Chapter 67: Plasma Thrusters

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, nearly two months have passed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past two months, Zhu Lei's military factory has developed rapidly, and the equipment in the factory has almost been basically updated.

And the metallurgical equipment that Zhu Lei bought in the mall has also been replaced with the equipment produced in his own factory, and the other ordinary processing equipment has also been manufactured.

In the past two months, in addition to the equipment upgrade in the factory, Zhu Lei has also established several departments.

After all, now that the factory has begun to operate officially, it will definitely not work if it is still the same as before, but these Zhu Lei have been handed over to the housekeeper, after all, he is a professional, and Zhang Rou also quit his job at the Royal Jewelers in Linhai Mansion under Zhu Lei's persuasion.

came to Zhu Lei's factory to help him, after all, there are so many things in a factory, and the housekeeper alone can't be busy at all, so he called Zhang Rou over, and Zhang Rou was originally the shopkeeper of the Linhai Mansion Branch of the gold jewelry firm.

As for how to manage the personnel, it is much stronger than Zhu Lei, and after Zhang Rou came to the originally messy military factory, it didn't take two days to start getting organized, and he didn't need to worry about it most of the time.

During this time, she also went to participate in a township examination for the imperial examination, and I don't know the results yet, but seeing that she is not worried at all, it is certain that her success rate in this examination is very high.

The two also came to the factory several projects are progressing very rapidly, and the scientific research project of Jinjing Energy Storage is now able to manufacture Jinjing batteries with a storage capacity of 500,000 kWh.

Due to the emergence of the gold essence battery, the progress of the other two projects is also the same every day, and the electromagnetic railgun can now reach a range of 70 kilometers, but Zhu Lei is not satisfied with this, after all, in Zhu Lei's previous life, the technology of the electromagnetic railgun of the United States has reached a range of more than 150 kilometers, there is no reason why the United States can do it in the previous life, and Zhu Lei They can't do it.

The fastest progress is Lao Li's plasma thruster, and now they have started trial production of the first plasma thruster, and I believe it will not be long before we can see the physical object of the first plasma thruster.

During this period of time, Zhu Lei's factory has successively recruited a lot of employees, and now the entire factory has reached the scale of more than 500 people.

Just as Zhu Lei was thinking about these things in the office, the phone in his office rang, he picked up the phone casually, Hei didn't wait for him to speak, and the butler's voice rang on the other end of the phone: "Young master!" Please come to the Thruster Lab, our first thruster has finally been prototyped, and the first test is about to take place. ”

Hearing the housekeeper's words, Zhu Lei immediately hung up the phone and hurriedly walked towards the thruster laboratory.

It didn't take long for Zhu Lei to arrive at the plasma propulsion laboratory, and after heavy identity verification, Zhu Lei finally entered the laboratory, put on dust-free overalls at the door, and then came to the place where the housekeeper said.

When Zhu Lei walked to the laboratory, he saw that in addition to the housekeeper and Lao Li, there were more than a dozen staff members who were busy recording various data of the engine, all of whom were high-quality talents recruited in the past two months.

At this time, the housekeeper found out that Zhu Lei was coming, and immediately came up, and walked in with Zhu Lei, and then said: "Young master, you are here, the one in front is the first plasma engine produced in this trial."

Since this is our first trial production of plasma thrusters, this is still relatively small, only suitable for use on various aircraft, and cannot be installed on various large equipment. So our battleships are not yet available.

And because it has just been manufactured, it has not yet been tested, so I don't know the specific thrust-to-weight ratio of this engine, but according to Lao Li's estimate, this engine can completely surpass the thrust of the current international mainstream aero engines. ”

At this time, Zhu Lei and the others had already walked to the side of this engine, and just as the housekeeper finished speaking, Li Feng came over and took the housekeeper's words: "The thrust-to-weight ratio of this plasma thruster should be between thirty and fifty." Although it is not yet at the level of the thrusters I imagined. However, the benefits of plasma thrusters are incomparable with traditional thrusters, first of all, the issue of safety, because the thrusters of traditional aircraft convert the energy of the explosion into kinetic energy. So this kind of thruster is very complicated, and the parts inside are very tight, and if there is a problem with one part in it, then the thruster will not work.

The second is the problem of range, the aircraft using the traditional thruster often need to carry several tons or dozens of tons of fuel, while the plasma thruster does not need to carry so much fuel, as long as the power is sufficient for so long can work consistently.

There is also the working environment of the thruster of the traditional aircraft must have oxygen, and the aircraft using the traditional thruster cannot fly out of the atmosphere at all, and it cannot work immediately after leaving the air oxygen, but the plasma thruster does not have this shortcoming, even in a vacuum environment such as outer space, it can still work normally, so the future of the plasma thruster is very large. ”

After waiting for a while, the staff finished recording the data of the plasma thruster, so it was time to start the test immediately.

Most of the materials of this plasma engine are made of a new type of titanium alloy material that Zhu Lei bought in the mall a month ago, although the hardness of this titanium alloy material is not as high as the hardness of these materials in Zhu Lei's factory, it has also reached the hardness of ninety.

However, his weight is more than a quarter less than the weight of Zhu Lei's lightest high-hardness alloy in his factory, and his high-temperature resistance is also good, and he can work in high temperatures of up to 2,000 degrees. The wiring used in the engine is all made of the best superconducting materials in the Ming Empire, plus the insulation materials obtained by Zhu Lei before, which makes the high temperature resistance of this engine very good.