It turns out that Ka'an is not an ordinary person, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States in his early years, and he is also a leader in that awesome school, known for his solid academic foundation and active thinking. After graduating with a PhD, he returned to Brazil and was hired as a professor at the Embraer Institute of Technology, where he worked on a range of research projects, including superconductivity, with many excellent results.

For an accidental reason, Ka'an paid attention to the problem of lightning collection, and immediately indulged in it, unable to extricate himself. In fact, lightning collection is a problem that is too far away and cannot be solved, and superconducting materials and supercapacitors are the two major problems facing this technology, and no one can see where the solution to these two problems is. For other scholars, encountering this kind of problem must be a detour, and they do not necessarily bury their good years and future in this bottomless pit. But Ka'an is different, he is an extremely conceited person, and he always feels that the problems that others can't solve are the problems that need to be solved by him, so the more others persuade him not to fall into it, the more he has to rush into it without hesitation.

With his own cleverness, Caan discovered the obstacles in superconductivity research at that time, and foresightly proposed that iron-based superconductivity was the way out for the research of superconducting materials, and copper-based materials had no future. He also figured out a set of methods for manufacturing supercapacitors, and his ideas were also ingenious. He applied to the Brazilian government for a huge amount of money to research iron-based superconducting materials and supercapacitors, claiming that once these two technologies were solved, the problem of lightning collection would be solved. He also made a cost-benefit calculation, believing that the money invested by the government could be recycled back a hundred times in the future through guò lightning collection, so the investment was completely worth it.

His application was unsurprisingly rejected, and it is hard to say how bureaucratic or short-sighted the Brazilian government is, as 99% of the world's scientists would not support investing heavily in such a project. The remaining 1% are expected to abstain. Caan can be paranoid about his own ability, but the government and the expert committee will not accompany him crazy, the United States, Russia, Japan do not dare to engage in lightning collection, why should Brazil play such a lofty project? Brazil is not a rich country, and with this money, it has the money to engage in universal health care, affordable housing, and hope projects. Isn't it better than throwing it into the water?

The leadership of the Institute of Aviation Technology talked to Kaan very seriously, which roughly meant that he should wake up quickly and not waste time on this kind of project, the party and the state have countless important projects that need his wisdom, and he is wasting time like this is a crime against the people.

There can be no doubt that this exhortation is ineffective here in Ka'an. Although he is a professional scientist, he is no different from a private scientist in the matter of cherishing himself. He thinks that bureaucrats from top to bottom are stupid. I don't see the value of his proposal. He firmly believes that if the government can support him in developing a lightning harvesting system, Brazil will become one of the world's leading companies, and it will not be a problem for the United Kingdom to catch up with the United States.

Kaan and the school took it on their shoulders, and the school didn't let him continue his research, so he wanted to continue his research. Without funding, he did theoretical research first and came up with a lot of theoretical models. Manuscripts are then submitted to international journals. Annoyingly, well-known international journals are not interested in such infamous things. However, there are a few journals that have little influence on him, but the citation rate is always zero, and there is no splash at all.

Because he did not do the tasks assigned by the school, the various rights he originally had were gradually withdrawn, and he became an alternative in the school. Unable to get support from the school, Caan began lobbying outward. He went to the government officials of the various states, to the big entrepreneurs of Brazil, in the hope that they would support his idea, but unfortunately, everyone did not wait to listen to his account. categorically rejected his request, allowing him to return home again and again.

Subsequently, Caan did a "No_Zuo_No_Die" thing, he got a paint spray gun, and sprayed the advertising slogan "Thunder and lightning collection, good for the country and the people" on street lamp poles, overpasses and other places in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other places, hoping that someone would see it and start paying attention to it. It is naturally impossible to brush advertisements without leaving contact methods, and police stations around the country followed the vine, directly pressed him to the door of the house, and issued him a huge ticket.

In this way, he was fined all his property for graffiti in public places, his wife divorced him, took the children back to his parents' house, and he himself was expelled from the school and ended up living on the streets.

"Uh......"

After listening to Ka'an's own words, Tranquility gritted her teeth desperately, for fear that she would laugh out loud. This benevolent brother is really too good, just stick to his academic thoughts, and even open his brain to brush up on what advertisements, I don't know if he is stupid to read, or too conceited. Thinking about it, Tranquility was inexplicably moved, indeed, if Ka'an was willing to give up his ideas, he would still be a well-known professor now, and there would be five or six people who walked out. But he chose to insist, there is really a realm where the clothes are gradually widened and he will never regret it.

