Chapter 464: Sublight Speed (4)
Huang Haojie used the method of nuclear fusion reaction to forcibly produce radium elements, and completed the research and development task one step ahead of Li Xiang, but this method is a way to vigorously produce miracles, and Li Xiang's substitute project is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
In less than a week, the 11th branch of the Institute of Materials synthesized 50 kilograms of radium, which was quickly sent to the laser research institute.
The Laser Research Institute, which has obtained abundant raw materials, has completed the improvement of the beta ray laser head by two, after all, the manufacturing technology of the beta ray laser head, Huang Haojie has already extracted it from [Pandora] to them.
With a complete technical process, and the difficulty of the process is not too much beyond Blue Star, it cannot be copied, and the Laser Research Institute is ashamed of its investment and cultivation of Huang Haojie.
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November 10th.
Approaching the Double 11 Carnival, Australia's e-commerce industry is developing very rapidly, especially with a large number of immigrants joining Australia, which has brought great changes here.
The Double 11 Carnival was brought by the Tang people, and with the vigorous development of the three giants of Taotao.com, Jingdong and Tongcheng.com, many Australian locals are also obsessed with this convenient online shopping.
The festive atmosphere has diluted some of the depression within the Human Innovation Alliance, and many people have temporarily abandoned their troubles and immersed themselves in the carnival of shopping.
Presumably, this year's Double 11 Carnival is about to hit a new high, although the Human Innovation Alliance is vigorously promoting aerospace, military industry, materials and other industries, but the people's living standards have not been greatly affected.
This is due to the large-scale application of nuclear fusion power generation technology, the abundance of raw materials brought by space mining, and the large-scale planning that stimulates the overall development of society. After all, technologies such as materials, aerospace, and military industry can be transformed into civilian use.
In particular, artificial meat, which began to be promoted on a small scale in October, and artificial organ medicine, which has been vigorously promoted by the Human Innovation Alliance, has once again improved people's happiness.
The life of human beings is birth, old age, sickness and death, artificial organs are a kind of rebellious change of life for birth, old age, sickness and death, and people are frightened by leukemia, uremia, diabetes, heart disease and other organ diseases, which have become a minor illness like a cold, and this sense of security is definitely something that many people dare not imagine before.
Zhou Botong took advantage of the rare opportunity to give everyone in the institute a day off, he was shopping with Mishima Ji and Ilgin in Nandu at this time, but the three of them were really hanging out shopping.
"Half a year ago it was a desert, but now it's a modern metropolis, a metropolis surrounded by oases, lakes, farms, forest parks." Zhou Botong sighed.
"Huh? There's a swimming pool, why don't we go and sunbathe?" Ilkin said as he walked.
It turned out that they came to the side of an artificial lake, which was contracted to be privately developed, and many people were already playing in it.
"Yes." Zhou Botong nodded.
The three of them bought tickets to enter the inside, apparently the owner invested a lot of money, and as soon as they walked inside, there was a large artificial beach, full of tropical sand, some coconut and palm trees were arranged in a staggered manner on the beach.
There's also a stilt cabin, a Southeast Asian restaurant, and an endless man-made lake just off the beach, reminiscent of a tropical island, apparently visually enhanced using holographic projection technology.
Zhou Botong was sunbathing directly on the beach, Ilgin was swimming, and Mishima Ji went to buy juice and watermelon.
"Zhou Sang, eat watermelon."
"Thank you."
The two were chatting while eating watermelon, and suddenly a message popped up on Zhou Botong's holographic watch, and he hurriedly flipped through it.
Mishima Ji glanced at it: "The beta ray laser head of the Laser Research Institute has been completed, which is great." ”
Zhou Bo cleared the holographic projection and said with a smile: "This time, thanks to the Fuhrer's personal action, the laser element was synthesized by nuclear fusion reaction, otherwise the Laser Research Institute would be difficult to cook." ”
"Do you want to go back to the institute right away?"
Zhou Botong waved his hand: "It's not too late to go back tomorrow, combine work and rest!" Everyone has been under too much pressure lately, and it is rare to relax. ”
"Alright then!"
Mishima Ji also knows the situation in the institute, they have hardly rested these days, sometimes sleeping two or three hours a day or even staying up all night, so that human civilization has not been defeated, and they die before they can get out of the school.
"Whew! It's so enjoyable! It's been a long time since I've swam so well. Ilkin stepped up from the pool.
"Eat watermelon." Mishima handed over a piece of watermelon.
Yilkin sat directly on the beach, nibbling on the watermelon quickly, and the sunlight after the ceiling was reconciled directly on the three of them, making the body slightly hot, but it was not as hot as the summer sun outside, and Zhou Botong even fell asleep on the beach unconsciously.
At noon, the three of them had a meal directly at the Southeast Asian restaurant on the beach side, and then went to the farms and forest parks in Nandu to visit.
November 11th.
Zhou Botong and others put into the research and development work this time, replaced the freshly baked beta ray laser head of the Laser Research Institute, and once again sent the photonic engine to the No. 5 test site for testing.
Although the speed of the photon engine is not increased by much, it only increases the cruise speed to 13.8% of the speed of light, and the maximum speed to 16.2% of the speed of light.
However, the fuel efficiency has been greatly improved, and their fuel consumption has dropped to 103%~106% compared with the photonic engine of the Anluo Star people compared with the previous 206%~214%.
Previously, at cruising speed, about 700 grams of nuclear fuel per second were consumed, but now it is about 350 grams per second. This increase is huge, equivalent to using the same fuel, which can complete the previous 2 times the range.
In other words, the spacecraft only needs to consume about 23 kilograms of nuclear fuel to fly back and forth between Blue Star and Mars.
"The prototype has reached the limit of what we humans can do at present, and if we want to improve the photonic engine, I think we can only go in the direction of gamma rays at a higher energy level." Mishima Ji put down the test report and said.
"I think we can work on the stability because the cruising speed is only 13.8% of the speed of light, which is still some distance away from the maximum speed of 16.2%." Zhou Botong said.
"It's really a direction." Jin Rucai also nodded and said.
"I don't know, did that kind of adsorption material come out? If the adsorbent material comes out, the self-sustaining of the spacecraft's nuclear fuel can be partially solved. Zhou Botong said suddenly.
"Adsorbent materials? ZHOU: Do you mean hydrogen adsorption materials?" Ilkin asked.
Zhou Botong nodded: "It's this thing, I don't know if the Materials Research Institute has come out." ”
"It shouldn't be so fast, the Materials Research Institute has a lot of tasks recently, but this thing shouldn't be too difficult, after all, there is complete technical information." Jin Rucai said.
Hydrogen adsorption material is a special material developed by Anluo people in order to solve the problem of interstellar long-distance (light grade) navigation, mainly to adsorb hydrogen elements in interstellar space while flying.
Although interstellar space is a vacuum environment, as the largest element in the universe, the distribution of hydrogen is ubiquitous.
Even the interstellar space between the star system and the star system contains not a small number of hydrogen elements, and the hydrogen element of the Anluo Star can adsorb 0.2~6 grams of hydrogen from the space per second, and these hydrogen elements can solve part of the self-sustaining ability of the spacecraft's fuel.