Chapter 1482 How the Really Rich Play

Professor Jiang and several assistants stood at the entrance of the Battery Research Institute. Over there, Feng Yiping and Wu Qian came over while talking on the phone.

"Yiping," Professor Jiang smiled and walked over from a distance.

"Hello, Professor Jiang," Feng Yiping smiled and shook his hand and said to the other end of the phone, "Yes, the camps on the way must also prepare medical forces and medicines in advance. Also, the key point is that the doctors responsible for medical support must make plans based on the flight time of the helicopter to each section along the way. Everyone's safety is the most important,"

"Okay, you take them on a flight to get familiar with it once, which will naturally be better,"

He finally hung up the phone, held Professor Jiang's hand and walked towards the institute, "I'm sorry, I was just in Dunhuang, Mr. Zhou,"

"I see, is it to prepare for the next activities?"

"Yes,"

"Hearing what you said, I'm quite looking forward to it,"

"I hope you don't scold me in your heart when the time comes," Feng Yiping said.

"How could that be?" Professor Jiang said with a smile, "If I want to scold, I must scold in person."

At this time, his assistant handed over a few white coats, and everyone changed into them one by one, swiped their cards and passed through a protective door, and entered the kind of laboratory that Feng Yiping had seen many times in film and television works.

Many people in white coats were busy in front of various instruments in the high-clean laboratory, and most people were indifferent to their arrival.

Feng Yiping, who came here for the first time, listened carefully to Professor Jiang's introduction, but in his opinion, everything in front of him, whether it was people or equipment, was a pile of money.

It was also the first time he knew that doing scientific research was such a costly thing. The total investment of this institute has now reached nearly 200 million US dollars.

This is not the final investment. Of course, there is no such thing as the final investment for an institute like this that integrates several laboratories. You always have to keep investing.

There are also annual maintenance, management and operating expenses, which are naturally not small amounts.

This institute can be said to be the most expensive project in his industry at present.

The folk saying that the poor play with cars and the rich play with watches is simply a joke in front of such things. Those who think they are rich, why don’t you play with scientific research?

“Since its establishment, we have obtained 195 patents,” Professor Jiang naturally knew what Feng Yiping was most concerned about.

For a company leader like him, they don’t really care how many papers the researchers of the institute have published. What they care about is the main product here - patents.

“We have received calls from relevant institutions, hoping that we can participate in the design of national standards for the domestic lithium battery industry,”

“This is a great achievement,” Feng Yiping affirmed.

Third-rate companies make products, second-rate companies make brands, and first-rate companies make standards. This is not just talk.

For practitioners like them, being able to participate in the formulation of national standards and related clauses is naturally more beneficial to themselves.

“However, considering our investment in this industry, it would be abnormal if we cannot participate in the formulation of relevant standards. What do you think?”

“Yiping, you are right,” Professor Jiang thought to himself, this guy is still as smart as ever.

He may not understand the specific operation, but he always has a very accurate grasp of the general direction.

"Look, you don't need to give me a specific report," Feng Yiping stopped the staff from preparing to make a demonstration in the conference room. "To be honest, I haven't remembered many of the terms you just introduced, so I just want to ask, is there any progress in improving the unit density of lithium batteries?"

This is actually the biggest bottleneck facing the development of lithium batteries, or all batteries.

The capacity and size of batteries are always proportional, but the energy density of existing batteries is still not large enough, which leads to their relatively large size. Whether it is the electric vehicles currently being developed or the various portable devices that will appear now and in the future, the major development trend is that while the size is getting smaller and smaller, the energy consumption of major components such as processors will become higher and higher.

This puts higher requirements on batteries.

"Frankly speaking, we have not made much progress in improving energy density, and I can conclude that in the foreseeable future, there is room for improvement in this regard, but it is definitely not as large as we expect," said Professor Jiang.

Feng Yiping knew that this was the truth, and the result was like this, but such truth was useless.

"So we are currently increasing our research on sodium, mainly sodium, and magnesium, zinc, and aluminum metals with large charge numbers, but you should also know the difficulty of researching new materials,"

Feng Yiping nodded. In terms of material research, it is indeed impossible to expect to launch a satellite all at once, but there are ways to improve the process. "If we expand the scientific research team, for example, recruit the world's top experts, and then expand the current researchers from hundreds to thousands, tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands, is it possible to speed up this process?"

Professor Jiang was stunned, and then excited. Tens of thousands of researchers? How could he have the courage of Feng Yiping? But if it is really like what Feng Yiping said, then the institute he is leading now is definitely the world's top level. For a scholar who emphasizes effectiveness, is there any better pursuit than this?

However, he still advised, "Yiping, we should be clear about one thing. In terms of efficiency, battery research and development is not as effective as other hardware research and development. The investment will be far greater than the output. Therefore, I think the research institute's It can be scaled up, but not too aggressively,"

"No, if there is a breakthrough in this area and perfect patent barriers are set up, the benefits will be able to fully match the investment,"

Feng Yiping is very clear about the future development. Not to mention the smartphone industry, the reason why wearable devices, which were once highly hyped, failed to develop rapidly is mainly due to battery constraints.

