Homo sapiens.

As the general manager of this project, Su Changli, who is also the chief engineer, is responsible for the guide rail and electromagnetic acceleration system.

This system is not simple.

Otherwise, the Ford of the US military would not have been in service, because their electromagnetic ejection technology was not up to standard.

Su Changli has no obsession with moral cleanliness. He directly "borrowed" the mature technology from a certain big country.

However, he did not follow the script, because the ejection quality of the two sides is different. The ejection quality of the Dandelion project starts at least 500 tons, and the speed must reach 7.8 kilometers per second. There is definitely no way to copy it directly.

His design plan is adjusted to nuclear fusion furnace + resonance power generation + thermoelectric power generation as the power supply system.

Resonance power generation has a characteristic, that is, the instantaneous power generation can skyrocket through nuclear explosion, which reduces the pressure on the supercapacitor.

But in the process, Su Changli discovered a problem that had been overlooked before, that is, the instantaneous high voltage and high current could easily cause the transmission system to be overloaded and even easily paralyzed.

This problem is very serious. If the spacecraft is accelerating and suddenly one of the power supply links fails, the speed of the spacecraft may not be increased, and then it will not be able to fly out of the atmosphere.

To this end, he contacted major electric power companies and electric power research institutes.

Finally, after several months of hard work, they worked together to create a superconductor material, an alloy material using a combination of copper, barium, lanthanum, and silver, which can maintain superconducting properties at temperatures below minus 24 degrees Celsius.

Although it has not reached the level of a room temperature superconductor, minus 24 degrees Celsius is not unusable.

The liquid nitrogen circulating cooling system can maintain the temperature of the transmission line at minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the core of the liquid nitrogen circulating cooling system is equipped with an inverse temperature difference system to efficiently remove the heat of liquid nitrogen to achieve low cost and high efficiency. of refrigeration.

The properties of superconductors need no explanation.

There is almost no loss of current in a superconductor.

It should be known that in conventional wires or plateau cables, the current has 10-20% ineffective loss, and this part of energy is wasted in vain.

Although Homo sapiens has been promoting the power supply balance strategy, it strives to supply the power of various cities and bases nearby, rather than engaging in long-distance power transmission across regions.

But even so, the loss of current during transmission is still not small.

Therefore, this alloy material has great potential.

It's just that the cost of this material is relatively high, which makes all the power companies feel a little bit pained.

Copper and barium are fine. Homo sapiens have discovered several super-large deep copper deposits in the Luzon Islands and Sumatra, and the total copper reserves have increased to 12.8 billion tons. Barium can be extracted through seawater, which is also not a problem.

But lanthanum and silver are different.

Lanthanum is a rare metal and silver is a precious metal.

According to the optimal ratio, copper is 41.3%, silver is 31.2%, barium is 15.8%, and lanthanum is 11.7%.

The use of silver and lanthanum is too large. Even if the underground veins discovered by Homo sapiens are counted, the silver reserves are only 837 million tons, and the lanthanum is only about 7.2 tons.

Among them, lanthanum has other uses, and the current annual output is only 600-700 tons, which determines that it is difficult to apply this type of superconductor cable on a large scale.

However, some scientific research laboratories, such as the stellarator laboratory and the tokamak laboratory under nuclear fusion research, need this kind of superconductor.

This material can also be used for the transmission main lines of some other cities.

After all, the monetary attribute of silver is not high, and expanding its industrial attribute is the kingly way.

Anyway, the silver and lanthanum used to make superconductor cables do not disappear after use. At worst, the silver and lanthanum can be recycled and reused after technological innovation.

Through the research and development of lead-tungsten-gold thermoelectric materials and copper-barium-lanthanum-silver superconducting materials, Homo sapiens have also discovered various rare and precious metals, and their importance in industry is increasing day by day.

The purchase of precious metals and rare metals that has been promoted before, and the regulations on binding gold dollars have effectively improved the resource reserves of Homo sapiens.

But this is far from enough.

Now, in addition to continuing to dig deep into the local resource potential, Homo sapiens is also looking at the vast Pacific Ocean, Ceylon Ocean and Southern Ocean, as well as South America, Africa, and Antarctica.

The resource development in these areas is not high, and some are even inaccessible. The resources contained in them tempt Homo sapiens to speed up their pace.

The endowment of natural resources plays a very critical role in the development of a power.

For example, America, relying on the vast North American Great Plains, has a very strong potential for agricultural production. Even if it is now being forced to continuously shrink its sphere of influence, its interior can still be maintained.

If it is replaced by the Europa Consortium, if they are suppressed by Homo sapiens, they will definitely not be able to last for a few years.

