Chapter 507: Despair Brought by Intelligence
March 17, Xinghe year 2.
The Jeju Space Tower project of GeoLink, which was being rushed through, finally succeeded in erecting an airbag to a height of about 5,000 meters.
However, they encountered a problem at this time.
That is the chaotic air movement in the troposphere, which constantly disrupts the stability of the inflatable airbag.
Of course, the Geo-Union Association and Toth, the company that designed the space tower, had already anticipated this problem.
The airflow disturbance stabilization system designed by Toth still encountered some problems during the testing process.
This is also a common problem of many European and American companies today. They make a great show in PPT, but when it comes to the real battle, they perform very poorly.
Toth's wind stabilization system can only withstand winds of level 8. If the wind exceeds level 8, the vibration of the entire airbag tower will be very obvious.
Now the Geographical Association has to step forward and organize a large number of scientific researchers to help solve this problem.
In fact, they have three solutions.
One is to directly increase the diameter of the airbag tower from the current diameter of 100 meters to about 500 meters, so that the weight and lift of the airbag itself can be used to resist wind disturbances.
Another solution is the wind disturbance resistance system that Toth and Geolink are currently working on.
The last one is to increase the total buoyancy of the airship at the top of the stratosphere, allowing it to pull the airbag tower hard and tighten the airbag tower.
In short, the Geo-Union Association underestimated the difficulty of the Space Tower project, thinking that if Homo Sapiens could do it, so could I.
In addition to the Jeju Space Tower project organized by the Geographical Association.
Musk's Space Exploration Company has also completed the latest improvements to the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, increasing the Falcon Heavy's load ratio from 4.6% to 4.8%.
This has basically pushed the potential of the Falcon Heavy to its limit. If no new materials emerge, the Falcon Heavy will have reached its end.
Obviously Musk is aware of this, and he is now working with other aerospace companies to upgrade the space launch vehicle previously developed for the Almita project.
As to whether to restart the space shuttle, there is widespread opposition within the Geographical Association .
Although the Harij Space Group of the Homo Sapiens Company has successfully developed the La-space shuttle and is currently in large-scale operation, with an average launch per week.
But the Geophysical Union is not the wealthy Homo Sapiens company. Homo Sapiens company does not worry about funding at all, and its technology is very advanced. It now has two 32,000-ton super space shuttles in service.
The Space Association, which must be cost-conscious, now has the task of launching as many spacecraft as possible into outer space at the lowest cost, rather than aiming too high.
Without the technology of Homo Sapiens, developing the space shuttle would be a dead end.
It's different now than it was before.
In the past, even if there were gaps in aerospace technology among the major forces, the gaps were not so huge.
Now, the payload launched by Sapiens in one day may be several times more than the payload launched by the Earth Connection Association in a year.
Watching the Sapiens company build a space city, a lunar base, and explore other planets in the solar system, the major forces within the Earth Union Association were also anxious.
Under the stimulation of such tremendous pressure, the major forces of the Earth Federation Association had no choice but to grit their teeth and invest in scientific research.
Although a lot of talent has been lost, they still have a solid foundation.
In the two years since joining Xinghe, many scientific achievements have indeed emerged, especially those in the application field, which have received more attention.
The catfish effect created by Sapiens Inc. has a huge impact on human civilization as a whole.
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The other side.
California, which had been paralyzed for more than a month, finally lifted the earthquake blockade and entered the reconstruction phase.
This large-scale reconstruction has stimulated the steel and cement industries in the Free Union and across the Pacific.
Now the global steel industry has been completely divided into two, one part is a self-sufficient Homo sapiens company.
The other part is that after obtaining the guarantee of the free association, some large steel companies invested in major iron ore companies in the Kangaroo Country, completing the complete decoupling from the Homo Sapiens Company. They also obtained part of the iron ore from Central Asia and Russia, and now they don’t have to worry too much about the iron ore supply problem.
Sapiens had anticipated this kind of thing.
In this world, there are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
Due to the reconstruction of California, the Pentagon, which had previously been urgently evacuated from California to Austin, Texas, did not return quickly but continued to remain in Austin.
Victor, who is in charge of the Pentagon's intelligence system, is now very busy. Although the power of the FBI and the Black Ship has expanded rapidly due to the emergence of the Free Alliance, the Military Intelligence Agency is still a very special existence.
Especially in the current confrontation between the Black Ships and the Sapiens Company, they often lose more than they win, and their intelligence investigations within the Sapiens Company are often superficial.
The Military Intelligence Bureau, which Victor is in charge of, becomes even more important, and he himself also hopes to achieve some results.
Unlike the Black Ship, which prefers to conduct secret infiltration, Victor has now changed its strategy and is conducting intelligence analysis with the help of public travel channels, Internet channels, and space remote sensing monitoring.
For example, at this moment, Victor was in the small conference room of the safe house, listening to reports from a dozen analysts.
A young white man with a slicked-back hair said to the director holding a document, "Director, our team has discovered new intelligence about the power generation technology and scale of the Sapiens Company."
After taking the document, Victor flipped through it for a while, his expression very heavy.
Sapiens has an electricity export business in Africa, and this intelligence analysis team discovered the problem here.
The man with the slicked-back hair continued, "The Homo Sapiens Company has invested in a number of nuclear power plants in southern Meroe, selling an average of 24 billion to 26 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to the surrounding areas every month..."
"This electricity comes from six nuclear power plants, but since November last year, the electricity sold by these six nuclear power plants has continued to soar, increasing by tens of billions of kilowatt-hours per month on average."
"However, this is not the key point. The key issue is that these nuclear power plants did not expand the scale of nuclear reactors, but only added some power distribution and substation facilities..."
An analyst from another team chimed in: "Is it possible that it was built underground?"
The analyst with the slicked-back hair shook his head. "It is possible, but these nuclear power plants are all commercial nuclear power plants. Who do you think would dare to attack the nuclear power plants of the Homo Sapiens Company? Therefore, I think there is no need for them to build them underground..."
"Since the nuclear power plant has not added any reactors, but the scale of power transmission has increased exponentially, there is only one possibility. The power generation technology of the Sapiens Company has achieved a breakthrough innovation, and the thermal efficiency of power generation has at least doubled."
Gulu! The other analysts were sweating profusely.
Obviously this conclusion is too terrible.
The thermal efficiency of power generation has doubled. Even if they use their toes to think, they know how much advantage this will bring to the Homo Sapiens company.
The analyst with the slicked-back hair added:
"In order to verify my guess, I investigated the nuclear power plants and thermal power plants that Sapiens has been operating in the past two years. I found that Sapiens has stopped building thermal power plants since the beginning of last year and only added a small number of nuclear power plants to replace thermal power plants. However, their total power generation is skyrocketing."
Victor already believed it.
However, this intelligence discovery did not bring any joy to Victor and others, but instead brought indelible despair.
The gap is not narrowing, it is widening.
