The special train took advantage of the night, quietly left the northwest, to the Yinshan Mountains, in the core, Yang Yuanzhao was in the carriage, Yang Yuanzhao and a messy hair, raunchy old man is talking enthusiastically, the old man is Truss, born in 1856, he is almost 60 years old this year, 58 years old, but the spirit is as good, compared to some scientists in their old age confused and frail, Truss is in good spirits.

As a master-level figure, even in the long history, there are few people who can compare with him, Truss not only has great achievements in the field of radio and alternating current, but also in ballistics, consulting science, nuclear physics and other aspects, has also made many achievements.

Such a character, if you want to communicate with him, you must come up with real things, or ask in his field, or something he is interested in, Yang Yuanzhao is just one of the small groups of people in the world who can communicate with him, and even guide him in some aspects, if you talk about professionalism, the future is just a team engineer, at most he is good at the restructuring of engines and cars, not even scientists and inventors, in terms of professional ability, one is heaven and the other is earth.

But Yang Yuanzhao is a traverser, just this one, you can point out Truss, the advantage of the traverser is that he is more forward-looking than any master of this era, and even if Einstein did not put forward the theory of relativity, he can even pretend to be a master of physics, after all, the formula of the theory of relativity is relatively simple, just with the professionalism and hearsay of later generations, Yang Yuanzhao can communicate with Truss, or the kind that is very in-depth.

It's been 5 years since Truss came to the Northwest. In the past 5 years, in addition to making guest appearances in some key projects. Most of the time, Truss has been in the power sector. Large generators, impeller-free, and alternating current fields, many of the ideas put forward by Yang Yuanzhao have been realized in the genius of Truss, and now alternating current has become the standardized layout of the whole China, just from the alternating current, the patent income obtained, let Truss put himself in the ranks of multimillionaires. But in Truss's heart, there is more or less regret that even in the field of electricity, the projects he has studied are not the top.

To be able to become a strong man in the field, Truss is quite sensitive in the professional field, just from the words of his assistants and some communicators, he knows that there is a mysterious Yinshan base in the northwest. Almost all the top technology is inside, and the civilian technology inside is more than a grade higher than the military technology outside, not to mention the top-secret technology inside. I've heard that it's more science fiction than science fiction.

Truss is obsessed with this, as a scientist of Serbian origin, and her country's place in Europe. It was impossible to give him much support, and he came all the way to the United States. Joined Edison's company, but was reduced to an experimental machine. He is just doing all kinds of experiments every day, and even the results of the experiments are not his.

Next, leaving Edison's company, there were ups and downs for more than ten years, Edison's suppression, the peeps of other capitalists, and even alternating current, which was also used by many forces, an excellent inventor, extremely poor, and even unable to carry out experiments.

Coming to the northwest, it was just some kind of attempt, Yang Yuanzhao invested in the construction of a steel plant, or a million tons, which made him see hope, in fact, his choice was right, the first promised million dollars of experimental funds, in the first three months to be used up, and then continued to add, this is only in 1909, after that, the annual increase is more than 30%, in 1913 last year, Truss presided over the project, the total investment added up to more than 80 million US dollars.

Such a costless experimental investment, so that Truss is extremely satisfied, and the results of the research are not all attributed to the northwest, the ownership is so, but Truss can still enjoy 5%-10% of the patent funding from the middle, don't underestimate this number, as far as the power field is concerned, the power generation in the northwest, as early as a few years ago, has completely surpassed the United States, and now the overall installed capacity is 27 times that of the United States, and the power generation is more than 54 times, such a huge amount of electricity consumption, there is still a huge gap, China's huge size and population are a bottomless pit for electricity, generating more than 700 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 1913, a figure that even the United States did not reach more than 20 years later.

The huge amount of electricity used, even if the patent fee per kilowatt-hour is only 1/10,000, combined to the huge number of 7000 billion kWh, it is enough to make Truss a multimillionaire, not to mention, the patent term is 20 years, according to the annual increase of 15% to 20% of Northwest Electric Power, after the expiration of the patent, Truss will become a super-rich man who surpasses Edison and even surpasses the family of the First National Steel Company.

