Chapter Twenty-Eight: Huge Gains

In the area of the plasma ring, invisible to the naked eye, a small space laboratory is quietly suspended here.

Next to it is the huge Jupiter, and a little further away are the bright moons of Galileo, and the sun is still a little dazzling in the distance, and the vast and endless starry sky.

The space lab is only three meters by two meters by two meters, and the interior space is less than 5 cubic meters.

Its shell is thick enough to keep out all of its extremely energetic plasma, as well as to protect it from the furious radiation of Jupiter. A liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen generator acts as its heart, allowing it to work when it is temporarily unable to obtain external energy supplies.

Under Chen Yue's manipulation, a specially made device specially designed to generate electricity from the plasma ring and gather Jupiter's wool was slowly activated. The hatch outside of it opened, and an antenna-like device slowly extended out.

If everything goes well, and Chen Yue's previous theoretical calculations are correct, then as this space laboratory orbits Jupiter, there should be a steady stream of electric current generated from it and supplied to the space laboratory.

There is some liquid water inside the lab, and there is an electrolyzer. With an external power supply, the electrolyzer can work, electrolysizing liquid water into hydrogen and oxygen, which are then stored separately......

Chen Yue stared at this place closely, monitoring the data of thousands of sensors above the space laboratory.

Suddenly, a sensor sent a signal to Chen Yue through a communication antenna.

Its state had changed a moment earlier. Whereas......

The change in its state means that it monitors the generation of electric current.

Chen Yue's spirit perked up: "It's really possible!" ”

There is really an electric current generated! In the plasma ring, electricity can really be generated there!

"Good. Next, let's look at the rate of power generation to see if it meets the theoretical predictions and whether it is engineering feasible. ”

If too little electricity is generated to cover the energy consumption of the spacecraft's round trip, it is not engineering feasible. Even if there is enough electricity to cover it, there is still a lot of leftover, and it is not of much value from an engineering point of view.

Chen Yue continued to stare at this place with all his attention, carefully testing, calculating, and waiting little by little......

Gradually, an hour passed. Chen Yue has collected enough data. He fed the data into the computational model and calculated the final result in a split second.

At this moment, Chen Yue was stunned.

The result of the calculation was really much beyond his expectations, and he was very surprised.

Still, this kind of surprise is a good one.

The power generation efficiency here in the plasma ring is too high, so high that Chen Yue can't believe it!

Even if the power generation efficiency of the space laboratory is calculated at this moment, the total efficiency of the project is as high as 456.3%! In other words, if Chen Yue invests one piece of energy, he can exchange 4.563 parts of energy from here!

Nearly five times the gain!

What's more, this space laboratory is only experimental, and its efficiency is actually not very high. If Chen Yue manufactures a special power device, and scales it up, and reduces the loss with scale, then the expected benefit may be as high as ten times, or even more!

"Beautiful! I knew it! ”

Chen Yue roared in his heart.

In that case, there is not much to say. Chen Yue immediately abandoned the rest of the plans and began to push forward with all his might at this moment.

The first task of this project is to build a professional power station in Jupiter's plasma rings. It has to be big enough to draw electricity from there with high enough efficiency, and it has to be equipped with enough electrolyzers to store enough water and liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

Under the personal command of Chen Yue, the design drawings of the No. 1 power station quickly entered the production process through self-inspection. At the same time, the production of special robots for plasma rings has also begun, as well as supporting electrolyzers, electrical dispensers, special steel, and special transport spacecraft......

A fiery view above Europa.

The minerals and energy from all over Europa, under Chen Yue's operation, turned into parts, robots, and spaceships......

The first ten Wood Eight ships set sail, carrying the corresponding parts and robots to the plasma ring. After that, the self-powered robot takes out the parts in a gravity-free environment and starts assembling them directly in space.

Then the second batch, the third batch......

With the arrival of a total of 156 spaceships in nine batches, Chen Yue finally assembled this huge structure that was 100 meters high at its longest point, 56 meters high at its widest point, and 11 meters high at its highest point.

It is like an insect with more than 20 pairs of wings, flying majestically in this vast space.

The more than 20 pairs, a total of more than 40 wing-like things, are all high-performance plasma ring extractors. By interacting with the plasma ring, a steady stream of electricity is generated and transported into the space that resembles a cylinder.

At this moment, the No. 1 power station has been built. All components and systems have been debugged and can start production.

"So, let's get started!"

Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, Chen Yue gave an order, and the No. 1 power station shook slightly, and it really started the journey of picking Jupiter's wool from the plasma ring.

A large amount of electric current is generated from the dispenser, and tens of thousands of electrolyzers inside start working at the same time, and the hydrogen and oxygen generated begin to be collected along different pipes, and then put into the warehouse to cool naturally, and finally turn into liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen......

An improved model of the Mu-8 transport ship is already waiting here. After some time, its two warehouses were each filled with liquid hydrogen and oxygen, and it set sail and began to fly towards Ganymede.

Here on Callisto, an ice tollin-solid oxygen thermal power station has been upgraded by Chen Yue into a hydrogen and oxygen power station in advance. The arrival of the Wood Eight spaceship brought the most important fuel to it, so the fuel in the combustion chamber finally began to burn, and a huge amount of heat was released, which heated the water and allowed it to start pushing the generator running......

Eventually, a steady stream of electricity was produced and fed into the huge power grid built by Chen Yue, which became the energy that drove the machines, the trains and the factories roaring.

The engineering tests of the No. 1 Tatori power station were a complete success.

Chen Yue looked at the many Torin-oxygen power stations that were still working, and a lot of pride rose in his heart.

"No. 2 power station, start construction!"