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

Chapter 761 Do you think Professor Xu's goal is merely Q≥1?
The opening ceremony was simple: Guo Ziyang, Ding Jiahui, and Feng Zexuan cut the ribbon, everyone took a group photo, ate cake, and then played some simple games.

The atmosphere was quite nice.

Finally, Ding Jiahui showed Song Yao around the company, and Guo Ziyang and Xu Qingzhou also took the opportunity to get together and rest in Guo Ziyang's office.

"What's the first project you're planning to do?" Xu Qingzhou asked with a smile. Although the office wasn't as big as his, it was quite cozy, with even a few dolls in the corner, probably arranged by Ding Jiahui.

"Elimination-type puzzle games are similar to match-3 games and match-3 puzzle games."

Guo Ziyang poured water for Xu Qingzhou, indicating that he already had a clear plan for the company's projects.

Xu Qingzhou didn't really know much about the gaming industry, but he did know the two things Guo Ziyang mentioned: "The market for games like Connect Four and Candy Crush should be saturated, right?"

Currently, competitive games are still the most popular.

“Yes, Jia Hui and I are planning to do something different. Our current idea is that it can’t be exactly the same as traditional games. For example, the first level can be simple, and the second level can be extremely difficult to stimulate the players’ competitive spirit.”

Xu Qingzhou's expression was somewhat subtle.

Guo Ziyang's words did ring a bell for him.

This is exactly the same model as "Sheep and the Sheep," emphasizing "challenge" rather than the casual nature of traditional elimination games. The first level is a simple tutorial level with a 100% success rate, while the second level is much more difficult with a success rate of less than 0.1%, creating a "cliff-like challenge."

Everyone has a gambler's mentality, or rather, everyone is a bit of a gambler; the more difficult the situation, the more they want to play.

Low barrier to entry + high difficulty + advertising monetization – it was indeed very popular for a period of time in the past.

"You look like you think it's hopeless?"

Seeing Xu Qingzhou frowning in thought, Guo Ziyang assumed that Xu Qingzhou was not optimistic.

Xu Qingzhou smiled and said, "No, I just think it's quite interesting. When you finish making it, send it to us first so we can test it for you."

As it turns out, Guo Ziyang and Ding Jiahui's current success is no accident. Their technical skills are undoubtedly excellent, and their ability to attract investment banks proves their strength. Their foresight is also beyond question.

“Then I won’t refuse. There’s probably only one game in the world that can get a Nobel laureate to personally participate in the testing.” Guo Ziyang laughed.

Guo Ziyang was somewhat helpless. Although he and Ding Jiahui did not want to rely on their friend's reputation, they knew that Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao would definitely bring something else with them.

In the end, I decided to take it in stride.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao's identities mean that many things will not be simple.

These two can easily go out for a meal and show off their affection, and it might even make it to the trending topics. Their friends obviously need to get used to it.

The opening ceremony lasted about 90 minutes.

After attending the opening ceremony, Xu Qingzhou first dropped Song Yao off at the company, and then drove himself to the research institute.

One month has passed since the challenge of the triple product peak, and the institute has made progress on the ignition experiments of many sub-projects.

Furthermore, in early August, they successfully maintained Lawson's ignition threshold for 360 seconds, but they were too lazy to publicize such a small experiment.

While the Lawson ignition threshold time has been continuously extended, systematic verification and final experimentation of net energy gain are still needed to make the technology valuable for application in demonstration reactors.

Xu Qingzhou's primary task now is to upgrade the divertor.

At the research institute, we are simultaneously testing superconducting magnet fatigue, negative triangularity optimization, and thermoelectric conversion efficiency, among other things.

"Professor Xu."

Ren Nan handed the report to Xu Qingzhou.

"This is the latest TBR report."

TBR, or tritium breeding ratio, is crucial for the commercialization of controlled nuclear fusion. It requires tritium fuel self-sufficiency to avoid fuel depletion; otherwise, fusion reactors will rely on external tritium supplies, resulting in extremely high costs and unsustainability. Without mastering this, fusion reaction experiments can only be conducted briefly and cannot achieve stable operation.

Judging from the data, the performance after this modification is quite good.

"If we continue down the path of magnetically confined neutron focusing systems, we might be able to increase the TBR to 1.1, thereby achieving a net energy gain."

"Hard to say."

Putting down the test report, Xu Qingzhou continued, "Although the effect is significant, the material and energy consumption is also quite significant. Maintaining the magnetic confinement neutron focusing system requires continuous energy consumption. I just did a rough calculation, and once activated, it can account for 15% of the device's total energy consumption."

"This"

Ren Nan also noticed this problem, saying, "We just received the report and haven't done the calculations yet. If the energy consumption reaches 15%, it will be a loss for us."

"Magnetic confinement neutron focusing systems are still very worthwhile to explore and can be continued."

Xu Qingzhou glanced at the report on the table. "However, this report has given me an idea. Perhaps we can give it a try."

"Tell me something."

"Magnetic confinement neutron focusing is essentially a particle guidance technology."

Xu Qingzhou paused for a moment, then voiced his thoughts, "Could we also conduct the same type of energy directional flow, regulate the flow of conductive fluid, and guide the 14 MeV neutrons generated by fusion to bombard the tritium breeding layer more precisely?"

"In this way, the engineering difficulty is relatively small, and the energy consumption will be much lower."

"You're referring to a boundary local mode (ELM) suppression technique similar to EAST, which suppresses ELM bursts through resonant magnetic perturbation fields (RMP)."

“Yes, magnetohydrodynamic diversion.” Xu Qingzhou nodded.

Ren Nan fell silent, pondering the technology Xu Qingzhou had mentioned.

half an hour.

"It's very feasible."

"Professor Zheng and I have formed a joint team to explore this idea you just mentioned and see if we can come up with something different."

Academician Ren Nan is also a man of action, and he immediately decided to form a group to conduct research.

Xu Qingzhou had no objections, got up and went back to his office. He only needed to provide one idea; the rest he could see were Ren Nan and the others.

Ten minutes later, Zheng Xu arrived at Ren Nan's office.

"These are the test data."

Ren Nan made tea for Zheng Xu and said this at the same time.

After reviewing the data, Zheng Xu pondered, "In fact, in terms of overall performance, the device already has the potential to challenge net energy gain. It has been steadily maintaining Q≥0.5. After another round of upgrades, no, even optimization of the energy consumption of supporting facilities, it can reach Q≥1."

"But do you think Professor Xu's goal is simply Q≥1?"

Academician Ren Nan smiled faintly, "From what I can tell from Professor Xu's words, the next large-scale ignition experiment will probably reach a new level."

Zheng Xu laughed and said with a sigh, "It's boring to do things the conventionally. This is how we get motivated to work. By the way, what about the joint team you mentioned on the phone earlier?"

"Professor Xu just mentioned a new approach: magnetohydrodynamic flow diversion technology."

"I think it's okay!"

(End of this chapter)