Chapter 463: The Space Elevator Construction Begins
Freya didn’t have any special emotions about Chen Lin’s words, she just said lightly: “It’s not a problem, it’s up to them where they go after the tribe comes out. I won’t stop you from staying in Stuttgart or anywhere in this world.”
“The ethnic group is actually not monolithic. We initially decided to come out from the Eve continent. At that time, many people in the ethnic group were unwilling to follow us. They still wanted to stay there and negotiate with the traditional elves. "
Chen Lin deeply believed that no matter what ethnic group they were, as long as they were led by wisdom. Composed of individuals, similar situations will inevitably occur.
“But I think there is no point in compromising. The current ruler of Eve Continent is Isis. That woman has always had a deep hatred for us dark elves. She didn’t become the leader of the elves at first. At that time, many unfriendly remarks have been revealed..."
Freya spoke very calmly. When Chen Lin heard the unfamiliar names mentioned in it, he guessed that they were probably some elders from the elves on the Eve continent. He was not very interested in this kind of information. , just listened to Freya’s words with the corner of his mouth raised.
The two people had a detailed discussion about these areas. As the person in charge of the entire Anyun base, Chen Lin is actually the actual controller of the entire Taka continent. Currently, the main forces of the association are Concentrated on the Anyun base, all work is carried out from here. The content of the approval work that Chen Lin handles every day is numerous and important, and he is not as free as before.
Chen Lin agreed to some small conditions from Freya. In return, Freya will teach Chen Lin some of the abyss magic - of course those that are not too corrosive, and because Chen Lin Lin itself does not have a special abyss core source, so these magics will be activated by regular magic elements, and the effect will naturally be compromised.
A month and a half later, the Dark Elf group followed Freya and entered the Hidden Spirit Valley to live together. As Freya had guessed at the beginning, dozens of people among the hundreds were not willing to follow. Let her enter.
Some of them are Naya’s relatives. They choose to live with Naya in Nanjin New City or Selia City; some are unwilling after experiencing the extremely convenient modern life here at the outpost. Return to the dark elves in the primitive jungle.
Freya did not force it. It would be a good thing for some of the dark elves who were unwilling to come to stay on the Origin Star. At least they could have some contact with their clansmen when they came out of the Hidden Spirit Valley in the future.
Chen Lin has been in frequent contact with Freya during this period. He is very concerned about the affairs of the dark elves. He sent people to build the buildings in Hidden Spirit Valley and used a batch of Special design, the style is directly like the natural jungle style.
Chen Lin also tried his best to persuade Freya to build some modern infrastructure here, such as primary power and network lines, and Chen Lin also had people build part of the water conservancy project, because The place of construction is in the Hidden Spirit Valley, and the service targets are those dark elves who are similar to primitive tribes. Therefore, these infrastructures are basically designed to be simple, rough and effective.
Either solar, water or wind driven.
Chen Lin and Freya left a communication device directly for communication. It directly called the military's large-scale communication facility. This device was designed to be extremely simple. You only need to turn on the device and press Just press the key button. It is not afraid of the humid environment here in the valley. It also uses satellite signals, not to mention that Chen Lin has also set up a signal tower on the top of the mountain near Yinling Valley...
Freya taught Chen Lin two large-scale abyss magics. One is to summon the fire demon, and the other is to summon the water demon. The two summoning magics are not trivial. What they summon is the height. Ten meters, the abyss monster with its own halo effect will affect everything in the surrounding fixed area as long as it appears.
The Balrog will burn everything within a hundred meters. Its attack methods are basically throwing fireballs, spraying flame rays and even lava.
The water demon is even more powerful. After awakening, a crack will open directly from the ground. The flood-like water demon will come out from below. Its entire shape is like a waterspout, and everything within the range will be Being attacked indiscriminately by its water bullets, which were like sharp bullets...
