Chapter 443 Thermoelectric Power Generation
Richard is currently conducting research on six items: the Magic Pattern, the Pneumonia Fungus, the Antibiotic, the Spell Defense Shield, the Blood of the Gods, and the Eden Energy System.
The knowledge contained in the Stitching Monster is of great help to the three "Spell Defense Shield", "God's Blood", and "Eden Energy System" - if you have a complete grasp of the knowledge of the Stitching Monster, the six studies can directly solve half of it.
The first is the Spell Defense Shield.
Richard studied the hard exterior of the four purple Stitchers and the only black Stitcher, and separated a peculiar mixture from them. The mixture has a grey color, and although it is not yet possible to determine the composition of the mixture, the mixing method can form a non-Newtonian fluid with excellent results that performs better than the black non-Newtonian fluid currently used.
In this way, as long as you master the preparation of the mixture and make a large amount of it, you can use it to improve the spell defense shield, turning the black reaction shield into a gray and black compound shield.
Then there's the blood of the gods.
Richard dissected many dead, frozen suture monsters, and found that the other party's heart function was very strong, not only with strong contraction ability, large blood supply, and high resistance, not easy to be damaged by external damage, and a certain degree of repair ability.
And this heart, which was originally just the heart of an ordinary person, has been transformed into this way after a series of transformations.
Although Richard is not prepared to change his heart into the same shape, if he can figure out the mechanism of heart enhancement and apply it to the blood of the gods, it will definitely make the blood of the gods reduce the side effects and increase the amplitude of strengthening, so that it is comparable to the blood power of the marquis, duke, and even the king.
Let God's Blood (Elementary) become God's Blood (Intermediate) and God's Blood (Advanced).
Finally, the Eden energy system.
For the transformation of the energy system of Eden, Richard is actually about to give up, in his opinion, for the time being, there is no great hope that the transformation will succeed in the short term. But some of the results of the dissection of the stitching monster surprised him.
This matter is a bit complicated, and it should be explained a little bit:
You know, the strength of the stitching monster is very amazing, and it can even fly Pandora, Richard thought that this was caused by a special structure, but in fact, it was because the stitching monster had a set of specially strengthened energy systems in its body.
In general, humans are not plants, cannot photosynthesize, cannot autotroph, and need to take in energy from the outside world. The main way to consume energy is to consume the system. In other words, energy is obtained by eating, digesting and absorbing various nutrients from food.
The energy obtained is stored in the form of sugars, fats, and proteins, and when it is needed, such as during anaerobic or aerobic exercise, it is broken down into ATP (adenine nucleoside triphosphate) for energy.
What about the stitching monster?
Far beyond the body shape of ordinary people, it is difficult for the Stitching Monster to use the same single way to supply energy, so in the body of the Stitching Monster, in addition to this energy supply system, there is also another auxiliary energy supply system.
At the heart of this auxiliary energy supply system is the strong heart of the stitching monster.
The strong heart possessed by the Stitch Monster gives the Stitch Monster a metabolic ability that far exceeds that of ordinary creatures. For example, when the Stitch Monster stands still, it is similar to a normal person running a marathon under the scorching sun. This naturally generates a large amount of heat that cannot be dissipated outside the body.
On the one hand, the reason for this is that the size of the stitching monster is huge, and the proportion of the appearance of the stitching monster that is in contact with the outside world is significantly lower than that of small creatures. On the other hand, the skin of the stitch monster has been modified for defense, and there is no sweat-wicking function, unless the stitch monster has to stick out its tongue like a dog, otherwise the metabolic heat will always accumulate in the body.
It's deadly!
Just like the reason why human beings can become the king of all beasts, and can exterminate all kinds of large beasts with stones and sticks in ancient times, it is because of the strong heat dissipation. You can bring water and dry food in groups, and chase hordes of wild beasts to death and die.
If the stitching monster doesn't solve the heat dissipation problem, then you don't need to attack from the outside world at all, and you will die if you move a few times, as if you were born with the negative state of "seven-step snake venom".
How do you solve the stitching monster?
