."
It's just that CBS's program will only broadcast the previous word.
All the interviewees were found were elites from top Amelican universities, including professors, students, international students, and different answers from various groups of people, but in the end they all had the same questions.
Try to guide the audience to have the same idea:
"This White House incompetence has caused the current situation of our Amelican."
Even in terms of skin color and gender, we have done a good job in order to give the audience a feeling. Everyone, no matter what his identity and background, thinks that the White House is not doing well.
Obviously, this is a part of the guidance of public opinion in the federal election.
Very cliché, but very useful.
Especially, the reality is in front of us. China, Amelican's biggest competitor, is already unstoppable. The broken window effect will lead to everyone's ideas being the same, and they all step on this White House.
It's like the media has guided the last White House to have Alzheimer's disease. Regardless of whether he has it or not, he has it in the eyes of the people, and even the supporters of the Donkey Party think he has it.
The audience sitting in the Oval Office of the White House understands this truth very well and understands the way the public opinion spreads. However, he has no expression on his face and just whispers:
"FakeNews"
After about five minutes of interview session, the show finally handed over the camera to the host and guests.
"Okay, we can see that in the face of China's continuous technological breakthroughs, all the people think that the White House's handling is inappropriate.
It can even be said that the White House's handling is illogical and has no response. They only know to constantly increase the budget, increase the budget, increase the budget.
However, what after the budget is increased? From the breakthrough of China's room temperature superconducting technology to the present, Amelicon invested more than 20 billion US dollars in this direction every year, with a total investment of more than 100 billion US dollars.
The chief scientist in charge of this project still only knew to tell the members of the parliament when he was questioned by Congress, giving me some more time.
Oh, obviously we can give us unlimited time, but China will not give us time. "
After a sharp complaint, the host turned around and his eyes turned from the camera to the two guests:
"Professor Tom Mason, former director of Oak Ridge Laboratory, and later served as director of Los Alamos Laboratory, you should be the person who knows the scientific research mechanism best under the leadership of the federal government.
Can you talk about your opinion? We have a lot of time left for you. "
As one of the big names cut by the Efficiency Committee, Tom Mason's dissatisfaction was as continuous as the surging river.
And CBS wants to give him such a "good opportunity".
Mason, who has a lot of reputation, needs to use this opportunity to cause public opinion damage to the White House. When the donkey party returns to the White House, he will naturally give him the commission he wants.
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"I want to first talk about the progress made by our Chinese colleagues.
While working at Los Alamos Laboratory, I organized a scientific research team to estimate that with the help of room temperature superconducting materials, Chinese colleagues are expected to achieve a breakthrough before 2030.
They have proved to be faster than we expected, and Wright played a huge role in it.
But I have to emphasize that in the past, both public opinion and our government, both exaggerated the role of Wright in China's technological breakthroughs, and ignored the current situation of the booming talent in China's scientific and technological circles.
China's technological breakthroughs rely more on breakthroughs under the coordinated cooperation of large-scale talents. Taking nuclear fusion as an example, Wright is only the chief engineer, and in fact, a lot of work still requires the cooperation of ordinary scientific researchers.
Our problem is that the massive layoffs carried out by the Efficiency Committee founded by Musk over the past four years have destroyed Amelican's scientific research system.
Especially for nationally owned laboratories, there are huge risks and uncertainties.
First lay off everyone, and then hire people one after another as needed.
This model may work in enterprises, but it is absolutely not possible in the field of scientific research, especially in cutting-edge scientific research.
Scientific researchers engaged in cutting-edge scientific research, when the laboratory cuts them off, they can have a lot of places to go because of their own abilities.
Whether it is in colleges and universities or industries.
Take Oak Ridge National Laboratory as an example, it brings together a large number of top scientists and engineers, who are an important part of the United States' scientific research strength.
After layoffs, the proportion of people who received an invitation from Oak Ridge, will not exceed 10%.
In this process, 90% of the talents were lost. "
As a former director who has been working in Oak Ridge for 10 years, Mason knows these data well.
I asked my old colleagues one by one before coming.
On the phone, these old guys complained a lot about Musk's ruthlessness. No matter what contribution you have made in the past, they just have one word: "get out."
"In the past, our layoffs in the field of scientific research seriously affected the continuity of scientific research projects. Some large-scale scientific research projects often require long-term investment and teamwork. If the project leader or core member leaves due to layoffs, it may cause project interruption or delay, which will directly affect the final results.
Why are our efficiency so inefficient with the same room temperature superconducting materials? According to the news I have received, every time the project leader changes, it not only leads to interruption of scientific research projects, affecting time and money, but also leads to the loss of key data.
In addition, scientific research atmosphere, innovation vitality, etc., will have very bad negative impacts."
Mason pointed the finger at the Efficiency Committee, a weirdo that has only been there in the past four years.
Musk's "retreat" did not lead to the disappearance of the Efficiency Committee. Later, the group of people in charge of the Efficiency Committee were even more crazy when laying off staff. Like the scientific research field, it even produced top-notch jobs.
In the past, federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have conducted a large amount of research in the field of biomedicine and trained many top scientists.
Many NIH researchers left their jobs to start businesses or join biotech companies, applying their research experience and results in NIH to new drug research and development, genetic engineering and other fields, giving birth to biotech giants like Genentech.
The transformation of scientific research results here is the initiative of scientific researchers.
