Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 414 Atomic Crusher

Originally planned to do experiments at the New Kaohsiung Space Station, but after being disturbed by the 326 space accident, Huang Haojie has been doing research at the secret research institute in Keelung City.

He is in the research base in the south of Keelung City, which is the base that Jiang Yingyu is in charge of.

"Chairman, this is the atom smasher we just developed." Ma Shan pointed to a piece of equipment and explained to Huang Haojie.

"Atom smasher? Can it smash atoms?" Huang Haojie joked.

"Hehe." Ma Shan scratched his head in embarrassment, the name is indeed a middle school two.

After Huang Haojie joked, he asked, "Tell me about the effect."

"Okay, Chairman." After sorting out his thoughts, Ma Shan said, "I developed this atom smasher based on the neutron ionization properties of NN-8-1 material."

After Ma Shan finished speaking, he played some holographic test videos, and then continued to introduce:
"After many tests, we have a good understanding of the various characteristics of the NN-8-1 material, especially the activation extension range. The extension range of the NN-8-1 material is proportional to its own quantity. "

"That is to say, the larger the number, the larger the extension?" Huang Haojie asked.

Ma Shan nodded, and while drawing a line on the holographic display, he said: "We found that NN-8-1 can be turned into a line at least, and a single NN-8-1 nucleus is connected into a line."

"What about the effective distance?" Huang Haojie asked a key question.

"The maximum effective distance is about 16 kilometers. It's not that it can't be longer, but it's a problem of energy supply." Ma Shan explained.

"Energy supply?" Huang Haojie thought for a while and said, "Is it because the activation is too long, so that the energy cannot be supplied."

"Yes, once the activation distance exceeds 16 kilometers, the energy consumption will increase exponentially with each increase in distance." Ma Shan nodded and said.

"Test it." Huang Haojie ordered.

Ma Shan immediately began to operate. The atom smasher looked like a self-propelled artillery. In fact, its chassis platform was modified from the self-propelled artillery.

This atom smasher is a combination of offense and defense, it can be turned into the defensive state of the condensed matter shield, and can also be turned into the attack state of the atom smasher.

Inside the device like a lotus flower, there is a large group of NN-8-1 stored.

Ma Shan ordered the testers to operate the atom smasher, and the "lotus flower" device of the atom smasher turned quickly and aimed at a target 500 meters away.

Huang Haojie activated the telescope function of the stand-in robot, and the optical lenses in the eyes quickly adjusted the focus, and soon the target 500 meters away was clearly visible. It was an ordinary foam cement target, surrounded by high-speed cameras, sensors and the like. .

drop!Crackling... An imperceptible NN-8-1 air column directly penetrated into the bull's-eye.

Those crackling sounds are the sound of NN-8-1 air column neutrons ionizing the air. Because the speed is too fast, the air is ionized by neutrons before it can be discharged.

In this case, the air ionized by neutrons will produce a discharge phenomenon.

Huang Haojie glanced at the data of the atom smasher, which showed that the speed of the NN-8-1 air column reached 67 kilometers per second. No wonder the air couldn't react to this speed.

The attack is completed in an instant. After the attack is completed, the NN-8-1 air column shrinks back instantly, and the speed of returning is also very fast.

Huang Haojie focused his gaze on the target, and a hole with a diameter larger than a basketball appeared in the center of the target. The edge of the hole was scorched and smooth.

"The target is made of high-strength foam cement with a thickness of 1 meter, which is equivalent to ordinary cement with a thickness of 5 meters." Ma Shan quickly introduced:

"In fact, foam cement is similar to ordinary cement. This kind of neutron ionization can only slightly block neutron ionization attacks unless it is a defensive wall built with heavy elements."

Huang Haojie certainly knows the reason. If lead plate or tungsten steel alloy plate is used, it may be able to block it for a second or two, and the premise is that the thickness is very large, and it is best to reach more than 1 meter.

However, the thickness of 1 meter is armor, and even the aircraft carrier has not reached this level. Even if the armor of 1 meter thickness can be installed, the weight can make people desperate.

This is not reinforced concrete armor, but lead alloy or tungsten steel alloy armor, that weight can turn a battleship or tank into a real turtle.

The problem is that the defensive power of this tortoise shell is still not satisfactory, and the defense power of installing or not installing it does not improve much. Anyway, under the neutron ionization attack of NN-8-1, no matter it is reinforced concrete or tungsten steel alloy, it can Same as paper.

"This thing is within the killing range. Unless a condensed matter shield is installed, conventional matter cannot resist neutron ionization attacks." Ma Shan continued to introduce.

"The damage range is a flaw, and it can only be used as a supplement to the condensed matter shield, but if it is used as a tunnel excavator, this thing is very useful." Huang Haojie said with a smile.

"That's true. The 16-kilometer killing range is indeed very small. A tunnel excavator is indeed a good idea." Ma Shan was taken aback and realized.

NN-8-1 neutron ionization attack, if applied to tunnel digging, is really awesome.

Regardless of the water seepage or collapse of the tunnel, it is not a problem to dig hundreds of kilometers a day.

Suddenly, Huang Haojie's eyes lit up. He observed around the atom smasher, thinking about the problem as he walked.

Ma Shan saw that the big boss was thinking about something, so he didn't dare to disturb him, so he could only wait on the sidelines.

Huang Haojie opened the holographic bracelet and asked Zhong to assist him. He quickly designed a device, and Ma Shan watched Huang Haojie design this thing.

The equipment looks a bit like a stove, but Ma Shan doesn't know what this thing is for, but Huang Haojie has no intention of explaining, but continues to immerse himself in the design work.

After half an hour or so, a draft was finally released. Huang Haojie rubbed his chin, thinking about whether the design needed to be improved.

"Chairman, is this a smelting furnace?" Ma Shan also saw something at this time.

"Yes, I designed the ionization furnace based on the neutron ionization characteristics of NN-8-1." Huang Haojie nodded.

All elements can be ionized, but the energy required is different. Some elements are very easy to ionize, such as xenon, hydrogen, and metal sodium; some elements are difficult to ionize.

Huang Haojie took advantage of this feature to ionize the elements step by step by finely adjusting the neutron ionization intensity of NN-8-1.

Assuming that there is a piece of iron ore in the ionization furnace, we can separate different elements through different degrees of ionization, so that the effect of purification and smelting can be achieved.

According to Huang Haojie's estimate, this smelting method can save 30-40% of energy consumption. In addition, other rare elements in the ore can also be fully extracted.

Moreover, this ionization furnace is very suitable for smelting in outer space, because the energy required by the ionization furnace is relatively small, and the small energy consumption means that the heat generation is also small, and the heat dissipation problem in a vacuum environment is reduced by more than half.

If it can cooperate with thermoelectric power generation system and radiation cooling system, the heat dissipation problem of vacuum smelting can be solved.

Huang Haojie immediately sent this plan to the Materials Research Institute, asking them to build a prototype and send it to the New Kaohsiung Space Station for testing.

(End of this chapter)