Chapter 335 Alternative Applications

Chapter 335 Alternative Applications

Chapter 335 Alternative Applications
After bidding farewell to He Jintang, Jiang Miao continued his previous research.

As for Wang Lifeng, he didn't care too much about it. Instead, He Jintang called him soon.

"Oh? Okay, no problem." Holding the phone, Jiang Miao replied with a smile.

"Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation is very interested in your group's Venus exploration plan, but as you know, the current funding allocated to the aerospace department is limited, and it is impossible for them to be as generous as you are."

Jiang Miao was not surprised: "I understand. They don't need to pay. Hailufeng Group only needs technicians from CASIC. As for the details of the cooperation, let Blue Whale Aerospace and CASIC negotiate!"

"Okay then. I will convey your intention to the Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation."

"Sorry to bother you, Lao He."

"You're welcome. Go ahead and do your work. Bye."

"Goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Miao did not go back to the laboratory, but sat on the ergonomic chair, thinking about something.

After a while, he asked the housekeeping assistant Li Zixuan to come in.

"boss."

"Please inform Blue Whale Aerospace and tell them that CASIC and I have reached a verbal agreement and plan to jointly participate in the Venus exploration plan in the future. The preliminary framework of the agreement is that we will provide the money and CASIC will provide the technical personnel. You can let them negotiate the specific cooperation agreement."

Li Zixuan wrote down these instructions on his work tablet and nodded slightly: "No problem, boss, do you have any other instructions?"

"And one more thing."

Li Zixuan continued to create new items on the tablet.

"You ask the research department to build an indoor agricultural base that simulates the natural environment, with an area of ​​no less than 100 acres. The location should be selected in various places in Chaoshan, with priority given to places close to Shanmei."

“What level of security is required?”

"A-level is fine."

"I understand."

"Well, go and implement it!"

"I won't disturb the boss's work." Li Zixuan saved the two matters and then closed the office door.

The next day, Jiang Miao arranged some other things and continued to develop the next human organ non-rejection transformation project.

This time he targeted the kidneys.

However, he does not think that there is any difficulty in transforming the kidneys into non-rejection organs. After all, there is already a successful case, and the difficulty of transforming other organs into non-rejection organs will inevitably drop sharply.

After all, everything is difficult at the beginning.

As long as we achieve a breakthrough from zero to one, the difficulty from one to two and to ten will definitely drop by an order of magnitude.

Therefore, while Jiang Miao was researching new organs, he also devoted some of his energy to preparing to develop superhuman external organs. He named the internal code name of this project the "Jiuli Project."

Jiuli means the Jiuli tribe, one of the branches of the ancient Chinese, namely the Dongyi clan led by Chiyou.

The reason why the external organ project is named "Jiuli Project" is that Jiuli culture contains mysterious witches, gods, and poisons, which is more in line with the cultural connotation of the external organ project.

Of course, at this stage the Jiuli Project is only in preparation, and some preliminary research is being carried out at the same time. For the project to really start, we will probably have to wait for news from Wang Lifeng.

At the same time, Jiang Miao is also keeping a close eye on the breeding progress of new varieties of wheat, corn, sorghum and millet.

If the research and development progress of these new varieties of staple food cannot keep up with the schedule, he will have to take action to speed it up.

Before we knew it, it was early July.

Zhang Chengdong, manager of the scientific research department, reported to Jiang Miao, mainly reporting on the scientific research business briefing of Hailufeng Group in the first half of the year.

"In the first half of this year, the group invested a total of 1249 billion yuan in scientific research, investing in 574 projects..."

"Among them, the agricultural field accounts for 24%, the medical field accounts for 12%, the new material field accounts for 15%, the precision instrument field accounts for 9%, the new energy field accounts for 11%, the mechanical equipment field accounts for 8%, the Internet information field accounts for 10%, the aerospace field accounts for 5%, the automobile and ship field accounts for 3%, and other fields account for 3%."

Jiang Miao was flipping through the briefing.

Zhang Chengdong continued: "In the first half of the year, the group and its subsidiaries obtained a total of 27617 patents, of which 8594 patents entered the application field..."

Jiang Miao raised his head and asked directly: "What are your plans for aerospace in the second half of the year?"

"In the second half of the year, we plan to invest about 200 billion yuan to jointly establish a number of scientific research projects with CASIC."

Jiang Miao looked at the cooperation agreement between Blue Whale Aerospace and CASIC in the briefing. Zhang Chengdong knew that Jiang Miao wanted to know about the content regarding joint research and development, so he was well prepared.

