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Chapter 114 Another Breakthrough in the Quantum Battery Project

Analysts from major securities firms are vying to release analytical reports on DeepBlue Technology.

In a research report, analysts from CITIC Securities raised the target price of DeepBlue Technology to 360.32 yuan, which corresponds to a target market capitalization of 2.28 trillion yuan.

The analyst believes that DeepBlue Technology's 2730 billion yuan contract directly locks in more than 2200 billion yuan in net profit over the next five years, with this contract alone contributing more than 450 billion yuan in net profit annually.

This is just one contribution from the plasticizer community's business segment.

DeepBlue Technology also has a photovoltaic new energy business segment, which has entered a period of explosive growth this year, as well as a military business segment for which no specific information can be found.

Analysts predict that DeepBlue Technology's net profit for the whole of 2015 will most likely exceed 600 billion yuan.

Analysts at Guotai Junan Securities raised their target price to 380.58 yuan, with the most optimistic investment institution giving a target price of 410.53 yuan.

The target price is 100 billion yuan, which corresponds to a market capitalization of 2.59 trillion yuan.

Basically, the capital market's expectations for DeepBlue Technology generally exceed the 2 trillion yuan market capitalization mark.

Many investors believe that DeepBlue Technology's market capitalization is likely to surpass PetroChina this year, officially becoming the top-ranked listed company in the A-share market.

Even if we don't reach the summit this year, we'll definitely be able to next year.

If we reach the summit, it will be another historic moment.

Previously, the title of the largest A-share market capitalization had always been the exclusive domain of central state-owned enterprises.

Finance and energy, the two lifelines of the national economy, have always firmly occupied the top of the capital market pyramid.

DeepBlue Technology, a private enterprise driven by core technological innovation, is about to rewrite this landscape.

Alongside the doubling of market value, Lin Chuan's personal wealth also skyrocketed.

He holds 36.51% of DeepBlue Technology's shares, and with the previous cash dividends, his nominal net worth has also ballooned to 4779 billion yuan.

Converted at the current exchange rate, this is equivalent to approximately US$770 billion.

This month, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index real-time rankings were updated.

Bill Gates, with a net worth of $760 billion, held this position for many years before being replaced by a 29-year-old from the East.

Young entrepreneurs have surpassed [previous achievements].

Lin Chuan topped the global rich list for the first time this month.

He became the youngest world's richest man in nearly half a century, topping the world's rich list before he was even 30 years old.

The news of the change of the world's richest person was also widely reported by major media outlets at home and abroad.

[A 29-year-old Chinese entrepreneur tops the global rich list] - The Wall Street Journal

[How Lin Chuan and DeepBlue Technology Reshaped the Global Technology Industry Landscape in Four Years] — Global Times

[Who is Lin Chuan? Get to know this 29-year-old world's richest man] — The Times

Without a doubt, this is the youngest world's richest person in the nearly half-century history of human commerce.

What is even more noteworthy is that Lin Chuan's wealth did not come from inheritance, resource monopoly, or financial leverage, but from the commercialization breakthrough of core technologies.

He started his business in his early twenties and built a trillion-dollar tech giant in less than four years, a truly unrepeatable legend.

In China, four out of the top ten trending topics on Sina Weibo during this period were related to DeepBlue Technology.

Among them, the topics "Lin Chuan tops the global rich list" and "Deep Blue Technology's market value exceeds one trillion" have the highest readership.

Lin Chuan, as the person involved, paid no attention to this information from the outside world.

Clearly, this wouldn't cause any ripples for him. His threshold had already been raised in his previous life, and wealth at this level was simply a matter of numerical fluctuation.

A net worth propped up by market capitalization is inflated; to put it bluntly, it's more like paper wealth that can't be redeemed.

If Lin Chuan were to announce today that he would reduce his holdings by 5% to cash out, DeepBlue Technology's market value would plummet to its daily limit the next day, and the company's market value would be halved in an instant.

A founder cashing out on a large scale is seen as a huge negative by investors, who will think that the company must have some problems. Why would the founder reduce his holdings and cash out on such a large scale if there were no problems?

However, Lin Chuan is unlikely to reduce his holdings on a large scale; he will not sell any of his shares on the secondary market.

"What are these Westerners doing? Why can't they hold on in this area?"

At that moment, in the president's office of Golden Capital, Han Jin saw that DeepBlue Technology had signed a mega deal worth $440 billion with eight European and American companies. He couldn't help but complain and curse a few times.

The secretary next to Han Jin was a little confused when she saw that Han Jin looked unhappy.

