Class B base.

Knowing that there were samples of metal hydrogen battery technology, Ye Changsi and Wu Yunfeng directly threw off more than a hundred new scientists and flew back.

The rest of the people still need some arrangements to come to the base, so many people will never come by plane together, but the unified arrangement is dispersed to two EMUs, and the security bureau and the traffic management choose the time together to prevent any accidents.

The two deliberately chose to arrive at night, and Academician She and several experts from the space agency were still at the base, so it would be less troublesome if they didn't meet.

As soon as they got off the plane, they went directly to the basement where the "Shanhai" supercomputer was stored, and when they pushed the door, they saw more than a dozen system engineers who had gathered here.

This is a vacated maintenance room, with a silver metal box about the length of a man in the center, and the surface is etched with sci-fi lines.

"Unbelievable."

Wu Yunfeng rushed to the innermost part at once, stroking the metal surface of the C172 A cell sample.

Although it looks like an aluminum alloy, it can be touched by the hand like an inorganic material and is not cold, and even if there are many patterns such as oxide layers and nicks, the hand can hardly feel any friction, and the smoothness is amazing.

This kind of material with an extremely contrasting look and feel is extremely rare on earth, and at the same time, a closer look at the design of the power supply head of the battery cell is completely unfamiliar.

The parametric annotations are composed of traditional Chinese characters and Arabic numerals, but their format is also very different from the way they are marked on the earth, and at first glance there is always an air of incompatibility with the environment.

It just sat there quietly, and it accurately conveyed the fact that it was an alien creation.

Ye Changsi walked to the side of the power supply port of the battery cell and squatted, gently pushed the battery cell but failed to move.

"Metallic hydrogen...... This may be the first time that humans have come into contact with degenerate matter in such close proximity. ”

Wu Yunfeng: "It's really hard to imagine how the human beings in that timeline managed to create electronic degenerate pressure, and at this point, they will definitely work towards neutron degeneracy."

I think they're probably already thinking about how to master gravity, it's a world where science is extremely advanced. ”

"Wait."

Lin Ju, who was in the corner, stopped flirting with Yu Man and asked suspiciously:

"There's still metallic hydrogen on the surface of a neutron star?"

Wu Yunfeng: "The high-density and high-energy matter formed by the Pauli incompatibility principle is called degenerate matter, the electrons in the inner core of the neutron star are forced to combine with protons to form neutrons under the huge gravitational force, and then these neutrons are densely pressed together, and the lighter hydrogen element is in the upper layer of the neutron star, and it will also be formed into a degenerate state by this pressure.

However, the density of neutron degenerate states is very exaggerated, up to billions of times that of metallic hydrogen, and if it contains neutron degenerate substances, the weight is probably close to 100 trillion tons.

According to our current theory, the atmospheric pressure at which metallic hydrogen exists is at least 400 gipascals or more, which is millions of times the standard atmospheric pressure.

If it really contained more than 100 kilograms of metallic hydrogen, I can't think of any container that could withstand such high pressure, and the pressure at the center of the hydrogen bomb was only 100 gpa. ”

After Wu Yunfeng finished speaking, Ye Changsi took the opportunity to add:

"Theoretically, even if a hydrogen bomb explodes in the container of this cell, it will not have any effect, and its technical level is no less than metallic hydrogen.

That's right...... What about the information? ”

Lin Ju pointed to the notebook on Serev's lap in the corner, and at the same time subconsciously moved away from the battery, but after thinking about it, he gave up:

According to Wu Yunfeng's words, the pressure inside this cell is even several times that of the hydrogen bomb explosion center, if there is an accident, it is absolutely no problem to level the base, not to mention anything else, this is not counting the power of metal hydrogen inside.

Wu Yunfeng walked up to Seryov, who was sitting on the computer, and found that the four NAS hard drive cabinets stacked on his right hand were full of 48 32T solid state drives.

Seeing that he raised his head, Seryov directly got up and vacated the position:

"You're here just in time, I can't read this, the index of all its technical data is more than 4,000 pages, and I haven't found a single title that I can understand."

“……”

Fortunately, the technical data has been systematically organized, but most of the technical vocabulary of the content is beyond Seryov's cognitive field, and it is really a physicist who has achieved considerable success in cutting-edge physics to understand, otherwise the title will not be recognized.

