Chapter 289 Only Success Is Allowed, Failure Is Not Allowed

If there is hope, who would not want to see their motherland leading other countries in the forefront of science and technology?

Sitting in the living room today, whether it is Qin Anguo, Wang Guanghe, or Xu Chuan, they all hope.

Judging from the current development, although the motherland has developed rapidly in the past few decades, it has gradually caught up with the first-tier Western countries.

But it must be said that in most cutting-edge technology fields, because they started too late, they are still lagging behind.

For example, in the field of batteries.

Although the lithium battery supply produced by CATL in China now accounts for nearly a quarter of the world's power battery market, more than 20% of the market, and although BYD's lithium iron phosphate power battery is also at the world's advanced level, it still cannot avoid the bloodsucking of those Western countries.

Every time they produce a battery, they will pay a certain amount of patent fees to foreign companies because of the various patents in it.

Take lithium iron phosphate batteries as an example. In the early years, for every ton of lithium batteries produced in China, 2,500 million yuan in patent fees had to be paid. The money earned from producing batteries was mostly taken away by those foreigners.

Although the domestic battery industry has made many major breakthroughs, there is still a big gap compared with those foreign countries or laboratories and research institutes that have been studying the battery industry for a long time.

Especially in the layout of cutting-edge science and technology, the gap is even greater.

For example, after the lithium dendrite problem is solved, the lithium-sulfur battery that hopes to greatly increase the energy density of lithium batteries has been applied for countless patents in Western countries.

In such an environment, even if you are the first to develop lithium-sulfur batteries, you may not be able to get rid of other people's patent barriers in the end.

In comparison, lithium-air batteries have almost no patent barriers.

Although it is difficult, it has a higher energy density and a brighter future. If it can be developed, it will directly bypass lithium-sulfur batteries and leapfrog other countries.

There is no doubt that this is quite tempting.

Facing Qin Anguo's question, Xu Chuan could only smile and shake his head: "Mr. Qin, you think I am too omnipotent. I am just a mathematician. Even if I have certain scientific research capabilities, I can't solve all problems."

Hearing this, Qin Anguo showed a trace of disappointment.

Indeed, he asked too much.

But to be honest, this is also an illusion given to him by the young scholar in front of him.

Ever since I met him, he has given me a feeling of being omnipotent in both theory and application.

World-class problems, seven millennium problems, nuclear waste problems, lithium dendrite problems. All of them have been solved one by one in his hands.

It makes people feel that any problem can be solved in his hands.

On the side, Wang Guanghe did not pay attention to this aspect. He then asked: "Do you mean that we should focus on lithium-sulfur batteries?"

Xu Chuan nodded, then shook his head, and saw that Qin Anguo and Wang Guanghe were a little confused.

After a pause, he said, "I don't suggest that we focus on the extremely difficult technology of lithium-air batteries at present. It's not that lithium-air batteries don't need to be developed or are not important."

"But for now, we need to spend money on projects that really need money, such as finding ways to circumvent the patents applied for by Western countries on lithium-sulfur batteries, such as developing a new generation of lithium-ion batteries, etc."

"These are what we need to do now."

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"Sorry for disturbing you today,"Thank you Professor Xu for your valuable advice. We will seriously consider these things. "

After a long exchange, Wang Guanghe stood up with a smile and shook hands with Xu Chuan, preparing to leave.

Xu Chuan stood up with a smile and sent the two old men to the gate of the courtyard.

This afternoon, he talked a lot with Qin Anguo and Wang Guanghe.

But basically what he talked about was what he knew, or looking back at the past from the perspective of a reborn person standing in 20 years, and giving some guidance to help the motherland avoid unnecessary investments and wrong routes.

This is the only thing he can do now.

As for the layout and arrangement of the energy field, and the future development direction of domestic energy, he did not speak as usual.

Because he does not understand.

Standing at his current height, his words are no longer the business of one person. To a certain extent, his words now affect the development of an industry, a country, and even the entire world.

