Chapter 864: Long-distance wireless power transmission
Originally, Xia Shiyu planned to attend this Silicon Valley High-tech Event, and as a corporate executive of Futureren Group, she can indeed represent Futureren Group to a certain extent. The reason why the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info made such a consideration was mainly because he was worried about Jiang Chen's safety.
Jiang Chen said that he finally persuaded Xia Shiyu to rest assured that he would go in person.
Speaking of which, he has done business all over the United States, but he has never been there in person.
In addition, California, where Silicon Valley is located, is just on the edge of Nevada, and he also wants to take this opportunity to "visit" the mysterious Area 51 to see what the Americans are studying inside.
Before flying to Los Angeles, there was good news from the end times.
Previously, Jiang Chen had been instructing the Moby Dick Haiti Research Station to search for long-distance power transmission equipment, and finally had an eyebrow. Wu Yue, who often lives in the sixth block, conveyed the news to Chu Nan, who fed back to the fish bone base.
When Sun Jiao told Jiang Chen about this good breath, Jiang Chen immediately returned to the end of the world and went to the sixth block to find Wu Yue.
In front of the warehouse in the sixth block, a sentry wearing an exoskeleton stood up and saluted and opened the iron door for Jiang Chen.
The dry breath came to his face, and Jiang Chen walked into the bright warehouse, and soon saw Wu Yue standing on a platform, and the researchers of Camp 27 who were busy around the platform.
"We meet again, Mr. Marshal. ”
Wu Yue stepped forward with a smile, stretched out his hand and shook Jiang Chen tightly.
"Long time no see," Jiang Chen let go of his hand with a smile, "I didn't expect that after so long, you were still sitting in the position of the ambassador." ”
"Surprised?" Wu Yue spread out his hand and said with a smile.
"No, I'm just curious why you weren't promoted. Don't talk about that, what about things?"
Jiang Chen looked around, but he didn't see what he expected in the warehouse.
Hearing this, Wu Yue stomped his feet with a smile.
"Right at our feet. ”
Slightly stunned, Jiang Chen looked at his feet.
If you look closely, there is something really special about this hexagonal platform.
On the dark black shell, small bulges of scales, about the size of a thumb, can be observed, neatly arranged in a net that covers the hexagonal platform.
However, Jiang Chen never expected that this hexagonal platform, which covers an area of square meters, is actually part of the long-distance wireless power transmission equipment.
"How does this thing work, can you show me how?"
Jiang Chen casually stepped on the surface of the platform, and he didn't see anything special except that he felt that the material on the surface was very soft.
"This thing works in outer space, and it can't be used in the atmosphere. Wu Yue shook his head and stretched out his finger to point at the researchers who belonged to NAC, "You might as well ask your subordinates about the specific working principle, I don't know much...... Well, let's settle the bill first. ”
Speaking of checkout, the smile on Wu Yue's face immediately piled up.
Jiang Chen didn't talk nonsense with him, he directly clicked on the watch, pulled out the data cable and connected it directly to his EP, and then transferred 10,000 credits to his account. Seeing that string of numbers, the smile on Wu Yue's face became even worse, and he bowed respectfully to Jiang Chen, and then left the warehouse.
10,000 credits, the purchasing power is equivalent to 100,000 subcrystals, enough for the Moby Dick Observatory to purchase supplies for a whole month in the sixth block. If you cooperate with merchants, you have to travel as far as the island of Honshu four times to earn so much.
Helping the NAC junta salvage the equipment in front of the station is simply a fat shortage for the people at the Beluga Expedition.
After Wu Yue left, Jiang Chen found the researcher who was busy on the computer next to the platform and asked him about the use of this device.
Seeing the marshal questioning him, the technician named Luo Yong was quite excited, put down the work at hand, and took Jiang Chen straight to an instrument in the corner of the warehouse. I saw that on the iron box, which looked like a wardrobe, there was a transparent plexiglass tube about one meter long.
"This is a device that simulates wireless power transmission in the environment of outer space. Electrical energy is converted into an energy-carrying laser beam at the A pole of the aurora and electrical energy at the B pole. The glass tube is now pumped into a vacuum to prevent the transmission laser from being lost in the form of heat. While explaining the technical connotation to Jiang Chen in plain language, Luo Yong reached out to open the holographic screen and pressed the start button of the device.
I saw that he clicked his finger on it a few times, set the transmission power, and one end of the glass tube began to glow, and the indicator marked the power degree began to beat, and finally stopped at the 21kw position.
In an instant, a blue laser filled the entire vacuum tube, like a flowing liquid, bright but not dazzling. At the same time, the power of the indicator, opposite the other pole of the vacuum tube, also began to beat. When the surging laser stabilized, the power finally stopped at 20.997kw.
Even considering that this distance is only one meter long, the power loss of 0.014% is quite rebellious. In contrast to conventional power transmission, under ideal conditions, this laser transmission does not pass through the medium, so there is no so-called resistance and no heat loss.
As long as the medium in the optical path is as small as possible and the beam is concentrated as much as possible, electrical energy can be stably transmitted from one pole to the other with very low losses across tens of thousands, even millions of kilometers.
At that time, the helium-3 mined from the moon does not need to be transported to the earth by spacecraft at all, and is directly converted into electricity at the moon's nuclear fusion power station, and then directly "shot" to the end of the space elevator in outer space in this way of laser transmission, converted into electricity, and then transmitted to the ground power grid by superconductor line.
"Because of the plexiglass, we can see the laser beam with the naked eye, which is very gentle, but it is also a loss of electrical energy. However, in the actual universe, this beam is invisible. In other words, a blue strip of light can only be observed in areas close to the Earth, or if there happen to be dust bands or clusters of water molecules passing by. ”
While introducing to Jiang Chen, Wu Yue turned off the device.
"Isn't it dangerous if a spaceship passes through this laser beam?" Jiang Chen suddenly thought of a very serious question.
Tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of MW of electricity are converted into lasers, and this Nima is simply a moon-based laser turret! If there is a spacecraft rocket or something in the middle of this light path, it must not be directly baked into molten iron?
Also, if this laser is accidentally missed, it will poke at the earth......
Jiang Chen was really a little afraid of poking a hole in the atmosphere directly.
"This worry is unfounded. Luo Yong smiled, "Generally speaking, the light path will be marked on the ship's navigator, and no spaceship will fly over, just like we won't be idle and have nothing to do to carry a ladder to touch the high-voltage line." ”
"Then what if this laser misses?" Jiang Chen asked. (To be continued.) )