Chapter 428: The building is crooked
In short, whether it is tax subsidies or concessions, it is still very attractive for enterprises and individuals who aspire to achieve something in aerospace.
Although it is difficult to say what will be the situation in a decade or two, even a vague promise reaches the ears of the capitalists, and after their operation, it will still bring them a considerable degree of benefits.
At least, it can be "seen" from these two articles that China will make big moves in the aerospace field, and they can become participants, and these two sentences alone are enough to provide a space for investors who have nowhere to "vent" with huge money in their hands, and let their imagination play freely
It's a pity that among the crowd at the meeting, except for him Liu Feng, there are basically no private capitalists, otherwise, he can also have a good discussion with these "stupid people with a lot of money" guys, and by the way, give full play to the strength that he should have as a member of the war situation - transfer the "risk" of Fenghua Aerospace Co., Ltd.
Regarding these two policies taken up by the state, while planning for his own careful thinking, from the perspective of the high-level, Liu Feng also clearly saw the country's mind that "the world will not be chaotic".
"Yu Shuji, the high-level introduction of these two policies, I am afraid is not just to promote the development of China's aerospace industry. ”
Seeing Liu Feng's look of understanding everything, Secretary Yu nodded in admiration, Liu Feng's political sense, it's a pity not to go into politics.
He smiled and said: "That's right! Although it is very necessary to build a space station or land on the moon in the long run, it is not urgent, or it is not the aerospace project that is urgent; however, the space program has indeed risen to the level of national strategy, and there is nothing false about this; the reason for this contradiction is nothing more than that we are not able to do it at present." ”
Speaking of this, Secretary Yu sighed and put on a helpless expression,
"In the past, country M hit us by rubbing our hands and almost united the whole world, so that any action we make on 'controlled nuclear fusion' is like being put under a microscope for observation; although the situation is much better now, before they have fully mastered the controlled nuclear fusion technology, they should not turn their faces against us, but we don't know how long we can hide from them! The longer the time, the more beneficial it will be to us, and if their strength is weakened by one point, our confidence will be relatively stronger! For such strategic considerations, we need to distract them as much as possible, contain them in other ways, and consume their strength, so the Council of Elders decided to open up a new battlefield while accelerating the construction of nuclear power plants and superconducting transmission networks at room temperature, and the aerospace project is just one of them. ”
Liu Feng said curiously: "In addition to energy and aerospace engineering, could it be that we have other heavyweight hole cards that can contain them?"
According to his understanding, what China can make country M vigilant is, in addition to his recent 'controlled nuclear fusion' and the aerospace industry that is gradually catching up, it can also make the bald eagle anxious in terms of GDP.
However, it is absolutely impossible for the high-level to use the GDP matter as a hole card, after all, this kind of thing is not advantageous in itself, not to mention, for the economy to maintain stable and healthy development, it has always been a painstaking matter for the high-level to do so, and this article must not be messed up.
Secretary Yu smiled: "Of course there is." ”
Liu Feng frowned: "No, can't we take the initiative to launch an economic war? If this is the case, why did we bow to country M in the first place?"
Secretary Yu smiled incomprehensibly: "Economic warfare? Who said we should fight economic warfare." ”
Liu Feng was stunned: "Isn't it?"
"Of course, it is absolutely impossible for us to use economic weapons until the last step!" Speaking of this, Secretary Yu shook his head, "Don't guess, we have been in obscurity for so many years, and we have saved some money, this is a set of combination punches, you will know when the time comes." ”
Well, it's not good for Liu Feng to continue to explore.
In short, it is a good thing that the state can contain the energy of the people of country M in other aspects.
He was not the only one who could play with the land and power schemes between countries, but also the Council of Elders and a group of people behind them, so why should he worry?
Just as Secretary Yu said, in the long run, the aerospace project is necessary, and it is precisely because of this necessity that we can contain the strategic focus of other countries.
It is estimated that after this move, Europe, M, and Mao will also increase their investment in the aerospace field, at least, they cannot be reduced on the basis of investment in previous years;
And when these guys are getting deeper and deeper down this path, he will launch an antimatter spacecraft in one go, and all the space instruments will instantly fall behind into children's toys...... When the time comes, I just hope those guys don't vomit blood.
It's quite touching to think about.
It's just that if other countries, especially the people of country M, are really stimulated by this, and then frantically plunge into the "arms race" in space, there is still a crucial hand missing.
With the current level of China's aerospace, although it can stimulate countries like Toray and Asan, it is still a little weaker for M country and Mao Xiong country, especially in the rocket launch level, which is still catching up with their footsteps in the 60s.
