Chapter 365: Like Einstein or Newton
Although the cooperation intention was initially reached, Professor Tillman Lunt did not leave.
Including a team he brought here also temporarily stayed in Jinling.
The "High Temperature Copper Carbon Silver Composite Superconducting Material Technology" transaction for the "ASDEX Controlled Nuclear Fusion Reactor" is a major event. Both parties must fully confirm the other party's qualifications and transaction technology.
In the hotel room, a middle-aged and elderly German materials expert with a high nose stood by the window, looking at the bright lights in the distance.
"Bruce, would you like some?" Behind him, another companion opened the door and walked in with champagne and a glass in hand.
Bruce Valk, who was standing in front of the window looking out at the scenery, turned around and said, "Then have some champagne. Drinking some champagne will help you sleep."
His companion came in, poured some champagne for him, and stood with him in front of the window. He looked at the feasting and feasting in the distance and said with emotion: "China is developing so fast. The scale of urbanization is much larger than Hamburg."
Hearing this, Bruce Valk asked curiously: "Have you been to China before?"
The companion smiled and nodded: "Well, more than ten or twenty years ago, when we traded HL-2 with them, I came once as a dispatch expert. At that time, their development was still very backward."
“It’s incredible to see such a big change in more than ten years.”
"I heard that the permanent population of this city is over 30 million. Our country does not have such a large city, and the population of Berlin is only four million."
Bruce Valk said with a smile: "It is not a good thing for a city to have too many people. If it is living in a pigeon cage, what is the point?"
“Berlin has a small population, but everyone has a home.”
Hearing this, Claire Bryan, who was holding the champagne, smiled, looked up out of the window and did not defend herself.
In fact, Bruce Valk's views are actually more representative of most groups in the Germanic country. For most Germanic people, arrogance is engraved in their bones.
Not to mention facing this country that is lagging behind them.
In comparison, he is more rational and different. Maybe it is because he often travels abroad on business trips. He has seen the development of many countries.
If you go to Berlin or Hamburg for more than ten years, you may not see any changes at all. But given to this country, it can become completely unfamiliar.
After squinting at the scenery outside for a while, Bruce Valk suddenly said: "Can you tell Professor Xu tomorrow, can we really see the industrial mass production of that kind of high-temperature superconducting material?"
"If I remember correctly, he disclosed this material in November or December last year, right? It only took three or four months for the products in the laboratory to be commercialized? Do you think Can he do it?"
He has no objections to the transaction between the Planck Institute of Plasma Physics and China for the ASDEX device.
After all, the ASDEX device has been retired, and it is not his turn to make the decision.
However, Bruce has serious doubts about China's scientific and technological innovation capabilities, especially in materials, a subject that relies heavily on experience and past data.
After all, in his impression, China has always been a relatively backward third world country. Even though its economic weight has now climbed to the second place in the world, in his opinion, it is just relying on its huge population. .
If you want to convert the per capita economy, the Germanic country can win with a crushing advantage.
Moreover, in his consistent memory, China has always been in the stage of catching up with technology. Now that a technological achievement that leads the world has suddenly appeared, how can it not surprise people?
More importantly, this is still in the field of superconductivity in the field of materials.
How long has China developed in this field?
ten years? fifteen years?
Anyway, it will definitely not happen in twenty years.
In this area, they have been researching it since the last century, and the accumulated experience and data are far beyond what China can match.
Under such circumstances, it is even more incredible that a world-leading high-temperature superconducting material suddenly appeared in China.
On the side, Claire Bryan, who was holding champagne, thought for two seconds and said: "If it were anyone else, maybe I would still be a little skeptical like you."
"But I still want to believe the results of Professor Xu's research."
After a pause, he added: "And judging from the samples that Professor Xu sent us last year, they have indeed done it. At least in the area of high-temperature superconducting materials, he is ahead of us."
"It's unbelievable," Bruce Valk said, shaking his head.
