Chapter 237: The Great Artery

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The earlier mention that the BRIC countries are all under the iron heel of the Windsor Empire does not seem to be correct, the Russian Empire is still stubbornly resisting, and after finishing the colonial planning of the Brazilian Empire, Downing began to think about how to further attack Russia. (Starter)

It just so happened that at this time, Tsar Alexander II wanted to compromise again, and Lithuania, Poland, Finland, and east of Lake Baikal all didn't want it, okay? At this time, France, Prussia, Austria, these old powers were all defeated by the Windsor military group, and Russia had no face to lose.

In this regard, Downing himself made a statement on it: "When my influence was only in England, I positioned myself as a large herbivore, not to rob others, to get rich through scientific and technological innovation, and to improve human life at the same time." In order not to become food for the carnivores, I grew bigger and bigger, and eventually became a hippopotamus or a rhinoceros. It's already majestic, but it still doesn't feel safe, and it's occasionally attacked by lions. No, I grew up, and later, I became an elephant, and later, I even became a dinosaur, not a Tyrannosaurus rex, of course. Domination isn't me in line with my values, I'm more like the world's largest vegetarian dinosaur.

Mr. Dinosaur recently had an interesting idea to develop the vast and inhospitable Siberia. The biggest problem in Siberia is the inaccessibility of transportation, and it is so desolate that if the railway is built, the cost is too high, and the railway with low utilization rate does not make much sense. There has to be a fairly inexpensive and efficient means of transport.

Recently we started the implementation of the Yàn suspension balloon in Milan is a very interesting project, and a little improvement can be a new low-cost transportation system. The Wind Bird Network is known to be based on the magnetic levitation power of Hellbeck permanent magnets, which is expensive and obviously not suitable for such a vast land as Siberia. But in fact, the suspension balloon can also borrow from the power paraglider invented by a French friend, and the balloon is equipped with a propeller, which only needs to be powered by wires, and the balloon can go along the cable forever. The cost here is simply to build wires, which are a hundred times cheaper than rail, road and Hellbeck permanent magnet tracks.

You see, whether it is a railway or a highway, when it comes to mountains, valleys, and rivers, the amount of work will rise a hundredfold, and it will take at least a few months to build a bridge, and the work of pulling the cable is simple, as long as a pole is erected at the top of the mountain, and two poles are erected at the bottom of the mountain, the wire will be pulled over! Months of work were compressed into one day, with the help of electric drills, mechanical piles, airship operations, and even engineering became hours. I can even imagine that the whole project will be going at a speed of 100 kilometers per day. The long 7,000-kilometre road from Moscow to Vladivostok takes only 70 days to lay the cable route.

Is this a dream? Of course not, maybe in order to develop a construction airship that can lift more than 10 tons of construction machinery, we need more than 70 days of research and development. In fact, not only do we want to build airships with payloads of more than a dozen tons, we also have a 'Blue Whale Airship' program, which is a monster-class airship over 200 meters long and has a capacity of hundreds of tons, which is completely comparable to a train.

The 'Sky Train' can be the backbone of the main transport artery of Siberia, a magical vehicle that uses electricity to drive large propellers along the cable route at speeds of 100 kilometers per hour through the Siberian wilderness, and the electricity used is entirely derived from the towering windmills every 50 kilometers along the cable route, so the energy consumption of the whole journey is zero.

As a result, the cost of trade between Eastern Europe and the Far East has been reduced to an incredible degree, and economists must have been quick to figure out the implications. Perhaps one day, European goods will be shipped from the Siberian artery to the Far East.

Although Mr. Dinosaur is a herbivore, he is also very willful and likes freedom, according to Mr. Polar Bear's previous table, Mr. Dinosaur does not trust Mr. Polar Bear. That's why we intend to complete this incredible Siberian artery project alone. It doesn't matter if Mr. Polar Bear likes it or not. ”

The arrogant dinosaur chaebol naturally caused an uproar in the global media, and at the same time, they were very interested in the Siberian artery project, which could be more cost-effective than sea freight, and many newspapers invited scientists to discuss the issue.

Technically, it's possible, so land transport is about to shine? Some scientists are very worried about the real problem -- the Russian ** team will probably not allow the hostile forces to build on their territory, so the security problem is very serious, even if the Windsor imperialists can defeat all the regular Russian army in the future, the Russian side can send a handful of guerrillas to harass the cable line.

Downing had already thought of a countermeasure to this problem. First of all, the wire pole should be designed to be not so easy to be destroyed, it is as tall as a three-story building, and the surface is very smooth, and the general saboteur can only stare at the wire when he arrives under the rod. Break the wires with a gun? Is this too difficult? In the end, it is estimated that the only way to blow up the stout pole is to blow up the stout pole with explosives, and even so, if you think about the time it takes to build the entire artery, it will be a piece of cake for a company with a strong ability to repair it.

The Blue Whale airship will always load a certain amount of fuel on its own, and can fly self-sufficiently to the next point if the power lines in front of it are destroyed. You can even prepare a helicopter gunship at the top of the airship to give the invading "railway guerrillas" a head-on attack.