This time, the scientific research cooperation with CASIC is mutually beneficial and win-win for both parties, and they will share R&D patents.

However, this sharing is subject to limitations, that is, CASIC can use the relevant patents itself, but it cannot sell them, nor can it transfer the patented technology to other companies without the consent of Blue Whale Aerospace.

Blue Whale Aerospace does not have such restrictions and can transfer technology and produce related products for sale.

The reason why this happens.

The reason is that Blue Whale Aerospace is a big sponsor. CASIC has only provided some scientific researchers and has not invested any funds. The right to use and dispose of the patents naturally belongs to Blue Whale Aerospace.

There is nothing China CASIC can do about this, as they have no money.

There are currently quite a few aerospace companies within the Asian Union.

赛里斯内部经过多次整合，目前一共有12家航天领域的企业；然后就是东瀛的3家、南高丽2家、星岛1家、暹罗1家、安南1家、爪哇1家、大马1家。

There are a total of 22 companies in the aerospace field.

These companies are all capable of launching launch vehicles and space shuttles, and in addition there are about 500 related supporting companies.

However, these supporting enterprises are not simply aerospace enterprises. After all, the aerospace sector was relatively small in the past few years. If the enterprises relied solely on aerospace business, they would have gone bankrupt a hundred times already.

For example, Hailufeng Group and Minqin Group, their main businesses are not in the aerospace field, and their investments in the aerospace field have basically made no money.

Even in the next ten years or so, investment in the aerospace field will most likely be insufficient to cover expenses.

There is no way around it; this is the current situation in the aerospace field.

This also leads to many supporting enterprises not making aerospace business their main business, because they are aware of the current situation in the aerospace field and it is difficult to achieve profitability in a short period of time.

Since its establishment, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has invested a total of approximately US$430 billion and its cumulative revenue is US$388 billion. If it weren't for the stock market, the company would probably not have survived.

After all, SpaceX has faced various crises since 2026. Two of the more serious ones are that its founder faced suppression from various parties within America; secondly, after America withdrew its influence from the world, SpaceX's business was greatly affected.

In order to survive, SpaceX recently announced that it will continue its Mars plan, but the timetable has been postponed to 2035. Obviously, the capital chain is under great pressure, which has caused considerable problems in research and development and production.

Hailufeng Group plans to invest 500 billion yuan in research and development every year, making Blue Whale Aerospace the private enterprise with the most research and development funding in the world. The budget of CASIC this year is only 580 billion yuan, which is only slightly more than that of Blue Whale Aerospace.

Moreover, there are huge differences in the use of funds between the two parties.

CASIC needs to carry out many projects and cannot focus on a few projects like Blue Whale Aerospace.

This is also an important reason why CASIC chose to cooperate with Blue Whale Aerospace, because Blue Whale Aerospace has a wealthy sponsor.

...

After listening to Zhang Chengdong's work report, Jiang Miao also listened to the Finance Department's semi-annual financial report.

In the first half of this year, the financial condition of Hailufeng Group was very good. With the continued development of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, the group achieved revenue of 1.5 trillion yuan and net profit of 7761 billion yuan in the first half of the year.

The group's accumulated debt is 3849 billion yuan and its accumulated reserve funds are 13247 billion yuan.

This is only the first half of the year, and the revenue scale will continue to expand in the second half of the year.

After understanding the financial situation of the group, Jiang Miao felt more confident about the various investments and approved the Venus development plan without hesitation.

And as Hailufeng Group announced its Venus development plan.

Related companies within the Asian Union are also gearing up to take advantage of the opportunity, as everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.

After all, this is a long-term project that will last for ten years with an annual investment of 500 billion yuan. As long as a portion of the orders can be obtained, it will be a long-term meal ticket for any company.

However, these companies are all clear about one thing, that is, Hailufeng-related companies have always been harsh on their suppliers.

This strictness is not reflected in the profit margin and payment cycle, but in some special regulations.

For example, the supplier’s employee treatment, whether there are any illegal activities, product quality, environmental conditions, contract fulfillment, etc.

If any of the requirements are not met, the supplier will be kicked out of the supplier list.

In order to obtain orders, many companies have started internal rectification and are trying every possible way to find ways to squeeze into the supply system of the Hailufeng Group.

The Supervisory Department of Hailufeng Group is also keeping a close eye on the company's senior executives to see if anyone would take the risk.

After Jiang Miao arranged things.

I also called and talked to Wang Lifeng for more than ten minutes. The other party said that he had convinced some people, but had not yet obtained decisive support.

