After Fang Hong ordered the company to fine-tune its strategy in the global commodity trading market, it turned to the layout of cutting-edge technology. He looked at Tian Jiayi and said: "The company will increase its investment in the research and development of room temperature superconducting materials in terms of new material applications. Establish a national-level superconducting materials research institute in Xincheng and recruit the top scholars in this field."
Hearing this, Tian Jiayi asked: "How much is the expected investment?"
The beautiful assistant doesn’t ask him why now, because he can always make the right decision. To put it another way, with his terrifying ability to make money, there is a lot of money that makes him “lost”. Anyway, he makes money at a much faster rate. Because of the speed with which he "wasted money".
Fang Hong thought for a while and said: "Let's start with a budget of 3 billion, and continue to invest more later. Room temperature superconductivity is not a new thing. It has been studied in the last century, but we must continue to increase investment." .”
Having said this, Fang Hong looked at the beautiful assistant and smiled: "The RDA company in the movie "Avatar", why do you think they have to go to war with the Na'vi? Isn't it just for the room-temperature superconducting ore on Pandora? Go. In short, if new materials like room temperature superconductivity can be developed, the fourth industrial revolution of mankind will inevitably come, which can change the structure of almost all existing industries of mankind."
Superconducting materials, simply put, are super conductive and have zero resistance.
For superconducting materials, the current itself is the movement process of electrons. The electrons hit atoms during the movement, so the material will generate heat, and part of the electrical energy will be converted into heat.
The superconducting state will make the material become zero resistance, that is, there is no obstruction at all when electrons at the microscopic scale move.
When there is no resistance, the material will not heat up, and the material will not heat up, so of course there is no energy loss.
If superconducting materials can achieve room temperature superconductivity, the new energy industry will first usher in unprecedented development. New energy is electricity, but it has been unable to be popularized. Even after Fang Hong's previous life ten years ago, the new energy industry developed unprecedentedly. Nor can it be fully popularized.
This is because electricity-using equipment cannot be transported over long distances, and the loss is too great. The farther the transmission distance, the more energy is lost in the process.
Therefore, power plants are generally built nearby. Although the wind power and photovoltaic power plants in the northwest are good, for the large power consumers in the eastern coastal cities, the distance is too far to use them, so they can only use the surrounding thermal power.
Therefore, compared with oil and natural gas, electricity is still not worry-free in the final analysis.
Room-temperature superconductivity means that the material basically achieves zero resistance under greenhouse conditions.
Current superconducting materials need to be significantly cooled to minus one to two hundred degrees Celsius under normal atmospheric pressure to achieve superconductivity. It is obviously not possible to popularize them in large areas.
But if there are room temperature superconducting materials, there will be no energy loss in power transmission using this material. Photovoltaic power generated in the African Sahara Desert can be transmitted to new cities, and global power grids can be easily connected.
Even if controllable nuclear fusion is not achieved, superconducting energy storage in generators made of superconducting materials will greatly improve the efficiency of the power system.
Room-temperature superconducting materials can also be used in some existing electronic devices, such as mobile phones, computers, cars and other devices currently known to mankind that can use electricity. The power will be ridiculously large, but the energy consumption will be amazingly small. Without a resistor, there is no heat dissipation requirement, and the phone will not get hot. The need for heat dissipation means that not much energy is wasted.
In this way, all electrical equipment not only does not require large batteries, but can also achieve ultra-long battery life and ultra-high power output.
If a battery of the same size in a smartphone can now last for 20 hours, if it is replaced with room temperature superconducting material and the heat loss is saved, the battery life may be doubled.
And whether it is electronic equipment, cars or even houses in the future, it is not uncommon for them to float in the sky. The mountains suspended in the sky in the "Avatar" movie are the best representation.
The phenomenon of superconductivity can not only achieve levitation, but also suspension. As long as there are no problems with the superconducting material itself, you can go to the sky if you want.
The traffic pressure in megacities will disappear in an instant, because the birth of room-temperature superconducting materials can transform the city's transportation network from a flat surface to a three-dimensional transportation network.
Just like the future cities in science fiction movies are brought into reality, vehicles traveling at different city heights will make such science fiction scenes a reality.
If the vehicles originally concentrated on one plane, that is, the ground, are dispersed at different heights, there will definitely be no traffic jams even in a metropolis with a population of more than 100 million.
For example, if the ground traffic pressure cannot be sustained, then a transportation network should be established at a height of 50 meters above sea level. If that is not enough, then another plane transportation network should be planned at a height of 100 meters, and so on.
There is no doubt that the new energy automobile industry will also usher in earth-shaking changes due to room temperature superconductivity, and fuel vehicles will completely withdraw from the stage of history.
With room-temperature superconducting materials, there is great potential for military electromagnetic weapon systems. Electromagnetic rifles and electromagnetic guns, whether ship-borne electromagnetic guns, vehicle-mounted electromagnetic guns, or even fighter jets, can be equipped with electromagnetic guns. The superconducting energy storage revolution brought by room-temperature superconducting materials , resulting in an unprecedented improvement in energy utilization.
With room-temperature superconducting materials, the research on controllable fusion is also expected to take a big step forward, and the realization of controllable nuclear fusion will make it much easier for humans to go out of the earth and into deep space, whether it is building a larger space station or on the moon or even Establishing a permanent human base on Mars is no longer out of reach.
It can be seen that once the new material of room temperature superconductivity is realized, it will inevitably fast-forward the entire human race to the fourth industrial revolution. The profound changes it will bring to human civilization may be greater than those of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum computers, etc. The representative technologies of the fourth industrial revolution are yet to come.
For room temperature superconducting materials, the application range is too broad, and Fang Hong is determined to fight for this new material. Under normal circumstances, it may not be possible to develop it in the next ten or twenty years.
but……
If cheating occurs, the situation may be very different.
Fang Hong thought about saving up a wave of achievement points, then selecting a top scholar in the field, and then using prop cards to maximize the scholar's research and development capabilities. The probability of developing room temperature superconducting materials would definitely increase significantly.
The prospects of this new material are worth the investment.
However, precisely because this new material has such a great impact on all mankind, even if it is developed in a short time, it cannot be made public easily, because the impact on all walks of life is too great, and it will trigger a major reshuffle in countless industries, and This influence is global.
There is no doubt that Europe and the United States will inevitably launch a comprehensive and crazy crackdown, so the timing of popularization is also critical.
But of course, the sooner it can be developed, the better. The initiative is in one's own hands. Once it is developed, it can be applied in the military field first. The electromagnetic weapon system is the best carrier.
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