Along the entire route, there will be a number of escort troops stationed, the high-altitude reconnaissance airship at a height of 3,000 meters of vision is 400 kilometers in diameter, the whole line only needs less than 20 airships to patrol can be completely covered, the guerrillas want to unknowingly to carry out sabotage, the risk of being discovered is very great. A helicopter is deployed every 200 kilometers, and it only takes an hour at most to reach the scene of the incident, during which the airship will keep an eye on the sabotage, and the guerrillas have a high chance of being killed.

The guerrillas can use the forest to protect their tracks, but all key roads will be guarded. Saboteurs will find that the bandit helicopter is coming much faster than they think. Of course, this is all theoretical, and perhaps the Russian nation's warfare skills are beyond Downing's imagination, and this is a non-head-to-head contest with global attention.

Newspapers around the world and new broadcasts were all about Downing's dinosaur theory for several days before Alexander II responded: "If I heard me correctly, someone wants to invade the whole of Siberia in our country?" Great! I understand. We, the Russian Empire, will fight with one heart and soul against the insatiable and frenzied invaders until the last drop of blood is shed. ”

The impassioned war song inspired all those who resented the Windsor plutocracy, and henceforth the main task of the Windsor military group was to wage a protracted struggle against the Russian and Brazilian partisans.

The plan of the suspension blue whale airship has attracted the attention of governments that want to build railways but have no money, this ultra-low-cost rail transit is quite suitable for countries with few people, such as Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Alaska, Canada, Hokkaido, Kazakhstan These inhospitable places are potential customers for this concept of transportation. **The construction of the railway on the roof of the world is a policy route that took so much effort and money to pile up in later generations.

According to the specifications of the Blue Whale airship described in the concept, it should be a large aircraft that can be loaded directly into containers. Human beings have long relied on the power of the wind to sail, and the construction of wind power arteries is a bit like a strengthened version of the sail, which is a much more efficient new wind era that concentrates and accumulates wind power. A blue whale airship is almost a thousand-ton sailboat.

Later generations of Siberian inhabitants were quite concentrated on both sides of the railway line, which can be clearly distinguished on the satellite map at night, and the branch cable behind the main artery in the future will also be easily built, maybe then you can enjoy the night view of the earth from space at all can not tell where the main artery is, only the densely populated large mining areas can be vaguely distinguished. It's a magic technology that can break the scarcity of materials in the mining area. In the contest between Russian nationalism and self-interest and humanism, can nationalism withstand the impact of magical technology?

Some people are even predicting that this is the first year of the impact of sea powerism by land power, because the sea transportation, which originally had the lowest logistics cost, was impacted by land transportation, and radical scientists are imagining the logistics era of Eurasian integration. Less than 100 kilometers from the Bering Strait, the closest thing to Alaska in North America, what would happen if the arteries extended here? Integration of Europe, Asia and the United States.

The Japanese will be so excited that they can't sleep at the thought that Alaska's minerals can be transported back to the island at a very low freight rate through the main arteries, and even the Japanese have calculated that the land distance from Hokkaido to the Bering Strait is 4,600 kilometers, and according to the ideal speed, a fast passage can be built in 46 days, and then Alaska's rich minerals can be transported back to Hokkaido in two days, and the freight is still very cheap. Wow, this Alaska is such a good deal, you must fully support the Windsor consortium to take down the whole of Siberia.

The Americans, who were building the Pacific Railroad, looked at each other a little puzzled and asked, "Is our railroad outdated?" ”

Answer: "Probably not so fast, right?" Isn't the South Pacific Railroad of the Windsor Consortium also under construction? ”

"Oh, that makes sense."

French scientists also seem to be aware of the interesting possibility of this means of transportation, they do not have the conditions to create zào conditions, and have prepared two schemes: hydrogen balloons and hot air balloons, however, the most qualified in this regard are the Americans, and there is a difficulty here, how to design the contact point between the airship and the wire? The South Pacific Railroad is an electrified railway under construction, and the engineers of the Yankees can sneak to the site of the South Pacific Railroad to take a peek at how this is solved, which should be helpful for the development of suspension airships.

In fact, the difference between the line of the electric airship and the electric train is still quite large, the part of the electric train used to contact with the power grid is called the pantograph, because the line of the train is fixed, so the only variable between the power grid and the pantograph is the contact range between the slide plate and the wire, which can be solved by the guò electromagnetic buffer valve. (http://.)。 And the electric airship also has the variable of swinging left and right. It's not easy to solve.

In the design process, Tangning used the conductive roller skating that is not under the electric train to contact the power grid, the roller skate is about one and a half meters wide, and the difference in resistance when swinging left and right can sense the deviation of the airship and the wire, so that the direction of the airship can be adjusted accordingly, the flight instrument can record the direction of all the pole numbers, as long as the airship passes through the first slow whole airship, it will get the direction of all the lines, and when the second flight, it can basically move forward at full speed, and the number of swings should still be recorded at this time. so that fine-tuning makes it more efficient.

As for how to adjust the airship according to these after getting all the wire direction numbers, that is another important problem for autonomous driving technology. Since the airship autopilot technology has an optimized process, in actual operation, it will be lower than the ideal speed of 100 kilometers for a while.

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