If your family can make a breakthrough in this area, then the market return really shouldn’t be too high!

Besides, is a research institute with tens of thousands of people too radical? Absolutely not.

Take Huawei for example later. When labor costs gradually became in line with those of Western developed countries, it was also very common for a research institute to have tens of thousands of people.

What's more, at this time, domestic labor costs are far lower than those in Western developed countries, not to mention that Feng Yiping can also be said to have too much money at the moment and needs somewhere to spend it.

Professor Jiang decided not to argue with Feng Yiping, "In addition to working hard in the two directions of materials and structures, another focus of our research is to start from the existing technology. We hope to reform the current production technology and processes, and then Effectively reduce costs,”

This is naturally the right direction. The two major bottlenecks in battery development are the slow increase in unit energy density and the lack of significant cost reduction.

"In this regard, including environmental friendliness - you know, we must consider the issue of recycling, and we have already made some plans. Of course, we have also started relevant work on the two aspects of fast charging and adapting to the temperature range that you proposed. research,”

"Very good," as we all know, fast charging is also a very real need for electric vehicles or smart devices such as mobile phones.

Feng Yiping also felt that for a newly established research institute, the requirements should not be too high. "Professor Jiang is naturally more proficient in specific research. Since you mentioned craftsmanship," Feng Yiping thought for a moment, "Can you In this way, we completely abandon the existing production process and start from a blank sheet of paper? ”

Professor Jiang was stunned again, then became interested again, "Yiping, your ideas are always surprising. Since you have such courage, then no problem, I will form such a team right away,"

He finally understood why the young man in front of him was so successful.

Yes, he may not understand the specific issues, but he has a clear understanding of the current problems.

We all know that many times, being able to ask the right questions is a great achievement.

What's more, precisely because he doesn't understand technology, he can put forward directions that seem to be breakthroughs without being shackles by specific technologies...

In short, this is a rich man who has his own methodology, is always good at grasping the key to all problems, and can come up with big solutions.

The reason why Professor Jiang is called a rich man is because some of his solutions can only be thought up by rich people.

However, the reason why he is rich seems to be mainly because of the previous reasons? When sending Feng Yiping away, Professor Jiang kept thinking about this question like which came first, the chicken or the egg.

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After the Battery Research Institute, Feng Yiping also went to the Electric Vehicle Research Institute, Magic Workshop Research Center, Jiasheng Design Institute, Logistics Research Center, the newly established AI Research Center..., and the "Frontier" magazine information center.

Overall, it seems that the last one has the least investment and annual funding, now and in the future. It can even be said to be a fraction of the previous ones.

In addition to management fees, the most important expenditure of this information center every year is to organize a business forum covering politics and economy. Feng Yiping's vision is to turn this forum into a century-old project.

These research institutes, which made him feel very successful, were ridiculed by Jin Ling, who took Fang Yingzhi to the capital first the next day.

"You have money to burn. Do you know that because of your willfulness, except for the two listed companies, the overall performance of the other domestic companies of the group may suffer losses this year?"

"Do you know how much the current total expenses of your research institutions, including software and hardware, are? More than 2 billion!"

"Isn't it just 2 billion? Then there will definitely be no loss." Seeing Jin Ling getting angry and finding faults whenever he came, Feng Yiping even felt a little enjoyment.

Well, why do I feel this way? Am I a masochist?

"Humph, isn't it just 2 billion? Look at this." Jin Ling threw him a folder. "I just received it. Professor Jiang hopes to spend at least 10 million US dollars to search for battery research around the world. Experts also said that this is a proposal made by some people,”

"Haha," Feng Yiping smiled unnaturally. That "someone" naturally refers to himself, "I think it is worth it. Top talents will definitely bring us top rewards in the future."

"Did I tell you something? Microsoft and Google can spend huge sums of money to set up an office in the researcher's hometown just because an outstanding researcher refuses to leave his hometown, and equip him with dozens of employees. A team of people,”

"I think that's the farsighted way to attract talent,"

“How many companies’ profits can compare with Microsoft and Google?”

"Please, can't our current spending on this be comparable to Microsoft and Google?"

Feng Yiping lay lazily on the sofa, "Don't push me anymore. If you keep pushing me, I will learn from Bezos and Musk and spend money to research and develop how to immigrate to Mars. Do you believe it? Or I will learn from Google and others and prepare the same." Investing heavily in life technologies,”

Jin Ling was furious. Compared with the research institutes set up by Feng Yiping now, those two directions are projects that are likely to not see results in his lifetime.

"Then look at this, it's just a team building. In terms of logistical support, in addition to your private plane, you also prepared two helicopters, plus 50 vehicles, and more than 150 staff. This is a team building. Are you ready to have fun again? "

She felt very unhappy when she saw Feng Yiping lying on the sofa like that. Is it wrong for me to work so hard and do everything possible to save money for you?

But Feng Yiping was able to cure her various discomforts, "Don't you want to participate too? I don't want you to have any problems,"

Jin Ling was about to smash the folder and gently put it on the desk. Then he felt annoyed again, why do I always do this to him?