I have an interstellar battlefield in my room

Chapter 167 Ion Thrusters and Levitation Vehicles

The new energy battery is still a secret, and it has not been made public yet, but as time goes by, the disclosure is certain. Several professors have contacted Xie Dong to publish a scientific research article on new energy, but he refused. Now he doesn't think too much about it at all. The aura shrouded himself.

The disclosure of his identity in No. [-] Middle School has already brought him great trouble.

Although 500 billion is a lot of money, in all fairness, it is only half of Xingkong Company. Xingkong Company has been changing every day recently, and it is growing rapidly every day. It is only a matter of time before it becomes a giant.

The control of the new company is in the hands of Xie Dong, but Xie Dong does not intend to manage it, but directly throws it to Xie De and Mu Cheng. Xie De's status is sensitive and he cannot directly appoint a deputy director, but Mu Cheng can.Mu Cheng was also an executive of a listed company before, with hundreds of millions of dollars in his hands, so there is no problem in letting him be the deputy director.

Of course, if it is possible, he still wants to transfer the position of chairman to Xie De to run Starry Sky Company himself.

In his opinion, Star Company is his trump card.

After the new company was formally established, it encountered a lot of things, including personnel appointments, infrastructure, personnel training, headquarters setup, etc., which he did not know before, but now he is learning a little bit, considering that he only works on technology Composition, so most of the things were recruited by Mu Cheng.

Does Xie Dong need this state-owned enterprise?

Obviously not necessary, this is just a product of mutual compromise, it is best to be able to control it in your own hands, if you can't control it, it's nothing, he has more interesting things.

Xingkong Company has not released any new products since the launch of Rolling No. [-] and the holographic projection chip last year. Although the holographic smartphone has been developed, it is still being debugged. Now, Xie Dong wants to continue to enrich Starry Sky's product line.

It is not enough to have only two products. After the spring of this year, another heavyweight product must be launched.

Yes, what Xie Dong wants is subversion.

Instantly catches the eye.

Tokamak and anti-gravity are temporarily put aside by him, so there is no need to rush. In fact, it may take him a few years to figure out things of this level, and there is no rush.

And this day, he found an interesting device in a set of alien battle armor he picked up.

Yes, it's interesting, not a charged particle shield, but a thruster, to be precise, a high-tech thruster that can propel people high into the air.

This kind of thruster, Xie Dong checked, is called an ion thruster.

What is an ion thruster?

Ion thrusters, also known as ion engines, or electric rockets, are a type of space electric propulsion technology.

Traditional rocket engines use chemical combustion reactions to eject high-speed gas from the tail to achieve propulsion.The ion electric propulsion engine also uses the jet principle, but it does not use chemical combustion, but uses electric energy to act on the working fluid to stimulate high-speed ion flow to propel backward.

The ion thruster can convert electric energy and xenon gas into a positively charged high-speed ion flow, and under the action of a strong electric field, accelerate the ejection of ions to generate a reaction force.

The characteristic of the ion electric propulsion engine is that the acceleration is very low, which may be only a few centimeters per second or even lower. Some people describe that this kind of thrust can only "blow a piece of paper".But unlike the extremely short burning time of chemical rockets, the acceleration time provided by electric propulsion rockets can be very long, so the specific impulse of the engine is very large, that is to say, the same mass of working fluid can provide greater total thrust and final speed .

On the other hand, a small thrust is often enough for satellite attitude adjustment and orbit change, so many satellites now use this kind of thruster.

Compared with other thrusters, the main advantages of ion thrusters are stability, high efficiency, and use of very little fuel, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, the thrust generated by existing ion thrusters can only blow a piece of paper, And it takes a long time to accelerate.

Before 9, electric rockets, that is, ion propulsion, once only existed in popular science books in China. In [-], it was finally successfully developed by Chinese scientists and equipped on the "Shijian [-]" satellite.

Of course, the ion thruster obtained by Xie Dong is not an ordinary ion thruster. The thrust it generates can push a person into the sky in just one-tenth of a second. A piece of paper ion thruster is much stronger.

That's right, this is a super plasma thruster. The alien battle armor he obtained is still not equipped with an anti-gravity device, but is equipped with such a device.

Perhaps, the anti-gravity device has a big flaw for aliens. After all, there is no gravity in space. If some armor needs to show deep space, the anti-gravity device is obviously useless. In contrast, the ion thruster It is also obviously more useful than anti-gravity devices. It can move on the ground or move freely in space.

It's a little strange to think this way, why do aliens also have space suits?Is it a rare collection of exhibits in the museum?

Who cares, in fact, Xie Dong only found space suits in one star warship, not in other warships.

So here comes the important point. Now that the ion thruster has been discovered, what can Xie Dong do?
Without a doubt, a hovercar.

Not a maglev car, but a real levitation car.

Because maglev has a big flaw!
As we all know, maglev relies on the principle of two magnets repelling each other to cause levitation. If it is a maglev car, there must be two magnets, one on the top and one on the bottom. It needs a qualitative surface, otherwise it will not be able to cause suspension.

In this way, the requirements are very strict, and the ground must be transformed.

And ion thrusters don't need these at all.

For a long time, there are about five kinds of technologies that humans want to obtain levitation.

The first is the helicopter, which has been widely used. It is equipped with propellers, which rotate rapidly to generate thrust; the second is the anti-gravity device, whether it exists is still under study; the third is the magnetic levitation, which has already been explained, so I won’t mention it for now. ; The fourth is electrostatic repulsion, which is similar to magnetic levitation and requires ground electrification.

The fifth type is the ion thruster, which is similar in principle to chemical rockets, but is more stable, safer, and has less fuel.

The most important thing is that the size of the ion thruster is very small. The satellite "Shijian 9" once launched by Huaxia is equipped with an ion thruster, which is only 200 mm in diameter and weighs 140 kg.

(End of this chapter)