The Europa Commonwealth's agricultural, energy, and mineral endowments are average. If the resource supply of those economic colonies and Lucia is lost, it will be difficult to stabilize internally.

Even if the Europa Consortium is not Homo sapiens' number one opponent in the past few years, it is only affected by the confrontation between Homo sapiens and America, and various problems have arisen.

Homo sapiens frenziedly opened full-authority branches all over the world in order to weaken the potential of the opponent's available resources and compress the opponent's living space.

To step into the starry sky in the future, the resources needed must be enormous.

Without enough resources, it is impossible to develop the universe.

……

The cooperation between Su Changli and the power company has brought about the application of low-temperature superconductors.

In addition, the subway group also approached Su Changli, wanting to introduce electromagnetic acceleration technology, combined with sub-vacuum pipelines, to greatly increase the speed of freight trains in the subway.

According to calculations, if the new electromagnetic acceleration technology is used, coupled with sub-vacuum pipelines, the maximum speed of freight trains can be increased to 720 kilometers per hour.

This not only improves transportation efficiency, but also further expands the radiation range of the metropolitan area.

However, the ultra-high-speed subway still has some problems to be solved, such as the problem of stopping at the station, the problem of deceleration, and the problem of coordination.

Electromagnetic acceleration combined with sub-vacuum can indeed run fast, but deceleration is a problem.

If the reverse thrust brake is used, the energy consumption of the brake is not small; while the friction mechanical brake is used, there is certain damage to the track and the wheel;

In addition, there is a circular track air pressure braking method, which is to build a special circular track as a parking station. When the high-speed train enters the circular track, the train stops accelerating, and then gradually injects air into the track to use air resistance to slow down the train.

This solution does not consume much energy, but it will increase the amount of work, and the braking time will take more than ten minutes.

In addition, there is a reverse electromagnetic acceleration scheme, that is, when the train needs to decelerate, the acceleration direction of a part of the electromagnetic track is reversed to achieve the effect of deceleration.

It is precisely because of these troubles that the current Homo sapiens subway has not further increased the speed of the train.

After all, the consumption caused by these transformations will reduce the cost performance of ultra-high-speed trains.

Unless it is a train with a voyage of more than a thousand kilometers, with almost no stops in the middle, super high-speed trains will be useful.

Otherwise, in the situation of a station of more than ten kilometers in Southeast Asia, the ultra-high-speed train will slow down before it reaches the limit, and there is no need to use the ultra-high-speed train.

This is also the reason why Homo Sapien's current passenger train speed is only 150-250 kilometers, not because the speed cannot be increased, but because there is no distance to increase the speed.

4 Ten Chapters

Borneo island.

Bo mud in the north.

As one of the four remaining independent entities in Southeast Asia, economic conditions here are deteriorating rapidly.

The reason is very simple. Boni is surrounded by the Borneo branch of Homo sapiens on three sides, and faces a certain big country across the sea. This tragic geographical pattern of being caught in the middle is no less than that of the Mobei area. They also feel that they are walking on thin ice. .

It could have relied on oil fields to sell oil and natural gas, and then used money to subsidize civilians, maintain high domestic welfare, and stabilize the country.

It all looks very nice.

However, they encountered a Homo sapiens company that lacked virtue.

Two years ago, Homo sapiens evacuated the oil and gas in Boni underground and seabed in less than two years by secretly drilling inclined wells and horizontal wells.

In September of this year, the exploration personnel of Boni Royal Petroleum Company finally discovered that the oil fields in the territory had dried up.

At this time and because of the global economic crisis, Boni's tourism and offshore finance were also hit hard. After losing the core resource of oil and gas, their internal economic problems began to appear.

Although the Boni royal family is extremely rich, just because the royal family is rich does not mean that the common people are also rich.

In the past, it was possible to make money by selling oil and natural gas. The royal family took out a little leftovers, and the common people could also eat their fill.

Now that the royal family’s oil field income has disappeared, and the transformation of tourism and financial industries has failed again, the royal family has no income, so they can only maintain high internal welfare by living on their laurels for the time being.

However, the smart people in the Boni royal family have discovered, especially King Bor is aware of the crisis, and thinks that going on like this is not a long-term solution.

The news of the depletion of the oil field was temporarily blocked by the royal family.

At this time, in the resplendent palace, the 70-year-old King Bor was having a small meeting with other core members of the royal family.

"Brother, what are you going to do?" Prince Jeffrey asked quickly.

For this younger brother, Boer actually didn't want to talk to him at all.

Fortunately, Crown Prince Habi eased the atmosphere: "Uncle, don't worry, we will discuss a solution."