Isn't this a good thing?

After all, Golden Capital invested in DeepBlue Technology, holding a 3% stake.

In fact, this is not something that the seven major investment institutions, including Golden Capital, are happy to see.

The rapid surge in DeepBlue Technology's revenue means that Lin Chuan will forcibly redeem the shares held by the seven major investors even sooner.

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Previously, according to the agreement between the two parties, as long as DeepBlue Technology's cumulative dividends reached 3000 billion, Lin Chuan could repurchase their shares at any time, and it would be a mandatory repurchase that they could not refuse.

Several investors knew how outrageous the profit margin was in DeepBlue Technology's phagocytic microbial community business, with a cost of only 30 yuan.

This is no secret in the industry; DeepBlue Technology itself has admitted it.

This contract is worth $440 billion, equivalent to 2730 billion yuan. After deducting costs and taxes, the net profit can reach 2269 billion yuan.

The net profit margin reached an astonishing 83.11%.

Given DeepBlue Technology's growth momentum and profitability, it is possible that it will achieve its goal of distributing 3000 billion yuan in cash dividends within three years.

It's worth noting that the phagocytic microbiome business also has clients in the Middle East and South Korea.

All these factors combined mean that DeepBlue Technology's current market share in the global plastic waste treatment market is only around 15%.

Many developed countries have not yet come to make purchases.

In other words, even after Europeans and Americans sign contracts, there are still many new potential customers in the future.

Excluding some underdeveloped areas, where they cannot afford it, they can only be landfilled or burned in the open.

DeepBlue Technology still has huge growth potential in this field, and it is very likely that it can capture 25% of the global market share.

Moreover, the total amount of plastic waste generated worldwide each year continues to increase over time.

Especially with the perfect solution of plastic-eating bacteria, which is both environmentally friendly and highly efficient, the narrative of white pollution has not only ended, but has also been largely ignored.

This will lead to people using plastic on a larger scale, with far fewer concerns, and even using it indiscriminately, resulting in an even larger total amount of waste.

Therefore, even if the market share remains unchanged, the absolute number will increase significantly in the future.

Most importantly, DeepBlue Technology now has more than just its plasticizing bacteria business.

There's also the photovoltaic new energy sector, which has begun a full recovery this year.

DeepBlue Technology consistently captures 35% of the industry's profits across various sectors, which is an extremely substantial amount of profit.

In addition, there is military industry business.

Although I don't know exactly what they do, there are still considerable profits to be made.

If Jinsheng Capital had earned 3000 billion yuan and distributed it as dividends earlier, it would have been forced off the bus much sooner.

That's how capital works. When you haven't earned that amount yet, you hope to earn it as quickly as possible so that your risk is covered and you don't have to worry about not being able to withdraw.

But when you actually earn that amount early on, you're not so happy anymore; you don't want to be kicked off the train so soon.

Meanwhile, DeepBlue Technology's quantum energy storage project team is also making continuous breakthroughs in the second phase of its mission.

During this period, while DeepBlue Technology was attracting widespread attention, the project team quietly achieved continuous breakthroughs in quantum energy storage time.

The research team thoroughly investigated the structure-activity relationship of the QB-102 molecule, tested six microcavity samples with different concentrations, and finally determined an optimal doping ratio.

At this ratio, the quantum coupling strength between molecules is just at a "sweet spot," ensuring a sufficiently strong superabsorption effect without triggering cascade de-excitation due to excessively strong dipole interactions.

On August 11, the quantum energy storage project team ushered in a landmark moment.

A brand-new, fully functional quantum battery prototype has been officially packaged.

The prototype was placed in a specially made sealed enclosure with electromagnetic shielding on the outside and filled with dry nitrogen gas inside.

After opening the box, what was presented to everyone was a gray-silver cube with sides of about 15 centimeters.

It doesn't look like a battery at all.

The top of the cube is a precision optical window composed of three layers of materials with different refractive indices. It can transmit femtosecond laser pulses of a specific wavelength while reflecting photons from inside the microcavity back into the cavity.

The optical window is surrounded by a ring of metal electrode contacts for connecting to an external discharge circuit.

The interior of the cube is a layered organic microcavity structure, with a total of 24 microcavity units stacked together using precise microfabrication technology. Each layer contains an active layer injected with QB-102 molecules and reflective mirrors on both sides.

The layers are separated by an ultra-thin insulating layer, and the electrodes of each layer are connected in parallel through a vertical interconnect structure.

