"Mr. MacDonald, we just received the information that yesterday in the real yàn room in Central Park, Edison and they had just done a test run of their first engine. Our intelligence officers couldn't get the complete design, and only got a part of the bench test runs, which were all in this information. Bond handed Scrooge a piece of information.

"Very good." Scrooge took the information, and instead of opening it immediately, he placed it on the table, and then asked, "Isn't it a matter of increasing the risk of exposure for our people?" This intelligence is important, but the safety of our intelligence officer is even more important. Don't let him do anything too forced. ”

"Sir, our intelligence officer just happened to be in charge of the number jù record, so he brought these numbers out at the same time as he recorded the number jù." Bond replied.

"That's good. It's better to record it with your brain than to bring it out on top of something else. Scrooge had a reminder. This is to show his concern for intelligence officers, and secondly, because it is very rare for intelligence personnel to be able to enter the Central Office to work.

Generally speaking, people who can enter a real room of such specifications to be in charge of related work will not really lack money to the point of needing to do such dangerous work. Therefore, it is naturally difficult to find such people. What's more, a person's energy is limited, and even those so-called geniuses are difficult to become elites in intelligence while ensuring that they become scientific research talents. Therefore, such a person cannot be specially trained like training intelligence officers. It can only be recruited from among scientific researchers. Naturally, the people recruited in this way will be far from each other in terms of their counterintelligence capabilities and those who have been formally trained in intelligence. It is also easier to expose, so you need to be more cautious when using it.

After explaining the story, Scrooge motioned for Bond to step back first. Then he opened the information and looked at it.

This information is actually quite simple. The main thing is that some of the engine bench tests yesterday are just a few jù. It's just that these numbers are a little abnormal.

According to intelligence, there should have been two types of engines yesterday and bench tests. One of the numbers jù is also good, but in general it is within a reasonable range. It was a V8 with a displacement of 6.0 liters, and the power figure of forty-five horsepower was even a little better than that of the MacDonald's. But Scrooge knew that this didn't mean that their engine was technically superior to MacDonald's of the same type. You only need to make some trade-offs in technical indicators, sacrifice some costs, reliability or something, and you can easily increase the power of the engine. Scrooge then looked down and found that these engines had failed after a certain period of time in the test, and in terms of failure rate, they were much higher than MacDonald's engines.

"Edison would not fail to understand that engine reliability is even more important than power in many cases. Why is he paying so much now? If such an engine is put into general civilian use, in order to ensure its normal use, the need for protection is not ordinary, whether it is for household use or for trucks, it is impossible to bear such maintenance costs and troubles. Isn't it because they want to get a racing engine out first? Scrooge thought.

If the number jù of the engine group above is understandable, then the number jù of the other group of engines below is simply terrifying. This group of engines, in terms of structure number jù, is also V8 structure, 6.0 displacement, but its power is as high as 85 horsepower, almost double that of the previous model. This kind of power cannot be achieved by relying on the above means.

"Oh my God, this Edison is too scary, isn't it?" Scrooge knew that if the cost was not taken into account, the power of the engine could be increased to more than 60 horsepower by using a heat sink such as sterling silver with a water pump, plus some other means, such as higher precision manufacturing, better fuel, and a higher compression ratio on top of that, but a terrifying figure of 80 horsepower is almost impossible to achieve at the current level of technology.

"Did Edison come up with such a killer as supercharging, or simply exhaust gas turbocharging? Even if he was Edison, but this ...... This is not scientific! Scrooge couldn't help but think.

Continuing to look through this information, Scrooge later found that Edison did not use such a terrifying technique, he just equipped the engine with an oxygen cylinder. It is used to inject oxygen into the cylinders instead of allowing the engine to draw air directly. Compared with direct inhalation of air, oxygen has a better combustion effect and higher combustion efficiency. In addition, if oxygen is inhaled directly, more gasoline can be injected into the cylinder and it can be fully combusted. So, naturally, you can get more power.

"I see. This is understandable. But if you do this, the life of this engine will be in shambles, right? Scrooge thought.

