Warship of Great Power

Hybrid is a huge market.

Although Jin Taiyang makes pure electric cars, Qin Tao also knows that pure electric cars have many problems. At present, their main sales areas are in the south, and they are rarely sold in the north. In the winter in the north, the power consumption is halved. Isn't that a scam?

Even if the country is strongly supporting the development of pure electric cars, Qin Tao also knows that the most suitable scenario for pure electric cars is urban transportation. Moreover, he has a fixed parking space and charging piles downstairs. He charges at night and uses it during the day. This is great.

He can't brag about how great his pure electric car is just because he has a pure electric car. He can even go to the northwest of the motherland for a trip, and he has to have a large power bank next to him.

Although there is a future city project, he doesn't know how long this wireless power supply will be practical. It's even more distant to dig up all the roads in the country to bury power supply devices.

And in this transformation process, there will be a huge market for hybrid power.

Usually, electricity is used in the city, and oil is used when going out on the highway. Especially on holidays, if you want to queue up on the highway to charge, you don't know how long you have to wait.

In the past, Qin Tao had never thought about hybrids. After all, there are so many car companies in China. He is a shipbuilder and cannot take away their jobs. But now, since Mr. Mao has worked hard to come to him and tried to set a trap for him, he has to cooperate.

Hearing Qin Tao's words, Mr. Mao was happy at first, and then frowned: "Mr. Qin, all car companies are stubborn and don't like to use external technology for fear of being controlled by other manufacturers. If you want to provide supporting services for various car companies, they may resist."

Every car company that has emerged from the market has backbone. They will try their best to take their destiny into their own hands to avoid being manipulated by others.

In the field of gearboxes, this is the case.

Manual transmissions can be made, but automatic transmissions cannot. They can only be purchased from a few suppliers in the world. Germany's ZF is easy to say, only making gearboxes but not cars, but Aisin is different. They are under Toyota.

Many car companies purchase their gearboxes, but if they sell too much and threaten Toyota's sales, they will be cut off from the supply of gearboxes.

Not to mention domestic car companies, even the famous giant Volkswagen has been played by Toyota in this way. Later, Volkswagen developed the Dashadan gearbox, just to control its own destiny, and Eastern car companies have also switched to the Dashadan camp.

Although Mingzhou Group is Dongfang's own enterprise, car companies will still resist. What if the lifeline is controlled by Mingzhou Group?

Qin Tao smiled: "It's best if they cooperate with us. If they don't cooperate, we can also acquire a bankrupt car factory and then build hybrid cars ourselves. They should know that only cooperation can achieve a win-win situation."

The most important thing in the field of car manufacturing is the birth permit. Many car companies have failed on this. Jin Taiyang Automobile has a birth permit, which was also obtained by acquiring a bankrupt car factory. Now the worst case is to acquire another one to specialize in hybrids.

"Boss Qin is really bold." Boss Mao nodded: "I admire you, I admire you!"

"I will say hello to Ma Gong and ask him to set up a department to study hybrid technology." Qin Tao said: "You can also send people to participate and build a hybrid system suitable for the army as soon as possible."

"Well, okay."

In the future, military vehicles did start the reform of hybrid. The American Stryker armored vehicles planned to install hybrid, which was also the experience summed up in several wars.

As for Dongfang, it has already started the layout and research. If a multi-axis missile launcher is a behemoth, it will be very complicated and difficult to control if it uses a drive shaft. It is much simpler to drive all the wheels with electric motors. Hybrid power is the best choice.

Now, Mingzhou Group has grown and can help.

The electric drive solution of warships can also be transplanted to land. Although it is a bit troublesome, since there is a need, just help.

Boss Mao was sent to the car by Qin Tao and waved goodbye.

"Boss Qin, is our Mingzhou Group going to move into ground weapons?" Xu Zhengyang said, "If there is such a plan, we will come up with a specific plan as soon as possible."

"Don't worry for now." Qin Tao said with a smile, "This technical research will take three to five years. Wait until it is developed and equipped to the army. By the way, what's going on in the group recently?"

"Nothing big, the warships are still in production, and as for civilian ships, the dredgers we produced for relevant departments are about to be launched."

"Oh, this is an important project, let's go and take a look."

As a large number of warship construction tasks are transferred to the Qiongzhou Shipyard, the shipyard of the Mingzhou Group headquarters has mainly built foreign trade warships and some civilian ships. The dredger business is not often accepted, but once it is accepted, it is a big business.

For example, the dredger to be built this time has once again created a miracle.

The length is 155 meters, the width is 32 meters, the depth is 13.5 meters, and the full load draft is 9.9 meters. These data represent its huge size.

As for its digging ability, it is quite powerful, with a maximum digging depth of 36 meters, and can cope with various seabed environments with ease. When using pipelines, the excavated materials can be discharged up to 15 kilometers away!

With Dongfang's strength, these can be easily done, and this dredger has another significant feature compared to previous models: it uses a dual-fuel engine.

