Chapter 834: Difficulties
The old horse carried Dabai who was thrown out again, and walked to the door of the warehouse, reached out and knocked on the door, and said, "Master Nanming, I brought Dabai back."
"En." There was a reply from inside, and the old horse opened the door to go in, and saw Wubai was dragging a cable, floating in the air.
The old horse glanced at it, then left the warehouse immediately, and stood outside the warehouse door, as if waiting for Nan Ming's order at any time.
The old horse behaved like this, Travis and the others were dumbfounded, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.
Nanming and the others don't have time to pay attention to the old horse for the time being.
"Two percent power is enough to support Wubai's own weight." This is Wang Ziyang's conclusion, "Tsk tsk, this conversion rate..."
Wang Ziyang didn't know whether to say high or low.
From the original 30 micronewtons to the current power of about 30 newtons, it has increased by six orders of magnitude, that is, a million times. From this point of view, the conversion rate of the new design is really too high.
But at the same time, the energy it consumes is really too great.
Because it is not a battery or an ordinary power supply that powers this non-propellant microwave propulsion system, but a nuclear fusion reactor!
Even this experimental "Lazy Yang No. 2" with very low power and low conversion efficiency only needs 30% of the power to support the full operation of the entire Lanshen Shipyard.
If the Lanshen Shipyard is operating at full capacity, it is a huge power consumer. Unless the Silence is in port, Feng Tianyou is never willing to let the entire Lanshen Shipyard run at full capacity.
Especially several ultra-high-power 3D printing equipment, which are power-swallowing monsters when they operate, each of which can consume the electricity of a small city.
"More importantly, there is a threshold for microwave propulsion. Below this threshold, the thrust is almost negligible." Feng Tianyou looked at the test data and said, "It is about 0.7% of the power of Lanyang No. 2, which is lower than this. If the threshold is lower, the microwave propulsion cannot be activated at all.”
This value is basically equivalent to the electricity consumption of residents in a community of thousands of households.
"That is to say, basically the idea of conventional power supply or using batteries is impossible." Nan Ming frowned.
What kind of battery can supply the electricity consumption of a thousand-household community?
Several people looked at each other and knew what they were thinking.
To make microwave propulsion without propellant effective, it must be equipped with a nuclear fusion reactor.
And a fusion reactor that fits into something the size of a car?
How small should the fusion reactor be?
The nuclear fusion reactor itself is already a super black technology.
And the so-called "miniature", the nuclear fusion reactor Lanyang No. 1 on the Silence, which covers an area of several meters square, can already be regarded as "miniature"!
Normally, a nuclear fusion reactor should be as big as a nuclear power plant!
Even the Lanyang No. 2 in this warehouse is considered miniature.
Why are people's computers called microcomputers?
Because they are microcomputers in computers! Because when the computer was first born, it was a behemoth that took up a room!
Lazy Yang No. 1 is the size of a container, and now the nuclear fusion reactor must be reduced to one-tenth of its size.
On the basis of black technology, we will take a new step.
So, what is a nuclear fusion device of this size called?
Ultraminiature Fusion Reactor?
To be honest, on the basis of already miniaturized, it is very difficult to carry out ultra-miniaturization, even for Lanshen Technology, which has the previous technologies.
But Nanming, Feng Tianyou, and Wang Ziyang, you watch me play, and I look at you, and you can see the excitement in each other's eyes.
make!
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Meanwhile, in a conference room at the Pentagon, dozens of people were arguing.
A general representing the military held his forehead, wondering if he should find an ice pack to cool his head that was about to explode.
The other general had already gone out to use the toilet three times, and he was restless as if he had an awl stuck in his buttocks.
The gazes of the members of the council who participated in the meeting were already staring, apparently they had already lost their minds, and they didn't know where they had gone.
This is a pre-flying mothership meeting. Each company discusses what technology they can produce. After being recorded by the military personnel of the Pentagon, the direction of the bidding is determined, and these companies are allowed to bid.
In the past, this kind of meeting would be so intense that they could not wait to fight, just to compete for those large orders worth billions of dollars.
Every development intention of the Pentagon is a piece of super fat, and these companies are hyenas.
The meeting this time was about to explode, but everyone was not competing for shares, but shirking each other, insulting each other, and despising each other.
"Is Luo Xima brain-dead? To propose such a motion, they themselves are brain-dead, and they still drag us? Our company will not do it!"
"That's right, this is reality, not a movie! Flying mothership, how is it possible! How can there be such technology!"
"There is also Raytheon, I see Raytheon taking jujube pills!"
People from several other companies who criticized Lockheed Martin shook their heads again and again.
"Raytheon and Losima are not the only ones that are going to end? I think the U.S. government is also going to end! This kind of project can be passed. Have all the military experts been bought?"
Several military experts were annoyed at being pointed at their noses and scolded, and their eyes were raised: "Why not? If there is no such technology, how can the Silence fly?"
As soon as this question came up, everyone was dumbfounded, yes, how did the Silence fly?
"The Silence? Can the Silence be the same? The Silence is basically a civilian ship. It doesn't need to install weapons or armor. It is basically an enlarged aircraft! Even so, the Silence still uses airbags to take off. , you try to use this method to take off on the battlefield? Will you be shot down in the blink of an eye?"
"You're saying that, if you co-author it, the Silence can fly, but we Americans can't fly?"
Amidst the quarrel, the first meeting ended hastily, and several officials left the meeting room with their notebooks. The tense atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly calmed down.
A few people who actually knew each other and had a good relationship got together and discussed technical issues.
"If you want to make such a large flying object fly, and the battery life can reach the level of traveling around the earth... What kind of power source do you need for this Silence?" An engineer from Boeing Company said mysteriously, "Our intelligence According to the information received by the department, the Chinese have nuclear fusion technology!"
"Nuclear fusion technology?" The person at the Betts Atomic Force Laboratory next to him laughed, "Oh, the Chinese still have nuclear fusion technology? I guess it's nuclear reactors with higher energy efficiency at most."
"Even if it is nuclear power, there is no suitable engine that can propel such a large ship..."
"Yes, yes, to build this kind of flying mothership, two problems must be solved anyway..."
Power source and engine. (To be continued.)