Chapter 146 Steam Turbine Application
Perfect didn't care about how the White Bear Knights carried out their orders. She just went back to the laboratory during the time when the Knights were gathering.
"Professor Archibald, how is the research and development of the new steam turbine going now? If I need to use it now, can you provide me with a prototype?" Purficott got straight to the point and asked directly to the person in charge of steam turbines. Professor Archibald from the turbine project asked.
Professor Archibald was stunned for a moment, but quickly replied: "If you need it, Lord Earl, I can provide you with a prototype now, but due to material reasons, the prototype The output power is not as good as expected. The current prototype has only about 50 horsepower.
The main problem is metal processing. The performance of the chromium alloy material itself is already very good. If the material can be heat treated, the speed should be able to be increased. Increase it some more to bring the output to around 120 horsepower to 200 horsepower.”
"If I use alchemy to strengthen materials, can it reach 100 horsepower?" Purficott didn't waste any time and directly asked the question he was most concerned about.
According to her estimation, the steam turbine must provide at least one hundred horsepower, although the output power of the world's first multi-stage reaction steam turbine was only ten horsepower.
But this kind of steam turbine, which is on the same level as the steam core she used on the maid puppet and steam knight, obviously cannot meet her needs.
One hundred horsepower is almost equivalent to the output power of the smaller 5-8 ton medium-sized excavator in the original world before she traveled through it. This level is barely enough to satisfy what she wants to do next.
Hearing Purficott's request, Professor Archibald thought for a moment and said: "It should be possible, but I'm afraid you need to do it yourself. The level of alchemy of others is not enough. to support such a large workload.”
At this point, Professor Archibald made a little joke with envy: "Of course, if you accept that it will take them at least a month to complete the work, you can also leave this matter to Professor Leonard. He has Working with his students, I can probably build a steam turbine of about 100 horsepower for you within a month."
Professor Leonard is working with Professor Archibald to study the alchemy of steam turbines. As a professor of alchemy, he has naturally reached the level of a royal chartered alchemist, but his achievements in academic research are more important. As for his strength, it is naturally impossible to compare with Perficott, who has the Philosopher's Stone.
Perfect nodded and then said: "I understand, please prepare this prototype. I need to go to the fjord now. When I come back, I hope to see it ready. "
"I understand, I will prepare the prototype with Professor Leonard." Professor Archibald didn't know what Perficott wanted to do, but he knew what he should do. What's good.
However, before Purficott left, Professor Archibald still asked: "I can venture to ask, Lord Earl, where do you plan to apply steam turbines? Coal mining? ? Or clearing the snow? ”
Regarding this question, Purficott just raised her eyebrows and immediately replied: "Why can't it be both?"
After that, she left the laboratory, leaving Ya Professor Chibberd looked curious.
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The forty knights who gathered soon followed Perficott on an airship to the fjord. Camp.
After arriving at the fjord, the situation here is obviously worse than at the base of Eagle Beak Cliff.
Looking down from the airship, it can be clearly seen that the original location of the military camp has been completely submerged in snow and has completely turned into a vast expanse of white.
The slightly better warehouses basically only have a few bumps on the snow, because the warehouses are also semi-submersible, so that when the snow depth exceeds one meter, even the warehouses It was almost buried by the snow, and only some raised snowdrifts could be seen regularly arranged in the snow. But obviously the camp was not completely buried. At least the soldiers in the camp should still be alive.
Because when the airship lowered its altitude and passed over the military camp, Purficott could clearly see that some roads had been opened in the camp, and people were walking through them, and There was also white mist rising from the raised snowdrifts over at the warehouse.
Perfect quickly ordered the airship to prepare for landing. Although there was snow almost everywhere and it looked flat, this was not a suitable landing site for the airship.
At least for Purficott, it was obviously impossible for her to get off the airship on one meter of snow.
"In this case, we may not be able to land." The captain of the airship reported to Purficott.
Airships are a new thing, and the captain naturally doesn’t have much driving experience. He just transferred from the navy, because they are both ships.
Facing this uncertain ground situation, he did not dare to land rashly. He just tried to lower the altitude and tried to find a suitable landing place.
But it is obvious that the snow at least one meter deep on the ground makes it impossible for anyone to judge what is going on under the snow. Even Purficott can only roughly guess the snow based on the terrain and location. What exactly is down there.
She ordered the captain to drive the airship to the ice near the fjord camp. Although there was a thick layer of snow on the ice, at least there was the frozen sea below, and there was no need to worry about anything else under the snow. What damage is done to the airship.
But even so, it is not easy to lower the airship.
The captain tried to land the airship, but the airship's own weight did not allow it to stay on the surface of the snow, and it quickly fell into the snow due to its own weight.
Seeing this situation, the captain could only ask the airship to increase its altitude again, and then said to Purficott: "I'm afraid we need to send a few people to slide down with ropes first, otherwise it will be difficult. Land. "
Have people go down to confirm the ground situation first, and then let the airship land. This is the way the captain can think of to land as safely as possible.
Purficott hesitated for a moment, then agreed to the plan after consulting the knights.
A few brave knights with skillful skills tried to jump off the rope from the lowered airship. Almost as soon as they landed, they fell into the snow due to their own weight, and fell into the snow almost instantly. Only the head is still exposed.
This made Purfict suddenly feel nervous, fearing that these brave knights would encounter some danger.
Fortunately, they were not seriously injured. With superhuman strength, they quickly dug themselves out of the snow, and then cleared an area on the ground, so that the airship finally had a place to land. place.
(End of this chapter)