Chapter 354 New Materials
Compared with the people of his family, Purficott was more concerned about the huge glass greenhouse in front of him.
Of course, it is not quite accurate to call it a glass greenhouse, because the material used to build the greenhouse is not actually glass.
It is just a seemingly transparent material, derived from Langton's research on utopian alchemy and Purficott's original commission for research on thermal insulation materials.
Originally, the research progress of thermal insulation materials in those university research institutions was very slow, and they could hardly produce any decent results in one or two years.
Although this is indeed not a big problem for scientific research, and scientific research is indeed not achieved overnight, the fact that they have not been able to make any decent progress really makes people feel dissatisfied, and they feel that they are nothing more than this.
In fact, it is not just onlookers who think these researchers are not good, even they themselves feel that this is really not good.
If Purficott is still just an ordinary baroness, then they are just dragging her along, it is just normal scientific research progress, and Purficott will not say anything.
But she is now the Earl of the Empire and the Lord of the North. This huge change in identity makes the deterrent power of Perfectcott's identity completely different.
Procrastination? Normal scientific research progress? Do you think the Northern Lord is easy to talk to?
To take a step back, even if Purficott doesn't say anything on this matter, as long as she expresses her dissatisfaction with these scientific research institutions in private on certain occasions, there will be someone who can help her straight away. Handle it well in order to please her.
For the nobles in Langton, this is almost an instinctive operation, and it can even be regarded as the basis for their livelihood.
And they don’t need to do anything more, they just need to convince others not to continue to provide funding to those scientific research institutions.
For these scientific research institutions, the annual R&D funding is very limited.
In addition to the funding from their respective universities, they only rely on donations from various nobles and gifts from other sources.
Once these are gone, only relying on university financial allocations will not even be enough to pay the salaries of laboratory technicians in research institutions. How can we engage in scientific research?
To put it mildly, with the ability of the nobles in Langton, they can even persuade the universities where these scientific research institutions are located to directly cancel these scientific research institutions, and even directly imprison the relevant persons on charges, or even send them to prison. Work as a laborer in the North.
You know, the punishment camps in the north are now notorious in the empire, and they are even somewhat terrifying to the point where children cry at night.
After all, you will really die if you enter the punishment camp.
So for these scientific research institutions, it is very difficult to delay the scientific research commission of Perfect Cote for a long time without producing results.
Fortunately, with the emergence of fantasy alchemy, many materials that originally existed only in theory or imagination began to appear one after another, and the development of cold-resistant materials entrusted by Perfectcott to these scientific research institutions has made sufficient progress.
The transparent material used in the construction of greenhouses is the answer sheet submitted by these scientific research institutions to Purficott. A special thermal insulation material with a light transmittance of over 99.8%. Its thermal conductivity is extremely poor, and its thermal insulation effect is even comparable to that of vacuuming.
Of course, heat energy can still be transferred in a vacuum environment, but it is not transferred as fast as in a planetary atmosphere.
As for those scientific research institutions, they do not think about vacuum. They use fantasy alchemy to create this kind of material with almost no thermal conductivity.
Of course, even so, this material still has its limits. If it exceeds minus 80 degrees Celsius or the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor exceeds 100 degrees Celsius, even this material cannot withstand such a huge temperature difference.
But even so, this powerful insulation material also has a wide range of application scenarios, and it is not just used to build greenhouses.
If this material can be widely used, there will be more advanced and useful military materials on airships and aircraft.
These are quite important for the combat environment of airships and aircraft, especially the subsequent training of flying knights. For those who can fly into the sky, it is better to keep an extra layer of insulation than to be frozen. He was shivering and still holding the joystick.
"There will naturally be someone responsible for the research work in these related fields. You don't need to worry about these things. I believe that with the support of utopian alchemy, the empire will definitely become more powerful and greater in the future." A scientific researcher The staff stood next to Purficott, looking like they wanted to flatter her.
Purficott was really too lazy to respond to this kind of flattery, but at this time she still had to ask: "This material of yours is indeed very promising. What is its design principle?"
"These materials are made through fantasy alchemy. There is an alchemy workshop in Langton that specializes in related businesses. The craftsmen in it developed a special insulating glass while studying fantasy alchemy to resist Langton. We sent people to communicate with them and developed this new material based on the summer sunshine and heat." The researchers hurriedly explained to Purficott and the reasons for the emergence of this new material. reason.
"Oh? When did Langdon have such a powerful alchemy workshop, and was able to develop such powerful new materials through fantasy alchemy?" Purficott was obviously very interested in this alchemy workshop. , because when she was in Langton, she had never heard of such a powerful alchemy workshop in Langton.
It’s not that Purficott looks down on them, but it’s that they are limited by the rules of alchemy in the past reality. They don’t have enough knowledge of the world, and they can’t turn their imagination into the wings of fantasy. Langton’s alchemy The level of warlocks is only like that.
After all, there are only a handful of alchemists as powerful as her parents, and geniuses are always lonely.
Hearing Purficott's curiosity, the researcher replied: "It's an alchemy workshop that just popped up recently. The members are all women. They call themselves the Witch's Workshop. They didn't have much reputation in the past, but with the With the emergence of Fantasy Alchemy, they are now very popular in Langton."
"It turns out that they are newcomers who have risen through Fantasy Alchemy. This is not surprising." Purficott nodded to express his understanding. .
"Lord Earl, are you interested in them? When the school contacted them before, they showed curiosity about you. If you are willing to extend an invitation, I think they are willing to come to the North. ” said the scientific researcher, wishing that Perfectcott would bring this witch workshop to the north.
After all, newly emerging workshops like this have had a huge impact on traditional real-life alchemy during this time in Langton.
(End of this chapter)