Material Empire

It turned out that Kaan was not an ordinary person. He studied at MIT in the United States in his early years, and he was considered a leader in that school with a lot of talents. He was known for his solid academic foundation and active thinking. After graduating with a Ph.D., he returned to Brazil and was hired as a professor by the Brazilian Academy of Aeronautical Technology. He engaged in a series of research work including superconductivity, and achieved many excellent results.

An accidental reason made Kaan pay attention to the problem of lightning collection, and immediately indulged in it, unable to extricate himself. In fact, lightning collection is a partial and unsolvable problem. Superconducting materials and supercapacitors are two major problems facing this technology. No one can see where the solution to these two problems is. For other scholars, they must take a detour when they encounter this kind of problem, and they don’t necessarily bury their golden years and future in this bottomless pit. But Ka'an is different. He is an extremely conceited person. He always feels that the problems that others cannot solve are the ones that need him to solve. Therefore, the more others persuade him not to fall into it, the more he rushes in without hesitation. .

With his own intelligence, Kaan discovered the obstacles in superconductivity research at that time, and proposed that iron-based superconductivity is the way out for the research of superconducting materials, and copper-based materials have no future. He also figured out a method of manufacturing supercapacitors, and his ideas are also ingenious. He applied for a huge sum of money from the Brazilian government to study iron-based superconducting materials and supercapacitors, and claimed that once these two technologies are solved, the problem of lightning collection will be solved. He also made a cost-benefit calculation, thinking that the money invested by the government in him can be recovered a hundred times through lightning collection in the future, so this kind of investment is completely worthwhile.

Unsurprisingly, his application report was rejected. In this matter, it is really impossible to say how bureaucratic or short-sighted the Brazilian government is. It can be said that 99% of the scientists in the world would not support investing heavily in such a project. The remaining 1% are expected to abstain. Kaan can paranoidly believe in his own ability, but the government and the expert committee will not accompany him crazy. The United States, Russia, and Japan dare not engage in lightning collection. Why does Brazil play such a lofty project? Brazil is not a rich country. With this kind of money, it is better to develop universal medical insurance, affordable housing, and Project Hope than to throw it into the water?

The leader of the Aeronautical Technology Institute had a serious talk with Ka'an, basically telling him to wake up quickly and not waste time on this kind of project. There are countless important projects for the party and the country that need his wisdom. Waste of time is a crime against the people.

There is no doubt that this exhortation is invalid here. Although he is a professional scientist, he is no different from a civilian scientist in that he treasures himself. He thinks bureaucrats from top to bottom are stupid and fail to see the value of his proposals. He firmly believes that if the government can support him to develop the lightning collection system, Brazil will leap to the forefront of the world, surpassing Britain and the United States.

Ka'an and the school were on the shoulders, and the school refused to let him continue his research, so he insisted on continuing to study. Without funds, he would do theoretical research first, come up with a lot of theoretical models, and then submit articles to international journals. What is annoying is that those well-known international journals are not interested in this kind of unnamed matter, but a few influential journals have published his articles, but the citation rate is always zero, and there is no splash at all. splash.

Because he didn't do the tasks assigned by the school, his original rights were gradually taken back, and he became an oddball in the school. Unable to get support from the school, Kaan began to lobby outwards. He went to government officials in various states and big entrepreneurs in Brazil, hoping that these people would support his idea. Unfortunately, everyone did not. After listening to his narration, he flatly rejected his request and made him fail repeatedly.

Afterwards, Kaan did a No_Zuo_No_Die thing. He got a paint spray gun and sprayed lightning collection, national benefit on lampposts, overpasses and other places in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other places. I hope that people will pay attention to this after seeing the advertising slogan. Naturally, it is impossible to brush advertisements without leaving contact information. The police stations from all over the country followed the clues and directly locked him at the door of the house and issued a huge fine to him.

In this way, he was fined and confiscated all his property because of graffiti in public places. His wife divorced him and took the child back to her parents' home. He himself was expelled from the school and ended up living on the street.

Well……

After listening to Ka'an's self-report, Tranquility gritted her teeth desperately, for fear that she would laugh out loud. This man is really too messed up, he insists on his own academic thinking, but he still thinks about advertising, and he doesn't know if he is stupid in reading, or he is too conceited. Thinking about it carefully, Tranquility was inexplicably moved. Indeed, if Ka'an was willing to give up his own ideas, he would probably be a well-known professor now, and there would be five people and six people going out. But he chose to persevere. It's really a realm where he doesn't regret after his belt gets wider.