Jiang Miao had anticipated this situation.

After all, although Seris's relevant funds are increasing every year, there are so many projects that need investment, and there is not much money left when it comes to each project.

It is certainly not that easy for Wang Lifeng to promote the "Jiuli Plan", but if the time is extended a little, with five years as a research and development cycle, then with an annual investment of more than 2 billion, it should be possible to get it approved.

As for investing 10 or 20 billion within two or three years, the possibility is not high.

Unless Hailufeng Group is willing to provide financial support.

But Jiang Miao was not in a hurry, mainly because this kind of project would most likely not be allowed to be led by a private enterprise like Hailufeng Group, so there was no need for him to take on too much responsibility.

After communicating with Wang Lifeng, Jiang Miao came to the indoor agricultural base that Li Zixuan had previously arranged.

This indoor agricultural base of more than 100 acres is built in Jiexi County.

The things he had people transported in advance have already been installed in the planting room inside the base by the base's scientific researchers.

Jiang Miao, wearing protective clothing, looked through the glass observation window at the boxes floating on the water in the nutrient solution pool in the planting room.

The surface of the box is covered with a layer of blue-green substance that looks like a large leaf.

This thing is a by-product developed during his research on non-rejection organs: super chloroplasts.

Super chloroplasts were implanted into the leaves of genetically modified Victoria amazonica plants. The photosynthetic energy utilization rate of these super chloroplasts can reach 14.3%.

Researcher Ah Hai is the person in charge of this base. He explained in a low voice: "Boss, the light in the base's cultivation room is currently coming from the light-transmitting glass above, and there is no artificial light supplementation."

"What about other situations?"

"Due to the improvement of photosynthesis energy utilization, the current concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not enough. We use air separators to separate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At present, in order to maintain the normal growth of the royal water lily, the indoor carbon dioxide concentration must be maintained at around 0.43%."

"Almost ten times the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere near the ground?" Jiang Miao looked calm.

Ah Hai nodded and continued, "Also, the nutrient solution is consumed quite quickly. Fortunately, the boss has solved the problem of nitrogen fertilizer."

Jiang Miao had actually considered the issue of nutrient consumption.

After all, the energy utilization rate of photosynthesis has been increased to such a high level, which naturally means that the nutrients needed by the plant will also increase.

As for nitrogen fertilizer, his solution is very simple. That is to use genetic engineering technology to make the surface of the leaves of the Emperor Water Lily thicker and form a fine structure similar to a sponge. These structures can increase the contact area between the leaves and the air, making it easier for the Emperor Water Lily to absorb carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air.

The royal water lily does not need to supplement carbon and nitrogen, but instead needs phosphorus, potassium and other trace elements.

If the Emperor Water Lily is planted in the wild, it will either be destroyed by the wild environment or gradually degenerate.

After all, there is no air with a carbon dioxide content of 0.43% in the wild for them to absorb, nor is there any artificial supplementation of phosphorus, potassium and other trace elements.

This is also another core factor that limits the energy utilization rate of photosynthesis, that is, the natural environment is not suitable for the survival of plants with relatively high energy utilization rates.

Just like insects in ancient times, they could grow to a huge size mainly because the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere at that time was relatively high, which created the conditions for the emergence of the era of giant insects.

Jiang Miao is developing super chloroplasts not to grow royal water lilies in the wild, but to regulate the concentration of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere.

The royal lotus, which has super chloroplasts, is essentially an efficient carbon dioxide capturer.

Theoretically, one acre of royal water lily can produce 12 tons of starch, 7 tons of protein and 5 tons of oil every year.

What is the concept of this production capacity?
12 tons of starch, calculated at 400g per person per day, can roughly meet the annual staple food needs of 82 people.

And 7 tons of protein, calculated as 80 kilograms of protein per beef cattle, is equivalent to the protein of 87 beef cattle.

Five tons of oil can be converted into approximately 5 liters of biodiesel, equivalent to 5300 tons of crude oil.

The emergence of this technology means that humans will soon be able to get rid of the open-air farming model and will only need about one-tenth of the previous land to feed the world's population.

Of course, everything has advantages and disadvantages.

Such a high energy utilization rate also means that the consumption of various nutrients will also rise rapidly. Moreover, if it is promoted on a large scale, it is likely to cause carbon depletion in the global atmosphere. At that time, it will not be global warming, but global cooling.

Therefore, at this stage, Jiang Miao has no plans to promote this technology immediately.

(End of this chapter)