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Chapter 1028 The problem of smog

"You are Xiao Chu? I heard from the comrades from the State Council that you have made breakthrough progress in researching the field of haze control?"

Xu Chunli stood behind the desk and looked at the young man knocking in the door, his eyes burning.

He is fifty-six years old this year, graduated from the University of Frankfurt, Germany at the age of 28, with a doctorate degree in environmental science and geology. After returning to China, he entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds the title of academician of more than ten national academies in the world, chairman of the China National Environmental Science Association, and a senior professor in the Department of Natural Science and Environment of Shuimu University in Yanjing. If you didn’t read the information, it would be hard to believe that this person who dressed simply, had white hair and had an intellectual temperament all over his body, had so many brilliant titles.

Xu Chunli is currently the Minister of the Department of Technology and Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also of great importance in a place where experts gather in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. For such a level of scientific and technological talents, it is not a rare thing to directly talk to the highest level of the country.

But Xu Chunli was a little confused about the young man sent to him by the country this time. The problem of haze is a global problem. Many countries have been studying it for many years, but there is no good governance method. Can this young man solve such a problem with his own strength?

Xu Chunli is a pure scientist and has never been very familiar with things other than his job research. However, he has the good qualities of many scientific researchers, that is, he is skeptical and inquiry about anything, rather than a preconceived blow to death. Although this young man named Chu Yang seems to have nothing to do with the word "scientist", Minister Xu still attached enough importance to him.

After all, the country will not recommend anyone to him casually. This is not a place to keep idle people. Without some real skills, even if the backend is big, you can't stay here.

When Chu Yang entered the door, he was also looking at the old scientist in his fifties. From him, Chu Yang felt a pure power. This person should be a very simple person. Chu Yang could judge that the person in front of him should be the kind of real scientist who was busy doing research.

Chu Yang respects such people very much. No matter which industry he is in, he can only achieve real achievements only if he is truly obsessed with it. This is even more so in science. Without a truly calm attitude, it is impossible to do a good job in scientific research.

He nodded at Xu Chunli and said with a smile: "Hello Minister Xu, I am Chu Yang."

Xu Chunli looked at Chu Yang again, nodded slightly and said, "Sit down. Let's talk about it specifically, what do you think?"

Xu Chunli was straightforward and talked about specific issues from the beginning. Obviously, it was not very easy to understand the human relationship accident. However, Chu Yang didn't mind this. This matter was originally agreed to the country, and the reason for cooperating with the Chinese Academy of Sciences was to make the whole thing smoother. After all, there were too many departments that needed coordination by Chu Yang himself. Although he could handle these things, it was very troublesome after all.

With the Chinese Academy of Sciences' golden signboard above, things will be much easier. Chu Yang just needs to move his mouth and let them implement the rest of the matter.

Of course, the country has some minor thoughts on this arrangement, but it is just to rely on technical personnel from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to "sneak" some skills from themselves. Chu Yang didn't mind about this matter. The Pure Spirit Array is just a low-level application of the Spirit Gathering Array, but even so, the knowledge of formations involved in the cultivation world is incompatible with the technology of this world. These people who have received the most orthodox scientific education since childhood. It is probably not that easy to figure out the principles of these formations.

Even if they really figure it out, it is not a bad thing. Chu Yang hopes that a few of these people will have high understanding. By that time, I believe that these people will make the right choice. The Chinese Academy of Sciences may be a good place, but compared to practicing the truth, I believe that the temptation is not that great.

Chu Yang nodded and, at the gesture of Minister Xu, sat on the side of the small coffee table in the room, while Minister Xu sat down on the other side.

Looking at this young man, Xu Chunli was also very curious and wanted to see what good ways he could do in the face of the global problem of controlling haze.

As a graduate of the environment, Xu Chunli understands the crux of the current smog problem. In the final analysis, it is the extensive economic growth of China before, which has led to the deterioration of the environment. However, if this problem is really investigated, it is really hard to say who is right and who is wrong.

Is it wrong to develop the economy? Obviously not. If the economy is not developed, how can the national strength be strong? If the national strength is not strong, how can the national strength be safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity?

However, there is a process for developing the economy. When the People's Republic of China was just founded, the heavy industry foundation in China was almost zero, and everything had to start from scratch. At that time, the West did have advanced technology, but the question is whether they would give it to you?

Everything depends on one's own exploration. If you lack technology, you rely on human tactics and extensive and inefficient barbaric development. All this is impossible.

Now, this stage has obviously been passed. After decades of development, China's economic scale has ranked among the top in the world, and can even compete with developed countries in Europe and the United States. However, the rapid development has also caused China to suffer the consequences of the environment.

