"Upstairs, move fast! If you're too slow, you'll miss out!"
"Man, what a shame. The Huawei M60 chip is still using the Kirin 9000. It's a whole generation behind the Fire Dragon 895. If they could just keep producing Kirin, Huawei would be the GOAT!"
"Hey, I heard a rumor that Apple is reaching out to the country to buy Longjing batteries. Does anyone know if that's true?"
"Ugh, Cook needs to hurry up and get those Longjing batteries for Apple. Seriously, this 3500mAh battery dies in the blink of an eye. It's pathetic."
"As a longtime Apple fan, I already switched to a Xiaomi 13, and the battery life is insane!"
"Cook, get the iPhone on Longjing batteries or you're going to lose your customer base!"
"Their international sales are still strong, but once our domestic manufacturers start hitting the global market with Longjing-powered phones, They are going to lose everything if they don't find a high-capacity fix fast."
"Exactly. Nobody is going to turn down a phone that lasts ten times longer!"
With the mass production of Longjing batteries officially underway, the latest generation of mobile phones in the country has begun utilizing this tech. These batteries hold two to five times the power of traditional lithium batteries, sparking a massive wave of upgrades across the nation.
Even people overseas are buzzing with excitement, desperate for phones with that kind of capacity.
When the mass production of the high-capacity Longjing batteries was announced, domestic battery stocks like BYD and CATL skyrocketed. In stark contrast, Apple's stock plummeted by 9%, evaporating over $200 billion in market value instantly—roughly 1.3 trillion yuan. In one afternoon, the equivalent value of a major national bank simply vanished.
However, the biggest losers weren't the phone makers—they were the energy companies.
Oil and gas stocks across Europe and the US dropped by an average of 15%. News outlets were flooded with experts claiming the end of the fossil fuel era and urging a shift to green energy. Anyone with half a brain could see that with the commercialization of massive Longjing batteries, cars, ships, and even planes would eventually ditch oil for electricity.
Combined with the massive solar industry, electricity—a cheap, clean resource—was poised to become the king of the new age.
The Longjing material isn't just for consumer electronics; it is the perfect foundation for large-scale power stations.
Professor's team from the National Academy recently published a paper in Nature regarding the construction of storage facilities using Longjing materials. The paper proved that as the volume of Longjing material increases, the storage capacity scales exponentially.
The math was staggering. Theoretically, a storage unit measuring 10m×10m×10m—a total of 1,000 cubic meters—could store 30 million kWh. That is hundreds of times more efficient than any existing power storage technology.
If a station were built using ten of these units, it could store 300 million kWh.
To put that in perspective, a city that consumes about 1.4 billion kWh a month would only need about 30 Longjing storage stations. These stations could soak up all the excess power generated at night and feed it back into the grid during the day. No more wasted energy.
More importantly, this technology allows the government to go all-in on solar power. They can finally build massive solar farms in the sun-drenched Northwest deserts. By taking advantage of the high efficiency in those regions, they can slash the number of coal-fired plants and finally protect the environment on a massive scale.
After months of rigorous testing and expert debates, the government decided the time was right. A massive project titled the "New Energy Sunshine Initiative" officially broke ground in the Kubri Desert.
The plan is ambitious: a solar power station covering over 1,000 square kilometers, capable of generating 150 billion kWh annually. Alongside it, they will build 100 Longjing storage stations with a total capacity of 30 billion kWh.
Because solar power fluctuates based on the weather, it can't be plugged directly into the main grid without causing issues. The Longjing stations act as a massive buffer, storing the raw solar energy and then outputting a steady, standard flow of power to homes and factories across the country.
It's the Longjing Storage Power Station that makes this dream a reality. In the past, building a solar farm this large would have been a waste of money because the electricity was inconsistent and more expensive than coal. Now, everything has changed.