After testing it, Chen Lin was basically satisfied with the two large magics, but he had already realized that he could use these two magics. The opportunity is extremely rare. After all, although there is magic power on the Origin Star at this time, technology takes priority overall. The magic power has not yet reached the level of destroying the world, and the magic power in this world is still too weak.
As for the so-called Tiance Magisters on the Eve Continent, in their heyday they could even use magic to promote the displacement of continental plates, which seemed to the Origin Star, Outpost and Red Dragon Association at this time. Too far away, the elves in the Eve continent have closed themselves off, and their impact on the association can be said to be extremely low.
After dealing with the matter of the dark elves here, Chen Lin learned from the internal network that the construction of the space elevator at Qinglong Base had officially started.
Carbon nanotube technology has been tested repeatedly, and the test results are amazing, fully meeting the needs of building a space elevator.
After selecting the location near the portal, Qinglong Base built a stable launch platform directly with the portal as the origin. This launch platform will serve as the ground station of the entire space elevator and serve as the space elevator's passengers and cargo. Loading and unloading points.
Qinglong Base is equipped with necessary facilities here, such as a complete set of launch and recovery systems, a complete set of cargo handling equipment and a bunch of high-tech gadgets. Because it is close to the teleportation gate, it can also be extremely fast. to establish contact with the Origin Star.
Any supplies and materials that are in short supply during the early construction period can be mobilized by the portal to support them within dozens of minutes.
The later space elevator project will enable interaction between portals anytime and anywhere. Things brought back from outer space can be directly sent to the origin star on the other side of the portal, saving a lot of transportation costs.
Chen Lin has always been interested in such high-tech representative technologies, so he specially retrieved all the information about the space elevator project from the intranet. He mainly wanted to see the blue ocean. How exactly did the Star build this grand project?
The Qinglong Base adopts the stepped construction plan provided by the association - this plan was finally confirmed after passing various reviews and modifications. Compared with other plans, this plan is easier to implement. , more cost-effective and more reliable.
The initial investment of the project plan is 30 billion, and the subsequent additional investment may be multiplied several times. Chen Lin looked down the inside of a document and already understood what was going on with this stepped construction method. After the ground station near the portal is established, the space elevator project team will build the first floating platform 150 kilometers above the ground station. The floating platform uses room-temperature superconducting materials as four corner support points. The design can stably maintain suspension at an altitude of 150KM, and can also carry more than hundreds of tons of weight.
By comparison, the size of this floating platform is approximately equal to the area of a playground. Under normal circumstances, it is maintained by the magnetic levitation ability of the normal temperature superconducting material itself. When a heavy object wants to stay on it, the propeller loaded above it will be activated. , energy conversion device to assist suspension, ensuring that this floating platform can be stable at high altitudes.
The first-level floating platform and the ground station below are considered the entire first-level platform. The 150KM space cable in the middle will be erected by carbon nanotubes. The thickness of these special carbon nanotubes is about About 12CM, at least twelve poles should be erected simultaneously.
These special carbon nanotubes will exist as a cable connecting the ground station and the first-level platform. Although the thickness is amazing, these things are designed to be light in weight and high in strength. Can bear the weight of elevator cabins and other equipment.
According to multiple rounds of tests by the space elevator project team here at Qinglong Base, these 12CM diameter carbon nanotubes can easily carry a weight of several thousand tons, even if the elevator cabin exerts a terrible force on the cable during ascent and descent. The tensile force will not cause any deformation or breakage at all.
After the cables were designed, they were all built by the ACS manufacturing platform. The cost can be said to be low to a certain extent, but the length of the cables required for the installation is staggering. More than 100 kilometers of 12CM diameter cables alone. The raw materials put into it are enough that many people dare not even think about it.
After the construction of the first-level platform is completed, the project team will build a second-level platform on this basis. Compared with the first-level platform, the distance between the second-level platform and the first-level platform is even more amazing. According to the data reported by the project team, between the two The difference between them is at least 1000KM!
