Chapter 217 Sorting out the project
The optimized design function of Cuiyulu was verified through the design drawings of the shelter, but Perficott did not apply it to the design drawings of the shield machine.
On the one hand, the design of today's shield machine is still too crude and not worth wasting precious optimization opportunities. On the other hand, it is also because in Purficott's view, the optimization of shield machine can be left to The alchemists and engineers under her will improve it, instead of her directly cheating to solve the problem.
Although it is fun to cheat for a while, and it will always be fun to cheat, but this will undoubtedly create path dependence.
To give a simple example, if someone can directly see the answer and solution process for each question when doing homework, how many people are willing to study each question seriously? Solution, still study seriously?
Although there are good students who can resist such temptation, most people can't help but be lazy and take shortcuts when encountering difficulties.
It doesn’t matter if you have one question and two questions, but if you do it more often and over time, you will inevitably become more and more dependent on this shortcut.
The same is true for Purficott. It doesn’t matter if she takes shortcuts on her own. Anyway, it only affects her.
The achievements she has made now are beyond the reach of most people in a lifetime. Even if she loses the ability to develop new things now, she can still rest on her credit book for the rest of her life. No one will Talking bad about her in this regard.
But for other people, if they become dependent on Perficott and rely on her for everything, then humanity will be considered useless.
After all, Purficott is alone, how much can she do? Even if the Jade Record records all the knowledge related to alchemy in the world, and can even deduce new technologies based on demand, there is no way for Purficott to replace all the alchemists by himself.
And in a sense, this is the scariest thing.
Because of the loss of innovation and progress, it is even more dangerous for mankind than the coming doomsday.
So after careful consideration, Purficott decided to let himself rely less on the omniscient eye and rely more on his own abilities to solve problems.
The optimization of the Omniscient Eye can be used as a supplementary means to make final improvements and optimizations after you have perfected and improved a design to the point where you can no longer make improvements.
In this way, you can not only obtain the benefits brought by the omniscient eye, but also ensure that you will not rely too much on the omniscient eye.
Furthermore, Purficott can propose a topic herself and then leave it to others to develop and improve. After all, she is now the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, right?
With this idea in mind, Purficott did not continue to improve the design of the shield machine, but planned to hand it over to others to improve.
At the same time, she also sorted out some of the projects she was working on and divided them into several new topics.
Before she returned to Langton urgently because the Three Kingdoms declared war on Victoria, the projects assigned to her subordinates were mainly the stable production of nitroglycerin, the improvement of new steam turbines, and coal mining in frozen soil environments.
These three projects are not too complicated, and they were basically in the initial stage of completion when Perficott handed them over to the people below. All that was left was for them to continue their in-depth research along the direction she had pointed out.
Before she left the North, these three projects had made good progress, and they were basically only one step away from meeting her requirements.
According to Purficott's calculations, during her time away from the North, they should be able to perfect these three projects to a level that satisfies her.
Of course, it’s not a big problem even if it doesn’t satisfy her. With the arrival of spring, the maritime routes between the north and the mainland are restored, and with the opening of airship routes, the manpower she recruited in Langton and provided by the imperial government will gradually arrive in the north.
With the addition of new scientific research forces, research on related projects will naturally not be a problem.
So after Purficott evaluated the problems she currently needed to solve and the progress of existing projects, she carefully sorted out the problems that needed to be solved and listed several brand-new projects. .
First of all, there is naturally the problem of nitroglycerin. The stable mass production of this new type of explosive is a very critical thing, because it can not only be used in the military, but more importantly, in mining and engineering construction.
After all, what we need to face in the future is an extremely cold apocalypse with an average temperature of tens of degrees below zero. The land has been frozen into permafrost. If you want to mine coal mines and excavate underground shelters, explosive blasting is a must. An indispensable construction method.
Before Purficott left the North, Al had made good progress in this area, and was basically able to make nitroglycerin be used stably. The next thing that needed to be solved was the mass production problem. .
The second project is naturally the improvement and promotion of new steam turbines. This project will also make sufficient progress with the restoration of transportation in the northern and New World colonies and the empire itself. The application and performance improvement of new materials, steam turbine structures Optimization and efficiency improvement, these will not be a problem.
According to Purficott's calculations, as long as Professor Archibald, who is in charge of this project, has not been idle all winter, the improvement of the new steam turbine should have achieved good results.
Of course, even if he makes no progress, it is acceptable to Purficott.
Anyway, she has figured out the application of this new steam turbine on the steam rider, and it has practical value. The only thing left is how to promote it.
According to Purficott’s idea, it’s time to use it to drive large autonomous machinery.
She had already discussed this issue with people from the Royal Academy of Sciences when she was in Langton. After the spring, a related project team will come to the north. At that time, Professor Archibald will be contacted by them, and the two project teams will be merged into one. Just fine.
Perficott did not have high requirements for them in this matter, as long as they could come up with a preliminary design plan.
After all, the technology of self-discipline machinery is her unique technology. If others want to make a breakthrough in this area, it is impossible for them to bypass Purficott herself.
So in this project, she ultimately has to be responsible for the most critical part.
Of course, if Perficott wants to save trouble, taking a look with his omniscient eye is also a solution.
In addition to these things, the construction problems in the extremely cold environment of permafrost are not difficult to solve, especially with nitroglycerin explosives and large autonomous machinery, this problem is not a problem at all.
In contrast, Purficott felt that she should consider how to establish an administrative system in the north.
(End of this chapter)