This energy storage method sounds simple, but it is actually very difficult to implement. The electron potential energy jumps from a low potential energy position to a high potential energy position, absorbing energy, and vice versa, releasing energy.
However, it is not feasible to charge electric energy in, because simple electric current cannot change the potential energy of electrons in the molecular structure. This requires converting electric energy into other energies that can affect the potential energy of electrons.
The intermediate step chosen by Cornerstone Materials Company is electromagnetic energy, which converts electrical energy into electromagnetic energy, and then uses electromagnetic energy to affect the electronic potential energy of this material to achieve the purpose of charging.
Although the method is very good and the effect is relatively significant, there is actually a loss of electrical energy in the process of converting electrical energy into electromagnetic energy, and there is also an energy loss in the process of converting electromagnetic energy into electronic potential energy.
Moreover, this process of frequent energy conversion is usually accompanied by the generation of a large amount of heat, which further limits their application fields. At least, the use effect of electronic products such as mobile phones is not very good.
From this perspective, this kind of battery has good energy density and relatively high safety, but its energy loss is large. Unless it is in a special field, it is not very useful.
The reason why Zhao Yi did not stop them from continuing their research was mainly because by optimizing according to this idea, higher energy density could be achieved. As long as the energy loss was reduced, it would still be valuable.
This is the case with scientific research. No idea will be perfect when it first comes out. As long as you continue to work on it, solve the shortcomings encountered in the research, and expand the advantages of the research results, it may have high utilization value in the future.
However, the whims of Cornerstone Materials Company gave Zhao Yi a good idea, that is, why not directly use a special molecular structure to directly bind the electrons coming from the cathode.
In this case, there is no need for frequent energy conversion, which reduces the loss of electrical energy and the generation of heat energy, and has a very high application value.
This is also different from ordinary solid electrolytes. After all, the electrolyte molecules are transformed into positive and negative ions under the voltage difference. Under the action of opposite sex attraction, they migrate to the positive and negative electrodes and adhere to the positive and negative electrode materials.
It exists independently. In the absence of positive and negative electrodes, electrons can be bound in a cage with a special structure. Only when stimulated by external conditions can the electrons be released in an orderly manner, which is the process of releasing electrical energy. .
If you insist on comparing it with a chemical battery, this special structure material can be used as an electrolyte, but the electronic state inside is different from that of an ordinary chemical battery.
Although the positive and negative charges of the electrolyte migrate to the positive and negative ends respectively, the positive and negative charges in the entire system are balanced. This special structure battery is a negative plasma as a whole. This is the fundamental difference between the two.
If it is an ordinary plasma, as long as there is a conductor outside, the electrons will be transferred immediately and the electric energy will be released outward. However, in this special cage structure material, electrons are not so easy to migrate and must be excited under specific conditions. .
Otherwise, even if a huge amount of energy is stored, there will be huge obstacles in the transportation and use projects, especially it is not easy to control the size of the discharge.
The idea is very good, but it is indeed very difficult to implement because electrons are particles at the atomic structure level and are not of the same order of magnitude as molecular structures. The molecules themselves are composed of various atoms.
In other words, it is difficult to create a cage that can restrain electrons, because electrons generally rotate around the nucleus, and it is basically impossible to see electrons break away from the nucleus and exist stably.
The most typical one is cosmic rays, which contain many independent electrons, but these independent electrons can easily combine with other substances and end their single lives.
The way Zhao Yi can think of is to create a micromagnetic field at the molecular structure level, and use the special micromagnetic field of the molecular structure to bind the electrons, so that the free electrons are always in this special magnetic field and exist stably.
However, he did not tell Cornerstone Materials about this idea because he had no relevant information in this area before. He had to research and understand it himself first. He could not assign tasks to the following just because of an idea.
Because the tasks he assigned before are all feasible, if he has not verified them, he will continue to assign them. If he cannot achieve them, wouldn't it be a waste of time
If they came up with it themselves, they might feel that this road is deadlocked and give up because it cannot be realized. If it is arranged by Zhao Yi, then they will only think that it is their own problem and will not think that the road is deadlocked.
