Chapter 845 Research on Room-Temperature Superconducting Materials

Control the atmosphere and temperature to create a super city that is most suitable for human habitation.

When the idea came to his mind, Director Han of the Industrial Information Bureau could no longer suppress his thoughts.

In fact, this is not a very distant word, but the work they are doing.

Starting from controlled nuclear fusion technology, electric energy, material prices, real estate and travel, for the city of Jinling, these are steadily and orderly reduced under the regulation of the government.

Of course, the pace of other places may be slower, but these properties that can be artificially controlled are all in China's planning.

Striving to create an environment suitable for ordinary people to live in is the most simple and greatest dream of most people living on this red land.

However, for people living on this planet, internal conditions can be controlled, but the external environment is difficult to change.

For example, the greenhouse effect that is becoming more and more serious with human activities, or extreme bad weather, floods and droughts, earthquakes and tsunamis, etc., are all severe challenges for human survival.

If the first choice of Western culture in the face of these disasters is to escape, then since the birth of the descendants of Yan and Huang, man will conquer nature is a heritage engraved in the bones.

From Nuwa mending the sky, to Yugong moving mountains, to Dayu controlling floods, almost every chapter of the story can reflect a Chinese-style, persistent and indomitable spirit.

Perhaps, from now on, the opportunity to change the environment has arrived.

Not all, at least part of it, right?

He couldn't help swallowing the air, he looked at Xu Chuan, took a deep breath and asked: "Academician Xu, regarding this project, I would like to ask, do you have a city transformation plan in your mind, and is this carbon dioxide recovery system part of it?"

Xu Chuan looked at him with some surprise, and smiled and said: "Why do you say that?"

It must be said that the director of the Industrial Information Bureau was somewhat surprised by his sensitivity to the development of technology. He just proposed a beginning, and the other party thought of the possibility of follow-up.

That's right.

In his vision, the porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collector is indeed only a part of the transformation of Jinling City.

Of course, this is not the first step.

To say the first step, there is no doubt that it is naturally controlled nuclear fusion technology.

But at that time he didn't think so much.

The emergence of atmospheric carbon dioxide capture technology gave him the idea of ​​building a technological city as a whole.

Starting from electricity, with energy as the core foundation, artificial intelligence + carbon-based chips + quantum computing as the skeleton, superconducting magnetic levitation + unmanned driving as the flesh and blood, and environmental control technology as the skin to create an ideal living city.

It is very challenging, but with the current technology, it is not impossible.

After all, he has already solved the most core energy.

Across the sofa, Director Han Zizhen thought about it, smiled and said: "Feel it."

After a slight pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and continued: "I think your goal, Academician Xu, may not just use this technology to solve the carbon dioxide and greenhouse effect in the city."

"This may be just one part of it?"

Xu Chuan looked at Director Han with some surprise, smiled, got up and walked to the desk, and took out a draft from the drawer.

This is a simple plan he made during his lunch break.

Smiling and handing over the manuscript in his hand, he continued: "Some small ideas for future development, I don't know if they are useful to you, but the technologies in them are indeed the direction of research or future."

Han Zizhen took the draft from Xu Chuan with some doubts and interest.

He really wanted to see what this person thought about future development.

Perhaps a few thin pieces of paper cannot represent everything, but a glimpse of the whole picture can at least show something.

".Based on controlled nuclear fusion technology, artificial intelligence as an ecological control system.Build a highly intelligent living city"

Looking at the plans and goals on the draft, Han Zizhen took a breath.

Although this plan is simple, if he is asked to give an evaluation.

Then this is an "outline" that points out the direction of urban development in the next 20, 30, or even 50 years, or even longer.

Not to mention other things, just in terms of transportation, the brief plan in this outline shocked him.

For example, by deploying a large number of driverless cars to replace the current taxis, buses, and other public transportation resources.

Use a supercomputing center composed of carbon-based chips or quantum computers to plan the traffic of the entire city.

Simply put, you can order a travel route on your mobile phone while sitting at home. The supercomputing center will calculate the best route and arrange the nearest unmanned vehicle to go to your community or even pick you up downstairs.

In the conception, there is also a wireless charging array laid on the road surface, combined with the new energy batteries on the car, to achieve "unlimited endurance" driving.

There is even a fast road composed of "magnetic levitation train" and "ground effect aircraft" based on superconducting materials.

That is, referring to the current elevated road, laying a magnetic levitation base on the ground, changing the structure of the car, and realizing "high-speed transportation" and so on.

Just for the transportation, these concepts listed, if Jinling City develops in this way, it will take 40 to 50 years, and it will not be possible at all.

If deploying the so-called carbon dioxide collector to improve the environment and climate is a big project, then realizing the transformation in the field of transportation is a super project.

Although this is just a draft, Han Zizhen has to admit that the "future" depicted in it is extremely tempting.

This can be said to be a "future city".

Of course, the difficulties faced in building this future city are undoubtedly huge.

Just the so-called transportation, whether it is carbon-based chips or quantum computers, are all illusory things now.

To arrange the traffic planning of an entire city through artificial intelligence is undoubtedly a pipe dream now.

No matter how fast the current supercomputer develops, it is difficult to support such an exaggerated computing power demand. I am afraid that only commercial quantum computers can do it.

