Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2507 Imminent Ascent to the Flame
Experienced stock market investors who know how to summarize their experiences all remember the saying: "Invest in coal in winter and electricity in summer."

It means buying stocks of heating and coal companies that are currently at low prices before winter truly arrives, and then selling them for a profit when winter comes.

The same principle applies to summer electricity.

Summer is the peak season for residential and industrial electricity consumption. All listed energy and power companies, as long as they have good performance or high-quality order customers, will see their stock prices peak in the summer, then fall in the fall, and then fluctuate again in the winter.

Now, the number of hydropower and other environmentally friendly energy power generation projects in Daxia is only more than it was ten years ago.

The newly built dam upstream of the Indochina Peninsula, a major Asian country, supplies clean energy to the power grid every day.

Meanwhile, in the uninhabited Gobi Desert of Anxi Province, Kyushu Technology's nuclear fusion power plant is also supplying clean energy to the power grid.

These two things have different meanings for a country.

Previously, many experts had a reasonable distrust of the nuclear fusion power plant that Kyushu Technology had mastered, developed, and built.

Some even believe that Kyushu Technology may be trying to use this opportunity to "stir up trouble" internally.

However, as the nuclear fusion power plant has been operating stably for longer and longer, and the power grid is receiving more and more electricity, many experts' speculations have been proven wrong.

The DaXia organization is now considering where along the coast to provide infrastructure assistance for Kyushu Technology's next nuclear fusion power plant.

The region needs to ensure convenient transportation, excellent power grid construction, and a stable supply of seawater resources to continuously extract necessary raw materials such as tritium from the seawater. At the same time, it also needs to be somewhat isolated so that even if a nuclear accident occurs, it will not affect the surrounding residents.

Furthermore, it can be dealt with immediately to ensure that the surrounding natural ecosystem is not overly damaged.

The Daxia Group attaches great importance to the site selection of this nuclear power plant and has sent professional teams to conduct investigations and research on more than one occasion.

The serious wording used to demand local cooperation has even led some localities to have other ideas.

However, those in the know kept their mouths shut and did not leak any information.

After all, from a practical point of view, this is the first nuclear fusion power plant site that the Great Xia government can "control". Although it cannot obtain the nuclear fusion technology and materials of Kyushu Technology, it also has the consideration of supporting and cultivating industry talents, which cannot be ignored.

Nuclear fusion is the core of future industry, and not taking it is already a great act of restraint.

Gu Qing was aware of the Great Xia government's desire to influence the industry and cultivate talent in it, and he did not object to it.

The best situation is one where everyone can live in peace and get what they need.

Gu Qing was not worried about whether the Great Xia government could obtain the real nuclear fusion technology.

Because he handled all the core procedures, component materials, and casting processes of the nuclear fusion power plant technology himself, only delegating some raw material matters to Zhang Tianhao, Yu Hongbin, and others at the end. Of course, Gu Qing also believed that the Great Xia government could master nuclear fusion technology; after all, according to his intelligence, the Great Xia Nuclear Energy Group was indeed not far from success.

At least compared to its competitors in other countries and regions, Daxia Nuclear Energy Group has come a long way.

The date was March 3, 1038 in the Xia Yin calendar.

Gu Qing and Li Jian, the core person in charge of Jiuzhou Xinghai Company and an engineer who had presided over many launch missions, appeared together at the aerospace base command center in Kunlun City.

The Zhurong spacecraft is about to land on Mars.

Inside the command center hall, everyone kept their mouths shut except when reporting on their work.

As for the currently popular practice of slacking off at work, that doesn't exist here.

The Xie Zhi is like an omnipresent camera, "monitoring" every engineer.

"It is understood that engineers from Kyushu Xinghai are conducting another remote inspection of the deceleration system. When entering the Martian atmosphere, the spacecraft's speed will be approximately 20000 km/h. The probe needs to rely on its aerodynamic design to generate sufficient drag while maintaining a stable flight attitude to avoid the dangers that occurred during the first landing."

"Mars' atmosphere is only 1% as dense as our planet's, so parachutes are very ineffective. Engineers told us that we still don't prioritize parachutes this time. When we get close to the surface, the retro-rockets are the key factors for achieving hovering, obstacle avoidance, and a soft landing."

"It is understood that the 7G communication equipment developed by Kyushu Technology will maintain connectivity during the Mars landing. Previously, the autonomous control and communication systems of Mars probes experienced a delay of 5 to 30 minutes with Earth due to the vast distance. The entire landing process required the probe to autonomously complete environmental perception, decision-making, and braking, unable to rely on ground commands. However, Kyushu Technology's self-developed 'Zhurong' probe may be able to achieve this, ensuring no loss of communication with the Kunlun Command Center on Earth while autonomously completing the landing. This is an important experiment for Kyushu Technology… We just learned that Kyushu Technology's 7G communication equipment has been deployed in Kunlun City, but it is not yet open to us reporters and tourists…"

"The temperature difference between day and night on Mars exceeds 100°C, and maintaining the operating temperature of the equipment is a daunting challenge. However, the engineers at Kyushu Technology have extensive experience working on the moon, so there shouldn't be any problems."

Journalists and photographers from all over the world who were able to enter Kunlun City and the site of the Zhurong spacecraft's Mars landing interviews generally spoke fluent Mandarin.

When facing the camera and introducing the Kyushu Technology "Zhurong" Mars landing to the local people and users who follow their own media, they performed even better than the experts.

Even many influential media reporters have expressed the view that although landing on Mars is very difficult, Kyushu Technology should be able to complete the landing safely.

After all, Kyushu Technology has never made a "mistake" in this regard.

Furthermore, these media reporters had already prepared the celebratory remarks they should make when Kyushu Technology's "Zhurong" spacecraft successfully landed on Mars.

Interestingly, in some American media live streams, some American users were "criticizing" their own country's achievements.

“NASA, look at this! This is real scientific progress! Kyushu Technology is about to land on Mars, while you can only go back to the last century and barely manage to land on the moon once.”

"I consulted Kyushu Xinghai Company. Although this company did not grant us access to American IP addresses, I have overseas friends who can inquire on my behalf. If nothing unexpected happens, Kyushu Xinghai Company will probably not cooperate with NASA within the next three years."

(End of this chapter)