Chapter 145: The Difficulty of Scientific Research, the Difficulty of Ascending to the Blue Sky!
Luo Jia closed her eyes in the office and listened to the sound of ticking in her ears.
As this voice continued, the inheritance of extraterrestrial civilizations was constantly instilled into his brain, forming folders one after another.
As long as these folders are opened, the data in them will be transferred to Luo Jia's brain storage center.
It may sound like a wonderful process, but anyone who has gone to school understands that just memorizing what the teacher teaches is only the first step in learning.
What is even more difficult is to understand and integrate knowledge, and turn knowledge into a handy tool.
Luo Jia is really learning every day, and the more data stored in the brain, it means that he has more content to learn, understand, and comprehend.
There was a time when Luo Jia hated the noise in her head and went to the doctor.
However, as Xingchen Technology continues to grow and enter more and more sophisticated fields, Luo Jia begins to crave more knowledge to solve the problems encountered at the moment.
According to the knowledge level of extraterrestrial civilization, Luo Jia is still a primary school student.
He wants to go to middle school and college, because only with the continuous improvement of his learning level can he lead Xingchen Technology to develop more black technologies that can change the world.
The ticking sound in my brain would be faster if I could.
It's a pity that the Golden Dome obviously has its own plan, it is like a wordless teacher, according to a fixed rhythm, instilling knowledge to Luo Jia little by little.
Now Luo Jia no longer thinks about why extraterrestrial civilizations perished, and what kind of enemies caused them to perish.
Because he can't be distracted by things on Earth, at this stage, every step forward of Xingchen Technology becomes more and more difficult.
Recently they have been stuck with energy storage technology.
This technology is very important, because only by solving the problem of energy storage can we maximize the use of a large amount of electricity wasted in China every day.
As a group of Chinese people, everyone in the tough guy Tiantuan hates waste very much, not to mention the energy thing, which is wasted every day is an astronomical amount.
It's really shocking, 20 percent of wind and solar power generation, and 30 or 40 percent of thermal power plants are running half a day.
If all this electricity is used, how much GDP can be created and how many electric vehicles can be driven on the road.
In order to solve the problem of energy storage, the hardware department of Xingchen Technology has conducted many research groups.
The pumped storage group studies how to turn excess electrical energy into potential energy to build a large reservoir, and the excess electrical energy is used to pump water, which is stored in the reservoir, and when it is needed, the sluice gate is opened, and the hydropower generator is used for power generation operations.
This technology is used in many parts of the world, but the location of things like reservoirs is always limited, and there is a lot of loss in the process of pumped storage.
Pumping water with a water pump, the pump will consume electricity, and then use the hydropower unit to generate electricity, and a lot of loss will be generated, the water is stored in the reservoir, and the sun will cause evaporation, which is also a kind of loss.
Therefore, based on the current situation, although Xingchen Technology has a pumped storage research group, Luo Jia does not think that this technology is suitable for the future, but just out of an attitude of precaution, he has done some research.
There is also a compressed air energy storage group.
As we all know, there are many natural cavities under the surface, and compressed air energy storage is to use excess electricity to extract air, compress air into underground cavities, form pressure, and rely on pressure to generate electricity in the future.
This study is suitable for wind turbines, because wind turbines can directly drive the compressor to run, but the disadvantage is also that the losses are huge.
There is also a group working on flywheel energy storage.
The so-called flywheel energy storage is like winding a mechanical clock, and friends who have brought mechanical watches know that they have to twist twice every morning, and the process of twisting will store energy in the flywheel.
Like the previous two, flywheel energy storage is also too lossy, and the requirements for energy storage machinery are also very high, so it is better to pump directly.
But Luo Jia is in line with the principle that he would rather kill by mistake than let go, and he also made people study it.
This is far from over, the first three research groups are all studying mechanical energy storage, and the majority of Xingchen Technology is actually betting on electrical energy storage.
In terms of the research of electrical energy storage, Xingchen Technology has a key research group directly led by Enron, the supercapacitor group.
The supercapacitor is an electric double-layer structure composed of activated carbon porous electrodes and electrolytes, which finally obtains the existence of ultra-large capacitance storage.
Unlike batteries, which use chemical reactions, the charging and discharging process of supercapacitors is always a physical process, simple, crude and effective.
The benefits of supercapacitors are numerous, such as short charging time, long service life, good temperature characteristics, energy saving, and environmental protection.
There is nothing too complicated about supercapacitors, that is, capacitor charging, and the rest is the problem of materials.
Tesla's boss, Elon Musk, said as early as 2011 that the batteries of traditional electric vehicles have become obsolete, and new cars powered by supercapacitors will replace them in the future.
Now it seems that Musk said this too soon.
Because the unexpected monster army of Xingchen Technology was born, the application of supercapacitors in cars has been interrupted by Luo Jia, and they have made a truly cost-effective battery.
But in any case, it can still be seen that the supercapacitor is still very promising, its charging and discharging performance is very good, the cost is much cheaper than that of lithium batteries, if it can solve the problem of energy density, it can be used as a future energy storage solution.
This is also the reason why Enron and Ji Ming, the two big bulls in the company's hardware department, are all in the supercapacitor group.
In addition to them, the supercapacitor group has as many as 200 PhDs and masters, making it the largest research group in the entire energy storage program.