Building the second floating platform is the key. The space elevator project team also needs to maintain the height and position through the flotation device and propulsion system. The first-level platform method is somewhat unreliable. This At that time, the project team used the spar engine thruster that is currently very mature on the Origin Star.
The floating equipment uses thrusters to ensure that it is foolproof. More than 100 crystal engines will be installed simultaneously under the secondary platform. Because it is already thousands of kilometers away from the ground, the effect of the thrusters at this time will be fully exerted. Even better, under normal circumstances, it is not necessary to fully open it, unless it is fully loaded with cargo being transported from the orbital station above.
After the construction of the second-level platform is completed, high-strength cables such as carbon nanotubes are used to connect the first-level and second-level platforms. This is considered to have completed a stepped task.
The next step is to repeatedly build more platforms. Follow the same method and continue to build more platforms and cables upwards. Each platform will be higher than the previous one. Each platform will become a space elevator. A "staircase" gradually takes the elevator cabin into a higher orbit.
Above the last platform, an orbital station will need to be built. This station will be located in the synchronous orbit of the Blue Sea Star. The actual distance is smaller than that of the earth, about 32,000 kilometers. The orbital station will serve as the end point of the space elevator. It is also the gateway to deep space, so this project cannot be sloppy at all. The association directly took over the project and delivered the orbital station ten days ago.
The Blue Star Synchronous Orbital Station is named "Panshi Station", and its space part also includes other facilities, such as maintenance and repair workstations, scientific research laboratories, space tourism facilities, etc.
These facilities are basically located in orbital stations in geosynchronous orbit, and can also be distributed on ladder platforms of different heights on cables. Currently, the space elevator project team is still in its original stage - that is, the stage of building a floating platform. When Chen Lin saw the news, they were setting up a third-level floating platform.
Chen Lin clicked on some details in the document, which mentioned the design of the elevator cabin.
The elevator cabin is the part of the space elevator used to transport passengers and cargo. It moves up and down along the cable. It can be driven by solar energy, spar engines or inertia because the carbon nanotubes maintain a certain distance a few meters apart. The acceleration buffer part of normal temperature superconducting material, so the entire elevator cabin is actually driven by its own engine, which only starts when landing.
The design of the elevator cabin not only needs to consider factors such as efficiency, safety, comfort, etc., but also the distance between the two places is not hundreds or thousands of kilometers on the conventional ground, but 30,000 kilometers between the Blue Star ground station and the orbital station. With a length of more than 100 kilometers, its design must be extremely strict and standard.
The priority when designing this thing is that it needs to adapt to the extreme space environment. It needs to be able to withstand the impact of micrometeoroids and space debris, while also resisting radiation and temperature changes.
The cabin adopts a multi-layer structure. The inner layer is used to maintain a comfortable temperature and air pressure, and the outer layer is used to protect the interior from the external environment.
Because Blue Star has used underwater high-speed elevators before, this project did not take much effort from the project team. They used some of their experience in underwater high-speed elevators in the space elevator cabin. It turned out that it surprisingly met the standards.
When the underwater elevator was originally designed, the most important thing to consider was safety, and this was also applied to the space elevator cabin. This thing is equipped with an emergency braking system, a life support system and a communication system. Being able to take quick measures in an emergency - in fact, this is indeed necessary. After all, the elevator cabin and the underwater high-speed elevator themselves are full of dangers. Once an accident occurs, the lives of the passengers inside will basically be in danger.
However, compared to the underwater high-speed elevator device, the space elevator cabin has more chances of survival. After all, this thing is not going underwater. No matter how bad the surrounding environment is, as long as it passes through the atmosphere, the risk is already reduced. A lot.
After the multiple protection measures under the complex design are activated, this thing is similar to the elevator used by high-rise users.
Chen Lin pursed his lips. According to the current construction progress, it will take at least half a year to complete the entire space elevator project. This is based on the association's full support.
He had some time to wait.
(End of this chapter)