Economic and Population Trap
Chapter 289:Economic and Population Trap
According to this development, the development of the whole society seems to be very smooth, and there is no particularly rare place.
Even the human footprints are like that...
Science and technology have progressed, life is rich, of course, to pursue peace, the pursuit of democracy, equality, is it true that some people really like to fight and kill all day long?
What has prevented the development of nuclear fusion and dragged it down for 50 years and 50 years?
Is this technology itself super difficult, or is it not enough to worry about it?Is it a social system or something else?
The meeting was very quiet, and Yu Yifeng was also caught in his own contemplation.
A decadent breath continues to ferment in the venue.
Especially for many people here, scientists, engineers, and even nuclear physicists, who can think of something more.
Many people have already sat in their seats in a pale face, idly idly.
Controlled nuclear fusion technology has always been a very eye-popping project, and has never invested a lot of energy and money.
Because of the large amount of cheap uranium resources in Knicks, even if this nuclear fusion develops, it will not be cheaper than the current uranium ore, so it becomes dispensable.
Occasionally there will be a little news, and then it will be cold again.
All the Knicks are steeped in the wave of scientific progress and seem to ignore the technology.
They are misled by the media, they are in the era of the big explosion of science and technology, and science is increasing at the exponential level.Nuclear fusion is achievable, and occasional positive news suggests that the work is continuing.
Well, there’s news that just some plasma is ignited and then how long it lasts, but no egg for formal power generation...
Formal power generation requires stability, long-term stability.
If the ignition is so laborious, where does the official power generation come from?
These news just jump out from time to time, calm the public, tell everyone: scientific researchers are not lazy, do not waste taxpayers money ... that is all.
Once upon a time, a wise man who studied superconductivity said in an interview: “Nuclear fusion will be ready when society needs it!”
It seems to be saying on the surface that nuclear fusion is achievable, and everyone can rest assured that the future energy problem is.
In fact, it is grumbling, it is completely insufficient money invested by the government, and this technology has not been developed late...
No one noticed the subtext.
Everyone is immersed in the "technological explosion" of the world, and it is too far away from the energy crisis.
The development of the Knicks civilization has now been bled down all the privileged classes, of course, including, of course, the formerly transcendently virtuous class.
Capital began to dominate civilization.
It is impossible for a dictator to jump out and try to study a project with the strength of the whole country, such a government has long been overthrown, and it is really thought to be a wartime?
Now is the era of democracy and peace, and everything must be centered on economic construction and vigorously develop productive forces.
The happiness and stability of the people are the first priority, and everything is closer to the economy.
But capital has one thing in common: profit-seeking.Capital is profit-seeking.
Studying nuclear fusion?Ask for money!
Where does the money come from, the taxpayers have it in their pockets?
More, social public services will inevitably decline, the people are not willing.
Scientific research funds need to be spent on the blade, can not be wasted on the seemingly not very important nuclear fusion, because uranium ore is too much, too cheap, enough to use 100,000 years!
So what is the cost of studying nuclear fusion?Let’s get more developed later!
The sage class, from ancient times to the present, has defeated nature, defeated religion, but defeated it in the face of money.
Without money, are you a bird?Without money, scientific materials cannot be purchased.
The development of science has thus been put on a tight spell by the economy.Of course, not just nuclear fusion, but more...
People are not willing to sacrifice the quality of life to study this seemingly worthless thing.The common people are only concerned about the immediate life, and the science that can serve the economic development is a good science.
Like the Large Hadron Collider, many Knicks are hard to understand, so much money is better than helping poor areas?There have also been some demonstrations.
In particular, the difficult problem of nuclear fusion, which has been studied for so many years, cannot be achieved much in the short term.So it is better to let other countries study, when the time to prove that it is feasible, and then copy, that is more cost-effective!
For government departments, the issue of public opinion is a big problem, which is related to the appointment and resignation of high-level officials.No one dares to push against public opinion, even if the president does not, and there are congressional constraints.
However, there are still people of insight in government workers, and the sage class still has a good influence even if its status is no longer transcendent.So many science that seems to have no economic effect for a while is still slowly promoted... Although the funds given are not very abundant, at any rate, they are still funded.
In this way, time flies, two hundred years later, controlled nuclear fusion technology ushered in the fifth ... "50 years"!
For more than 200 years, without the existential crisis, the total population of the Knicks has increased tenfold, from the original 230 million people to 2.3 billion.
Many cities don’t even need to rely on volcanoes to build, relying entirely on nuclear power for heating.
It is not only the population, but the personal electricity consumption has increased by more than 10 times compared with the past!
In the past, as long as the Knicks had a light, some heating equipment could meet the electricity demand.
But now ... a variety of electrical appliances, all kinds of personal transportation, more quality entertainment, more personal goods.
More factories also require a lot of electricity.
The Knicks suddenly discovered that the 100,000-year-old energy share needs to be divided by 100!
As a result, this time was reduced directly to a thousand years... and as the population increased and the electricity consumption increased, this time was rapidly shrinking.
1000 years...
“Would you worry about a thousand years of energy crisis?”Professor Heigl asked on the stage.
The elite human beings here can't help but laugh, it's a kind of bitter laughter or bitter laughter...
In contrast, how long can human fossil energy be used by humans?
Scientists and analysts say that 40 years, the most optimistic is 200 years, but this does not take into account the growth of total energy consumption, in fact, a little shorter.
In general, fossil fuels alone are not enough for the 21st century.
Take an average, 100 years.
In the face of the energy crisis that is close to the problem, there is no strong sense of concern.
So, how can we ask these big lizards to worry about things a thousand years from now?Their life span is also comparable to that of humans, or lower.
A thousand years later, the ashes are gone, who will remember me?
“Yes, we are not even aware of the energy crisis 100 years later, let alone a thousand years.”
Heigl sighed: "If ... the project of controlled nuclear fusion itself requires a great deal of resources, a huge amount of energy..."
"This huge amount is a real mass, for example, a hundred times or even a thousand times more than the world's GDP every year!"
“So, when the energy crisis really comes, how do the Knicks get to it?”
"They are facing this problem, they no longer have enough energy and fighting spirit to complete this project!"How are they finished?”
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