Free Web NovelChapter 1330: Chapter 636: That’s Why We’re Called "Infinite Power"! _2
The timeline is very tight.
Yixing Unlimited Power Company had also started up, contacting various collaborative manufacturers and focusing on material and component manufacturing issues.
The first priority was to urge the Advanced Compression Material Company to complete the production of the first batch of five-times-compressed single crystal silicon material.
Then came Space Information Technology, urging them to finish the customized photon energy transmission equipment, at the very least, to complete the manufacture of the first prototype as quickly as possible.
And then, there was Red Wind Industry.
Red Wind Industry is a high-end manufacturing company. They have only one job, which is to slice the compressed single crystal silicon material into standard thin wafers.
This task is not something an ordinary manufacturing company can accomplish.
The strength of the compressed single crystal silicon material is very high, it even has extremely high toughness, and its melting point reaches a staggering 6000 degrees Celsius.
To shape such a high-grade material into thin slices, the required technical and craft level is very high. Red Wind Industry is only responsible for making the single crystal silicon wafers. The cost of the manufacturing process even exceeds half of the cost of the compressed single crystal silicon material.
Next was Longwei Heavy Industries, whose job was to manufacture the outer casing of the energy receiver according to the design drawings.
Then there was Dingxin International, responsible for the assembly of the energy receiver, which is the device converting solar energy into electrical power.
The aforementioned companies worked together to complete the manufacturing of the solar energy conversion electric power device for space transmission.
The collaborators of Yixing Unlimited Power Company were not only related to the manufacture of electric power devices, but there were also more than twenty manufacturing and service enterprises, including Tongli Electronics, Yafangda Batteries, Yutu Robot Company, and others.
Whether it’s electronic devices, software manufacturing, automation control, interior installation, seat manufacturing, and more, all these require the collaboration of relevant manufacturers.
Lastly, there was Changyuan Auto.
All the parts integrated together would eventually be transported to Changyuan Automobile Manufacturing Company for the assembly of the complete vehicle. It would then be emblazoned with the ’Unlimited Power’ logo, and only after passing quality inspection, could the vehicle be completed for delivery.
Of course, it’s a bit early to talk about Changyuan Auto, as they were among the least busy of the collaborators. Several company executives simply came to Zhengyang Industrial Park to personally supervise the construction of the branch factory.
For the production of the first Unlimited Power Automobile, the company paid great attention to quality. All components had to meet design requirements and also had to fulfill quality demands.
While contacting various manufacturers, Yixing Unlimited Power Company also continuously emphasized quality issues.
The related part manufacturing wasn’t fast, but Yixing only needed prototypes in the short term, with the most urgent being the energy receiver prototype.
The speed of material and part manufacturing was fast, but the biggest time delays were Space Information Technology and Dingxin International. The former had to manufacture a brand-new design for the energy receiver, and the interior micro-beam array plate within the receiver was the most time-consuming part of the manufacturing, which would certainly take a considerable amount of time to complete.
In addition, there was Dingxin International, responsible for assembling the energy receiver prototypes, which was almost entirely ’manually’, due to the assembly involving brand-new equipment. Adjustments and improvements to lathes and other equipment were needed, and most of the work had to be done by hand.
The most challenging part was the stable embedding of the single crystal silicon wafers into the casing, as traditional welding techniques couldn’t be used. Holes needed to be drilled into the single crystal silicon wafers, including interrupting and even spiral holes, to physically secure the wafers.
Additionally, a series of designs and improvements were required before the finished high-fit work could be accomplished according to the design drawings.
One month later, the first energy receiver was finally assembled.
Upon completion, Dingxin International immediately shipped it to Yixing Unlimited Power Company, which then sent out messages to a dozen major partners, inviting them to observe the test operation of the energy receiver.
Representatives from a dozen major collaborating manufacturers arrived, some even being heads of R&D departments. Dingxin International and Longwei Heavy Industries sent their CEOs directly, which showed their importance to Yixing Unlimited Power.