The entire prototype weighs about 2 kilograms and has an energy density of over 600 watt-hours per kilogram, which surpasses all known chemical batteries on the market.

Even the most advanced lithium-ion batteries available today have an energy density of only about 240 watt-hours per kilogram.

The actual energy density of the quantum battery prototype was confirmed to be 635 watt-hours per kilogram after precise measurement.

Chen Zhiyi, who was in charge of this packaging, led a team of process engineers to complete the alignment of 24 microcavities in a cleanroom.

Layering and encapsulation.

At this moment, Luo Xiangdong carefully moved the prototype onto the test stand.

Lu Jing has already adjusted the parameters of the femtosecond laser system, setting the pump pulse energy to 2.5 millijoules and precisely controlling the double pulse interval at 280 femtoseconds.

The discharge circuit is connected to a standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb, which is fixed inside a light shield, next to a high-speed camera.

"Are you ready?" Luo Xiangdong looked around.

Lu Jing nodded. Chen Zhiyi stood in the corner, while Zhang Miao and Zhao Yiming each guarded an oscilloscope and a data acquisition terminal. Several other project team members stood around the experimental platform.

After a moment, Luo Xiangdong pressed the control button for the charge/discharge cycle.

The femtosecond laser pulse struck the optical window of the prototype.

At the instant the pulse arrives, the 24 microcavities within the optical window are simultaneously activated, and the QB-102 molecule enters a quantum coherent state driven by the double-pulse pump sequence.

Because the molecules in the 24-layer microcavity achieve interlayer quantum entanglement through a precise cavity coupling design, the superabsorption effect of the entire device is enhanced by nearly an order of magnitude compared to the single-layer microcavity sample.

The charging power density has been pushed to the upper limit of theoretical predictions.

Charging complete.

The entire process, from pulse emission to the establishment of a quantum coherent state, takes 150 femtoseconds.

Immediately afterwards, the discharge circuit was automatically connected.

The current flows from the electrodes of the 24-layer microcavity to the power management module, and after voltage regulation and filtering, it is output to the incandescent light bulb.

The light bulb turned on.

Bright light spilled out through the edge of the light shield, casting a warm patch of light on the metal surface of the lab bench.

One second, two seconds, five seconds, ten seconds —

The light bulb continues to glow.

There was no flickering or decay; a stable current was continuously output from the quantum battery, and the tungsten filament was heated to incandescence.

Fifteen seconds, twenty seconds.

The entire discharge process lasted 21.3 seconds.

"21.3 seconds." Zhang Miao stared at the time data recorded on the oscilloscope and said, "Output power 98 watts, total discharge energy is about half of the rated energy storage, and there is still room for optimization in the impedance matching of the discharge circuit—"

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Luo Xiang turned around to face everyone in the laboratory.

"What we just witnessed is the first time in human history that a sustainable power source has been extracted from a quantum battery."

"Femtosecond-level charging, second-level energy storage, stable power output, and a complete charge-discharge closed loop—we've achieved all of these today."

He paused, suppressing his excitement and exhilaration.

"Up to today, all research on quantum batteries worldwide has only focused on signal measurement in the optical domain; no one has ever actually extracted usable current from a quantum battery."

"But from today onwards, the history of this field has been rewritten."

Lu Jing leaned against the optical platform, arms crossed over his chest, and continued, "—Moreover, our charging time is 150 femtoseconds, the discharging time exceeds 21 seconds, and the energy storage time is [a fraction of] the charging time—"

"1.4 × 10^14 times, which is 140 trillion times." Chen Zhiyi finished calculating the number for him, and then she was stunned for a moment herself.

What does this ratio mean?

If we don't rigorously extend the charging time to one second, then the energy storage time would correspondingly extend to a full four years.

A battery that can be fully charged in one second can provide power continuously for four years.

This extreme asymmetry in energy timescales has never been seen in any known energy storage technology.

Looking at the cube-shaped outer shell, Lu Jing couldn't help but say, "Right, we should give this thing an official name. We can't keep calling it 'Quantum Battery Prototype Number One,' can we?"

This was a trivial problem, and the group quickly settled on an official name.

It's called the "Quantum Super Absorption Energy Storage System." Anyone who hears it will know what it is and that it's not a product of the same dimension as a chemical battery. It's also known as the QSS battery.

Finally, Luo Xiangdong brought the conversation back to the next stage of work: "What we need to do next is to test the theoretical 30-minute energy storage duration in experiments, improve the discharge efficiency to over 90%, and then standardize the packaging process to conduct a feasibility study for mass production."

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