Thunder and lightning collection?

As soon as this word came out of Tranquility's mouth, it immediately scorched Flandin on the outside and on the inside. What kind of black technology is this, and there is still such technology on the earth?

"Prince Flandin, I've heard that Ghezar has been suffering from thunderstorms in recent years, is there such a thing?"

Ka'an spoke on the side, thunder and lightning collection is Ka'an's lifelong pursuit, and this time he came to Saudi Arabia to promote thunder and lightning collection technology, which was also proposed by Ka'an. For this matter, he has specifically consulted the meteorological data of Saudi Arabia in recent years, so what he said is not without purpose.

"That's right." Flandin frowned and said, "This place in Gezar is a desert, and there were occasional thunderstorms in the past, but seven or eight times a year, each time it lasted only ten minutes, and the longest time could be half an hour, which was very powerful." In recent years, there have been some anomalies, and the frequency of thunderstorms has been increasing, almost thirty or forty times last year, and they often lasted nearly an hour. ”

"It's not surprising." "Thunderstorms happen because of the geological conditions. The city of Ghazar diverted seawater desalination for irrigation, which increased the moisture content of the soil and increased the electrical conductivity of the ground, so the number of thunderstorms increased. If Gezhal continues to expand the area of the oasis in the future, thunderstorms will continue to intensify. ”

"I see." Flandin nodded, he was also a college student and knew a little bit of physics. In the past, no one had alerted him to this problem, but now that he heard Ka'an, he understood that the increase in thunderstorms in the area in recent years was not accidental, but because the water diversion irrigation changed the soil temperature.

The formation of lightning is nothing more than the accumulation of a large amount of electric charge in the air, and a violent discharge occurs when it encounters a heterosexual charge. The sand on the desert is extremely dry and does not conduct electricity, so it is difficult to release the charge of the air over the desert. There are large oases in Qezal. The surface humidity is high, which forms a good conductivity, so all those charges are poured into this place.

Thunderstorms are frequent, causing a lot of trouble for residents and businesses in Ghazar City. Gezhal is an oil city with quite a few field oil extractors, as well as large oil storage tanks, etc. Once these devices are struck by lightning, the consequences are very terrible. At present, Geizal's practice is to set up a large number of lightning rods near high-rise buildings and large equipment to lead lightning underground, so there have been no serious accidents in recent years.

After introducing the causes of thunderstorms, Kaan continued: "Actually, lightning is not a harmful thing, lightning itself is a kind of energy source, if the energy accumulated in thunder and lightning can be collected, it can completely replace the current power supply." So as to play a role in energy saving. Lightning harvesting can also be effective in reducing the intensity of thunderstorms and preventing catastrophic weather. In this regard, I, and of course Miss Tranquility, have been doing years of research and have come up with a mature scheme for the collection of thunder and lightning that Prince Flandin can choose from. ”

These words are actually Ka'an's bragging. He did work with Tranquility to design a lightning collection system. And experiments have been done on the barren mountains near the Anhe Institute of Materials, but how mature it is. It's far from it.

The principle of lightning collection is not complicated, that is, a metal wire similar to a lightning rod is used to direct the charge in mid-air to the ground, and then use a power storage device to store it. To achieve lightning collection, two important conditions are required, one is that the resistance of the wire should be very small, so as not to heat up and burn under the action of high current. Second, the power storage device should have the ability to store quickly, and be able to absorb a large amount of electric energy in one ten-thousandth of a second.

It was because of these two conditions that Ka'an was unable to break through the technical barriers of lightning collection. After being incorporated into the School of Materials by Qin Hai, these two difficulties have been solved one after another. The former relies on the high-temperature superconducting technology developed by Tranquility, while the latter relies on the supercapacitors developed by Caan itself.

The technical problem was solved. The next step is the economic problem. Lightning collection sounds beautiful, but it's not so interesting to put it into practice. Theoretically, a large thunderstorm produces enough electricity to last a small city for several days, but such large-scale thunderstorms themselves do not occur very often, and theoretically it is impossible to collect all the electricity. Compared with thermal power, hydropower, wind power and other energy sources, the cost performance of lightning collection is too low, and it lacks application value.

Of course, this is only limited to the current situation, if the relevant technology can be further improved, the construction cost of the collection system can be greatly reduced, lightning collection method still has a promising application. There are also foreign institutions that have done similar research, and they have also built a smart building that mainly uses lightning to achieve power supply, which is of course a later story.