In fact, what they regarded most was Zhao Yi. Most partners were slightly skeptical about Yixing Unlimited Power Company, mainly because Unlimited Power Company announced they were manufacturing Solar Energy Cars.
Solar Energy Cars?
Could such cars have a future?
The ’Unlimited Power’ brand name did sound impressive, but looked at from another angle, it was overly exaggerated.
They all thought ’Unlimited Power’ was just a marketing stunt. Solar energy indeed represented unlimited power, but charging was an absolute issue.
In conventional understanding, solar-powered dynamics were nothing but solar panels combined with charging battery packs, where solar energy was merely a charging method. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
This charging method had significant drawbacks, a dreary weather would have a huge impact.
Even if every day was sunny, conventional solar charging, even with the entire area above the car being solar panels, a whole day of solar charging would barely support ten minutes of high-speed driving.
Ten minutes, that’s almost it.
Within this time frame, the car can completely use up ten hours of charged energy. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
The main reason is that the area on top of the car is too small, so it’s naturally impossible to install large solar panels.
There are different opinions on this, however.
For instance, Dingxin International and Longwei Heavy Industries, who are responsible for the work related to manufacturing energy reception devices, naturally know the ’secret of unlimited power’ lies in the energy reception end.
Though the energy reception device was indeed manufactured, it left people completely baffled.
"Putting a bunch of monocrystalline silicon wafers neatly in a closed space..."
"What’s the point?"
"Could there possibly be light in a closed space?"
Both Dingxin International and Longwei Heavy Industries truly didn’t understand.
Therefore, the CEOs of the companies came in person.
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Yixing Unlimited Power Company gave a very enthusiastic reception to the representatives of the cooperating enterprises.
Then the observation of the test followed.
The test connected the reception device to an external space transmission experimental device, which linked to a super high-power high-energy photon beam. Of course, no matter how high the power was, it couldn’t possibly compare with the sun, but in theory, it should be enough to allow the reception device to convert more than seven thousand watts of electric power.
In the control room.
Once everything was ready, Zhao Yi instructed the staff to directly connect the two devices. Soon after, they saw the reception device start working, and the connected motors quickly began to operate.
This scene shocked the onlooking company representatives, "What’s going on? How did the motor start running just like that?"
"It’s not plugged in?"
"How did it start spinning? The power data is not even nine thousand watts—"
The data showed a deviation!
Zhao Yi carefully checked the data on the monitoring device and found that the output electric power was as high as 8.8 kilowatts, much higher than the expected value.
This indicated that the conversion was very effective, exceeding the precalculated amount.
"It seems that cutting the compressed monocrystalline silicon into thin slices greatly improved the light conversion rate," Zhao Yi thought.
In fact, it was quite simple to understand: compressed monocrystalline silicon cut into thin slices and placed in a sealed space greatly increased the contact area with the transmission light, thereby significantly improving the electricity conversion rate.
The representatives observing the experiment didn’t quite grasp what was happening.
After the experiment concluded, Zhao Yi came over for a simple explanation. Speaking very calmly, he revealed shocking information, "The device we’ve created should be fully named Space Transmission Solar Energy Conversion Box."
"It can transmit exterior light energy to the interior through a technology called space energy transmission and, through the reaction materials of internal monocrystalline silicon electrons, convert light energy into electrical energy."
No further explanation was necessary.
The mention of space energy transmission technology had already stunned all the company representatives.
Zhao Yi continued, "Our source of high-intensity light—" He emphasized, "What I’m about to say is no longer classified information, but it would be best to not disclose it for the time being."
The company representatives nodded in agreement.
"You know about the last satellite orbiting the Sun? The use rights of that satellite belong to Unlimited Power Company, and the satellite, in fact, is called the Energy-Gathering Satellite. Its function is to transmit the strong light energy surrounding the sun to the reception device through space light energy transmission technology."
"What we’ve created now is the reception device. There’s no night on the surface of the sun, so the name of our car brand is appropriately ’Unlimited Power’."
