Chapter 169: Ion Thrusters and Hovercars
New energy batteries, still confidential, have not been made public for the time being, but as time goes by, the disclosure is certain, and several professors have contacted Xie Dong to publish scientific research articles on new energy, but he refused, and now he doesn't want too much aura to hang over himself. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The disclosure of his identity in the sixth middle school has caused him great trouble.
Although 50 billion is a lot of funds, in all fairness, it is only half of the Star Company, which has been growing rapidly every day recently, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes a giant.
The control of the new company is in the hands of Xie Dong, but Xie Dong does not intend to manage it, but directly loses it to Xie De and Mu Cheng, Xie De's identity is sensitive and cannot directly appoint the deputy director, but Mu Cheng can. Mu Cheng was also an executive of a listed company before, and his hands were hundreds of millions of funds, so there was no problem with him being a deputy director.
Of course, if it is possible, he still wants to transfer the position of chairman to Shed, and run the Star Company himself.
In his opinion, the Star Company is his hole card.
After the new company was officially established, he encountered a lot of things, including personnel appointments, infrastructure structure, personnel training, headquarters settings, etc., etc., he didn't know these before, but now he will learn a little more, considering that he only does technical components, so most of the things have been recruited by Mu Cheng.
Does Xie Dong need this state-owned enterprise?
Obviously not, this is just the product of mutual compromise, it is naturally best to be able to control it in his own hands, if he can't control it, there is nothing, he has something more interesting.
Star company since last year launched the rolling No. 2 and holographic projection chip, there has been no new product on the market, although the holographic smart phone has been developed, but it is still being debugged, the intelligent unmanned car has only launched a concept model, the architecture has not been done, now, Xie Dong wants to continue to command the product line of the star company.
Only two products are not enough, and after the beginning of spring this year, another heavyweight product must be launched.
Yes, what Xie Dong wants is subversion.
Instantly catches the eye.
The tokamak and anti-gravity were put aside by him for the time being, and there was no need to rush it, in fact, it would take him several years to figure out something of this level, and he couldn't rush it. And on this day, he found an interesting device in a set of retrieved alien battleships.
Yes, it's funny, not a charged particle shield, but a thruster, to be precise, a high-tech thruster that propels a person into the air.
This kind of thruster, Xie Dong has checked, is called ion thruster.
What is an ion thruster?
Ion thrusters, also known as ion engines, or electric rockets, are a type of space electric propulsion technology.
Conventional rocket engines are propelled by a chemical combustion reaction that ejects high-velocity gas from the tail. The ion-electric propulsion engine also uses the jet principle, but it does not use chemical combustion, but uses electrical energy to act on the working fluid to stimulate high-speed ion flow to backward propulsion.
Ion thrusters convert electrical energy and xenon into a positively charged high-velocity ion stream, and under the action of a strong electric field, the ions are ejected at an accelerated pace, generating a reaction force.
Ion electric propulsion engines are characterized by very low accelerations, which can be as low as a few centimeters per second or even less, and some have described this thrust as "blowing a piece of paper". However, unlike chemical rockets, which have extremely short combustion times, electric propulsion rockets can provide very long acceleration times, so the specific impulse of the engine is very large, that is, the same mass of working fluid can provide greater total thrust and final velocity.
On the other hand, a small thrust is often enough for the attitude adjustment and orbit change of the satellite, so many satellites now use this kind of thruster.
Compared to other thrusters, the main advantages of ion thrusters are that they are stable, efficient, and use very little fuel, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the thrust generated by existing ion thrusters can only blow a piece of paper, and it needs to accelerate for a long time.
Before 2014, electric rockets, that is, ion thrusters, once only existed in popular science books in China, and were monopolized by several space powers such as the United States, Russia, Europe and Japan for a long time, and could not be obtained, but in 2014, they were finally successfully developed by Chinese scientists and equipped on the "Shijian-9" satellite.
Of course, the ion thruster that Xie Dong has obtained now is not an ordinary ion thruster, and the thrust it generates can push a person into the sky in just a fraction of a second, which is much stronger than an ion thruster that can only blow a piece of paper.
Yes, this is a super plasma thruster, and the alien armor he obtained is still not equipped with an anti-gravity device, but is equipped with such a device.
Perhaps, the anti-gravity device has a big flaw for aliens, after all, there is no gravity in space, if some armor needs to be shown deep into space, the anti-gravity device is obviously not done, and in comparison, the ion thruster is obviously much more useful than the anti-gravity device, which can not only act on the ground, but also move freely in space.
It's a little strange to think like this, why do aliens also have such a thing as a spacesuit? Is it rare to collect exhibits in museums?
Whatever, in fact, Xie Dong only found a spacesuit in one interstellar battleship, and none of the other warships found it.
So here's the point, now that the ion thruster has been discovered, what can Xie Dong do?
Undoubtedly, hovercars.
Not a maglev vehicle, but a real hover.
Because magnetic levitation has a big flaw!
As we all know, magnetic levitation is based on the principle of two magnets of the same sex to cause levitation, if it is a magnetic levitation car, then there must be two magnets, one on the top, one on the bottom, even if the magnet is not used, it must be on the surface of conductive materials such as copper or aluminum, otherwise it can not cause suspension.
In this way, the requirements are very demanding, and the ground must be modified.
And ion thrusters, they don't need any of this at all.
For a long time, there have only been five technologies for humans to obtain levitation. The first is a helicopter, which has been widely adopted, on which a propeller is installed, which rotates rapidly to create thrust; The second is an anti-gravity device, the existence of which is still being studied; The third is magnetic levitation, which has already been explained and will not be mentioned for the time being; The fourth is electrostatic repulsion, which is similar to magnetic levitation, and requires ground electricity.
The fifth, the ion thruster, is similar in principle to chemical rockets, but more stable, safer, and less fuel.
On top of that, the size of the ion thruster is very small, and the satellite "Shijian-9" once launched by Huaxia is equipped with an ion thruster, which is only 200 millimeters in diameter and weighs 140 kilograms. (To be continued.) )