Homo sapiens

Galaxy Year 2, March 17th.

The Jeju Island Space Tower project, which was stumbling under construction, finally successfully erected an airbag with a height of about 5,000 meters.

However, they encountered a problem at this time.

That is the chaotic air movement in the troposphere, which constantly disrupts the stability of the inflated airbag.

Of course, the Ground Alliance and Toth Company, which designed the space tower, had already anticipated this problem.

The airflow disturbance stabilization system designed by Toth Company still encountered some problems during the test.

This is also a common problem among many European and American companies nowadays. They do a good job in PPT, but when it comes to the real battle, they behave very exaggeratedly.

Todt's wind stabilization system can only withstand level 8 winds. If the wind exceeds level 8, the vibration of the entire airbag tower will be very obvious.

Now the Geographical Union Association has to come forward and organize a large number of scientific researchers to help solve this problem.

Actually they have three solutions.

One is to directly increase the diameter of the airbag tower, from the current diameter of 100 meters to about 500 meters in diameter, so that the weight and lift of the airbag itself can be used to resist wind disturbance.

Another solution is the anti-wind interference system that Tote Company and Dilian are currently working on.

The last one is to increase the total buoyancy of the airship at the top of the stratosphere, allowing it to pull the airbag tower and tighten the airbag tower.

All in all, the Earth Alliance underestimated the difficulty of the space tower project, thinking that if the Homo sapiens company can do it, so can I.

In addition to the Jeju Island Space Tower project carried out by the Earth Federation Association.

Musk's Space Exploration Company has also completed the latest improvements to the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, increasing the payload ratio of the Falcon Heavy from 4.6% to 4.8%.

This has basically tapped the potential of the Falcon Heavy to the limit. If no new materials emerge, the Falcon Heavy has reached its end.

Obviously Musk is aware of this, and he is currently working with other aerospace companies to prepare to upgrade the space launch vehicle previously developed for the Artite project.

As for whether to restart the space shuttle, there is generally opposition within the Terrestrial Association.

Although the Harij Aerospace Group of the Homo sapiens company has successfully developed the La-space shuttle, it is currently in large-scale operation, with an average launch of once a week.

But the Terrestrial Association is not a wealthy Homo sapiens company. The Homo sapiens company is not worried about funding at all, and its technology is also very advanced. Two 32,000-ton super space shuttles are now in service.

The Earth Alliance, which must be careful with its budget, is now tasked with launching as many spacecrafts into outer space as possible at the minimum cost, rather than trying to reach far away.

Without the technology of Homo sapiens, building a space shuttle would be a dead end.

It's no better than it used to be.

In the past, even if there was a gap in the aerospace technology of the major forces, it was not as bad as one between the sky and the earth.

Nowadays, the payloads launched by Homo Sapiens in one day may be several times more than those launched by the Terrestrial Alliance in a year.

Watching the Homo sapiens company build space cities, lunar bases, and explore other planets in the solar system, the major forces within the Earth Alliance are also anxious.

Under the stimulation of this huge pressure, the major forces in the Earth Federation Association had no choice but to grit their teeth and devote themselves to scientific research.

Although a lot of talent has been lost, their foundation is still quite solid.

In the two years since entering Galaxy, many scientific results have indeed emerged, especially those in the application field, which have received more attention.

The catfish effect produced by Homo sapiens companies has a huge impact on the entire human civilization.

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the other side.

California, which has been paralyzed for more than a month, finally lifted the earthquake blockade and began to enter the reconstruction stage.

This large-scale reconstruction actually stimulated the steel and cement industries in the Free Association and across the Pacific.

Now the global steel industry has been completely divided into two, one part is the self-sufficient Homo sapiens company.

The other part is that after obtaining the guarantee of the Free Association, some large steel companies took shares in the major iron ore companies in Kangaroo Country, completing the complete decoupling from the Homo sapiens company. They also obtained part of the iron ore in Central Asia and Lucia. , now there is no need to worry too much about iron ore supply.

For this kind of thing, Homo sapiens company has already expected it.

In this world, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

Due to the reconstruction of California, the Pentagon, which had been emergency evacuated from California to Austin, Texas, did not return quickly, but continued to stay in Austin.

Victor, who is in charge of the Pentagon's intelligence system, is already very busy at this time. Although the emergence of the Free Association has led to the rapid expansion of the power of the FBI and the Black Ship, the Military Intelligence Agency is still a very special existence.

Especially in the current confrontation between Black Ship and Homo Sapien Company, they often lose more and win less. Intelligence investigations within Homo Sapien Company are often superficial.

The Military Intelligence Agency that Victor is responsible for has become even more important, and he himself also hopes to make some achievements.

Unlike the black ships who like to engage in secret infiltration, Victor has now changed his strategy and uses open travel channels, Internet channels, and space remote sensing monitoring to carry out intelligence analysis.

For example, at this time, Victor was in the small conference room of the safe house, listening to reports from more than a dozen analysts.

A white young man with a big back hair held a document and said to Xiang: "Director, our team has discovered a new piece of information about the power generation technology and scale of Homo sapiens company."

After taking the file, Victor flipped through it for a while, with a heavy expression on his face.

Homo sapiens has electricity export business in Africa, and this intelligence analysis team discovered the problem here.

Da Beitou continued: "Homo sapiens has invested in many nuclear power plants in the south of Meroe, and sells an average of 24 billion to 26 billion kilowatt hours of electricity to surrounding areas every month..."

"This electricity comes from six nuclear power plants, but since November last year, the electricity sold by these six nuclear power plants has continued to skyrocket, with an average increase of tens of billions of kilowatt-hours every month."

"However, this is not the key. The key problem is that these nuclear power plants have not expanded the size of the nuclear reactors, but only added some power distribution and transformation facilities..."

An analyst from another team chimed in: “Is it possible it’s built underground?”

The big-backed-headed analyst shook his head: "It is possible, but these nuclear power plants are all commercial nuclear power plants. Who do you think would dare to attack the nuclear power plants of Homo sapiens Company now? So I think there is no need for them to build them underground..."

"Since the nuclear power plant has not added reactors, but the power transmission scale has doubled, there is only one possibility. The power generation technology of Homo sapiens has achieved breakthrough innovation, and the thermal efficiency of power generation has at least doubled."

Gulu! Other analysts had cold sweat breaking out on their foreheads.

Obviously this conclusion is too scary.

The thermal efficiency of power generation has been doubled. They are thinking with their toes and they all know how many advantages this will bring to Homo sapiens company.

And the big-backed analyst continued to add:

"In order to verify my guess, I investigated the nuclear power plants and thermal power plants listed by Homo sapiens in the past two years. I found that since the beginning of last year, Homo sapiens stopped the construction of thermal power plants and only added a small number of nuclear power plants to replace them. thermal power stations, yet their total power generation is skyrocketing.”

Victor already believed it.

However, this intelligence discovery did not bring any joy to Victor and others, but instead brought despair that was difficult to erase.

The gap is not narrowing but widening.

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