In a certain room of the Palace Tree, which covers an area of more than 2,000 square meters, there is a dazzling array of bottles, jars, glassware and experimental equipment of all sizes. There are almost hundreds of sets, arranged orderly and neatly in the room. Arranged in some of the bottles, jars and glassware, there are also various kinds of eggs of various colors, some of which are still bubbling at the moment...
Some bottles and jars and glassware were even filled with complete body parts of demon knights and specimens of demon warriors.
In some professional experimental vessels, several kinds of weird zombie poison miasma with strange colors are floating like ghosts in several sealed spaces, slowly corroding pieces of flesh, flesh and bones...
This place looks a bit eerie, but if a voodoo elixir master or a scholar engaged in microbiological research comes here, his eyes will light up and he will feel like he has arrived in heaven.
Here is the microbial evolution laboratory of the Black Iron Castle. The equipment in this laboratory may not be much different from other similar laboratories, but because of the special abilities of the Black Iron Castle, this microbial evolution laboratory is definitely the best laboratory in the entire human race. .
After having Heller, Zhang Tie has completely left the evolutionary management of various creatures and species in the Black Iron Castle to Heller. He almost never takes care of it and only waits for the results.
Zhang Tie has almost never been to this microbial evolution laboratory. This is Zhang Tie's first time.
Just now, Zhang Tie was still practicing in Feizhou's room. After hearing the message from Heller, saying that he had something important to show him, Zhang Tie returned to the Black Iron Castle.
Even when the Moon Demon Miasma completes its mutation. Heller never said the word important.
Therefore, Zhang Tie was curious about what made Heller cautious.
"Heller, what exactly do you want to show me by bringing me here?"
Standing in front of a pile of glassware, Zhang Tie glanced at the dozens of Erlenmeyer flasks placed on the experimental table. I don’t know what Heller wants to show him.
Heller didn't say anything, just picked up one of those triangular flasks and handed it to Zhang Tie, "This is the latest mutant species completed by Yuan Neng Spiritual Qi Yeast. This mutant species is very special. The Lord of the Castle should have a look!"
"Over the years, haven't we obtained dozens of mutant varieties of Yuan Neng Aura Yeast? What's so special about this?"
Over the years, Zhang Tie's Yuan Neng Spiritual Qi yeast has mutated dozens more, but those mutated Yuan Neng Spiritual Qi yeasts have various defects. It is not that the mutated varieties are perfect and usable, so in terms of practical value, they do not have much effect and can only be regarded as a new variety.
"Fortmaster, you can tell just by looking at it?"
Zhang Tie took the bottle filled with light yellow liquid, looked at the beer-like liquid inside, and shook it. The liquid inside the bottle was very clear, with almost no turbidity.
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"Is this thing fermented with mutated Yuaneng spiritual energy yeast?"
"Yes!"
Hear Heller's answer. Zhang Tie curiously opened the glass stopper of the Erlenmeyer flask and brought the mouth of the bottle to his nose.
In an instant, an extremely strong smell of alcohol emanated from the triangular flask.
Zhang Tie had never smelled the smell of alcohol. However, the alcohol in the bottle tastes a bit more spicy than ordinary alcohol.
"Alcohol?"
"It should be!" Heller said, handing over another Erlenmeyer flask. There was also some transparent liquid in the Erlenmeyer flask. "This is ordinary alcohol. Lord Lord, you will know after comparing it!"
should be? Zhang Tie was slightly startled by Heller's words. He took another Erlenmeyer flask and smelled it. This is the normal taste of alcohol, not that spicy. And the color is also transparent.
Zhang Tie even tasted a little of the bottle of strange light yellow alcohol with his mouth. Just a little bit, Zhang Tie felt that his tongue was numb all of a sudden. The taste of the bottle of alcohol was too exciting, and judging from the taste, , seems unable to drink.
"Judging from the taste, the light yellow bottle is spicier than this ordinary bottle of alcohol. Is there anything special about it?"
Seeing Zhang Tie taste it, Heller laughed and said, "Have you forgotten what kind of fuel you added to your Dragon Dragon T9?"