Claire Bryan smiled: "It's actually not bad."
Hearing this, Bruce Valk cast a puzzled look.
Claire Bryan picked up the glass in her hand and took a sip of champagne, and then said: "If you have known about Professor Xu's achievements and achievements, you will find that what is a miracle to others is not a miracle to him. It’s nothing like normal.”
"Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Two Seven Millennium Problems, Solution to Nuclear Waste, Artificial SEI Film"
"If any of these results were applied to other people, even the top scientists would need a lifetime of research, but if they were applied to him, they seemed to be ordinary."
"Throughout the entire history of human civilization, there are only a handful of people who can achieve his level of achievement."
"Like Einstein, Newton, Maxwell and a few other people, his research and achievements can change the world."
Bruce Walker smacked his lips and said, "You have a really high opinion of him."
Claire Bryan smiled and said, "This is not my opinion, but the academic community's opinion of him."
After a pause, he added, "In fact, his real achievements are not in the field of materials. Materials are just the tip of his iceberg."
Two months, if given to other people, it would be quite difficult to transform a laboratory product into an industrialized product.
But for Xu Chuan, or for the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material that has been industrialized, this is not difficult.
After Gao Hongming handed him a list of qualified domestic manufacturers last year, he selected a suitable manufacturer for cooperative production.
It took more than two months, although the Chinese New Year was sandwiched in the middle, but it didn't affect anything.
For him, any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.
As long as the overtime pay is enough, let alone the Chinese New Year, Chinese people are even willing to work 24 hours a day with gasoline.
Although this sounds a bit funny, it is actually quite sad.
In China, it has become the norm for capitalists to work for free from 996007. There is no overtime pay for overtime work, and no compensatory leave. Not to mention the labor treaty, even the Geneva Convention is probably not as good as it.
Of course, this kind of thing is impossible for Xu Chuan, but it is still possible to use attractive overtime wages and compensatory leave to attract those workers to stay during the Spring Festival to work and build an industrial line for the production of superconducting materials.
After confirming the cooperation, Western Superconducting Materials Technology Co., Ltd. quickly began to transform the production line originally used to produce copper oxide-based superconducting materials.
Although the main assembly line has not been transformed yet, one of the small single production lines has completed the deployment of equipment and related procedures according to the industrial production technology given by Xu Chuan.
Although the industrial zone is on the other side of Jinghe River in Chang'an, it is not a big deal for the developed transportation in China.
The next day, Xu Chuan and Fan Pengyue rushed to Chang'an with a team of engineers from the Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. In the Chang'an Jinghe Industrial Park, the production plant of Western Superconducting Group is located.
The general manager of the Western Superconducting Group, who is in charge of superconducting materials, personally waited with his team at the high-speed railway station to greet them.
After exchanging a few pleasantries at the high-speed railway station, the group went straight to the Jinghe Industrial Park without wasting time.
Like everyone else, this was Xu Chuan's first time here and his first time seeing the production base of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver superconducting materials.
The factory building, which was originally planned and used to produce low-temperature copper oxide superconducting materials, now looks a bit messy.
Workers wearing safety helmets were busy going back and forth in the factory building, and the parts and equipment on the ground showed that it was not yet completed.
Du Yingrui, general manager of the Western Superconducting Group, smiled and introduced: "Academician Xu, this is the main production line of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver superconducting materials. According to your requirements, it is currently being expedited in three shifts around the clock."
"According to the current progress, it is predicted that the transformation can be completed and put into construction around March 5. The daily output capacity is about 2.5 tons at full load."
Xu Chuan listened to Du Yingrui's introduction and his eyes fell on the factory building under construction.
The output of 2.5 tons can be said to be as low as it can be in the ordinary materials industry, but in the field of high-temperature superconducting materials, this value is already quite good.
For example, the BI series of high-temperature superconducting materials that have been partially industrialized in Sakura Country have an annual output value of no more than 1,500 tons.