There are also wireless charging arrays laid under the road to achieve unlimited endurance, as well as magnetic levitation bases and high-speed transportation. Which one is not a huge and time-consuming project?

With current technology, whether it can support these is another matter.

Swallowing his saliva again, Han Zizhen gently put the draft in his hand on the table, and said with emotion: "This idea is really grand!"

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It's just something I described by combining the current trend of technological development and the conception of the future city."

"Whether we can achieve these imagined things still requires hard work."

On the sofa, Han Zizhen, director of the Industrial Information Bureau, took a deep breath and said: "I don't know if I can convince others, but I will do my best to support related work in internal meetings."

After a pause, he looked at Xu Chuan and said seriously: "Not only the experiments and projects related to the porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide collector, but also the future you described."

"Jinling, I am willing to be this pilot."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan was slightly stunned.

No, he just had an idea that came up temporarily, a few sketches, and the city leaders of Jinling City were fooled to the point of being lost?

Ahem~, Xu Chuan coughed a little embarrassedly, smiled, and said: "Director Han has a good idea, but the development of science and technology is unknown, and the future city is also unknown. Whether it can be turned from a dream into reality still needs the test of time."

"As for now, let's talk more about things related to the porous liquefied DAC carbon dioxide capture project."

"Okay."

After sending off the two Jinling directors, Xu Chuan picked up the draft papers from the coffee table, looked at them, and fell into thought.

Urbanization is the trend of the times. Even if the controlled nuclear fusion technology is now realized, the rural population is still flowing to the city.

There is even a sense of acceleration, especially in those big cities.

It's very simple. Whether it is production value or various infrastructure and public services, there are huge differences between rural and urban areas.

Of course, these are not actually what he needs to consider.

There are a lot of experts in administrative work in China. How to build a country, those leaders' vision is undoubtedly better than his academic research.

He was thinking about the technologies on these manuscripts, which ones need to be focused on and have a huge impact on social and technological development.

Holding a few drafts, Xu Chuan sat back at his desk and studied them carefully.

The thoughts in his mind quickly passed through. If electricity is the core energy of the whole plan, then AI intelligence + quantum computers + superconducting materials are undoubtedly the brain, skeleton, and flesh.

The next research focus is undoubtedly AI intelligence + quantum computing + room-temperature superconducting materials.

After thinking for a while, he set his sights on superconducting materials.

This is the most likely field for him to break through quickly among the three technologies.

The technology related to room-temperature superconducting materials is still imprinted in his mind. This is one of the most important achievements he developed in his previous life.

But the main reason why he has not reproduced this technology is, on the one hand, because this technology is a huge killer for both him and China.

It's just that this killer has never had much chance to be used.

Whether it is the research and development of controlled nuclear fusion technology or aerospace engines, high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials have perfectly supported the development.

On the other hand, it is because the room-temperature superconducting materials he developed have great defects.

This is also one of the reasons why he has never thought about quickly developing this technology.

The room-temperature superconducting materials based on the theory of localized structure of condensed matter electrons have achieved superconductivity in a room temperature environment, but it is extremely difficult to mass-produce industrial products and extremely difficult to process into a specified shape.

In addition, the working environment requires a certain pressure, and it is very easy to be damaged and lose its superconducting properties when encountering vibrations and bumps.

Although it has greater potential than high-temperature copper-carbon-silver superconducting materials, in terms of the application value of the two, at least in Xu Chuan's opinion, it is not as good as high-temperature copper-carbon-silver superconducting materials at present.

Although the latter has certain requirements for working temperature, it is simple to produce industrially, can be processed into various shapes, and can be applied to various equipment. Except for temperature, it is not demanding for other environmental requirements and has stable properties.

After all, for today's scientific and technological system, it does not mean that room-temperature superconductors can be developed and killed.

A technology is very powerful, but if it is difficult to achieve industrial production and its scope of use is relatively narrow, it will also be difficult to be accepted by the social system.

There are actually quite a few materials and technologies that are good at "certain properties" that are accidentally produced in the laboratory, but there are not many that can really be popularized.

Because a useful material must not only have excellent physical and chemical properties, including high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, high strength, high hardness, etc.

At the same time, a fundamental condition that determines whether it can be widely used is easy preparation and easy processing, etc.

For example, plastic is an excellent material.

Its various properties determine that it will be a material widely used in society.

And the room-temperature superconducting material he developed in his previous life is obviously not of this type.

However, the direction of research has been pointed out. Following the theory of symmetry breaking of condensed matter oxidation, it is undoubtedly easier to improve this ultra-temperature superconducting technology than to develop a new one.

This technology can also be launched.

He took out a new stack of A4 paper from the drawer. After recalling it in his mind for a long time, Xu Chuan picked up the ballpoint pen on the table and quickly wrote a title on the manuscript paper.

"Study on the completion of superconducting system based on the theory of localized structure of condensed electrons"

Looking at the title on the manuscript, he put his hands together and supported his chin, and fell into deep thought.

It was not difficult for him to copy the theory in his memory.

But it didn't make much sense.

The room-temperature superconducting materials developed in his previous life had great defects, and what he had to do now was not just a simple copy.

But on the basis of the original theory of localized structure of condensed electrons, by integrating the theory in the grand unified framework of strongly correlated electron systems, he explored a path that could be optimized.

This was the difficult work.