Great warships

Chapter 1230: You Will Be Unemployed in the Future

Hybrid is a huge market.

Although Golden Sun makes pure electric vehicles, Qin Tao also knows that pure electric vehicles have many problems. Currently, their main sales areas are in the south, and they are rarely sold in the north. When winter comes in the north, the power consumption is halved. Isn't that a rip-off?

Even though the country is strongly supporting the development of pure electric vehicles, Qin Tao knows that the most suitable scenario for pure electric vehicles is urban commuting. He also has a fixed parking space and a charging station downstairs. He can charge at night and use the car during the day, which is very convenient.

He cannot brag about how great his pure electric cars are just because they are pure electric cars, and even say that he can take a trip to the northwest of the motherland and have a large power bank with him.

Although there is a future city project, he doesn't know how long it will take for wireless power supply to be practical. It will take an even longer time to dig up all the roads in the country and bury power supply devices.

And during this transformation process, there will be a huge market for hybrid vehicles.

I usually use electricity in the city, and use gas when I get on the highway. Especially during holidays, if I want to queue up on the highway to charge, I don’t know how long I will have to wait.

In the past, Qin Tao had never thought about developing hybrid vehicles. 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 so hard to come to him and tried hard to set a trap for him, he has to cooperate.

Hearing Qin Tao's words, President Mao was delighted at first, then frowned: "President 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 is strong-willed. They will try their best to take their destiny into their own hands to avoid being manipulated by others.

This is the case in the field of gearboxes.

They can make manual transmissions, but not automatic transmissions. They can only purchase them from a few suppliers in the world. Germany's ZF is easy to deal with, as they only make gearboxes and not cars. But Aisin is different, as they are a subsidiary of Toyota.

Many car companies purchase their gearboxes, but if they sell too well 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 like this by Toyota. Later, Volkswagen developed the Big Shadan gearbox in order to take its destiny into its own hands, and Eastern car companies have also switched to the Big Shadan camp.

Although Mingzhou Group is Dongfang’s own enterprise, car companies will still resist. What if the Mingzhou Group controls their lifeline?
Qin Tao smiled and said, "It would be best if they cooperate with us. If they don't, we can buy a bankrupt car factory and make hybrid cars ourselves. They should know that only cooperation can lead to a win-win situation."

The most important thing in the field of car manufacturing is the birth certificate. Many car companies have failed on this. Golden Sun Automobile has a birth certificate, which was obtained by acquiring a bankrupt car factory. Now the worst that can happen is that it can acquire another one and specialize in hybrid manufacturing.

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

"I'll tell Ma Gong to assign a department to research hybrid technology." Qin Tao said, "You can also send people to participate and build a hybrid system suitable for the military as soon as possible."

"okay."

In later generations, military vehicles did begin hybrid reforms. The Americans planned to install hybrid on their Stryker armored vehicles, which was also the experience summarized from several wars.

As for Dongfang, it has already started researching and developing a multi-axle missile launcher. If a transmission shaft is used for such a huge vehicle, it will be very complicated and difficult to control. It is much simpler to drive all the wheels with electric motors. Hybrid power is the best choice.

Now, the Mingzhou Group has grown stronger and can provide some help.

The electric drive solution for warships can also be transplanted to land. Although it is a bit troublesome, since there is a demand, we might as well help out.

Qin Tao escorted Mr. Mao to the car and waved goodbye.

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

"There's no need to rush for now." Qin Tao said with a smile, "This kind of technology research will take three to five years at most. Let's wait until it's developed and equipped to the army. By the way, what's going on in the group recently?"

"It's nothing serious. Warships are still being produced. 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 were transferred to the Qiongzhou Shipyard, the shipyard at the headquarters of the Mingzhou Group has mainly built foreign trade warships and some civilian ships. Business such as dredgers is not often accepted, but when it is accepted, it is a big business.

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

It is 155 meters long, 32 meters wide, 13.5 meters deep, and has a full load draft of 9.9 meters. These data all represent its huge size.

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

With Dongfang's strength, all of these can be accomplished easily. Compared with previous models, this dredger has another notable feature: it uses a dual-fuel engine.

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

"This is the world's largest dredger and the pride of the East. Of course, it is also our contribution to global environmental protection. The biggest feature of this dredger is that it uses a dual-fuel engine of LNG and diesel. Under normal circumstances, it mainly uses LNG, which is more environmentally friendly."

Natural gas vehicles have become popular in road transport vehicles. After all, the exhaust emissions of this type of vehicle are cleaner and can protect the environment. At sea, the emissions of various ships are also increasing. The previous backward engines are gradually being eliminated, and natural gas is beginning to become the mainstream.

Mingzhou Group also has strong technical reserves in natural gas engines. After all, one of their most important civilian ships is the liquefied natural gas ship. During the transportation process of this type of ship, natural gas will continue to leak. It is a bit of a waste to directly discharge the leaked natural gas into the air, so it is better to simply enter the engine and burn it.

Under this plan, Mingzhou Group's liquefied gas tankers were originally equipped with dual-fuel engines, and now it is even easier to install them on the ships in front of us.

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

"Well, let me see, is our ship about to be launched?"

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

Director Wang was a short and fat man in his fifties, with a smile on his face: "Boss Qin, on behalf of our company, I want to thank you, Mingzhou Group. The construction period of your slipway was originally scheduled for three years later. After learning that we were in a hurry to use it, you found a way to vacate a slipway for us and started construction quickly. Thank you very much!"

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

"The title of the world's number one dredger will have to be given to this one from now on," Qin Tao said with emotion.

