From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"What? The current head of the Panasonic family of the Panasonic Group suddenly died of a heart attack?"

When Lin Xiao heard the news, he felt a little surprised. Of course, he was also confused, "But, what does this matter have to do with me?"

Ma Gaoliang spread his hands and said: "Of course this matter has something to do with you, and it also has a lot to do with you."

"Don't talk nonsense, I'll sue you for slander!" Lin Xiao shook his head repeatedly to express his refusal, "I don't want to be burdened with my life for no reason, not to mention that this man Matsushita Akira was over eighty years old and died of a heart disease. Isn’t it a normal thing?”

Ma Gaoliang couldn't help laughing and said, "Did you forget something? The record of my interview with you a few days ago was posted on the evening news yesterday."

"I know... Oh, uh, I know." At this time, Lin Xiao suddenly reacted, and then his face was speechless: "Damn, this is outrageous, that old guy, because of this incident, then Just died? You are over eighty years old, your mental endurance is too poor, right?"

Ma Gaoliang smiled and waved his hand and said, "Actually, it's not entirely because of you. In fact, it may have something to do with the minister of the US Department of Energy."

"Is it related to the Minister of Energy?" Lin Xiao had a puzzled expression on his face: "I remember that there is no cooperative relationship between them?"

"It is because of cooperation that this situation occurs."

Then Ma Gaoliang briefly explained the situation to Lin Xiao, and finally said with a smile: "That's basically the situation. After all, because of your proton battery, Kenny's previous plan was completely in vain, and he can't be found anymore." Your troubles can only come from the Panasonic Group."

Lin Xiao quickly figured out the logical relationship here. Of course, the most important thing was that Ma Gaoliang had some internal information.

In the end, Lin Xiao couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "These Americans really don't want to suffer any losses."

“It’s not that they are unwilling to suffer any losses, but when you cooperate with them, they are unwilling to suffer any losses, and they will not let you make any profits. However, they will only accept losses if you go against them. Ma Gaoliang said with a smile.

Hearing Ma Gaoliang's words, Lin Xiao suddenly laughed and said, "That's true."

This seems to be an old tradition for the United States.

Just like when World War II started in the last century, both the United Kingdom and the United States were researching atomic bombs. In order to avoid being affected by the war, the United Kingdom sent the team responsible for researching the atomic bomb to the United States to cooperate with the United States in research. Then the results were shared, but after the atomic bomb was developed, the United States regretted it.

In this regard, the United Kingdom can only suffer a dumb loss, because after the end of World War II, they still owe a huge debt to the United States.

Not to mention now, they rely on manipulating the U.S. dollar to raise and lower interest rates, frantically harvesting their allies.

In the end, Lin Xiao couldn't help but give Ma Gaoliang a thumbs up, "Your description is quite insightful."

Ma Gaoliang waved his hand and said: "Things that are known to everyone are not very insightful."

Then his face became solemn again, and then he said: "Then let's talk about business first. I mainly want to understand one thing with you, which is the two companies BYD and CATL."

As he spoke, a very confused expression appeared on his face: "These two companies have no idea why they are crazy. They are specifically looking for poor areas without electricity across the country, and then they will pull wires and build power towers to these areas. "

"Especially today, they each invested another billion in this in one day. It was all fine some time ago. Oh, it was not normal no matter how you think about it some time ago. They were able to invest tens of millions every day. .”

"Although, it seems that they are pulling the wires to make money, but it would be good if those poor areas that cannot even use electricity can use electricity. It is definitely impossible to charge them the electricity bill. They can only rely on local government subsidies. However, local governments are basically very poor, and subsidies cannot allow them to make back their money.”

"So this is very strange. Then our people investigated and found you. They seemed to have met with you once before and then went to do this. So I I came here to ask you specifically, do you know the reason why they did this?"

When hearing Ma Gaoliang's words, Lin Xiao was even more stunned, "They actually invested so much money?"

"Yes, the two companies have invested more than 10 billion in total. Although it is divided into three years, it is still 3 to 4 billion each year." Ma Gaodian nodded, then looked at Lin Xiao's expression and asked Said: "It seems that you know?"

"Well, after all, I was the one who suggested they do this." Lin Xiao nodded, "I just didn't expect them to invest so much money."