Although the main focus of Xingchen Technology is supercapacitors, Luo Jia has not let go of other technologies that may succeed.
There is also a superconducting energy storage group in the hardware department, and the things that the group is researching are very powerful.
The superconducting energy storage system roughly includes 4 parts: superconducting coil, cryogenic system, power conditioning system and monitoring system, and uses the characteristics of zero resistance of superconductor to make a device for storing electric energy.
Among them, the development of superconducting materials is the top priority, and superconducting materials can be roughly divided into three categories: low-temperature superconducting materials, high-temperature superconducting materials and room-temperature superconducting materials.
In the field of materials science of the company, another cow Chao Anbang is the host of this project.
Chao Anbang is a local cattle produced by Tsinghua University, the top science student in the college entrance examination in Huizhou Province, and a recognized genius of Tsinghua University.
How good is this guy?
It is said that when he was in class, as long as he raised his hand to ask a question, the professor standing on the podium would tremble, and it often happened that the professor was tossed by him and couldn't speak, so he directly asked Chao Anbang to come to the stage to speak.
Chao Anbang is much younger than Ji Ming, only in his early twenties, and his talent is on par with Ji Ming, but he has less experience.
Ji Ming has presided over the Cambridge Nanomaterials Laboratory, not only in terms of R&D, but also in the ability to manage projects.
In general, Chao Anbang is a bit of Ji Ming's student, but he only accepts Ji Ming's guidance at work, and he does not have the status of master and apprentice.
The entire operation mode of Xingchen Technology is basically the same.
The members of the brainstorming team are equivalent to the leaders and mentors in the company, and the members of the tough guy group learn from the mentors of the brainstorming team.
Yes, learn.
The learning atmosphere of Xingchen Technology is very strong, and Di Wuchang invited back from all over the world, and they all have a few young people with terrifying potential.
This kind of operation is actually similar to that of a university, except that graduate students in college do not receive a salary, but in Xingchen Technology, they can get a good salary return.
Another feature is that the grade is too high.
Don't look at Chao Anbang in Xingchen Technology, he is only equivalent to Ji Ming's student, but if he returns to Tsinghua one day, he will directly be a professor-level existence.
Only in the monster army like Xingchen Technology, will there be such a thing as Chao Anbang being a student for others.
Looking at any university in the country, it is impossible to do it at all, because even the big bulls of Peking University and Tsinghua University are not the opponents of Xingchen Technology.
The tough guy group plus the brainstorming group is essentially a combination of scientific research monsters and super scientific research monsters.
Even if this is already the case, Xingchen Technology still has an elimination mechanism.
Every year, someone will enter the following branch to work, and if they want to stay in the headquarters for a long time and get in touch with the most cutting-edge scientific research results, everyone in the tough guy group must continue to work hard.
Like this time, Chao Anbang performed well and was recommended by Ji Ming, and was arranged by Luo Jia to directly lead a scientific research team, which is an affirmation of his efforts.
Maybe after a while, Chao Anbang will be able to enter the brainstorming group.
For all the people of Xingchen Technology, it is a great honor to be able to enter the brainstorming group.
Can Chaoanbang's superconducting energy storage group succeed?
There should be little hope, because even if superconductivity is made, the price will be very amazing, and what Luo Jia wants now is a cheap and easy-to-use solution.
But is there any value in the superconductivity research led by Chao Anbang?
It's simply too valuable, after all, this is superconductivity, even if it can't be applied to energy storage projects, it will inevitably burst out with incomparable power in the future.
So far, there are already five research groups, but in order to solve the problem of energy storage, Xingchen Technology has a sixth group, the electrochemical energy storage group.
Electrochemical energy storage simply means battery energy storage.
This group is responsible for the battery division, Zhang Dongning and others have been promoting the second-generation scheme of lithium batteries, and they will also study sodium-sulfur batteries and flow batteries.
However, the probability of success of electrochemical energy storage is relatively low, and it is not the top priority of the battery project department.
Six groups working on energy storage have already occupied a huge amount of energy in the hardware department, but this is still far from over.
The company has even recently established a new marine division.
Yes, in order to solve the energy problem, Xingchen Technology even has to design engineering ships.
According to Luo Jia's plan, the next step in the energy storage problem is large-scale offshore wind farms.
Wind turbines are not wooden stakes, just plug them into the sea.
The environment under the sea is so complicated that the soft sediment can't support the wind turbine at all, so it is necessary to drive piles and build an undersea platform.
In order to build a submarine platform, it is necessary to study meteorology, study ocean currents, draw accurate topography of the seabed, and detect the geological structure of the seabed.
In other words, when it is really time to start building offshore wind farms, Xingchen Technology will also set up a meteorological department and a marine research department.
This is scientific research, the difficulty of scientific research, it is difficult to go to the sky!
For ordinary people, everything seems to be quite simple, but for people who do scientific research, this thing is really too complicated and expensive.
The Baoshan headquarters of Xingchen Technology, when I open my eyes every day, hundreds of millions of scientific research funds are flowing.
Luo Jia was busy for two days in the dark, constantly learning, and constantly going to various project teams to listen to reports.
It wasn't until the 20th, at noon, that Luo Jia received a call from her mother and remembered that today was her birthday.
It happened that the summer vacation, the children were on vacation, Peng Cheng's uncle and brother-in-law came to Shanghai, and his mother told him to go home early today.