Back then, 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 them, it is completely a little brother.

The ship can dig at a maximum depth of thirty meters and the maximum mud discharge distance is only six kilometers. These data cannot be compared with what we see in front of us. Over the years, with the rapid development of various domestic technologies, the strength of dredgers has become increasingly stronger.

"This is only temporary. In the future, we will definitely be able to manufacture larger dredgers in China," Director Wang 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 allow it to work continuously day and night.

Mingzhou Group has extensive experience in building nuclear-powered ships, including nuclear submarines, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and civilian ships such as nuclear-powered icebreakers, offshore floating nuclear power plants, etc. Naturally, this dredger can also be made into a nuclear-powered one.

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

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

"By the way, which waterway do you plan to dredge with this dredger you ordered?"

"The sea area near Xiamen is in urgent need of dredging due to the accumulation of silt. 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 properly. The channel over there needs to be at least 20 meters deep."

Is this a coincidence, or did the superiors do this on purpose? Qin Tao didn't need to ask too much. He just knew that as our strength increased, a certain task was slowly being laid. That was enough.

"Yes, our Xiamen 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 waterway is narrow, which is not convenient for developing trade. So we have to start dredging the waterway. The dredgers we have now are not enough, so we must build a new one."

When the waterway is cleared, the previous dredgers will be needed, and the newly built dredgers will also be used. When the time comes, they will start working together, and the efficiency will be very high. "In fact, our new dredgers are not only reflected in digging deeper and digging more, but also in the operating system. This dredger has a large number of intelligent operating systems developed by us. Such a large ship usually only needs 20 to 30 crew members." Yang Dawei continued to introduce.

"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."

The East has indeed been at the forefront in this field!

The reason for Bitcoin before was just to sell computer hardware. However, when artificial intelligence developed, it became clear that without powerful computer hardware, it would be impossible to become a qualified high-tech company.

Silicon Valley.

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

But now, this place has become desolate. With the continuous growth of Oriental Electronics Technology, many small companies here have gone bankrupt in the competition, and large companies are barely surviving with government funding.

On one of the small buildings, there is a sign of Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. It has not been cleaned for a long time and is covered with a lot of dust. Under the setting sun, the place looks even more vicissitudes and desolate.

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

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

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

Ruhl wasn't working either, just playing, and he found a strange website.

"For example, if I input Big Bad Wolf, Grandma, and Little Girl, you see, a story will be automatically generated here. The little girl went to play in the forest and met a Big Bad Wolf pretending to be a Grandma..."

“This should be Andersen’s fairy tale, right?”

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

“There seems to be a paid option here?”

"What are you doing?" At this moment, a man walked out of the general manager's office, looked at them gathered around the computer, and immediately asked.

Everyone quickly dispersed.

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

It’s better to leave quickly to avoid bad luck.

Ruhl couldn't leave because Piero was coming towards his computer. He could only spread his hands innocently: "It's already off work, I..."

"Enter your payment account number."

"What did you say? I..."

"Or I'll fire you!"

"Okay." Ruhl had no choice but to pay online, and then a bunch of computer pages popped up, and ten different stories appeared on the screen!
How is this going?

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

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

Still paying? Ruhl was very dissatisfied, but it was much less than his salary, and he didn't want to be fired.

I entered it again, and ten different descriptions came out.

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

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

"Rule, 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 wrote it for us?"

"You can put these stories on a search engine and see if you can find similar ones."

Ruel typed it in curiously, and sure enough, there was nothing! With the power of today's online search engines, even if it only appears once, it can be found. If it can't be found, it can only mean one thing... This is newly written!
Is there someone behind the Internet helping them write stories? Impossible, they input, click a button, and get results immediately. There is only one possibility: these stories are generated instantly!

"Could it be that this was automatically generated by a computer? Is this the artificial intelligence we are researching?"

"Yes, it's 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 can 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 and even videos!"

Piero began to study artificial intelligence during his college years. It was only the 1980s. He first studied at Harvard University and later at MIT. The United States was not late in researching in this area. In the 1990s, Piero also visited the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University. At that time, artificial intelligence could only understand what others said and make correct responses after understanding. It was impossible to write a story based on just a few words!
I can’t do it now!

The Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Research Institute established by Piero is studying how to use the technology at hand to realize artificial intelligence. At this time, some of his peers have taken a step ahead and developed artificial intelligence to the point where it is put on the market and accepted market testing!
"Oh, God, it really works. I entered the title and abstract of the paper, and it automatically wrote a paper for me, and it even meets the standards for plagiarism checking!" At this time, everyone else returned to their seats. One of them tried to enter the content, paid the fee, and it was generated!
The sentences are fluent and although there is a lot of nonsense, it is still a doable paper.

This is amazing!

This requires powerful computing power. Once you get the requirements, you start searching for all relevant information on the Internet. Then you have to have your own understanding and analysis, and then create it!
American technology can’t do it!

"We found out that this website is registered in the Pearl of the Orient, but that's just a registration location. The server must be in the East!" another person shouted.

Everyone present fell silent.

Oriental’s technology is getting stronger and stronger, and the fields in which they excel are being surpassed one by one. Now, in the field of artificial intelligence, Oriental is at the forefront again, and can now help with writing!
In the future, those writers will probably be out of work, right? Especially those online writers. Even if they work very hard, typing 20,000 words a day is incredible. And this kind of artificial intelligence can probably write an online novel of several million words a day.

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

What about programmers? Will computers write their own programs in the future? Everyone present will be out of work!

Thinking of this, they began to shiver involuntarily.

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

(End of this chapter)