After listening to Zhao Yi's speech, everyone present looked shocked. Although he had already had these assumptions and made corresponding arrangements, he had not expressed them publicly like today.
It can be seen from his words that he has carried out relatively comprehensive work on energy layout, taking many things into consideration and putting them into practice.
And from his words, we can hear several meanings: The first meaning is that my country's photovoltaic power generation technology is very mature and has reached the stage of large-scale commercial deployment.
This is relatively familiar to experts in the energy field, because during the implementation process, Xinhui Energy Company needs to deal with many domestic energy experts, and it is not a secret to these people.
But for water conservancy experts, it still has a certain impact. After all, there has been basically no progress in the development of the global photovoltaic power generation industry before. Xinhui Energy Company's silicon photovoltaic power generation facilities are already the most advanced in the world.
However, they are quite clear about the cost of silicon photovoltaic power generation. If they want to compare the cost with hydropower generation, there is basically no advantage, and even compared with thermal power generation, there is no advantage.
It is precisely because of the high cost of silicon photovoltaic power generation that Xinhui Energy Company itself only built a small silicon photovoltaic power plant for experimental purposes and has never built one since.
Since last year, Xinhui Energy Company has once again launched the large-scale construction of photovoltaic power plants. Many people have heard about it, but many people still think that it uses silicon crystal photovoltaic power generation technology.
In fact, the people present are still not very clear about what kind of photovoltaic technology Xinhui Energy Company's photovoltaic power plant uses. After all, their level of knowledge has not yet broken through the limitations of silicon photovoltaic power generation.
Because photovoltaic coating technology sounds a bit too sci-fi to many people, let alone them, even Zhao Yi had not linked photovoltaic power generation and coatings before.
If it hadn't been for the opportunity of photovoltaic ceramics, he would not have connected the two. However, when the connection between the two was established, it completely opened the door to the development of photovoltaics in our country and completely changed our country's energy structure.
And from what he said, Xinhui Energy Company still considers that it cannot fully digest the produced electricity and chooses to extend the construction period of photovoltaic power plants.
This is really unusual in their view. If it weren't for the fact that Xinhui Energy Company had built a large number of thermal power plants before, my country's electricity supply and demand would be seriously unequal, and supply could not keep up with the development of demand.
Therefore, experts in the energy field are very clear about the position of Xinhui Energy Company in my country's energy development strategy. It can be said that without Xinhui Energy Company, my country's economic development will definitely be significantly affected.
It can be said that Xinhui Energy Company is the top energy giant in my country and even the world. The photovoltaic power plant technology they proposed is quite convincing to experts and scholars in the energy field.
Many people were very happy after hearing this meaning. After all, energy actually represents the possibility of economic development. Almost all economic activities are based on energy development.
If there is sufficient energy supply, it can indeed break the limitation of my country's low per capita resource share in the energy field and lay a solid foundation for my country's sustained and rapid economic development.
So when they heard that Xinhui Energy Company was worried that the electricity it generated could not be consumed, they were not worried, but were surprised. In addition, the cost was much lower than current power generation technology, and they were even more delighted.
Having energy brings unlimited possibilities. The reason why the US dollar can be so strong and become an international settlement currency is because it is linked to oil. If our country has unlimited energy supply, theoretically our currency will be equally strong.
This is only domestically. If these energy technologies are exported, the influence of strategic resources such as oil will be greatly weakened. By then, half of the hegemony of the US dollar will be abolished.
By then, oil will have completely turned into an industrial raw material and will be completely out of touch with energy. It will be my country's trump card in responding to changes in the international situation and increasing its own influence.
So from this perspective, photovoltaic coatings are actually a strategic resource, and it is an inexhaustible strategic resource. It has more development prospects than oil dug out of the ground.
I just don’t know whether this is good or bad for the Middle East countries. The benefits are naturally very obvious. Oil will become an ordinary mineral resource, which will not arouse the covetousness of world powers, and will not be as uneasy as it is now.
The disadvantage is that they lack a major source of income. With their desert land occupying an absolute proportion of land resources, it is very difficult to develop the economy. It is not as easy and comfortable as making money from selling oil now.
Everything always has two sides. Generally speaking, without sufficient strength, it is difficult to have both. It can be said that photovoltaic coatings are strategic materials that can affect the global energy pattern and geopolitical pattern.
This is also the reason why Cornerstone Materials Company banned the export of photovoltaic coatings. They must know that the export of this product can bring them huge economic benefits, but they still choose not to export it.
The second meaning is that my country's current power utilization is not sufficient, and all walks of life across the country need to participate together to achieve complete victory in energy substitution.
Although the energy substitution strategies he proposed are all related to his companies, if we want to completely complete this work, it is indispensable for the whole country to work together, and we cannot just rely on a few super giant companies.
