Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 291 30 is not compatible with petroleum

Chen Muwu felt that Yoshio Nishina was not that simple. When he wrote to him, he couldn't just tell him kindly why Deterding scolded him.

At the end of this letter, Yoshio Nishina's way of showing off the situation was not O. Henry at all. He directly asked Chen Muwu where there was oil around, as if he was sure that he would tell him.

Please, you are just an unknown physicist trapped in Europe, and you are not a large oil company such as Standard Company of the United States and Shell of the Netherlands.

So what if it's a major oil company?If you don't pay a considerable consulting fee, I, Chen Muwu, will definitely not tell you where the oil is buried.

But since Yoshio Nishina asked shamelessly, it would be inappropriate for Chen Mu to not answer him without seeing him.

So he took advantage of the situation and wrote a reply to Yoshio Nishina. In the letter, he thanked him in the Netherlands for reporting the incident as soon as it happened.

After writing a lot of polite words, Chen Muwu finally answered the question raised by Yoshio Nishina at the end of the letter.

He said that based on his own theoretical calculations, whether it is China or Japan, these two East Asian countries are oil-poor countries and are inseparable brothers in terms of oil storage capacity.

If you want to find oil resources nearby, you must move your sights north.

In addition to Sakhalin Island, where oil resources have been discovered and exploited, he personally speculates that the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East and the Alaskan region of the United States across the Bering Strait may contain oil, but the specific locations need to be further explored. Conduct on-site inspections and explorations.

Chen Muwu is an honest and reliable person, and his main thing is not to tell lies.

Whether it is Kamchatka Peninsula or Alaska, there are indeed large amounts of oil resources that have not yet been discovered.

But even if Chen Muwu points out the direction for you, would you dare to send people to another country, or the top country in the world like the United States, for on-the-spot investigation?
Taking a step back, even if oil resources are really detected, would you dare to dig a well yourself?
Although the Kamchatka Peninsula belongs to the Soviet Union, which is in desperate need of development, and the two countries of Kamchatka and Soviet Union have now cooperated on oil development on Sakhalin Island (called Sakhalin Island in the Soviet Union, and Huatai Island) , but Chen Muwu still didn't believe that he could make a difference on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The environment in that place was much worse than Sakhalin. Su Lian put it aside for decades without developing it. He did not believe that he in the 20s had the conditions to overcome the difficulties.

So what he told Yoshio Nishina about these two places was basically nonsense. Even if this piece of hard-earned information from Chen Muwu was passed on to the higher-ups, the Ma Lu gang would not have the guts to shout. Heading to Alaska with the "rise and fall of the empire".

In addition to thoughtfully informing Yoshio Nishina of two areas that may contain large amounts of oil resources, he also took the opportunity to give some more advice in the tone of a physics senior.

"Mr. PeopleSoft, I believe that if a country wants to develop, it must not only increase revenue on energy issues, but more importantly, reduce expenditure.

“Even if a large amount of energy resources can be obtained, if a large amount of waste is produced elsewhere, the gain will not be worth the loss.

“What can save a lot of unnecessary losses in energy, especially electric transportation, depends on the development of superconducting technology.

"My country's national strength is weak, and its scientific and technological level is even more inadequate. It is very difficult for me to achieve results in superconductivity, an experimental physics that requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Last time, I discovered the superconducting critical temperature of niobium. It was an accident.

"People who are not of my race must have different minds. Both China and the United States have suffered from Europe and the United States in modern times. White people must not have close friendship. I have a plan, but I don't know if it can be implemented: from now on, I will attract the attention of white people in the open. , hoping that they will be attracted by the useless quantum mechanics; and please Mr. Nishina and your compatriots, please work hard on the superconducting issue, strive to overcome this difficulty as soon as possible, and benefit the people of China and the two countries.

"Regarding the issue of superconductivity, I recently came up with a new and immature idea. It is quite difficult to find a higher superconducting critical temperature than niobium among the currently known element elements, especially metal elements. Mr. Nishina said in thallium Two or three years were spent on the elements, but little progress was made.

"In this case, can we expand the scope of searching for critical temperatures, no longer limited to single substances, but can we study their various compounds? For example, oxides, nitrides, sulfides, halides, etc., maybe There will be new gains.”

What does it mean to not forget your original intention?
This is called not forgetting your original intention!