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Yi quickly entered his study, let his consciousness enter Zhou Ling's space, told Zhou Ling the idea, and asked her to see if the idea could be realized.
Zhou Ling listened to Zhao Yi's story in detail, then closed his eyes and thought for a while, confirming Zhao Yi's idea. This idea is feasible and can use special molecular structures to create internal magnetic field vortices at the microscopic level.
Then electrons are captured from the outside and included in the internal magnetic field vortex. Moreover, it does not include one or two electrons, but the number of electrons included is determined based on the strength of the internal magnetic field.
It can be seen from this that the theoretical energy storage level of a battery with this structure is very high and almost unlimited.
Just when Zhao Yi was overjoyed, Zhou Ling had already generated countless molecular structures and technical information for Zhao Yi's idea, which could all achieve this goal.
However, the implementation technology inside ranges from low to high, and the energy storage density achieved also ranges from low to high. Zhao Yi ranked them according to the technical difficulty and energy storage density, and then started to look at them from top to bottom.
Zhao Yi read hundreds of pieces of information in succession, and finally selected several technical pieces of information that were not too difficult to implement and had considerable energy storage density.
If it is laboratory production, there is no need to consider the cost issue too much, but if you want to produce it in large quantities, you must use existing technology to achieve it, and the materials must be cheap.
Moreover, the material structure needs to be relatively stable and the number of charge and discharge times is high enough. Both of these will affect the service life of the battery. If the service life is too low, the cost of use will be increased in disguise.
Zhao Yi, who was in an excited mood, planned to rush to the laboratory immediately to conduct relevant experiments, but when he looked up at the sky, it was already dark and it was already time to finish his meal.
Although the technical information is complete, it is not easy to do experiments. First, it requires special experimental equipment, second, it requires a special experimental environment, and third, it takes a certain amount of time.
Just when Zhao Yi was about to go downstairs to finish eating, Zhou Jinyu knocked on the door outside, then walked in and said, "Look at the time, it's already 10 o'clock."
Zhao Yiyi was also surprised when he heard this. He thought it was around seven or eight o'clock, but he didn't expect the time to fly by so fast. It was already 10 o'clock. No wonder Zhou Jinyu came to his study to look for him.
Under normal circumstances, family members would not enter his study room. It was a very private space. Maybe Zhou Jinyu was worried because he had called several times but was not connected.
At that time, Zhao Yi's consciousness was in Zhouling Space, and he was engrossed in reading technical information. His perception of the outside world was relatively poor, so he did not receive the call from downstairs.
"Sorry, I was so absorbed in watching something just now that I didn't notice. Have you eaten?" Zhao Yi first apologized, and then asked her concernedly if she had eaten.
"You can still eat. I'm waiting for you. Come down here quickly. I'll go down first and let Master Li heat up the food." After Zhou Jinyu finished speaking, he ignored Zhao Yi and went downstairs.
Zhao Yi smiled awkwardly, and then followed Zhou Jinyu downstairs. As for the study, there was nothing to clean up. It was not messy in the first place, and there were no confidential documents.
People like Zhao Yi generally do not store paper documents, especially confidential documents. They either store them in their own minds or in electronic devices monitored by artificial intelligence.
The former is the most confidential. Of course, this also depends on Zhao Yi's developed brain and being able to write down these contents clearly. The latter cannot be seen by others without Zhao Yi's permission. Even if it is forced to view, it will either be garbled or garbled. will be deleted directly.
The two came to the restaurant downstairs. Lao Li had already heated up the food. It was probably the smart butler Xiao Ling who had informed Lao Li to do this.
As for asking Lao Li to start a new job, Zhao Yi is not so luxurious. Although he can completely live such a luxurious life, it is completely unnecessary. In addition to showing his wasteful nature, he will also look like a nouveau riche.
In Zhao Yi's life philosophy, you can live a very exquisite life, but you will never tolerate wasteful things. This is a fine tradition of our country for thousands of years and must be maintained.
Although our country's food security problem can be solved through technical means, being prepared for danger in times of peace and preferring to store excess food or donate it through diplomatic means can also bring more diplomatic benefits to the country.
