Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2497 Sure
The official team of scientists from the Great Xia Dynasty acted as if they were attending a special technology company press conference.

Marriott demonstrated to these "middle-aged and elderly" people what a fully intelligent era is like. Even in a nuclear power plant with radiation interference, all work can be handled by robots. Furthermore, this multi-channel communication module not only supports various wireless signals but also wired cables.

Just as some scientists were about to speak up and express their doubts and concerns, Wanhao, as if he had foreseen the future, explained: "Considering that the working environment may still have some special effects on the core intelligent components, none of the engineering robots in our nuclear fusion power plant are equipped with high-level intelligent cores. Their computing logic processing units and some core data analysis unit chips are all in this control center under our feet, jointly managed by AI and engineers."

The hardware performance of the chips installed on the robots is insufficient to support them in enabling higher-level functions, and we have upgraded the encryption protection algorithm, implementing higher-level encryption for both software and system functions.

We have also discovered that products on the market are already copying our product technology from ten years ago, while our newly upgraded encryption system now fully covers all products and devices with compliant hardware performance...

In addition, after extensive testing, Yunzhong Jiulong Big Data Company confirmed that the cloud server data of all products had not been stolen. The illegal team that cracked our technology only cracked a portion of the technology in the offline projects…”

After Marriott finished speaking, the head of the Daxia Atomic Energy Agency blurted out: "This is a watershed moment in energy history, just like the first time mankind mastered fire."

This one sentence alone silenced some of the still-doubting middle-aged and elderly people in the audience.

After a full week of observing the operation of the nuclear power system from inside the command center building, the Daxia government finally signed a nuclear power cooperation agreement with Kyushu Technology.

Before the year 1050 of the Xia Yin Star Calendar, Kyushu Technology needs to complete the construction of two modular nuclear fusion power plants to achieve commercial helium-3 fusion power generation.

The DaXia government will provide a series of comprehensive services for these two nuclear fusion power plants, including the one currently being tested, totaling three plants: grid connection, land approval, and training and recruitment of engineering teams.

At the signing ceremony of the final agreement, Gu Qing, the founder of Kyushu Technology, personally shook hands with the officials of Daxia and said: "We will strive to build a lunar-Blue Star energy supply chain to provide energy support for mankind's journey to the stars."

The young man's resolute and confident face left many people at the signing ceremony somewhat dazed.

The official representative from Daxia gave a positive response: "Exploring space is a never-ending journey. We hope that all our scientists and engineers will continue their efforts, seize the opportunity, and continue to work hard on lunar sample scientific research, carry out major aerospace projects such as deep space exploration, and promote the comprehensive development of space science, space technology, and space applications... As an outstanding representative of the industry, Jiuzhou Technology has always adhered to self-reliance and independent innovation, achieving historic, high-quality, and leapfrog development from scratch to strength..."

After a round of affirmation, there was not a single dissatisfaction or compromise.

Several senior executives of the Daxia Aerospace Group who had been specially selected looked somewhat ashamed when they heard this.

Those who are part of the group know their own situation. Although their own Daxia Aerospace Group has made progress in recent years to a level that exceeds the imagination of Western elites, it is now even inferior to Kyushu Technology's subsidiary, Kyushu Xinghai!
After the signing ceremony, Gu Qing and everyone else had a dinner together.

Although work was not discussed further during the dinner, everyone could see that the official's satisfaction and appreciation for the founder of Kyushu Technology were almost palpable.

A week later, neither the Daxia government nor Kyushu Technology made the news public. Instead, the elite team of Daxia Nuclear Energy Group and the scientific team of Daxia Aerospace Group held a lengthy and highly confidential meeting.

"We can confirm that Kyushu Technology uses the high-temperature extraction process technology of the lunar soil refining system. This technology requires heating the lunar soil to above 700°C to decompose it into ilmenite to release helium-3. Then, the minerals are screened and enriched by the matching electromagnetic sorting equipment. However, we do not currently know the specific parameters of Kyushu Technology's technical process and the efficiency of each step, which is a problem."

"One thing is also certain: to realize Kyushu Technology's nuclear fusion technology and production scale, we must have reliable, low-cost, and reusable lunar landing technology. Although our team has had engineers enter the Lunar Starship four times, we still haven't cracked the specific technology of the Lunar Starship's power engine and core frame materials. Kyushu Technology has very strict protection measures for the mechs and other equipment that use related power engines, and it is currently impossible to crack them through other channels."

"If we only want to transport cargo, such inanimate materials, we might continue to develop the 'slingshot project' and build a lunar magnetic levitation orbit system. We would use electromagnetic catapults to launch sealed capsules containing helium-3 into near-lunar space, where they would be captured by a spacecraft and transported back to Earth. If we did this, our target annual production capacity could reach about 5 tons. Moreover, only the initial construction cost is relatively high, while the subsequent operating cost is not high. The current technical challenge is the material breakthrough. The materials we currently have cannot meet the needs of this project."

"The 'slingshot project' has a certain degree of technical feasibility, but people may have overlooked one point: to meet the helium-3 needs of nuclear fusion, we still need to overcome the challenges of building an automated factory on the lunar surface. Under extreme temperature differences and lunar dust interference, we need to overcome the challenges of equipment protection and efficient Earth-Moon transportation technology. The lunar city laboratory provided by Kyushu Technology is very good, but they did not provide us with a factory, let alone lunar mining equipment. All the sample requirements were proposed by us, and then they mined and transported them. It seems to save us costs, but it is also restricting our technological development."

Nuclear fusion, as a powerful tool in the energy field, is not only used for generating electricity.

From a practical technological perspective, the "special" treatment that the Great Xia government currently gives to Kyushu Technology is influenced by the high level of nuclear fusion technology in the field of nuclear energy.