From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

The experimental base of the SMES research group is located in the west of Xihai City, covering a large area around it.

The main entrance of the base looks like a dilapidated factory, with only two rusty iron gates and a small post booth, with armed guards standing guard beside the booth.

Behind the iron gate is a relatively spacious dirt road.

Go straight along the dirt road for more than two hundred meters before you can see the gate inside the base.

Many people are already waiting there.

Yesterday, Wang Hao already knew the news, but because the schedule of the expert team was kept secret, he only knew that he would come to check today. He didn’t know the expert team was coming half an hour in advance, so he simply waited at the door with the others .

Xu Baogong is no outsider.

Whether it is related to scientific research or meetings, Wang Hao and Xu Baogong have met many times, and seeing each other again is not a false politeness, but a very sincere handshake.

Xu Baogong sighed, "Academician Wang, you really can do anything. I thought it would take a long time to research a superconducting energy storage device, but it turned out to be such a surprise for me."

Wang Hao smiled and said, "It's just some progress. You came at the right time, and I'm worrying about some things."

"What's up?"

"Electrical problem!"

Wang Hao shook his head a little depressed, and led a group of people into the experimental base.

They walked and talked.

The expert team walked around the periphery of the SMES experimental device. Because the experimental device has been running, there are no protective measures inside, and there is no way to go in and look directly, and there is nothing on the periphery.

The group finally walked towards the office building.

along the way.

Liu Mingkun kept talking about the research progress, "The experimental device we built was turned on a week ago, and the initial charging power was less than 5,000 kilowatts. In the past two days, the power department has pulled a new line to increase it to 10,000 kilowatts. .”

"It's been a week now." He said in a smug tone, "Although the system fault detection in the background also has high fluctuations, it has never exceeded the critical value."

"For the time being, it is charging with a power of 10,000 kilowatts..."

Wang Hao also said, "Our next research plan is to detect whether charging with overload power will cause transitional pressure, and the other is to detect high voltage resistance."

"The fastest thing to do is the discharge experiment, but it still takes time."

"If there is no problem in the middle, we must fully charge the device to reach the extreme value of the device's electric capacity."

He shook his head depressingly, "But no matter which target it is, it needs enough power supply."

"The current power supply is still too poor. We still hope to have a high power supply of 50,000 kilowatts..."

"Minister Xu, you must solve this problem for us as soon as possible. Normally, the power supply of 50,000 kilowatts is not so high that it cannot be supplied..."

Xu Baogong shook his head and smiled.

He is the person in charge of the high-tech department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and he has no way to directly manage the power department.

In addition, they definitely support the research and development of SMES technology, but practical problems must be solved realistically.

Along the way just now, he saw the situation, and the power department is also solving the power supply problem.

However, if you want to realize the transmission of 50,000 kilowatts of power, you can't just turn on the switch, and it will definitely take a certain amount of time.

Among them, experts in electricity science understand that the power supply of 50,000 kilowatts can continuously guarantee the electricity consumption of tens of thousands of households, which is equivalent to the electricity consumption of a large manufacturing factory.

Every large-scale manufacturing factory, when planning to build a factory, must first solve the problem of power supply.

Then new power facilities need to be built, and the power sector has to coordinate power usage to ensure the continuous power consumption of large factories.

This is not to say that it can be solved by solving it. It will take more than a month at the fastest, and sometimes it will even take several months or a year.

When the topic entered this stage, other people also realized that the SMES power storage experimental device manufactured by Wang Hao's research group was indeed charging at high power all the time.

Many people looked at Pan Dong frequently. Pan Dong said along the way that the new experimental device must be low-power charging.

Pan Dong's expression was full of seriousness. He didn't say anything, but he was obviously much more serious than the others, especially after entering the monitoring room, he kept checking various data and asked about each screen and the fluctuation of the computer display.

He still doesn't believe in the so-called 'continuous high-power charging'.

"This is absolutely impossible, there must be something wrong."

"Be sure to take a good look."

"Research, what is the problem? This is impossible, there must be something wrong..."

The progress of Wang Hao's research group has exceeded his cognition.

After checking for a long time, Pan Dong didn't find any problem, so he simply asked, "How did you solve the problem of quench protection?"

He asked Liu Mingkun.

Liu Mingkun was stunned for a moment, "Professor Pan, you said there is a problem with the detection of the energy storage coil? We have background fault monitoring for this."

He took Pan Dong to a computer, and the screen displayed a line that was basically parallel, with occasional bulges in a small range. "This is the fault monitoring system. If there is a problem, the display will fluctuate greatly."