And Ma Gaoliang was even more confused, "What did you suggest to them? Are these businessmen going to do this kind of thing just because of your words?"

"Haha, of course it's because of the battery technology I'm developing." Lin Xiao spread his hands and said, "If they are willing to do this just because of my words, I will have to worry about their intentions."

Ma Gaoliang also breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: "This is a businessman. Since it is for your battery technology, then there is no problem. Then you can let them continue to do such good things."

"Oh, and also, no matter how you dispose of the rights to the proton battery, I still hope you can keep it in the country." Ma Gaoliang said: "Now we need to control every aspect of energy without making any mistakes."

"Haha, of course I know this kind of thing." Lin Xiao nodded and said with a smile: "Since those two companies are so honest, just choose one of them."

"That's good." Ma Gaodian nodded, then looked at the time and saw that it was already late, so he said something to Lin Xiao and left here.

Lin Xiao recalled what Ma Gaoliang had just said.

He had nothing to say about the situation at the Matsushita family. He could only say that if you want to blame it, blame it on the U.S. Secretary of Energy, or on Makoto Matsushita. Why bother with him?

Oh, this guy Makoto Matsushita also fainted at that time. It’s true that the whole family does not enter the house.

And then he thought of the two companies that were getting involved in the power lines, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "These two companies have actually invested 10 billion in total?"

Didn't they say they would invest 100 million a year, but it's only been a few months?

It seems that research on lithium-sulfur batteries should be restarted as soon as possible, otherwise, he will face a multiple-choice question.

Of course, the research on proton batteries only leaves the final hydrogen storage material, so now we are restarting the research on solid electrolytes for lithium-sulfur batteries without delaying other things.

Anyway, when he originally chose to research the proton battery first, it was just a response to Matsushita Makoto's constant conflicts.

Now it seems that the effect is really outstanding.

After all, until now, he has only appeared in the news and briefly introduced their battery technology. He has not even published the paper or experimental report data. As a result, so many people believe it.

Will anyone believe him if he says in a few days that he has discovered intelligence with consciousness?

Of course, what he knows is that the reason why others believe him is mainly due to his academic credit, so it is obviously not good to use this credit to commit fraud. ,

But for now, his academic credibility must be the strongest in the world, and he might be able to cheat a few times without any problem.

Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about it. After returning to the laboratory, he began research on lithium-sulfur batteries.

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In the following time, Lin Xiao continued to focus on research, the two battery technologies, and the qubit control model of quantum computers. Each of them is very difficult, and there are many small difficulties in it, but As each small difficulty is solved, the final difficulty will be solved.

On the other hand, the craze about hydrogen fuel cells has apparently come to an end.

Although the Panasonic Group's hydrogen fuel cell has entered the stage of production, before the proton battery has officially appeared, it is obvious that it can still make a wave of money. Even if it is replaced by the proton battery in the future, it may not disappear. After all, regardless of In any case, it still has some advantages compared to other batteries.

However, the sudden death of Matsushita Akio, the head of the family, had a huge impact, because Matsushita Akio had not yet determined a successor, so his descendants began to fall into guilt over the position of the head of the family. Dou, I have no intention of caring about these batteries.

Of course, after a company as big as Panasonic Group falls into civil strife, it will naturally be easy for outsiders to take advantage of it.

Companies such as Toyota and Honda have joined in the fight, and Energy Secretary Kenney's original threat was certainly not a joke, and he also participated.

As a result, such a holding company, which ranks more than 100 among the world's top 500, fell into a whirlpool and was unable to extricate itself.

This incident also served as a wake-up call to other people.

The first thing is not to provoke Lin Xiao, especially don't touch him in scientific research. Otherwise, you will most likely lose money only yourself.

The second thing is to be careful when cooperating with Americans. Of course, perhaps for most people, the power to cooperate or not is difficult to control by themselves.

Finally, don’t forget to make a will. At least, after witnessing the situation of the Matsushita family with their own eyes, many chaebol family heads in Japan, if they are older, quickly identified an heir for themselves to avoid the Matsushita family. of that situation.

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"Great! The performance of this hydrogen storage material has completely reached the best level in the world. And after calculating the cost, it is estimated that it is not much different from the hydrogen storage material developed by Panasonic Group!"

"Well, the most important thing is the performance, which is more than twice that of Panasonic Group's hydrogen storage material!"