Zhang Tie was shocked. He looked at the two bottles of alcohol in his hand and poured the two bottles of alcohol into the two burning crucibles in front of him. With a flick of his fingers, a spark flew out from between his fingers. The spark in the sky split into two, like two fireflies, and landed in the two burning crucibles.
A ball of blue flame more than half a foot high suddenly shot up in front of Zhang Tie...
The one that burst into flames was the burning crucible with light yellow alcohol poured into it, while the other crucible with ordinary alcohol poured into it burned quietly and steadily. The flame did not jump up, and was only as high as a fist. .
The flame of light yellow alcohol is much higher than the flame of ordinary alcohol, and it burns more intensely and brings a higher temperature.
Judging from the effect, when the light yellow alcohol burns, it is almost impossible to believe that it is alcohol.
Zhang Tie stood in front of the two burning crucibles, his face dyed blue by the blue flames, flickering brightly and darkly.
After a long time, the flames in the two burning crucibles almost went out at the same time. Zhang Tie stretched out his fingers and touched the bottom of the burning crucible. The bottom of the burning crucible was still very clean, without any dust or burning residue, as if it had never been burned. Like anything else.
The burning of alcohol leaves nothing behind except water and carbon dioxide.
Zhang Tie swallowed and asked Heller, "How high is the burning value of this new alcohol?"
"The combustion value of this new alcohol can reach 11,000-12,000 kcal per kilogram.
! Heller said a number, "The newly mutated Yuan Neng Aura yeast we recently obtained has a very single and powerful super fermentation characteristic. Things fermented by this yeast, It almost no longer contains any aura. That is to say, it has no edible value at all, but while losing its aura during fermentation, this yeast can squeeze out the maximum energy and combustion value of the fermented material, and increase it exponentially. With this new yeast Participate in fermentation. We can get this kind of alcohol with extremely high combustion value! "
Hearing Heller's words, Zhang Tie rushed out of the Microbial Evolution Laboratory without looking back. He almost ran to the library of Palace Tree as fast as he could.
Looking at Zhang Tie's back, Heller just smiled, as if he already understood what Zhang Tie was going to do...
In the library of Palace Tree, Zhang Tie collected millions of books obtained during the destruction of the Weiyi subcontinent. These books are all-encompassing, covering all aspects, many books, and even publications from before the Cataclysm.
Zhang Tie remembered that he seemed to have seen something useful in a beautiful publication before the cataclysm.
Zhang Tie rushed to the library, his body was like lightning, and turned twice among the bookshelves in the library that were more than ten meters high. With his terrifying search ability, he quickly found the target. Under a high bookshelf, he jumped up, floated in the air, and quickly grabbed the penultimate layer from the top of the library bookshelf. a book.
This book is a Hebrew publication, a publication before the Cataclysm, although it has been eight or nine hundred years. But it is still relatively well preserved.
The cover of the book is a beautiful hardcover that features a pre-Cataclysm propeller plane, along with a car and several engine models. Behind these things is a lush sugar cane field. This was a professional magazine for engineers and professional readers at that time. The name of the magazine was "New Energy".
In the middle of this magazine, there is the theme of this issue "After the oil crisis, Basilea, a major sugar cane growing country, launches an alcohol energy plan"
There are two subtitles below "Following the nationwide promotion of ethanol gas stations and ethanol vehicles." Basilea’s first ethanol-fueled aircraft successfully made its maiden flight on October 5th”
Under this subtitle is an eye-catching red font: "The three major oil groups severely accuse the Basilea government of violating the regional energy supply structure and quota plan."
Zhang Tie quickly turned the magazine to the page introducing alcohol airplanes—
“The first alcohol-powered aircraft successfully completed its debut in the city of Salaba, Basilija on October 5. Prior to that, the aircraft named Hope had completed 300 hours of test flights using alcohol as fuel. The pilot said that the flight condition of the Hope was very good... "
Zhang Tie quickly obtained the key information he wanted to know from this article.
