"...Um, is there such a thing? I can't seem to remember clearly."
"Just about to eat..." Looking at the plastic cup and cotton swab she handed him, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned: "... this is it?"
Maybe in a while, there will be two or three more electric buses driving in front of the Suzhou Garden.
Ever since he went to school for a physics class that day, Lu Zhou hadn't been out much in the past week.
After all, the process of a society moving from the past to the future is often not accomplished overnight, but is completed subtly.
Stopping the pen in his hand, Lu Zhou pinched his eyebrows and looked at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen.
On the other hand, during the week he was in seclusion, a lot of things happened outside.
Yan Yan
This industrial town located in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta can be said to support half of China's high-tech industries. With a population of just over 10 million, the annual electricity consumption is almost as high as that of Shanghai, which is next door. It exceeded 150 billion kilowatt hours a few years ago, and is now heading towards 200 billion kilowatt hours.
Only when production costs fall and companies have money can they have the confidence to update production technology and the capital to develop automation and electrification. As the cost of electricity becomes cheaper, the industrial structure of the entire city and even the province will shift more towards the core areas of the industrial chain.
Humanity's pursuit of efficiency is eternal.
Now is 2020, which is only the first year that Pangudui is connected to the grid for power generation.
With the corner of his mouth curved, Lu Zhou glanced at the little guys busy in the study with satisfaction, handed the place over to Xiao Ai, and then turned and walked downstairs.
Lu Zhou was slightly stunned when he saw the person standing at the door through the camera at the entrance of the courtyard.
In the current global economic downturn, the connection of fusion reactors to the grid is like bringing nectar to the entire manufacturing industry in Jiangsu Province.
The economic effects brought about by this disruptive revolution in the energy structure are much more effective than directly paying subsidies to raise a bunch of moths who cheat on subsidies.
Although Lu Zhou was embarrassed to always ask Wang Peng to help him with things outside of work, the more times he was embarrassed, the more he got used to it.
[Okay, Master!]
Of course, what surprised him more than the time was the date.
However, he has not gained anything these days.
As for what the more distant future will look like, I’m afraid only the future will know.
Yan Yan raised her eyebrows: "One is for collecting feces and the other is for collecting urine. You don't need me to help you?"
Objectively speaking, the mathematical difficulty of the Yang-Mills equation is not as maddening as the NS equation.
Perhaps in a year or two, smart devices such as sweeping robots will have spread throughout every household without even realizing it, and wired or wireless charging piles will have unknowingly spread from gas stations to the parking lots of every shopping mall.
"Is it already ten o'clock?"
Lu Zhou vaguely remembered that Wang Peng told him about this the day before yesterday, but he was thinking about a problem when he answered the phone and couldn't remember exactly what was said.
With the official connection of the Pangu fusion reactor to the grid, and with the coordination of policies, the industrial electricity price in Jiangsu Province has been cut by nearly half.
Especially for power-hungry companies like the semiconductor industry, production costs have dropped at an almost visible rate.
When the speed of thinking is fast enough, time cannot catch up with the pace of thinking
This statement may be a bit idealistic, but it is indeed Lu Zhou's most intuitive feeling.
Standing at the door of the study, Lu Zhou thought for a while, cleared his throat and spoke.
"Xiao Ai, clean the room for me... except for the things on the table."
A string of clean bubbles popped up from the lower right corner of the computer screen.
It's good now, he no longer has any appetite after being fucked like this by her.
Especially after solving the existence problem of solutions to NS equations, the L-manifold and the "differential topology research method of differential equations" he obtained in his research are also very effective in solving the existence problem of solutions to Yang-Mills equations. , at least saving him more than a month's workload.
When he was in Princeton, he would still drive to the nearby Wal-Mart to buy groceries, but now, even the grocery shopping is done by others.
If his doctoral student is good enough, he can give him this task.
Unexpectedly, a week has passed since the last physics class, and he didn't even feel anything.
"You had a test result in yesterday's physical examination."
Originally, he planned to have a meal before going to class.