Yang Dawei was standing on the slipway, communicating with the shipowner's representatives. When Qin Tao walked over, he heard their discussion.

"This is the largest dredger in the world, and it is also the pride of our East. Of course, it is also our contribution to world environmental protection. The biggest feature of this dredger is that it uses LNG and diesel dual-fuel engines. Under normal circumstances Next, we mainly use LNG, which is more environmentally friendly.”

Natural gas vehicles have begun to become popular on road transport vehicles. After all, the exhaust emissions of these vehicles are cleaner and can protect the environment. At sea, the emissions of various ships are also constantly increasing, and the backward engines in the past are gradually being eliminated. Natural gas is starting to go mainstream.

Mingzhou Group also has strong technical reserves when it comes to natural gas engines. After all, one of their most important civilian ships is a liquefied natural gas ship. During the transportation process, such ships will constantly leak natural gas. It would be wasteful to emit natural gas directly into the air, so it could simply go into the engine and be burned.

Under this plan, the Mingzhou Group's liquefied gas carriers had dual-fuel engines, and now they are installed on the ships in front of them, and they are even more convenient.

"Mr. Qin, are you here?" At this time, Yang Dawei saw Qin Tao coming and immediately greeted him.

"Well, let me take a look. Is our ship going to be launched soon?"

"Yes." Yang Dawei said: "This Xinhai was customized by a certain unit in our country, and this Wang Bureau is the leader of that unit."

Director Wang is a short, fat man in his fifties, with a smile on his face: "Mr. Qin, on behalf of our unit, I would like to thank you Mingzhou Group. Your original slipway construction period has been scheduled to three years later. After learning that we are anxious After using it, they found a way to free up a slipway for us and started construction quickly. Thank you very much!”

"It should be." Qin Tao estimated that it should be the time when the construction task was transferred to Qiongzhou, so it was just a coincidence at that time.

"The title of the world's No. 1 dredger will be given to this dredger from now on." Qin Tao said with emotion.

At that time, Mingzhou Group built a large dredger, with a total length of only 127.5 meters, a width of 22 meters, and a draft of 6 meters. Compared with the ship in front of you, it was completely like a little brother.

That ship can dig up to thirty meters deep, and its maximum mud discharge distance is only six kilometers. These data are incomparable to what is in front of you. Over the years, with the rapid development of various domestic technologies, the strength of the dredger has also become more and more powerful. The bigger.

"This first is only temporary. In the future, we will definitely be able to manufacture larger dredgers in China." Wang Ju said: "It will definitely be nuclear-powered."

Even if the LNG dredger is the world's most advanced model, it still needs to use fuel. Only nuclear power can achieve unlimited endurance and continue to work day and night.

Mingzhou Group has rich experience in building nuclear-powered ships, including nuclear submarines, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, civilian ships, nuclear-powered icebreakers, floating nuclear power plants, etc. This dredger can naturally be nuclear-powered.

"Nuclear power? Yes, it might even be nuclear fusion power." Qin Tao said with a smile.

"Yes, Mr. Qin, you are right." Wang Ju agreed with a smile.

"By the way, what channel are you planning to dredge with the dredger you ordered?"

"Due to the accumulation of sediment in the sea area over Xiamen, the river is in urgent need of dredging. The dredger we ordered is intended to dredge the nearby sea area."

Qin Tao's eyes suddenly lit up: "Okay, it's time to dredge it up. The channel over there must be at least twenty meters deep."

Is this a coincidence, or did the superiors do this intentionally? Qin Tao doesn't need to ask any more questions. It's enough to know that as our strength increases, a certain task will slowly begin to pave the way.

"Yes, our next door is the 14th largest port in the world, with an annual throughput of tens of millions of standard containers. The port is extremely busy, but the channel is narrow, making it inconvenient to develop trade, so we have to start dredging the channel. Our existing dredgers It’s not enough, we have to build a new one.”

When the waterway is dredged, the previous dredgers will need to be used, and now the newly built dredgers will also be used. When the time comes, the work will start together, and the efficiency will be extremely high. "In fact, our brand-new dredger is not only reflected in digging deeper and more, but also in the operating system. This dredger has a large number of intelligent operating systems developed by us. Such a A large ship usually only needs twenty or thirty crew members," Yang Dawei continued.

"Yes, the era of intelligence has arrived, and the key to intelligence is advanced computer systems and powerful computing capabilities." Qin Tao said, "In this regard, we are already far ahead."

Dongfang is indeed at the forefront in this field!

In the past, Bitcoin was only used to sell computer hardware. However, after the development of artificial intelligence, it can be found that without powerful computer hardware, it is impossible to become a qualified high-tech enterprise.

Silicon Valley.

This used to be the location of the world's most advanced electronic technology, home to various high-tech companies of all sizes, and it was also the place with the best wages and benefits in the world.

But now, this place has become desolate. As Oriental Electronic Technology continues to grow, many small companies here have collapsed due to competition, and large companies are barely surviving on government funding.

