Chapter 694: Super Robot

On the other hand, the war in the Persian Gulf did not stop because of a single victory for the Persians.

On the contrary, the American side was always thinking about dealing a fatal blow to the Persians. The Persians, who were in a weak position, launched a guerrilla war with the US military by using a sensitive mobile active and passive radar detection network under the command of General Hajid: When the US army invaded on a large scale with several units of the air force, the main force of the Persians avoided the battle and even turned off most of the active radars and hid them, leaving only a small number of mobile radars and a communication-based monitoring system to grasp the dynamics of the US army's large-scale aircraft fleet.

However, when the U.S. military invaded with a squadron of planes, the Persian air force resolutely took to the air to meet the battle, taking advantage of the long-range joint attack advantage of cluster operations, so that the U.S. fighters suffered repeated losses.

However, due to the lack of intelligent combat methods of the US fighters, the US fighters were obviously at a disadvantage in this kind of long-range attack, and the losses were much higher than those of the Persians.

In addition, on the ground now, the Persians have purchased all kinds of mobile Red Flag series air defense missiles in place, and the Persians have one more way of attacking US fighters, and the deployment of these mobile air defense missile systems is extremely flexible, posing a great threat to the US fighters invading the territory, of course, limited to strength, the Persians can only rely on the territory to carry out defensive operations, and are unable to cross the border to take the initiative to attack US military bases, which makes the Persian war begin to enter a stalemate stage.

As far as the US military is concerned, it is certainly a great shame that the war is fought like this, but they firmly grasp the initiative in the war, and in the long run, the balance of victory is on their side. As a result of the war, the production and export of crude oil, which was the main source of the Persian economy, became extremely unstable and began to decline dramatically, and the reduction in crude oil revenues was almost fatal to the fragile economy of the Persians.

For ordinary Persian people, a big victory can make the national jīng god invigorate for a while, but everyone has to live after all, once the domestic economy deteriorates, and the people's life becomes more difficult, then the people will gradually lose confidence and turn to seek some new changes, for this, Walker will also see clearly after many setbacks, so he turned to a long-term blockade and siege strategy, launching frequent attacks on the Persian economic facilities, in the face of this new strategy of the US army, The Persians had absolutely no choice but to grit their teeth and wait for a new turn in the world, occasionally retaliating with a local strike with surface-to-surface missiles.

The war didn't mean much for the busy Duke, and now the emergence of more and more Lotus reactor nuclear power plants is a great thing for Duke's nuclear power company, and it also means more nuclear fuel production for Bilime. However, it was a mixed blessing for Duke, due to the lack of Duke's participation, Duke's proposed robot research project did not progress smoothly, mainly on energy storage devices, and it was always impossible to find a suitable power to allow the robot to work for a longer time.

As a result, when these nuclear power plants produced nuclear fuel, Duke had to rack his brains to "disappear" and make time to accompany Billem to nuclear power plants around the world to "pick up goods".

It's just that when Duke did this disappearance a few more times, it had already made Duke's personal guards suspicious, and they didn't have doubts about Duke, but felt that there were loopholes in the security system they were responsible for, and there always seemed to be some security "vacuum", because Billem's "electric shock" could not completely erase the memories of these special security fighters before they fainted.

In this case, Duke had to step in on the robotics project to solve the obstacles to energy storage battery research so that robots could take his place.

According to the requirements of the pick-up action and the working environment, the battery power that the Duke robot needs to have is that it can work in a normal working environment for more than 3 hours, so that it can successfully complete the pick-up work under high-intensity conditions on the seabed, to meet the requirements of Duke, the power battery of the future intelligent robot needs about 10Kh energy to be able to meet, and at the same time, limited to the volume requirements and weight ratio of the robot itself, the weight of the battery can not exceed 10 kg.

In addition to the specific energy of the complete external accessories per kilogram of mass energy needs to reach 1000h, such a demanding requirement, in the view of the research team, only lithium-sulfur batteries currently have this potential, and the theoretical mass specific energy of lithium-sulfur batteries can be as high as 2600h/kg, which is the battery material with the highest specific capacity known at present, and if it can be applied in practice, it can meet Duke's needs.

It's just that this new type of lithium-sulfur battery is now in the early research stage in the world, and there are many technical problems that have no answers. For example, there is a serious problem with the current electrolyte of this battery, which will lead to the loss and erosion of the positive electrode active material, and eventually cause the collapse of the positive electrode area, so that the charging and discharging times of this battery are relatively low, now only two or three hundred times, and this process also seriously makes the battery energy drop sharply, and the power is reduced after repeated charging;

In addition, the current working temperature of lithium-sulfur batteries with charge-discharge effect is as high as 300~400°C, which requires more expensive high-temperature resistant materials and complex preparation processes to prevent battery burning, and also enables battery modules to be used in various working environments.

In the face of these problems, after Duke intervened in the project, he first organized all the results of the project's current research, including various materials and experimental data, into electronic materials, and entered the Kerry space for them to sort out and absorb, plus the relevant materials obtained by Duke from the libraries of MIT and Harvard University, and soon, Kerry sorted out a complete database of new battery research, and in a short period of time, Duke became an "expert" in battery research with rich theoretical knowledge.

With these foundations, and then according to the existing electrolyte experimental data of the project team, Kerry can deduce some new experimental protocols accordingly, these new schemes are the missing key xìng experiments that Kerry cannot deduce from the existing data, although the experts of the lithium-sulfur battery research team are a little relieved that Duke intervened, because this has a more adequate guarantee in terms of resources, but they are a little dissatisfied with Duke's direct involvement in specific affairs, after all, this is a new field. Although Dr. Duke has a huge aura, a layman is a layman, and without long-term accumulation in this area, everyone has no bottom about the experimental solutions proposed by Duke.

