At this moment, almost all the guests present understood what the big move of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences was.
—Thermal power station!
Large AC power plant!
The commercial value of this can be clearly seen by anyone who can appear here as a guest.
To understand the commercial value, we must first understand today's national electricity market. All are powered by DC power, mainly dry batteries.
Ordinary people rarely use electric lights in their homes, and they all use candles. Only wealthy people can use electric lights, and the energy consumption of electric lights is based on dry batteries. The consumption of dry batteries in each region is extremely huge.
Some developed cities have street lights, and all street lights use dry batteries.
The general price of a dry battery is about 200 coins. It can keep a 40-watt light bulb in normal use for 7 days.
Therefore, the battery market in Kyushu is extremely prosperous and almost an exclusive monopoly. The production data of dry batteries and the principle data of direct current are all controlled by the National Academy of Sciences and are fully controlled by the inventor, the father of direct current. Exclusive monopoly.
But when the School of Electromagnetics proposed alternating current, everyone felt that something was wrong. Because the alternating current he proposed no longer requires batteries, but only requires a power grid to allow electricity to flow into thousands of households.
The power is greater and the transmission strength is even more amazing. Everyone can't help but guess that if alternating current really works, it will undoubtedly be equivalent to the exclusive monopoly of the National Academy of Sciences, poaching 80% of the profits.
People no longer need to buy batteries, and they don’t need to be so time-consuming and laborious. Even if they use the same electricity, the price is the same. Instead, everyone will prefer AC because it transmits automatically and does not require you to install and remove the battery.
But the guests were still just guessing because it was too difficult to lay out. In addition, cost is a big issue.
However, the emergence of electric motors made everyone aware. It seems that the era of changing the dynamics of Kyushu is coming. The asynchronous AC motor with greater power requires greater AC power, and DC power cannot drive it at all.
At this time, everyone was already somewhat certain.
It was not until the steam turbine from the School of Mechanical Power came out that they were completely shocked...
The era of alternating current is coming soon.
As long as you are a businessman, you can clearly see the benefits. The energy generated by a thermal power station in one day can be used by the entire Qingdao County for a week.
What is this concept? This is a kind of profit that will monopolize the entire power market at an extremely terrifying speed.
This steam turbine is coal-fired. Even if you burn it for a day, how much coal can you burn
However, the power it provides radiates to the entire Qingdao County and can be used for a week. The difference between cost and profit is actually so huge.
Most of the results are all related to alternating current.
The layout of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences is a bit big this time. Is this a big move by Li Zhen
Li Zhen saw that Qin Enze had gradually finished explaining the steam turbine, and walked back into the auditorium with a smile on his hands behind his back, the corners of his mouth curled up, calm and confident.
"When alternating current radiated to the entire Kyushu area, the industrial age came naturally. Surprisingly, steam forging machines already appeared in Nanzhou. Using the principle of the steam engine, a large amount of steam was produced to replace artificial labor. Machinery. Initial machine tools? Some businessmen have already begun to use steam engines to promote the industrial age. And when alternating current is laid out, when asynchronous motors, synchronous motors, and three-phase motors are mature, Kyushu will take on a completely new look."
After muttering, Li Zhen's eyes were filled with blazing fire, which was the growth of ambition.
"In three years at most. Kyushu will be twenty years ahead of the entire world."
“…”
And then the guests who returned to the auditorium began to think deeply. The huge interests hidden in this, the almost terrifying profits, made everyone crazy.
"Everyone, you must have seen my classmate's steam turbine, oh, that is, a steam turbine. My name is Liu Jinghong, a native of Laoshan County, and the dean of the Aeronautical Research Institute of the Department of Physics of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences."
'Wow—'
The scene exploded again, and everyone exclaimed and raised their eyebrows, Aviation Research Institute. This is the most mysterious and awesome subject in the Kyushu Academy of Sciences.
Wang Zhongshu sighed and said with a wry smile: "Lin Xiufeng, a physics master transferred by the imperial court from our school, is now also the vice president of the Aeronautical Research Institute. He has completely rebelled."
Xu Shenxue also said with a wry smile: "The teachers transferred from our school have also become students here. No matter where you go to argue, this place is so magical."
"Haha, you can't count them as students. There is something irregular here. They are called classmates, students, and colleagues. I don't understand."
“…”
Liu Jinghong smiled, his confident aura clearly visible: "I believe everyone knows that our Aeronautical Research Institute deals with aerospace science. Let's not mention the paraglider. It was just a manual experiment of ours. I didn't expect it to become popular. Yes. Hehehe."
As soon as he said this, the physics students in the background yelled: "This guy is so shameless."
"Obviously everyone worked on the paraglider together, but as soon as he moved his mouth, it became a small experiment for their aviation research institute."
"The most shameless person is Liu Jinghong."
“…”
On the stage, Liu Jinghong continued: "What is a paraglider? What about jumping from a high place? If humans want to truly touch the blue sky, they still need to lift off from the ground and enter the blue sky independently. No longer need to rely on anything Mountain cliffs.”
Feng Naien raised his eyebrows: "Is it possible that in such a short period of time, the Jiuzhou Institute actually developed a real aircraft?"
Qian Mao squinted his eyes, feeling a little excited: "I think so."
“…”
Liu Jinghong laughed: "The outside is ready now. Please move."
Move again!
It seems that the finished product has appeared.
A thousand guests filed out, but Li Zhen was a little too lazy to move. He simply didn't go out and just sat in his seat and dozed off.
When everyone walked outside. All the staff of the Aviation Research Institute, under the leadership of Lin Xiufeng, have already started preparations.
In the yard, there is a bamboo basket, four or five square meters in size, with sandbags and other items in the basket. The basket is connected to a large piece of special cloth covering the entire ground through more than a dozen steel wires.
As Lin Xiufeng controlled a machine above the basket, the machine continued to spray out blazing flames. The flames rushed into the special fabric, and the fabric quickly began to expand. Then it slowly expanded into a huge ball and floated in the sky.
Liu Jinghong smiled and said: "This is our latest achievement, a hot air balloon. As you can see, a hot air balloon is an aircraft that is lighter than air. The upper part is in the shape of a large balloon and the lower part is a hanging basket. The inside of the balloon The heated air, which has a lower density than the external cold air, acts as buoyancy to cause the entire body to move; the hanging basket can carry passengers and heat sources... and the core of the entire hot air balloon is the alcohol blowtorch that Vice President Lin is operating. It is the primary tool used to power a hot air balloon’s ascent.”
“…”
Everyone looked at the big balloon that had floated in stunned silence, and at Liu Jinghong and Lin Xiufeng standing in the hanging basket, looking at each other.
"this… "
"Does this mean you can go to heaven?"
"It has no wings, nothing. How can it go to heaven?"
"That's okay. How did they come up with this?"
"Look, the basket is floating!"
“…”
'Huhu'
Another blue fire dragon emerged from the blowtorch, and the inside of the hot air balloon suddenly expanded again.
Liu Jinghong threw down a sandbag in the hanging basket and said with a smile: "This is a hot air balloon."
'Huhu'
A sudden shock. The red, huge hot air balloon suddenly accelerated its speed, taking the two people under the basket with it, and quickly jumped into the sky...
The entire Laoshan County people looked up at the same time.
But I saw a hanging basket hanging under a big red balloon. There were two people standing in the hanging basket overlooking the bottom. The hot air balloon has huge letters written on it - Kyushu Aviation Research Institute.
"They really went to heaven."
"The real God."
“…”
(End of chapter)