"Edison's departure has caused a lot of concern among scientific researchers, and now in the Dashi yàn room, there is already a bit of a fluctuation in people's hearts." Dorothea said to Scrooge.

"How did the really most important people react?" Scrooge asked.

By Scrooge, the really important people are the important researchers who are doing research that in Scrooge's view is really of long-term significance, including some researchers in the chemical industry, including agriculture, including power, and so on. In terms of what they studied, many times, Scrooge only had a rough idea of what kind of money-making products came later, but the development process and related technical details, he knew much more limited. A lot of the content, he simply doesn't understand it. It's not like a household appliance or anything like that, he's been exposed to anytime and anywhere in his life.

Moreover, these studies take a longer time, and many of them, although they have not yet been finalized, have achieved a lot of phased results that are not patentable, but are already very valuable and require a high degree of secrecy. Therefore, the mental state of the researchers involved in these projects is particularly concerned about Scrooge.

"Don't worry! We have all taken care of these key protection objects, and their feelings are quite stable. Dorothea replied.

Dorothea sat down next to Scrooge and said, "Actually, they are much easier to dismiss than Edison." Because they don't know how important they are, in fact, I'm afraid that no one except a limited number of people in the family will feel that their project is extremely important. Even they don't know. They're still worried about whether we're going to cut their project in the first place if we're strapped for money. ”

"A person's talent is like a numerator, and his judgment of himself is like a denominator, and the smaller the denominator, the greater the fractional value. Of course, this is what it means to us. "It would be nice if every researcher didn't care how much money he was getting, as Mr. Maxwell did." ”

"It dawned on me that a phrase you had said before was appropriate to describe you." Dorothea said suddenly.

"What?"

"I want the horses to run, and I want the horses not to eat grass." Dorothea replied with a smile.

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It was not an easy task to settle Edison well, Edison brought a large team, he almost brought out most of the researchers in the electrical research department, and correspondingly needed a high-end and high-grade real yàn room. Otherwise, Edison would not have left the MacDonald consortium. Even in order to be able to overwhelm the MacDonald Consortium, this real room cannot be compared to the real room of the MacDonald Consortium, at least not much worse than the Electrical Research Office of the University of Cleveland under the control of the MacDonald Foundation.

It's just that it's not easy to do that either. Because, the big real room has been developed for many years, even if it is just the electrical real room, it is not comparable to the ordinary real room. The McDonald consortium has invested no less than 10 million in fixed assets in the big real room, of course, these funds have been allocated to various classified real rooms, and the electrical real real room has only been allocated to a part of them. However, as one of the most important real rooms, the MacDonald consortium has invested no less than four million dollars in this real room. It is not easy to build a real room that can rival the electrical real yàn room of the Macdonald consortium. It is not easy for a financial predator like the Morgan consortium to come out with more than four million funds at one time. Although Morgan also made a lot of efforts, in the end, the first investment was only one million US dollars, which was used to buy land, build the building of the real yàn room, and various instruments and equipment. As the first investment, this investment is no less than Scrooge's start-up investment in the whole of the Dashi Yàn room. And Morgan also said that this is only the first phase of investment, and if the real room can continue to get valuable results, then he will continue to add funds. Of course, this is only half a sentence, and the rest of the unspoken half sentence, Edison also knows very well, that is, once the real yàn room can not produce valuable results that satisfy him, then don't think about follow-up investment or anything.

Therefore, the real yàn room that Morgan prepared for Edison's team is still much smaller than the large real yàn room of the University of Cleveland at the Macdonald consortium, where they used to work. However, because it is a new construction, and in addition, the direction of real research is strictly limited to the application, and the content of any basic research is excluded, and even the medium- and long-term practical research that requires long-term investment research has also been put aside, so under the premise of a much smaller scale, most of its equipment is newer and more advanced than the equipment in MacDonald's big real yàn room.

This real yàn room is housed near the famous Central Park in New York. Central Park is now one of the most important attractions in New York, but at the time, the huge park was built and immediately fell into disuse due to government budget problems and changes in government parties. The Central Park Commission was disbanded, and the horticultural team was almost all disbanded. Today, Central Park is home to a variety of wildlife and homeless people.

