Upper Beijing.

Chang'an Avenue.

After a morning meeting, Wang Yongping, the CEO of PetroChina, who came out of the conference room, looked at the meeting notes in his hand, and the expression on his face was a little subtle and complicated.

Since the beginning of the month, the senior management has made a series of adjustments to the energy development strategy, and at the previous meeting, it was a detailed deployment of the development plan of several domestic energy companies in the next five years.

As far as what was decided at the meeting......

At least not for PetroChina.

The first is that the upper limit on the scale of overseas investment has been cut by about 130 billion US dollars, and the second is that the contracts that have been signed will remain unchanged, and the expansion of overseas oil and gas fields will be stopped within three years.

And not only that, but there are also a series of hard indicators such as "50,000 charging piles in two years", "at least four charging piles installed at each station at gas stations along the highway within a year".

Judging from all indications, it seems that the state is determined to remove the attribute of fuel from civilian petroleum products.

In fact, it is not that he cannot understand the decision made by the top management, after all, the foreign exchange reserves consumed by China on energy imports every year are really amazing.

However, understanding is understanding, and it is impossible to say that there is no feeling of pain in the heart at all.

Especially overseas investment, it is the most fertile place for oil and water.

Such a knife still made him feel some flesh pain.

But they're not the worst.

At least compared to the coal companies that were knocked down, they are lucky.

Not to mention anything else, just that sentence of understatement to produce capacity, I don't know how many people have to go through the hair.

In particular, the resettlement of laid-off workers and the local financial ...... of several major coal-producing provinces

Wang Yongping just thought about these questions for them, and he felt his scalp tingle for a while.

In addition, not only these energy extraction companies, but also the two major power grids and the five major power groups have been assigned their own tasks.

In particular, clear provisions have been made for the total installed capacity of fusion reactor power generation and the adjustment plan for industrial electricity prices and residential electricity prices.

However, compared with the price paid, the power company still reaped a lot of benefits from this meeting.

In particular, cross-regional power transmission projects to Laos and Myanmar.

If this project is completed, whether it can make money is secondary, this is Hongguoguo's political achievement......

Exporting energy to neighbouring countries means that the country will have a stronger voice in the region.

Wang Yongping admitted that his eyes were red.

It's like a person sitting at home, and the credit automatically falls to the head.

But it can't be helped, who wants people to be lucky?

……

With the breakthrough of controllable fusion technology, both domestic and foreign politics. The governance situation will usher in a new round of reshuffle in this new round of reform of productive forces.

And among them, some people are naturally happy and some are worried.

However, the fate of the individual, in the changes of the times, is often insignificant.

Just as the tide of history is irreversible, nothing can stop it from moving forward.

In such an environment, I am afraid that the whole of 2020 will not be peaceful.

However, compared with the "actors" who are busy on the stage, Lu Zhou himself, who kicked off this new era, seems much more relaxed.

There's even time to go to the TV station next to you.

On the day before the New Year, the light of science program studio was live, and the audience was crowded.

Walking into the studio amid applause, Lu Zhou, who walked on the stage, smiled and waved to them, and then sat on the sofa prepared for him in advance.

While sitting on the sofa, Lu Zhou briefly glanced at the audience.

The faces of the audience were relatively young, and most of them looked like they were students from local universities, but some were from nearby high schools or even junior high schools.

When they saw him, the expressions on everyone's faces were very excited, and the applause from the audience was quite warm.

The only thing that is unclear is that I don't know if these people are group performers invited by the TV station......

emmmm……

It's better to think of it.

Sitting opposite Lu Zhou, the host He Ying looked at Lu Zhou and said with a smile.

"Professor Lu, are you feeling better?"

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded: "It's almost recovered, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here." ”

There was good-natured laughter from the audience.

As was pre-arranged, the camera suspended above the studio gave several close-ups of the audience's expressions.

The propaganda department hopes that through this program, he will send a signal to the public and the international community that his health is improving.

Although it was unclear whether there was any objection to doing so, Lu Zhou readily agreed to their request.

After all, his body is indeed almost better.

Let so many people worry about their health, which still makes him a little unhappy.

