Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1309: Chapter 627 Outlandish Questions!

The experts beside the senior leaders weren’t just there for show; they had conducted a series of analyses on the space shuttle experiment and had participated in the argumentation over the design of spacecraft. It was after detailed research and discussion on the energy consumption issues for space shuttles that they concluded small spacecraft, without a large power energy system, couldn’t carry out space shuttles.

The Space Agency had conducted a space shuttle experiment once, from the Z-wave Generator to the small spacecraft, most of which were designed by Zhao Yi.

Therefore, the energy consumed during the experimental process was very valuable as a reference.

At the time, the small spacecraft was only able to shuttle to the moon with the assistance of the Z-wave Generator installed at the space station and open the Anti-Energy barrier.

Then, it couldn’t return.

Without energy support, the anti-gravity device was directly discarded.

Thus, installing a Z-wave Generator on a small spacecraft was utterly impractical.

If constructing an ultra-large spacecraft where most of the space was used for carrying energy, it would consume a vast amount of costs. The larger ship would have greater mass and relatively increased energy consumption, which not only elevated costs but also didn’t guarantee the completion of the mission.

In short, without the support of a large energy device, it was nearly impossible for a spacecraft to use the Z-wave Generator independently to open the Anti-Energy barrier and achieve space shuttling.

Zhao Yi, of course, also knew that it was impossible to create a small spacecraft that used the Z-wave device.

Previously, he had carefully calculated that it simply couldn’t be achieved; otherwise, there wouldn’t have been any consideration of building a large spacecraft.

Now, in making a request to his superiors, using Z-wave Generation Technology, he actually had no intention of installing the Z-wave Generator on a small spacecraft, but planned to generate a Z-wave Generation Satellite intended to stay in space for an extended period, just like the generator on the space station.

With the assistance of the Z-wave Generation Satellite, the small spacecraft could carry out space shuttling to reach Mars.

Taking into account that the small spacecraft needed to travel back and forth, it was essential to launch another similar Z-wave Generation Satellite into orbit around Mars.

With two Z-wave Generation Satellites, one orbiting Earth and the other orbiting Mars, it would be possible to release Z-waves and assist the small spacecraft in completing the shuttle.

This would essentially establish a channel from Earth to Mars.

Zhao Yi believed that the possibility of constructing this corridor was very high, as there was already a Z-wave Generation Satellite utilizing solar energy for power.

The Z-wave Generation Satellite needed now just required a bit more power.

"Build a larger one?"

When delving into calculations and considerations, Zhao Yi encountered a significant technical problem: he needed to create a larger Z-wave Generation Satellite but discovered that the required power was too high.

Zhao Yi began his meticulous calculations.

The power of a regular Z-wave Generation Satellite was only about one-seventh of the satellite installed single on the space station; the power difference was quite significant.

If constructing a compressed space corridor to reach Mars, the Z-wave generation power needed to increase by at least eight times.

Seven times and eight times might not seem like a significant difference compared to the distance between Earth and the Moon and the distance to Mars, which could be considered negligible. However, that was not how energy consumption worked.

In reality, the relationship between compressed distance/proportion and actual distance is very small. If there was absolutely nothing in space, not even minute particles, then there would be no difference between shuttling one hundred million kilometers or ten thousand kilometers.

We can understand it this way: an object moving uniformly at a constant speed on a plane, unaffected by any external forces, has no difference in the energy expended whether it travels one kilometer or ten kilometers — because it doesn’t use any energy to move due to inertia.

The same principle applies to space compression.

Since Z-waves themselves don’t react with space, most of the energy is absorbed by the particles that do react directly. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

If there were no particles whatsoever, the compression distance and proportion could be infinite.

"But eight times is still too high!"

Zhao Yi’s calculations showed that relying solely on solar energy, a Z-wave Generation Satellite with only twice the power could be manufactured at most.

The principle of Z-waves is to use the compression of space particles to create a strong magnetic field, which, upon reaching a critical value, releases energy that is then transformed into Z-waves.

The principle of the Z-wave Generation Satellite is to continuously power the magnetic field using solar energy while maintaining the field’s stability. The maintenance of the magnetic field requires energy, and when the energy consumption and energy charge balance each other, it’s equivalent to completing the charging.

At that moment, turning off the device that maintains the magnetic field will cause the field to burst with energy instantaneously and release Z-waves in a predetermined direction.

The key lies in the charging power.

The Z-wave Generation Satellite could be said to be a very perfect design with the existing technology.

Zhao Yi couldn’t make it any better than it was; what couldn’t be done was increasing the size and number of solar panels to directly and effectively enhance the power.

However, there was an issue: maintaining the internal magnetic field of the Z-wave Generation Satellite consumed a tremendous amount of energy. The higher the field’s strength, the greater the energy consumption, and the relationship between energy consumption and magnetic field strength was not linear, but exponential. As the field’s strength increased, it exponentially increased energy consumption.

"Eight times higher Z-wave power would mean the magnetic field strength is about four-point-two times higher, and the maintenance energy consumption would be —"

"Thirteen times or more!"

"That means you would need to increase the solar panels by more than thirteen times to just barely generate enough power for the Z-waves."