Belanger received the medal for his outstanding mathematical contributions in engine development.
Of course it’s not about answering questions, but about getting results on mathematical tools.
Including his one, the engine group has a total of three. Since the team leader already has a third-class medal, this time he only has a bonus and a commemorative medal. The remaining two are both combustion empowerment achievements.
The essence of chemical fuel is "a stable storage state of energy." Since there is magic, adding a little energy to it will naturally make people want to explore it.
In fact, this project has existed in the Blue Sky Heavy Industry Combustion Laboratory for a long time. It was only with Turbojet One that there was a breakthrough and it could enter the practical stage.
The report was clearly written, and the laboratory finally gave up on weird goals such as "combustion temperature control" and focused on fuel saving, and this was when it came to fruition.
The Thunderbolt fighter in front burns more than twenty liters of oil per minute at high speeds. The turbojet will face several times the resistance at higher speeds. Just against the resistance, the oil will burn until it flies off.
Nowadays, there is technology that uses magic to solidify the boundary layer, which can effectively reduce air friction, but this has nothing to do with the combustion laboratory. They can only think of solutions from the combustion aspect.
This technology can bring about 20% fuel savings to aircraft, but it is integrated into the engine and will take some time to be promoted to other types of newly produced engines.
The large aircraft team has more medals, eight in total. One reason is that there are many people, and the work of its sub-project team is indeed difficult.
Many of their medals were for inventions, and only one was obtained by the deputy director through project management.
After receiving medals at Blue Sky Heavy Industries, I was not in a hurry to go back. I drove to the College of Agriculture, which had been moved to Higashi Sando University.
The purpose of the Agricultural College is to protect everyone's jobs. Although the environment is very harsh, research work cannot be given up.
There are various crops in the experimental field of the Agricultural College. In the first period, they are basically local crops. Almost all of them are frozen and the harvest is dead. The occasional harvest is only a few, which is not enough to plant the seeds.
The second batch of experimental fields contains many seeds from the main world.
Among them, the frigid nuts are ripened using magic facilities and are approaching the fruiting period.
Magical ripening is a very mature system. It is not the result of the Phoenix Kingdom, but it exists in the original magic system.
It's just a pity that one or two pills, even ten or twenty pills are fine, but when used to provide food for millions of people, this method has some limitations.
Find an open space, throw a seed and use magic to encourage it, and it will grow into a tree quickly. A powerful mage may only need a minute, but to make a tree bear fruit repeatedly, the resources in the ground are not enough.
This means that even if a bunch of mages are hired to urge it, every tree will be urged to bear fruit. If no one cares about it later, the tree will even die on its own.
The proportion of mages who actually know related magic is also very low. The proportion is similar to that of the illusion system, only slightly better than creation and prophecy. If you add the proportion of mages in the general population, it cannot even be planted on a large scale.
There are a few cold-resistant nuts in the Agricultural College, and two teachers who graduated from the Magic College are the direct contributors. Of course, the care work is the responsibility of the students.
Wang Qi didn't come to see the tree. This tree is cold-resistant and will not die below freezing point. It will not bear fruit during the ice age. As the temperature continues to drop, they can only contribute in some special small terrains where the temperature is higher than other areas.
To have a sufficient supply, it also depends on the herbs.
The two ethnic groups brought soybeans from Li Xiang's hometown. The varieties with the lowest planting temperature are from the polar circle area, which is 14 to 18 degrees. If "yield more than seeds" is used as the standard, it can be lowered by a few degrees.
The cold-resistant seeds in the main world are even more magical. Perhaps they have been cultivated by magic all year round. These crops themselves have magic reactions. Unlike sacred trees that only store magic power, they are more like ice trees and will form a magic effect.
A single plant has basically no effect. When planted in patches, a thermal layer will be formed, some to protect the plant itself, and some to protect the soil temperature.
"Your Majesty, this thing consumes a lot of fertilizer, especially organic fertilizer. From what we can see, it seems that it will be difficult to grow it for a long time."
"It can last for a while, but those outside the country who don't have enough fertilizer will always have to find a way."
There are many sources of organic fertilizer. If there is not enough manure, fermentation of leaves will be used. If not, there will be sawdust. When all the trees that can be chopped down have been cut down, the only choice is to use carcasses for compost.
Fuel, fertilizer and food, the conflict grows as temperatures drop.
Coal is not available everywhere, and most areas still have to burn wood. In the first two years of the Luna River Basin, a lot of vegetation died, and there was no time to store it. I don’t know how many were eaten by fungi. I don’t know how long the remaining ones can be used. Anyway, There is no way to predict the growth rate of low-temperature plants.
To protect food, saving wood turned out to be the key.
There is no coal, and the only way to reduce the loss of wood for heating purposes is to rely on magic equipment.
But the magic to assemble a heating stove is more complicated than an electric stove, and the price is also very expensive. You can't expect others not to collect firewood to buy expensive things. Many lords don't have the charisma and governance capabilities.
Therefore, the wood problem cannot be solved. We can only take one step and watch one.
Instead of thinking about improving the environment in the penal colony, it is better to think about how to expand the scale of trade with the main world.
First meet the food rations, and then trade in cloth. With enough clothes, naturally there is no need to burn so much firewood.
This is something the Kingdom is well within its capabilities.
Wang Qi has seen the cold-resistant crops in the main world, and this is not the only harvest. He also has ideas for new grain-producing areas.
The existing food system revolves around greenhouses and Dapeng. The advantage is that it can be obtained everywhere. If you are willing to spend money, you can use magic lights to ensure planting even when temperatures are more than ten degrees below zero. The disadvantage is that the investment is huge and the construction materials cannot keep up. It will be difficult for overseas residents to rely on this to meet the food needs of local residents within a few years.
Peanuts and deep-rooted tubers can only cover about two million people, and many people are waiting to starve to death.
The cold-resistant crops in the main world have special properties and can prevent the ground from freezing outdoors. You can consider transforming some locations into open-air grain production bases.
This grain production base does not work anywhere, it must be in a mountain.
In order to ensure that the atmospheric flow is low enough and reduce heat transport, it cannot even be an ordinary basin. The height difference between the planting area and the outside must be at least one to two hundred meters.
The southern area is useless. Only the eastern area has large enough mountainous terrain.
The Netherlands and America, which we have already cooperated with, can be considered, but they are too far from the south and the freight is too high.
In addition, find some closer partners.
Diplomats were sent to talk about the situation first, while Wang Qi arranged the process at home.
Similar to the central reservoir project, cold-resistant crop grain production areas are to be transformed into super greenhouses. Assuming that a mountain nest can produce 200 tons of grain per square kilometer in a single season, food rations for five million people will require thousands of square kilometers of land.
It's a bit outrageous, but it's actually okay, because the crops in the main world can retain heat themselves, and the transformation work mainly involves replenishing heat and water, and mechanizing farming.
An investment of 2 million per square kilometer, 3,000 square kilometers, is 6 billion, which is about the same as the amount of domestic deposits.
Can be borrowed.
(End of chapter)
