Replay 07: Opening the Temple of Learning

Chapter 309: Another Far Ahead

There is no problem with the power and charging efficiency, and the only thing left is safety.

Zhang Leimin, Liang Wenping and the others all concentrated on doing the test. How could any other thing be as important as this?

Besides, the results of the previous test had already completely shocked this group of people.

"It can charge 20,000 mAh in ten minutes. Is this really something we made?" One of Liang Wenping's brothers was a little dumbfounded. He debugged the machine according to the requirements and followed the production process formulated by Lu Shan, and then... he made such a thing.

It feels like you are welding something at home according to the instructions, and then someone tells you that what you welded was a spaceship that flew successfully. How would you feel?
The following tests were more because everyone was completely interested and wanted to see how awesome this thing was.

When it comes to safety inspection, Lu Shan really showed no mercy and directly put the people on the fire, which made Zhang Leiming a little afraid to watch.

"No one would normally throw a cell phone into a fire, so this test doesn't seem to make much sense."

"You can't say that. If someone falls into a fire pit with their phone and can't get out immediately, and the phone battery explodes, that would be terrible."

"Well, that seems to make sense, but it's really not much."

The employees were talking in low voices, using jokes to ease their inner curiosity and tension.

Although the test is unreasonable, if it can pass, it will prove that the product is extremely safe and there will be no worries about sales in the future.

The flames burned the battery, and finally the battery slowly deflated, but did not explode. Instead, some liquid leaked out, and finally the battery was burned to ashes without exploding.

Graphene batteries are not just made of graphene. The other doped substances not only increase the conductive efficiency but also play an explosion-proof role.

During this process, the other battery was also being tested with a mobile phone to see how well the battery would work in a high temperature environment. The phone was playing a song and it was on until the flames burned the audio line, and the passionate sound of "Above the Moon" came to an abrupt end.

In fact, the most explosive metals are pure lithium and pure sodium. The conditions for other metals to explode are more stringent.

Looking at the pile of ashes with satisfaction, Lu Shan entered the next stage, using it in extremely cold conditions.

Extremely cold conditions are relatively easy to find. The environment for preparing graphene requires only a change in range to concentrate the cold air into a small transparent box.

The temperature has dropped to more than 100 degrees below zero, and the battery can still provide power. It's just that the components of the mobile phone can't hold on and cannot work properly, and the signal is intermittent.

If the temperature drops to -150 degrees Celsius, the phone will be completely useless, but the battery will still be able to output.

Lu Shan thought that he might as well upgrade the materials of the mobile phone in the future, otherwise it would not be able to match his own battery.

The testing lasted for almost a week and many batches were run. After all the batches were found to have no problems, Lu Shan signed and approved the test. He recorded all the experimental processes and data and would use them as a basis for future improvements.

Seeing this, Zhang Leimin and Liang Wenping were completely relieved. Mr. Lu's requirements for the product were really abnormal, but the performance of the product was also abnormal. This level of testing has exceeded the normal test range. It is simply aimed at destroying the battery. In normal application scenarios, who would do this?
But Lu Shan doesn't care about all this. He just wants to think more and earlier than the users.

Zhang Leimin made a rough calculation and found that Apple mobile phones on the market consume a lot of power, but a graphene battery the size of a fingernail can allow it to last at least four days without charging. If used intermittently, it can last for a week.

If three or five graphene batteries are combined, they can power all laptop batteries on the market.

The laptop batteries on the market basically provide power for three hours.

And two graphene batteries together can provide power for at least six hours!

If more graphene batteries are connected in series...

The picture is too beautiful to imagine!

With graphene batteries, those bulky laptop batteries can be eliminated and the weight of the computer can be greatly reduced.

Lu Shan completely developed the graphene battery, but he did not release it immediately. Instead, he patiently continued to improve the production line to see if the cost could continue to drop in a short period of time. He did not want to put too heavy a burden on many mobile phone manufacturers.

It was already 2011, and domestic mobile phones had begun to develop. Coolpad, HTC, and ZTE were all starting to gain momentum. Lei Jun's Xiaomi was in seclusion, and when she came out she would release a powerful product.