Bor looked at everyone: "Now the royal family still has 473 billion US dollars in assets, and the treasury also holds 266 billion US dollars in foreign exchange and 23 billion gold dollars in foreign exchange. This is all our assets."

Hearing this number, all the core members of the royal family frowned.

It seems that these assets add up to a lot, about $785 billion.

However, this did not make them happy, because Boni's pillar industry has fallen, and from now on, Boni's fiscal deficit will increase significantly.

The local population is 46.5, plus 10,000+ foreign workers from Annan and Tianzhu. Boni has no industry and can only rely on the half-dead tourism industry. It can't make much money at all, and it can't provide many jobs.

To continue to maintain the current high welfare, tens of billions of dollars in financial expenditure are required every year.

If all rely on foreign exchange reserves, it can only be supported for about 3 years, and with the small coffers of the royal family, it can only be extended to 7 years at most.

Obviously, members of the royal family are unwilling to use the small royal treasury to subsidize those ordinary people.

In the past, there was income from oil fields, and it was harmless to share some leftovers with the common people, and it could buy people's hearts.

Now that there is no income from the oil field, and they continue to swell their faces to pretend to be fat, unless the members of the royal family are fools, you must know that the current small treasury has more than 400 billion US dollars, but it is difficult to continue to maintain the capital chain with one cent less.

In this way, if we continue to distribute money to civilians now, it is cutting meat to feed eagles.

Prince Jeffrey, who lived an extremely extravagant life, was the first to jump out: "I will never agree to continue subsidizing those parasites. This is our money."

Others also expressed their opinions in a hurry.

These people are all opposed to continuing to send money and subsidies, after all, this has already involved core interests.

Bor frowned: "If you don't say it, how are you going to appease the civilians?"

"This……"

These people were speechless for a moment. After all, the ordinary people in Boni had already been raised by them, and they were used to a life of high welfare. Now that they say no money, most people will definitely feel resentful.

The matter of Sheng Mien fighting Mi Qiu will definitely be staged in Boni.

Bor, who doesn't want to be the Sun King, naturally understands that stopping benefits is self-defeating.

However, if he continued to distribute benefits, his small coffers would suffer heavy losses, and he might even end up with nothing, which was also unacceptable to him.

Suddenly Jeffrey rolled his eyes, and a thought came to his mind: "Why don't we sell Boni to Homo sapiens!"

"What?" Crown Prince Habi didn't care about his demeanor anymore, and asked with wide-eyed eyes, "Uncle, do you know what you're talking about?"

However, Jeffrey sneered: "Hehe, Happy, are you worried about your position as the king? You'd better think about one thing clearly. If you don't have money, whether you can continue to be the crown prince is still a problem."

Gulu...Happy also reacted at this time.

yes!If Bo Ni's finances go bankrupt, he will have to use the royal family's small treasury to hold on for a few more years, or the royal family will abscond with the money. Apart from that, there are not many choices.

As for why it was sold to Homo sapiens, not to America or the Far East.

Anyone with a little brain knows that Boni's location is next to the headquarters of Homo Sapiens. Whether America and Far East dare to take over will not be mentioned.

As long as the Boni royal family dares to say that they want to sell the land to other forces, Homo sapiens company will let their whole family take the earth plane together in no time.

What's more, now that Homo sapiens company is rich and powerful, and the benefits are also very good, Boni civilians will have much less opposition to becoming an employee of Homo sapiens company.

Jeffrey continued: "Sell Boni's land to Homo sapiens, we only need Homo sapiens to retain the royal family's property and a special asylum qualification, and then we can move to Xiangjiang for investment and development."

A group of royal family members discussed.

After some discussions, even though he didn't want to lose the throne, Bor also knew very well that this is the best solution at present.

Boni civilians can continue to maintain a high-welfare life, while the royal family can leave with money. Assets of tens of billions of dollars, as long as they are well planned, can at least protect the wealth of three generations of the family.

That night.

Bor was in the palace, and had a secret meeting with the person in charge of Homo sapiens in Boni.

After more than a week of secret negotiations.

Finally, the two sides reached an agreement.

Boer signed the "Bo Ni Overall Assets Sale Agreement" to package and sell the entire Bo Ni to Homo sapiens, and the condition given by Homo sapiens was to allow the Boer family to take away all foreign exchange reserves as special compensation.

At the same time, it promised to provide a 50-year special asylum to the Bor family, and they can become honorary employees who do not enjoy the benefits of Homo sapiens.

They even reserved the palace for the Boer family, allowing them to freely return to live in the palace in Boni.