Therefore, even though the NASA of M has always talked about China's aerospace achievements in recent years, the shrewd congressional lords still reduce NASA's funding year by year; if they want to cooperate with NASA to get more money from Congress, they must make that group of shrewd capitalist congressmen feel a real threat.
Therefore......
"Do you need me to do anything?" Liu Feng said quite consciously in agreement.
Secretary Yu sighed in his heart, no wonder this guy is so loved by Minister Zhang and the elders, in addition to the ghostly scientific research ability, this guy is also quite good at tacit understanding with the high-level.
No, their side has just revealed their strategic intentions, and Liu Feng has already smelled the wind and is ready to cooperate:
"The senior hopes that you can join the aerospace project and lead the Aerospace Science and Industry Group to develop a new type of rocket, well, not a traditional chemical rocket, but a controlled nuclear fusion as the power, whether it is all-electric propulsion or plasma propulsion, whatever you want. ”
Anyway, the stalk of controllable nuclear fusion is used up, and there are more lice and they are not afraid of itching, and if you add something to it, it will be used as "waste".
It has to be said that the idea of the top is quite feasible.
Professor Liu himself is the "father of controlled nuclear fusion", coupled with this feared scientific research strength and strong academic appeal, with his platform, can the people of country M not hold the Hubble telescope to monitor his movements?
In response to the intentions of the high-level, Liu Feng couldn't help but cry and laugh.
Is this intended for him to carry out the fool to the end?
If the M Guoyan finally finds out that they have been deceived by themselves twice, they will not have to directly develop a time machine from the future, and then travel back and destroy him!
I secretly felt sad for the people of country M, and after holding it for a while, Liu Feng still asked:
"So, Yu Shuji, Academician Zhou Jianping's request for me to preside over the overall situation should not be just his personal meaning, or is this meeting itself what you want to convene?"
Secretary Yu smiled: "Isn't this a capable person who works harder? We also know that you still have to worry about antimatter engineering here, if you really don't have time, it's okay to hang idle." Besides, isn't it precisely for the purpose of developing spaceships in the future that you are researching antimatter engines?"
Looking at Secretary Yu's smiling expression, Liu Feng sighed and said, "Okay, if you think it's okay, I'll follow up on the aerospace engineering side." ”
Speaking of this, Liu Feng thought for a while and continued,
"Fiction and reality, reality and fiction, if you really want to engage in strategic fooling, what I just said about slowing down or even abandoning the space station program and the moon landing project, well, I suggest as the chief engineer of aerospace engineering, how about canceling it directly?"
"Why is this?" Hearing Liu Feng mention this matter again, Secretary Yu was stunned, "If it is canceled, can other countries still be fooled?"
Liu Feng smiled: "What kind of space station and moon landing, it's too petty, let's land on Mars directly and have a Martian immigration plan, how about it?"
Secretary: "......"
Dumbfounded.
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In the end, with the ventilation between Secretary Yu and Liu Feng, the subsequent meeting was almost just a process.
Regarding the space station plan and the lunar exploration plan, Academician Zhou Jianping and others, who knew the inside story, were clear about the results of the meeting after receiving the instructions from Secretary Yu, and did not stand up to say anything.
Other experts spoke quite actively, and many even argued, but in the end, nothing came out.
The morning meeting lasted until 12 o'clock, and after a light meal in the middle of the meeting, the meeting continued at half past one in the afternoon.
However, under the guidance of well-intentioned people, the afternoon meeting became a discussion in the field of technology, and many people came up with many interesting technical ideas to discuss.
For example, Professor Gui Tianxing of the Rocket Technology Research Institute put forward the idea of a nuclear-powered engine.
This kind of idea almost scared Liu Feng a lot, and he almost thought that the project they were working on had leaked secrets!
Because
Aside from the fact that they differed from his antimatter engine in the details of propulsion technology, the principles of the two turned out to be eerily similar!
The same does not require propellant, the same directly uses the reactor as the core, relying on the reaction force of high-energy particles to propel the rocket to accelerate.
Similar to the antimatter annihilation reaction, because the nuclear fusion reaction can also produce many high-energy particles, these high-energy particles move very fast, and the reason why traditional chemical rockets need propellant is to increase the thermal motion speed of the propellant when heating the propellant to obtain thrust, and the nuclear fusion reaction already has such a high-speed moving substance, so naturally there is no need for propellant.
Moreover, these high-energy particles are ionic, and they can also use magnetic fields to control the direction of their ejection in the same way as the development idea of antimatter engines, and in this way, they can still achieve a specific impulse of 1 million seconds, which is almost as good as that of antimatter engines!
The high thrust provided by such engines allows spacecraft or probes to complete interplanetary missions and even perform interstellar flights.