With a daily output value of 2.5 tons, the annual output can reach more than 900 tons. Although the quantity is not large, it is more than enough to meet the order requirements of CERN and the needs of Qixia controlled nuclear fusion engineering.
As for the Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, since they require technology exchange technology, it is impossible for him to provide high-temperature superconducting materials for free.
"What about the small single production line? Can it be produced now? Take us to see it." After visiting the transformation of the main production line, Xu Chuan asked.
Hearing this, Du Yingrui nodded quickly and said, "Of course, it is in production now, please follow me."
Following Du Yingrui, the group walked towards the small pilot production line.
In another slightly smaller factory building, there is a large-scale production equipment.
From the appearance, this device looks a bit different from conventional devices. It looks a bit like a starfish, with the core area in the middle and the surrounding assembly lines like starfish legs, lying on the seabed.
And from the various parts of this device, it is obviously pieced together by disassembling different devices.
If no one introduces it, I am afraid no one will think that this strange-looking device is a device that can industrially produce superconducting materials.
Of course, it doesn't matter whether the device looks ugly or strange.
This is just a pilot device, and it is enough to achieve the production of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials.
In the field of materials, appearance is never as good as practicality.
For Xu Chuan and the team of engineers at the Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, no one cares about its appearance, but only whether it can produce high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials.
After Du Yingrui swiped the authority, the group changed into protective clothing, put on masks and goggles and entered the factory.
The workshop for producing high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials is a standard level 10 sterile workshop.
This level of workshop is sufficient for the production of most pharmaceuticals, precision semiconductors, biological sterile materials, etc.
Although theoretically, the production of copper-carbon-silver superconducting materials does not require such a high-level workshop, about level 1000 is enough.
After all, this material is not a fragile product that will be contaminated by contact with air, but when Western Superconducting Group built the test assembly line, it still followed the top sterile workshop standards.
After getting permission, several engineers and material researchers from the Planck Institute for Plasma Physics scattered around and looked around the strange-looking equipment.
With a suspicious and contemptuous look, and a hint of curiosity, Bruce Valk carefully looked at the equipment in front of him.
Honestly, based on imagination alone, even if he is a professional material researcher who has been to various material production plants many times and seen countless material production equipment, he can't imagine how this equipment can achieve nano-level ultra-fine material processing.
After all, the structure of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials is nano-level.
Although the nano-level is not high, it means that the technological breakthrough has reached the world's top level. To achieve this level of fine processing, the requirements for equipment are still quite high.
And the one in front of him, the more he looked at it, the weirder it was.
However, the equipment that is constantly producing high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials did not hesitate to shatter the doubts and contempt in his heart.
At least, from the current point of view, it can indeed produce high-temperature superconducting materials.
Claire Bryan, who was standing by, watched the operation of the equipment. He stood beside Xu Chuan and asked, "Are these all the materials for producing high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials?"
Xu Chuan smiled and shook his head, saying, "No, the processing and synthesis of some basic materials are done elsewhere. But this equipment is the core. It can synthesize the processed basic materials into superconducting materials and shape them into the shapes you need, such as linear, plate, circular, etc."
After a pause, he added, "Of course, this equipment can only process a few shapes, after all, it is just experimental. The production line that we just saw outside that is still under construction can almost meet most of the shape requirements."
On the other side, Bruce Valk, who had just finished looking at the equipment, asked in a skeptical tone, "Can it really produce excellent high-temperature superconducting materials that meet the standards?"
Hearing this, Xu Chuan smiled faintly and said, "If you don't believe it, you can take a part of the material just processed for testing to see if it can meet your needs."
"This is a must. I would have asked for it even if you didn't say it!"
With the last stubborn doubt, Bruce Valk said seriously.
Xu Chuan glanced at him and said indifferently: "If you can do it, you can do the experiment yourself to verify it."
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