Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 146 Steam Turbine Applications

Purficott didn't care about how the White Bear Knights carried out their orders. She just went back to the laboratory during the time when the Knights were gathering.

"Professor Archibald, how is the research and development of the new steam turbine going now? If I need to use it now, can you provide me with a prototype?" Purficott got straight to the point and directly asked Archibald, who is in charge of the steam turbine project. Professor De asked.

Professor Archibald was stunned for a moment, but quickly replied: "If you need it, Lord Earl, I can provide you with a prototype now. However, due to material reasons, the output power of the prototype is not as expected. At present, The prototype produced only had about 50 horsepower.

The main problem is metal processing. The performance of the chromium alloy material itself is already very good. If the material can be heat treated, the rotation speed should be increased to increase the output power to about 120 horsepower to 200 horsepower. "

"If I use alchemy to strengthen materials, can it reach 100 horsepower?" Purficott didn't waste any time and directly asked the question he was most concerned about.

According to her estimation, the steam turbine must provide at least one hundred horsepower, although the output power of the world's first multi-stage reaction steam turbine was only ten horsepower.

But this kind of steam turbine, which is on the same level as the steam core she used on the maid puppet and steam knight, obviously cannot meet her needs.

One hundred horsepower is almost equivalent to the output power of the smaller 5-8 ton medium-sized excavator in the original world before she traveled. This level is barely enough to satisfy what she wants to do next.

After hearing Purficott's request, Professor Archibald thought for a moment and said: "It should be possible, but I'm afraid you need to do it yourself. The level of alchemy of others is not enough to support such a large workload. .”

At this point, Professor Archibald made a little joke with envy: "Of course, if you accept that it will take them at least a month to complete the work, you can also leave this matter to Professor Leonard. He has Working with his students, I can probably build a steam turbine for you with a power of about 100 horsepower within a month."

Professor Leonard is the alchemy professor who cooperates with Professor Archibald to study steam turbines. He has naturally reached the level of a royal chartered alchemist, but his achievements in academic research are more important. As for his strength, it is naturally impossible to compete with him. Comparable to Perficott who possesses the Philosopher's Stone.

Purficott nodded and then said: "I understand, please prepare this prototype. I need to go to the fjord now. When I come back, I hope to see it ready."

"I understand, I will prepare a prototype with Professor Leonard." Professor Archibald didn't know what Perficott wanted to do, but he knew what he should do well.

However, before Purficott left, Professor Archibald still asked: "I can take the liberty to ask, Lord Earl, where do you plan to apply the steam turbine? Coal mining? Or snow clearing? "

Regarding this question, Purficott just raised his eyebrows and immediately replied: "Why can't it be both?"

After saying that, she left the laboratory, leaving Professor Archibald with a curious look on his face.

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The forty knights who gathered soon followed Perficott on the airship to the fjord camp.

After arriving at the fjord, the situation here is obviously worse than at the base of Eagle Beak Cliff.

From the airship, it can be clearly seen that the original location of the military camp has been completely submerged in snow and turned into a vast expanse of white.

The slightly better warehouses basically only have a few bumps on the snow, because the warehouses are also semi-submersible, so that when the snow depth exceeds one meter, even the warehouses are almost buried by the snow. , only some raised snowdrifts can be seen regularly arranged in the snow. But obviously the camp was not completely buried. At least the soldiers in the camp should still be alive.

Because when the airship lowered its altitude and passed over the military camp, Purficott could clearly see that some roads had been opened in the camp, and people were walking through them, and there was also white mist rising from the warehouse. Emerging from snowdrifts.

Purficott hurriedly ordered the airship to prepare for landing. Although there was snow almost everywhere and it looked flat, this was not a suitable landing site for the airship.

At least for Purficott, it was obviously impossible for her to get off the airship on one meter of snow.

"In this case, we may not be able to land." The captain of the airship reported to Purficott.

Airships are a new thing, and the captain naturally doesn't have much driving experience. He just transferred from the navy, because they are both ships.

Faced with this uncertain ground situation, he did not dare to land rashly. He just tried to lower the altitude and tried to find a suitable landing place.

But it was obvious that the snow on the ground, which was at least one meter deep, made it impossible for anyone to judge what was under the snow. Even Purficott could only roughly guess what was under the snow based on the terrain and location.

She ordered the captain to drive the airship to the ice near the fjord camp. Although there was a thick layer of snow on the ice, at least there was the frozen sea below, and there was no need to worry about anything else under the snow. What damage is done to the airship.

But even so, it is not easy to lower the airship.

The captain tried to land the airship, but the airship's own weight did not allow it to stay on the surface of the snow, but it quickly fell into the snow due to its own weight.

Seeing this situation, the captain could only ask the airship to raise the altitude again, and then said to Purficott: "I'm afraid we need to send a few people to slide down with ropes first, otherwise it will be difficult to land."

Let people go down first to confirm the ground situation, and then let the airship land. This is the method that the captain can think of to land as safely as possible.

Purficott hesitated for a moment, then agreed to the plan after consulting the knights.

Several brave knights with skillful skills tried to jump off the rope from the lowered airship. Almost as soon as they landed, they fell into the snow due to their own weight, and almost instantly only their heads were left exposed. outside.

This made Purficott suddenly feel nervous, fearing that these brave knights would encounter some danger.

Fortunately, they were not seriously injured. With superhuman strength, they quickly dug themselves out of the snow, and then cleared an area on the ground, so that the airship finally had a place to land.

(End of this chapter)