Just like this lithium Just like batteries, as long as he expressed his optimism about lithium-air batteries or other directions, he would be guaranteed to be strongly supported by the higher authorities, and even establish a special research project, with people and money provided. And this project is almost destined to be led by him.

In addition, other countries and capitals in the world will also frantically invest all kinds of funds in the field of lithium-air batteries.

But Xu Chuan's innate sense of responsibility makes it impossible for him to do so.

He knows very well that lithium-air batteries are currently a super big pit. Not to mention that he, a big bull in the field of "fake" batteries, jumped in, even if the real big bulls in this industry filled in, they might not be able to fill this pit.

There are many companies that have stumbled in lithium-air batteries. For example, the American business giant IBM announced in 2013 that it would cooperate with Asahi Kasei and Central Glass, two companies in the small island country, to develop lithium-air batteries.

But until now, until Xu Chuan is reborn in the future, this project has been just a project, with almost no truly useful results.

According to historical development, two years later, in 2021, after seven years of research, they will come up with a lithium-air battery with an energy density per unit weight of 500Wh/kg.

But that was just a joke.

Indeed, it achieves this energy density standard, but 10 charge-discharge cycles will cause the battery's capacity to drop sharply, and more than 20 times it will be basically scrapped.

After investing tens of billions and taking seven years, business giants like IBM and battery industry giants from small island countries have not made any breakthroughs in lithium-air batteries.

It can be said that the various problems faced by lithium-air batteries cannot be solved in the past twenty years.

After seeing off the two big guys, Xu Chuan rested for a while and then set off for Qidong.

The temporary hiccup does not affect the overall work arrangement. At most, it is enough to ask Zheng Hai to help change the time of the high-speed rail ticket.

On the other hand, the excitement of the battery industry and battery-related industries, such as the mobile phone industry and the new energy automobile industry, has just begun.

Not long after the press conference was held at the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute.

Some well-known domestic mobile phone manufacturers held product launch conferences in unison.

Chinese mobile phone suppliers such as Warwick, Dami, VIO, and OPP all released concept drawings, or PPT preset copywriting, of next-generation mobile phones at this press conference.

In addition to some performance improvements, the most eye-catching thing is that these manufacturers have unanimously increased the battery life of their mobile phones by a full three times.

This means that the original mobile phone that could barely last a day on a full charge can be used for at least three days on a single charge in the new generation!

As soon as the news came out, the entire Internet instantly became excited.

[Holy shit, the battery life has been tripled? I am not wrong, right! 】

[Domestic machines are going to rise this time! Battery life tripled! Awesome! If domestically produced phones have three times the battery life, who would use Apple? 】

【What about Apple? Why is there no movement from Apple this time? 】

[You guys above are overthinking it. This improvement seems to be a breakthrough in the lithium battery industry. Since it is a breakthrough in the entire lithium battery industry, all mobile phones will definitely improve together. Apple cannot be so short-sighted. 】

[It seems to be related to Sichuan God. Sichuan God made some kind of thin film not long ago. I heard it is used to increase battery capacity. 】

[With the improved battery life, wouldn’t it mean that the battery life of electric vehicles can also be improved? Now it’s 400 kilometers, three times more, 1,200 kilometers, hiss~, awesome! 】

【Sichuan God? Isn't he a mathematician? Why did you start working on batteries? Kneel down to the boss, give your knees! 】

[I am a third-year graduate student, and I really feel like vomiting. My graduate thesis was about how to solve the problem of lithium dendrites. I also planned to study this field when I was studying for a Ph.D., but now it’s gone.]

[The same goes for me. I also study the direction of lithium dendrites. It feels much better to see that I am not the only one suffering. 】

[I'm sad, but I want to laugh for no reason! 】

[I checked it out. It’s called ‘artificial SEI film’, which is used to solve the problem of lithium dendrites. Using this, the negative electrode of the lithium battery can be changed from graphite to lithium metal, and the battery capacity can be changed from the 372mAh/g of the graphite negative electrode. Upgraded to 3860mAh/g of lithium metal anode! 】

【etc? 372 increased to 3860? Isn’t that ten times as much? These stupid manufacturers only give us three times? 】

[Capitalists, everyone knows (squints and smiles), I will give you ten times this time, but you won’t be promoted next time. If you don’t get promoted, how can you make you pay? 】

【Hang up street lights! Gan! 】

[I’m afraid the street lights are not enough! 】

It has to be said that it is indeed shocking that manufacturers such as Warwick and Rice announced the parameters and performance of their next-generation mobile phones before the patent authorization for artificial SEI films has been finalized.