"In this way, the proton battery we developed will be able to achieve even better performance in various aspects!"

In Dingguang Research Institute, the materials research institute where Lin Xiao was working, after a burst of cheers, Kang Chengning and the others looked excitedly at the test data of the new material in front of them.

After another period of research, under the leadership of Lin Xiao, they finally created a brand new hydrogen storage material.

Hydrogen storage material is a special material that can absorb and release hydrogen, such as metallic palladium. Colloidal palladium can absorb hydrogen equivalent to 1,200 times its volume, and the effect is very good. Therefore, in Iron Man, Iron Man used it at the beginning The metal is palladium, because as a hydrogen storage material, it can provide sufficient hydrogen for nuclear fusion in the Ark reactor.

Of course, their battery is not an Ark reactor. It just uses the hydrogen to maintain the reaction of the battery.

In the laboratory, Lin Xiao next to him saw how happy they were, and smiled slightly, and then said: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, let's start building the battery."

"OK!"

After hearing Lin Xiao's order, Kang Chengning and the others stopped indulging in surprises and began to build a new proton battery.

After building this hydrogen storage material, the previous colloidal electrolyte and proton exchange membrane, a brand new version of the proton battery appeared in front of them.

Then they began to conduct experiments on discharge and charging reactions. Through these two experiments, they could detect the performance of the battery.

In this way, after several hours of testing, they finally got the final results.

"This time, the volumetric energy density has been greatly improved compared to before!" Ma Bin looked at the statistics on the computer and said in surprise: "At least three times more than before!"

"Very good!"

Kang Chengning and the others also cheered again.

For those of them who study materials, being able to develop a new material is a great encouragement, especially when this material can have such powerful properties.

Of course, although the development of these materials has something to do with Lin Xiao and has little to do with them, being able to experience such a process personally is also a knowledge-rich experience for them.

Especially after this round, they have a deeper understanding of computational materials science.

At this time, Lin Xiao was even more satisfied.

This is the perfect form of this proton battery.

Of course, there was something even more satisfying to him, which was the sudden system sound.

"Congratulations to the host for successfully developing a brand new battery. The battery is an important carrier of the electric energy era. The higher its capacity, the deeper your civilization understands the electric energy era. So keep going. Reward 2000 chemistry points Experience, 4000 material science experience points, 80 truth points.”

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard the system's words.

"Electric energy age?"

So what kind of era will there be in the future?

He is not clear about this, because the reason why we call this era the electric energy era is because electric energy is something that humans can currently have the means to preserve, transform and utilize.

As a very perfect energy state, electrical energy can be converted into various other energies, such as thermal energy, chemical energy, mechanical energy, etc. If a new energy state can emerge to replace electrical energy in the future, it will obviously have to be something that can be converted into it. For the ability of other energy states.

But obviously, humans have not discovered such a new energy state so far.

"Another lot of unknown theories."

Lin Xiao couldn't help but shook his head and sighed in his heart, so at this time, if there are still people who think that science has reached its end, they are definitely very stupid.

Then he stopped thinking about it and calmed down his mind. Although it gave him a lot of experience, it didn't allow him to upgrade these two subjects.

Of course, the problem is not big. After all, upgrading is not that easy.

However, looking back on the entire research process, he did not expect to be able to research all three materials with such overwhelming momentum.

"The aura of this energy revealer is really powerful and terrifying."

What he doesn't know is how this so-called "halo" exists and affects him.

No matter how you think about it, this "aura" is strange.

Like...

"The BUFF is the same as in the game..."

Lin Xiao had some doubts in his heart.

"Or...is it a kind of consciousness technology?"

That is, technology for “consciousness”.

But just after he thought about it for a while, a voice came from next to him: "Lin Shen, what should we study next? Lithium-sulfur batteries?"

Lin Xiao came back to his senses, looked at Kang Chengning's expectant expressions, and then nodded with a smile: "Well, let's continue studying lithium-sulfur batteries."

"OK!"

Kang Chengning and the others nodded, no longer dwelling on their success, and began the next study.

And Lin Xiao no longer struggled with the thoughts in his mind.

It is true that as a scientist, his imagination is very rich, and of course every scientist is like this.

But sometimes, you have to keep your eyes on reality.

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