He proposed these at this meeting mainly because he wanted to promote state-owned enterprises to carry out energy substitution work more quickly, rather than unilateral advancement of his enterprises, which is too slow.
As mentioned before, although the use of all-electric metal smelting equipment has indeed been applied in some state-owned steel companies, the effect is much better than traditional smelting technology.
The good effect here means that the metal smelted using electricity has more stable performance and higher yield, and it also means that the cost of metal smelting is lower and the environmental protection standards are higher.
It can be said that the use of electric energy for metal smelting, no matter from which perspective, far exceeds the traditional smelting method and has great promotion value.
But so far, there are some companies using this smelting method, but not many. The main reason is not that the equipment and methods are not good, but because it requires huge investment in transformation, and many smelting companies are not willing to do this.
If they are all replaced, it will require an investment of at least several hundred million yuan, and at most it will require tens or tens of billions of yuan. Steel smelting itself is a relatively low-profit industry. With such a large investment, many companies are not willing to replace it immediately. .
Relying solely on the power of the enterprise to carry out replacement work is a bit slow. If this plan is promoted from the government level, the effect may be completely different.
That's why he emphasizes the importance of energy substitution, because he wants to attract the national government's attention to this aspect of work. It would of course be best if a national strategic plan is formed.
Zhao Yi's own companies can only provide relevant equipment and basic components for my country's energy substitution strategy, and cannot decide whether others will launch new energy equipment.
Therefore, if we want to completely complete this plan, we must find a broader consensus. This time we just took the opportunity to speak out about this matter, hoping to form a consensus at the government level.
The government not only has a relatively large number and scale of state-owned enterprises, but also has the power to formulate my country's new energy policies. With the support of the government, things will become twice the result with half the effort.
The third meaning is that the development of other forms of energy will become dispensable. For example, the construction of hydropower stations will become less important. At least small hydropower stations across the country can be dismantled on a large scale.
Due to the previous power shortage in our country, many places built many small dams to solve the power problem, and then installed small generators to provide power supply to several nearby villages and towns.
This is an expedient measure in a special period, because our country did face the problem of insufficient power supply before, and local governments could only find ways to solve the problem on their own.
But the situation is different now. At the national level, both power generation and grid transmission capacity have been greatly enhanced. Therefore, the small power stations established before need to be dismantled.
Because these small power stations have not actually undergone strict scientific planning and evaluation, they are all decided by local governments. Many small power stations have caused a certain degree of damage to the environment.
Large-scale water conservancy facility construction projects carried out at the national level should also be demonstrated based on other uses, rather than whether they generate electricity or not. Only in this way can a more objective scientific assessment report be obtained.
In other words, in the future, the ability to generate electricity will not be the main basis for building water conservancy hub facilities, but will be demonstrated from multiple dimensions such as water storage, flood control, water transportation, environmental protection, and ecology.
This also means that our country will not need to build so many water conservancy dams in the future, which plays a very important role in maintaining the natural ecology.
Although this is not stated explicitly, everyone can feel it in the words. After all, the power issue will no longer be a problem restricting my country's economic development, and many water conservancy hubs that can be built or not will not be built.
Of course, specific to this meeting, the Three Gorges Dam, in addition to its large power generation capacity, also has functions such as flood control and waterway navigation. How to make specific decisions is not his decision.
This issue needs to be left to water conservancy experts and environmental experts to think about. They are just stating the facts, hoping to provide more basis for project demonstration.
As for his vision of future energy, no one actually took it seriously. Anyway, the commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion is still 50 years away. It seems that this time period has become a fixed scale.
Of course, everyone is very happy with our country's achievements in the field of controllable nuclear fusion. After all, this is also the most cutting-edge field of science and technology, and it is not easy to achieve a leading position.
In the past, many physics institutes in our country have conducted their own controlled nuclear fusion research, but they mainly used tokamak devices. After all, the manufacturing difficulty of such devices is relatively simple.
Zhao Yi included controllable nuclear fusion in the "General Outline of Future Science and Engineering" and invested a lot of money in this area to support the research of controllable nuclear fusion.
As a result, my country's controllable nuclear fusion research has entered the fast lane. National scientific research institutes mainly invest research funds from the government, and Zhao Yi's research in this area is mainly handed over to Xinhui Energy Company.
However, even in government research projects, Zhao Yi has invested a lot of money, which can be regarded as a two-way bet, because the national research institutions and Xinhui Energy Company have chosen different routes to achieve controllable nuclear fusion.
Because the national research institution has conducted a lot of research on tokamak devices before and has a certain foundation in this area, they chose to continue to work in this area, which will make it easier to produce results.
