Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 130 [Problem of Insufficient Aircraft Battery Energy]

As for those domestic institutions and units that are engaged in research on controlled nuclear fusion technology, Xiao Yu estimates that even with the support of room-temperature superconducting materials, the possibility of a breakthrough within the next ten years is not high, but Xiao Yu will not wait for them too long.

If they can't figure it out, Xiao Yu can just light up the technology tree of controlled nuclear fusion technology by himself. The Blue Star world has already realized miniaturized applications and is even working on antimatter energy.

Shortly after Chen Zaiqing left, Xiao Yu also left his office and came to the company's aircraft design and development department. At this moment, the R&D and design team in the department were discussing many design issues of all-electric drive aircraft.

Seeing the boss coming, everyone stopped talking.

Everyone present was convinced by Xiao Yu.

They already knew that so many people in the Basic Applied Research Department next door were working on room-temperature superconducting materials, and in the end it was the boss who continued to work alone in the laboratory during the National Day holiday, and he actually figured it out.

Graphene material mass production technology, artificial intelligence, room-temperature superconducting materials, any one of these achievements alone is world-renowned and hard to deny.

Obviously, Xiao Yu's self-created "super genius" personality that is rare in a century has already taken shape in the eyes of others. In the future, if he wants to get other black technologies from the Blue Star world, this personality is indispensable.

People have to admit that there are such powerful people in the world, just like Qian, an older generation scientist of the "two bombs and one satellite", a super-powerful person who created an entire discipline with just a page of paper.

At that time, national scientific research was in its infancy and gyroscope technology was almost blank, leaving researchers helpless.

So they asked Mr. Qian to study this technology, but he did not have that much time, so he wrote down the theoretical essence of laser gyroscope technology on a page of paper and handed it to the research institute.

Relying on this page of paper from Mr. Qian, others established and developed an entire theoretical and technical system, which is almost a complete discipline. This page of paper also became the cornerstone of domestic gyroscope technology, and opened the starting point for a technological leap from scratch.

With the example of Mr. Qian, outsiders could accept Xiao Yu's amazing achievements at such a young age.

"How's the argument going?" Xiao Yu found a seat and sat down.

The man sitting next to him, Jiang Heng, was the project leader. He looked at Xiao Yu and said, "We have introduced room-temperature superconducting materials and re-verified that insufficient energy is still the biggest technical pain point of all-electric drive."

Another researcher immediately said: "The current commercial drones and test aircraft are all small aircraft. Strictly speaking, large aircraft that can be fully electrically propelled, such as civil airliners, have never appeared."

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Right now we are mainly engaged in military aircraft, but we will definitely enter the civil aviation field in the future. The number of civil airliners in the world has reached 30,000. This is a market worth trillions of dollars. We must have a share of it."

Jiang Heng said: "The biggest challenge we are facing in the full electric drive of large aircraft is the weight of batteries. At present, the energy output per unit mass of aviation fuel is about 50 times that of traditional batteries. If you want to drive a large aircraft, such as a civil airliner, you have to remove all the seats and cargo holds to install batteries."

"According to our latest demonstration and calculation, graphene batteries can shorten the energy gap to less than 10 times. The introduction of room temperature superconducting materials can shorten the gap to about 2 times, but it still cannot match the energy storage rate of traditional aviation fuel."

As soon as he finished speaking, the researcher continued, "Assuming the thrust generated by the engine remains unchanged, the thrust-to-weight ratio based on fuel will increase as the remaining fuel decreases. In other words, it will become more and more fuel-efficient while keeping the speed unchanged."

"But the mass of the batteries carried by an all-electric aircraft remains unchanged, and the thrust-to-weight ratio remains unchanged. To make up for the last two-fold difference, we must divide the batteries into several blocks and directly airdrop the ones that have run out of power, but this one-time consumption is definitely unbearable."

Xiao Yu required an all-electric aircraft and a hypersonic jet. The high-temperature combustion gas at the tail needs to be heated by electrical output, and high-energy electric arc heating is used, which is very power-consuming.

"The application of graphene batteries is still in its early stages, and its energy density may not have reached the theoretical peak limit. Let's start with the innovation of key processes and technologies. As long as the battery energy density is further increased, this problem will not be a problem." Xiao Yu looked around and said. Everyone: Uh...

It is true that what you said is true, but it is not that easy. This is just nonsense.

The breakthrough of graphene batteries is already an astonishing leap. If the energy density can be doubled on the existing basis, the energy storage gap with traditional aviation fuel can be shortened from 10 times as demonstrated currently to five times. Then the introduction of room-temperature superconducting materials can bring the gap on par.

At this moment, while Xiao Yu was communicating and discussing with the project development team, he was also thinking in his heart that he was definitely not worried, because the graphene battery technology in the Blue Star world had already reached its theoretical peak, and if it didn't work, he could just move the technology over from Blue Star.

Moreover, these outdated products have now been eliminated. The current mainstream products in the Blue Star World are ultra-high energy density batteries with more powerful energy storage, which are more than a hundred times the energy density of graphene batteries.

"Everything depends on human efforts. We have even developed room-temperature superconducting materials. Nothing is impossible. Just do it first. I will work on the battery and the other modules will be carried out as planned." Xiao Yu looked around at Jiang Heng and others with a smile.

Everyone was encouraged to see the boss's confidence, as the boss played a key role in the breakthrough in graphene battery technology.

Xiao Yu stayed in the company for another half an hour before leaving and going straight back to his villa.

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Underground library laboratory.

Xiao Yu opened the teleportation star gate and once again came to the bedroom of his private villa in Fengquan City in the Blue Star World.

Walking out of the house and into the villa's living room, Xiao Yu immediately instructed the housekeeper, robot beauty No. 18: "Please prepare a complete and systematic graphene battery technical data for me. If there is any technical data that needs to be purchased, you can just spend money."

It is very easy to obtain graphene battery technology in the Blue Star world, because it is already an outdated technological product here.

Just like how smartphones are replacing mobile phones on Earth today.

On the Blue Star world, graphene battery technology has long passed the confidentiality period and has become part of the historical data on the development of human technological civilization on Blue Star. It is publicly accessible technical documentation, and most of it can be found on the Blue Star Internet.

With the assistance of robot beauty No. 18, Xiao Yu does not have to spend energy to search by herself. She only needs a few seconds to efficiently complete the packaging and organization of data documents.

Regarding some technical literature that requires payment, Robot Beauty No. 18 can pay for the purchase directly. Xiao Yu has an additional fund account that is directly authorized to be entrusted to her.

To solve the problem of the upper limit of the energy density of graphene batteries for aircraft, other people on Earth may spend several years or even ten years studying without any breakthrough progress, but for Xiao Yu, it is so simple and direct, just take it and it's done.

After a while, robot beauty No. 18 looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Master, all the data and documents on graphene battery technology have been collected and uploaded to your private server. You can check them at any time."

Xiao Yu was very satisfied when he heard this. Isn't this a problem solved at the speed of light? When he returns to Earth, he will download the technical documents and take them away with him.

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(PS: I never expected that the sixth-generation aircraft would be tested so suddenly, and there were two of them at once, and they flew on that special day. Suddenly I felt that the novel was too conservative, and it must be a little bigger...)
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