Black technology starts from the steel suit

Chapter 180 Chapter 180 The Huge Shock of the Futures Market

Naturally, there is nothing wrong with the manuscript, even the most demanding scholar can't find anything wrong with it, not to mention that one is relatively lenient, especially when it comes to treating scholars born in his own school.Yes, although Wang Feng has returned to China, in their eyes, he can still be regarded as one of his own.

Everyone is an insider who bows their heads but does not look up. Although they have not met each other, they still have to abide by the rules that should be followed. Generally speaking, when there is no conflict of interest, everyone will not embarrass each other.

After all, even if the things you are researching come to fruition, it won't have any effect on me.On the contrary, it can illuminate the way forward, let more investors see the hope in this field, and then invest money in it.

In this industry, it is impossible for them to invest money abroad. After all, in many cases, even something as powerful as capital will be subject to some restrictions.And it is impossible for them to believe those foreign scholars. If they lose all their money by then, wouldn't they be crying blindly?

Early the next morning, after the publication of the latest Nature magazine, the whole society was severely impacted.Bear the brunt of the energy sector, which is inevitable.Although crude oil has replaced coal and become the new industrial pillar, coal has not completely withdrawn from the energy market, and it still occupies a very important position in the energy field.

However, it was not the major energy companies that first took a turn for the worse, but the energy futures market on Wall Street.

"oh my gad!"

"These damn savages, how could they do this?"

"That stupid animal man is right in saying that they are indeed our worst enemies!"

"You mean Bagunin?"

"Yes, that is, he is not wrong."

"Damn it, I've invested all my worth in it. I didn't expect those damn dealers to start smashing the market today. Why don't this group of bitches take the market?"

"It's over, it's all over, the position has been liquidated, does anyone want to go to the rooftop with me to smoke a cigarette?"

"I don't think so. My wife and children still need me... Besides buying coal futures, I also bought some grain, and their gains are not bad."

"Then you are really lucky. My wife and children can only be taken care of by others."

It is relatively harmonious here. In Texas, which is relatively explosive, cracks have appeared on the bulletproof glass of many exchanges. The floor is also stained with blood. In many places, bullet holes can even be found. Obviously, what happened here just now Did some very scary things.

"Fuck, you bloody trader, come out to me, you were the one who asked me to buy this coal futures, and you said you won't lose any money!"

"Are you also cheated by this kid? It's a coincidence, and I am too. But there is one thing that must be said first, I want to fire the first shot."

"Why do you drive it first, this damn guy cheated me with a total of 100 million dollars."

"But I was cheated by him for 300 million dollars, so the first shot must be fired by me. The most I can do is promise not to hit his head and chest..."

"That's not okay buddy!"

"Well, since we can't agree, let's have a proper cowboy-style duel!"

"Let us use this fair method to decide who will fire the first shot..."

Of course, there are also people who don't speak martial arts directly point their guns at the small opening under the bulletproof glass of the exchange, and shoot inside.Not to be outdone, the people inside pulled out an automatic rifle from under their feet and began to fight back, causing the scene to become chaotic.

In fact, in one respect, the decisions made by these traders were not wrong.According to their predictions, in this feast of industrial recovery, the tight coal supply situation in Huaguo will continue, at least until the end of the heating season.

Because in the past period of time, Huaguo has been continuously reducing its own production capacity while increasing foreign coal imports, which has led to their increasing dependence on foreign coal. So far, they have It has become a consumer of 50% of the world's coal supply.

It is very easy to reduce the production capacity, but if you want to increase it again, you will face many problems.These problems are definitely not something that can be solved in a short period of time, so it is said that they have decided on this wave of wool, and they are powerless to stop it.

To be honest, everyone is very dissatisfied that the whole world is plagued by the epidemic, but this country has quickly got rid of the current severe situation and entered a state of full recovery.

So this time everyone has united to plunder the dividends of the other party's industrial recovery this time!
But no one thought that this feast had only started for more than 5-6 months, that is, about half a year, and everyone hadn't pushed it to the climax, so it would end early?

Isn't something like thermoelectric materials still in the experimental stage?
At present, the materials with the highest conversion rate are still lying in the laboratory, and there is no way to convert them into industrial production capacity, so those Chinese people are not deceiving them, right?
And that damn nature magazine, they don't charge money, do they?

Sure enough, even the academia cannot be too independent, they must be under the control of capital, otherwise, the hindrance to the development and order of the world will be too great!
……

Of course, even though they thought so, everyone was not slow.Because they all know very well that those guys who do academic research still have a bottom line, and those real bosses will never let such a thing happen, so the only explanation is: even if they don’t want to believe it, this thing It's also true.

According to the latest news they got, this thing can increase the heat utilization efficiency by 10%, that is to say, it can increase the power generation equivalent to 25%, which is self-evident.

The faster you throw at this time, the lower the loss you will suffer.The pile of futures contracts for those who are slow to move can only become a pile of waste paper, and it feels like a panic to wipe their buttocks.

However, it is only a small group of people who can get the news. There will definitely be many people who will not be able to sleep tonight, and there will definitely be many more corpses at the gate of the exchange tomorrow morning. I can see the figure who is smoking...

Compared with those speculators, industrialists were the least affected.Although those energy giants will also have some losses, but that is nothing more than excess profits, and the basic profits can still be guaranteed.After all, we still need to continue to import coal from others, so it is not necessary to cut prices too hard.

