"Big Bang" Random Entry

In March, the Geneva Motor Show begins.

The biggest highlight is pure electric vehicles. GP Energy has taken the step of challenging traditional energy sources. Not only Maserati is aggressive, but also Volkswagen and its brands, Fiat, Mercedes-Benz, Renault and Ford have launched pure electric vehicles, known as pure electric vehicles. Electric history begins.

  Different from the rough and practical concept of American cars, Europe pays more attention to the design of the shape and lines of the models, and the high-end models are even more eye-catching. Maserati's luxury cars are stylish and atmospheric, and the shapes of GT and roadsters are extremely aggressive. The published data is as shocking as its appearance.

Even though the electric vehicle motor technology has just developed, the horsepower that can be squeezed is terrifying in the face of an energy utilization rate of more than 90%. It easily breaks through the limit of the fuel engine and writes a new chapter—all this comes from GP's Energy Technologies.

  Currently, countless companies are devoting themselves to the research and development of new batteries, trying to take advantage of GP's patent loopholes, but the reality is not optimistic, and there are few successful examples—even if there are, they have to face a more realistic problem: cost. It's okay to make it, but the cost remains high, and it will only kill yourself.

  New energy is cost-effective, and electric vehicles will naturally flourish.

Maserati has received a lot of attention and praise at the auto show. Since leaving the Fiat Group and looking for another owner, GP, a behemoth company, is willing to spend money on it. An example is the remodeling of all its cars into pure electric vehicles. The only thing left is publicity .

Maserati officially announced that it will hold a pure electric car event "MC Challenge" in the United States. To commemorate the racing car MC12, the model provided is Maserati GT-MC. This "MC" means "track version", pure electric, five-stop competition , can be formed by manufacturers or private teams to participate.

  The rewards are generous, the top three will have a bonus of 10 million US dollars, and the first place will be 5 million. Compared with the five races, the cost of refitting is not high, and the profit is very high, which attracts a lot of private attention. Manufacturers are also interested, such as Ford and Chevrolet, also want to form a team to participate in the race.

  GP Company announced the establishment of the "GP Team" the next day to compete in the "MC Challenge".

  As an official electric car race, it has attracted attention from all walks of life since Maserati announced it. The competition period ends at the end of April. It is planned to start in early May and be held on weekends every week. Preliminary modifications have been made to the GP teams, allowing for minor modification of the motor.

  Other requirements are the same as those of traditional touring car races. The safety conditions must meet the standards, the total weight of the vehicle body is also listed, and the power of the motor is limited. Others are free to play, usually more money is more fierce - An Feng is one of them, he has more money and a strong logistics team.

The competition requires that the power of the motor should not exceed 750 horsepower, and the total weight should be more than 1000 kilograms, which means that there are still many places that can be disassembled, and there is room for modification of the motor. After An Feng learned the rules, he decided to ask Ans Industry to assist the motor modification.

  An Feng is thinking about using 3D printers and supercomputers.

  Electric vehicles do not use traditional permanent magnet motors, but induction motors. There are two main points for better performance: low resistivity and strong magnetic field. It just so happens that these two points have inherent advantages for superconductors. If there is a motor with zero resistance and a super-strong magnetic field, the motor will be against the sky.

  Unfortunately, room-temperature superconductivity is difficult to develop, and we can only pursue inferior technologies in this regard.

An Feng successively communicated with the motor department of Anshi Industry, the technology department of Superconductor Corporation, and discussed the electric motors for racing cars and the electric motors for Maserati in the future. Satisfactory results were obtained in two consecutive days, and a project team was established to specialize in electric motors. research and development.

  …

   A few days later, An Feng took the mechanical leopard to the company.

  Although Xiao Hua performed quite well, there are also some minor flaws, and An Feng needs to make post-production adjustments to it.

  He came to the project office of the robot company, but there was no one there. The secretary said that it was in the laboratory. Hoffman and Rich had some friends there, and it was said that they were engaged in cooperative research and development. An Feng took the elevator to the general experiment area on the seventh floor. Confidentiality requires that visitors can only move in the general area.

I brought Xiaohua to the door of the laboratory. There were conversations and laughter coming from inside. I opened the door and walked in. The lights in the room were dim and there were quite a few people. Hoffman and Rich were there, as well as a few of their friends. , one tall and three short, playing Star Wars and the background music of the Empire March.

  The guy who is short, wearing a jacket, curly hair and black-rimmed glasses is holding a shiny "weapon" in his hand, and he can feel its temperature and energy from a distance—this is not a toy! An Feng could tell at a glance that it was a jet-like laminar plasma beam.

  The jetted plasma flame is about eighty to ninety centimeters long, blue and white, very similar to the laser sword in Star Wars.

