The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

The leader said to Zhang Zhipeng: "Comrade Zhipeng, your achievement came at a very timely moment!"

"As you know, the World Climate Conference will be held in Geneva soon."

"By then, countries around the world will sign carbon emission reduction and carbon neutrality agreements."

"With your achievement, we will have the strength to compete with the Lizards in the field of environmental protection!"

Zhang Zhipeng said: "Leader, I think we must adhere to one principle at this meeting, that is, to calculate the country's carbon emissions on a per capita basis!"

"Instead of being led by the lizards by the nose, let them allocate the carbon emission share!"

The leader said: "This is our principle!"

"We definitely can't give in!"

"At this time, the lizard party still wants to reap the benefits of environmental protection. How can such a good thing be possible?"

After speaking with his superiors, Zhang Zhipeng issued a series of instructions, requiring the acceleration of the construction of Huaxing's photovoltaic factory, striving to start mass production in no more than half a year.

In addition, there are sinister people with ulterior motives who are constantly leading the pace and trying to muddy the waters in order to promote the lizard's carbon emission allocation share.

Zhang Zhipeng once again ordered the management of Weibo and Twitter to eliminate those water army accounts that try to influence public opinion. In fact, this is very easy to do.

Today, as the lizard tribe is gradually declining, their remote breeding industry is becoming more and more prosperous.

Certain forces have begun to invest heavily in manipulating public opinion.

This also made a large number of Ergouzi active.

However, overall, these are just like ants trying to shake a tree and are not enough to have much impact.

……

A few days later, the World Climate Conference was held in Geneva.

At the meeting, the Lizard side tried to continue to promote global environmental protection policies in accordance with their principles.

The main thing is to implement carbon emission quotas for countries around the world. If a country uses up its quota, it will have to pay to purchase it from other countries.

In addition, countries around the world are required to provide a timetable for reaching carbon peak and carbon neutrality.

If the target is not achieved, there will be heavy penalties.

Moreover, the Lizards still want to continue negotiating according to their carbon quotas.

In the carbon quota ratio they proposed, more than 10 countries with a population of billion will account for percent of the quota.

The remaining five billion plus account for 47 percent.

Moreover, Amei's family will account for 20 percent.

The most ironic thing is that Lao Mei’s annual carbon emissions now account for more than 14 percent of the world’s total.

In other words, they have to take at least more than 5% of the vacancy.

This distribution is naturally unfair.

Of course we have to fight for our rights.

The carbon quota we proposed requires that it be evenly distributed according to the population of each country.

You get as many quotas as your population.

In this way, developing countries will naturally benefit.

The lizard side will lose its dominance in environmental protection.

Lizard was unwilling to disagree.

China and other southern countries will never give in.

The meeting was noisy for several days, but ultimately no consensus was reached.

After all, this is a question of a country's right to development.

If you have little carbon quota, your development space will basically be locked.

If your emissions exceed the limit, you will have to pay carbon tax, which may even be more than the profits earned from industry.

How do you let others live?
In short, after all the arguments over carbon quotas, no results were achieved in the end.

In the end, the Lizard Party changed its strategy and proposed that all countries in the world give their own carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets.

They set an example, and each of them claimed that they would achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in 30 years.

They asked other countries to follow suit.

The goal of doing so is still to suppress the industrialization of other economies in the name of environmental protection, thereby locking down the industrialization process in other parts of the world.

Only in this way can they always occupy the upper level of the industrial chain and reap the whole world with the scissors gap.

China was asked to also give its own carbon neutrality target.

The Chinese representative immediately stated: We are a developing country, so our carbon peak target and carbon neutrality target will be postponed by ten years than yours.

After hearing this statement, the representatives of the Lizard Party were secretly delighted.

Because they feel that China's industrial scale is too large now, and it will be very difficult to reduce emissions and achieve the carbon peak target.

This is a trap.

The main target of this trap is Lao Zhong.

Now, Lao Zhong has fallen into the trap.

The Lizard media was jubilant.

They are all reporting the news.

At the same time, various commentators are analyzing that China will restrict the development of its domestic industry in order to achieve its emission reduction goals in the next few years.

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However, immediately after the World Climate Conference ended, China also released a big news: China has developed a new photovoltaic cell, the efficiency of which will reach more than 29%.

At the same time, the cost of photovoltaic power generation will be greatly reduced to only 0.18 yuan per kilowatt-hour!
This cost is already lower than coal-fired power.

When this news came out, it immediately shocked the whole world.

The entire photovoltaic industry was shocked.

Because, to date, the highest efficiency of Xifang photovoltaic cells is only about 19%.

Nowadays, China's photovoltaic cells can actually increase the conversion rate to 29%, which is terrifying.

This is enough to crush the photovoltaic industry!
They want to discredit and slander this as fake news.