In Yanjing Province alone, this province with the capital and two important metropolises in Haijin should not have so many heavy industries. However, the reality is that nearly half of the steel enterprises in China are concentrated in Yanbei Province, and these enterprises are large enterprises with high pollution and high energy consumption. Speaking of haze, these enterprises are the biggest culprits. There was a joke online that said: Looking at the global steel production, China is the first, Yanbei is the second, and Tanggang is the third! How far is Tanggang City from Yanjing? It is only more than 100 kilometers. At such a close distance, it has so many heavily polluted steel enterprises. Can the haze not be serious?

However, can we blame Yanbei Province for its unreasonable economic structure? Can we shut down those high-pollution steel enterprises for this reason? Obviously not. From a historical perspective, Yanbei Province's steel enterprises have also had a brilliant history and made indelible contributions to the economic development of China. Although the development of the times has made him seem a bit inappropriate, these achievements cannot be erased.

Let’s talk about the current situation. Any of these large steel enterprises, which have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of workers, will they really shut down or cancel them? How many problems will they face? When many people mention smog on the Internet, they yell at closing and closing up to many factories. How many backward production capacity will be eliminated? If you say it lightly, how can you know the difficulties here if you don’t do it in detail?

The Chinese government now proposes that 60% of Yanbei Province's steel production capacity should be reduced within five years. For any industry insider, the meaning behind this number is self-evident. What is required to make such a decision is the same as a determination as a hero cutting off his arm!

But the real problem is that the smog is getting worse and worse. People suffer deeply every day, and it has reached the point where they cannot be solved. Five years have passed, for this huge plan, it is really not long, but for the current air situation in Yanbei Province, especially the capital, it still seems too long!

As for other methods outside this, the so-called environmental protection experts and professors also thought a lot, but they were all very small. Everyone actually knew that if they did not fundamentally solve the source of pollutants emissions, any other means would not be effective!

Any country in the world will encounter the same problem when experiencing the great era of industrial development. In the past, London, England was the most obvious example.

From December 4 to 9, 1952, the sky above London was controlled by a high-pressure system. A large number of waste gases emitted from factory production and residents' coal heating were difficult to spread and accumulated over the city. The city of London was shrouded in dark fog. There were almost no cars on the road, and people carefully fumbled along the sidewalk. The electric lights on the street were as bright as the smoke, like starlight in the darkness. Until December 10, the strong west wind blew away the terrifying smoke over London.

At that time, the concentration of pollutants in the air in London continued to rise. Many people experienced discomfort such as chest tightness, suffocation, and the incidence and mortality rate increased sharply. During the five days of heavy fog, according to official statistics from the UK, more than 5,000 people died, and more than 8,000 people died one after another in the two months after the heavy fog passed. This incident was called the "London Smoke Incident" and became one of the top ten environmental pollution incidents in the 20th century.

If effective measures are not taken to manage Yanbei Province now, it is likely that it will repeat the mistakes of the London smoke incident!

It is precisely because of this that the old experts in charge of the environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including Xu Chunli, felt very stressed. Last year, the leader appeared on the streets under the heavy fog in Yanjing. At that time, the newspapers and the Internet used the title "Breathe together and share the destiny". For ordinary people, it is undoubtedly inspiring to be able to do this by a country's leader, but for experts in environmental governance, they undoubtedly felt a dull face when they saw this scene!

In the past few days, Xu Chunli is in the joint hospital with the old academicians to start a new round of collective discussion on the haze control plan. But he also knows in his heart that if there is no breakthrough technological progress, if there is no breakthrough technology, it may still be a long way off to solve the haze problem!

Some developed countries in Europe and the United States have already developed a set of solutions to control smog. From a technical perspective, the difficulty of implementation is not very high. But in China, many problems are not only technically solved.

For example, in the UK, the reason why such obvious results have achieved in controlling haze is inseparable from their vigorous use of clean energy. Take the "three-way catalytic" filtration system for motor vehicle emissions that most people know about. It is not installed on some large transportation vehicles in China. Although small cars have forced installations when they leave the factory, most of the later maintenance also has many problems. Not to mention the oil quality problem. Some things are already the "secret" that ordinary people in China know.

Solving these problems is technically easy to achieve, but at other levels, this is not the case. This involves many complex interests, and to put it in the prime minister's words, it is "It is harder to touch interests than to touch the soul"!

For example, are there no way for enterprises with high pollution emissions to reduce emissions? Yes, of course, there are. However, using these pollution treatment systems is very high, which will greatly increase the production costs of enterprises. Obviously, for enterprises, this situation is not what they want to see. In addition, if a standard cannot be implemented, some enterprises use it while some enterprises do not use it, resulting in an increase in product costs for enterprises that comply with the system, and instead cannot compete with those unruly enterprises, "bad money drives out good money."