In essence, Truss is still a scientist, scientists pursue money, not for enjoyment, but for scientific experiments, above the whole world, even the United States, is not comparable to the conditions and environment given to him by the Northwest, so Truss did not think about leaving at all, and even not long ago, the Americans and the British jointly took action, recruited him back, made him a promise, and he didn't even blink the corner of his eye.

I've always wanted to join the Yinshan base, but I haven't had a chance, and the existing experiments are also very important, so I had to wait, just when he almost couldn't help it, and wanted to find Yang Yuanzhao directly, as one of the top scientists in the northwest, he had the right to meet Yang Yuanzhao directly, but at this time, the call from the Yinshan base came, and he also asked about his tendencies before, of course, he told the truth, and after passing smoothly, with this batch from all over the country, There were also many foreign experts who went to the Yinshan base together.

Even among all the foreign scientists who came, Truss was also the top, everyone knew the Yinshan base, but no one could say what was in the Yinshan base, and there was no way, he heard that Yang Yuanzhao also came over, so he took the initiative to ask.

It's a pity that Yang Yuanzhao didn't have the slightest tone in his mouth, but Gu Zuo said to him, what kind of large steam turbine, is there any steam turbine that is bigger than the large-scale generator set he leads?

Yang Yuanzhao said that the large steam turbine is really not as big as Truss's dominance, but the technical content is much larger than that led by Truss, and Truss's steam turbine is still the concept of the past, which is the accumulation of production capacity and volume, at best, it is just an addition, as long as it costs money, takes time, and researches it, it can be realized, but the generator currently studied in the Yinshan base has gone beyond this concept, and has developed into the field of power generation with the concept of criticality, not only the coal utilization rate is extremely high. The consumption per unit of electricity is also decreasing, and the technical strength is not comparable to that of ordinary generators.

This concept is easy to fly, when the generator set really works, the power generation medium is water, under the ordinary water temperature and water pressure, the utilization rate is not high, most of the energy will be wasted, even if a variety of recycling means are used, the effect is not high, the large large motor is only slightly improved in proportion, the unit kilowatt-hour of coal is used, more than 1,000 abound, but the use of critical concept, in the generator, it is easy to make the generator set more energy-saving, conservative estimates can be reduced to less than 400 grams, and the volume and controllability are also increasing.

As soon as the expert made a move, he knew if there was any, when Yang Yuanzhao simply described the critical state, Truss's eyes lit up suddenly, as a top scientist who has been working hard in the power industry, he also realized that the endless expansion of generator power generation is actually some kind of waste, after the unit production capacity rises to a certain extent, it cannot be improved, a lot of energy is wasted in the boiler, the larger the volume, the easier it is to consume itself, even he can't solve this problem.

In the critical state, water is a mixture of liquid and steam, and in this state, energy is easily maintained and very controllable, and the end result is that very little energy is consumed when converted into electricity.

A very simple concept transformation, to solve the big problem of power generation, as long as along this direction to break through, the problem caused by the large-scale generator set, will be solved, the more Truss thinks about the more excited, almost immediately to devote himself to the calculation, but was stopped by Yang Yuanzhao, critical generator set, is to the late 20th century, the theory that gradually developed, although he put forward this concept, with the critical point of water vapor as the standard, the use of critical and supercritical two-step steps, can be in the first decade of the 20th century, With the help of existing science and technology, the development of this thing, even with the support of the all-in-one machine, the material is not a problem, it also takes a long time to research, there is already a certain research foundation in the base, at least the last batch of personnel spent more than half a year, using the latest experimental materials and concepts, as well as a large amount of funds and computers and other computing tools, or achieved some peripheral results, perhaps these are not very important for a big man like Truss, but it can save his time.

Truss was whetted his appetite, on the train, the things on hand are not very convenient, under the persuasion of Yang Yuanzhao, Truss dispelled this idea, what is there, you will know it when you get to the Yinshan base, after barely suppressing the thoughts in her heart, the desire for the Yinshan base has deepened, from the project of the critical generator set, you can know the level of the Yinshan base, and there is still one night, you can arrive at the Yinshan base, and all the doubts in your heart will be solved. (To be continued.) )