Pan Dong shook his head and said, "I have seen it just now, and I know your system, and our research group also has this system!"

His voice was a little louder, causing people in the distance to look over.

Pan Dong didn't care at all, he continued, "I mean, how did you solve the quenching problem!"

"This..." Liu Mingkun was a little dumbfounded.

Pan Dong's eyes lit up, could this be the problem?

At this time, I heard Liu Mingkun say, "The problem is, we haven't encountered the problem you mentioned, have we?"

"..."

Pan Dong was stunned, not knowing how to continue asking.

How can people answer if they haven't encountered any problems?

But……

Impossible not to run into problems!

Liang Jingye walked to the front and said professionally, "The problem of quenching usually exists."

"Affected by many factors, the energy storage coil will always have problems such as instantaneous overcurrent and thermal interference. Increased resistance, overheating, and instantaneous high voltage will all cause safety problems in the energy storage coil."

"The inductance of the superconducting energy storage coil is relatively large, and the working current of the energy storage coil fluctuates for a long time, so the difficulty of detection will be very high..."

Liang Jingye said a lot of things very professionally, and she didn't know how to answer what Liu Mingkun said.

These are so professional!

Although he is the deputy director of the research team, he is involved in many details of the internal design and does not know the specific situation. He is not responsible for the detection of the energy storage coil and the background operation mechanism of the computer.

Seeing Liu Mingkun being questioned, Pan Dong immediately smiled, and looked at Liang Jingye with satisfaction.

Wang Hao came over and said, "Team Leader Liang, all the problems you mentioned should be related to design, right?"

He continued, "The design we have made is perfect, balancing the monitoring of each part. At the reference position of each coil, we have placed detection instruments."

"In addition, we also have insurance-style internal and external three-layer detection, including voltage, temperature and power overload, with a detailed detection system."

"All the data will be uploaded to the background and undergo a series of automatic analysis, which will eventually be reflected in the fault fluctuation."

After hearing this, Liang Jingye shook her head and said, "It's impossible that the quenching problem will not occur at all."

She continued, "My team specializes in troubleshooting energy storage coils, and later found that the high-temperature superconducting energy storage coil technology provided by the electrician itself has problems."

"This technology can indeed greatly improve the efficiency of electric energy storage, but it will weaken the pressure-bearing capacity of the coil."

The people around looked at Liang Jingye differently after hearing it.

They couldn't understand some very professional questions, but when Liang Jingye talked about the superconducting coil technology provided by the electrician, they all knew about it, and they didn't find any problems at all.

The research on SMES technology directly used the results of the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of Sciences, but Liang Jingye unexpectedly discovered the problem of the results.

This is very unusual.

Wang Hao also looked at Liang Jingye with admiration, and said with a smile, "It's really surprising that you can find this problem."

"However, we did not directly use the technology provided by the electrician. In the underlying design, we improved the coil winding method from three degrees to two degrees, and also increased the cross section of the coil to be able to carry higher currents. ..."

This time it was Liang Jingye's turn to be surprised.

She also thought about improving the superconducting coil technology provided by the electrician, but the results of the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of Sciences, how can it be easy to improve?

Now that Wang Hao talked about the improvement method, he immediately discussed it with him.

The more they talked about the topic, the more professional they became. At first, there were several people listening to it, but then they all walked away when they realized that they couldn't understand.

Later, even Pan Dong walked away.

Everyone else looked at the data in the testing room, and some people from the research team helped to introduce the content represented by each data.

After all the introductions are over, everything can be explained clearly.

At this time, everyone already believed that the SMES energy storage experimental device was indeed continuously charging with a power of 10,000 kilowatts.

In fact, most people believed it at the very beginning, because it is impossible for Wang Hao to fake it. For Pan Dong, SMES technology is a scientific research pursuit, but for Wang Hao, it is just a research.

Even if the SMES technology research cannot be completed, it will not affect Wang Hao personally.

At this time, Pan Dong was still studying carefully. He really hoped to find out the problem, but even he believed it now.

That's the problem.

Everything in front of him has exceeded his cognition.

At the same time, Pan Dong also felt unacceptable. It only took three months for Wang Hao's research team to allow the SMES experimental device to charge smoothly at high power.

The continuous high-power charging of the SMES experimental device is equivalent to solving most of the problems.

Even if there are still failures in the future, the problem must be found and solved.

It's like making a computer. When it is turned on, it will encounter many problems. After it is started, there may be many problems with the software.

When there is no external interference, such as virus invasion or external force damage to the device, the computer can be used for a long time, which means that the computer itself has no problems.

Subsequent failures suddenly appeared again, in most cases it was hardware damage.

