Chapter 216: Scientific and Technological Progress
"Then old man, let's wait a while and see if this miniature aerospace vehicle is making a decision, after all, I haven't seen the real thing yet, so I can't decide whether to mass produce it now. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Zhu Lei thought for a while and replied to the old man's words.
"Yes! Okay, young master! ā
"By the way, Lao Wang, just now you said that our factory has a new alloy formula, what kind of formula is this, and what is the performance!" Zhu Lei suddenly remembered the new alloy formula that the old man had just talked about, so he asked the old man.
Wang Lao thought for a moment and said; "Yes! Master, our factory has indeed developed several alloy formulas in the past six months, but most of these formulas are improved on the basis of the original formulas of the factory, among which the biggest progress is the two formulas of alloys upgraded from the original super-strong alloy formula, one of which is more suitable for large-scale production, but because it has not been developed for a long time, in addition to the lack of metallurgical equipment for professional smelting of this alloy, The cost of producing this alloy is still very high, so it directly leads to the high cost of that ultra-small manned aircraft.
However, this situation will be reduced a lot after the development of professional metallurgical equipment in the future, after all, the cost of industrial production and laboratory products are completely two concepts.
The formula of another alloy is very difficult to manufacture even in the laboratory, the smelting failure rate is as high as more than fifty percent, not to mention large-scale industrial production, with the current level of our factory is impossible to produce on a large scale, and this alloy is the ultra-small aerospace vehicle we are producing, the main material of the key parts of the parts, is irreplaceable, and the smelting cost is more than 50 times that of the previous technology.
In addition to these super alloys, other materials in our factory have also made breakthroughs, whether it is metal rubber or gold fine storage metal, the performance has been improved and a lot, especially gold fine storage metal can now store more than 5 million per kilogram of electricity, reaching the level of 6.5 million kWh per kilogram, which can be said to be a revolutionary progress.
However, young master, since our earth was in a state of war with alien civilizations in the past six months, all the enterprises of our earth civilization that are related to the military industry are making every effort to produce the materials and weapons needed for the war.
And our Yongan Military Factory is the only enterprise on the earth that can produce plasma engines and gold essence batteries, so we have been fully producing plasma engines and gold essence batteries during that time, so there are still many materials due to lack of manpower, as well as insufficient allocation of resources, all of which have not made major breakthroughs during this time, especially in the superconducting materials that you have always attached great importance to, young master, there has been no progress so far, if it is not for the war with alien civilizations, we are very likely to break through in these materials, And as long as these materials break through, we will be able to develop controllable nuclear fusion technology, but now our controllable nuclear fusion has been out of drawings, but due to the lack of material background, so it cannot be manufactured, which is really powerless, after all, as long as there is controllable nuclear fusion, our human interstellar voyage is no longer a distant dream. ā
Hearing the old man's words, Zhu Lei comforted; "It's nothing, old man, you have done your best during this time, after all, when we are all in the Ming Dynasty to produce weapons for our war with alien civilizations, as the main equipment supplier, I am very happy that you can still have such a large scientific research achievement, and to be honest, with the current level of science and technology on the earth, even if we master the controllable nuclear fusion technology, it is still very difficult to achieve interstellar voyages.
Because to carry out interstellar voyage must master several technologies, the first is artificial gravity technology, which is necessary, in the boundless universe, a voyage often takes tens or even hundreds of years, if there is no artificial gravity technology, then it is impossible for human beings to survive in a gravityless environment for dozens or hundreds of years.
After all, the solar system is on the periphery of the Milky Way, and the distance between each planetary system is very far, take Proxima Centauri, the closest galaxy in our solar system, for example, it is also 4.3 light-years away from the earth, even if it takes more than four years to travel at the speed of light, not to mention that we still have difficulties in even one thousandth of the speed of light.
Although Zhao Ping and they have sailed in the interstellar space for nearly a hundred years in order to survive, their civilization and the civilization of our earth are completely two different concepts, such as their formation that imitates the gravitational pull of the planet, although they can produce a certain gravitational force, but their formations all require people with a high level of cultivation to maintain the consumption of the formation, and even so, when they arrived at Pangu Star, they were basically exhausted.
If there is no earth civilization to join this time, then the fate that awaits them will not be much better than the Ruhr civilization that was destroyed by the earth civilization, otherwise even if they are the same race as our earth civilization, without reaching the extinction of the species, will they agree to become a subsidiary civilization of our Ming Empire, you must know that it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, this is not only the race on our earth, they will definitely not be an exception. ā
Speaking of this, Zhu Lei paused, and the somewhat worried old man Wen said: "By the way, old man, how many people from other autonomous prefectures work here in our factory." ā
Hearing Zhu Lei's words, the old man immediately replied: "Young master, since you are not in the factory during this time, and this is your fiefdom, although we have recruited a large number of employees during this time, but because our factory has been implementing the recruitment standards you set at the beginning, at least you must have the fame of the Ming Empire, and you know the difficulty of getting the Ming Empire."
Although the difficulty is much lower than before the Industrial Revolution, and all subjects can be examined, it is not so simple to get Xiucai's fame now, and those who are outside the original Ming Dynasty basically can't even speak Chinese, let alone write, it is impossible for them to get Xiucai, you must know that Xiucai is not only professional knowledge, if Chinese does not reach a certain level, it is impossible to test.
Even if there are a few people who can get the fame of Xiucai, in their own area has been scrambled by all enterprises, all the alien people who have the fame of Xiucai in the central area of the Ming Empire can be said to be basically none, so far there are only about ten people of other races in our entire factory of nearly 10,000 people, and eight of these ten people are the traditional races in our Ming Empire, although the skin color is different from our Chinese, but in terms of culture and living habits and other aspects have been exactly the same as our Chinese.
And the remaining two were recruited recently, why is the young master not the earth unified now, and we have to recruit more people from other races, but young master, we old guys are from here, you must not do this! Even if it's these two people, we have to find a way to drive them away, after all, the ancestor said that if it is not my race, its heart will be different! ā