Chapter 044 Crossing

Boss Wu and Boss Wang This is Wang Ba looked at the mung beans and looked at each other, Boss Wu also likes to open his mind, he said: "You say, can this wind power be used to drive the train, because with the rails, the friction is very small, since the Dutch can use the wind power to engage in land transportation, maybe laying rails can be promoted in other places where the wind is a little smaller, in ancient times, it should be able to kill others in seconds, and it is very cheap, and the steam engine also needs a large number of miners who dig coal." ”

"Haha, wind trains? It's an interesting concept that can be pondered. Wang Fang laughed.

Boss Wu: "I think it's okay, I recently saw a girl dragging a truck with her hair, which shows that in the case of small friction, a little drag can play a big role." Moreover, I read some popular science, the only way for human beings to accelerate a spaceship to one-tenth of the speed of light is to use the light pressure of the weak sunlight in space, and in the absence of air, the light pressure is constantly acting, which is also very powerful. ”

Wang Fang: "You're right, it's called the sun sail, and the ancient power of the sail is really promising." But there is a problem with the train, there are many valleys on land, the wind is blocked, it is not easy to cross it, and the mountain area is the most difficult to erect a railway. The plains are fine. So, the most important thing in your plan is to occupy the North China Plain. ”

Boss Wu couldn't help but think: "The North China Plain is not bad, there are 300,000 square kilometers, the British are only 240,000, and people can build an empire with 240,000 square meters as a base, and I am worried about the big thing with 300,000 for the rear?" It's not interesting to have a steam engine like the UK, everyone knows how it goes, but it must be interesting to build a wind-powered empire on which the sun never sets. ”

Wang Fang: "In order to satisfy your bad taste, I also suggested that you use a clockwork to store energy, which can postpone the invention of the battery and make it less important, hehe." ”

Boss Wu: "This ...... It's strange, why is this kind of energy storage device now only stored in the watch? ”

Wang Fang: "Of course, if you want to talk about theory, the energy density of lithium batteries is 3,000 times that of the mainspring in a watch. However, the traverser generally doesn't know how lithium batteries are made, and I don't know very well, but I know the clockwork. I also know the basic principle of a mechanical watch, which is a large battery when the system of a mechanical watch is magnified N times.

Although the energy density of the mainspring is low, it is better to be simple and easy to manufacture, otherwise the previous watchmakers would not have invented this thing first. The key to releasing energy slowly and continuously lies in something called an escapement, and the ticking sound in the clock is produced by the friction between the two hooks of the escapement and the gear that grips and releases the gear.

Inside the escapement is a spring, which can easily be mistaken for a clockwork, and is responsible for the rhythmic swing of the two hooks, which produces the rotation of the gears that can regulate the time. Got this done, and even clocks were invented.

There is a science fiction novel called "Clockwork Girl in Bangkok", which won the same Hugo Award for "The Three-Body Problem", and this novel imagines that there will be an energy crisis in the future, the industrial system will be in chaos, and the easy-to-produce clockwork will become the main energy source, and the clockwork man will be created. The biggest problem with the clockwork man is that he relies on the escapement to release the power in a stunned manner, so he is stunned when he acts, haha.

Look, this guy went with me. If there is a world war and human civilization collapses, I and a bunch of stupid friends will not be able to make batteries, and maybe I will actually make large clockwork. ”

Boss Wu: "However, we already have a wind train, what is the use of this clockwork?" ”

Boss Wang: "It can be used in city buses, and it is impossible to use sails that cover the sky and the sun in the city. That's why we have to use clockwork. It can imitate supercapacitor buses, and now there are buses that use supercapacitors as energy, but the energy density is not enough, and it can only run a few kilometers, but it is enough to support the next charging station, and capacitor charging is a matter of a few seconds or more than ten seconds.

Our clockwork buses are the same, running on the tracks, saving effort, and there is a windmill every few kilometers, specially used for winding, the energy is not good, we can set one per kilometer, okay? You can also adjust the size of the bus, in short, it will be more cost-effective than the carriage, the carriage is actually very expensive, people eat horses and chew, you think about how cost-effective it is.

The use of energy is the underlying technology, and the energy can be used in transportation is the second layer of the most important technology. ”

Boss Wu said: "This empire just has a bad one, if it doesn't blow one day, the whole empire will stop, haha!" ”

Wang Bang smiled and said: "So, our empire has a major feature, there is no fixed holiday, and if it is not windy, we will all have a holiday." ”

Boss Wu was even more out of breath laughing.

