100: Chapter 100 Room-Temperature Superconducting Materials! Rare Gold Superconductor: XJ-1!

Chief Designer Bai Yannian responded with a bitter smile.

In his years as a Chief Designer, he had specifically led the advancement of projects for Controlled Nuclear Fusion, so relatively speaking, he certainly had some say in the matter.

But the more that was the case, the more he knew just how difficult it was to achieve Controlled Nuclear Fusion at this current stage!

Chief Designer Bai Yannian said bitterly, "Comrade Lin Mo, if knowing the importance was enough to research it, we in Huaxia would have already developed Controlled Nuclear Fusion long ago!"

"Just considering the technical bottlenecks I currently know of, even if I gave you five years, or even ten or twenty years, if you could truly produce Controlled Nuclear Fusion, it would be nothing short of a miracle!"

Chief Designer Bai Yannian was very clear in his heart that there were far too many technical bottlenecks standing in the way of Controlled Nuclear Fusion research.

Countless scientists from various countries on Blue Star had followed one another, coming up with countless methods and schemes, yet none could be solved within a limited timeframe.

Some technical bottlenecks could only be solved by essentially playing the lottery, experimenting one by one; this couldn't even be called difficult—it was simply as hard as ascending to heaven!

In the eyes of Chief Designer Bai Yannian, the difficulty of Controlled Nuclear Fusion was far greater than building an Aerospace Fighter!

"Chief Designer Bai!" Lin Mo interrupted to remind him, "What five years or ten years? I just said, we will get Controlled Nuclear Fusion done this month."

"You!" Chief Designer Bai Yannian was instantly choked up.

He instinctively wanted to criticize him a few times, but thinking of the series of miracles Lin Mo had previously created, he swallowed his words.

In the end, he could only helplessly say, "Comrade Lin Mo, no matter how much I trust you, I dare not believe that you can achieve Controlled Nuclear Fusion in one month!"

"Before that, let me first tell everyone about our current research progress on Controlled Nuclear Fusion in Huaxia!"

Chief Designer Bai Yannian gathered his thoughts slightly and continued, "Over these years, in order to research Controlled Nuclear Fusion, Huaxia has already invested over a trillion in project funds!"

"The investment of these funds has indeed yielded gratifying progress!"

Chief Designer Bai Yannian was educating Lin Mo and the others: not long ago in May, the Nuclear Power Operation Research Institute, also known as the Plasma Physics Institute, under the leadership of Academician Xiang Guangming, achieved gratifying results in the Controlled Nuclear Fusion project.

The project team used an all-superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device to successfully achieve stable, repeatable high-confinement plasma discharge for over 30 seconds, which is currently the world record for stable discharge in Controlled Nuclear Fusion!

"30 seconds of stability is already the limit we can reach; other countries can't even manage 10 seconds."

"It can be said that Huaxia's scientific research level in Controlled Nuclear Fusion has completely surpassed countries like Eagle Sauce and Germany, placing us at the very forefront of the world, and we are the country with the most hope of being the first to master Controlled Nuclear Fusion!"

Speaking of this, Chief Designer Bai Yannian paused and said, "However, this is still a very long distance from long-term stable control—a completely unreachable distance!"

"And the most regrettable thing is that for the distance to truly achieving control, the specific time it will be reached is completely unpredictable!"

Long Jianjun frowned and asked aloud, "Yannian, what you're saying is a bit strange! Since we are already at the forefront of the world, why can't even the specific time be predicted?"

Chief Designer Bai Yannian shook his head and said, "It's very simple; the several major opportunities to break through in Controlled Nuclear Fusion are completely a matter of luck!"

"I'll give you the simplest example: one of the most critical miracles is the research and development of room-temperature superconducting materials!"

"In recent years, scientists from all over Blue Star have invested themselves one after another into the development of room-temperature superconducting materials, but the research process for room-temperature superconducting materials cannot be pre-set, and there is no clear direction; one can only try them one by one among infinite possibilities."

