Chapter 855 Prelude to the Storm

Only after Tuvalu announced the founding of the country, the world began to undergo a surge of changes. First of all, China and Tuvalu signed a strategic treaty of friendship and mutual trust. Needless to say the content of it is too detailed, but everyone understands what is going on.

China is a country that has traditionally had a good relationship with mutants. There are some mutants in the central leadership, and their attitude towards Tuvalu is a bit like the Jews towards Israel. Of course, there is a little difference here.

At least they will not regard Tuvalu as their motherland, which is different from the Jewish feelings towards Israel. At most, there is a big plus in emotion and sympathy.

However, with China's endorsement, coupled with Russia's silence on this matter (because of the technical problems of controlled nuclear fusion, Russia is somewhat controlled by others).

Add to that Tuvalu's show of force (acting) when it wiped out Hydra in the Atlantic Ocean. The new president, Katie, made it clear that she held an olive branch in one hand and a shotgun in the other. She wants to establish peace not war. Of course she is not afraid of war.

Because of such a statement of neither humble nor overbearing, the international community hesitated about the incident of Tuvalu's founding, and did not respond immediately.

In particular, the time period for Tuvalu's public statement is very coincidental, and it happens to be almost April. And something big will happen in April this year. That is, Dr. Reed of the moon will return to Earth with almost two tons of helium-3 purified ore. Dr. Reed has expressed in the time of the earth communication that the lunar plan is on pace.

Although it sounds small, just over two tons of helium-3 ore are mined a year. But look at it from another angle. Although Tony Stark provided Dr. Reed and others with very advanced tools and various intelligent machines, the four of them could complete the workload of an entire engineering team.

However, operations on the moon are not comparable to those on the earth. It takes a lot of energy to build a basic camp and a basic mine in one year. There is also a preliminary refining plant. Although all of this is fully automatic, there are only four people on the moon after all.

In addition, the four doctors in Li also have their own scientific research projects. He promised Tony to come to the moon to establish an advance base because Tony promised to provide him with a large amount of research funding and build him a physics laboratory on the moon.

Therefore, Dr. Li's main energy is still spent on research. The base mine he built was really just the base. But the camp has been built, and the moon can accommodate almost a hundred people in the next step.

The first year of construction is just laying the foundation, and the second year is when the real expansion begins. And we need to see another point, that is, the energy contained in this isotope of helium-3 is higher than any energy source known on the earth, and it is clean, environmentally friendly and absolutely pollution-free.

According to the current energy consumption standard of the earth, the energy supply of one hundred tons of helium-3 can meet the current energy demand.

Of course, one hundred tons is just a figure now. In fact, when human beings can really exploit helium-3 energy on a large scale, human demand for energy will inevitably increase explosively. Maybe there will still be so many human beings by then, but the demand for energy consumption will increase by three times or even five times.

According to the estimates of Dr. Tony and Dr. Banner, the industrial transformation brought about by helium-3 new energy will drive the revolution of traditional industries. In particular, many things that do not seem to be worth the energy to do can be done.

Because when helium-3 can be mined on a large scale, the price of energy will be further reduced. Energy reduction means that more energy can be put into agricultural planting, livestock breeding, and various mines and mechanical engineering.

Use energy consumption to replace other costs that need to be paid. For example, the manufacturing industry will set stricter environmental protection standards and the like. The reason why many industries are not environmentally friendly is that it is not cost-effective to invest too much energy in doing them. Therefore, environmental costs can only be used to convert energy costs. Such as sewage treatment, such as air treatment and so on.

In fact, the Stark Group and the Osborne Group were the first companies to think about these aspects, and more advanced environmental protection equipment has begun to be deployed globally. The concept of ecological earth has begun to take shape. We need to be more advanced, but also more natural.

"According to incremental estimates, the energy of one hundred tons of helium-3 is only enough to replace the current annual energy consumption of the earth. But we know that this scale is not enough, and it will definitely need to be expanded in the future. I expect that after the mining of helium-3 this year, It is now the last moment of transformation to stimulate the biggest impact on global energy!" Tony said at the rare meeting of company directors.

"One hundred tons is definitely not enough. In the next ten years, I predict that human civilization will enter an era of explosion. Letting people all over the world enjoy the living standards of Nordic countries is no longer empty talk. We have the foundation to achieve this goal. But We need more energy, in the next ten years we need at least one thousand tons or even three thousand tons of helium-3! Our energy demand will expand dozens of times!"

Tony Stark is convincing the board of directors to allocate more funds for new energy, and he has made up his mind. All the energy of the Stark Group should be used on new energy.

