Chapter 94: Voices in the Air

The male protagonist is, of course, the great leader of the Church of Scientology, Lord Windsor. The female anchor also wants to interview Windsor's friends.

Violetta: "I just asked a sharp question, and Mr. Windsor's answer was ...... At least sincerely. Well, let's switch objects and ease the tension a bit. Also coming to the studio was Mr. Faraday, president of Faraday Power. On this historic occasion for the BBC's public broadcast, let me ask Mr. Faraday what he thinks. ”

Faraday: "Hello everyone! Of course, I think it's an incredible invention. I know most of the principles of it, from frequency and voltage to radio waves to electric current to sound waves. But when it all comes together, what a wonderful product is born. I'm glad I'm in a time when every day is different from yesterday. Now that Ms. Vio mentioned our power company, let me give you a brief update on the development of the power grid in the UK.

The data now shows that 10 of the UK's top 30 cities are already connected to the central city: London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Plymouth, Newcastle and Bradford. Bradford has a population of about 100,000. The other 20 cities are already under construction and have set a timetable for their opening. The last city was York, with a population of 40,000.

Lighting is of course the biggest use of electricity, next to the penguin refrigerator, the gramophone. With the recent passage of a bill restricting coal burning, I believe that the use of electric furnaces will rise rapidly.

One of the things I want to say most about is that the fire rate in London has dropped dramatically, and the availability of electricity has made our homes safer. I'm so relieved! ”

Violeta: "It's very comforting! However, there was a shutdown of the London power grid a while ago, and I would like to ask you whether this means that there is a natural flaw in the form of wind power, because I saw that the Times said that the reason is that the weather is calm and your wind farm is not having enough wind. The Telegraph later conceded as well. ”

Faraday: "Oh, that's it...... It's a real headache, Smart has become popular too quickly and caused the number of users to use electrolyzed water to skyrocket, so our supply has not kept up, and I apologize to everyone. We are rapidly expanding our capacity and are experimenting with high-altitude wind power with kites, and the higher the sky, the faster and more stable the wind speed. The power of the wind is proportional to the cube of the wind speed, and at an altitude of 300 meters, the power increase brought by the wind is very considerable. ”

When the soprano Violetta heard this peculiar idea, she couldn't help but raise the key three degrees: "Huh? Hang a windmill high in the air with a kite? This one...... It's amazing! ”

Faraday: "That's magical, because it's a strange idea that Mr. Windsor came up with, hehe, it's very interesting, I'll explain the principle for Mr. Windsor." Downing......"

Downing gestured that he could speak.

Faraday suddenly came to his senses: "This plan is not to hang the kite on the windmill, but to use the pull of the wind on the kite." It's like ...... A merry-go-round that spins a huge roulette wheel on the ground with multiple kites hanging from it. The kite is like this, there are two lines to pull, when it is full, it can produce wind pull, at this time pull down a traction line, so that the kite loses pull and slides sideways. When the kite moves to a certain angle, it is full again, so that a pulling force is generated, and so on, a plurality of kites cooperates, and our experiments have proved that it will produce an endless stream of rotational force to turn the huge wooden horse. We have calculated that a kite horse with a diameter of 100 meters can generate a huge 500,000 kilowatts of electricity for 500,000 Londoners, far more than the number of electricity users in London today. ”

Violetta laughed again, "That sounds amazing! ”

It is indeed magical, and the control of the kite is very complicated, theoretically feasible, but in practice can the person who operates the kite is tired to death, Tang Ning is full of confidence in this kite Trojan horse project, because in the future, it can be automated with a vacuum tube computer, which is the core competitiveness of his wind farm, and the cottage wind power station can not think of a solution.

Violetta's next interview was with Mr. Basser, who was in the spotlight for his role as chief engineer of the Suez Canal, a dinosaur-level project with an investment of £6 million to £9 million.

Basser mentions the canal-digging stunt - explosives.

Violetta also surprised the audience: "Using explosives to dig a canal sounds like a lot of effort, but is it dangerous, is it too noisy?" ”

Basegger: "I once asked Mr. Windsor why he chose me to be the chief engineer, and he said that because I had to use explosives to dig the canal, there was a certain danger, and I showed the ability to control the risk of the construction of large projects in the London sewers, and he wanted me to gain experience in this way of excavation in this project, and then summarize it for use in various future road construction, bridge construction, tunneling, mining and other projects. Mr. Windsor would invent a very stable and reliable industrial explosive that would lay a solid foundation for this method of construction. I, like all of you, have absolute confidence in Mr. Windsor's ability in chemistry.

