"Storage is the biggest advantage of sodium ion batteries. The content of sodium elements in the earth is 2.75%. Compared with the current mainstream lithium ion batteries, the crust content of lithium elements required for lithium ion batteries we have mainstream research is only 0.0065%, a difference of 423 times. Moreover, this is just a theoretical gap. In fact, compared with the unlimited extraction of sodium elements from the oceans that occupy 70% of the earth's surface, the world's proven lithium mineral resources are pitifully small."

"The direct impact of reserves is cost."

"Taking the two metals as an example, the current price of sodium metal per ton is US$750, while metal lithium is as high as US$82,000, a 109-fold difference. Because sodium ion batteries are still in the laboratory stage, the gap in commercial prices in the future is currently unknown. However, our team calculated that if one day in the future, the production of the two batteries is large enough, and the price difference is at least ten times."

"It's huge enough that this happens to be the application target of sodium ion batteries."

"First of all, it is undeniable that the disadvantages of sodium ion batteries are very obvious. Compared with lithium ion batteries, the best performance under laboratory conditions is only about half of the energy density of the latter. However, if the battery is large enough, it will far exceed the milliampere hour (mAh) level of current portable electronic products and reach the megawatt-hour (MWh) volume, sodium ion batteries will completely crush the lithium ion batteries in terms of comprehensive costs and other aspects."

"It can be said that in decades, once traditional fossil energy shortages occur, the ultra-large photovoltaic power generation matrix currently being studied by SolarCity, and the ultra-large sodium ion battery energy storage matrix that we cooperate with our Recttery, will be an important solution for mankind to get rid of the energy crisis in the future."

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San Francisco.

Westeros System originally bought the Battery Division of Rectery, which was integrated with the battery business department from IBM.

This is the morning of May 29.

It's Saturday.

Simon took a morning to listen to the technical director of the Rectery branch here to report the progress of a series of research projects of the company. One of the key points is a sodium ion battery research project officially launched last year.

This is a project that was specially included in the 3G program by Simon.

As for reasons, resource reserves, manufacturing costs, environmental protection factors, application environment, etc., in short, except that the energy storage density cannot be compared with lithium-ion batteries, there are many other advantages.

Speaking of which, the battery research related to the two elements actually appeared at the same time. The reason why people only knew about lithium-ion batteries later but had hardly heard of sodium-ion batteries was the energy density.

Because the main application field of traditional batteries is portable electronic devices, because they are portable, the battery cannot be too large or too heavy, so it needs to store more energy as small as possible, and lithium-ion batteries stand out.

However, if you look at it longer-term, Simon thinks that sodium ion batteries are a key future.

As the technical supervisor said, the ultra-large photovoltaic power generation matrix combined with the ultra-large sodium ion electronic energy storage matrix will be an important solution for mankind to get rid of the energy crisis in the future.

In comparison, lithium resources seem too scarce.

Perhaps just like the two directions of the display screen, LCD faces the small screen, and plasma goes to the large screen, each developing independently.

However, it is hard to say whether the two batteries will be like LCD and plasma in the future. After all, before Simon's rebirth, the dispute between the two screens had settled. When LCD broke through the limit of large screens, even if the display effect was better, plasma was still quickly eliminated.

In the future, once the energy storage density gap is no longer huge, perhaps lithium-ion batteries will be eliminated, and it will be a day and night.

All these can only be proved by time.

What Simon can do is give more possibilities.

After the morning meeting, Simon left the branch building of Recttery in the Egret Park in Mountain View and rushed to the private villa near the bay for dining.

Arriving at the villa, Girl D and Little Jenny have arrived in advance.

Mainly... I have another one recently. Girl D is also pregnant. The last time, two little guys with waist and leg sperm were born, Simon returned from China.

Anyway, I am not afraid of biting or worrying about it.

Simon had just chatted with the two girls, and girl C pulled Alice Ferguson to the villa. A workaholic girl looked very reluctant, and she felt that it was too wasteful to have time to eat from the work area to the residential area.