Ye Changsi and Cheng Nankai were the only people here who could barely read the information, and the three of them flipped through the notebook for more than half an hour, first found the metal hydrogen storage method of the battery cell, and then gasped together.

The others who were still studying the surface of the C172 A battery cell hurriedly came over, and then saw Cheng Nankai's frightened eyes.

"There is no high-pressure vessel inside the cell, at least not a high-pressure vessel as we understand it, but a vacuum."

"What do you mean?"

Seryov did not know why, how to put the ultra-high-pressure form of metallic hydrogen without using a container.

Wu Yunfeng organized the language and explained it in as simple words as possible:

"C172A does not use a traditional high-pressure vessel, the container where the metallic hydrogen is stored is vacuum and suspended in the container, and there is a device inside that generates a strong electromagnetic force to hold all the metallic hydrogen firmly together.

The power of this device comes from the metal hydrogen group, which uses its own superconducting properties to generate external repulsion and then convert it into electrical energy, not a traditional chemical energy battery, with the consumption of electricity, the pressure of the metal hydrogen group gradually decreases, and a part of the metal hydrogen will be converted into free hydrogen ions and absorbed by the substance on the container wall into hydride.

It's a physical/chemical hybrid battery, and the system needs to run all the time before it runs out of power, but what I'm seeing is that only 10% of the electricity is naturally lost each year, and less than 10 watts of power is consumed to maintain the ultra-high voltage electromagnetic force generated internally. ”

As soon as the others present said this, it immediately understood that a device capable of generating thousands of standard atmospheres consumed only 10 watts of power, something that only extraterrestrial technology could do.

If it were on Earth, it would be at least nearly 10,000 times more likely to use electricity.

Wu Yunfeng stroked the surface of the C172 A battery cell, as if he was touching a rare treasure.

"That civilization has mastered the microscopic secret, this is not a cell, it is more like a miniature factory that produces metallic hydrogen in a circular manner, which is the real arrow to the moon."

Lin Ju finally understood why the system gave such a reward, before he thought that so many cutting-edge physicists had exchanged for a battery system that was too stingy, in fact, the technical content of this thing was far beyond imagination, and it could really only be described as black technology.

He immediately asked the question he was most concerned about:

"What about this...... How long will it take us to build. ”

"Manufacturing?"

Wu Yunfeng shook his head decisively:

"I've just roughly flipped through a hundred pages of catalogs, and more than 60% of the technical categories in it are still in the laboratory guessing stage with us...... Eh, boss, do you want to see what the system says? ”

Lin Ju immediately set up a new task of "manufacturing C172 A batteries" in the system research institute, and after thinking about it, he directly invested 10 million.

[Current Progress: 10.002% (+0.001%)]

“……”

No wonder to give samples, like this, I'm afraid it's not difficult to follow the steps for 50 years, this kind of metallic hydrogen battery is still too advanced in the current world line, and the significance is far from being as simple as a battery.

Not to mention manufacturing equipment, you have to verify the relevant theories one by one based on these data.

This is still more than 100 new scientists, and Lin Ju can't imagine how many resources he has to invest.

"How?"

Yu Man asked with concern, and then saw Lin Ju raise a finger:

"Prepare at least one trillion, these materials and samples have been converted into 10% of the progress, and we can advance up to 1% a year with our ability."

However, there was no trace of frustration on Wu Yunfeng's face:

"No, just reading the parts of these technical materials that we have access to is enough to revolutionize existing physics and industry.

But it will take a lot of time, and our current research strength is far from enough, so it is impossible for so many people to concentrate on studying materials here.

I felt a lot of knowledge when you invested money just now, but even with this efficiency, it will take billions to give us a general understanding of the technical status of C172 A, and it is even more difficult to interpret it by ourselves. ”

Ye Changsi nodded approvingly, and thought of a further level:

"If we can also mass-produce C172 A, we will even have a lot of confidence in dealing with the troubles on Mars, but unfortunately, it is too much beyond our technical level, but even if we master some surface technology, it is amazing."

"Then we still need large research centers."

Lin Ju pointed to the stack of A4 papers piled up on the table:

"I got the requirements and equipment types of B+ and A-level research centers from the system, so let's take a look.