On one of the small buildings, there is a sign of Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. It has not been wiped for a long time, and there is a lot of dust on it. When the setting sun shines on it, it looks even more vicissitudes and loneliness.

In the office, a group of people are preparing to finish their work for the day and go home. It is impossible to work overtime, and it is impossible to work overtime even if the company goes bankrupt. They have long been accustomed to this rhythm of life and it is impossible to change it.

"Ruhl, why don't you leave? Let's go for a drink together."

"I'm looking at this webpage." Ruhl said: "It's very interesting. You just need to enter a few fixed words and a paragraph will appear in it."

Ruhl was not working, but just playing. He found a strange website.

"For example, I enter the big bad wolf, mother-in-law, little girl, you see, here will automatically generate a story. The little girl went to play in the forest and met the big bad wolf pretending to be a mother-in-law..."

"This should be Andersen's fairy tale, right?"

"It should be, but it's a little different."

"It seems that there is a paid option here?"

"What are you doing?" At this time, a person came out of the general manager's office, looked at them around the computer, and asked immediately.

Everyone quickly dispersed.

This person is their leader, Piero, known as the spiritual evangelist of Silicon Valley. In recent years, he has never smiled. Now...

It's better not to get into trouble, so let's go quickly.

Ruel couldn't leave because Piero came to his computer. He could only spread his hands innocently: "It's already off work, I..."

"Enter your payment account."

"What did you say? I..."

"Otherwise I will fire you!"

"Okay." Ruel could only pay on the Internet, and then a lot of computer pages came out again, and ten different stories appeared on the screen!

What's going on?

"Their search engine is really powerful, but I don't think it's worth paying for these search contents. They are just some stories."

"Re-enter, broom, wizard, evening. Pay the fee again."

Pay again? Ruel was very dissatisfied, but it was much less than his salary, and he didn't want to be fired.

Enter again, and ten different descriptions came out.

"Enter a few more, and we'll change to aircraft carriers, catapults, carrier-based aircraft..."

"Boss, can you guarantee that this is the last time?"

"Ruhl, can't you see it? If you really don't have any premonition, then I really have to fire you." Piero said.

"It's just a search engine, could it be that someone is writing for us behind the scenes?"

"You can put these stories on the search engine and see if you can find the same type."

Ruhl entered it curiously, and sure enough, there was nothing! With the power of the current network search engine, even if it only appears once, it can be found. If it can't be found, it can only mean one thing... It was written on the spot!

Is there someone behind the network helping them write stories? Impossible, enter it, click the button, and get the results immediately. There is only one possibility: these stories are generated immediately!

"Could it be that this is automatically generated by the computer? Is this the artificial intelligence we are studying?"

"Yes, it is artificial intelligence." Pierre said: "Now, they have developed to the point where they can write their own stories. Of course, this is just what we see. Maybe they want to use this method to feed their artificial intelligence and make it more intelligent. They may have more advanced ones, such as generating images or even videos!"

Pierro began to study artificial intelligence during college. It was only the 1980s. He first studied at Harvard University and then at MIT. The United States was not late in researching in this area. In the 1990s, Pierro also went to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Stanford University. At that time, artificial intelligence could understand what others said and make the correct response after understanding. It was impossible to write a story based on just a few words!

It can't be done now!

The Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Research Institute established by Pierro is studying how to use the technology at hand to realize artificial intelligence. At this time, there are already peers who have taken a step ahead and developed artificial intelligence to the point of launching it on the market and accepting market testing!

"Oh, God, it really works. I entered the title and abstract of the paper, and it actually automatically wrote a paper for me, and it also meets the standards for checking for plagiarism!" At this time, everyone else returned to their seats. One of them tried to enter these contents, and then paid, and it was generated!

The sentences in it are smooth. Although there is a lot of nonsense, it can be regarded as a paper that can handle the job.

This is amazing!

This requires powerful computing power. After getting the requirements, start searching for all relevant information on the Internet, and then have your own understanding and analysis, and then create it!

American technology can't do it!

"I found that the registration place of this website is in the Pearl of the Orient, but it is just a registration place. The server must be in the East!" Another person shouted.

Everyone present was silent.

Dongfang's technology is getting stronger and stronger, and the fields they are good at are surpassed one by one. Now, in the field of artificial intelligence, Dongfang is at the forefront again, and now it can help write!

In the future, those writers will probably be unemployed, right? Especially those online writers. Even if they work too hard, typing 20,000 words a day is incredible, and this kind of artificial intelligence can probably write a million-word online novel a day.

In the future, painters will be unemployed, cartoonists will lose their means of survival, and then actors...

What about programmers? Will computers write programs by themselves in the future? Everyone present will also be unemployed!

Thinking of this, they began to shudder involuntarily.

"We have to find a way to get a large number of graphics cards from the East to form advanced servers. We also have to develop artificial intelligence. Those damn miners have made computers that are supposed to serve human technology start virtual currencies!"