Then, Emmanuel Brandt, the tall red-haired female president in charge of FusionTimes, also came to join in the fun.

So the table was lively.

After hearing about Simon's morning schedule, Girl C first raised her doubts: "Boss, I was thinking, if controlled nuclear fusion is in the future... Well, at least it will be implemented in advance before the traditional fossil energy is exhausted, will your research on photovoltaic power generation and energy storage batteries be in vain?"

Little Jenny added next to it: "Or, Simon, are you not optimistic about the future of controlled nuclear fusion?"

Simon smiled and shook his head: "I didn't say I was not optimistic. This is just one of the solutions for the future. You know, in my opinion, the current human society is like an increasingly complex machine. You all understand that the more complex the machine is, the more unstable it means, rather than the more stable it feels in most people subconsciously. Therefore, it is definitely better to deal with some potential crises and solve more solutions."

A workaholic girl held the tableware and lowered her head to eat. She was so stupid that she didn't say anything but her own words: "Pessimist."

The D girl who was able to easily get pregnant and was able to smile.

Simon also laughed and retorted: "I can only say that you are too optimistic."

Emmanuel, who is quietly trying to integrate into this circle, helped him: "I think that even if controlled nuclear fusion is implemented, photovoltaic power generation and energy storage batteries have a lot of application needs, such as space exploration. If we want to build a base on the moon or Mars, in terms of energy, photovoltaic power generation and energy storage batteries are undoubtedly the most feasible solution. Unless we can achieve the miniaturization of controllable nuclear fusion power stations, it is not realistic to build nuclear power stations simultaneously in outer space in the short term."

Little Jenny said: "You can use a small fission device, it has been implemented at this point."

"As an environmentalist, I think it's better not to send fission devices that may cause serious pollution to the moon or Mars," Simon said.

The workaholic girl answered again by a silly saying: "Agree."

"Actually," Emmanuel said: "According to Kardashev's cosmic civilization level setting, realizing controllable nuclear fusion is only a complete first-level civilization, and the symbol of second-level civilization is similar to the Dyson's idea of ​​photovoltaic energy storage combined with complete utilization of stellar energy. After all, no matter how powerful the controllable nuclear fusion power generation device we humans is, it is impossible to reach one billionth of the energy released by stars."

Girl C bit the slices of bread with caviar on her little mouth and said, "Is this a bit too far?"

Emmanuel said: "Because of the technological explosion, even a hundred years ago, everyone in the world could probably not imagine our current life. Similarly, once controlled nuclear fusion is implemented, the new energy solution for photovoltaic energy storage is promoted, and with the support of unlimited productivity, we may soon achieve a second technological explosion. In this case, the topic we just discussed will definitely not be far away."

Girl D said: "I think things shouldn't be that simple."

"Yes," Simon nodded, seeing the girls on the table looking over, saying, "because the ideal model will always encounter too many unpredictable variables, and the biggest variable is us humans. Not everyone wants to see technological progress, such as the vested interest class of traditional fossil energy. If they know that we have the hope of achieving controllable nuclear fusion in a short period of time, they may block it at all costs, including the most extreme methods."

Simon said it was plain, but Girl D couldn't help but shrink her neck, and little Jenny looked over with a obviously worried look.

Simon noticed the women's reaction, smiled, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, as the richest capitalist in the world, I am not without the ability to fight back."

The prerequisite for talking about interests is strength after all.

In film and television dramas, scientists who have developed breakthrough energy technologies are often hunted by capitalists, but few times, capitalists are hunted for it. In the final analysis, they are actually strength.

Speaking of strength, in the recent film and television industry, "Star Wars Prequel: The Ghost Threat" is undoubtedly the most powerful one.

The painting started on May 19. As Simon's previous judgment, the public opinion level was almost one-sided criticism of the movie. Many long-awaited fans also expressed strong disappointment. However, the combined 5.3 points obviously have a reputation of sentimental elements, which did not affect countless viewers paying for their memories at all.