As for noisy things, we can try to blow it up once a day at a fixed time, and before the explosion, we will use a loudspeaker to warn everyone: we are going to explode! Hopefully this will keep the sound to a minimum, I don't think it's a problem, the canal will soon leave the residential area. That place is mostly desert. ”

The next thing is to talk about how to do agriculture in a barren place like the desert, and the academic community has a general perception of artificial nitrogen fixation, soilless hydroponics, fast-growing livestock, protein ratio feeding strategies, and lean meat rate improvement technologies, but the public knows little about it, which is a great publicity opportunity.

Another guest, Liebig, even estimated that such agriculture would be more productive in the desert than in the fertile lands of Europe, and several times higher, because the Near East was close to the equator and sunny. The water vapour cycle greenhouse is the climate of an artificial rainforest, which is the most powerful type of climate for plant growth, while the pure soil culture model does not have to worry about weeds and insects. The first soilless hydroponic vegetables were already on the market in Munich and were very popular, because they were clean, beautiful, drug-free and insect-free, which made the people of Munich fall in love at first sight.

Violetta: "Munich agriculture is ahead of London, does London have such a plan?" ”

Downing: "Of course there is, not only soilless hydroponics, but also the automotive industry in the UK, not only the factory that produces the Smart, but we also have a new factory in Oxfordshire, which is working on a new car, and to reveal, this time it's a slightly larger model with four doors and four seats!" ”

Violeta: "Ah, great, my friends who bought the Smart always seem to complain that the Smart is too small, too much dexterity, and not enough to fit it. ”

The citizens of London finally let go, they were still worried that Mr. Windsor would change his mind after becoming the son-in-law of Bavaria, fortunately this time the broadcast was centered on London, otherwise they would have taken the initials of the BBC as the B of Bavaria, and now the Oxford factory is going to release a new model, which means that Mr. Windsor still takes England as his homeland.

So far, Violetta has been talking to Downing's business partners, and she will now interview famous people who are influenced by Downing but are not his employees, such as the famous French composer Berlioz, the Austrian pianist Liszt, and the composer Wagner of the Kingdom of Saxony.

Violetta: "Before the invention of radio, Mr. Windsor's invention of the phonograph had actually laid the theoretical foundation for this new technology, and the phonograph itself had a great impact on people's lives. The popularity of the gramophone has also had a significant impact on the lives of one type of artist – the musician.

Today we've got three musicians to talk about it. We know that there are some records that come with random gifts, and those that don't count in the sales list, and the three musicians we're bringing together today are the top three musicians on the sales charts. The first, the author of the Symphony Fantastique, the French composer, Berlioz. The second, the author of the Hungarian Rhapsody, the Austrian composer, Liszt. The third, the author of the opera "The Musical Jew", the composer of the Kingdom of Saxony Wagner.

Which one will talk about it first? ”

It was a great opportunity to further expand his record sales, and Berlioz, who won the first place on the best-selling chart, was the first to speak: "The business model of the gramophone and the royalties of the record has really changed the lives of musicians, for ordinary people it is nothing more than a pastime and entertainment, and for musicians it is a new way of work and income."

The biggest difference between a record release and an opera performance is the cost, you know, an opera performance requires a large number of actors, and a failed performance can bring disaster to the musicians, and my "Mass of Solemnity" has brought me a huge debt, which is still a very important work. Well, now that Red & Black has taken on most of the risk, I guess the cost of releasing a record is much smaller than a theatrical performance. It's a boon for all musicians. Tang Ning also said that in the future, the recording equipment will be opened, and every musician can open his own record company, which is really good news. ”

Liszt was particularly fond of "Symphony Fantastique" and interjected: "The Symphony of Fantasy is really powerful, and now it has sold more than 10,000 people, right?" What an envy! ”

Berlioz triumphant: "Your grades are also good, and the royalty income exceeds your salary as a court musician, right?" What's more, with the continuous increase in works and the increase in gramophone users, this number is still rising, our future is bright, and the future of this industry is as bright as the rising sun. ”

Both men were beaming, but Wagner was more grateful to Downing than they were, because he participated in the revolution, was expelled from Saxony, and arrived in Zurich with nothing and poverty, so his opera was full of rage, and "The Musical Jew" was an anti-Semitic opera, which unexpectedly squeezed into the top three of the record sales and improved his financial situation in one fell swoop. Above all, this improvement was not a handout, but something he earned back with his outstanding talent.