So, it is too complicated to say a thousand things, controlling haze is far from as simple as it seems!

Because of this, Minister Xu was very curious. Did this big boy who looked only in his twenties at most and was very handsome, have developed so many outstanding results that the country attaches so much importance to it?

Chu Yang has been making a big splash online for a while, but Xu Chunli didn't know at all. For him, the only purpose of surfing the Internet is to check some technical information. In addition, he almost does not go online or read entertainment news. Therefore, Chu Yang has now become a global celebrity, but he knows nothing about the "scenes" before Chu Yang.

After Chu Yang sat down, he did not go too far in the face of Minister Xu's problem. Instead, he said directly: "I invented a system that operates pure electricity. It can effectively purify the dust in the air and isolate the invasion of external pollutants. I am planning to build such a system with Yanjing as the center, which should effectively improve the current smog weather."

After listening to Chu Yang's words, Xu Chunli looked curious. Hearing the words of this young man, he actually solved this problem directly from a technical level. This is a bit interesting. Their previous ideas were all based on the root cause, thinking about reducing the source of pollution, and never thought about this.

It’s not that I didn’t expect it, but that it was useless to think about it. For the pollution that has already formed, what can I do to drive away those pollutants that are invisible to the naked eye float in the air? Unless it is with the help of wind, the question is, can people control the wind? The wind may blow away pollutants or blow over.

Xu Chunli looked at Chu Yang with some curiosity and asked, "Can you explain the working principle of your system?"

When Chu Yang heard this question, he frowned.

Seeing Chu Yang's expression, Xu Chunli mistakenly thought it was someone's secret and hurriedly said: "Of course, if it involves commercial secrets, it's okay if you don't want to say it."

He also knew that for such a system, if it really has such a role as he said, the economic benefits it generates must be quite amazing. How can someone tell you the operating principle of such a system?

When Chu Yang heard Minister Xu's words, he knew that he had misunderstood and quickly explained: "Minister Xu, I don't mean that. In fact, I have never thought about retaining this system in terms of technology. After all, environmental problems are also related to the vital interests of everyone in China. I have never thought about making money with this system. However, the principles here are a bit complicated to explain, and some things are not the principles of modern natural science, so I don't know how to talk about it for a while!"

Hearing Chu Yang's explanation, Minister Xu suddenly realized and waved his hands repeatedly and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Since you are recommended by the State Council, I believe your technology has been recognized by the above. Tell me, what does the Chinese Academy of Sciences need to do, we must cooperate with you!"

Minister Xu is very conscious of the overall situation in this regard. Although he is also very curious about the working principle of this system mentioned by this young man, he knows that now is not the time to pay attention to this. If this system is really feasible, the sooner the implementation, the better!

In recent days, the air quality in Yanjing has become worse and worse, and the pm25 has exploded many times. In such weather, even travel will be seriously affected. The public has reached a very sensitive level of environmental problems. Some people have even suggested that Yanjing is no longer suitable for human habitation and called on the government to consider moving the capital.

However, how is the capital moving is that simple? The problems involved are probably greater than the control of haze!

Hearing Minister Xu's words, Chu Yang nodded and said bluntly: "The materials required for this system are not complicated, but they may be a bit expensive. First of all, I need at least 100 tons of jade, at least if it is white marble or above. Of course, it would be better if it is Tianshan jade or Hetian jade."

Chu Yang's subsequent words were tentatively put forward. After all, white marble is easy to say. Although it is also a precious building material, it does not belong to real jade after all, but it only has some attributes of jade. However, for Chu Yang, these do not matter, as long as this material can withstand the impact and operation of the formation energy.

In fact, the reason why many formations require jade as basic raw materials is that they are attracted by this point. These naturally formed jades contain a small amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy, which can be stimulated by the formation to form an automatic running cycle. Of course, the better the quality of the jade, the more spiritual energy it contains, and the better the effect of naturally arranged into a formation.

Hearing Chu Yang's words, Minister Xu frowned and said, "Jade? At least 100 tons?"

He was a little surprised that he couldn't figure out what the relationship between jade and haze control. However, since it was proposed by Chu Yang, he must have his own reason. Although 100 tons of jade is not a small amount, if you report it to the higher authorities in the name of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, you can still apply.

"This is OK, what else do you need?" Minister Xu continued to ask.

"A power station with a minimum of 100,000 kilowatts is needed to provide the power of this system to maintain operation!" Chu Yang said directly.

"100,000 kilowatts? Exclusive?" Minister Xu was not very surprised when he heard this request. After all, it would not be surprising if a system could control the smog in a city, it would be so much power consumption.

"This is no problem," Minister Xu thought about it and replied.

"Okay, after both are ready, I can start anytime!" Chu Yang said loudly!
Chapter completed!
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