In the afternoon, half past two.

Holographic conference room.

Li Qingye summoned a group of company management.

For the situation of this new material, the management is also full of entanglement.

The person in charge of the Ministry of Mining was the first to speak: "At present, we can mine 2.4~2.8 tons of gold per month, and we can also extract 86~95 tons of gold from seawater every month. ”

Liu Zhifan looked at this data and asked Jiang Mingxuan, the head of the Ministry of Science: "How much gold does a three-layer composite 100 MW thermoelectric generator need?" ”

"......" Jiang Mingxuan did not answer, but directly connected with the researchers of the 8092 laboratory and the researchers from the Electric Power Research Institute.

After more than ten minutes, a rough figure was finally obtained: "About 240~250 kg of gold needs to be used." ”

"Too many!" Liu Zhifan had a headache.

According to this consumption, Homo sapiens produces nearly 100 tons of gold per month, which is enough to make 400 sets of 100 megawatt thermoelectric power generation mechanisms.

And the amount of gold in seawater is not unlimited.

According to the sampling survey of the Ministry of Mines, the gold content in the coastal areas of Hongsavady, where gold seaweed has been cultivated for a long time, has decreased by about 40~50%.

The same is true of the coast of Luzon.

Li Qingye also knew about this situation, and he instructed the Ministry of Mines: "Increase gold seaweed plantations in the Malay Archipelago, the western Pacific islands, Madagascar, and Ceylon, and increase the gold production capacity to 200 tons per month." ”

"Yes, Chairman."

Although the expansion of gold seaweed cultivation scale can indeed quickly increase gold production capacity in a short period of time.

But the crowd didn't get too carried away, because this capacity was far from enough.

At present, about 190,000 tons of gold have been mined in the world, of which 47% is used in jewelry, and the rest is investment and official reserves, as well as as industrial raw materials.

Homo sapiens reserves 2,743 tonnes of gold.

At this time, the installed capacity of Homo sapiens heat engine power generation units was 3.62 million megawatts, and if all these heat engine power generation devices were to be replaced with thermoelectric power generation devices, it would require 8,900 tons of gold.

Of course, if Homo sapiens swallowed Tianzhu and then completely scraped it, it should be possible to squeeze out tens of thousands of tons of gold.

It's just that it is not suitable to annex Tianzhu at this stage, and many of the layout of the Field Support Department has not yet been completed, and a hard annex may lead to the situation getting out of control.

And it's not just for generators.

Thermoelectric conversion materials can also be applied to refrigeration.

In addition, the automobile heat engine can be replaced with a thermoelectric generator, and the current micro gas turbine power generation system can be eliminated with the battery.

Spacecraft, artificial satellites, and space stations in outer space all need temperature difference materials, and after using this temperature difference material, the heat dissipation problem that has been plaguing spacecraft will be solved.

It is even possible to consider the installation of nuclear reactors in space stations and spacecraft to generate electricity.

These applications will push Homo sapiens to the next level.

After all, increasing the thermal efficiency from an average of 45% to 99.41% will mean that less than half of the previous fuel needs to be consumed to get the same power.

The changes brought about by new materials tempted everyone present.

After listening to Garfield for a long time, he proposed: "Maybe we can find a way from the bottom of the sea and deep underground." ”

The person in charge of the Ministry of Mining nodded: "This is a line of thought, at present, we have found that in the underground ore layers and submarine mines, the gold ore reserves are still good, about 700,000 ~ 900,000 tons, but the mining is more troublesome." ”

And at this moment, the head of the space department also hurried to speak for his department:

"In fact, there are many gold-rich asteroids in the asteroid belt, and if we can capture such asteroids with extremely high gold content, then our gold production will increase greatly in the future."

His subtext is to get money to support the Ministry of Space.

The corners of Liu Zhifan's mouth twitched slightly: "The asteroid belt is too far away, and it is not operable for the time being." ”

Li Qingye also agrees with Liu Zhifan's view: "Space mining will not start until at least 2025, and it may take until 2035 to exploit the resources of the asteroid belt, and space mining will not be considered in a short period of time." ”

Hearing this, the person in charge of the space department looked a little helpless.

Space mining is really immature at this stage, and the asteroid belt is too far away.

Li Qingye continued: "Now we have to discuss how to transfer the reserve gold to industry without affecting the stability of the gold standard of the gold dollar. ”

For this question, everyone has one head and two big.

If it is a few hundred tons of secretly extracted, it is not a big problem.

But looking at the situation now, it is definitely not a few hundred tons, but the vast majority of gold will be put into new materials.

Even if it is used in batches, with the current inventory, it still can't support it for too long.

Liu Zhifan hesitated for a while, but still raised objections: "Chairman, I think the application of new materials can be promoted step by step, and with the current company's gold production capacity, it can still be satisfied in the early stage." ”

Other executives are also more conservative.

Jin Yuan must not be untied from gold at this stage, otherwise it will affect the layout and promotion of many plans.

After more than three hours of heated discussion, the final conclusion was that it was to open up sources and reduce expenditure.

Increase the scale of gold seaweed planting, fully open the mining of deep underground gold mines and submarine gold mines, and increase the gold production capacity to 300 tons this year and 500 tons next year.

Strive to complete the upgrading and transformation of the power generation industry within 10 years.

At the same time, he called on all new humans to sell the gold jewelry in their homes to the company.

According to estimates, there are not a few gold holdings held by Homo sapiens employees, with a scale of about 6,000~7,000 tons.

If this part of the gold can be collected, then the gold of Homo sapiens alone can complete the upgrading of the power generation system.

In addition, it was the Field Support Department that stepped in and asked Tianzhu and the compradors in Africa to help buy gold from other regions.

In particular, Tianzhu, which has huge private gold reserves, has become a key target of Homo sapiens.

The value of gold, with the advent of new materials, has become more and more popular.

In the past, the value of gold was mainly scarcity and stability, and its industrial application was not too large, so the price was tepid.

Not anymore.

Gold is endowed with "energy" properties.

That's right, it's energy characteristics.

The use of gold temperature difference material can improve thermal efficiency to the extreme, which is actually a disguised energy metal.

At the same time, Li Qingye also ordered the relevant information to be blocked to prevent this material from being discovered by the outside world.

In particular, the manufacturing process of this material is a top priority.

If this technology is acquired by the Great Powers, their productivity will be greatly increased, and they will compete with Homo sapiens for limited gold resources.

After the meeting.

Li Qingye left Chen Jianxiong alone.

"Jianxiong, your field support department should increase its efforts to obtain more gold for the company, especially in the Asian region, where they have huge gold resources in the private sector."

"Please rest assured, chairman, I will lead the field support department to go all out." Chen Jianxiong replied solemnly.

"There is one more thing I want to command you......"

After Chen Jianxiong listened, his eyes changed slightly, but he still nodded without hesitation: "I will arrange it as soon as possible." ”

"Go ahead!"

Looking at Chen Jianxiong who disappeared in the holographic conference room, his eyes were ancient, and he seemed to be full of all kinds of complex emotions, and then he clicked offline.

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