The original intention of Yoshio Nishina in writing this letter to Chen Muwu was to use the excuse of tipping off the information to find out whether Chen Muwu had really made achievements in the field of oil exploration, or whether he wanted to use his own He used his fame to get some money out of oil tycoons.

If Chen Muwu can really point out a few places around Japan that contain oil, then this letter will be an unexpected surprise.

Chen Muwu knew what kind of answer Yoshio Nishina wanted, but even so, he was able to force the topic to superconductivity.

The deceiver must end from the beginning, and this time he also spent a lot of money on the letter, which really gave Yoshio Nishina a big gift.

Finding materials with a higher superconducting critical temperature than niobium metal in various compounds is much easier than searching for oil in Kamchatka and Alaska.

Chen Muwu mentioned niobium and thallium, as well as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and halogens.

The scope of the painting was already so small, he just had to photograph the answer directly on Nishina Yoshio's face.

Even if metal ions have different valencies and there are more than one types of compounds, as long as Yoshio Nishina is willing and can understand what Chen Muwu means, it will not be difficult for him to find niobium nitride that produces a superconducting phase transition at 15 Kelvin. This is In the original time and space, the highest superconducting critical temperature was discovered in 1941 and remained there until 1953, until scientists discovered vanadium trisilicon with a connection temperature of 17.1 Kelvin.

Not to mention the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory of Leiden University, and whether Tokyo Imperial University or Kyoto Imperial University in China have the ability and conditions to produce these compounds after returning to China.

Even if Yoshio Nishina had divine help, he would suddenly explode and not only discover niobium nitride with a superconducting critical temperature of 15K and vanadium trisilicon at 17.1K, but also further discover niobium trialuminum at 18.8K and niobium trisilicate at 20.3K. Gallium, even the niobium-trigermanium film of 1973K that maintained the highest superconducting critical temperature for 1986 years from 13 to 23.2, that doesn't matter.

The route is wrong and the higher the temperature, the less useful it is.

The temperature of 23 Kelvin seems very high, but when converted to a Celsius temperature scale, it is still about minus 250 degrees, which is only two degrees higher than liquid hydrogen at minus 250 degrees.

The superconducting properties of niobium and germanium can only exist in a laboratory environment and will never be commercially available on a large scale.

The cost of producing liquid hydrogen is more than the price equivalent to the energy loss saved. What is the significance of using this kind of superconducting in commercial power transmission projects?
Unless the big financier behind this project is Wang Duoyu.

The current holder of the highest critical temperature of superconducting materials is still niobium discovered by Chen Muwu in the David Faraday Laboratory.

If Yoshio Nishina really has the intention to read the hints written by Chen Muwu in the letter like Sun Wukong who studied with the Bodhi Patriarch, then he can at least discover niobium nitride that surpasses niobium.

The superconducting critical temperature of niobium nitride is 15K, which is far ahead of that of niobium below 10K.

If I surpass Chen Muwu, who is number one in the world, wouldn’t I become number one in the world?
Maybe this will give Yoshio Nishina great self-confidence, allowing him to continue on the path of researching superconductivity without being disturbed by the outside world, especially the booming development of quantum mechanics, which Chen Muwu calls "an eye-opener." .

Shortly after sending the reply to Leiden in the Netherlands, Chen Muwu finally received Pauli's reply from Berlin.As he thought, Pauli really made a fool of himself by endorsing a geological hypothesis that was at first glance false.

"Shishuo Xinyu·Guizhen" records an incident. Wang Yan, a famous scholar in the Jin Dynasty, was afraid of his wife. His wife was a cousin to Jia Nanfeng, the queen of the fool emperor Sima Zhong, and he did all kinds of mischief.

His wife was very afraid of Li Yang, a fellow countryman who was known as the Hero of Kyoto, so every time Wang Yan tried to persuade his wife, he would say, "Not only can I speak to you, but Li Yang can also speak to you." Only then would his wife restrain herself.

Wang Yan was afraid of his wife, and Pauli was afraid of Chen Muwu—even though the latter pair were not husband and wife.

Pauli was also afraid that his ridicule would arouse Chen Muwu's resentment and resentment, so he unintentionally cosplayed Wang Yan and found his own Li Yang and Einstein.

Pauli wrote in the letter that not only did he not support the continental drift hypothesis that Chen Muwu vigorously promoted, but he also specifically consulted Professor Einstein, who also did not support continental drift.

