I am devoted to scientific research, but you want to trick me into having a love relationship?

Chapter 694 The United States is still struggling
Xu Qingzhou was reading a book when Song Xiaohua pushed open the door and came in as dusk was falling.

"I can already smell the food."

Song Yao sniffed.

"I think you're the one who's like a dog, you can smell this." Xu Qingzhou opened the lunchbox and took out a few dishes from inside.

Stir-fried pork, tomato and egg soup, Mapo tofu.

Two dishes and one soup.

Song Yao scoffed and took the chopsticks Xu Qingzhou handed her.

"I just miss this taste."

She squinted, took a sip of soup, and then said with a satisfied smile, "Professor Xu, you must be a perfect stay-at-home husband. You've been so busy with work lately that you've been eating company lunches for the past few days."

"Forget about keeping me as a sugar daddy."

Xu Qingzhou, who was flipping through "Fundamentals of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions," chuckled twice upon hearing this.

Song Yao remained silent and focused on eating her lovingly prepared dinner.

When Song Yao had almost finished eating and was drinking her soup, Xu Qingzhou asked, "What time do you get off work tonight?"

"Around 9 o'clock, we need to wait for CATL to send over a document."

Song Yao's face showed helplessness.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you in the office."

Xu Qingzhou recalled the scene when he first arrived at the company. It was already six o'clock in the afternoon, but everyone was still at their workstations. He couldn't help but ask, "I see everyone is working overtime. Are you managing?"

"We can barely manage now, but it will definitely not be enough in the future, and all departments are preparing to recruit people."

We're already overwhelmed with internal collaborations, and things will only get more complicated when we get to external collaborations in the future.

Currently, Zero Point Technology has 32 employees.

"Fortunately, I had the foresight to rent a larger apartment."

The current offices total over 800 square meters, which is enough for 60 people to work even with high standards.

Xu Qingzhou sighed. In just one year, the combined value of Zero Point Technology's dozens of patents could exceed 1000 billion.

He said, "Zero Point Technology has grown significantly. As the team gradually improves, the number of people will definitely increase, and the team will become larger. It's time to find a better office space."

"Yes, we should be able to finalize the new office by the end of the year."

Outside the window, the sun had already sunk below the horizon.

Song Yao patted her belly with satisfaction.

After tidying up the lunchbox, she walked over, cupped Xu Qingzhou's face in her hands, and gave him a big kiss. "Professor Xu, I have a meeting. Are you going to wait for me here or go home first?"

After finishing work, Xu Qingzhou brought me food, which made me feel incredibly happy.

"I didn't drive here, and he kissed me right after I finished eating."

Xu Qingzhou looked at the girl with a hint of disdain, saying, "Someone once said that we should keep our distance at the company."

Song Yao pretended to be dead and didn't speak, pressing Xu Qingzhou down to prevent him from moving, and gave him another retaliatory kiss, "I said you should keep your distance from me, I didn't say I should keep my distance from you."

"It is reasonable and well-founded, and it is convincing."

Xu Qingzhou's evaluation.

When it comes to double standards, Song Xiaohua has always been far ahead.

oppressive rule.

As he spoke, his hand wandered to a certain spot and pinched it, which made Song Yao glare at him threateningly.

The two of them wrestled and grappled for a while. Song Yao got up from the person who was being nosy and prepared to continue working. She picked up her phone, checked her makeup and clothes to make sure they were in order, and quickly got into "President Song" mode.

"They're quite good at pretending."

Xu Qingzhou shook his head helplessly. However, this contrast was indeed quite interesting.

I always want to tease them a little.
It's quite interesting to see the aloof and powerful Song, the school beauty, break down in her act.
Xu Qingzhou touched his waist, "This girl's grip is getting worse and worse."

After expressing his feelings, he sighed and focused his attention on the economics book in front of him. He had been doing mathematical calculations all day and just wanted to relax by reading.

The next day, Xu Qingzhou arrived at the Superconducting Magnet Dynamic Performance Testing Center.

The superconducting magnet dynamic performance testing system is a large-scale, independent experimental facility.

There is a vacuum container with a diameter of 6.5 meters, as well as various extreme simulation devices. The extreme condition simulations of superconducting thin films were previously conducted here.

First round of testing, problem diagnosis, and process optimization.

Further extreme operating condition testing revealed system problems.

Long-term operation tests were conducted to verify cumulative irradiation damage. After each operating cycle, the magnet was disassembled to detect the attenuation rate of the superconducting thin film.

Xu Qingzhou gave his calculation results to Academician Ren Nan. The two of them tried to optimize the flow channel design based on the data and add a buffer cavity to absorb the volume expansion of the phase change.

Just when Xu Qingzhou thought that September would be spent in busy and uneventful days.

9 month 26 day.

The Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics issued a notice announcing that China's new generation of controlled nuclear fusion experimental device has achieved great success.

The Circulator 3 device was completed and achieved its first plasma discharge, and for the first time, a plasma current of 1 million amperes (1 megaampere) was achieved.

This is unique in the world.

Xu Qingzhou had to admit that although Zhang Zhigao's character was questionable, he was technically capable to lead the technicians to such great achievements as the chief engineer.

After briefly checking on the activities of the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics, he became busy.

America.

Department of Energy Office.

After Energy Department Commissioner Marco sat down, the middle-aged man in a black suit asked directly, "What are the results on your end?"

"Lawrence Berkeley's replication plan has failed."

Marco sighed helplessly, "There's no news from Argonne Labs yet, but from what I understand, the results aren't ideal."

Across from him was the Minister of Energy, Phils Lamb.

Ramsey said bitterly, "These swindlers! They swindle hundreds of millions of dollars from us every year, and now they're telling me they can't even do the simplest experiments for the Chinese!"

Marco hesitated for a moment, then fell silent.

Replicating someone else's experiment based on just a few papers is far too difficult; it's much better to do the research yourself.

Ram muttered a few curses under his breath, his gaze darkening as he asked, "What did Professor Evan say?"

Regarding lithium dendrites, currently only the technology developed by Professor Evan's team at MIT, which uses dual Lewis acid fillers to optimize the electrolyte and mechanical stress to guide the dendrite orientation, shows the most promise.

"It's very difficult, and it will be very difficult to make a breakthrough in a short period of time," Marco said frankly.

"What if we could provide some funding?"

"I asked, squinting."

He was already familiar with this group's tactics, constantly complaining about various difficulties.

Actually, the biggest difficulty can be summed up in one word: money.

It's just an excuse to want money.

Marco could only say, "I've spoken with Professor Evan on the phone. He said that with their current technological approach, they can only suppress it, not truly solve it."

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(End of this chapter)