In many years, it will be very, very difficult to occupy land in Central Park. But in this day and age, when New York City is increasingly seeing Central Park as a big burden, it's really not that difficult. Morgan only paid a few tens of thousands of dollars to obtain the right to use a large piece of land for a period of forty years, and the real yàn room was built here.

In this room, the most important research project at present is the "nickel-iron alkaline battery". This plan was recently proposed by Edison to Scrooge two days before the attack. At that time, Scrooge had just given the Dashi Yàn room a plan to develop a battery, and was preparing to develop a battery for the lights of automobiles, the start of engines, and the plan for electric bicycles. Scrooge felt that this kind of gadget, which was popular in China in later generations, should also have a market in American cities in this era because of its lower cost.

However, before Scrooge could review Edison's plan, he was "assassinated and unconscious". So naturally, I didn't have time to give Edison an approval. Therefore, at this time, Edison directly informed Morgan of the project, and told him that the money of the project should be very good. Because this was the task given by Scrooge at the beginning.

Morgan was not good at scientific research, so it was naturally impossible for him to directly reject Edison's plan to develop a "nickel-iron alkaline battery" like Scrooge, and sue him that it was enough to honestly improve the lead-acid battery. Because the history of the next hundred years has proved that the "nickel-iron alkaline battery" has no money for development in a considerable period of time. Although it can be recharged continuously and stored for about 20 years, it will still work; (In contrast, at that time, lead-acid batteries were about to be scrapped after two years) although they could withstand a certain range of accidents (including overcharging, over-discharging, short-circuiting, and overheating), and could still maintain a long life after suffering the above damages; However, some terrible shortcomings make it simply not have a wide market "money scene".

The cost of this kind of battery is too high, coupled with the poor power storage capacity, (the power stored in the same volume and weight is small) and the low temperature performance is poor, (in the low temperature state, it cannot be discharged. In fact, almost all batteries have similar problems, and those who have ridden electric vehicles know that in winter, the power performance of the electric car will be significantly reduced. It's just that nickel-iron alkaline batteries have a stricter problem in this regard) plus slow charging and slower discharge. When charging, it can only be charged slowly and slowly, and it is too inconvenient to charge it all day. What's worse is that the discharge is slower, and it is not bad to use it for lighting the electric lamp, for the start of the engine? This kind of battery has a very low discharge power, you need a lot of battery packs, and this kind of battery is very expensive. As for the use of electric bikes, are you really sure you want to use this product? Are you really going to ride an e-bike like this? Aren't you afraid that as long as you encounter a small slope on the road, you have to become it to ride you?

Therefore, if Scrooge had been replaced, Edison's plan would have been rejected outright, and he would have been asked to focus on improving the lead-acid battery. Because the history of later generations proves that at least for a hundred years, lead-acid batteries are king.

However, Morgan didn't know this, and the performance of the original lead-acid battery in this era had not yet been fully developed, and no one else knew how much room for development it had except Scrooge. So in the original history, after Edison invented the nickel-iron alkaline battery, he really made a lot of money from it, until later, the lead-acid battery with increased efficiency drove it out of most of the market.

Morgan, after studying the market, also decided that the invention should make a lot of money. So more than two months later, before the Central Park Room was fully completed, Edison's research program began to be in full swing.

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"Morgan is starting to build a real room." Scrooge proudly threw aside the information in his hand and said to Carol and Dorothea.

"How much did you invest?" Carol hurriedly asked.

"According to the newspapers, it's about $1.2 million. Among them, Morgan Bank and several other banks invested a total of 1 million, and Mr. Edison himself invested all his savings, about 300,000 dollars. Dorothea replied.

"This was also confirmed by our intelligence agencies." Scrooge added. Although the intelligence and violence agencies are not the most profitable agencies of the Macdonald consortium, they are the only branch of this big event where anyone knows the truth, and it is also the agency that Scrooge feels must be caught.

"It's too little," Carroll said, "and even if all that money were lost, it wouldn't really be a blow to Morgan's system." ”

"Don't rush, Carol." "There will be more and more to come," Scrooge said. ”