In Scrooge's original space-time, there was a similar practice, called nitrogen acceleration. A lot of people who like racing games have seen this set of things when they play things like Need for Speed (aka Need for Bumper Cars). Nitrogen acceleration systems do not actually use nitrogen, but nitrous oxide, commonly known as "laughing gas". Its working principle is to form a high-pressure liquid state of N2O into a cylinder, and then act as an accelerant in the engine together with air to mix with fuel for combustion, N2O produces two nitrogen atoms and one oxygen atom at high temperature, oxygen atoms to help combustion, and nitrogen atoms to cool down the cylinder. In this way, the integrity of fuel combustion is increased and the power is increased.

This system was originally an engine stimulant developed by the Luftwaffe during World War II. At that time, the Luftwaffe lagged behind the United States and Britain in engine technology, especially since they had not been able to break through the exhaust gas turbocharging technology, which led the Luftwaffe fighters to be beaten by American fighters in various ways over Europe. In order to increase the power of the engine, especially in a high oxygen environment, the Germans came up with such a thing. But the use of this set of things is also expensive.

In general, the system should not be used for more than one minute. This is because the temperature of the cylinder will rise sharply, and it is likely that there will be a problem such as a cylinder burst after more than a minute. And too high temperature and pressure can damage the life of the engine.

Sure enough, it was mentioned in the later intelligence that after using this system, the engine would generally be damaged by an accident after about 30 to 40 seconds of use.

"It's no wonder that Edison used oxygen directly." Scrooge thought.

In later nitrogen acceleration systems, oxygen was not directly used because it was difficult to control the stability of the engine with oxygen. In a nitrogen acceleration system, when N2O decomposes, the nitrogen produced can cool the cylinder, while the direct use of oxygen does not have such an effect. Therefore, it is completely normal to burst the cylinder in about 30 seconds, and it is not impossible to have a problem in 20 seconds.

"Look, this kind of system can be used for about ten seconds at most." Scrooge thought so. At this time, it was already clear what Edison and Morgan wanted to do. What else can such an engine be used for, except for racing?

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"What's the use of your engine that can only be used safely for about ten seconds?" Morgan asked.

"Mr. Morgan, it's not that the engine can only be used safely for about ten seconds, but that the oxygen afterburner system can only be used safely for ten seconds. The engine itself has no problem coping with a race. Edison explained, and at the same time felt a deep sense of helplessness. If it were Mr. MacDonald, he wouldn't have asked such a question.

"In this way, the power of this eighty-five horsepower can only be used for ten seconds? What's the use of such a short period of time? Morgan asked.

"When we're overtaking, and when we're slowing down a corner and then we are accelerating again, ah, Mr. Morgan, you've watched horse racing a lot, and you know that horse racing needs to slow down when you're coming through a corner. And after turning a corner, a horse that accelerates faster is definitely more likely to win. Turning on this system allows our car to speed up quickly and gain an advantage. That's a big advantage. Edison explained in detail.

"In this way, when we design the rules and the track, we have to think a lot about the characteristics of this engine. I hope your engine and racing car will surprise me when the time comes. ”

"I won't disappoint you again." Edison said.

"The development of racing cars also needs to be stepped up."

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"Since they want to play racing with us, we play with them." Dorothea said, "Give them a head-on blow and let them know that they know they know they are powerful!" It's just that...... But if we win, will we make them retract again? ”

"It depends on how much capital they've put in." "If there's so much capital put in, it's impossible for them to exit easily," Carroll said. ”

"I think we should give them a victory, encourage them to invest more money in it, set up the factory, and wait until they officially set up the factory and start preparing to produce cars, and then we will reduce the price sharply and force them to the point of no profit." Rockefeller put it this way.

Of course, Rockefeller preferred to reduce the price of automobiles and expand sales, because it was too beneficial for the oil industry, especially the refining industry.

"I think we can lose, but we can't lose miserably, we have to give them hope, we have to give them reputation, but we can't let our reputation be damaged. So, they can do car races, and we can do the same. They're probably going to do a short track speed race. We're going to do long-distance endurance races on the ground, or long-distance races on regular roads, like from New York to Philadelphia, and in the future from New York to San Francisco. In these games, it should be easier for us to win. Scrooge concluded.