Chapter 79 [Dimensionality reduction attack on traditional aircraft]
Xiao Yu turned on the smart holographic bracelet and quickly brought up multiple floating holographic screens. What was displayed was a lot of data information. This was the offline data he downloaded from Blue Star to the holographic bracelet, and there were multiple Aircraft data model of Blue Star World.
It is worth mentioning that human civilization in the Blue Star world has long bid farewell to fossil energy, and the current mainstream method of obtaining energy on Blue Star is controllable nuclear fusion.
There is no way, the human civilization in the Blue Star world is simply born with the golden key in its mouth, and the conditions are much better than those of humans on Earth.
Room-temperature superconducting materials, a resource that is coveted by people on earth, can actually exist naturally in the blue star world, and there are large amounts of superconducting mineral veins. Even gold is so abundant that it can only be reduced to general industrial metals.
If the Earth had such hard-core basic conditions as Blue Star, maybe we would have bid farewell to fossil energy and entered the era of controllable nuclear fusion.
Blue Star has not only entered the era of controllable nuclear fusion long ago, but has now achieved miniaturization of the fusion reactor, which is about the same size as the reactor core on Tony Stark's chest in the movie "Iron Man" here on Earth.
It is the energy that such a gadget can output that can propel a 100,000-ton super aircraft carrier on the sea without any pressure.
There are also ultra-high energy density batteries. Various aerial locomotive vehicles in Blue Star World use this ultra-high energy density battery. With a diameter of 10 cm and a length of 50 cm, it can extend the battery life of an aerial locomotive. The mileage reaches 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 technology tree of "antimatter energy".
Xiao Yu has been in the Blue Star world for such a long time and already knows that the aircraft there are all electric-driven without exception. To be precise, all manned or unmanned vehicles are all-electric.
On Earth, this is called a new energy electric powered aircraft.
The current aircraft in Blue Star World all use high-energy-density batteries, but the energy scale is not as good as that of small fusion cores. There is no need for ordinary floating locomotives to have this. It belongs to Lu Bu's riding 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 the earth now. The current technological level of the earth is not enough to support the birth of such a black technology product, and it is really inexplicable to create it.
Breakthroughs in new materials can be said to be due to good luck, but applied technology products such as smart holographic bracelets and high-energy-density batteries cannot be produced by just good luck.
This is why Xiao Yu wants to start in the field of materials such as graphene and room temperature superconductivity first, because breakthroughs in new materials will drive the rapid advancement of various upper-level application technology products, thereby promoting the progress of the industry into a system.
At that time, it will be more reasonable and reasonable to develop high-energy-density batteries from Blue Star.
"It's not a big problem not to have a high-energy-density battery. Since it has the support of room-temperature superconducting materials, it is enough to use with graphene batteries." Xiao Yu was analyzing the data models of several Blue Star aircraft at the moment, and was also thinking about it. Energy supply issues for all-electric drives.
The combination of room-temperature superconductivity and graphene batteries solves the energy problem. Based on the current level of technological development on earth, it can be said that it is just right. It is enough to ensure that the battery life exceeds that of traditional fuel aircraft. It maintains a significant lead without being too outrageous.
The energy density of graphene batteries is incomparable to the ultra-high energy density batteries from Blue Star, but compared with the current mainstream lithium batteries on earth, it has five times the energy density.
In addition, room temperature superconducting materials have almost no energy loss and waste, which is also a very critical point, and then some energy recovery system devices are designed.
Taken together, it is absolutely no problem for the energy consumption required to drive an all-electric aircraft to be supplied by graphene batteries.
The weight of the battery is large, and it will not become lighter as it flies like aviation fuel. In addition, the motor is also heavier. An electric motor with the same power is heavier than a turbojet, turbofan and turboprop engine.
These problems would be very embarrassing if placed on a traditional fuel aircraft, because every weight on the aircraft is precious. 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 its reliance on aerodynamic design. Solve the lift problem.
Because superconducting aircraft no longer require lift, they use superconducting levitation to defy gravity and leave the ground to achieve a floating state.
The aerodynamic layout of an aircraft body that supports superconducting levitation can be completely abandoned for lift, and it is no problem to even eliminate the aerodynamic layout at all. Even a brick-shaped aircraft body can still lift off the ground. The large floating aircraft over there in the Blue Star World The empty freight locomotive is a typical flying brick.
In other words, it will completely subvert the traditional thinking of previous aircraft design, and also fundamentally change the thinking of aircraft appearance design.
This is a dimensionality reduction attack on traditional aircraft. Just like the fuel engines of traditional fuel cars, they are all fancy and sophisticated. If they are not hammered by new energy motors, you can no longer hear traditional fuel supercars accelerating to 100 kilometers. It’s bragging, because any purely electric-driven car can accelerate from 100 kilometers to 100 kilometers a mile faster than a fuel-powered supercar. A supercar-level electric car can even turn a fuel-powered supercar into ashes in seconds.
The principle is the same.
While traditional aircraft are still working hard on aerodynamic layout and lift design, superconducting aeroplanes can easily fly bricks with great force, and can fly in the sky with any weird shape design.
Even if you have to consider the aerodynamic layout, you have to consider wind resistance, energy saving and other factors more, and you can just adjust it casually, but it will still reduce traditional aircraft to rubbish in seconds.
"Whether it is better to have an all-electric drive or a gasoline-electric hybrid..." At this time, Xiao Yu stared at the many holographic data models in front of him, and he seemed to be tangled.
After a while, Xiao Yu made a decisive decision: "What about a gasoline-electric hybrid? Just switch to all-electric drive and that's it. Blue Star World has already given a version of the answer. All-electric drive is the future. Just do it." ”
Xiao Yu immediately started to debug the holographic data model in front of him: "Can a living person be suffocated to death? Traditional aircraft can mount auxiliary fuel tanks. If new energy electric aircraft wants to further increase their range and endurance, then It’s completely possible to mount the auxiliary battery compartment.”
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This time, Xiao Yu does not intend to just be an upstream supplier of room-temperature superconducting materials. Instead, he will also personally build aircraft, bypassing many core technology patents of traditional aircraft manufacturing, and directly engage in full-scale manufacturing like new energy vehicles. Electrically powered aircraft.
In fact, airlines have long been researching all-electric aircraft, and Xiao Yu is not the first person to try it on this track.
However, other technology companies developing large-scale industrial-grade all-electric aircraft found that they were unreliable and had too many disadvantages under the current technical conditions.
First of all, the battery is too stretched and heavy. It cannot use oxygen in the air as an oxidant to work like a gas turbine, and it cannot make the aircraft fly lighter as the fuel is consumed like aviation fuel.
The negative consequence is that when the weight and size are basically the same, the speed and range are much worse than traditional piston, turboprop or turbofan engines.
However, these disadvantages are no longer a problem when it comes to Xiao Yu. The energy density of the new graphene battery is five times greater than that of traditional batteries. Coupled with the application of the core room temperature superconducting material, it can achieve almost No energy is wasted and energy is greatly saved.
The actual performance of speed and range is not only no worse than that of traditional fuel aircraft, but can also be greatly exceeded.
Moreover, the single-level floating capability does not need to rely on lift, does not need to rely too much on aerodynamic layout design, and does not need to pay too much attention to the take-off weight or landing weight of the aircraft. These are all dimensionality reduction blows to traditional aircraft.
After an afternoon of thinking, Xiao Yu finally figured out the overall idea and policy.
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