Chapter 491
Chapter 491
The tightly closed door opened, and a middle-aged man in a suit and glasses walked out. Unlike previous precedents (?), he did not use a wheelchair and did not hold a Bible in his hand.
Dozens of domestic and foreign journalists were encamped in a semicircle in front of him. He looked around him naturally, as if he had anticipated this situation, and said.
“The air outside is nice too.”
i told him
“You look healthy. I think I gained some weight.”
He smiled and nodded his head.
“I weighed myself, and I had gained three kilos.”
I held out a black bag.
He took it and opened it. Inside is pure white tofu. He ate tofu in front of reporters.
The camera took pictures of it non-stop.
Our image is being broadcast live all over the world through CNN, BBC, CCTV, NHK, etc. By now, many foreigners will wonder why he eats tofu.
I opened the car door.
“Come on, senpai.”
“Thank you, junior.”
We sat side by side in the back seat.
Needless to say, you are well aware that you were released on bail because of me. And there must be good reasons for that.
As the car started, Chairman Im Jin-yong looked at me and asked.
“Then why did you take me out?”
i told him
“I want you to make some batteries.”
* * *
[Chairman Jin-yong Lim, released on bail despite the first trial conviction][After meeting with President Kang Jin-hoo and President Huh Chang-min, blitz bail permission!][Possibility of Kang Jin-hoo’s intervention in jewelry?][The judiciary, draws that there was no preference][Chairman Jin-yong Lim, Jin-hoo Kang went to meet him in front of the detention center][Gyeongsil-ryun and Suseong Group Chairman’s bail permission is strongly criticized as a privilege of the chaebol]The appearance of Kang Jin-hoo and Im Jin-yong meeting in front of the detention center was published in the media around the world.
There were mixed opinions on the Internet about the conviction of Chairman Im Jin-yong and the sudden bail permission.
-what? Did Kang Jin-hoo really bribe Heo Chang-min and release Im Jin-yong?
– Haha, so it is. they’re all the same
– The chaebols are good. No matter what crime you commit, you will be released if you pay the money
-1 There was a conviction in the first trial, what do you mean by release?
– It’s not a release, it’s a gem. Paying bail does not eliminate guilt.
-If you are found guilty in the final trial anyway, you have to go back to prison.
-1 There are often cases in which arrest is postponed until the final trial, even when convicted.
– What’s wrong with granting bail for the national economy? In the first place, didn’t the pro-North leftists forcefully arrest good businessmen?
– Release Im Jin-yong, the best entrepreneur ever! Also, release Park Si-hyung, the most honest president ever!
-Did Jinhoo Kang really ask him to release him?
-Before that, I met Heo Chang-min, and then he came to the detention center and showed me the tofu, doesn’t the answer come out?
– So, why Kang Jin-hoo? If you want to take it out, why did you take it out earlier?
– What is Jinhoo Kang thinking?
* * *
The car carrying Chairman Im Jin-yong arrived at the OTK Company headquarters.
In the conference room, team leaders and above had already gathered. Hyun-joo’s sister and Eli also crossed over here, and Professor Ho-min Kim was also there.
It was a long time since we met, so Chairman Im Jin-yong greeted people warmly.
“I don’t have time, so I’ll start right away. OTK Research Institute succeeded in making a new battery. I hope that Seoseong SB will use this battery to make battery packs and mass production lines.”
It is easy to think that it is the end when a technology is developed, but more important is whether it is mass-produced. How much process is needed, how much it costs, how much yield is coming out, etc.
As the saying goes, ‘A bead must be threaded through a horse to be a treasure’, no matter how good a technology is, if it fails to mass-produce, that’s the end of it.
Chairman Im Jin-yong showed great interest.
“What kind of battery is it?”
The contents of the JN battery are top secret. Except for the researchers involved in the development, only the people here know.
After hearing Professor Ho-Min Kim’s explanation, Chairman Im Jin-Yong was more than surprised.
“Is that really true?
I asked him.
“If JN batteries are commercialized, will they sell well?”
“Are you talking? If this is true, it could change not only automobiles, but all industries including electronics, machinery, aviation, medical care, and robotics. If something like this has been developed earlier, why hasn’t it been commercialized until now?”
The OTK battery, which only doubled the capacity of the existing battery, changed the game of the industry. However, if you could make a battery with a capacity 20 times larger than that, it would be nothing short of a revolution.
Chairman Im Jin-yong, who was speaking, shut his mouth as if realizing something, and he looked at us and asked.
“Are there any problems?”
I nodded.
“Like you said, there is one serious problem. This is because the main ingredient is geratinium.”
“Geratinium?”
“Yes. So, it can be said that this is a geratinium battery, not a lithium-ion battery.”
Seosung Electronics is the world’s largest semiconductor company.
Since rare earths are essential for semiconductors, there is no way that Chairman Im Jin-yong does not know what geratinium is. You probably know the price too.
“To make a battery for a car, you need about 100 kilograms.”
He looked like he was at a loss for words.
“Do you know how much it is?”
“of course. At current prices, that would be around $230 a gram.”
The price of geratinium for one car alone is about 30 billion won. If you really make an electric car out of this, the Bugatti will be ridiculously expensive.
Professor Homin Kim added a word.
“Geratinium used in JN batteries must be at least 99.99 percent pure. If there is even a small amount of impurities, a defect will occur.”
Chairman Im Jin-yong said as if he was stunned.
“After all, if pure geratinium material cannot be obtained in large quantities, mass production is impossible, isn’t it?”
“That’s right.”
Building a battery production line costs a lot of money. Unless it is produced once and finished, raw materials must be continuously supplied.
