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Chapter 59 Room Temperature Superconductors

Hearing Huang Haojie's orders.

Fang Ping nodded and left the New Materials Laboratory.

The reason why Huang Haojie didn't want to get entangled with the villagers was mainly because this would continue, which would be of no benefit to both sides. Once it was hyped up, it would be another trouble.

After all, it is difficult to explain clearly online violence. People will subconsciously sympathize with the weak, because most people are from the bottom of the middle class, and their mentality of hating the rich is subconsciously.

Instead of wasting time and entangling with the villagers, it is better to find a new place. Anyway, there are a lot of places suitable for building wind power stations in the coastal areas, so why bother carving a boat and seeking a sword there?

After Fang Ping left, Huang Haojie continued to return to the laboratory and was studying iron-silver superconducting alloys.

In fact, the iron-based superconductors were developed by the people of the Sun in 2008, and then a series of iron-based superconductors were extended, mainly divided into four major categories.

Before iron-based superconductors, it was copper-based superconductors. In 1986, scientists discovered the first high-temperature superconductor material - lanthanum barium copper oxide. Since then, copper-based superconductor materials have become a research hotspot for physicists around the world.

However, to this day, the physics community has not yet reached a consensus on the high-temperature superconducting mechanism of copper-based superconducting materials, which also makes high-temperature superconducting one of the biggest mysteries in condensed matter physics today.

Therefore, many scientists hope to find new high-temperature superconducting materials outside copper-based superconducting materials, so that the high-temperature superconducting mechanism can be more clear.

Just in February 2008, scientists from the Sun State first reported that fluorine-doped lanthanum iron-oxygen arsenic compounds have superconducting properties at critical temperatures of 26 Kelvin (minus 247.15c).

On March 25, a scientific research team led by Chen Xianhui of Dongtang University of Science and Technology reported that fluorine-doped iron samarine arsenic compounds also turned into superconductors at a critical temperature of 43 Kelvin (minus 230.15c).

On March 28, a research team led by Zhao Zhongxian from the Institute of Physics, Dongtang Academy of Sciences reported that the critical temperature of high-temperature superconducting of fluorine-doped praseodyxane compounds can reach 52 Kelvin (minus 221.15c).

On April 13, the scientific research team made new discoveries: if fluorine-doped iron samaroxy arsenic compound acts under pressure, its superconducting critical temperature can be further increased to 55 Kelvin (minus 218.15c).

In addition, a scientific research team led by Wen Haihu from the Institute of Physics of the Dongtang Academy of Sciences also reported that the critical superconducting temperature of strontium-doped lanthanum iron-oxygen arsenic compounds is 25 Kelvin (minus 248.15c).

Iron-based superconductors are superconducting materials based on superconductivity of iron-containing compounds mainly dominated by 3D orbital electrons in iron elements.

It can have high-temperature superconductivity of more than 40 Kelvin. Superconductivity occurs in the iron-arsenic plane of a quasi-two-dimensional crystal structure. Research on it will help reveal the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.

Of course, whether it is a copper-based superconductor or an iron-based superconductor, they have insurmountable weaknesses.

It is one thing to have high cost, after all, problems that can be solved with money are not the problem.

However, these superconductors have a fatal weakness, that is, to maintain the superconducting state, they must be in a low temperature state.

What we often hear about is a relatively high-temperature superconductor.

High-temperature superconductors are a family of superconducting substances, with general structural characteristics and relatively moderately spaced copper oxide planes. They are also called copper oxide superconductors.

High-temperature superconductors are not the high temperatures of hundreds or thousands that most people think, but they are much higher than the ultra-low temperatures required by superconductors, but they are also around minus 200 degrees Celsius.

In the superconductors studied by humans, the temperature increases a lot, so it is called a high-temperature superconductor.

However, even the so-called high-temperature superconductor must be used to maintain the superconducting state, which is not only very costly to maintain, but also has very complex process difficulty.

Therefore, the concept of a room temperature superconductor came into being. A room temperature superconductor, also known as a room temperature superconductor, is a material that can present a superconducting state without low temperature.

Like the planet Pandora in the movie "Avatar", those lands floating in mid-air contain huge superconducting ores.

He had obtained the "Iron and Silver Superconducting Alloy Technology" in parallel space-time before, but the completeness of this document at that time was only about 40.

After more than a year of accumulation, he increased the completeness of "Iron Silver Superconducting Alloy Technology" from memory fragments in parallel space and space to about 87.

Although the completeness of "Iron Silver Superconducting Alloy Technology" has been improved to 87, he feels like he has no idea how to start after reading this information.

Because the manufacturing of iron-silver superconducting alloys requires three conditions, namely large x-ray lasers and low temperature and high pressure.

According to technical design, the power of a large x-ray laser needs to reach 1 million kilowatts, which is the minimum standard. If you want to achieve large-scale production, the power must start at 5 million kilowatts.

It’s a terrible thing to see here. What is the concept of 1 million kilowatts? It is equivalent to consuming 1 million kilowatts of electricity in one hour, 24 million kilowatts of electricity a day, and 8.7 billion kilowatts of electricity a year.

This is still at the laboratory level. If you want to achieve large-scale production, the laser power must be increased to 5 million kilowatts, which is the starting position.

Think about consuming 5 million kWh of electricity in one hour and 43.8 billion kWh of electricity in a year.

After consuming a huge amount of energy, how many iron and silver superconducting alloys can be made? About 400 tons.

The average consumption of more than 100 million kWh of electricity per ton is not considered other costs. In addition, the cost of one ton of iron and silver superconducting alloy is no less than 50 million Huayuan, and a kilogram of more than 50,000 Huayuan.

What’s even more crap is that this 5 million kilowatt x-ray laser costs no less than 6 billion Huayuan. With other supporting facilities, the total cost is initially estimated to be about 10 billion Huayuan.

If you really want to produce on a large scale, the annual electricity bill will be about 13 billion Huayuan.

In addition, the iron-silver superconducting alloy itself has a silver content of about 21.

Currently, the price of industrial silver is about 4.2 Huayuan per gram, and one kilogram is about 4,200 Huayuan. 400 tons of iron and silver superconducting alloy, according to the silver content of 21, 84 tons of silver is needed, which requires a total of about 350 million Huayuan.

If large-scale production is carried out, for example, to drive the rise in industrial silver prices, the production cost of iron-silver superconducting alloys will be forced to increase.

A 50,000-yuan per kilogram of room temperature superconductor can only be used for high-end products or laboratories and other research.

For example, nuclear fusion and superconductor chips, don’t even think about superconductor power transmission. Even Meijian Shangma’s room temperature superconductor power transmission will go bankrupt.

Think about the cost of 50,000 yuan per kilogram to make transmission cables. What is the cost of one kilometer? It is about 10 kilograms per kilogram and about 10 tons per kilogram.

A single kilometer of high-voltage wire costs 500 million yuan. Think about how many kilometers it takes across the country? The price is so touching that even the five major hooligans can't afford it, let alone those weak chickens.

However, even if the cost is high, Huang Haojie still decided to launch this super project. After all, lighting up the normal temperature superconductor is related to the nuclear fusion of superconductor chips.

If nuclear fusion can be pointed out, the power generation cost will drop to one-tenth of the current level. The decline in power generation cost means that the production cost of room temperature superconductors will decrease, which will lead to a virtuous cycle.

Of course, room temperature superconductors are just one of the conditions for nuclear fusion, and Huang Haojie didn't think it could be made in a short time.

However, iron-silver superconducting alloys must be developed.
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