In the entire Jiangsu Province, the place that can most intuitively feel the changes brought about by the integration of the Pangu Fusion Reactor into the grid is probably Gusu in Jiangsu Province, apart from Haizhou, which is close to the water and is located on a first-come-first-served basis.
After a while, Yan Yan, wearing casual clothes, walked into the house after crossing the path on the front lawn.
Seeing Lu Zhou's confused expression, Yan Yan sighed: "I know you are busy, and I have brought you everything... By the way, you haven't had breakfast yet, right?"
In three to five years’ time, perhaps even the delivery of small items and takeaways will be handled by drones that shuttle between high-rise buildings.
After not going out for a week, it’s not just the room that needs to be tidied up.
However, it is now spring, and the peak period of summer electricity consumption has not yet arrived. Most people have not clearly felt the impact of the reduction in electricity prices on their lives. At most, they are surprised when they see the electricity bill, or even not surprised at all. No expression at all.
What is she here for
"Sure enough, it's not that easy to solve..."
It was obviously dark outside the window just now, but it was so bright in the blink of an eye.
However, from a macro perspective, with the reduction in electricity prices, demand in the entire electrical appliance and new energy vehicle markets has increased significantly.
The most important one is probably the East Asia Electric Power Company.
However, starting from today is the tenth week.
Lu Zhou: "...No, thank you."
After taking a hot shower and drying his hair, Lu Zhou came out of the bathroom and changed into clean clothes. He stood in front of the mirror for a while and then walked to the entrance.
After meeting, she didn't say hello, just glanced at him.
Since he was promoted to LV8 in mathematics, this was the first time that Lu Zhou calmed down and concentrated on thinking about a pure mathematical proposition. This was also the first time that he had personally experienced the gulf-like gap between LV8 and LV7.
If something hadn't happened today, he would probably have stayed in seclusion.
For those manufacturing owners in Jiangsu Province, this can be said to be a blessing from heaven.
He has a computational materials science class to attend soon.
Rather, it is reflected in a kind of transcendence of thinking.
Lu Zhou reached out and opened the curtains. Looking at the stuffed paper basket next to the corner of the table and the handwriting on the stack of draft papers on the table, Lu Zhou sighed, pushed away his chair and stood up.
At the same time, in addition to industrial electricity prices, residential electricity prices in Haizhou, Suzhou, Jinling and other cities have also seen step reductions ranging from 10% to 20%.
Of course, even though his thinking speed became faster, when he was immersed in research, his sense of time became thinner. Often a whole day passed without him realizing it, so that in the end he had to rely on his stomach to remind him.
It is difficult to describe this feeling in detail, but if he had to talk about his feelings, it would be that when he devoted himself wholeheartedly to thinking about mathematical propositions, everything in the outside world seemed to slow down.
…
At least he was just about to complete the last step of proving the existence of the solution.
This difference is not reflected in calculations.
Probably on the second day of his retreat, East Asia Electric Power, which had completed its reorganization, reached an agreement with State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Company. At the same time, the twelve magnetic fluid generator units of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant have finally completed the final debugging and are officially connected to the grid to generate electricity, delivering clean and cheap electricity to the entire Jiangsu Province at a very cheap and still profitable price. .
However, just when he was about to put on his shoes, the doorbell rang outside.
Although he had some doubts in his mind, Lu Zhou pressed the button to open the door and opened the security door.
After a while, a drone flew in through the open window and flew out the window with a paper basket hanging. Immediately afterwards, the sweeping robot wiped Lu Zhou's trouser legs and rushed into the study and began to clean up the garbage on the floor.
But unfortunately, Wu Shuimu's current level of computational materials science is far from being able to take charge of his own work. At least it is still a little behind the two apprentices he led at Princeton, one with a master's degree and one with a Ph.D., so this matter still has to be done by him. Just do it yourself.
On the surface, the drop in energy costs only makes the electricity costs lower for factory owners and entrepreneurs, but in fact it changes the future of the entire city, and even everyone in this urban agglomeration.