But, what do you want to talk to me about? Tranquility returned to the original question. She was just a tourist in Brazil, and Kaan asked her what she wanted to do?

Ka'an was silent for a while, and said: At first, I thought you were Japanese, and I wanted you to go back to Japan and help me find out if there is any company willing to fund my research. Since you are Chinese...

What's the matter with the Chinese? Tranquility stared at you. You've been confused like this, and you still discriminate against the Chinese. Believe it or not, I'll call my husband and clean you up.

Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Ka'an quickly explained: No, no, I don't mean to discriminate against China at all, I just think that there may not be too many large companies in China, and it is even more difficult to find companies that can fund this project.

Tranquility asked with a cold face: How much funding do you need?

At the very least, 50 million reais is needed, Kaan said.

The real, Brazil's new currency, was pegged one-to-one with the U.S. dollar before it was devalued. Kaan said that 50 million reais is needed, which is equivalent to 50 million U.S. dollars. This is indeed a very large sum of money, and it is no wonder that the Brazilian government does not give Kaan face. With his red mouth and white teeth, Ka'an hoped that a company could provide so much money to support him, and no one would agree to it.

What do you want so much money for? Tranquility said, Is your money used to build a lightning collection power station?

No, the money is used to overcome the two major obstacles to lightning collection, that is, superconducting materials and supercapacitors. I have mature ideas for both, but I just need financial support. If there are companies willing to fund, I can transfer 50% of the research results to this company... Kaan said.

Tranquility smiled, what Kaan said was really similar to what Qin Hai used to do. It's just that Qin Hai belongs to the party that pays. He often finds a scientist, and then pays the money himself, and the other party contributes wisdom, to overcome a difficulty together, and then divide the final result 20/50. If it weren't for the fact that the two techniques that Ka'an said were too outrageous, Tranquility really wanted to connect him with Qin Hai.

Let's not talk about supercapacitors. Just iron-based room temperature superconducting materials can be developed with 50 million US dollars? Tranquility asked with a bit of sarcasm.

Ka'an shook his head and said: It should not be enough, but as long as I prove the existence of iron-based superconductivity, it will be a great breakthrough. At that time, some companies will be willing to continue investing.

Tranquility laughed silently, the existence of iron-based superconductors no longer needs to be proved by Kaan. Caan, who had been away from research for several years, was out of touch with the times. Of course, without the existence of Qin Hai, the breakthrough of iron-based superconductivity would not have been realized so quickly. Ka'an didn't know that iron-based superconducting materials had already appeared in the world, which was also in line with the general scientific research laws.

At this time, Su Ze came towards them with several wives. Tranquility didn't want them to see that she was chatting with a homeless man, so she stood up and said to Ka'an, Mr. Ka'an, your thoughts are very different. Interesting, I will introduce it to others. I would like to ask, if someone is interested in your research, how should he contact you?

Ka'an handed Tranquility a business card and said, This is my business card. This phone number will not change in the short term. As for the address... I can't guarantee it.

When he said the last sentence, he was a little embarrassed again. His current state of life is to live without a fixed place, which is really not the way of life of a decent person.

Tranquility accepted the business card, hesitated for a moment, took out a few Brazilian banknotes from his pocket, and said, Mr. Kaan, maybe you need this...

No no! Ka'an stepped back quickly as if he had been burned, and stammered, Thank you miss, but I'm not a beggar, and I have a job now... I mean, I may have some temporary work, enough to make ends meet.

So that's the case, that's taking the liberty. Tranquility smiled lightly, put away the money, then nodded and said goodbye to Ka'an, and walked towards Su Ze and others. She knew that Ka'an was still maintaining his self-esteem. Perhaps, as he himself said, he could find some temporary jobs and earn money for food. It was a bit abrupt for her to give alms to Ka'an like this.

Mrs. Qin, why did you meet him? What did he tell you? Su Ze walked over quickly, met Ning Jing, then squinted at Ka An who had just walked away, and asked Ning Jing.

Why, you know him too? Tranquility asked strangely.

Of course I do. He's a lunatic. No one in Sao Paulo doesn't know him. Su Ze said in a contemptuous tone.

By the way, using a spray gun to paint advertisements on telephone poles and overpasses to promote one's own thoughts was not made up by oranges. This was done by a civil engineer in the imperial capital in the late 1990s. At that time, there was such a sentence on many overpasses XX code, dominate the world... laughed out loud