Chapter 927

After dealing with the accumulation of danielis entertainment during this period, Simon left for San Francisco on Wednesday, May 8, to deal with an employee interview of the fusion times team and other work in the bay area.

After several months of continuous screening, the frameworks of fusion times, SolarCity and SpaceX have been basically built.

Fusion times and SolarCity are located in Silicon Valley, and SpaceX is located in Los Angeles.

SpaceX, with the fastest progress, has begun to design "very well." Simon stood in front of a writing board in the conference room and wrote a number of "1839" with a water pen. Then he wrote a number of "1996": "since the discovery of photovoltaic effect in 1839, 157 years have passed since 1996. How do you feel?"

Several people looked at each other, a moment later, Daniela greenwater finally said: "157 years, all wasted."

Simon tapped on the board with a fountain pen, nodded and looked at the others. "That's why Dany is the president, not you."

The other three men and one woman couldn't help their eyes.

As a matter of fact, the employees of the three companies do not have much opinion about the three women in charge.

The reason is that all the regular employees of the three companies, except for a few non staff scientists who are consultants, are under 35 years old and are young people. Therefore, there is no seniority phenomenon in the R & D departments of many large enterprises or government laboratories. What's more, Simon promised everyone that if they didn't do well, they would be removed soon. Similarly, others who perform well will be promoted personally.

In 157, alternating current, semiconductors, fossil energy and so on have been widely used in our lives, but photovoltaic technology has been limited to a few areas. In my opinion, this is actually a waste. Basically, the energy of human society comes from the sun. We have been ignoring the most direct and abundant energy application, but constantly consuming the fossil energy accumulated and transformed by the earth for hundreds of millions of years. This is a very serious misguided way. I set up SolarCity in the hope that our application of energy will be back on the right track. "

After hearing Simon's speech, several people at the conference table nodded slightly.

If they didn't recognize this idea, they wouldn't join the industry.

Simon pauses a little and continues, "well, get to the point. It has accumulated for 157 years. In fact, all the mainstream photovoltaic materials have been discovered, as well as the related peripheral technologies. Therefore, my request to you is not to start all over again. Just like Isaac Newton's "stand on the shoulders of giants", I hope you can stand on the basis of the technology accumulated by predecessors for hundreds of years, and first conduct a comprehensive carding and integration, and a carding and integration of photovoltaic applications and surrounding technologies around the world. I know what you're thinking. It's not easy for others, but it's not a problem for me, because I have enough capital to support you in this integration. "

Everyone smiles, but they know it's true.

The so-called integration, frankly speaking, is technology integration.

Since it is a technology, it certainly involves all kinds of patent issues. Whether it is direct acquisition or licensing, it needs a lot of financial support. At this stage, some people may have such capital strength, but considering the investment risk, few people will do so.

This is not a problem for Simon.

Even if you really have to spend billions of dollars, a super rich person will not be hurt.

In front of the tablet, Simon continued: "of course, the integration I'm talking about is not just the integration of photovoltaic products. I hope you can build a complete industrial closed loop from the production of photovoltaic materials to the final waste disposal. For many people, the biggest selling point of photovoltaic products is clean energy, which can reduce the pollution caused by fossil fuels. However, we all know that in-depth study, this argument is a hoax, because photovoltaic materials not only consume a lot of energy from the beginning of production, but also start to cause all kinds of pollution, and the pollution caused by photovoltaic waste, as well as the waste of battery products used for energy storage, is more serious. Since we want to promote photovoltaic products in the name of environmental protection, I hope we can really live up to the name to the greatest extent, not just a gimmick. At the very least, we need to realize the ultimate harmless treatment of photovoltaic waste and spent batteries. "

As Simon said, he wrote down various key words on the tablet: "after finishing the first step of technology combing and integration, I ask you to carry out deeper research and development on the basis of existing technology, and integrate a set of photovoltaic product operation scheme that can carry out actual commercial operation. Remember, what I need is an optimal solution between cost and efficiency, which is also the direction of your future efforts. If someone talks about expensive photovoltaic materials on satellites that are more expensive than gold, I will fire you directly. Of course, this plan also involves the complete industrial chain from material production to waste treatment. I have discussed SolarCity's rent for sale strategy with you before, which is a very easy to imitate business model. However, as long as you can optimize the cost to the extreme and form a complete industrial chain, it will be difficult for other followers to pose a threat to SolarCity in the future. "Simon stayed at SolarCity headquarters for two hours from 2 p.m. to discuss various issues with several core members of the company. He didn't leave until 4 p.m.

Then he rushed to a small town in southwest San Jose called Morgan hills.

Fusiontimes has purchased 50 hectares of land here. A few days ago, it reached an agreement with surrounding residents that fusiontimes headquarters will be set up here.

In fact, it was initially proposed that the headquarters of fusion times should be located in Livermore, east of the bay area, near the Livermore National Laboratory of the US Department of energy.

After all, if you want to research controllable nuclear fusion technology, even private companies need to get permission and supervision from government departments. In this regard, the Westeros system has been authorized by the federal government and has reached some technical cooperation agreements. If the headquarters of fusion times is set up in Livermore, it will be more convenient to communicate with the Livermore National Laboratory Team which is also engaged in controllable fusion research.

Simon directly chose to refuse.

Simon hopes to build a company with the spirit of Silicon Valley. Whether it's fusiontimes and SolarCity in the bay area or SpaceX in Los Angeles, Simon hopes that the teams of the three companies can be as enterprising and innovative as the Silicon Valley companies.

In contrast, almost the Livermore National Laboratory of the government department, Simon certainly does not deny the technical details of these national laboratories, but the rigid system and idle style within these laboratories also make it difficult for them to make great technological breakthroughs.

In my memory, there are always people who compare the scientific research institutions of China and the west, and then lament the loss of top domestic researchers.

It's all the same.

Otherwise, America's new moon landing program would not depend on private companies like SpaceX.

But relatively speaking, there are also various large private enterprises or commercial research institutions in the West that accept top researchers from all over the world and give them enough space to play, such as SpaceX. Even 20 years later, China has not formed such a soil because of its shallow foundation.

All in all, Simon doesn't want the fusiontimes team to get used to the Livermore National Laboratory.

Of course, it should be far away.

Simon's plot near Morgan villa is only 20 kilometers away from the center of San Jose City, which is basically within the scope of Silicon Valley. In fact, Simon also wants to be more core, but the fields involved in fusion times are sensitive after all. Moreover, it is not easy to purchase 50 hectares of land in the core area of Silicon Valley at one time.

Morgan Hill, located in the southwest of San Jose, is just a compromise.

After seeing the site selection of fusion times and communicating with the architectural design team, Simon stayed in the bay area for one night after one day's work, and set off again the next day to fly to New York.