Duke doesn't care what these experts think, this time he forcibly drove these skeptical experts to conduct relevant experiments with authority, anyway, the research funds can break through all budget constraints under Duke's control, and this time he took over and asked everyone to promote the project at any cost, so although there is no future in doing these experiments, and it will cost a lot of money, these experts still start to do these new experiments nervously according to Duke's requirements.

After the results of the new schemes came out, the results did not surprise the experts, and most of the results of Duke's new schemes were poor, much worse than many of the currently known schemes.

But before the experts had time to complain, Duke proposed more new schemes for them to implement, which is a new scheme for Kerry to calculate and adjust the optimization after mastering more and more experimental data and gradually improving the accuracy of the derivation model.

Soon, the experts who were originally skeptical were surprised to find that the new solution provided by Dr. Duke had a miraculous effect, and the battery could get better and better, which made the experts finally discover that no one in this world is omnipotent, except for Dr. Duke.

Finally, under the leadership of Duke, the research group obtained a new formula for electrolyte that can stably charge and discharge more than 500 times, so that the lithium-sulfur battery laboratory model has entered the practical stage.

After completing this step, Duke had Kerry implement the new lithium-sulfur battery electrolyte formulation simulation application model, which was left to the project team to further improve, while Duke himself turned Jīng to work on the final packaging manufacturing process.

On the problem of high-temperature work, although some experts can make it work by reducing the working temperature of the lithium-sulfur battery, the result of this is to greatly reduce the mass specific energy density of the lithium-sulfur battery.

In the future, Duke will have to work for a long time on the seabed, and need to overcome the harsh environment such as seawater resistance, in this case, abundant energy is more important than anything else, so Duke would rather work at a higher temperature and reserve more energy to ensure the smooth execution of his task.

Therefore, in the face of such a situation, Duke calls the best machining resources in China, so that Shenda machine tool production and modulation of the most complex process manufacturing equipment in China, and also mobilizes the most suitable high-temperature resistant materials that they can find now to manufacture the shell of this battery. The engineering team quickly selected an expensive alloy material K-80, which had just been successfully developed, from the Duch Heavy Industry material library, which can withstand 800 degrees of high temperature and has a good corrosion resistance, but the current price is not much worse than that of gold.

However, with this material and new production process equipment, the engineering team finally produced the first generation of high-density lithium-sulfur batteries that met Duke's requirements.

It is a thing that weighs about ten kilograms, and it is capable of having 12 kWh of energy when fully charged, which can ensure about 500 times of charging and discharging, with a maximum output voltage of 48 volts and a maximum current of 150 ampere, within 1 hour of a full charge.

If you just look at these indicators, this battery is undoubtedly the most advanced high-energy battery, using 4 groups of battery module units composed of battery packs, a charge is enough to make a car run almost 400 kilometers, and the increased weight is only 40 kilograms, if you install 8 groups of battery cells, you can run 800 kilometers in the case of adding 80 kilograms, which is not inferior to a fuel car refueling.

But this is only one side of this battery, and from the cost point of view, even if this thing does not count the cost of research and development, the cost of materials and production alone requires about 150,000 yuan, and most of the cost is spent on the expensive shell. In this way, even if it is composed of 4 groups of units, not counting the charging and maintenance costs, the total cost of its 200,000 kilometers of life will exceed 600,000 yuan, relatively speaking, if 200,000 kilometers of fuel is used, even if the high price of gasoline per liter is calculated, the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is 8 liters, and the total cost is only about 120,000 yuan, which is far from the same.

So, in terms of commercial value, this thing is almost zero at this stage. This result made the experts involved in the study quite speechless, but this time Duke's request was urgent, and it was necessary to create something that met Duke's requirements in a short period of time, and these experts had done their best.

However, with such a good foundation, in the next step, experts can spend their minds on cost optimization and improvement, to see if they can find some lower-cost materials to replace, so that its manufacturing cost meets the needs of large-scale promotion, after all, this new generation of lithium-sulfur battery can be really dazzling, if the cost can be reduced to less than one-third, it will have a strong competitiveness.

As for these things, Duke didn't pay much attention to it, he took this batch of specially manufactured lithium-sulfur battery packs, and began to urge the intelligent robot project team to complete the final work, to assist them in completing the adjustment and optimization of the intelligent system, coupled with the new powerful lithium-sulfur battery power, Duke's "pick-up" intelligent robot, which is mainly used to extract nuclear fuel from the seabed of the nuclear power plant, has finally come out.

This intelligent robot, which has no name yet, has 4 G2E high-speed computing cores, has short-range voice understanding capabilities and long-range wireless command receiving capabilities, and a bionic manipulator made of composite materials can complete most of the human movements like the palm of a human hand, and has the functions of using tools to unscrew screws and carry heavy objects.

In order to ensure that it can work for a long time in seawater, Duke has used the high-strength and corrosion-resistant N-235 alloy and composite polymer materials developed by Duke Heavy Industries to manufacture the surface body of this robot, so that it can work in the seawater environment for at least ten years without corrosion.

Judging from the preliminary test, this is a very ideal "pick-up" robot, which should be able to replace Duke to complete the "pick-up" task, but Duke didn't expect that he hadn't had time to make this robot come in handy for "pick-up".