"Up to now, all scientists developing new materials have ended in failure!"

"Unless Comrade Lin Mo can research a new type of superconducting material, otherwise, Controlled Nuclear Fusion is simply out of the question!"

Room-temperature superconducting materials can be said to be the dream material that modern materials physicists have longed for!

Before this, for superconducting materials to achieve superconductivity, there were extremely harsh conditions.

For example, common copper oxide superconductors have a superconducting critical temperature reaching 135 degrees Celsius!

Or, like the more commonly used hydride superconductors, they also require high pressure to achieve superconductivity.

Due to these harsh conditions, current superconducting materials cannot be practically applied in a normal modern industrial system, and thus it is even more impossible for them to become the foundational materials for Controlled Nuclear Fusion.

And materials Science, also known as lottery Science, is essentially groping in the dark for the infinite laws of change in matter.

To find a specific arrangement and combination of certain substances among countless possibilities, there is no way to take shortcuts; it all relies on guessing one by one.

Yes, purely guessing!

Perhaps some scientists have found ways to guess correctly more easily, such as picking the shortest among three long and one short, or picking the longest among three short and one long... but it is still relying on guessing!

After listening to Chief Designer Bai Yannian's words, everyone frowned and fell into deep thought.

But Lin Mo in the video smiled dismissively at this.

Most of what Chief Designer Bai Yannian said was correct, but the only thing that wasn't was that he still didn't understand him, this cheater, well enough!

To say there were absolutely no shortcuts would be imprecise, because there was one most opportunistic way.

That was, just like him, Lin Mo, to take the standard answer sheet and copy directly!

In the third level of system technology, room-temperature superconducting materials were just one very inconspicuous item among the more than 4,000 newly unlocked supporting sub-technologies!

Once the specific material ratio was available, the subsequent development was very simple.

For example, just today, Lin Mo spent only a few hours and directly hand-crafted a piece of room-temperature superconducting material!

"Chief Designer Bai, here!"

Lin Mo picked up the only ornament on the table, that lump of dark matter spinning while suspended in the air, held it up in front of the camera, and smiled faintly.

"Look, this is the room-temperature superconducting material you wanted."

Chief Designer Bai Yannian: ???

Looking at this lump of dark matter appearing on the display screen, Chief Designer Bai Yannian was completely dumbfounded!

What... what is that thing?

"Comrade Lin Mo, haha, don't joke around! This isn't funny at all, hahaha..." Chief Designer Bai Yannian laughed awkwardly.

Lin Mo replied, "I said just now, I, Lin Mo, never joke around."

Chief Designer Bai Yannian waved his hands frantically, completely disbelieving.

His words hadn't even fully finished landing, and you just picked up a black lump from the table and said it was a room-temperature superconducting material?

How could such a coincidence happen?

If one could believe this, it would truly be seeing a ghost!

"Watch closely, I'll perform a simple experiment for you on the spot."

Lin Mo knew Chief Designer Bai Yannian was an expert, so he didn't say much and immediately started doing a simple experiment on the office desk.

Room-temperature superconducting materials have two most critical performance parameters: the first is zero resistance.

The second is perfect diamagnetism.

Testing these two parameters is very simple.

Lin Mo first placed the dark matter back above the magnet, directly suspending it in mid-air.

Then he picked up the high-precision resistance measuring instrument dedicated for scientific research on the table, held the black probe with his left hand and the red probe with his right hand, and aimed the display screen of the high-precision resistance measuring instrument at the camera.

The two probes were connected to the dark matter currently suspended in mid-air; at this moment, the resistance value on the high-precision resistance measuring instrument clearly displayed "0"!

Lin Mo smiled and said, "Chief Designer Bai, look, diamagnetism, zero resistance."

"It is a room-temperature superconducting material, right!"

Chief Designer Bai Yannian stood up abruptly, and without a word, rushed directly to the front of the large screen in the conference hall, pressed against the screen, wishing he could crawl straight inside!