However, under the impact of new technologies, the price of thermal coal, which was heading towards the 1200 mark, has been effectively curbed and has begun to fall sharply.In the latest supply contract, the transaction price has been reduced to less than 900.

Of course, not all of them are those whose interests have been harmed.Otherwise, there is no way Wang Feng’s paper can be published smoothly.In addition to impacting the original order, new technologies also open up new paths for everyone.

At least during this period of time, the funds invested in the thermoelectric field have more than doubled. On the one hand, everyone is trying to make up for the loss, but more of them still see its broad future.So in this respect, scientists benefit, which is why they publish their papers for publication so happily.

So most of the time, peer research has made progress, and for them there is only benefit and no harm.Of course, sometimes they may be frantically dissed by some small newspapers or malicious people in the country, but they have no way to provide funds, so don't worry about them.

So most of the time everyone will look at them as a group of anti-intellectuals like clowns, as long as they don't have much influence on them, they won't care.Of course, if it's a personal attack, that's another matter.

An important feature of the scientific research organization in American society is that it does not have an official organization for overall planning and management of research, resulting in obvious diversification of research work. The personal interests of researchers have an important impact on the content and methods of research.

However, its tortuous development history shows that the scientific research system in the United States, composed of government departments, foundations, enterprises and institutions of higher learning, is like an invisible hand, manipulating the direction, focus and fate of scientific research.

The U.S. government is one of the important funding pillars of scientific research, and it mainly affects and controls scientific research through financial allocations.In the past half century, although the amount of federal government funding for scientific research has fluctuated, it has generally shown an increasing trend, as announced by the Statistical Abstract of the United States.Mainly provided by national foundations and departmental activity funds, etc.

The second largest force is private foundations, which are listed as the two main pillars of scientific research funding in the United States alongside the federal government.The number of various foundations in the United States is huge, and there are various names. For example, 340 foundations of various types can be found on the Altavista website alone.

Some foundations enthusiastically support scientific research (such as Carnegie Corporation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc.), and have played an important role in promoting the development of basic science and social science in the United States.Here we only take the Rockefeller Foundation of the United States as an example to illustrate the role of private foundations in scientific research in the United States.

Of course, capitalists are not philanthropists, so they all ask for returns.Of course, if you haven't researched anything, you don't have to worry about this.But if the things you research have great commercial value, then most of the results will be taken away by them, and the results that individuals or groups can enjoy are about 5%.

But even this ratio is enough to make most people flock to it.After all, this ratio is based on the fact that you have not invested any funds yourself. If you are optimistic about this project in advance, you can directly invest some money. Most of the time, they will not refuse.

After all, doing scientific research is like filling a bottomless hole. No one knows how deep the bottom hole must be before the ore can be seen.

The third is giant companies. The relationship between American companies and academia has a long history.There are very mature cooperation methods and channels, and the distribution and transformation of results are also very efficient.

Of course, although the purpose of enterprises investing in scientific research is to make profits, it is undeniable that enterprises are indeed more dynamic and efficient in innovation than institutions invested by the federal government and major funds.

The fourth is the well-known colleges and universities. The American academic circle has had a close relationship with colleges and universities since its formation, which is mainly manifested in three aspects:
1. Institutions of higher learning are the cradle for training scientists, and the profession of scientists is one of the most demanding occupations in the United States.Over the years, American colleges and universities have cultivated a large number of reserve forces for science, and have also created a lot of wealth for the world!
2. American institutions of higher learning generally have advanced research institutes.Scientists who teach in colleges and universities can take advantage of the universities' complete research facilities and abundant human resources (such as graduate students) to conduct research. In fact, the earliest scientific research undertakings in the United States were conducted in universities.

At that time, they were still under the radiance of the sun that never sets, and they did not have any hematopoietic ability. At that time, the education level of the people was pitifully low, and the literacy rate was even lower than that of the most backward countries today.

At that time, not to mention any scientific research, food and clothing were a very big problem.If you can read, read, and write, you will be able to find a very decent job in society that can solve the problem of food and clothing.Although most of the people who came here to open schools at this time were religious people, they did make indelible contributions to local education and science and solved many problems.

3. Various funds in universities, especially the support of alumni associations, are one of the important sources of funding for scientific research in academia.Take the top ten schools in the world as an example: the endowment fund received by Harvard University has reached a staggering 400 billion U.S. dollars, and the tenth place also has tens of billions of U.S. dollars, and these funds are one of the main sources of funding for efficient scientific research one.

You can apply for the injection of campus scientific research funds, but he will also have requirements in terms of results. Of course, he will definitely be more sincere than corporate and private funds, and he will only ask for about 70%.

Basically, these are the main channels through which they can obtain scientific research funding, and these things have nothing to do with the public and newspapers, so they naturally don't have to pay attention to those distracting things.

Of course, there are also some scientists like Professor Dillock who have achieved financial freedom. They can do any research they want to do as they please. It is also their own.

For example, the most famous one should be David Shaw. Because he didn't want to be a poor low-level scientific researcher, and he didn't want to see the ugly faces of the managers of scientific research funds, so he chose to enter Wall Street. After making a billion-dollar fortune, he happily returned to academia and continued to do his favorite research work.

To be honest, I don’t even dare to write this in novels, but it happens around us!
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