Chapter 353: Seaweed that Generates Electricity

In the past month, the new country has undoubtedly fallen into a whirlpool of troubles. Because there is so much news here, many news outlets simply send reporters here to get first-hand information.

In addition, the number of tourists visiting this small and unexplored island out of curiosity is gradually increasing. Now the streets of Koro are full of tourists with travel bags on their backs.

There is only a federation of nine islands, and the government does not control the federation of the army. Some foreign radical organizations that have nothing to do even chant that this is the model of the world's puppet president, I don't know what kind of expression a puppet president will do when he hears this.

News itself is an advertisement, and there aren't many opportunities to make international panel headlines for free.

Before this, many people had never heard of an archipelago called Panu in the Pacific Ocean, but with the occurrence of this series of events and the deliberate hype of Future People International, many people have an impression of this small Pacific country with a big palm.

Whether this impression is good or bad, it paves the way for further marketing in the future. After the development of infrastructure and tourism resources is completed, and the political situation returns to stability, I believe that many people will still be willing to come to this charming island to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the western Pacific Ocean and appreciate this unique customs.

With the current progress of the project, the fastest is half a year, and the slow is one year.

The day is not far off

Compared with Zhang Yaping's anxiety, Jiang Chen, the driving force behind all these incidents, was extremely comfortable. Although he promised to help solve this matter, he threw Zhang Yaping a person who would never apologize, and then left it alone.

Later, Jiang Chen went to Crescent Island to stay for two days, and he didn't know what he was doing on the island.

As for the possible retaliation of the Philippines, he, the majority shareholder behind the company, does not seem to care. Zhang Yaping couldn't figure out whether this guy was confident. Or unwarranted hubris.

From the standpoint of the president of the new country, he certainly hopes for the former.

In the next few days, Jiang Chen basically drove his yacht around the various islands. Of course, he's not here to play, he's here to get down to business.

Because of this 10 billion project, he has become the largest real estate developer in Panu. The 110 square kilometres of land adjacent to the project and the remaining islands, totaling 70 square kilometres, as well as a large area of sea near the equator, are his properties. Whether he keeps it for his own development or sells it to others for development is all up to him.

Of course, with so much land, he alone will definitely not be able to develop it, and he can only raise weeds there. These days, he has inspected all the real estate on the island that belongs to him, and he has a number in mind about which ones are kept for his own development and which ones are sold to others for development.

When he was done with all this, there was good news from the end times.

After half a month of experimentation and exploration. The formula of the improved nutritional mixture has been successfully developed. After learning the news from Lin Ling's mouth, Jiang Chen immediately couldn't wait to return to the end of the world, and rushed to Camp 27 by helicopter.

Taking the elevator to the underground, Jiang Chen found the leader of the experimental team in the empty shelter.

"I heard you're done?" As soon as he saw this tall and thin middle-aged man, Jiang Chen asked straight to the point.

Wang Fangping looked at Jiang Chen excitedly, nodded and hurriedly said.

"It's done, just yesterday we completed the clinical trial phase. It's unbelievable that we were just going to improve on the existing nutritional mixture. Unexpectedly, there was a technological breakthrough in the field of live cell preparation. ”

"Technological breakthrough?" Jiang Chen was slightly stunned, and then his face showed a hint of shock.

In these devastated last days. Not to mention a technological breakthrough, even the digestion of pre-war technology is already remarkable. But now Wang Fangping told him that his scientific research project team has made a technological breakthrough in the experiment.

"That's right. Wang Fangping nodded excitedly, "According to your requirements, in order to reduce the production cost of the improved nutritional mixture, we have chosen the highest yield." Seaweed, which has the shortest growth cycle, is used as a raw material for nutrient mixtures. However, when inducing differentiation of seaweed cells, we unexpectedly cultivated a new type of seaweed. ”

"What is it?" Jiang Chen said curiously.

"Seaweed that can generate electricity!" Wang Fangping said excitedly.

Hearing this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but be moved.

Energy will always be one of the priorities of development, both in the wasteland and in the present world. At the end of the 21st century, biopower generation has been a key research topic for the three countries until a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion power generation and the completion of the first space elevator. It was only later that thanks to the space elevator was built. The moon's helium-3 and tritium continue to be fed into the earth to make relatively cheap nuclear fusion batteries, which has eased the heat of biopower generation.

After all, the fusion energy produced by the fusion of 1g of deuterium and tritium is equivalent to the complete combustion of 11.2t of standard coal, and it is also very environmentally friendly. It is precisely for this reason that although other power generation technologies have a theoretical basis, no further research has been carried out on them.