"Hope was jointly developed by the Basilia Aircraft Manufacturing Company and the University of Basilia. It was modified from a gasoline-fueled Mustang propeller aircraft and used a 320-horsepower Lycoming six-cylinder engine. The aircraft Can take two people…”
"Engineers claim that ethanol-powered aircraft are more durable and seven percent more efficient than gasoline-powered aircraft..."
"After converting one-third of the country's cars into ethanol-gasoline vehicles, this is another major step by the Basilea government... "
"On the day of the successful test flight of the Hope, Basilia Aircraft Manufacturing Company received an order for 150 aircraft. The orders came from farmers and sugar cane producers in the country. For farmers and sugar cane producers in Basilia , none of them thought that one day the alcohol they processed from the things they grew in the ground would be able to fly into the sky. This excited the farmers and sugar cane producers. More importantly, the people who used this kind of aircraft The flight cost is only one-third of that of traditional gasoline airplanes, and there is no pollution during the flight. It does not produce a large amount of harmful gases and pollute the air like burning gasoline... "
"Sugar cane producer Curio said that using this kind of aircraft to spray pesticides would save him a lot of money every year and make it easier for him to travel short and medium distances... "
"Officials from Basilia Aircraft Manufacturing Company said that regional aircraft powered by alcohol are already in the development process..."
“If the alcohol energy plan is successfully implemented, Baselia, the largest alcohol producer in the region, will become a major energy exporter in one fell swoop...”
After reading the contents of this magazine, Zhang Tie flew up again and pulled out another "New Energy" magazine from the bookshelf. Compared with the previous magazine, the cover of this New Energy magazine was black, which made it appear more... It is particularly depressing. Judging from the publication date of the magazine, it was published half a year after the previous magazine.
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Under the cover of the magazine, there are two titles.
"A coup occurred in Basilia, and the former president was shot to death indiscriminately"
"The new Bassilia Parliament passes an energy use bill that will ban all production and sales of alcohol aircraft, and alcohol fuel used in cars will be mixed with gasoline in strict proportions"
"Three major oil groups loaned 120 billion to Basilia to support the new Basilia government in restoring domestic order"
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Putting down the two publications before the catastrophe, Zhang Tie fell into deep thought. In the period of human history when oil was about to be exhausted before the catastrophe, according to the introduction in the magazine, the burning value of gasoline, one of the most important energy sources, was It was 10,450-11,250 kcal per kilogram, while the combustion value of alcohol before the Catastrophe was 6,000-7,000 kcal per kilogram. At that time, humans had actually fully developed the method of using alcohol to replace gasoline. A powered internal combustion engine, with a few modifications, can also burn alcohol.
The reason why alcohol did not become a mainstream fuel before the Cataclysm was more political than technical. Oil interests have strangled those possibilities.
The reason why alcohol in the Black Iron Age withdrew from the mainstream energy source was because of the series of magical changes caused by the Cataclysm, which made the original alcohol's combustion value much lower and no longer suitable for the needs of internal combustion engines. It is a sports car like the Andromeda T9. The engine it uses is also an external combustion steam engine instead of an internal combustion engine.
The newly mutated Yuan Neng Spiritual Qi yeast can ferment alcohol with a combustion value of 11,000-12,000 kcal per kilogram. This value is higher than the alcohol burning value before the catastrophe, and has even exceeded gasoline. Doesn't that mean , as long as you have this kind of alcohol, you can create many gasoline-fueled machines and equipment before the catastrophe, and make them move, such as propeller planes that are faster than airships, such as higher-performance cars. , such as armored vehicles with stronger assault capabilities on the battlefield...
Zhang Tie himself was stunned by the new possibilities and prospects for the future brought about by the mutation brought about by the Yuan Neng Spiritual Qi Yeast.
This thing will have the potential to bring about an energy and industrial revolution in the Iron Age.
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Two days later, Zhang Tie, who had calmed down, was meditating in Feizhou's training room. The transmission bell in the training room rang, and Zhang Tie opened his eyes.
Liu Xing's voice came from outside, "Master, Zhulong has arrived!" ()