Galaxy 2, March 17.

The Jeju Island Space Tower project, which is stumbling and rushing to work, has finally succeeded in erecting an airbag with a height of about 5,000 meters.

However, at this point they ran into a problem.

That is, the chaotic movement of air in the troposphere constantly disturbs the stability of the inflatable airbag.

Of course, for this problem, in fact, the Association of Earth Alliances and the Toth Company, which designed the space tower, have long expected it.

The airflow disturbance stabilization system designed by Toth still had some problems during the test.

This is also a common problem of many European and American companies now, PPT is doing awesome and coaxing, but when it comes to real knives and guns, it is very exaggerated.

Toth's wind stabilization system can only resist wind level 8, and if the wind exceeds level 8, the vibration of the entire airbag tower is very obvious.

Now the Association has to come forward and organize a large number of scientific researchers to help solve this problem.

Actually, they have three solutions.

One is to directly increase the diameter of the airbag tower, from the diameter of 100 meters at this stage to about 500 meters in diameter, you can rely on the weight and lift of the airbag itself to resist wind disturbance.

Another solution is the anti-wind disturbance system that Toth and Dilian are currently working on.

The last one is to increase the total buoyancy of the airship at the top of the stratosphere by making it hard-pull the airbag tower and tighten it.

All in all, the Association underestimated the difficulty of the space tower project, thinking that if Homo sapiens could do it, so could I.

In addition to the Jeju Island Space Tower project carried out by the Association of Ground Alliances.

Musk's Space Exploration Company has also completed the latest improvements to the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, increasing the load ratio of the Falcon Heavy from 4.6% to 4.8%.

This has basically tapped the potential of the heavy falcon to the limit, and if no new material emerges, the heavy falcon is already at the end of its time.

Apparently Musk is aware of this, and he is now working with other space companies to upgrade the space launch vehicle he previously developed for the Almite project.

As for whether to restart the space shuttle, there is widespread opposition within the Ground Association.

Although Homo sapiens' Khargay Space Group has successfully developed the Ra-Space Shuttle, it is currently in large-scale operation, with an average of one launch a week.

But the Association is not a wealthy Homo sapiens company, and the company does not worry about funding at all, and the technology is also very advanced, and two of the 32,000-ton super space shuttles are now in service.

The mission of the Earth Federation, which must be budget-conscious, is now to launch as many spacecraft into outer space as possible at the lowest possible cost, rather than being too ambitious.

Without Homo sapiens' technology, building a space shuttle now is a dead end.

Not more now than before.

In the past, even if there was a gap in the aerospace technology of the major forces, it was not to the extent that it was one heaven and one earth.

Now the payload launched by Homo sapiens in a day may be several times more than the payload launched by the Terresus Association in a year combined.

Seeing that Homo sapiens has built a space city, a moon base, and explored other planets in the solar system, the major forces within the Earth Federation Association are also in a hurry.

Stimulated by this huge pressure, the major forces of the Earth Federation Association have no way to mess up, so they can only grit their teeth and invest in scientific research.

Although there is a lot of talent loss, they still have a strong foundation.

In the two years since entering Galaxy, many scientific achievements have indeed emerged, especially those that are biased towards application fields, and more attention has been paid to them.

The catfish effect produced by Homo sapiens has a huge impact on the entire human civilization.

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The other side.

California, which had been paralyzed for more than a month, finally lifted the earthquake lockdown and began to enter the reconstruction phase.

This large-scale reconstruction, in turn, stimulated the steel and cement industries in the Free Commonwealth and across the Pacific.

The global steel industry is now completely split in two, with one part being self-sufficient Homo sapiens.

The other part is that after obtaining the guarantee of the Free Association, some large steel companies have taken a stake in the major iron ore companies in the Kangaroo Country, completed the complete decoupling from Homo sapiens, and they have obtained a part of the iron ore in Central Asia and Lucia, and now they don't have to worry too much about the supply of iron ore.

For this kind of thing, Homo sapiens has long expected it.

In this world, there are no eternal friends or enemies, only eternal interests.

As a result of the rebuilding of California, the Pentagon, which had previously been urgently evacuated from California to Austin City, Texas, did not return quickly, but continued to remain in Austin City.

Victor, who is in charge of the Pentagon's intelligence system, is already busy at this time, and although the power of the FBI and Black Ships has expanded rapidly due to the emergence of the Free Commonwealth, the Military Intelligence Agency is still a very special existence.

Especially in the current confrontation between Black Ship and Homo Sapiens, there are often more losses and fewer wins, and the intelligence investigation within Homo Sapiens is often superficial.

Victor's Military Intelligence Agency is even more important, and he himself hopes to make a difference.

Unlike the black ships, which like to engage in covert infiltration, Victor has now changed his strategy, using open tourism channels, online channels, and space remote sensing monitoring to carry out intelligence analysis.

For example, at this time, Victor was in a small conference room in the safe house, listening to the reports of a dozen analysts.

A young man with a big back said, holding a document, "Director, our group has discovered a new piece of information about the power generation technology and scale of Homo sapiens. ”

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Taking the file, Victor flipped through it for a while, the expression on his face was very heavy.

Homo sapiens has an electrical energy export business in the African region, and this intelligence analysis team discovered the problem here.

"Homo sapiens has invested in a number of nuclear power plants in southern Meroe, selling an average of 24 billion ~ 26 billion kWh of electricity to the surrounding areas every month......"

"This electricity comes from six nuclear power plants, but since November last year, the electricity sold by these six nuclear power plants has continued to skyrocket, increasing by tens of billions of kilowatt hours on average every month."

"However, this is not the key, the key problem is that these nuclear power plants have not expanded the scale of nuclear reactors, only some of the distribution and substation facilities have been added......"

An analyst from another group chimed in: "Is it possible that it was built underground?" ”

The big back analyst shook his head: "Yes, there is this possibility, but these nuclear power plants are all commercial nuclear power plants, who do you think would dare to attack the nuclear power plants of Homo sapiens now?" So I don't think there's any need for them to build underground......"

"Since nuclear power plants have not increased reactors, but the scale of transmission has increased exponentially, there is only one possibility, and Homo sapiens has achieved a breakthrough in power generation technology, which has at least doubled the thermal efficiency of power generation."

Grunt! Other analysts broke out in a cold sweat.

Obviously, this conclusion is terrible.

Doubling the thermal efficiency of power generation, they think on their toes, and they all know how much advantage this will bring to Homo sapiens.

And the big-backed analyst went on to add:

"In order to test my suspicions, I investigated the nuclear power plants and thermal power stations on the surface of Homo sapiens in the past two years, and found that since the beginning of last year, Homo sapiens has stopped the construction of thermal power stations, and only added a small number of nuclear power plants to replace thermal power stations, but their total power generation has skyrocketed."

Victor already believed.

But this intelligence discovery did not bring a trace of joy to Victor and others, but brought an indelible despair.

The gap is not narrowing, it is widening.