Super Plane Mall

Chapter 372 The First Generation Warp Speed ​​Engine

Therefore, after Zhu Lei purchased the entire set of warp speed engine technology, he stayed in the laboratory and studied the warp speed engine technology with the scientists of the Ming Empire. Zhu Lei and the scientists of the Ming Empire first conducted research on the technology that Zhu Lei purchased Analysis, although the technology that Zhu Lei bought in the mall is similar to the technology that the Ming Empire is researching, but no matter what, the technology of each civilization has its own characteristics, so the scientists of the Ming Empire must first analyze their technology , and then understand it thoroughly.

Although when Zhu Lei purchased these technologies, he also purchased mature finished products. In fact, human beings can only manufacture usable products by imitating the purchased warp speed engine, but imitation is not what Zhu Lei and the Ming Empire want. However, if one cannot understand the operating principle and various layouts of the purchased warp speed engine, the Ming Empire will always be able to imitate the purchased warp speed engine of this civilization, and it is impossible to make breakthroughs in this technology.

You must know that the warp speed engine that Zhu Lei bought in the mall is only a primary warp speed engine. The fastest warp speed of the spaceship in the universe can only reach 1.8 times the speed of light, so direct imitation is absolutely not feasible. What's more, many of the materials used in the purchased warp speed engines are not available in the Ming Empire, and even many of the materials used to make warp speed engines are not available in the territories currently controlled by humans, so imitation is simply impossible.

Therefore, the technology Zhu Lei bought can only be used as a reference. The scientists of the Ming Empire still have to develop mankind's own warp engine. However, with Zhu Lei's brilliant technology, the development speed of warp engine will undoubtedly be countless times faster. The warp engine, which originally took tens, hundreds or even thousands of years to develop, was finally successfully developed in the third year after Zhu Lei joined the research.

Although the fastest speed of the warp engine concept machine can theoretically only reach 1.1 times the speed of light, and the maximum range of each warp voyage is only 0.5 light years, it must go through half a year of charging after each warp voyage. Only after that can continue to use warp speed navigation, but this is a warp speed engine anyway, which is more than twice as fast as conventional navigation methods. Even if you use this prototype, you can reach the Kala civilization from the solar system. The time it takes to reach galaxies has been shortened from nearly 20 years to less than ten years. This efficiency is already many times faster.

What's more, this is just the first concept machine used to verify the warp engine. Although it is only 1.1 times the speed of light, the success of this warp engine marks that the Ming Empire has mastered the manufacturing technology of the warp engine. Although To a certain extent, Zhu Lei borrowed the technology he bought in the mall, but this was just borrowing from mature technology, not to mention that the warp engine technology of the Ming Empire had already been studied and digested by himself, and the technology was redesigned, and It is not that the Ming Empire has gained nothing from its own research in the past few decades. It is just that the scientist dream has not fully understood some key points, so when Zhu Lei came back, he had not successfully built a warp engine.

Moreover, since the verification machine of the first warp speed engine of the Ming Empire was completed, it was much easier to conclude the knot. Zhu Lei and the others began to create the first real warp speed engine prototype. The prototype of the machine will be installed on the latest battleship being manufactured by the Ming Empire.

After all, this is only the first generation warp engine designed and researched by the Ming Empire that can actually be used for warp flight. Therefore, this warp engine still has many flaws, but it also has many advantages.

The first is the shortcomings of this warp engine. The first is that the manufacturing of this warp engine is still a bit difficult. It can only be made in the laboratory for the time being. There are still certain difficulties in achieving large-scale industrial production. It is expected that these The difficulty will take at least five years to solve. The second is that this warp engine consumes a lot of energy when traveling at warp speed. For example, if the latest space battleship being built in the shipyard uses a warp engine to travel, If so, its combat radius will not exceed fifty light years. Finally, this warp engine is still a bit large and can only be used on large battleships for the time being. Small and medium-sized spacecraft cannot use this warp engine at all, because small and medium-sized spaceships cannot use this warp engine at all. The energy of the spacecraft is not enough to start the warp engine once.

The advantages of this warp engine are also very obvious. In some aspects, it is even more technologically superior than the warp engine Zhu Lei purchased. The first point is the stability of this warp engine. The stability of the warp engine is very good. Since the Ming Empire has innate advantages in materials, this warp engine is very reliable. During the verification machine experiment, Zhu Lei and the others conducted large-scale intensive testing on this engine. In the experiments, this engine performed very well without any abnormalities.

The second is the speed of this warp engine. The speed of the redesigned and manufactured warp engine has reached 4.2 times the speed of light. Compared with the verification machine designed by Zhu Lei and the others, it is faster, and it is almost four times faster than the verification machine. The speed is even faster than the warp engine technology Zhu Lei purchased in the mall, even more than twice as fast as his. Finally, it is the cooling and cooling of the warp engine after each warp voyage. It’s time to recharge. Since the Ming Empire used a large amount of gold battery technology on this warp engine, the cooling and recharging time after each warp voyage using this warp engine technology was shortened from the original half a year. At fifteen days, this is a huge improvement!Even many sixth-level civilizations can't reach it.

Even after the batteries on the warp drive are fully charged, the first and second warp voyages can be carried out in only three days, but the third warp voyage is completely consumed due to the energy in the warp drive itself After that, you will have to recharge for [-] days before you can sail at warp speed again, but this is already very remarkable for the Ming Empire.

Although this warp speed engine is quite excellent, its shortcomings are also very obvious, so Zhu Lei and the scientists of the Ming Empire must find a way to solve these shortcomings, although it may take a long time to solve these shortcomings time, but there is no way, these shortcomings must be solved, especially the energy consumed by this warp speed engine every time when sailing at warp speed, and the warp speed engine is too large in size, it can only be used for Therefore, the problem of energy and miniaturization must be solved. After all, if the Ming Empire wants to establish a route with the Kara civilization, in addition to large and super large spaceships, the most important thing is the small and medium-sized private spaceships.

(End of this chapter)