Chapter 487 Technology for Technology

Hearing Lu Zhou's sudden proposal, Professor Kreber was slightly taken aback.

"……trade?"

Lu Zhou: "I heard that your WEGA has been closed?"

Kreber: "It was a long time ago, like 13 years ago."

Lu Zhou: "Then how is it doing now?"

"It's neither good nor bad. Maybe we'll send it to the museum in 20 or 30 years. Is there any problem?" Creber frowned, a little confused about what Lu Zhou meant when he suddenly mentioned WEGA. what.

Lu Zhou: "Can you sell it to me?"

Professor Kreber was stunned.

After a while, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

"WEGA? Are you kidding me?"

Lu Zhou shook his head, "I'm not joking, I'm serious."

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't seem to be joking, Professor Kreber said with a smile: "In order to complete the WEGA device, we spent 800 million euros on the cost alone, and it was 800 million euros more than ten years ago. How much do you plan to spend on it?" ?”

After thinking about this question for a while, Lu Zhou gave a number.

"Is 500 million enough?"

"...Don't think about it, it's impossible."

Although he was shocked that Lu Zhou could get so much money, Kleiber was only shocked for a moment, and did not nod in agreement, because it was not just about money.

In the ITER project, the game between technologically superior countries and technologically disadvantaged countries on the issue of technology transfer has a long history. This kind of game is reflected in the proportion of funds borne by each country, the allocation of projects responsible for research institutes in each country, and various external factors.

The most fundamental contradiction lies in the transfer of technology.

There is nothing wrong with such a contradiction. After all, since the latter part of the last century, in order to study this technology, the European Union and even the European Community, the predecessor of the European Union, have spent an unknown amount of money on it.

In short, while ensuring the chip in hand, the dominant country hopes that the disadvantaged country will bear more research funds, share risks and costs, and strive for more funds and projects from the total funding pool for its research institutes.

The disadvantaged countries hope that the superior countries will transfer more technology, and at the same time hope to win more projects for their own research institutes.

After all, no one wants to be a chaser for a lifetime. Everyone hopes to master the core technology in the entire nuclear fusion project. Otherwise, let alone having no status when dividing the cake equally, they will not even have the confidence to slap the table and quarrel.

Can you do whatever you want with money?

That also has prerequisites.

The WEGA device is the crystallization of the technology of the Max Planck Society and the Helmholtz Society. They have put in a lot of effort to complete this device. Under such circumstances, they naturally do not want to sell it so cheaply.

Knowing what Professor Kreber was thinking, Lu Zhou continued: "Anyway, its final destination is a museum, and you have learned enough experience from it. I am willing to pay 500 million euros for your achievements, and say Don't let it play a little bit of residual heat, besides..."

Professor Kreber frowned: "Also?"

After pausing for a moment, Lu Zhou continued: "In addition, if you transfer the WEGA device to me, I can open up the technology of SG-1 material conductors. Since superconducting magnets with stronger performance are our common needs, we It is absolutely possible to cooperate in related research.”

Kreber: "WEGA is a prerequisite for cooperation?"

"Yes," Lu Zhou nodded, "If what you care about is that the technology is bought cheaply, we are willing to exchange that part of the technology. If you are not willing, then I have no obligation to disclose this part Research. After all, this is not a research project outsourced by ITER, but our own.”

The papers on the SG-1 material are all public information, even the laboratory preparation method of the SG-1 material itself is public. At most, Lu Zhou has registered a patent for the product preventively, in case just in case.

However, how to make SG-1 materials into wires involves specific product production processes, and these things are obviously not written in papers and published so simply.

Just like a lithography machine, everyone knows the principle, and related papers can also be downloaded publicly, but things related to technology are all company secrets, and basically will not be made public until the technology is updated.

After staring at the thin wire in the glass cover for a long time, Professor Kreber was silent for a while without speaking, as if he was considering whether this proposal was worth it.

On one side is the prototype of Helix-7x. Although it has been eliminated, it still involves many undisclosed technologies.

On the other side is the carbon-based superconducting material that may become a key factor in solving controllable nuclear fusion, but it is only possible, and there are still many uncertain factors such as cost and large-scale production.

It is indeed not an easy thing to make a trade-off among them.

The silence lasted for about five minutes. The Germanic professor finally relaxed his shoulders and spoke slowly.

"I need to think about it."

Lu Zhou nodded in agreement: "No problem."

...

In Zhongshan International's villa, the family is busy preparing for the New Year's dinner.

At this time, the sound of the doorbell suddenly came from the entrance.

"coming."

After hearing the sound, Lu Bangguo's face brightened, and he shouted "Come here" from a long distance away, and walked quickly to the door.

The door opens.

Old Lu who was standing in the porch was just about to say hello with a smile, but the smile on his face gradually froze.

Looking at the old man standing at the door, Professor Kreber forced a friendly smile on his face and greeted him in broken Chinese.

"Mud Howl."

"Howling mud, howling mud..."

Subconsciously followed a few words, Lao Lu suddenly came back to his senses, and immediately cast a questioning look at Lu Zhou next to him.

"This is a client of our research institute," Lu Zhou introduced with a smile after understanding his father's gaze, "and also my friend."

Even though his heart was full of resentment towards his son, he still couldn't show it in front of the guests.

Looking at Professor Kreber, Lao Lu smiled enthusiastically and said, "So you are Lu Zhou's friend, please come in."

Although I couldn't understand what Lao Lu said, the enthusiasm could be felt without words.

Creber showed a smile on his face, and politely said the second sentence of Chinese he only knew.

"Write write."

Seeing her father bring the tall and burly foreigner professor into the living room, Xiao Tong sneaked to Lu Zhou's side and poked her brother's arm: "Brother, you don't know when Dad How excited."

Lu Zhou: "What are you excited about?"

Xiaotong looked helpless: "What else is there to be excited about? He thought you finally got the hang of it and brought a daughter-in-law back."

As she said that, the little girl rolled her eyes and muttered, "I knew it wasn't that simple, but I didn't expect it to be beyond my expectation. Who would have thought that you brought a man back."

Lu Zhou: "..."

The Lu family is very hospitable whether it is during normal times or Chinese New Year.

It's just that the communication at the dinner table was not so smooth because of the language barrier.

Lu Zhou can only act as a translator, switching to English for a while, and switching to Chinese for a while.

Occasionally, some dialogues have to be embellished according to the language habits of both parties.

Full of praise for the taste of the dumplings, Kleiber, who is usually very serious at work, gave a rare thumbs up.

When Lu Zhou translated his words into Chinese and told his old lady, she was so happy from ear to ear.

After so many years of cooking, it is the first time that she has been recognized by international friends. For Fang Mei, this is undoubtedly a new and fulfilling thing.

He didn't stay here until very late. After dinner, seeing that it was getting late, Creber sat on the sofa and chatted with Lu Zhou for a while, then got up and left.

After being sent to the courtyard of the villa by Lu Zhou, standing beside the road at the entrance, Creber said.

"The dumplings are delicious, thank you."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "You're welcome."

Kleiber thought for a moment, then said, "As for your proposal, I can't give you an answer right away. This is not something I can decide on my own. At the same time, WEGA is not just the property of the Max Planck Society. I hope you understand."

After a pause, he said, "However, I assure you, I will try my best to fight for it."

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded: "Then I will trouble you."

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(Thanks to the leader EVA Meteor for the reward!!)