Chapter 607

Two days passed in a flash.

In the suite's reception room, two people were drinking.

ACC's chief engineer, Fran Gerard, had a relaxed smile on his face and asked: "Mr. Harvey, the Xia Nation people have been looking for you again these past few days to discuss the lithium dendrite suppression patent, right?"

"Facts have proven that our previous estimates were all wrong."

Professor Harvey's expression was strange: "After meeting that afternoon, Professor Chen never sent anyone to talk about the patent again; in fact, it seems he has already returned to the country."

"Hmm?"

Gerard also revealed a puzzled expression, shook his head again, and said in a deep voice: "Returned to the country? I suspect there's a trick; Xia Nation's art of war, truth and falsehood... they have no movement, I guess they went back to discuss countermeasures, and at the same time show they aren't that keen, lowering our guard."

"I hope so."

Professor Harvey shrugged, his gaze looking out the window, and said in a deep voice again: "I don't know why, but I always have a bad premonition."

"Mr. Harvey, believe me, this is your illusion."

Gerard smiled lightly, raised his glass, and said with great confidence: "Within a year, our European new energy vehicles will definitely be able to re-occupy the market and return to their former throne."

Professor Harvey raised his glass.

As the saying goes, science has no national boundaries, but scientists have national boundaries; he was still happy to see his country occupy the world's technical high ground—the competition between countries is just that cruel.

The Oxford University Frontier Physics Report Meeting reached its 5th day; the invited reports on this day were all about controllable nuclear fusion physics.

Just as Xu Qingzhou had thought earlier, the competition in the field of controllable nuclear fusion is particularly fierce; Xia Nation's EAST can already run for 400 seconds at 100 million degrees Celsius.

South Korea's KSTAR can run for 20 seconds at the same temperature.

France's WEST device runs plasma at 50 million degrees Celsius for 320 seconds, with a heating power of 2 megawatts.

These are all in the tokamak field.

And the development speed in the stellarator field is also far faster than before; the Max Planck Institute's Wendelstein 7-X has a plasma temperature of 20 million degrees Celsius and a pulse operation time of 30 seconds.

The United States and Japan have also made breakthrough progress in their stellarators.

3:30 PM.

The Max Planck Institute's invited report ended.

"This year seems to be the critical point for controllable nuclear fusion to transition from the laboratory to engineering." Xu Qingzhou put away his notebook, preparing to go have some afternoon tea first, and then look for any group discussion meetings he might be interested in.

The Max Planck Institute brought a stellarator technology report, using supercomputing to simulate the matching of magnetic field distortion and plasma motion trajectories, achieving magnetic field line rotation transformation error...