Including the Wednesday and Thursday that started painting in advance, from May 19 to May 27, the first prequel song made a crazily earning $140.19 million, almost equivalent to the total local box office of the US version of "Aihu", which is currently ranked No. 1 in the year.

It is now entering its second box office week. According to the single-day data on the next Friday, the full box office in the second week of the film's release is likely to be around 80 million, and it is expected to reach 220 million in the two-week period. Compared with the super bombshell where Daenerys's production costs are getting higher and higher, the cost of this prequel first song is only 115 million. Obviously, commercially, Lucas Pictures has almost made a lot of money.

However, it is probably only limited to this.

It is still as it used to be. After the film was released, the industry paid more attention to the sales of peripheral products than the box office, because the movie itself disappointed, and it was a dismal reputation.

Due to the expected huge losses, the stock prices of major peripheral toy manufacturers such as Hasbro and Lego have even plummeted.

Still the same thing, Lucas messed up.

Countless movie fans have exchanged their feelings of anticipation for many years, and then, at least, the audience will no longer have too high expectations for Lucas himself to direct this series.

Another result of the matter is that the merger of Fox, MGM and Lucasfilm has no internal obstacles.

Before the prequel debut, George Lucas tried to win more benefits for himself in some details of the merger of the three companies before the release of the prequel song because of the strong social response of the film. In recent days, this guy quietly went to Hawaii for vacation, not to mention things like additional personal approval of high dividend preferred stocks.

Also, after the potential is expected to be 80 million yuan the next week, the subsequent box office trend of the prequel first episode can be imagined. No one has to worry about the continuous crushing of their new films. Even, there is no need to worry too much about the prequel first episode consuming too much market potential, because of disappointment, and perhaps many people have to watch some other videos to make up for the psychological trauma.

June 1999 followed.

In June, a certain variable that Simon had been paying attention to disappeared completely in the Yugoslavia. This regional war turned when Russian troops suddenly rushed to Slatina Airport on June 2 from lightning in northern Kosovo, the capital of central Kosovo.

Before this, the continuous air strikes hit Yugoslavia's side, which had fallen into disarray, was full of pride. The only Russia in the region that was able to directly interfere in the war was always just talking, so that everyone thought that NATO's complete occupation of Kosovo was almost a foregone conclusion.

Of course, on the surface, the word "occupation" is definitely not useful.

The excuse everyone gave was "peacekeeping".

No one expected that Russia really dared to launch a sudden attack, seized the only airport in the capital of Kosovo, and competed with NATO for the power to "peacekeeping" Kosovo.

Anyway, the result of the incident was that in order to avoid the outbreak of the "World War III", a British army that was directly confronted with the Russian task force, did not dare to attack the Russian army and regain the airport, so it also lost 100% of the opportunity to control Kosovo.

After taking down the airport, Russia quickly increased its troops to Kosovo and its initiative became increasingly greater.

With Russia's disruption, Yugoslavia no longer blindly retreated on the one-sided negotiating table. Therefore, it was basically determined that Russia and NATO will jointly exert influence in the Kosovo region.

NATO is undoubtedly extremely disappointed with the result of this kind of military strike that lasted for several months, but everyone just didn't expect that Russia, which is already weak, really dares to do such a thing.

However, Russia has the precise military strength to do such things, which can make NATO dare not act rashly.

The reason is very simple, no one wants the outbreak of World War III.

On the other hand, in Russia, the Russian army airborne to Kosovo and regained its influence in Yugoslavia. As the Russian army gained a foothold in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, it was also widely publicized at the moment.

Moreover, the protagonist of this promotion is no longer Yeltsin.

The previous adventure, led by someone himself, was also Yeltsin's last test.

After screwing up, even if he made some promises to Simon and under pressure from both domestic and foreign parties, Yeltsin may have to win a prime minister again. Now, things have been done, which not only makes Yeltsin completely believe in someone's ability to control the situation, but also accumulates the first bargaining chip for the other party that will affect next year's Russian election.
Chapter completed!