When Li Qihua heard Zhou Yu's question, he sighed and explained helplessly: "The gravitational engine has many advantages, and its performance far surpasses that of the particle electric propulsion engine.

Its only drawback is that it consumes too much energy, even if it were to install 80% of its load in a particle battery, it would only allow it to fly at the lowest power for 3 minutes.

The gravitational engine simply can't use particle batteries as its way of power.

Until we find a new way to supply energy, we can only mothball the gravitational engine, which we simply cannot use to build advanced spacecraft.

Because the gravitational engine simply can't run sustainably. ”

Zhou Yu heard Li Qihua's complaint, and he said: "You have to continue to optimize the gravitational engine, and the energy problem will be solved."

How does the Gravity Engine work? How does it take the spacecraft to fly? ”

"I'm relieved that the gravitational engine we're working on won't be used as a spare tire.

The gravitational engine drives the spacecraft to move, and it mainly uses gravitational traction technology and gravitational repulsion technology.

Through the traction of celestial bodies in front and the repulsion of celestial bodies in the rear, the gravitational attraction between celestial bodies is used to exert a huge force on the spacecraft.

Make a metaphor that is not quite appropriate, but it is very vivid.

There is a post on the side of the river, on which a rope is wound, and the other end of the rope is tied to a small boat in the middle of the river.

A gravitational engine is a small boat in the river, a celestial body that provides a gravitational anchor, and they are pillars with ropes tethered to the river.

Relying only on the boat itself, it is not possible to get the boat close to the riverbank.

Only the people on the boat can pull the rope, and the boat will get closer to the river bank a little bit.

The gravitational engine is the boat, and the gravitational technology is the rope.

In order for a ship to dock, it must be energized by an external force.

As long as the energy supplied does not exceed the limits of the gravitational engine, the more energy is supplied, the stronger the gravitational engine will be. ”

After Zhou Yu knew the data of the gravitational engine, he learned from Li Qihua in detail about the difficulty of manufacturing the gravitational engine.

After knowing the general situation of the gravitational engine, Zhou Yu left the Xinghuo Science and Technology Research Institute.

During this time, the technology mainly researched by Xinghuo Technology is a new type of neural interaction technology and gravitational engine.

The importance of other technologies has not yet reached the level of interest of Zhou Yu.

As soon as he returned to the office, he heard Xianghua's report: "Master, Lu Jinming, president of the aerospace business group, has something to report to you."

"Let Lu Jinming come over." Zhou Yu commanded.

Lu Jinming quickly walked to Zhou Yu's office, he sat opposite Zhou Yu and sighed: "Mr. Zhou, our lunar advance base plan is troubled. I don't know how to proceed now. ”

The lunar advance base plan is one of the most important plans of the Spark Science and Aerospace Business Group in the near future.

The main purpose of this program is to build an unmanned base on the moon.

This base is responsible for manufacturing intelligent robots, and completing the base construction plan through intelligent robots.

Before astronauts land on the moon, intelligent robots must first build facilities such as clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Places for astronauts to live, space farms and pastures, simple processing plants, communication facilities.

These are indispensable and must be manufactured by intelligent robots in advance.

Zhou Yu asked in surprise: "The moon went well before the base, what problems did you encounter?"

Lu Jinming said helplessly: "The moon forward base was planned very well at the beginning, and we cooperated with the Xinghuo Science and Technology Research Institute.

According to the different functions of intelligent robots, a complete set of intelligent robots have been designed.

Scientists also specifically design lunar factories and lunar farms and pastures according to the moon's environment.

With factories and farms and pastures, astronauts can survive on the moon for a long time, at least their ordinary living materials can be replenished on the moon.

We only need to deliver special supplies, save space on the spacecraft, and make the whole transportation more efficient.

But I found that because of one item, the entire supply chain failed. ”

"What kind of item can make or break the whole project?" Zhou Yu asked.

In fact, he already has the object of suspicion in his heart, there are only a few factors that can affect the success or failure of the project, and the factor that is prone to problems should be energy.

Lu Jinming spread his hands and said: "This thing is a particle battery, and we really can't do anything about it now."

I didn't notice this little thing at first, but when the project was finally planned as a whole, I saw that it took up too much space for transportation.

The Lunar Forward Base is operating normally on a daily basis, and its consumption is about the same as that of a small city. ”

When Zhou Yu heard Lu Jinming say this, he asked puzzledly: "Particle batteries can be charged repeatedly, and the lunar advance base does not need to transport too many particle batteries at all."

Lu Jinming shook his head helplessly and said: "How to charge the moon advance base, there is no way to solve the huge power consumption.

At present, the only means of power generation that can be used by the lunar advance base is solar power generation, which cannot make up for the huge power consumption at all, and the energy gap is too large.

There is no geothermal energy generation on the moon, and there is no fossil energy such as coal and oil on the moon to generate electricity.

The use of nuclear fission reactors is too polluting, and the use of nuclear fusion reactors requires too high a level of technology.

We can now only transport fully charged particle cells like the moon and bring back the dry particle batteries.

However, in this way, the effect of the lunar forward base cannot be effectively used at all, and most of the payload is used to transport particle batteries. ”

After listening to Lu Jinming's story, Zhou Yu was as expected, and the problem they encountered was also an energy supply problem.

He thought about it carefully, but it wasn't strange at all.

One of the major shortcomings of Xinghuo Technology is portable energy.

After the development of particle batteries, Xinghuo Technology did not invest in portable energy projects.

In fact, as a portable energy source, particle batteries have reached the apex of a certain technology.

There are no more breakthroughs in scientific theories on Earth, and it is difficult to develop portable energy storage methods that are more efficient than particle battery energy storage.

Further research and development of portable energy storage, that is, the energy block technology that often appears in science fiction.

Zhou Yu knew that with the current level of science and technology, he couldn't make energy blocks at all, because he couldn't understand the basic manufacturing principles.

"Manager Lu, you go back and wait for news, don't give up the moon forward base.

The Spark Science and Technology Research Institute is now tackling new ways of using energy, and it will soon achieve results. Zhou Yu explained to Lu Jinming.

When Lu Jinming heard this, he said with a smile: "It's good that the company is prepared, then I'll go back and wait for news."

After Zhou Yu saw Lu Jinming leave, he sat on the chair and pondered.

He just told Lu Jinming that he had already thought of the inspiration to solve the problem of energy supply.

If you can't make a more efficient portable energy storage item, optimize your power generation equipment and make it portable.

Now Zhou Yu has to rely on his knowledge to turn this inspiration into a practical technology.