In the past four years, NIH has almost stopped, and basically only the top batch of projects can still get some funds.
The top-level projects mean commercial value.
The Efficiency Committee and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have made peace to lay off the entire group responsible for cancer-related research.
The group of forefoots was cut off, and the group of forefoots was poached by Pfizer, and the experimental data, experimental ideas and results were put into Pfizer's pocket.
With this achievement, Pfizer took the lead in launching a miraculously effective targeted drug in breast cancer in the first half of this year.
Only other pharmaceutical giants Johnson and Roche really couldn't stand it, so they exposed the incident, causing an uproar in public opinion, otherwise the incident would not have been exposed at all.
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This is because NIH research is more basic research, and the subsequent specific drug development is based on basic research. Everyone can use the basic research results of NIH, whether you are Roche or Pfizer.
Now it is equivalent to Pfizer breaking the rules.
Originally, if NIH's research on cancer was made public and the data and experimental ideas were made public, everyone would be able to get something similar if they were only three or five years away.
Just like the AIDS research done by NIH, everyone has developed different antiretroviral drugs based on its research. Zidov decided to use it well, but other drugs can also be sold. NIH funded basic research on cholesterol metabolism and early development of statins. Statins are one of the best-selling drugs in history, bringing tens of billions of dollars in revenue to the pharmaceutical giants, and we all share this big cake together.
This time, Pfizer directly took the table away. If you want to reappear, not to mention three to five years, it will take at least ten years to start, and it may not be able to reappear.
The synthesis of room temperature superconducting materials in China is a bit similar to that in China. I tell you the idea, but you have to try the specific parameters for a lifetime.
The actions of Pfizer and the Efficiency Committee have obviously dealt a further blow to the White House's reputation.
The reputation of the White House is similar to that of Amelicon on Earth, and it has long fallen to the ground.
Now the entire Elephant Party has gone from top to bottom, and only the candidates believe that they still have a chance and can turn the tables with the shocking news of Alpha Technology. No one believes it except him. Everyone hopes not to lose too ugly, at least they can’t lose Texas.
If you lose Texas this time, the elephant party will be not far from the end.
"Professor Mills, please tell me your point of view." The host smiled and had to poke the White House's lungs and trachea hard.
The White House cannot be given any chance to breathe.
China is really our best candidate. Various technological breakthroughs are the sharp knife stabbing the White House.
"I think Wright is very important, Wright is crucial.
The intuition he has is the key to the breakthrough of China's science and technology. Without Wright, we will not be so passive.
Take room temperature superconducting as an example, everyone knows the synthesis path. In the past five years, from Europe to North America to East Asia, many scientists have tested the synthesis idea of Wright's room temperature superconducting published in Nature, and repeatedly confirmed that the synthesis path he proposed is correct.
A lot of interesting results have been made in this process, and many materials can be reconstructed using this idea.
Everyone believes that the design idea of this synthesis path alone is enough to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
But why can no one replicate the normal temperature superconducting material? Because no one knows the specific parameters.
Everyone doesn't even know how to get close to the exact value of the parameters, and they don't know the most critical part.
Did anyone think of it? Without Wright, we stayed in front of this door for a full five years.
If China also had no Wright, would there be more scientists who could open this door?
I can't think so.
But I agree with Professor Mason's point of view, we are indeed lagging behind in some areas, but the fundamental reason for our overall backward trend is that we have problems with ourselves.
Is new energy a high-level technology? Are there any Chinese batteries and automotive photovoltaic modules that are not sold to us? Why can Ford, GM and Tesla not compete with BYD and Huawei?
Our car system is not as good as that of China's car system. It doesn't seem to be a high-end technology, right?
Does the latest generation of perovskite batteries in China license us? Are the latest generation of perovskite films not sold to us?
China is not stingy in technology output, but we cannot compete with China in the fields of new energy and photovoltaics.
The efficiency of Chinese automakers to build factories in Amelicon is even higher than that of our local manufacturers. They also use local workers, and their efficiency is higher than that of us and their cost is lower than that of us.
If it was just Wright's problem, then there would be only a few points that China has technological advantages now, and we can still have a large number of advantageous industries.
In the past, we were responsible for R&D, technical authorization, and manufacturing in China. Now when it is the turn of China's technology authorization, we have no competitiveness at all in the manufacturing end.
Our defeat in the field of technology is not caused by one Wright, it is a problem of overall nature.
Last year, Harvard's Fairbank Tsinghua National Research Center and the Business School jointly conducted a survey, which found that in the past three years, the higher the proportion of engineers recruited from China, the better their performance in cost control and R&D.
The R&D here is not very advanced technology research and development, it is nothing more than the optimization of production process, the introduction of new technologies, and the integration of new technologies into production processes.
It is obvious that the quality of our engineers has widened the gap with that of China.
Considering the size of engineers, our gap will be even larger.
This gap is spreading from engineers to scientific researchers, and today's situation is formed. ”
Considering that the donkey party is about to take office, Mills Heimer did not say all about the results of Harvard investigation. They also investigated that the higher the proportion of Indians in the engineer team, the lower the efficiency.
This phenomenon is only investigated with the participation of the Fairbank Tsinghua National Research Center. If it is simply Harvard Business School, it will definitely not dare to recite the name of racial discrimination.
"So what do we need to do?"
(The end of this chapter)