However, with the discussion on the Internet, they did not gain much fame, but received mixed praise and praise.

The main reason is that a data king has made a comparison copy and published it. In theory, the lithium dendrite problem has been solved and the performance of lithium batteries can be increased by at least ten times. However, these mobile phone manufacturers only gave three times.

This undoubtedly made the originally excited netizens feel deceived.

The explosive public opinion instantly turned these manufacturers into 'capitalists' that everyone shouted to beat.

The strange development of events caused several major mobile phone manufacturers and some battery manufacturers to stand up and publicly explain that although the lithium dendrite problem has been solved, battery performance improvement cannot be solved at once.

Giving everyone a battery with ten times the performance in a hurry may lead to various risks such as explosion and so on.

In addition, they also guarantee that as long as the battery performance is improved and the safety test is passed, it will be immediately used on their mobile phones.

Coupled with the help and explanations of a large number of V bloggers and navy troops, the incident was finally calmed down.

It has to be said that eating crabs in the first batch is still risky, and you may get pinched if you are not careful.

After domestic manufacturers fired the first shot, other foreign mobile phone manufacturers also followed the pace and held their own product launches.

Including Apple, which has always been proud, has also publicly stated that it will greatly improve the battery life of its next-generation mobile phones.

After all, the battery life of Apple mobile phones has always been criticized by fans.

In addition to the mobile phone industry, new energy vehicles have also come forward to express that their car range has been improved.

But the strange thing is that these manufacturers have almost locked the range improvement at about three times the original.

It seems that lithium batteries after technological breakthroughs can only achieve this limit.

As for whether it is true or false, ordinary people are probably not clear, or have no choice.

The impact of the breakthrough in lithium battery technology on all walks of life is still continuing to ferment.

On the other hand, Xu Chuan has not paid much attention to these things.

After successfully arriving at the Nuclear Energy Research Institute in Qidong, more than a week has passed.

Now the Nuclear Energy Research Institute and the Nuclear Waste Power Plant have basically completed their work. At present, only the last linear particle accelerator, high-concentration nuclear waste placement and other finishing work remain.

In a few days, the nuclear waste power plant will start its first, or only, comprehensive test in its life.

If it were other projects, the product testing would definitely not be so sloppy during the project acceptance.

But nuclear waste power generation is different. Due to the high risk of nuclear waste, after the waste is transported to the core conversion area, the core area will be completely closed.

Unless there is a major problem or the radiation of the nuclear waste inside is exhausted, the core area will not be opened again.

Even Xu Chuan and the senior management are ready to close the entire industrial park in case of an accident during the power generation process.

No other reason, it is too dangerous here at present.

If more than 500 tons of high-concentration nuclear waste leaks, the area of ​​at least ten kilometers nearby will become a disaster area.

Of course, the probability of this is very small. Even if there is a problem, the one-meter-thick "crystalline erbium zirconate" countermeasure material deployed outside the core conversion area can completely store the 500 tons of nuclear waste inside.

It is equivalent to spending more than 10 billion to build a base for storing 500 tons of high-concentration nuclear waste.

In the past, this was actually worth it.

In recent years, with the rapid increase in the number of nuclear power plants, the amount of nuclear waste that makes people headache has also increased rapidly.

China will spend more and more money on nuclear waste treatment every year. More than 10 billion is nothing for such a huge country.

After all, these are highly radioactive high-level nuclear waste.

But for the entire nuclear energy project, this is undoubtedly a failure.

Although a scientific research project cannot always go smoothly, failure and problems are the norm, but for Xu Chuan, this project, he only allows success, not failure!