"But what are you looking for me to say?" Serenity returned to the original question, she was just a tourist to Brazil, what did Caan pull her to do?

Kaan was silent for a while, then said, "At first, I thought you were Japanese, and I wanted you to come back to Japan to help me find out if any companies were willing to fund my research. Since you're Chinese......"

"What's wrong with the Chinese?" Tranquility widened her eyes, you are all mixed up like this, and you still discriminate against the Chinese, believe it or not I called my husband to clean you up?

Ka'an knew that he was speechless, and quickly explained: "No, no, I don't mean to discriminate against China at all, I just think that there may not be too many large enterprises in China, and it is even more difficult to find companies that can fund this project." ”

Tranquility asked with a cold face, "How much funding do you need?" ”

"At the very least, 50 million reais." Caan said.

The real is Brazil's new currency, which was a one-to-one ratio to the US dollar before it depreciated. Caan said that 50 million reais is needed, which is equivalent to 50 million US dollars, which is indeed a very large amount of money, and it is no wonder that the Brazilian government does not give Caan face. As soon as Ka'an said this with red mouth and white teeth, he hoped that a company could come up with so much money to fund him, and no one would agree.

"What do you want so much money for?" Tranquility said, "Did you use all this money to build a lightning gathering power station?" ”

"No, the money is used to overcome the two major obstacles to lightning collection, which are superconducting materials and supercapacitors. I have mature ideas for both, but I just need financial support. If there is a company that is willing to fund, I can transfer 50 percent of the proceeds of the research to that company......" Caan said.

Tranquility smiled, what Ka'an said was really similar to Qin Hai's usual approach. It's just that Qin Hai belongs to the side that pays for it, he often finds a scientist, and then pays for it himself, and the other party gives wisdom to overcome a difficulty together, and then divides the final result into two or five parts. If it weren't for the fact that the two techniques that Ka'an said were too outrageous, Tranquility really wanted to connect him and Qin Hai.

"Not to mention supercapacitors, iron-based room temperature superconducting materials alone can be developed with 50 million US dollars?" Tranquility asked in a somewhat sarcastic tone.

Ka'an shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be enough, but as long as I prove the existence of iron-based superconductivity, it will be a great breakthrough, and there will be companies willing to continue to invest at that time." ”

Quietly laughed silently, the existence of iron-based superconductivity no longer needs to be proved by Ka'an. Caan had been away from research for several years, and he was out of touch with the times. Of course, without Qin Hai, the breakthrough of iron-based superconductivity would not have been achieved so quickly, and Ka'an did not know that iron-based superconducting materials had appeared in the world, which was also in line with the laws of general scientific research.

At this time, Su Ze walked in their direction with a few wives, and Tranquility didn't want them to see that he was chatting with a homeless man, so he stood up and said to Ka'an: "Mr. Ka'an, your idea is very interesting, I will introduce it to others." I would like to ask, if someone is interested in your research, how can they contact you? ”

Ka'an handed Tranquility a business card and said, "This is my business card, this phone number will not change in the short term, as for the address...... I can't guarantee that. ”

When he said the last sentence, he was a little embarrassed again. His current state of life is that he has no fixed place, which really does not seem like the lifestyle of a decent person.

Tranquility accepted the business card, hesitated, took out a few Brazilian banknotes from his pocket, and said, "Mr. Caan, maybe you need this ......"

"No, no!" As if burned by the fire, Ka'an hurriedly took a few steps back and stammered, "Thank you, Miss, but I'm not a beggar, and I have a job now...... I mean, I might have some temporary work that would be enough to make ends meet. ”

"I see, that's presumptuous." Tranquility smiled lightly, put away the money, and then nodded goodbye to Ka'an, and walked towards Su Ze and the others. She knew that Ka'an was still maintaining his self-esteem, and perhaps as he himself said, he could find some temporary work to earn money for food, and it was a bit abrupt for her to give Ka'an such alms.

"Mrs. Qin, how did you meet him, what did he say to you?" Su Ze walked over quickly, greeted Tranquility, and then squinted at Ka'an, who had just walked away, and asked Tranquility.

"Why, you know him too?" Tranquility asked curiously.

"Of course I do, he's a madman, and there's no one in São Paulo who doesn't know him." Su Ze said in a disdainful tone. (To be continued......)

PS: By the way, using a spray gun to advertise on telephone poles and overpasses to promote their ideas is not made up by oranges, this is what a civil science officer in the imperial capital did at the end of the 90s, when many overpasses had such a sentence "XX yards, unify the world"...... Laughter erupted