Chapter 400 99.41%
July 24th.
Li Qingye left the Luzon Islands and came to a manor on the Shan Plateau to escape the summer heat.
Sanjibada Leyal came over with a portion of matcha ice cream, “Sir, lunch time is almost here.”
Li Qingye, who was concentrating on reading the internal briefing, still looked at his laptop: "What do you want to eat?"
“Cantonese roast goose, deep-fried mealworms, fried bitter melon with eggs, stir-fried celery with cashews and shrimp, creamy mushroom pasta, chicken mushroom and stewed golden ham…”
“There is also passion fruit juice, soda water and wax apples,” Sanjibada Leyal added.
"Thanks a lot."
"It's my pleasure." Sanjibada Layal's cheeks flushed slightly.
After a while.
Li Qingye finished his morning work.
The food has been set on the dining table.
Sangjibada Layal turned on the TV again and played the rock climbing competition on the sports channel . She knew that Li Qingye didn't like watching entertainment programs and his daily entertainment programs were sports and chess.
Just after taking a few bites, I heard light footsteps outside the restaurant.
Sanjibada Layal's face suddenly showed a trace of displeasure, and he cursed in his heart: "Who is this bastard again? He comes here every day when the master is eating!"
The next second, a middle-aged man with a rough face appeared at the door of the restaurant.
"gentlemen."
"Baguila, please sit down! Is there anything else you want to report?" Li Qingye said as he picked up some food. He had become accustomed to this kind of life.
Bagheira, who was sitting on a wooden chair at the side, quickly and concisely reported some relatively confidential internal and external intelligence.
"Just three hours ago, with the mediation of America, India and Pakistan reached an agreement on the Kashmir issue."
Li Qingye paused for a moment, then smiled and shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not just America who's behind this, right?"
"Sir, you are very smart. Other powerful countries have also made a lot of efforts in secret." Bagheira nodded.
“It’s something that’s expected.”
"The second thing is that the Kiev war is also being discussed in secret, and the location of the secret talks is Hamburg."
Li Qingye was not surprised at all and continued to pick up a piece of roast goose and put it into his mouth.
"The third thing is that the Europa Union, the Kingdom of Judah, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have reached an agreement to complete the laying of the West Asian land oil pipeline within the next three years."
"No. ..."
Bagheira summarized more than a dozen important pieces of international intelligence and reported them to Li Qingye one by one.
After reporting on international intelligence, he turned to the company's internal intelligence.
“The West Pacific branch has initially completed integration and is set up in the east of East Irian Island, where the branch headquarters is located.”
"The Suez branch's sea rice planting area has reached 2.74 million hectares, and is currently expanding at a rate of 300,000 to 400,000 hectares per month. It is expected to reach 5 million hectares by the end of this year."
"The 23 leased ports of Ceylon Ocean Shipping Group along the African coast have been modernized and it is planned to complete the laying of submarine optical cables around Africa by June next year."
Li Qingye put down his chopsticks and said, "We should also pay attention to the submarine optical cables in South America."
Bagheira nodded quickly and said, "I understand. When I return, I will ask the Communications Division to focus on laying submarine optical cables in South America."
Then he continued to report: "As of July 24, the total number of new human employees in the company has reached 371,458,803, and the number of natural person employees is 612,337,520."
“Has that already been achieved?”
"Since our employees are relatively young overall, with young and middle-aged people accounting for about 68%, minors accounting for 19%, and people over 60 years old accounting for only 13%, there is still potential for the proportion of new human employees to continue to expand."
Li Qingye knew this very well.
Now at the Southeast Asia headquarters of Sapiens, the proportion of new human employees is very high.
The regional branches where the proportion of new human employees is relatively low are the recently established Dongba Branch, Suez Branch and Mada Island Branch.
In addition, natural person employees who have just immigrated also need a certain amount of time to make the transition.
Bagheira also shared some other inside information.
These include the Space Business Unit’s La Project, Dandelion Project, and the Homo sapiens Space Station to be built in the near future.
There are also gamma-ray turrets and gamma-ray armed satellites that were jointly developed by the External Security Division and the Science Division, and experimental models have also been launched.
"…Recently, the 8092 Laboratory under the Science Division discovered a completely new material while testing the gamma-ray lightning generation model."
Li Qingye immediately showed some interest: "New materials?"
"It's a special lead-tungsten-gold alloy."
"Jasmine, help me retrieve the internal papers of the 8092 laboratory."
Sanjibada Leyal nodded, “Yes, sir.”
Since Bagheira had to report to him personally, this new material must have extraordinary properties.
Soon Sanjibada Layal pulled up the paper catalog of the 8092 Laboratory, and Li Qingye first took a quick look at the paper overview.
After reading the paper summary, he knew why Bagheira would report this matter specifically.
This lead-tungsten-gold alloy material has very high strength and hardness, but this is not the point. After all, Homo sapiens have materials with better strength and hardness inside their bodies.
The key point is the thermoelectric conversion properties of this material, with a thermoelectric conversion efficiency of an astonishing 82%.
This conversion efficiency has completely broken through the current thermal efficiency limit of human power generation.
You should know that the best heat engine currently available to mankind is Siemens' supercritical gas turbine, which has a maximum thermal efficiency of 61%.
The thermal efficiency of a heat engine can theoretically reach 70%, but theoretical figures are often difficult to achieve.
"Lightning pseudocrystal?" Li Qingye carefully read the paper of the 8092 laboratory and finally revealed the true nature of this material.
The so-called quasicrystal is actually a special material between crystals and amorphous solids. This material is very rare in nature.
It can often only be synthesized through high temperature, high pressure and certain specific conditions. Its harsh production conditions are somewhat similar to those of submetallic hydrogen.
However, when he saw the proportion of the materials, he frowned.
Lead 52.3%, tungsten 26.2%, gold 21.5%.
In this element ratio, lead and tungsten are not a big problem, but the key is the 21.5% of gold.
He continued reading and it was obvious that Laboratory 8092 also knew that gold as a raw material would cause costs to soar, so they tried to use other cheaper elements to replace gold.
However, in 1,274 substitution and reduction experiments, no element could perfectly replace gold.
For every 1% decrease in the gold specific gravity, the thermoelectric conversion efficiency decreases by 8% to 12%.
Once the gold content falls below 15.4%, the material's thermoelectric conversion efficiency will drop below 5%.
This means that gold is basically an indispensable part of the material.
Li Qingye fell into deep thought.
The thermal efficiency is 82%. After the three layers are compounded, the thermal efficiency can reach 99.41%. The temptation of this thermal efficiency is too great.
But that 21.5% gold in the material is also very expensive indeed.
The pros and cons of this must be considered carefully. Li Qingye now understood Bagheira's thoughts.
It was obvious that the Science Division knew that it could not make the decision, so it entrusted Bagheira to report the matter to him.
If it was other precious metals, Li Qingye could approve it without hesitation, but the situation of gold was special.
After all, gold is the most direct collateral for the gold and silver. If too much of it is withdrawn at once, it will cause instability in the gold and silver.
Whether it is worthwhile to readjust the monetary system for a new material can only be decided by Li Qingye.
He thought for a while and gave a few instructions to Sanjibada Layal.
Then we had lunch in no time.