Moreover, as a top-level person, you must take the lead and not give others the impression of being extravagant and lustful. Otherwise, if what you do is effective, a bad trend will be formed in the country, which will be very detrimental to social development.
Because when this trend of luxury rises, it will not be able to stop the car, and it will expand from food waste to other fields. In the end, the elite at the top will become extravagant, while the bottom will be impoverished. This kind of society will definitely not be stable.
In particular, the population size of our country will increase significantly in the future. Although our country has a huge land area, per capita resources are limited. Some resources cannot be achieved through technical means. We must live a frugal life.
Why Zhao Yi cares so much about battery technology breakthroughs is because he doesn’t want to waste electricity and it can also reduce our country’s dependence on fossil energy.
If there is a breakthrough in battery technology, Zhao Yi will vigorously develop electric vehicles in China and fully transform into electric energy-driven vehicles before the development of petroleum-fueled vehicles in our country.
On the one hand, this can effectively reduce our country's dependence on external oil and achieve self-sufficiency in oil resources. Even if it is imported, it will not be pinched by others.
On the other hand, the cost of using electric vehicles is very low, which is particularly in line with the current situation in our country. After ordinary people spend most of their savings to buy cars, they must be able to afford them.
Our country's current annual sales of cars are only a few hundred thousand, and have not yet exceeded one million. The resident retention rate is very low. Under such circumstances, it will be very difficult to transform and promote the production of electric vehicles.
As for the pollution problems and energy consumption problems in battery manufacturing, they can all be solved through technical means. Especially after the advent of physical batteries, the pollution from use will be greatly reduced.
Moreover, Xinhui Energy Company has greatly increased the proportion of photovoltaic power generation. At this time, the launch of electric vehicles can also consume this part of the electricity, and these energy sources are also clean energy.
Although Zhao Yi asked Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to eliminate several deserts, he also knew that it was unrealistic and not a good thing to completely eliminate our country's deserts.
The existence of deserts is also part of the regulation of the earth's climate and environment. It does not mean that the more deserts are eliminated, the better. The several deserts managed by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company are all relatively close to the inland, and the environment was quite good in ancient China. area.
Zhao Yi has never thought about turning some naturally formed deserts, such as the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang, into forests, because doing so is not necessarily a good thing and the consequences are unpredictable.
Of course, this is also related to the high cost of governance. The annual rainfall in these places is too low. Even if it is forced transformation, the cost is high, the sustainability is low, and most importantly, it is difficult to generate economic value.
But if such a large land area is not utilized, it would be a bit of a waste, so Zhao Yi feels that it is entirely possible to lay out photovoltaic power plants on a large scale in these desert areas.
If these deserts are covered with photovoltaic power generation panels, then the electricity generated in these places alone will be enough to consume all the electricity consumed by our residents.
The photovoltaic coating developed by Cornerstone Materials has a photoelectric conversion rate of 60% in the laboratory. Even in actual production, the conversion rate is 50%. Calculated with 10 hours of sunshine per day, one square meter can produce about 4 degree points.
At present, the area of uncontrolled natural deserts in our country is about 400,000 square meters. If all of them are covered with photovoltaic panels, the profit generated per day will reach 1.6 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Then the electricity produced in a year is more than 580 trillion kilowatt-hours, and the national power generation capacity in our country's previous life in 2019 was only a little over 7.1 trillion kilowatt-hours. You can imagine how huge the electricity produced is.
Moreover, this kind of photovoltaic coating will be used on a large scale in buildings constructed by China Housing Corporation, which will also generate a large amount of electricity for daily use in cities.
Of course, there are ways to use more electric energy. Zhao Yi is not worried at all that the electric energy produced will not be used up, such as using electric energy for heating and heating to reduce consumption and dependence on natural gas.
Or a large number of artificial light sources can be used in agriculture. In this case, the stability and controllability of crop production can be further ensured. At the same time, the dependence on land can be reduced and modern industry can be used to produce crops.
The reason why we don't use much electricity is not because there are only so many scenarios where we use electricity, but because the cost of electricity is still high, people cannot afford it, and industrial production does not dare to use it openly.
