On the other side, Huaguo, Jinling.
In a quiet villa at the foot of Purple Mountain, warm yellow light shines through the glass windows.
The guard who was patrolling outside looked up at the window, which was still lit even in the early morning, and walked silently to the other side.
In the study, Xu Chuan was kneeling in front of the table, writing vigorously and waving the black pen in his hand.
The Daybreak Fusion Device broke the operating record of controllable nuclear fusion and achieved a brilliant performance of forty-five minutes. It was true, but this had almost consumed the first batch of scientific research funds.
If it were not for the purchase of the old ASDEX device, it would have been paid in installments, and if it were not for the renovation of Dawn's high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material, it would have been provided by the Western Superconducting Group itself.
I'm afraid that the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Project can no longer even pay the salaries of researchers and engineers.
Fortunately, the results are gratifying.
Forty-five minutes of high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation time was enough for him to write a letter asking for a new batch of scientific research funds.
While Xu Chuan was busy writing letters late at night asking for funds, on the other side, the German Planck Plasma Institute, the Spiral Stone 7X located in the northern city of Greifswald, was slowly stopping its operation.
Stimulated by the forty-five-minute high-density plasma magnetic confinement operation time of the Daybreak Fusion Device, the Planck Plasma Institute finally became anxious.
After paying a large amount of overtime wages, they finally asked those researchers and engineers who were unwilling to work overtime to work overtime and complete the modification work of Spiral Stone 7X ahead of schedule, shortening the two weeks to one week.
At this time, under the leadership of Professor Tillman Lunt, the Spiralite 7X, which was modified using high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, completed the operation experiment.
Looking through the surveillance screen, the middle-aged supervisor Robert Mack, who was standing in the main control room, looked at Tillman Lunt who was standing on the side of the equipment that was gradually shutting down.
"How is the running result?"
Tillman Lunt looked at the various parameters on the control screen, took a deep breath, and slowly said: "Our earliest expectations have been met."
After a slight pause, he continued: "But there is still a slight gap from the forty-five minutes created by Professor Xu."
Robert Mack frowned and asked: "How much difference?"
"Fifteen minutes." Tillman looked at the data on the main control screen, shook his head and replied.
If it was a month, no, half a month ago, the Spiral Stone 7X set this record, it would definitely be an extremely exciting thing.
With a running time of half an hour, this can not only hold a press conference as a great interim result and be widely reported in newspapers, but they can also continue to ask for more scientific research funds from high-level officials and the European Union.
But now, this data is no longer exciting.
The forty-five-minute Pearl of the Daybreak Fusion Device is ahead, and the half-hour operation time of the Spiral Stone 7X seems a bit insignificant.
After all, everyone knows that stellarators have natural advantages in controlling the operation of high-temperature plasma.
Now after replacing the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material as the external field coil, they still have a gap of more than ten minutes with their opponent.
Ten minutes sounds very short, but in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, this is already a big gap.
After all, a few months ago, the record-setting EAST only ran for seven and a half minutes.
Other research institutes are still pursuing results in seconds.
Fifteen minutes, which is equivalent to two EASTs.
Of course, the operating time in the field of controllable nuclear fusion cannot be calculated in this way. Even if two EASTs are combined together, it is impossible to break through the fifteen-minute time limit.
Even the combination of EAST + Spiral Stone 7X may not be able to beat the 'Daybreak' bought from them.
On the side, Robert Mack frowned and asked: "Why is there such a big difference?"
Compared with the financial sponsor who provided funds in the office before, that is, the people from the Energy Institute, he, who is also from the Planck Plasma Institute, has a much better attitude towards Tillman Lunt.
After all, the two have worked together for many years.
As for the previous ASDEX device, he had nothing to do.
It was not just Tillman Lunt who was responsible for that incident. As a supervisor, he was also under considerable pressure.
After all the equipment sold from them achieved miraculous results, it was a major blunder anyway.
Tillman was silent for a moment and then said: "I'm afraid there is only one problem now." "That aspect?"
Tillman sighed and continued: "Control model of plasma flow in the reactor chamber."
After a pause, he added: "To be honest, apart from this, I can't think of anything else that can widen such a big gap."
"The performance of Spiralite 7X, after being modified using the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material provided by Professor Xu, is certain to be better than that of Daybreak. I firmly believe this!"
"After all, you and I know the performance of the ASDEX device very well. Even if Professor Xu has modified it, he will not be able to surpass us in a short time."
"In this case, the only thing that can provide additional assistance is the control model of plasma turbulence, and this happens to be what we lack."
As he spoke, he sighed: "No wonder Professor Xu doesn't care about the deal in high-temperature superconducting material technology"
He didn’t finish his words, but Robert Mack also knew what he meant.
Because compared to high-temperature superconducting materials, the control of plasma turbulence is the real key.
After a moment of silence, he asked: "Aren't you very familiar with Professor Xu? Is there any way to get the model in his hands? Buy it or through other means?"
Tillman smiled bitterly and said: "Will you sell this key killer weapon to others? As for other methods, this is not something I need to consider. You can decide for yourself."
After thinking about it, Robert said: "What if the water-cooled divertor technology on the Spiral Stone 7X is used for trading?"
Hearing this, Tillman Lunt glanced at the old man next to him in surprise and said, "Are you sure? This is our real lifeblood?"
Compared with the first-generation technology on the old ASDEX device, the water-cooled divertor on the Spiral Stone 7X is truly complete.
If the performance of the previous generation is one, then the latest technology of Spiral Stone is at least twenty or more. The gap is so huge that it is difficult for outsiders to imagine.
This can be said to be the real pinnacle technology of the Planck Plasma Institute.
Robert Mack was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "What if it is to survive?"
"The experiment led by Dawn has reached 45 minutes. This result is believed to attract a lot of funds to rush to invest in the Tokamak route."
"If our stellarator can't keep up, I'm afraid it will be eliminated soon."
"Even if it is not eliminated, it will be slowly dusted due to lack of scientific research funds. As for when it can be restarted, it may be a few years, it may be more than ten years, or even longer or it may never be known."
"Are you willing to see your life's hard work come to an end like this?"
"At least, I am unwilling."
Listening to Robert Mack's words, Tillman Lunt fell into silence.
Yes, Spiral Stone 7X is their hard work.
He has been studying this since WEGA. Counting the time, more than ten years have passed.
Compared with tokamak, stellarator does have its own unique advantages, which is why he firmly believes that only stellarator can achieve controllable nuclear fusion
If it ends like this, he won't be willing to do it.
However, the initiative is no longer in their hands.
To be fair, if it were him, would he use the plasma turbulence control model to trade for the water-cooled divertor of Helixite 7X?
If you ask him to answer, his answer is: "No."
He didn't want to deceive himself.
Although this fact is frustrating, it is the fact.
Just like they could choke each other before and refused to use ICRF heating technology to trade water-cooled divertor technology.
Now, it's the other party's turn.
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