However, based on past experience and lessons, the news released by China is basically true.

Since this major breakthrough in photovoltaic cells was solemnly reported by major media, it must be true.

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After developing a new type of top-C photovoltaic cell, Zhang Zhipeng turned his attention to the field of ultra-high voltage power transmission.

As we all know, there will be huge losses in the process of electricity transmission.

Generally, the loss of high-voltage power transmission is between 5% and 10%.

As for the current power transmission losses in China, they are basically around 10%.

This waste of electricity is staggering.

But the current situation in China is: electricity is abundant in the west, but scarce in the east.

This requires long-distance power adjustment.

Long-distance electricity transmission results in huge waste, and this situation must be changed.

Zhang Zhipeng had seen a document in his previous life that said China's ultra-high voltage transmission technology has a line damage rate of only about 1.5 percent.

This loss is five or six times lower than in the past.

The electricity saved is considerable.

Therefore, this ultra-high voltage transmission technology must be developed.

Zhang Zhipeng contacted the power department.

Today, the power sector is concentrating its technical personnel to tackle the key issues in ultra-high voltage transmission technology.

But progress is not too fast.

This is mainly because the difficulty of this technology is still relatively large.

The primary difficulty is the research and development of related supporting power electronic devices.

This device is mainly used for the conversion and control of high-power electrical energy.

Therefore, it is also called a current converter.

Because the DC power of ultra-high voltage transmission is very large and the current stability requirements are extremely high, electronic power devices will have a significant impact on the stability and economy of power transmission.

It can be said that high-signal, low-noise, high-quality power electronic devices are the core of UHV transmission technology.

After the power electronics device is solved, another key point is the construction of transmission lines.

The diameter of the UHV transmission line cable is generally more than 10 cm, and the diameter of the conductor is about 4 cm. It needs to be supported by a supporting iron tower. Moreover, such cables are difficult to manufacture. The problems of electric shock and arc must also be solved. This is a problem of control and protection.

The maintenance and upkeep of such UHV lines is also extremely difficult.

The last step is to solve the design and development of supporting equipment.

These devices include control, monitoring, etc. Because it is UHV, the quality and safety requirements of each supporting equipment are very high, and the technical level of manufacturing and calibration is extremely high.

Zhang Zhipeng gained an in-depth understanding of the achievements of the current ultra-high voltage power technology research team in the power sector.

Of course, in the process of learning more, his own abilities in UHV technology are also improving rapidly.

Three days later, he had improved his abilities to the level of a top expert in electrical research.

After improving his level, he discovered some problems in the current research of the UHV research team.

These problems focus on insulation materials, transmission line materials and UHV converter transformers.

Because the voltage of ultra-high voltage lines is too high, the required insulating materials are also extremely important!
Only when the insulation materials are in place can the safe and stable operation of UHV lines be ensured.

There is actually no shortcut to solving these problems. You just need to try and experiment more according to possible theoretical directions.

Zhang Zhipeng joined the UHV research team, and the role he wanted to play was to provide guidance.

For example, in the development of insulating materials, Zhang Zhipeng proposed technical routes such as gas insulation, oil-paper insulation, silicone rubber and zirconia ceramics through research and analysis.

Gas insulation is characterized by low dielectric constant and dielectric loss, making it an ideal insulating material.

Oil-paper insulation has a long history of use.

Oil-paper insulation is made of paper as the base material and is formed by impregnating it with insulating oil.

Oil-paper insulation has good dielectric strength and relative reliability, and it is also very economical. But its disadvantages are also obvious, it is very susceptible to moisture and is not very environmentally friendly.

Of course, different equipment actually requires the use of more suitable insulating materials.

Zhang Zhipeng proposed a more reasonable technology research and development route, and the entire research team took action.

Everyone had their own division of labor, and all insulation technology routes were tested and studied one by one.

Zhang Zhipeng naturally had to participate in it and put forward his suggestions at the appropriate time.

Just like that, the research on UHV insulation materials achieved a major breakthrough in just over 20 days:
UHV substations use SF6 gas-insulated metal-enclosed switchgear devices, which can achieve the maximum insulation safety level, which is far higher than the level of other developed countries in the world.

The insulation of the line adopts a technical route that combines silicone rubber insulating material and zirconia ceramics.

After testing, these two insulating materials have extremely high dielectric strength and can withstand ultra-high voltage for a long time. They also have very good heat resistance, arc resistance, humidity resistance and UV resistance.

After the insulating materials were finalized, the design and development of electronic power devices also became smoother.

By June 2001, construction of China's ultra-high voltage transmission experimental line had begun.

At the same time, large-scale photovoltaic cell production plants built in blue states have also begun to enter the mass production stage.

For products such as photovoltaic cells, the performance data shown in the laboratory will often drop significantly when it comes to mass production.

