After Huang Haojie, Zhang Haifeng and others explained a few words, they were walked to the laboratory area of the space station.

"Qingsong, where are you from the north?" Huang Haojie chatted with Liao Qingsong, who led the way.

"I'm from Luoyang."

"I didn't go home during the Spring Festival, did I miss my family?"

"The network signal of the space station is very good, and I often use holographic communication with my family, just like at home."

"Is there anything inconvenient about living on the space station?"

Liao Qingsong thought about it and said with some embarrassment: "It's a little inconvenient to go to the toilet." ”

"Haha, what's so embarrassing about this, you have to raise this issue with the Space Development Committee and let them find a way to solve it." Huang Haojie said with a smile.

"We have reported this to the Space Development Board."

While chatting, the two of them had unconsciously arrived in the laboratory area.

"Okay, Qingsong, go back and go about your own business!"

"Then the chairman, if you have anything, call me, I'll go first." After speaking, Liao Qingsong gently pushed the bulkhead, and the whole person floated forward.

Huang Haojie knocked on the cabin door, and then entered the password.

Yikes! The airtight hatch slowly opened.

This cabin is a comprehensive cabin among the 14 laboratory cabins in the upper area, which is mainly used for scientific researchers to rest, discuss and hold meetings.

The entire new Kaohsiung space station is divided into three floors, with 17 cabins on the upper floor, which is the laboratory area; There are 32 cabins on the middle floor, which are the general control, energy, living and material reserve areas; There are 17 cabins on the lower level, which are areas for fuel reserves, ship maintenance, and material reserves.

The new Kaohsiung space station looks like a double-top gyroscope, with six top corners forming a rugby ball shape, which is to facilitate the protection of the condensed matter shield generator.

On top of the upper and lower layers are electromagnetic field generators, which are set up to block some cosmic rays, so why not use a shield generator with a stronger isolation effect.

The main problem is energy, before the nuclear fusion reactor is not equipped with the space station, their energy can only be used a little, and the shield generator of the large energy guller will deplete the reserve power of the space station within an hour of opening, which is used at a critical moment.

At this time, the two researchers were discussing something in the 52nd cabin of the comprehensive cabin, when suddenly the airtight hatch was opened.

"Chairman." The two reacted instantly and hurriedly greeted

"You're welcome, I'm just here to see how your experiments are going."

"We are all very happy that the chairman can come, but outer space is not safe after all, and we are a little worried." A bald researcher in his forties persuaded.

Huang Haojie glanced at his nameplate [Material-Senior-Ye Haisheng], and another relatively young researcher was [Material-Senior-Hu Chao].

"Don't worry, my body is a stand-in robot." Huang Haojie explained.

"Stand-in robots?" The two of them observed carefully, but they still didn't find any flaws.

With a click, Huang Haojie suddenly removed his palm, exposed some electronic components inside, and put it back on.

"It's incredible, it's exactly the same as a real person, and if there is no special testing equipment, it's just a fake." Hu Chao raised his glasses and said.

"Okay, let's not discuss this, what project are you working on right now?" Huang Haojie changed the topic and asked.

Ye Haisheng hurriedly reported: "Hu Chao and I are working on material properties in a microgravity environment, another group of Huang Jincai and Dong Fei are studying the vacuum smelting project, and Dr. Li Nan of the Institute of Life Sciences is studying the space disease project. ”

"I see, which cabin is the vacuum smelting laboratory?" Huang Haojie asked.

"Cabins 57, 58, and 59 are all within the scope of the vacuum smelting laboratory, and I will call Jin Cai and Dong Fei over." Ye Haisheng said and prepared to pick up the communicator.

Huang Haojie stopped him: "No need, I'll just take a look at their experimental videos and materials here, don't disturb them." ”

"Okay."

Huang Haojie landed on the laboratory internal network of the new Kaohsiung space station and looked at the space smelting research of Huang Jincai and Dong Fei's group.

Judging from these internal experimental data, the problem of space smelting lies in the problem of vacuum heat dissipation, and once the furnace is mass-produced, heat accumulation is unavoidable.

In outer space, in order to dissipate heat, spacecraft generally use radiation heat dissipation panels, we often see the space station, there are a lot of solar panels on it, but have you found that in addition to black solar panels, there are some silver-white panels similar to solar panels.

These silver-white plates are radiant heat dissipation plates, while artificial satellites are designed to achieve heat dissipation through their own special design.

Looking at the experimental video of Dong Fei and the two of them, in a sealed electric furnace, the ore collected from Iron Star 1 was put into the electric furnace.

It only took about fifteen minutes for the ore to melt, but the equipment responsible for monitoring the temperature quickly alerted the furnace to a rapid rise.

This was the phenomenon of heat accumulation, and the experiment was forced to be aborted, and the only time they succeeded in smelting was by reducing the power of the electric furnace, slowly melting the ore, and at the same time quickly dissipating heat through the radiant heat sink.

The problem is that this method not only has a very slow smelting speed, but also consumes a huge amount of energy, which is equivalent to about 3~4 times the energy consumption of smelting on the ground of Blue Star, which is simply more than worth the loss.

Huang Haojie looked through their experimental data for a long time and found that they tried many methods, but vacuum heat dissipation was too difficult, and the experimental results were quite unsatisfactory.

Turning off the holographic computer, he floated in mid-air as he thought.

Suddenly, he thought of a way and flipped a heel fight, Huang Haojie opened the holographic bracelet and redesigned an electric melting furnace scheme with Zhong's assistance.

This is the name of this scheme, and his idea is to add a thermoelectric power generation system to the electric furnace, use the heat that is difficult to dissipate to generate electricity, and then put the electric energy produced by these thermoelectric power generation systems back into the electric furnace work.

However, there is a premise of this scheme, there must be a breakthrough in the temperature difference power generation technology, and it is best to increase the ZT value of thermoelectric materials to 20, so that the thermoelectric conversion efficiency can reach about 40%.

The temperature difference power generation system and radiant heat dissipation system can not only complete rapid heat dissipation, but also save energy.

After all, recovering 40% of the electrical energy at a time is equivalent to saving 70~80% of the energy once and for all, so that the smelting cost is almost the same as that of the ground.

Once again, he looked at the progress of the research on thermoelectric materials by the Institute of Materials, and with all their efforts, they had refreshed the ZT value to 11.

Looking at the temperature difference power generation system, it is just around the corner.

He turned around and found that Ye Haisheng and Hu Chao had left, and the researcher who was now in the comprehensive cabin was Dr. Li Nan of the Institute of Life Sciences.

"Dr. Li, is the experiment done?"

Dr. Li Nan, who was entering information on the computer, was stunned for a moment: "Uh...... Chairman, I just finished an experiment and I didn't bother when I saw you thinking. ”

"Haha, it's okay, what kind of experiment are you doing?"

"Problems with microgravity osteoporosis."

"It's calcium loss!"

Li Nan nodded.

Suddenly, there was a loud alarm.

[Alert!] Alert! Red alert, everyone goes on red alert. ］

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