Nokia has been on the decline, Samsung and Apple have completely occupied the early market of smart phones, Motorola is making efforts, but in the end Samsung and Apple have the last laugh.

In addition to the well-known manufacturers mentioned above, there are countless small copycat factories. The purpose of their existence is to put together the cheapest and worst components to form a usable mobile phone. This kind of mobile phone can even be personalized to meet the needs of people at different levels.

The development of Xiaomi fully draws on this idea, completely blocking the road of counterfeit mobile phones.

Regardless of the brand of mobile phone, there is one thing in common, that is, the mobile phone battery is beginning to become non-removable.

The benefits of doing this are obvious. The phone's sealing will be better and it will be less likely to get wet, which opens up new ideas for underwater mobile phones in the future.

Product quality control will also be more stable, ensuring the reputation of the product.

There have always been news reports of mobile phones catching fire. That had little to do with the mobile phone manufacturers. Basically, it was because consumers bought batteries without a warranty, which caused the batteries to swell, self-ignite, or even explode. The mobile phone manufacturers were also affected.

The last benefit is controlling the post-sales profit.

A knock-off battery costs only a few dozen yuan, while a genuine battery costs about 200 yuan. Such a big income gap really makes manufacturers jealous.

Consumers can disassemble their phone’s battery and replace it themselves, but if they disassemble it and replace it with a knockoff product, they will no longer be eligible for the repair discount.

This eliminates the possibility of replacing the battery yourself.

The supply of batteries to major mobile phone manufacturers has gradually become a few large battery factories, such as BYD in China, Samsung and LG in South Korea, Panasonic and Sony in Japan.

The United States itself does not care about the battery problem. Anyway, it has its own brothers making batteries, so the brothers' technology is its own technology.

As a result, Xiaguo's copycat battery manufacturers were slowly squeezed out.

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Although Lu Shan has not yet launched the graphene mobile phone battery on the market, a celebration banquet is essential.

Lu Shan found a good-quality hotel and invited the key employees of the graphene factory to have dinner there.

Everyone is a little panicked because this factory has not created any economic effect so far.

But Lu Shan's enthusiasm dispelled their concerns.

At the celebration banquet, some employees took the opportunity to ask Lu Shan why he gave them year-end bonuses. After all, the factory had no effect, and other factories had never had such a situation.

Lu Shan also explained it briefly.

Working at Lushan is not entirely oriented towards business results; you have to get paid for your work.

Take the graphene battery factory for example. It is true that they have never sold any products, but everyone has put in a lot of work. It is very hard to debug the equipment and improve the process.

So the year-end bonus is naturally indispensable.

It was the first time for everyone to hear such a novel reason for giving out money. They were very surprised and moved, and they felt that they had made the right decision to follow Lu Shan.

They are all smart people. The money for the graphene battery factory must be subsidized from other places.

To put it bluntly, this kind of factory might have to close down one day, but Lu Shan still does this. He is much more conscientious than those bosses who only make big promises.

What they don’t understand is that in addition to having a clear conscience, Lu Shan is confident in his products.

The celebration party was also coming to an end. Lu Shan raised his glass to end the party: "Comrades, product development is only the first step, and we need to keep up the good work. The current product cost is still very high. Not counting the R&D cost, the production cost alone is ten times that of ordinary lithium batteries. So we still have a long way to go. Let's work together to find a way to sell the product.

I would like to reiterate here that before the company has the next plan, it must pay attention to work discipline and confidentiality clauses and must not leak any news and information about graphene batteries! Otherwise, there will be legal consequences. "

"Don't worry! I will never do that!"

"Yeah! I'll throw anyone who dares to do that into the reactor!"

"If he's a traitor, then get him!"

This is what the employee said, and Lu Shan was listening.

He doesn't believe in human nature, so he has long avoided the problem of leaks through technical systems.

Whether it is equipment or technology, it is fragmented knowledge for one or several employees.

The synthesis center is here in Lushan.

Without Lu Shan, there would be no need to worry about information leaks even if a few employees left.

Of course, work discipline should be emphasized.

We had drunk quite a bit of wine, so naturally some of the words were a bit exaggerated, but the point was conveyed.