However, if you look at the geratinium currently on the market, even if you buy all of it, it will be difficult to run the factory for even a week.
Sangyeop senior, who was quietly listening to the conversation with his arms crossed, asked.
“So, where are you going to get geratinium?”
Others had the same question on their faces. Only Taek-gyu, Professor Ho-min Kim, and Hyun-joo noona know this.
I turned the light off by pressing the switch. The meeting room quickly fell into darkness, and I pointed out the window.
“There.”
Everyone looked like they didn’t know English.
Ellie raised her hand and asked.
“What is there?”
“Do you see the bright light emitting?”
Ellie nodded her head.
“Are you talking about the moon?”
“Yes.”
I said to those who still looked puzzled.
“We will mine geratinium from the moon and bring it back to Earth.”
* * *
This was the prediction I saw.
When I first saw the ‘Sea of Abundance’, I thought it was buried in the deep sea. But after doing a search, I found out that it meant the name of the moon.
There was silence for a while. Everyone opened their eyes and said nothing. It was as if he could see a question mark floating in his head.
After a moment, Ellie, who regained her consciousness, stuttered.
“The moon?”
“Yes.”
“So, not in a metaphorical sense, are you really going to mine on the moon?”
“right.”
“Are you going to take a spaceship to the moon and return to Earth with geratinium?”
“That’s it. As expected, Ellie is quick to understand.”
Ellie smirked.
“Does that make sense?”
“What… … .”
surprisingly it makes sense
Hyun-joo noona sighed deeply, and Sang-yeop senior muttered with a disappointed expression.
“month? month? The moon round like a tray?”
Team leader Jeong Ki-hong, team leader Seo Sang-won, and team leader Michael Lee also had similar facial expressions. Some people were making an open expression, ‘What kind of bullshit is this?’
The sentiment is understandable. Because I was of the same mind.
Team leader Seo Sang-won asked in a squeezing voice.
“Can I ask you an excused question?”
“Try it.”
“Are you crazy?”
“Yes. I am fine.”
I asked Team Leader Jeong Ki-hong, who still had his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open.
“What do you think?”
“Uh, um. I was thinking about why I joined this company.”
He seems to want to go home.
Hyun-joo’s older sister muttered as she pressed her hand to her forehead as if the headache was hers.
“What else did you two do? From now on, I’m going to come out to the moon.”
Taehyung said with a smirk.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)
“Where is not Mars?”
“shut up.”
After another silence passed, Sangyeop senior, who had come to his senses hiply, asked.
“Then are you sure that there are geratiniums on the moon?”
“Yes. The moon has many rare earth deposits, and geratinium is one of them. Because of the nature of the moon, it is pure matter.”
No matter how much I say it, it’s a little less convincing. In this case, should an expert come in?
Professor Homin Kim came forward on my behalf.
“After listening to the story, I looked up some related papers. As many of you know, there are various elements in the universe that do not exist on Earth. And the moon has massive deposits of rare elements that are rare on Earth.”
Everyone shut their mouths and listened to Professor Homin Kim.
Rare earths are literally elements that are rare in soil. These are not substances that originally existed on Earth, but things that came from space through meteorites and the like.
In the case of the Earth, it is lost or deformed during the process of entering the atmosphere, followed by weathering such as rain and wind. However, since there are no such weather phenomena on the moon and there are many cryogenic regions, meteorites that fell on the surface of the moon are piled up with their original composition.
If you dig it up and bring it back to Earth, it’s a huge sum of money. For this reason, NASA also established a plan to mine resources on the moon, and the United States made a related law to allow anyone to extract resources from space.
The United States is the only country that has sent a manned spacecraft to the moon, but other countries have also sent unmanned spacecraft several times.
Sending a spacecraft to the moon with current technology is not difficult. As the moon mining business is highly likely to become a cash cow for the space industry, which is like a money eater, various companies showed interest.
The most active is the private space company Space Z.
Allen Eberhart has promoted the “Moon Mining Project” and has promised to send a probe to map buried resources on the moon this year.
I said.
“When I asked Allen Eberhart directly, he showed confidence that it is still possible if you put your mind to it.”
Nikola and Space Z founder Allen Eberhart are the best experts in this field. He was still skeptical, but it would be hard not to believe him if he talked to this level.
Chairman Im Jin-yong, who was making an expression as if he was compelled to understand, opened his mouth.
“good. Let’s say there is geratinium on the moon, and you can mine it and get it. But what about the mining and transportation costs?”
No matter how cheap the rocket is by recovering it and reusing it, sending a spaceship costs a lot. Moreover, it is not known how much more the cost will increase if implemented.
So, from the beginning, the plan was to mine expensive minerals such as rare earths and platinum to meet profitability.
If it costs 2 million won to mine a million won gold, what’s the use?
“It’s hard to start with anything. If the JN battery is also used in the space field, won’t the launch cost continue to decrease?”
Fuel accounts for most of the ship’s weight. However, the JN battery has 20 times the capacity of the OTK battery despite the same volume and weight.
If used well, the cost of flying a spaceship may be reduced to that of flying an airplane.
Everyone’s eyes lit up at my words. It may be confusing as the scale suddenly stretches out into space, but I have an intuition how amazing this is.
If you succeed, you will have a hard time figuring out what the outcome will be, how much money you will make, and how it will affect the industry in the future.
Chairman Im Jin-yong burst out laughing.
“I’ve heard a lot about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but I think today is right in the middle.”
I said with a smirk.
“As I said before, you know that there is no guarantee that the sentence will be reduced if this is successful, right?”
He shone through his glasses.
“It doesn’t matter. We will do our best.”
