Superconducting coils not only provide powerful defense capabilities for the Mohist territory, but also play a considerable role in the civilian field, especially in the transportation industry.
The pure military industry cannot support such large-scale infrastructure construction, because if this industry does not invade from the outside, it will not see short-term benefits. If the industry cannot obtain benefits in the long run, the people will lose confidence.
This is actually the reason why many socialist countries in the world will use the land economy to stimulate national development after they develop to a certain stage. In addition to their future hopes, workers pay more attention to the benefits they can obtain now. This is in human values Before the radical change, it was an iron-clad existence.
Superconducting coils buried underground provide transportation convenience. Although railways are still the mode of transportation with the largest carrying capacity, with the construction of rows of superconducting coils and laser towers along the railway lines, new high-speed transportation The pattern has unfolded.
Magnetic levitation is not a black technology. When there are many superconducting coils underground, it is much simpler to achieve magnetic levitation of vehicles. In this way, the cost of low-altitude flight is greatly reduced, and the load capacity of floating trains is also greatly increased. The logistics speed between them is higher than that of simple railway transportation.
Moreover, the tracks are not as rigid as railways. Steering and reversing are theoretically possible, but such operations are prohibited on certain high-speed sections.
It's like building high-altitude highways between cities.
Theoretically, this model can also be used to build floating vehicles on the urban surface. If it continues to develop without external enemies, the city will become a three-dimensional structure like that in many science fiction works, with a large number of vehicles flying freely in the city. .
However, now that cities are developing underground, such floating logistics can only be used for transportation between cities.
While making every effort to build in the Jiangnan area, the Mohists did not limit their vision to the land blocked by rivers and natural dangers. Continuing to the west, there was still a large area of land waiting to be developed. Humans in this era said that they wanted to develop the moon and Mars. It is too early. No matter how the environments of the moon and Mars are modified to be suitable for humans, can the earth be more suitable for humans? There are still many places on the earth that have not been effectively developed, such as the deep sea and the roof of the world...
As the vastest plateau in the world, its development is quite backward on this timeline. All countries know that this is a strategic location. The condescending terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you don't occupy this place with more than ten times the number of troops, you can't do it. If you want to conquer it, the problem is that the upfront cost of plateau development is extremely huge. Even after infrastructure construction is completed and roads are opened, the benefits are still difficult to compare with other areas.
The three major powers treat non-native areas with a colonial attitude. How can they invest in the development of this place under such circumstances?
Indeed, by occupying this place, they can intimidate large areas around them with a small number of troops and establish their own authority in the surrounding areas. However, the resources required to maintain an army on the plateau prohibit them.
The Mohists have no worries in this regard. They regard every inch of the area under their control as their own land to build. Even if the natural environment in the western region is harsh, they still develop it without hesitation.
The biggest problem in construction in mountainous areas is transportation. The cost of using heavy transport aircraft for transportation is too high, and the speed of opening the road inch by inch is too slow. You can't build a mile of road and then use this mile of road to complete the next step. Transport the materials within one mile!
Therefore, if you want to develop these mountainous areas, you often need to rely on animal power or even manpower to complete the initial development work.
The Mohists were determined to invest resources, manpower, and thought into developing the plateau, but the solution would always be more difficult than the difficulties. The first was the problem of large transportation equipment. The Mohists chose air transportation. On the one hand, they tried every means to reduce the cost of large transport aircraft and increase their transportation capacity.
Most of today's industrial projects can gradually improve performance and reduce costs as long as sufficient investment is made. After improving the supporting industrial chain, equipment that was once extremely expensive will eventually be reduced to a bargain price.
On the other hand, it is to develop a new transportation mode. This time the transportation mode is still magnetic levitation, but it does not rely on coils on the foundation to achieve magnetic levitation, but relies on atmospheric organisms that reduce the floating height.
After having the floating power tower, the new generation of Mohists already have a data basis for the cultivation of other atmospheric organisms. The volume of the new floating jellyfish begins to expand, the air sacs also begin to grow, and the adult individuals will grow into diameters one by one. Giant balloons ranging from three to five meters, and have certain power systems.
Of course, the Mo family did not expect this thing to be able to control its own flight direction. The power system was just to facilitate them in splicing themselves together in the air.
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A large number of buoyant jellyfish flew towards the plateau area under the tug of the drone. This scene looked very funny, as if a sesame seed was pulling an elephant forward.
In the plateau area, these jellyfish are spliced together to form an aerial highway. Because of the large number, the diameter of the aerial highway usually exceeds a hundred meters, so the buoyancy provided is also extremely huge, forming huge floating pipelines.
The aircraft only needs to use the maglev capability to take off in areas where infrastructure construction has been completed, then enter the pipeline and fly suspended in the center of the pipeline, then it can reach the area that needs construction at high speed, low consumption and large load.
Compared with ordinary roads, the biggest advantage of such aerial pipelines is that they are mobile. With the traction of drones, the positions of entrances and exits can be changed, which means that any pipeline can realize infrastructure construction in large areas. .
The initial cost of the air corridor technology is relatively high. The most expensive thing is the steel cable of the core structure of the air corridor. All floating jellyfish must be attached to the steel cable. Otherwise, the air pipe will break when the wind blows. You can't expect a jellyfish with a development period of less than a week to form a strong structure. If it can ensure that its balloon does not break and leak for a long time, it is already very good.
The high-altitude wind speed in the plateau area is very high, which requires very high steel cables. In a sense, they are accumulating advanced technology for space elevator technology.
With the investment of large amounts of capital and manpower, the cost of technology has gradually decreased.
Nowadays, on the plateau, huge white pipelines are like blood vessels, constantly transporting resources and people to the barren areas, and the plateau is being constructed at a speed that makes the world stunned.
[To be continued]
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