After all, laboratory products can be produced at any cost and strive to maximize performance.

But when it comes to the stage of mass production in the factory, we have to consider factors such as production costs and market prices.

It is necessary to reduce costs to the most reasonable range while ensuring most of the performance, enough to guarantee appropriate profits.

Generally speaking, in the laboratory, the conversion rate of photovoltaic cells can reach more than 29%. When it comes to mass production, a conversion rate of 25% is considered very good.

However, because the TOP-C developed by Zhang Zhipeng and his team has already figured out a mass production process in the laboratory, and is already very close to the mass production standards, the conversion rate of the TOP-C photovoltaic cells that have entered the mass production stage can still be guaranteed to be above 27%.

This is very powerful.

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Zhang Zhipeng did not spend too much time on photovoltaics and ultra-high voltage transmission.

In fact, he started to work on manned space flight in mid-May 2001.

It’s not that manned space flight is more important.

This is because both photovoltaic cells and ultra-high voltage transmission have very strong scientific research teams.

Zhang Zhipeng only needs to provide some key guidance and instructions to often help these research teams achieve breakthroughs.

Of course, manned space flight is not inseparable from Zhang Zhipeng, but it is the face of the Republic.

There are still many things to be done in the aerospace industry, including building a space station, exploring Mars, manned moon landing, and establishing a lunar base. These are all a series of tasks.

The leader believes that the aerospace industry still needs Zhang Zhipeng's more attention.

We must ensure that manned space flight can be foolproof and truly successful.

There was no other choice but Zhang Zhipeng to keep a close eye on this area of ​​work.

To achieve manned space flight, there is so much work to be done. All aspects must be taken into consideration, as well as all unexpected situations and emergencies, and plans must be made.

Therefore, this really requires caution.

All the equipment that had been designed long ago had to be tested over and over again.

If a problem arises, it is solved immediately.

At the same time, astronaut Yang Liwei, who is preparing to fly into space for the first time, is also stepping up his training.

He also needs to become more familiar with various harsh scenarios that may be encountered in space.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Although China's manned space program has long been announced.

However, the detailed plan has never been announced, and no information on the preparations has been released to the public.

The Chinese people are not ostentatious by nature and usually do things first and then talk about them.

For this manned space flight, being able to release the plan in advance is already the most high-profile performance.

Of course, this will also bring some external pressure to this manned space flight.

You have announced the plan and it will be implemented in September or October this year, so the outside world will definitely pay attention to it.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is already early August.

At this time, all preparations for manned space flight have been completed.

Moreover, it has been rehearsed dozens of times.

The conditions for implementing manned space flight are already very good.

Of course, even so, we can't relax.

Zhang Zhipeng gave a report to his leader.

The leader asked, "Comrade Zhipeng, what do you think?"

"Now the world knows that we will carry out our first manned space launch in September or October."

"It is expected that by September, there will be a lot of international media paying attention to this matter."

As soon as Zhang Zhipeng heard what his leader meant, he understood that the leader hoped to implement manned space flight ahead of schedule.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "My idea is that we can implement the first manned space flight ahead of schedule on a good day in August."

Since the leader has this intention, Zhang Zhipeng thought, I might as well just say it directly.

The leader's voice became noticeably louder as he said, "If Comrade Zhipeng thinks it's okay to fly ahead of time, then I have no objection!"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said, "Leader, you trust me too much. This puts a lot of pressure on me."

"But even with the pressure, I still insist that all the conditions for manned space flight are now in place!"

The leader laughed and said, "Because too many things in the past have proven that it's right to listen to you!"

"Comrade Zhipeng, keep going! As long as this manned space flight is successful, we will have ushered in a new era. Next, we can gradually implement the goal of building a space station."

After finishing the phone call with his superior, Zhang Zhipeng immediately held a meeting with Chen Kainan and other leaders of the Aerospace Science and Technology Company.

The meeting was simple, and it was just to set the plan to launch the first manned spacecraft in August.

No one raised any objection at the meeting.

With the assistance of the meteorological department, everyone finally decided to set the launch time of the first manned spacecraft in the evening of August 8.

Of course, this is not certain and needs to be adjusted flexibly according to the weather conditions of the day.

But the weather on August 8 was generally quite good, with clear skies and almost no clouds in the sky. Also, the wind was light.

With the assistance of advanced meteorological satellites, the accuracy of weather forecasts in China has been greatly improved.

It is even possible to accurately forecast weather conditions over a longer period of time.

After the plan was finalized, all units became busy.

The rocket is prepared for transport in sections to the launch site, where final assembly will take place.

The manned spacecraft must also complete final testing and then be transported to the launch site.

Astronaut Yang Liwei was delighted to hear that the first manned spacecraft launch would be brought forward to mid-August. (End of this chapter)