Unable to find an opportunity for application in China, Kaan turned his attention to the Middle East oil tyrants. By chance, he learned that there were frequent thunderstorms in Gezhal City, which was closely related to the Daqin Group, and after studying the relevant information, he knew that this was due to the result of microclimate change in the Gezhal area, so he came up with the idea of coming to sell this system. As a scientist, the results of his countless painstaking research have not been applied, which is the most depressing thing, but whenever there is a little possibility, he must also work hard to promote its realization.

Flandin has a lot of money, but people are not stupid. He asked Kaan a few questions, and he understood what was going on. Lightning collection is indeed a very tall thing, but the cost is too high. Whether it is high-temperature superconducting materials or supercapacitors, they are expensive things, and if this system is built, if you only rely on collecting lightning to make money, you may not be able to recover the cost in 50 years, not to mention the expenditure of renewal and maintenance.

To put it bluntly, Caan is using his own city as an experimental field, and he even has to pay for the experiment himself, how can Flandin agree to this kind of thing.

"Mr. Ka'an, Mrs. Qin, the technology you introduced is indeed very good, and I am very interested. However, as you know, Gézar is an oil city, and the energy problem is not a big problem for us, so ......" Flandin smiled, ready to politely decline Ka'an and Serenity's request.

"Prince Flandin." Dredge winked at Frantin, "There's a situation I'd like to report to you. ”

"Oh?" Flandin stopped talking. He nodded to Qin Hai and the others, and then followed Dreich to the side and asked in a low voice, "Dreich, is there any problem?" ”

Dreige also lowered his voice and said, "Prince Flandin, I think we can consider accepting the Chinese's proposal." ”

"You mean, the lightning gathering thing?" Frandin asked.

"Yes." Drech said.

"The system doesn't have much value to us. The cost of our power generation is so low that there is no need to consider lightning instead. What's more, their system is not mature, and the lightning they collect cannot meet the electricity needs of the whole city, which is completely superfluous. ”

Drech shook his head and said, "Economically, that's true. But in other ways, the system is good for the city. ”

"Why?" Flandin was puzzled.

Drech said: "Think about it, does Qazal have any special status in Saudi Arabia? It's just an ordinary oil city, and even if we create a 15-square-kilometer oasis in the desert, it's not enough to attract attention. And then to the whole Middle East, and even the whole world, who knows the city of Gezhal?

If we can establish the world's first lightning collection system, using lightning to meet the city's electricity demand for half a year, no, only need to meet the electricity demand for one quarter, then we have created a miracle, which is enough to make Qezal a well-known new energy demonstration city in the city, and Your Royal Highness the Prince, is the creator of this miracle. ”

"That's a good idea." Frantin's eyes lit up, and Dredge's words really spoke to his heart.

Everyone may have a desire to achieve fame. Some people come from poor families and lack their own abilities, so this desire can only be abandoned. But Flandin is different, he was born with a golden key, and he naturally has the ability to be famous all over the world. Over the years, Flandin has been based on oil, carried out business operations, accumulated a lot of wealth, and has a place on the list of the world's richest, but in the eyes of others, he is just a rich man, and he does not have much sincere respect at all.

Desalination and oasis in Gézal were a means for Flandin to prove his abilities. However, as Drech said, these achievements did not attract much attention, and when others talked about them, they only simply complimented them, not to the extent of being impressive.

Lightning collection is very different, and if this system can be applied in Gezal City and achieve practical results, then Flandin will be the first person to be able to use thunder and lightning. Think about it, the world's power generation technologies are nothing more than thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, solar energy, plus geothermal energy, tidal energy and other partial technologies, there are no more than 10 kinds. If Flandin could add one more to this list, wouldn't he be able to go down in history?

Thinking of this, Flandin only felt hot and dry, what is the investment of a few hundred million dollars, he is desperately trying to make money, isn't it for this purpose?

He turned around, strode in front of Qin Hai and the others, and said, "Mr. Qin, Mrs. Qin, Mr. Ka'an, I have already thought it through, I am ready to cooperate with you to jointly develop lightning gathering technology, and use Gezal City as a place for technology verification. ”

"Great, Prince Frantin!"

Without waiting for Qin Hai to say anything, Ka'an preemptively said, "I believe that you will definitely leave a name in the history of world science because of this achievement." (To be continued......)