The man with curly hair glasses is holding a plasma lightsaber in both hands, and the handle is connected to a finger-thick cable. The plasma launcher and the cable are a bit heavy. He wields the lightsaber with difficulty, as if entering the role, dragging his voice: " Sheldon! I have bad news, Star Wars Day is coming up!"

"I won't care about a dead man!" The tall man also picked up the plasma launcher and sprayed out a longer and thicker plasma beam, with an arrogant tone: "Obviously, Leonard, the power of my lightsaber jet is higher than You, the plasma beam is 1.5 meters long, you have an absolute advantage!"

   "No, it'll just tie you up!" Leonard said, and they confronted each other, posing.

   Rich called out: "Wait! Why is your plasma beam so long, Sheldon?"

"I'm glad you noticed this." Sheldon said arrogantly, "I just modified a few of the parts. According to your design concept, it may not be possible to break through in a few years. But now... you will know me as Proud. Thank you, bright head!"

  Leonard said nervously: "Have you considered that the transmitter can withstand such a high power?"

   "Please, I'm not like you." Sheldon smiled. "I mean, I'm obviously smarter."

  Hoffman said weakly: "Did you just lower the resistance of the transmitter and change the position of the generator?"

   "Why do you know?" Sheldon looked at him like he shouldn't know.

   "I have to stay away from you." Hoffman took a few steps back, "I did the same thing last time, and it turned out to be bad."

  An Indian asked: "What will happen?"

  Hoffman shrugged, and Rich stepped back to the power source: "It will burn the transmitter."

   "Throw it away quickly! Sheldon!" A man with a mushroom head and a big nose next to him pointed at him in surprise, "I saw it catch fire!"

"Oh my god!" Sheldon threw the heated transmitter to the ground, Rich also cut off the power in time, the lights in the laboratory were turned on, a burning smell wafted, and the lightsaber burned the ground almost black sheet of paper. The technical nerds looked at each other, not expecting this to happen.

  Hoffman spotted An Feng: "Mr. An!"

   Others also looked over. Rich looked at the ground and explained: "Sir, we are testing the laminar plasma beam, and there is something wrong."

   "Be careful." An Feng looked at the four strangers.

  Rich introduced: "Sir, they are my friends, Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Raj, from Caltech."

   "Hello!" An Feng nodded.

   "Hi." The tall Sheldon stepped forward, looked at him suspiciously, and said seriously, "Are you the one who said that superstring theory cannot completely explain the universe?"

   "It's me." An Feng nodded, "Superstring is not perfect, if you want to convince me, I have enough evidence to overthrow your idea."

   "No!" Sheldon shook his head confidently, "The absurd theory you listed has already excluded phenomena below the Planck scale, and..."

After hearing what he said, An Feng picked up the tablet on the side, connected to the server with the cloud network, and displayed a lot of content, handing it over to Sheldon, who is very conceited and thinks he can never make mistakes: "There is enough explanation in it, After reading it, you will understand that what I said is different from what you think."

   "How is that possible!" Shelton took the computer indifferently, but after seeing it, his mouth grew too big and he couldn't close his mouth. He walked to the side and sat down with dull eyes.

   Leonard stepped forward at this time and explained: "His EQ is a bit low, I hope you can understand, sir. And I like your pet, it is so beautiful!"

   "Is it a pure machine?" asked the Indian scientist Raj.

   "Of course. Part of it is made by 3D printing technology, and more than a dozen sets of exoskeletons are used to ensure the firmness and flexibility of the body." An Feng said.

   "How beautiful!" Howard squatted down and observed Xiaohua, "Bionic robots are very reliable, which means that machines with female characters are also achievable..."

   "No, don't say that again, Howard." Leonard has just stopped Howard from wanting to talk about the special purpose of the female simulation machine.

A group of people chattered about the robot pet brought by An Feng, and Ricky sorted out his rhetoric: "The four of them came over to discuss some key technologies with us, for example, Leonard is very insightful about laser technology, and Howard's compound eyes Cameras are also worth developing…"

   After listening to the explanation, An Feng understood that these four guys all have research projects at Caltech, and their IQs are not low. They are all geniuses, and they all have eccentricities. They also had some friendship with Hoffman and Rich, so they stopped by to visit the class.

The "plasma lightsaber" that appeared today is the improvement of Rich's technology by these tech geeks. He originally only used laminar flow plasma as the heat source of the 3D printer, but after increasing the power and improving the restraint device, the tech nerds restored it. Technology from some Star Wars movies.

In addition to the dazzling lightsaber technology, Sheldon's improved plasma beam is of great help to 3D printing. An Feng calculated that it will obtain a higher and more stable temperature and be able to sinter more materials...according to the cost , saving a lot of energy and money.

   To express his gratitude, An Feng took time to chat with them about academic issues.

Apparently, four geniuses are no better than one brain, but An Feng was amazed by their flexibility and flexibility in the professional field. Otherwise, An Feng really wanted to keep them.