He advised Chen Muwu to be cautious. If you know something, you know it, and if you don’t know it, you don’t know it. If you rush to comment on aspects that you are not familiar with, it is likely to cause backlash and affect the image of the entire physics community.

Chen Muwu had heard about Einstein's opposition to continental drift.

Even though later geologists have proposed that the driving force for continental drift is the energy released by nuclear reactions inside the earth, and this energy is based on Einstein's mass-energy equation, he himself still thinks it is extremely absurd.

However, it was already the 50s, and the aging Einstein had become increasingly conservative. It is understandable that he made such an evaluation of a hypothesis that was still unclear.

Chen Muwu didn't know how Pauli hired such a rescuer and moved Einstein out just to make him laugh at him and find a righteous partner.

It didn't matter, anyway, before he wrote to Pauli, he had expected this result.

The top priority is to contact Wegener as soon as possible, express his support for continental drift, and ask him to come to Cambridge University to meet with him if he has time to talk about academic and life matters.

Chen Muwu had a hunch that he might go on a long trip, maybe even travel around the world.

As long as a big oil company pays him to provide the location information of oil wells, he will definitely not be able to strategize. He will have to go to the field to pretend to "inspect" it, so that he can feel at ease with the money.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to inspect the oil fields, we can also check out the branches of uranium mines.

If large-scale, high-purity uranium deposits could be "accidentally" discovered in Australia, it would give the navy's red deer a new excuse to go south in addition to the large oil fields in the Dutch East Indies.

No matter how much he supports continental drift, Chen Muwu can only be regarded as a layman in geology after all, and he must always bring an experienced old man with him.

Another meaning of writing to Wegener is that instead of going to the boring ice-covered Greenland to investigate and eventually die there, it would be better to go with Chen Muwu to ride camels in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, or go to the Dutch East. Take a look at the beautiful Solo River in India.

But the problem came again. Chen Muwu never thought that Shell's general manager Deterding would place a free advertisement for himself in the newspaper.

Although Shell thinks that Chen Muwu's claim that he can find oil is unrealistic and fanciful, it does not mean that the other six of the seven oil sisters think so too!

But why didn't the other six oil companies get in touch with him quickly?

He has given up hope on Anglo-Persian Petroleum Company, another large British oil company, because the people behind this company hate himself even more than Shell's general manager Deterding.

Before World War I, before and after Churchill became Lord of the Admiralty, what the Royal Navy had been doing was switching from coal to oil, changing the power source on warships from coal-burning steam boilers to oil-burning steam boilers.

Cars have been developing rapidly, and warships are competing with cars for oil, causing the price of almost all petroleum products to rise.

This made Churchill realize that the Royal Navy could not compete with civilians for oil and must have its own supply channels, and the world's oil market had long been divided up by Standard Company of the United States and Shell of the Netherlands.

The military is absolutely not allowed to do business with these capitals, otherwise it is likely to be choked under unexpected circumstances.

Churchill initiated a proposal in the House of Commons requiring the British government to acquire more than half of the shares of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and turn it into a state-owned company.

Churchill hated Chen Muwu no less than Deterding did, and he was even less likely to agree to let the Anglo-Persian Oil Company cooperate with Chen Muwu to find oil.

That leaves only a few oil giants in the United States, but at this time, they are also not very interested in looking for oil overseas.

The United States itself is a resource-based country with quite abundant oil reserves, enough to be self-sufficient domestically.

In today's 20s, the annual crude oil production of the United States accounts for an astonishing more than 70.00% of the world's total production.

With such a high proportion, coupled with the abundant domestic reserves, only a fool would bother to go overseas to find new oil resources.

Even if someone else finds oil and makes people covet it, the worst case scenario is to hold high the banner of openness and allow the other party equal opportunities.

There is no need to work hard and just wait to pick the peaches. This is the usual practice of American oil companies today.

So the situation became awkward. Now no oil company came to Chen Muwu's side, as if he and the oil horoscope were not compatible.

Instead, Cockcroft came over and said that the experiment of bombarding a lithium target with hydrogen atoms seemed to be successful.

　Sorry, I recommended one yesterday, and I have to recommend another one today.

　　Today’s guy is not as high-ranking as yesterday’s guy. He claims to be the No. 1 foreign history writer after Hai Yueju, and says that the new book is definitely a masterpiece of foreign history (although the previous one was just as good as Qianjun, but fortunately the quality is good) ).

　　Those who are interested can go and take a look, and those who are not interested can also criticize.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)