For example, the Panu Islands, because they are defined as tourist areas, are destined not to set up high-polluting thermal power stations on the islands, and can only supply power to the island's production and life through tidal power stations with higher costs and lower efficiency.

But if there is such a thing, the vast sea area of the Panu Islands will provide a steady stream of electricity for the new country! The new country will no longer have to worry about energy affairs.

Unexpectedly, the technological breakthrough of biotechnology came in the research and development process of nutritional mixtures, which was really an unexpected joy, and Jiang Chen's face couldn't help but show a touch of excitement.

"While photosynthesizing, these algae cells produce a special photosensitive effect that forms a directed micro-element current within the cell fluid. Although this current is weak, it is quite considerable for a whole plant of seaweed. Wang Fangping explained to Jiang Chen the theoretical knowledge of this power generation seaweed, although what he said was quite easy to understand, but Jiang Chen was only interested in the last sentence.

"What is the amount of electricity generated per unit area. Jiang Chen asked impatiently.

"At present, the power generation efficiency is low, and it can only reach 0.1KW per square meter. Most of the energy is converted into heat energy and lost, even heating up the nearby waters, and there are problems such as underwater power loss. However, according to the mathematical model, it is expected that after these problems are solved, the power generation can reach 1KWh per square meter. ”

"1KWh per square meter!" Jiang Chen's face once again showed a look of shock.

In the case of solar power generation, 40 solar panels are required to generate 10 kW of electricity, covering an area of about 64 square meters. In other words, the power generation per square meter is only 0.15kw! Although this "biogenerator" uses the same solar energy, the power generation capacity is 6.6 times that of traditional solar panels!

Looking at the look of shock on Jiang Chen's face, Wang Fangping also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Some time ago, when he learned that there are not many nuclear fusion cells on the surface and that the base is full of solar panels, he thought of the power generation technologies that have stalled at the end of the 21st century. And it just so happens that he is a scientist in bioengineering, and the first thing that comes to mind is biopower.

While those techniques are not yet complete, it is not difficult to get them out on the shoulders of giants. It's like a math Olympiad problem that a person can't do in elementary school, and if you leave it until high school to do it, you can easily solve it.

Because the connection between the Earth and the Moon was interrupted, these backward power generation technologies were once again put into use.

To be honest, the nutrient mixture was completed by their research team five days ago, and the reason why they chose to delay the report five days later was to study this seaweed power generation cell. The discovery of these cells was not due to any accident, but rather to their directed induction through genetic profiling. I didn't dare to tell Jiang Chen because I was afraid that the dictator would unreasonably think that they were occupying scientific research resources and postponing the reporting of research results.

Now that Jiang Chen seemed to be very satisfied with their research results, he was naturally relieved.

In this way, there is hope that the subject will be taken seriously and that it will continue to exist, and they will not have to return to the surface to live a hard life.

However, their worries were purely superfluous, and Jiang Chen didn't care about their "private work" at all. Anyway, whatever they researched, it was his.

"You've done a good job!Very good, what reward do you want?" Jiang Chen laughed and patted Wang Fangping's shoulder.

"There's no need for rewards or anything. Wang Fangping hurriedly waved his hand and smiled embarrassedly, "Let's just stay in the shelter and continue our research." Our research group still has some accomplishments in the field of biology. ”

"That's not going to work, you have to be rewarded for your contribution to the development of the base. Jiang Chen pinched his chin and thought for a moment, and suddenly had an idea.

"There you go. In recognition of your outstanding contributions to the research of solving the energy source of the base, I will award the five of you the honor of 'Distinguished Scholars' and award you the 'Knight Medal', and you will henceforth be the knightly class of the Fishbone Base. Don't think that this title of Distinguished Scholar is just a title, but it means that you will be able to enter and leave the Vault freely without having to ask the camp director for instructions, and you will be able to live in it even if you don't have a research project. ”

Hearing this, Wang Fangping was overjoyed.

"Marshal Xie!"

He has no interest in becoming a knight, and he has never been to the Fish Bone Base, and he doesn't really want to go. With a safe and comfortable refuge, he couldn't ask for anything else.

"Don't rush to thank me just yet, I won't give you this honor until you've completed this project. Jiang Chen said with a smile.

"Marshal, rest assured, we will be able to complete this task!" Wang Fangping patted his chest and slapped the package ticket.

"Then I'll wait for your good news. Without mentioning this, take me to see the improved nutritional mixture first. ”

Nutritional mixture is the focus of Jiang Chen's trip, and it is better to make money as soon as possible if it is put into production as soon as possible. He hasn't forgotten that he is still saddled with $30 billion in debt. (To be continued.) )