Chapter 593 Dismantling Wreckage No. 3
Regardless of how surprised the overseas media and melon-eaters were, Lu Zhou, who was standing in the underground laboratory, was completely shocked by his own Xiao Ai.
Saying it was a bumblebee might be a bit incorrect.
To be precise, what was presented in front of him was a model of a bumblebee. The smooth and flat aluminum alloy casing exudes a shiny metallic luster under the incandescent lamp on the laboratory ceiling, and the mechanical structure under the streamlined casing perfectly fits the complex aesthetics.
Although it has not been colored, but because the degree of restoration is too high, Lu Zhou, who is still deeply impressed by the Transformers series of movies, can be recognized at a glance.
Although this large figure is almost finished, there are still materials piled up in the laboratory, and the industrial robots leaning against the wall have no intention of stopping.
I saw that the eight mechanical arms were like octopuses, flexibly flipping the aluminum alloy plate in their hands, and the files and hammers in the "hands" were beating and rubbing on it. How many times faster when I got these new toys.
Through an algorithm similar to neural network learning, as long as one adapts to a tool, Xiaoai can quickly use it to the extreme. This kind of application is not limited to the control of plasma, obviously machining and automatic assembly are also within its reach.
only……
Lu Zhou: "What are you...doing?"
The non-stop mechanical arm stopped.
The fuselage of the drone floating next to it swayed left and right, as if tilting its head.
Soon, Lu Zhou's mobile phone received a message from Xiao Ai.
【Didn't the master ask Xiao Ai what kind of body she wants? I didn't want to trouble the master, so I made it myself. (*°▽°*)]
Lu Zhou: "..."
[How about it, isn't Xiao Ai's new body cool! ()】
[Praise me quickly, hurry up, praise me and take the master for a ride!ヾ(≧▽≦*)o】
Well, Lu Zhou admitted that this thing is really cool.
but……
Is this thing useful?
Although he didn't want to discourage this guy's enthusiasm, Lu Zhou couldn't help asking, "How are you going to put yourself in?"
The eight robotic arms slammed.
After a while, a message popped up on the phone screen.
[Can't you go in? Σ(°△°|||)︴】
Lu Zhou: "...I can't."
Although this model is well done...
But no matter what, robots are not things that can be drilled into and used just by designing their appearance.
Not to mention that there are no motors and servo motors, and there are no control chips and signal receivers. Hasn't this guy thought about where to install his program?
Lu Zhou didn't even know how to complain about such a common-sense thing.
After a long time, a string of bubbles popped up on the phone, and the mechanical arm on the wall dropped the alloy plate in its hand, and hung down listlessly.
【...QAQ】
Looking at the message with only three letters, Lu Zhou sighed in his heart.
This guy……
Is it mentally handicapped?
Even a child should be able to distinguish between movies and reality.
"Anyway, stop playing and come and help me with my work."
Not even good at comforting humans, let alone comforting artificial intelligence.
Ignoring the depressed Xiao Ai, Lu Zhou went straight to the Wreckage No. 3, reached out and lifted the plastic sheet on it, and then returned to the control terminal of the industrial robot.
Lu Zhou, who had been equipped with new equipment, finally didn't have to crawl in clumsily with his pliers to take samples this time.
With the help of Xiaoai and the eight industrial robots, he easily completed the disassembly of Wreckage No. 3.
In fact, this thing is not particularly difficult to disassemble.
Although the material of the shell is very strong, considering maintenance, it is impossible for the designer of this device to say that it was welded to an indestructible structure like the armor of a ship's hull.
Relatively speaking, the engines located at the rear or belly of the spacecraft are relatively safe places.
Of course, this is only relative.
The wreckage was neatly dismantled into three sections, and seeing the mess inside, Lu Zhou's brow twitched vigorously.
The situation was even worse than he had imagined. The huge impact not only completely destroyed its parts, but even destroyed the entire internal structure.
For example, the metal pipes that were crushed on one side of the inner wall, Lu Zhou can only roughly speculate based on the existing knowledge and brain holes, this thing is probably similar to a temperature exchanger, or the feed material of the plasma engine Mouth or something.
And what is connected behind the crushed and cracked conduits is a special oblate cylindrical hollow structure.
"Electrodes... heat exchange device... is this an ionization chamber? Is it really a Hall thruster?"
Staring at the picture captured by the industrial camera, Lu Zhou leaned on the chair and touched his chin, lost in thought.
Behind this hollow structure, there are spouts shaped like Erlenmeyer flasks.
Further back, there is the bowl-shaped structure at the end of the entire wreckage.
Through the analysis of the internal structure, Lu Zhou made a bold guess.
The engineer who designed this device probably adopted a rather avant-garde design idea...or a common practice in his civilization.
That is, the ionization chamber is taken out separately, and then the nozzles for emitting plasma are designed as individual Hall propulsion units, which are integrated at the rear of the ionization chamber.
By means of heating and applying voltage, the ionization chamber ionizes the gasified propellant, which forms a high-temperature plasma while expanding in volume, and at the same time is sent to the "Hall propulsion unit" connected behind the ionization chamber , that is, the spouts that look similar to conical flasks.
Through a special design, these Hall propulsion units can more efficiently process the hot plasma in the ionization chamber and eject it out of the engine.
At the same time, the neutralizer integrated on the rear rectification ring (I accept this shielding word) neutralizes the ejected plasma plume and prevents the ejected plasma from being sucked back into the ionization chamber...
Theoretically, as long as the power output is large enough and the plasma is ejected fast enough, the power of the engine can be increased indefinitely before the critical current of the superconducting magnet and the pressure and temperature of the ionization chamber break through the threshold.
According to the direction of the cracks in those ducts, Lu Zhou can even speculate that before being "destroyed", the pilot of the spaceship probably performed some dangerous evasion operation, putting the power of the engine under overload and maintaining the a period of time.
Looking at the flattened conduits, Lu Zhou fell into deep thought.
I always feel that the secret behind this system seems to be getting more and more serious...
After confirming the external working parts of this engine, the rest of the work becomes easier. By comparing the pictures taken by Xiao Ai, Lu Zhou quickly found the "fuel tank" of this engine—that is, the storage tank. The location of the working medium.
However, the question then came again, where does the electricity come from?
No matter how the Hall thruster is designed, the thrust provided per kilowatt is not too high, even if this advanced civilization has achieved a rather exaggerated level of ejection velocity of the plasma plume, making its thrust break through μN, mN , and even eventually reach the magnitude of N, to allow a spaceship over 100 tons to achieve an acceleration of at least 1G, the power required for this is also a rather terrifying figure.
At least, the output of electrical energy must reach the order of MW.
Such a huge power consumption is obviously not something that ordinary batteries can bear.
At least any lithium-sulfur battery is definitely out of the question.
It is speculated that the energy storage unit should not be far from the fuel tank that stores the working fluid. Looking at the arc-shaped double-layer structure connecting the fuel tank and the temperature exchanger, Lu Zhou always felt that this thing resembled something, but Can't remember where I've seen it.
However, at this moment, a crazy and unrealistic idea suddenly emerged from his mind.
Could it be...
Fusion? -
Thanks to the leader of the book friend "Shi Shengmo" for the reward~~~~
Trying to pay off debts...QAQ