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Chapter 65 Plasma Thrusters
Time flies so fast that almost two months have passed in a blink of an eye.

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And the few sets of metallurgical equipment that Zhu Lei bought in the mall at the beginning have been replaced by equipment produced in his own factory, and all other ordinary processing equipment have also been manufactured. It can be said that until now his The military factory has the initial ability to manufacture equipment. Before that, it could only produce external armor modules, which did not require much processing.

In the past two months, besides upgrading the equipment in the factory, Zhu Lei also prepared to establish several departments.

After all, the factory has now begun official operations. It will definitely not work if it continues as before. However, Zhu Lei has left all these tasks to the housekeeper. After all, he is the professional, and Zhang Rou, under Zhu Lei's persuasion, also I quit my job at the Royal Jewelers Company in Linhai Prefecture.

Came to Zhu Lei's factory to help him. After all, the housekeeper alone couldn't handle so many things in a factory, so he called Zhang Rou over, and Zhang Rou was originally a gold and jeweler's Linhai Fu branch. of the shopkeeper.

Compared with Zhu Lei, how to manage personnel is much better than Zhu Lei. After Zhang Rou came, the originally chaotic military factory started to be in order within two days, and he didn't need to worry about it most of the time.

During this period of time, she also took part in a provincial imperial examination. The results are not known yet, but seeing that she was not worried at all, it is certain that her success rate in passing the imperial examination this time is very high.

And the two projects that also came to the factory are progressing very quickly. The scientific research project of gold energy storage materials can now produce gold energy batteries with a storage capacity of 50 degrees.

Due to the emergence of the gold battery, the progress of the other two projects is also the same every day. The electromagnetic rail gun can now reach a range of 150 kilometers, but Zhu Lei is not satisfied with this. After all, in Zhu Lei In Lei's previous life, the technology of electromagnetic railguns in the United States had already reached a range of more than [-] kilometers. There is no reason why the United States could do it in the previous life, but Zhu Lei and the others could not.

The fastest progress is Lao Li’s plasma thruster. Now they have started the trial production of the first plasma thruster. I believe that it will not be long before we can see the first plasma thruster. .

During this period of time, Zhu Lei's factory has recruited many employees one after another, and now the entire factory has reached a scale of more than 500 people. All of them have at least the status of scholars, especially the employees who have worked in the past two months are all high-quality talents with knowledge.

Just as Zhu Lei was thinking about this in the office, the phone in his office rang, and he picked it up. Hei didn't wait for him to speak, but the housekeeper's voice rang from the other end of the phone: "Master! Please bring the thruster!" Come to the laboratory, our first thruster has finally been trial-produced, and it will be tested for the first time soon.”

After hearing what the housekeeper said, Zhu Lei immediately hung up the phone and hurriedly walked towards the propulsion laboratory.

It didn't take long for Zhu Lei to arrive at the plasma propulsion laboratory. After a lot of identity verification, Zhu Lei finally entered the laboratory, put on dust-free work clothes at the door, and then went to the place the housekeeper said.

When Zhu Lei walked to the laboratory, he saw that besides the housekeeper and Lao Li, there were more than a dozen staff members who were busy recording various data of the engine. The high-quality talents recruited by the month, in the laboratory of Zhu Lei's factory, at least all have the status of Juren.

At this time, the butler noticed Zhu Lei's arrival, and immediately came up, and walked in with Zhu Lei, and then said, "Master, you are here, the one in front is the first plasma engine that was trial-produced this time.

Since this is our first trial production of a plasma thruster, this is a relatively small thruster, which is only suitable for use on various aircraft and cannot be installed on various large-scale equipment.So our battleships are temporarily unusable.

Moreover, since it has just been manufactured and has not yet been tested, the specific thrust-to-weight ratio of this engine is not yet known. It is based on Lao Li's estimation that this engine can completely surpass the thrust of the current international mainstream aeroengines. "

At this time, Zhu Lei and the others had already walked to the side of the engine. Just as the butler finished speaking, Li Feng came over and took the butler's words, "The thrust-to-weight ratio of this plasma thruster should be between [-] and [-]. Although It is still not up to the level of the propeller I imagined. But the benefits of the plasma propulsion are incomparable to the traditional propeller. First of all, it is the problem of safety, because the propeller of the traditional aircraft converts the energy of the explosion into kinetic energy. So this kind of propeller is very complicated, and the parts inside are also very tight. If there is a problem with one part inside, the propeller will not work.

The second is the issue of range. Aircraft using traditional propellers often need to carry several tons or dozens of tons of fuel, while plasma propulsion does not need to carry so much fuel. As long as the power is sufficient for a long time, it can work consistently go down.

In addition, the working environment of the propeller of the traditional aircraft must have oxygen. The aircraft using the traditional propeller cannot fly out of the atmosphere at all. It cannot work immediately after leaving the air and oxygen, but the plasma propulsion does not have this. The disadvantage is that it can still work normally even in a vacuum environment like outer space, so the future of plasma thrusters is very great. "

After waiting for a while, the staff completed the data recording of this plasma thruster, so the test machine will start 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 hard as the materials in Zhu Lei's factory It is so high that it has reached the hardness of ninety.

But its weight is more than a quarter lower than that of the lightest high-hardness alloy in Zhu Lei's factory, and its high temperature resistance is also good, and it can work at temperatures as high as [-] degrees.The circuits used in the engine are all made of the best superconducting materials in the Ming Empire and the insulation materials obtained by Zhu Lei before, making this engine's high temperature resistance performance very good.

(End of this chapter)