Wang Zhan: "So, wind energy storage is particularly important, the wind may sometimes be a little smaller, more or less there will be, make more big clockwork, store a little more energy when the energy is surplus, and send it to the place where the demand is high by the wind." I think it is still possible to occupy 90% of the country's industrial output value with this stunt.

If the entire wind energy industry is developed, it may be possible to build a wind railway connecting the Eurasian continent and realize the Belt and Road ahead of schedule. Do you know how the Netherlands came into decline after the Industrial Revolution? It is because of the poor geographical conditions, the many puddles, and the high cost of building the railway, which cannot be repaired for a long time. It can be seen how important it is to integrate economic resources with railways. ”

Boss Wu appreciated this wonderful plan to dominate after crossing, but he still had some regrets: "It's a pity, the wind train is still not fast enough after all, and the logistics are okay, but the communication is bad, so you have to rely on flying pigeons to pass the book?" An 800-mile rush is faster than a wind-powered train, if the train is as fast as a sailboat. ”

Wang Zhan: "Yes, you have to be faster than the flying pigeon to pass the book, otherwise how can you be worthy of the noble identity of the traverser?" I want to think about ......"

Boss Wu: "Don't say that the invention of the telegraph is so high-tech, we can't play it." ”

Hearing Boss Wu say this, Wang Fang suddenly came to inspiration and said, "There is!" You can set up a two-dimensional code station, according to Marco Polo, in the Yuan Dynasty every 20 to 25 miles there will be a station, we use this similar specifications, every 50 kilometers there is a station, I think you can use a telescope to see 50 kilometers away, because you can build a tower in the station, if there is a hill bag nearby, you can also build a communication tower on the hill bag.

However, the telescopes we use are not ordinary telescopes, but small, very cheap, and each lens is only aimed at a small hole in the target 50 kilometers away, and that small hole either emits light or does not emit light, and is binary for automation. So, our system can have hundreds of small telescopes, and we follow the RQ code standard, 21*21=441.

Again, we don't mean ordinary telescopes, they're just very small condensers. So 441 is not a luxury at all, it is just 441 pixels, and then the human flesh switches the QR code of the post station it guards according to these 441 pixels, and transmits the information to the next post station.

A two-dimensional code transmission needs to turn on about 200 switches, an average of 4 per second, it only takes 50 seconds, count him as one minute. Spread a short message 50 kilometers in a minute, if it's a flying pigeon, even if you are amazing at 100 kilometers per hour, right? According to Mao's estimates, it takes 30 minutes to pass the book to the flying pigeon.

My plan is 30 times faster than the flying pigeon, isn't it very powerful. This is equivalent to a speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour. The straight-line distance from Beijing to Guangzhou is only 2,000 kilometers, and one piece of intelligence is more than enough for an hour to travel from the north to the south. The Mongol Empire's fast horse station is a fart. ”

Boss Wu and Boss Wang were very happy together: "Emma, I didn't expect that low-tech can be played so high, I'm really eye-opening, Boss Wang's idea can open a time-traveling novel with technology flow." Hey, believe it or not, I'm really looking for an engineering intern to make this thing! ”

Wang Bang smiled: "Then Boss Wu is really going to play in the city, give me one when the time comes." ”

Boss Wu: "If it is now, you can directly use a cheap mobile phone to identify the QR code, and you don't need an operator. It is also easy to make mistakes and delay military affairs. ”

Wang Zhan: "Boss Wu can think like this, it is estimated that he is a good boss, and ordinary capitalists will not think so much." However, low-tech is also very powerful, did you know that the descendants of dinosaurs, birds, have high IQs that make zoologists outrageous? Not only crows, but parrots and pigeons are particularly high-IQ.

We can train pigeons to recognize pixels. Turn the flying pigeon biography into a pigeon biography in a cage. Why do we have binary? Not only are humans easy to recognize signals, but so are pigeons. Maybe the little animals are better suited to do this kind of work than us humans, but we stupid humans just have too many ideas and are not pure.

If the pigeons are trained, they must do their due diligence in order to eat the feed, and none of them can be wrong. When the time comes, a post station to raise so many pigeons, the post station employees only need to see if the pigeon has a moth, just like the siege lion of the big machine qì era, but also very fun, the machine qì is cold, the pigeon ...... At least a certain amount of ornamentality, otherwise, you can raise parrots, and you can say a few words, haha! ”

Boss Wu licked his lips and said, "You can also roast and eat it in a hurry!" ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Wang Zhan said: "Don't kill pigeons to take eggs, raise pigeons to lay eggs, breeding and communication industry, two industries that can't be beaten by eight poles, can be organically combined." ”