B+ level is expected to cost 36.7 billion yuan, A-level needs 99.8 billion, and other additional labor costs are estimated to be no less than two or three billion, and our current scientific research organization can only be regarded as a C+ research institute, which is still far behind. ”

Wu Yunfeng, who is sensitive to numbers, immediately discovered the law of these two numbers, and after some calculations, he found that the funding standard of the C+ Research Institute is 5 billion yuan, which is about the same as the current scientific research level of the base.

Ye Changsi handed him two printed lists, which only wrote the types of equipment needed and the design standards, among which there was a high-energy proton accelerator, and it was a 100Tev energy level.

This can wait for TEPA, and other experimental facilities add up to 39 categories, which are subdivided into thousands of subcategories, and the B+ level surpasses the level of national research institutes, that is, the research ability of the system is unreasonable, otherwise the real cost will be at least three or four times more.

Ye Changsi put down the paper, thought about it and asked first:

"How are we doing financially this year?"

Lin Ju: "The aviation business has been divested this year, counting their small loss of 19 billion, not counting their huge loss of 41 billion, and it is expected that the total expenditure difference by the end of this year will be about 43 billion." ”

One of the benefits of the base's full computerization is that the AI can provide the most accurate financial reports in real time, with almost no error.

The parent company of Xinyuan Aerospace Power is basically in a situation where it can only be maintained by subsidiaries, foreign patent licensing, and blood transfusions of windfall (such as ternary technology), and its own business situation can only be said to be a mess, and it cannot afford to support the current base and R&D projects, let alone such a huge space construction plan.

After hearing this figure, Wu Yunfeng, who originally planned to propose the construction of an A-level scientific research center, immediately stopped talking, and next year there will be a large-scale construction of Mars, and it will be difficult for B+ level to start construction.

However, Lin Ju immediately added:

"However, we have a few subsidiaries to the outside is very good, Yellow River Semiconductor intends to fully roll out ternary technology next year, at least to grab hundreds of billions of market, we draw out one or two tens of billions will not affect normal operations.

C822 and C832 passenger aircraft will start mass production in Yizhou in the middle of next year, which can make a lot of money; Xingchen Airlines is running the C1000 business and wants to lobby the Civil Aviation Administration and foreign airlines to restart supersonic passenger aircraft;

The Oriental International Space Tourism Company also has hundreds of millions...... In short, according to the calculation of "Shanhai", we can have nearly 40 billion funds at our disposal next year.

There are also R&D funds for the system, plus a small 50 billion, and if it is not enough, you can borrow from the bank first. ”

Ye Changsi: "We also have two good things, biological agents and robots, which can also make a lot of money when converted, and we can give them a little more resources."

If the money is really not enough, we will ask the central government for money, use some technical collateral, and add a little more when releasing water. ”

The two of them vaguely reached a consensus between their words, the base is a technical supertrust, but it has been deliberately suppressed, otherwise it can really sweep everything in the civilian market, as long as it meddles in the global market, it will be sanctioned to the point where it cannot be exported.

It can be said that the development of the base is a realistic version of the umbrella company, and it is not impossible to further dominate the world.

For such a monstrous aggregate, funding should not be an obstacle to development.

"I have something to say, too."

Xiao Okada moved forward and took over the topic:

"'Lihuo' has been conducting intensive observation of Plain Zero for half a month, and there is nothing abnormal in the data, but we have recruited a few astrogeologists and made a little discovery."

His words immediately attracted everyone's attention, the alien threat has always been the top secret of the base, just like a Pandora's box, which may only have an alien child's homework or a black hole bomb that destroys the solar system, no one dares to take it lightly.

"The formation of Plain Zero itself is a bit strange, according to the satellite survey, although the part of the land is small, but the terrain is very flat, according to the topographic map we have drawn can not find a reasonable basis for the formation of the formation.

Of course, this is not to say that it is unnatural, and there are countless coincidences that have passed so long to form such a small flat terrain, but ...... Traces of wisdom cannot be ruled out either, especially if we know that there is something there.

I'm asking to send a probe there as soon as possible, preferably one that can leapfrog and get closer to it. ”

Lin Ju: "It's not a problem, but the scale should not be too big to avoid any unexpected effects, just a single no more than 10 tons of payload, and there is also a reason to detect there." ”

Xiao Okada: "Then let them send a few papers saying that there are possible resources there, or that our probe was originally going to the Utopia Plain, and it is normal to accidentally deviate." ”

(End of chapter)