The same is true for the SMES experimental device, which can be charged at high power for a long time. After a long period of time, if there is a problem again, it is likely that the internal device is damaged.

This is the quality of the internal device, which may not be directly related to the design and technology of the research team.

Therefore, Wang Hao's research has entered the late stage.

Here comes the problem...

It took only three months for Wang Hao's research team to enter the late stage, so their efforts in the past two years have been useless, and they can be disbanded directly when they go back.

Thinking of this, Pan Dong's mood was extremely depressed.

...

Everyone in the expert group can understand Pan Dong.

Although they thought Pan Dong was very funny and said 'there must be a problem' along the way, they found that there was no problem here.

However, Pan Dong is also very pitiful.

The competition in many scientific researches is very cruel. When doing the same research, it is meaningless for one team to do it first and another team to put in more effort.

This is what Pan Dong is facing now.

They worked hard for two years in the past, but they were surpassed by Wang Hao's research group for three months, and they were still far behind.

After returning back, it is basically impossible for their research to continue, either they will be merged into Wang Hao's research group, or they will have to face dissolution.

So Pan Dong kept his face sullen all the way, without a trace of a smile at all.

Liang Jingye didn't seem to feel the pressure. She kept talking about professional issues with Wang Hao, and at the same time she felt very amazed.

She found that Wang Hao knew every part of the SMES power storage experimental device very well, as if he had participated in the details of the design of each part.

Wang Hao not only knows the details of the design, but also explains the principles of the design.

This is a great thing!

The experimental device for SMES power storage is very complicated.

Liang Jingye thinks that the research participation is very high, and she only understands the part of the energy storage coil in detail.

In Pan Dong's research team, Pan Dong is only responsible for the general design and experimental work. He is not involved in some device details and small technologies. If there are problems, he can only seek the opinions of other people.

This is normal.

This is true of the research group leaders of most large projects.

For example, the chief designer of some large projects only needs to grasp the problems in the general direction of research and development, and some technical problems in the research have to be taken care of by the special technical team below.

Liang Jingye looked at Wang Hao with admiration and admiration.

When she thought that SMES technology was just a research of Wang Hao, which could even be said to be "not worth mentioning" compared with his theoretical research, she felt even more amazed.

Others feel the same way.

Naturally, Wang Hao's genius needless to say, for the project itself, they were surprised by the speed of Wang Hao's research team.

Just three months!

Many research projects have only just started in three months, while the progress of Wang Hao's research group has reached the late stage.

At noon, the research group invited them to have dinner together.

Xu Baogong and Wang Hao sat together and talked about the issue of ensuring high-power power supply as soon as possible, "This aspect can definitely be guaranteed."

"I will talk to the power department specifically, and let them try to solve it within a month!"

Now Wang Hao felt relieved.

after dinner.

A group of people walked outside, Wang Hao continued to walk with Liang Jingye, and asked again, "Team Leader Liang, it's the same question as last time. Are you interested in working with us?"

He said it very bluntly.

The people around immediately looked at Liang Jingye, while Liang Jingye looked at Pan Dong hesitantly.

Pan Dong's face turned dark when he heard this.

He said in a heavy tone, "Academician Wang, Xiao Liang is an indispensable talent in our team!"

Wang Hao smiled apologetically and nodded, as if he accepted Pan Dong's statement.

Liang Jingye was embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

Others looked at Pan Dong strangely, because they all knew that Wang Hao's research team was progressing so fast, it would definitely affect Pan Dong's team, and whether his research team could continue to exist was a question.

Pan Dong also knew what the others thought.

Even if his research group disbanded on the spot, he didn't want to see Liang Jingye go to Wang Hao's research group.

He found another reason, "It is true that there is a big gap between our group, but Academician Wang's research is almost finished, and there is no need for other people."

This reason is still in the past.

The SMES power storage experimental device has been able to charge stably at high power, and it is easy to solve subsequent failures. It can be said that the research has entered the late stage.

What's the point of Liang Jingye participating in the research again?

Wang Hao frowned and said, "Professor Pan, you are wrong. How can we say that our research is almost finished?"

"Isn't it?"

Pan Dong immediately said, "Your experimental devices are capable of high-power charging. At this stage, the follow-up will be smooth routine testing."

Wang Hao continued to shake his head and said, "Professor Pan, I don't think you noticed the name of our project, did you?"

"What's the meaning?"

Others looked over without knowing why.

Wang Haodao, "What we are doing is research on SMES batteries, with the purpose of providing energy and power support for future aviation technology, rather than manufacturing SMES power storage devices."

"Not only is our research not over, but we've only just begun!"