However, such engines are much more difficult to build than antimatter engines, and can be very expensive, requiring smaller multi-stage reactors (the latter using the products of the previous stage) in addition to the difficulty of the controlled fusion reactor itself.
A bold and crazy idea indeed.
Moreover, not only this Professor Gui Tianxing, but also another Professor Xu Zhixiong of the Rocket Technology Research Institute, also put forward an even bolder and crazy idea - no longer using a controlled nuclear reaction, but using a nuclear explosion to propel the spacecraft!
This is no longer just an engine, but a nuclear-pulse rocket ship.
The principle of this kind of spacecraft is to carry a large number of low-yield atomic bombs, leave them behind one by one and detonate them, and then install a propulsion disc behind the spacecraft to absorb the shock wave of the explosion and propel the spacecraft forward.
Of course, the atomic bomb does not act directly on the propulsion disk, after the release of the atomic bomb, some solid discs made of polyethylene plastic are released in the spacecraft, and when the spacecraft travels a certain distance, the atomic bomb will explode 60 meters behind the spacecraft, evaporating the plastic discs and converting them into high-heat plasma slurry.
Since the plastic disk is located between the atomic bomb and the spacecraft, a significant portion of the plasma slurry will catch up with the spacecraft and hit the huge metal propulsion disk at the tail of the spacecraft, thus propelling the spacecraft at high speeds, with a theoretical specific impulse of 10,000 to 1 million seconds.
According to Professor Xu Zhixiong, plastic was chosen because it absorbs neutrons from nuclear explosions very well, which means that it works very well with instantaneous radiant energy, and it will break down into light atoms such as hydrogen and carbon and move at high speed.
One immediately wondered if the spacecraft's huge propulsion disc could withstand the melting or corrosion of the high-temperature plasma produced by a nuclear explosion.
The crazy Professor Xu had already used a helium ionizer to conduct a simulation test, and the result was that the instantaneous high temperature plasma would only cause slight corrosion on the surface of the metal propulsion disc, which could even be negligible, and there was no need to design a special cooling system, ordinary aluminum and steel were enough to become durable materials for making metal propulsion discs.
There are also people who calculate the pressure on the propulsion disc and find that the instantaneous thrust is too large to exceed the body's capacity, so as to oppose it.
Our Professor Xu even has a solution.
A vibration absorption system is installed directly between the spacecraft's propulsion disc and the front hull, and the pulse energy is temporarily stored in the absorption system and then gradually released, so that it can fly relatively smoothly without violent shocks caused by the impact of the explosion.
Soon, Professor Xu, who was a Confucian in his tongue, resonated with many experts with this seemingly fantastical approach.
You add, I argue, and the result of the argument is that such a spaceship is actually very feasible?
Therefore, these people suggested on the spot that they invest in the construction of a simple, large-loaded, and financially affordable small spacecraft for testing.
They even simulated the appearance and general outline of the spacecraft, a bit like a bishop's crown or a bullet, about 16 stories high, the diameter of the propulsion disc behind it is 41 meters, the total take-off mass is about 10,000 tons, the atomic bomb yield exploded at takeoff is 0.1 thousand tons (the propulsion generated by the explosion of 100 tons of TNT equivalent can be far more than 100 tons), and it is planned to throw one every 1 second, and when the spacecraft accelerates to a certain speed, it will drop to an atomic bomb with a yield of 20,000 tons every 10 seconds.
As for the take-off method, they designed it to fly vertically upwards, rather than tilting to a certain altitude like ordinary chemical rockets.
According to Professor Xu Zhixiong, the purpose of such a flight is to concentrate radioactive contamination in a small area.
Moreover, such a ship could be built like a battleship without having to think too much about its weight like a chemically powered spaceship, so that the spacecraft could carry 150 people and thousands of tons of heavy loads, and only need to carry a total of 2,000 small atomic bombs to send the spacecraft to Mars...... You can even carry small chemically powered ships that you can use to land on planets or moons and get back back......
The second half of the meeting almost all became Professor Xu's personal meeting, and most of the experts, including Liu Feng, were dumbfounded.
In fact, Liu Feng thinks that he is also a rather crazy scientist, but compared to this Professor Xu, it is simply a drop in the bucket.
It's just that he is not only crazy, but also has a lot of professional knowledge, so that if he wasn't working on an antimatter spaceship, he might have the idea of participating in the design of this spaceship.
In the end, it is not known how the meeting ended.
Anyway, in the eyes of the staff, this meeting is absolutely crooked.
However, most experts are unimpressed.
Even our professors Liu Feng and Liu Da were led out of the conference room by Secretary Yu in a daze.
It wasn't until he got home that this guy eased up, recalling that he promised others to continue to fool people, so he quickly took out his mobile phone and posted a message directly on Weibo:
- Next, the sea of stars!