In fact, it is not just Tony and the United States that are doing their best to do this. New energy is related to the future of the country, and this matter needs to be raced against time. A slow step is a slow step.

For example, China relocated a city with hundreds of thousands of people as a whole and expropriated all the land here. And hundreds of thousands of civil infrastructure workers have been invested in the construction site. There are also millions of people from top to bottom and from south to north across the country producing various supporting facilities.

As well as mobilizing 10% of the country's steel and cement, as well as various resources. They're building a giant controlled fusion power plant. This power station named Suiren No. 1 can meet almost 70% to 80% of the remaining electricity in China if it is fully operational.

However, the first phase of the project was in a hurry, with four shifts on the construction site, and people were resting on machines. Because the deadline for the first phase is getting closer. The above requires that the first phase of the project must be completed before April. The amount of power generation is not required, but it is required to be able to turn it up.

This is not a national face project, but a competition that cannot see the smoke of gunpowder. The first phase of helium-3 was only 1.5 tons. According to the division of the five permanent members at that time, the amount of helium-3 that each country can obtain is limited. So it's always good to go one step first and one step faster. Otherwise, you will have to wait for a whole year at night, waiting for the second batch of helium-3 to be shipped back to Earth.

Britain, France and Germany worked together to produce their Ark reactor, and the US government asked Tony to provide technical support. The core content is kept secret, and the daily operation of the maintenance after the construction is completed also needs to be done by people from the Stark Group. Just like the core weapons provided to NATO countries by the former Stark Group.

It feels a little restricted, but it's better than nothing. Ying, France and Germany pinched their noses and recognized it. At least they are in a better position than Russia. Russia's technology comes from China, and China has strangled it to death. Except for infrastructure projects, Russia cannot participate in the manufacture of almost all core components. Looking at the treatment of Mao Xiong's family, Ying, France and Germany feel that they are relatively lucky.

In addition to the Ark spaceship launched by Tony Stark at that time, Dum of Latvia also launched a ship. But Doom never reported their situation to the international community. And the landing site of the Latvian spacecraft is thousands of kilometers away from Dr. Reed and the others. They are also unlikely to see each other's situation.

Except for the countries of the new Eastern European Union formed by Latvia, other countries cannot expect Doom to split some helium-3.

And changes around the helium-3 new energy source have begun to appear. It seems that there has been a blowout trend of new energy vehicles overnight. Major car manufacturers in the world have begun to slowly relax the research and development of the next generation of gasoline vehicles and diesel vehicles, and put all their energy into electric vehicles.

Tesla, which was originally thriving in the electric vehicle market, suddenly suffered a huge impact. When Toyota, Honda, GM, BMW, Mercedes and other major manufacturers put all their energy on the electric vehicle market, their energy and technical reserves are quite amazing.

Sometimes it's not that they can't do it, it's just that they don't want to do it. After all, the market determines capital, and capital determines the direction of technology.

Although there may be some loss of interests in the short term, these century-old manufacturers have a farther vision. They are competing for the market ten years later, and the real showdown will be at that time.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg of how the world is changing. The super high-speed railway plan driven by new energy has begun to take shape. The short-distance trains of the world's first super high-speed railway have begun to open to traffic.

The railway from Dum City, the capital of Latvia, to Dum Valley, the most scenic tourist destination in Latvia, has been opened to traffic. Although it is only a short 100 kilometers, although this is more of an experimental nature, although the speed has been repeatedly reduced to ensure the safety of the first traffic.

However, when the passengers ran the 100-kilometer distance in only ten minutes on the train in an extremely comfortable state, this achievement still stunned people all over the world.

Already someone smells the scent, a scent of change. The richest man in China named Jack Ma was the first to realize this. Because his business platform supports the world's largest and most logistics practitioners. New ways of delivering goods have emerged, and perhaps the logistics method of our competitors building warehouses all over China will eventually fail.

And more manufacturing companies have seen new opportunities from it. The integration of the Eurasian continent seems to have taken shape. Can we grasp some benefits from it? Or even give it a push? Some people are watching, but some people have already jumped off the field to start wrestling first.

The world is changing, the timing is perfect, and everyone is busy. So the establishment and announcement of Tuvalu happened at this point in time so that everyone could not spend all their experience on them.

For many people, the world is already a mess. The changes are so fast that it is overwhelming, and it seems that the earth will be turned upside down in just a few years. Mutants forming a nation of their own? Well, big news, and just big news. If you have time to pay attention to this, why not think about how to find your new position in this turbulent era!

The establishment of Tuvalu can only be regarded as news? Rather than something deeper?

Before everyone notices, a storm that is about to sweep through the human revolution has quietly brewed.