Xinhui Energy Company's previous research in this area was completely blank. Due to its relatively weak foundation, it allowed them to paint more calmly, so they chose the star simulator route instead.
The tokamak device is mainly derived from the research results related to polar bears, and the countries that have been more successful in producing stellar simulators are European and American countries, especially Germany, which has quite strong research capabilities in this area.
The main difference between the two is the different methods of magnetic confinement of the materials involved in nuclear fusion, which leads to a great difference in the construction difficulty of the two devices.
The tokamak's toroidal spiral magnetic cage requires plasma current to generate, but the stellarator does not need to produce a twisted toroidal magnetic cage directly through the external coil.
The manufacturing of tokamak devices is relatively simple and does not require particularly high processing technology. This is one of the reasons why our country chose to take this route before.
However, tokamak also has its own problems, that is, it is relatively difficult to control the internal reaction materials, its stability is worse than that of stellarators, and it is difficult to miniaturize it.
The difficulty of the stellarator is that it is difficult to manufacture the device. Without advanced processing technology, this route will basically not be taken. However, the benefits are also very obvious. Since there is no plasma ring current, the operation is safer, and it is expected to establish a small , Steady-state controllable nuclear fusion reactor.
Xinhui Energy Company made this choice because, on the one hand, it is more confident in the equipment processing capabilities of its brother companies and believes that it can process more complex and difficult parts.
As we all know, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company's CNC machining technology is already the most advanced in the world, providing a solid foundation for Xinhui Energy Company's stellarator manufacturing.
On the other hand, this is exploring different paths for controllable nuclear fusion. Since the national team has chosen the tokamak device, there is no need for Xinhui Energy to engage in research in this area.
And no one can tell whether the tokamak device is the first to commercialize controllable nuclear fusion, or whether the stellarator is the first to commercialize it. The safest way is to walk on two legs.
In the past, our country's economic development was relatively backward. If we wanted to walk on two legs, not to mention whether it was technically possible, even the economic strength could not support it. The limited research funds could only be concentrated in one place, which would make it easier to produce results.
The national team was the first to achieve results this time. They have a relatively strong research foundation in this area. In addition, there is no shortage of research funds, and the country's basic industry has also been greatly improved. Results are inevitable.
Although Xinhui Energy Company is not small in size, its profit scale is actually not very high. In addition, it was previously studying the conventional energy field.
Zhao Yi also provided a lot of help with their nuclear power plant technology to achieve such achievements in such a short period of time. Otherwise, their nuclear power plant would not have known how long it would take to research before it could reach the world's leading level.
As for their controllable nuclear fusion research, Zhao Yi did not provide much technical information, and mainly relied on themselves to complete this work.
The reason for doing this is mainly because their foundation in this area is very weak, whether it is scientific research team building or the theoretical basis of controllable nuclear fusion.
In this case, providing them with relevant information is actually not of much benefit to them. Their first task is to do solid work in the basic areas.
After they had done solid work in the basic field, Zhao Yi repeatedly provided them with the necessary technical support based on the actual situation, so that they could achieve breakthrough results in a short period of time.
Xinhui Energy Company is still in the construction stage of the stellarator. It has just completed the theoretical foundation construction of the stellarator and has not yet conducted any substantive experiments.
Therefore, their controllable nuclear fusion research is unknown both at home and abroad. Even many international research institutions do not know that Xinhui Energy Company actually has a controllable nuclear fusion research team.
This is seriously inconsistent with their achievements in the energy field. In the conventional energy field, Xinhui Energy Company definitely has a significant reputation in the industry, and it is also emerging in the field of nuclear power plant technology.
Xinhui Energy Company plans to focus on stellar emulators. In fact, Zhao Yi asked them to do this. The main purpose is because the application range of stellar emulators is wider.
If you want to make breakthroughs in the field of space exploration in the future, you still need controllable nuclear fusion. Compared with tokamak, stellarator is easier to miniaturize and more stable, which means it is easier to go into space.
And with him here, when the tokamak device is commercialized in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, he will also be able to help Xinhui Energy Company achieve commercialization in the field of stellarators in a short period of time.
So for others, 50 years is a variable that can be moved at will, but in his eyes, it is a real fixed period of time, because he does not want this day to come for too long.
This is why the photovoltaic power generation equipment of Xinhui Energy Company will have a service life of about 50 years, because by that time, these photovoltaic power generation equipment will come to an end, and then a controllable nuclear fusion power station will be built, which will coincide with the replacement of the old with the new.
Subsequently, Zhao Yi answered some experts' questions and explained the details that could be described appropriately, so that these experts could have a more complete understanding.
At this point, the content of the subsequent meeting basically had nothing to do with him. During the lunch break, he said goodbye to the meeting organizer. It would be a waste of time to continue to stay. (End of chapter)