Homo sapiens.

Chapter 82 Iron Bamboo
19, April 10.

After a storm, about 63 kilometers southeast of Bandon Island, there is the famous World War II battlefield-the Sibuyan naval battle.

The Japanese battleship Musashi sank in this sea area.

On the north side of the Sibuyan Sea is Sibuyan Island, a medium-sized island with an area of ​​445 square kilometers.

This island is also one of the core areas of the Fernando family.

Sibuyan Island, San Fernando town.

This small town with a population of just over 2 was a small place engaged in traditional agriculture more than eight months ago.

It wasn't until Zhang Jueming brought people here and established the 606 laboratory directly under the Homo sapiens company that there were some changes here.

After more than half a year of boring scientific research, Zhang Jueming's team has completed an obvious transformation from being in a hurry at the beginning to being proficient now.

Zhang Jueming, who was born as a scientific research migrant worker, has been engaged in genetically modified work before. Although he has made a lot of achievements, they are not his own after all.

Seeing that I am almost 35 years old, and my parents are also elderly, let alone my income, even buying a house in my hometown Jinyang seems a bit difficult.

After thinking about it, he still resigned from his previous company, and was finally fooled to Luzon by accident.

At first he thought he had been cheated, but it wasn't until his job stabilized that he felt he was in the right place.

As a scientific researcher, the treatment within Homo sapiens company will be higher than that of employees of the same level. In addition, the company allocated him a house in San Fernando Town. Zhang Jueming, who is not married, did not feel troubled.

What this 606 laboratory is researching is genetically modified bamboo.

At first, Zhang Jueming didn't understand the purpose of the company's genetically modified bamboo. After all, what's so good about genetically modified bamboo?

But when they successfully cultivated Tiezhu No. 5, Zhang Jueming understood the company's thinking.

Of course, they were able to quickly develop Tiezhu 5, not only because of their hard work, but also thanks to the powerful supercomputing center of Homo sapiens and some genetic modification ideas provided by Li Qingye.

At present, Homo sapiens has built the world's most powerful supercomputing center - Fuxi Supercomputing No. 1 in an uninhabited desert island, and its floating-point calculation limit has reached 300 million trillion operations per second.

You must know that Tianhe-2.57, currently the world's number one supercomputer, has a floating-point calculation limit of only [-] gigaflops per second.

Fuxi Supercomputer No. 1 is composed of 3 biochips, the total cost is only about US$673 million, and the daily operating cost is about US$6271 per day.

This is the advantage of biological computers. Once developed, the production cost and operating cost are several orders of magnitude lower than traditional electronic computers.

Zhang Jueming's team can use the company's supercomputer all day long, and use this huge computing power to brute force solve many problems.

Coupled with Li Qingye's guidance behind the scenes, this is how they succeeded on Iron Bamboo No. 5.

At present, Tiezhu No. 5, whose seeds have been castrated, has been planted on 10 hectares of mountain land.

With several assistants, Zhang Jueming cut off a large piece of iron bamboo with a high-pressure water knife, and then wore a working exoskeleton to bring the bamboo back to the laboratory.

The 606 laboratory is next to the bamboo forest.

Today, in addition to Zhang Jueming's team, Harlin Lopez, the general manager of Coral Building Materials, and his team are in the laboratory.

Harlem looked at the iron bamboo that had been processed in the laboratory, picked up one of the bamboo strips, put it in his hand and twisted it vigorously.

It's just that the strength of this two-finger-wide bamboo strip was beyond his imagination. He twisted until his face turned red, but he still didn't break the bamboo strip.

"Huh... the strength of this thing is almost as strong as steel bars?"

Regarding this, Zhang Jueming smiled and shook his head: "The strength of ordinary steel bars is only 300, and the strength of Tiezhu No. 5 can reach about 650."

"It's so high? Wouldn't it be able to replace steel bars?" Harlem's eyes were filled with excitement.

Zhang Jueming nodded: "It can indeed replace steel bars. After deep processing, it can replace part of the steel bars in buildings."

Haring is not interested in knowing how to further process iron bamboo. After all, he is not an expert in materials science, so there is no need to delve too deeply into it.

He turned his head and said in a low voice to Ji Xingchen, the director of the building materials market research department who followed him, "Xingchen, what do you think of the performance of this iron bamboo? Can it replace the function of steel bars in construction?"

Ji Xingchen did not answer right away, but asked Zhang Jueming about the specific material parameters of iron bamboo, as well as the cost of planting and processing.

After writing and drawing in a small notebook for more than ten minutes, Ji Xingchen finally figured out the performance, cost, and use of iron bamboo.

"General manager, I think this kind of iron bamboo can replace a large part of steel bars. Its strength is higher than that of steel bars on the market, and its flame retardancy and corrosion resistance are no less than steel bars. In terms of unit weight, it is only one third of steel bars. , and its unit cost is only a quarter of steel bars, this kind of iron bamboo has great potential."

Harlem thought for a while, and then asked, "Will it be difficult for customers to accept it if it is launched in the market all at once?"

"This..." Ji Xingchen was suspicious for a moment: "It is indeed possible. After all, bamboo is inferior to steel bars all the time. This concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."

Holding the iron bamboo stick in his hand, Harlem suddenly laughed: "It's too early to think about this issue. Our company's products are all supplied to brother companies, and the market does not accept them. It has nothing to do with us."

"That's true." Ji Xingchen almost forgot that about 70% of their company's products are supplied to Coral Construction Company.

Harlem immediately announced that Iron Bamboo has entered commercial promotion.

Coral Building Materials Company will invest in the construction of an iron bamboo plantation on Sibuyan Island. The planting area is expected to reach 150 square kilometers, divided into three phases over three years.

In fact, as the general manager of Coral Building Materials, Harlem has been under a lot of pressure recently, mainly because the production capacity of the steel plant cannot keep up with the demand.

At present, Coral Building Materials owns 3 steel plants after integration and expansion, with an annual output of 240 million tons of crude steel.

This kind of small iron and steel plant is located in Huaguo, and it is a backward production capacity that will be shut down.

But in Luzon, it is the leading heavy industry.

However, Homo sapiens' crazy infrastructure scale makes the annual production capacity of 240 million tons of crude steel unable to meet the construction needs.

There are so many projects in roads, docks, bridges, staff dormitories, factories, and sea fields that Coral Construction has to import 84 construction steel products from Huaguo this year to fill the gap in demand.

For this situation, although imports can be used to solve the problem, it is not a wise move to rely on imports for a long time.

What's more, Homo sapiens will also support a new Luzon shipbuilding company. In the future, shipbuilding steel and military steel will definitely be self-sufficient.

It is also not a good way to continue to expand the steel plant.

Because the iron ore in Luzon is pyrite ore with relatively low iron content, which is notoriously low-quality iron ore. At present, the tens of millions of tons of pyrite ore controlled by Homo sapiens have been suspended from mining.

Therefore, the steel plant of Coral Building Materials can only import cheap and easy-to-use iron ore from Australia.

The problem is that Li Qingye doesn't trust Australia. In order to avoid getting stuck in the future, Coral Building Materials can only prepare with both hands.

On the one hand, import double iron ore, and at the same time suspend domestic iron ore mining, and do a good job in iron ore reserves.

On the other hand, it is to find alternatives to steel.

It is against this background that iron bamboo was developed as a project. Now construction steel accounts for the majority of steel used. As long as iron bamboo can be used to replace part of it, the saved steel can be used in military industry and shipbuilding.

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