Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 79 [Dimensionality reduction attack on traditional aircraft]

Xiao Yu turned on the smart holographic bracelet and quickly called up multiple floating holographic screens, which displayed a lot of data information. These were all offline data he downloaded from Blue Star to the holographic bracelet, including multiple aircraft data models from the Blue Star world.

It is worth mentioning that human civilization in the Blue Star world has long bid farewell to fossil energy, and the mainstream means of obtaining energy on the Blue Star now is controlled nuclear fusion.

There is no way. The human civilization in the Blue Star World is simply born with a golden key, and the conditions are much better than those of humans on Earth.

Room-temperature superconducting materials, a resource that Earthlings have long dreamed of, actually exist naturally in the Blue Star world, and there are large quantities of superconducting veins. Even gold is so abundant that it can only be reduced to ordinary industrial metals.

If Earth had the same hard-core basic conditions as Blue Planet, perhaps we would have bid farewell to fossil energy and entered the era of controlled nuclear fusion.

Not only has Blue Star long entered the era of controlled nuclear fusion, but it has also now achieved the miniaturization of fusion reactors, which are about the same size as the core in Tony Stark's chest in the movie "Iron Man" on Earth.

The energy that can be output by such a small gadget is enough to propel a 10-ton super aircraft carrier across the sea without any pressure.

There are also ultra-high energy density batteries. Various hovercraft vehicles in the Blue Star world use this ultra-high energy density battery. It is 10 cm in diameter and 50 cm in length, which can extend the range of a hovercraft to tens of thousands of kilometers.

In fact, the current cutting-edge technology in the Blue Star world has advanced to the point of lighting up the "antimatter energy" technology tree.

Xiao Yu has been in the Blue Star world for such a long time that he already knows that all the aircraft there are fully electric-driven without exception. To be precise, all manned or unmanned vehicles are fully electric-driven.

On Earth, this is called a new energy electric-driven aircraft.

The current aircraft in the Blue Star world all use high-energy density batteries. The energy scale is not as good as the miniaturized fusion core, and there is no need for ordinary hovercraft to use this. It is like Lu Bu riding a dog, so it is naturally more cost-effective to use high-density energy batteries.

Xiao Yu doesn't dare to bring this kind of battery to Earth now. The current technological level on Earth is not enough to support the birth of such a black technology product, and it is really hard to explain if it is produced.

Breakthroughs in new materials can be attributed to good luck, but applied technology products such as smart holographic bracelets and high-energy-density batteries cannot be produced simply by good luck.

This is also the reason why Xiao Yu wants to start with materials such as graphene and room-temperature superconductors, because breakthroughs in new materials will drive the rapid development of various upper-level application technology products, and thus promote the systematic progress of the industry.

By then, it would be much more reasonable to get high-energy-density batteries from Blue Star.

"Not having a high-energy-density battery is not a big problem. Since we have the support of room-temperature superconducting materials, graphene batteries will be enough." Xiao Yu was analyzing the data models of several aircraft on Blue Star while also thinking about the energy supply problem of all-electric drive.

The combination of room-temperature superconductivity and graphene batteries solves the energy problem. Given the current level of technological development on Earth, it can be said to be just right, enough to ensure that the endurance exceeds that of traditional fuel aircraft, while maintaining a significant lead without being too outrageous.

The energy density of graphene batteries cannot be compared with the ultra-high energy density batteries on Blue Star, but compared with the current mainstream lithium batteries on Earth, its energy density is five times that of the batteries.

In addition, room-temperature superconducting materials have almost no energy loss or waste, which is also a very critical point. Then some energy recovery system devices can be designed.

All in all, it is completely possible to supply the energy consumption required for all-electric aircraft through graphene batteries.

Batteries are heavy and will not become lighter as the aircraft flies after being consumed like aviation fuel. In addition, the motor is also heavy. An electric motor of the same power is heavier than a turbojet, turbofan or turboprop engine.

These problems would be embarrassing if they were placed on traditional fuel aircraft, because every bit of weight on the aircraft is valuable. But aircraft with superconducting levitation capabilities are no longer a problem. The most disruptive change is that when an aircraft has superconducting levitation capabilities, it means that the aircraft can get rid of the reliance on aerodynamic design to solve the lift problem.

Because superconducting aircraft no longer need lift, but instead use superconducting suspension to fight gravity and leave the ground to achieve a floating state.

For an aircraft body that supports superconducting suspension, the aerodynamic layout can completely abandon the design for lift, or even no aerodynamic layout at all. Even if it is in the shape of a brick, it can still take off from the ground. The large floating freight locomotive over in the Blue Star world is a typical powerful flying brick.

In other words, it will completely overturn the traditional ideas about aircraft design and fundamentally change the ideas about aircraft appearance design.

This is a dimensionality reduction attack on traditional aircraft, just like the fuel engines of traditional fuel cars, which are fancy, sophisticated and complicated, but are still beaten by new energy motors. Now you no longer hear traditional fuel supercars bragging about their acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h, because any pure electric car can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in seconds, and supercar-level electric cars can crush fuel supercars into pieces in seconds.

The reason is the same.

While traditional aircraft are still spending a lot of time and effort on aerodynamic layout and lift design, superconducting hovercraft can easily achieve powerful flying, and any strange-shaped design can fly in the sky.

Even if we have to consider the aerodynamic layout, we should consider more factors such as wind resistance and energy saving, and it will be fine if we just adjust it casually, and traditional aircraft will be crushed into pieces in seconds.

"Should I go for full electric drive or hybrid?" Xiao Yu was staring at the numerous holographic data models in front of him, looking conflicted.

After a while, Xiao Yu made a prompt decision: "Why bother with hybrid? Just go with full electric drive. The Blue Star World has already given a version answer. Full electric drive is the future. Just do it."

Xiao Yu immediately started to adjust the holographic data model in front of him: "Can a living person be suffocated to death by urine? Traditional aircraft can be equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks. If new energy electric aircraft want to further increase their range and endurance, they can also be equipped with auxiliary battery cabins."

This time, Xiao Yu does not plan to be just an upstream supplier of room-temperature superconducting materials, but to build airplanes himself, bypassing the many core technology patents of traditional aircraft manufacturing and directly developing all-electric aircraft like new energy vehicles.

In fact, some airlines have been researching all-electric aircraft for a long time, and Xiao Yu is not the first person to try this.

However, other technology companies that are developing large-scale industrial-grade all-electric aircraft have found that this thing is still unreliable under existing technical conditions and has too many disadvantages.

First of all, the battery is too weak and very heavy. It is not like a gas engine that can use oxygen in the air as an oxidant, nor can it make the aircraft lighter as the fuel is consumed like aviation fuel.

The consequence is that while the weight and size are basically the same, the speed and range are much worse than traditional piston, turboprop or turbofan engines.

However, these drawbacks are no longer a problem for Xiao Yu. The energy density of the new graphene battery is five times greater than that of traditional batteries. In addition, the application of the most core room-temperature superconducting materials can achieve almost no energy loss and greatly save energy.

The actual effects of speed and range are not only not worse than traditional fuel aircraft, but can even surpass them by a large margin.

Moreover, its unique floating capability does not rely on lift, does not rely too much on aerodynamic layout design, and does not require excessive attention to the aircraft's take-off weight or landing weight, etc. These are all dimensionality reduction attacks on traditional aircraft.

After thinking about it for an afternoon, Xiao Yu finally figured out the overall idea and direction.

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(End of this chapter)