The answer is that the Stitch Monster absorbs this heat and converts it into energy - on the outside of the Stitch Monster's organs, there is a layer of translucent colloid, which Richard discovered at the beginning of the dissection. Originally, I thought that this colloid was to act as a buffer, like fat, to reduce the damage of the outside world to the suture monster. But as I researched further, I found that this thing is not simple.
If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be a temperature difference material.
That's right, temperature difference material!
What is a temperature difference material?
To understand temperature-difference materials, we must first understand one law – the second law of thermodynamics: heat can be transferred spontaneously from a hotter object to a cooler object, i.e., heat conduction.
When a piece of 500-degree iron comes into contact with a 300-degree piece of iron, the high-temperature iron block will inevitably transfer heat to the low-temperature iron block until the two pieces of iron are at the same temperature.
It's like gravity is like water flowing downwards under gravity, and it can't be changed until the whole set of physics is overthrown!
Can we use this law in the same way as we use wind and water power?
The answer is – yes!
Imagine a wall of high temperatures of several hundred degrees Celsius, and next to it is a cold wall of tens of degrees below zero, and as long as there is some kind of medium between these two walls, the heat will flow from the hot wall to the cold wall, like the water flowing from a hydropower dam.
The difference is that the water flow can hit the turbine wheels of the hydropower station to generate electricity, while the heat needs to act on a special material to generate electricity - the temperature difference material.
Thermodifference materials are defined as materials that generate electricity with significant temperature differences, and when the material is exposed to an environment with a temperature gradient, an electric current can be generated.
Thermoelectric power generation has actually been studied for many years on the modern earth, and even formed a special discipline - thermoelectricity, and summarized many laws such as the "Seebeck effect", "Thomson effect", "Peltier effect" and so on.
By making good use of this subject knowledge, it is possible to generate electricity as long as there is a temperature difference.
In the world, it is impossible to have no temperature differences, so it can be said that electricity can be generated anywhere with temperature differences – no fossil fuels, no wind and hydro, no sunlight, clean and pollution-free, which is simply touching.
But then again, there is a reason why thermoelectric power generation is so good, but it has not been promoted. The first is the high cost, and the second is the high technology content, and the suitable temperature difference material is difficult to obtain and used to find. Therefore, the place where the most temperature difference power generation is used is on the satellite that is not bad for money and technology, and the rest of the places still use the other power generation methods that are relatively disadvantaged.
In this case, it would be fantastical to try to generate electricity from temperature differences in a medieval-like world.
However, nothing is absolute.
According to research on Earth, there are some animal materials that have the effect of temperature difference materials, such as...... Colloids in shark noses.
Well, colloids in the nose of sharks.
According to the analysis, in the nose of the shark, there is a colloid that can keenly sense the temperature change of seawater, and the temperature change of 0.1 °C will cause it to generate a significant voltage, which will then be transmitted to the nerve cells, so that the shark can get a signal. It is through this mechanism that sharks can quickly explore the surrounding seawater environment and hunt.
Now, through some experiments, Richard can basically determine that a large amount of translucent colloids in the monster's body are sutured, similar to shark nose colloids.
Considering that if you kill all the sharks in the entire sea, you must be able to make up so much colloid, and the colloids in the stitching monster are obviously synthetic.
To sum up so many words, that is:
The Necromancer found a way to synthesize a temperature difference material, adding it to the Stitcher's body, absorbing the heat emitted by the Stitch Monster and using it for energy transformation. In this way, the stronger the activity of the suture monster, the more heat generated by metabolism, and the higher the energy supply, forming a perfect positive closed loop.
And if you can grasp the power generation capacity of this synthetic colloid through the information left by the necromancer, it will be very rebellious.
In Richard's view, once mastered, it is completely possible to make a large number of thermoelectric generators, which are fully automatic to generate electricity 24 hours a day, and completely solve the problem of the energy system of Eden. Let the Garden of Eden go from semi-electrification to the era of all-electrification, when the lighting lights can be used casually, there is no need to be afraid of lack of electricity.