After the celebration banquet, Liang Wenping was promoted to the position of vice president, in charge of technical improvements.

Zhang Leimin went out to conduct market research for about a month.

Lu Shan’s requirement for him was to write a report wherever he went. It didn’t need to be a long report, just data.

When the investigation is completed, a report will be formed. Lu Shan wants to know the real situation of Xiaguo's lithium battery market.

It's no use looking at public data to determine the real situation. You have to investigate it yourself, and the extent of your investigation depends on your personal ability.

Lu Shan didn't say that it had to be very clear, but at least one had to know the general ecological situation of the industry.

Zhang Leimin happily accepted the task. He completely let go of his inner demons. Devoting more than ten years to an outrageous project meant enduring too much criticism.

Many people questioned whether Zhang Leimin was using the project to defraud funds. Only he knew how hard his life was. He hardly changed his clothes for more than ten years just to prove that graphene batteries are reliable.

Now that Lu Shan helped him figure it out, he finally found the answer and no longer felt conflicted.

Lu Shan’s current task is to write papers, and he has to write two of them. One is about the production process of graphene, and the other is about graphene batteries. He has to write about everything from theory to production.

The key data must not be disclosed, but it is enough to provide a framework and attach some experimental data and physical products.

The paper covers a lot of things, from the initial ideas, modeling to the later experimental process and preparation process. You can imagine how much information there is.

So many things must be organized. Organizing is not only to make the paper simpler, but also to trace back the ideas and seek ways to improve them.

This task can only be accomplished with the assistance of several heroes in the Singularity Laboratory.

Everyone has his or her own job, but one's own job will also intersect with others, so the sorting process is also a team work that requires mutual verification.

Mary has now completely integrated into the team, referring to her working state. Her usual state is still very cold. Maybe her husband's failure to be reborn made her somewhat depressed.

Mary would help take care of Turing's flowers, and in the process she could gain inner peace.

Poincare's temperament was completely different from when he was alive. He let go of everything that made him uncomfortable and liberated his nature as much as possible without interfering with others.

But...the liberation of nature is usually liberated in Turing.

Turing could accept or even ignore most of Poincare's teasing, but sometimes he just couldn't keep calm and some arguments would occur.

As for whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, Lu Shan felt that it was not bad. At least Turing had more of the aura of an ordinary person and no longer looked so gloomy, like a vampire.

The only problem was the degree. Poincare tried his best to get it right, but he still made mistakes. At this time, Lu Shan was needed to guide them and give them a way out.

Mary doesn't care much about these two funny guys. She herself is a bit emo, and it's good enough for her to just deal with her own mentality.

Lu Shan felt somewhat exhausted. How could it be like raising three children with strange personalities?
The dispute this time was about Poincare eating too much bean food and farting constantly, so Turing asked Lu Shan to bring in some incense sachets or something to drive away the smell.

Turing couldn't stand it and said a few words to Poincaré, which irritated Poincaré.

Poincare said this was a normal physiological phenomenon, and there was nothing to be disgusted with. Turing, you yourself had the same experience when you ate those grilled dried fish. And Poincare didn't say it that time, but why couldn't Turing just tolerate it?

"You've lasted too long this time. The situation is completely different. My God, I was arguing with you about nothing!" Turing felt it was very indecent as he spoke. After a few words from Poincare, he stopped, and the atmosphere became weird again.

Seeing this, Lu Shan quietly left the Singularity Laboratory, went back to buy some Chinese herbal sour plum soup and brought it into the laboratory to improve the stomachs of the two people.

Their diet is indeed unhealthy. They eat anything that causes heat and internal heat. After all, they are heroic spirits and will not get sick, so they can just keep working hard.

After adjusting the atmosphere in the Singularity Lab, cooperation began again, and this process has become a work project led by Mary.

Because Mary herself is a scientist with an emphasis on applied chemistry, graphene and graphene batteries were initiated by her, so she is in control of the main thrust of the work.

By organizing the side branches through the main vein and streamlining the main line, efficiency will be improved.

During this process, Lu Shan continued to absorb the insights of the heroes in the city. Obviously, they were also growing and feeding back to the Singularity Laboratory, which then returned to Lu Shan.

(End of this chapter)