After a lively greeting, He Ying said to Lu Zhou with a smile: "Before the show starts, I would like to ask you a few questions for our audience friends. ”

Lu Zhou, who crossed his index finger on his knee and leaned on the sofa, smiled and said, "Ask, as long as I can answer, I will definitely know everything." ”

"Don't worry, this Professor Lu, it will definitely be easy for you." As she spoke, He Ying flipped through the card in her hand and said with a smile, "The first question is a netizen from Su Province. ”

In his question, he expressed concern that the thermal pollution caused by controlled fusion could exacerbate global warming, what do you think about this, Professor Lu?

Does anyone still know about thermal pollution?

The eyebrows were raised with interest, and a hint of surprise appeared in Lu Zhou's expression.

It seems that the audience level of this session is not bad.

At least he didn't ask "Will a fusion reactor explode be more powerful than a fission reactor?" "It's a laughable question.

Leaning on the sofa, Lu Zhou thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "Global warming is a systemic topic, let's not discuss the possibility that this friend said for the time being, and consider this issue from the perspective of scientific thinking." ”

He Ying: "Scientific thinking? ”

Lu Zhou: "That's right, junior high school physics will probably mention that when we study a moving object, the first thing we need to do is to choose a suitable frame of reference, and then study the relative motion of the object to the frame of reference. ”

"For example, when we discuss the speed of a running athlete, we don't study the size or frequency of his steps alone, nor the speed of his arm swings, but we discuss him as a whole, using the track or something else as a frame of reference, to discuss his displacement and time relative to the track."

"For a huge system, like Earth. When we study it, we should not only study a single sample in the system in isolation, but should discuss it as a whole from the equivalent spatial and temporal scales. ”

"Taking controlled fusion out of its own right, and putting it on an equal footing with the earth's environment, is itself a practice that goes against scientific thinking."

"Because whether it's thermal power or nuclear power, it's just a way to generate electricity. However, it is not the way of power generation that determines the total calorific value of social production and life, but demand. ”

He Ying: "Demand? ”

Lu Zhou nodded: "That's right." ”

To a certain extent, controlled fusion will accelerate the development of productivity, but without nuclear fusion, will productivity not develop? This is obviously impossible.

As long as the need for development exists, civilization will eventually develop to that point over time, but it will go relatively slowly, and the price paid on the road will be heavier.

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the audience who seemed to understand whether they understood or not, Lu Zhou guessed that most of them didn't understand, so he replied in a more understandable way.

"On a shorter time scale, controlled fusion technology is beneficial for mitigating global warming. The median energy conversion efficiency of traditional thermal power technology is about 35%, which means that we need to release 2.85% of the total heat by burning coal to produce 1 unit of electricity, and release the corresponding carbon dioxide and other sulfur-containing gases. ”

"But this is not the case with controlled fusion. According to the magnetofluid generator set on the STAR-2 demonstration reactor, the current theoretical energy conversion efficiency can reach 50%, and there is still room for further improvement. Based on 50% of the data, we only need to release 2 units of total heat to produce 1 unit of electricity, and there are no greenhouse gas emissions. ”

"China is a major energy consumer, consuming half of the world's total coal consumption every year. If we make a difference on carbon emissions, the whole world will change because of us. ”

On longer time scales, it's not just human behavior that has to be considered, but other factors that are more cyclical than others.

For example, the periodic law of solar activity.

In the middle of the 21st century, there is a high probability that solar activity will enter the Mondstadt minimum, where the amount of heat reaching the Earth will be 0.3% less than that of the maximum.

And what is the concept of this 0.3%?

Referring to Mr. Zhu Kezhen's "Meteorological History of China", the four Xiaoice periods in history coincided with the special period of the four dynasties of the Yin and Zhou dynasties, the three kingdoms at the end of the Han dynasty, the five dynasties at the end of the Tang dynasty, and the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties. Taking the end of the Ming Dynasty as an example, according to historical records, in the winter of the seventh year of Zhengde of Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, Dongting Lake froze for one foot, and the Yangtze River was frozen for a month, which showed its power.

Relative to solar activity, the amount of heat released by human activity is not on the same order of magnitude at all.

At least for now, it's too far off.

However, time is limited, and there is no need to elaborate too much on these things in the show......