Chapter 908: The Nobel Prize is soft-hearted (fourth update, please subscribe)
Petrodollar hegemony!
When the "Bretton Woods monetary system" collapsed in the 1970s, the United States began to "persuade" oil-exporting countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran to accept the U.S. dollar as the sole pricing and settlement currency for international oil transactions.
The United States succeeded, and finally "pegged" the U.S. dollar to oil became the world's consensus. And the United States can print money to buy oil, a privilege no other country has.
"Petrodollar" is a profit-making policy for the United States. The United States exports the virtual symbol of the dollar in exchange for the injection of real resources such as oil, while other countries in the world use real goods and services. US dollars are exchanged from the United States to purchase essential oil, and these "petrodollars" are turned back into financial assets such as US stocks and treasury bonds to fill the US trade and fiscal deficits and support the US economy.
And the petrodollar is also the most powerful tool for the United States to harvest world wealth!
After the US dollar was decoupled from gold and instead linked to oil, the world entered the "petrodollar monetary system", and the material supporting this system was oil.
So the core of "petrodollar hegemony" is oil!
For Li Yi'an, destroying the "petrodollar hegemony" of the United States is an inevitable war. This war is inevitable because with the economic development of Nanyang, the United States is bound to be like harvesting Japan. , like German wealth, trying to harvest Nanyang.
In this case, Nanyang can either be like Japan and be willing to lose thirty years and follow the United States as a dog and let it harvest wealth, or it can fight back.
Counterattack is an inevitable option for Li Yian!
How far will this counterattack develop?
Li Yian had no idea about this.
But many things must be planned in advance, so destroying the "petrodollar hegemony" and preventing the United States from harvesting the world has become an inevitable option.
If you want to defeat future enemies, you must start from the beginning. Preventing the enemy from becoming stronger is an inevitable option.
Negotiations between the Nanyang Ministry of Trade and Industry and the U.S. Department of Commerce were ongoing, and while Yongan's financial market was fluctuating as a result, Li Yi'an once again came to the King's Laboratory.
“Based on the technical information provided by you, we invented the liquid-absorbing ultra-fine glass wool separator, and based on this we designed the AGM technology of the valve-controlled sealed lead-acid battery, which solved the problem of oxygen inside the battery. Compound cycle problem. This battery adopts a sealed structure and does not need to add electrolyte. It is easy to use and safe. The voltage and capacity of lead-acid batteries have also been significantly improved..."
Although he is a well-known young expert in Nanyang, Sun Xianze is completely like a student in front of you. Although experts and scholars are proud of their talents, There are many, but there is nothing we can do about it. Even well-known scholars like Shu Chuanbao admire your knowledge very much.
Even the most rebellious scholars respect those who are more knowledgeable than themselves. However, your academic level is so high that no one can make an accurate evaluation. According to some scholars - maybe Not inferior to Einstein. In terms of invention and innovation, it may far exceed Edison.
PN junction transistors, integrated circuits... these are all inventions that may win the Nobel Prize. Even if they do not win it now, they will definitely win the Nobel Prize in the future.
As for the researchers in the King's Laboratory, under the guidance of the information provided by Your Excellency, they successfully made the world's first operational ruby laser.
In the past few months, many innovative inventions made in the laboratory are inseparable from the conceptual information you provided.
Including this new type of battery, of course.
Perhaps, this is genius.
While Sun Xianze and others were sighing, Li Yian looked at the battery in front of him. Although it was lead-acid, this sealed lead-acid battery was undoubtedly a black technology in this era - in another world , its invention benefited from the research and development of space technology.
In another world...it is the source of power for electric mopeds and Laotoule. With it, there are electric bicycles and "Laotoule".
After asking about its capacity and other issues, Li Yian finally asked about the development of new batteries that he was most concerned about.
"How is the research progress of lithium batteries?"
Sun Xianze said, knowing that you will definitely ask this question.
“We are now conducting in-depth research on lithium according to the direction pointed out by you, and have made some progress...” Although as early as the 19th century, people realized that the physical and chemical properties of lithium metal are inherently useful. Materials for making batteries. However, lithium metal itself also has huge problems. It is too reactive, can react violently with water, and has high requirements on the operating environment. Therefore, people were helpless for a long time. Although some scientists tried to use it to make batteries, they all failed.
It was not until the 1960s that NASA began to conduct further research on lithium due to the needs of the "Apollo Project", and this was the beginning of the world's research on the application of lithium batteries. It was not until the late 1980s that lithium batteries made breakthrough progress.
Thanks to the popularity of new energy vehicles in later generations, Li Yian also has a certain understanding of lithium batteries, so he was able to propose some technical details, from the concept of embedded batteries to the development of lithium cobalt oxide.
“We have produced lithium cobalt oxide in the laboratory. This magical material has a two-dimensional layered structure and can reversibly deintercalate lithium ions, and the battery voltage is also improved. It can be increased to 4V..."
When mentioning this new material, Sun Xianze seemed quite excited. What is more exciting than discovering new materials?
"Oh? Really?"
Li Yian couldn't help but said in surprise.
“Let’s go to the laboratory!”
Li Yian is very clear about the importance of lithium cobalt oxide. Its appearance marks the emergence of lithium cobalt oxide lithium battery. In the 21st century, it still occupies the majority of the lithium battery market, and computers and mobile phones are inseparable from it!
“We are preparing to use it combined with the concept of embedded batteries to develop new lithium batteries.”
Li Yian said when he heard that Sun Xianze planned to use it as the negative electrode of the battery.
“Can we do the opposite and try to use lithium cobalt oxide as the positive electrode?”
“Use it as the positive electrode?”
Sun Xianze was stunned.
This is a completely subversive suggestion, because from a material science point of view, is lithium more suitable as an anode material? Its low density, large capacity, and low potential mean it is an ideal negative electrode material for batteries.
"Isn't it more suitable to be used as a negative electrode?"
"Experimentation, we always have to try some paths. Sometimes we should take the initiative to break the solidified thoughts."
Li Yian said with a smile.
In fact, it is the characteristics of lithium that are suitable for use as negative electrodes that restrict the development of lithium batteries - scientists have always used lithium metal as the negative electrode, and it requires the use of flammable organic solvents. As electrolyte, safety issues have caused difficulties in the industrialization of lithium batteries.
But later Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino broke the convention and used petroleum coke to replace metallic lithium as the negative electrode and lithium cobalt oxide as the positive electrode, and assembled the first commercially available lithium-ion battery.
In 1991, the first commercial lithium-ion battery was successfully launched by Sony. Lithium-ion batteries have helped the consumer electronics industry and changed the entire world; in turn, the huge market in the consumer electronics industry has also helped the rapid development of the lithium-ion battery industry. The emergence of lithium iron phosphate and ternary system cathode materials has also Lithium batteries with high energy density also appeared, which finally led everyone to think of using them in electric vehicles.
A few hours later, looking at the car driving away, Sun Xianze couldn't help but sigh,
"If it succeeds, it will be another invention that can win the Nobel Prize!"
The colleagues on the side also agreed.
"Yes, I really didn't expect that you would have such profound knowledge in the field of batteries. If you were a scholar, you would probably be too weak to win the Nobel Prize."
(End of this chapter)