Although these deserts are located in the northwest of our country and are very far away from economically developed areas, our country already has ultra-high voltage transmission technology, whether it is ultra-high voltage AC transmission or DC transmission.
The only disadvantage of using photovoltaic power generation is that it cannot generate electricity around the clock. It can only generate electricity during the day, and it will be greatly affected by the weather.
It is precisely because of these shortcomings that Zhao Yi is so anxious to develop a high-performance energy storage battery to solve the problems caused by time differences in power production, seasonal changes, and climate effects.
"Zhao Yi, didn't you say you were going to visit my brother? Why haven't you seen any movement? Have you forgotten about this?" Zhou Jinyu asked Zhao Yi while waiting for the food to be served.
Hearing Zhou Jinyu ask this, Zhao Yi remembered that he had indeed said this when he moved. In the blink of an eye, more than two months had passed, and it was almost the next year.
It would really be unreasonable not to go there within the year, so he said: "There's no need to forget it, it's just that I've been busy during this period and haven't taken the time.
If the work at hand goes well, you can leave for there in half a month to see what your brother is doing to make your family so worried. "
When Zhou Jinyu heard that Zhao Yi said that he had not forgotten this matter, he immediately became happy, which showed that he really paid attention to this matter, and what he said was also true. He was really busy during this period and basically had no time to spare.
Seeing Zhou Jinyu's happy look, Zhao Dun wiped the sweat in his heart. Fortunately, he didn't directly say that he had forgotten it, otherwise he wouldn't know what the aunt was going to do.
In fact, his idea was exaggerated. Although Zhou Jinyu would sometimes have a little temper, he would not do anything special. He only needed to be coaxed, and it was not that scary.
However, Zhao Yi has been dealing with these women for a long time, and he also understands that women are auditory animals. As long as they say nice things and say what they like to hear, they can be happy all day long.
Don't they know whether these words are true or false? They must know it. As long as their IQ is online, how can they not hear it, but they just can't stop listening to it. This is different from the way of thinking of most men.
At least for Zhao Yi, when others kept saying nice things to him and saying things he liked to hear, his first reaction was to become vigilant and think about whether they had any intentions in doing so.
About 5 minutes later, Lao Li served the hot food. Zhao Yi did not have the habit of asking these staff to help prepare meals. He stood up by himself, served Zhou Jinyu a bowl of rice, and then served himself rice. .
As soon as Zhao took a mouthful of rice, something seemed to have happened, and he asked Lao Li: "Doesn't Polaris Company have a rice cooker, and it should also have a microwave oven. If you use these tools, you don't need to go to such trouble."
"Mr. Zhao, we do have these things, but the food we make doesn't taste very good. It's better to use traditional methods and the quantity is large." Lao Li replied.
In fact, the rice Zhao Yi mentioned here is already pomegranate rice produced by the agricultural and animal husbandry company. However, not much pomegranate rice is currently on the market, and most of it is stored.
The amount of pomegranate rice on the market is dynamically adjusted according to the composition of grain production in the market. In addition, the storage conditions of pomegranate rice are better than traditional grains, so it is simply regarded as a reserve amount.
Moreover, the domestic food before was basically enough for immediate consumption, and there was not much reserve. According to Zhao Yi's vision, there will be storage across the country that can meet the two-year food consumption of the people across the country.
In this case, we would just take advantage of this opportunity to increase the storage capacity. At that time, domestic agricultural development would also have changed, and it would not be too late to sell pomegranate rice to the market on a large scale.
The reason why he emphasized the two-year reserve is because pomegranate rice is produced on the sea and carries higher risks. More reserves must be made to ensure food security.
Besides, there is no problem in storing more grain. As long as it meets the standards in terms of safety and technology, it will be stored for 5 or 8 years, let alone 2 years. After it is released, it will be no different from new grain.
Since Lao Li said this, Zhao Yi stopped saying it. In fact, Lao Li has been a cook all his life and is quite picky about taste. Moreover, using this kind of automated equipment will also reduce his sense of presence and increase his value. discount.
You know, Zhao Yi's wages for these helpers are not low, especially those with special skills, the wages are higher, and Lao Li is just one of them. (End of chapter)