Xia Shiyu originally planned to attend the Silicon Valley Summit herself. As a senior executive of Future Group, she could indeed represent Future Group to a certain extent. The reason for this consideration was mainly because she was worried about Jiang Chen's safety.
After much persuasion, Jiang Chen finally convinced Xia Shiyu to go in person.
Speaking of which, his business had spread across most of the UA, but he had never been there in person.
In addition, California, where Silicon Valley was located, was on the edge of Nevada. He also wanted to take this opportunity to "visit" the mysterious Area 51 and see what the UA people were researching.
Before flying to Los Santos, good news came from the apocalypse.
The long-distance power transmission equipment that Jiang Chen had previously ordered the Beluga Sea Station to search for finally had some progress. Wu Yue, who lived in the Sixth Street, conveyed the news to Chu Nan, and Chu Nan fed it back to the Fishbone base.
When Sun Jiao told Jiang Chen the good news, Jiang Chen immediately returned to the apocalypse and went to the Sixth Street to find Wu Yue.
In front of the warehouse at the Sixth Street, the sentinel in kinetic skeleton saluted and opened the iron door for Jiang Chen.
The dry air blew into his face. Jiang Chen walked into the bright warehouse and soon saw Wu Yue standing on a platform, as well as the researchers of Camp 27 working around the platform.
"We meet again, Mr. General."
Wu Yue greeted him with a smile and shook Jiang Chen's hand tightly.
"Long time no see." Jiang Chen smiled and let go of his hand. "I didn't expect that after so long, you are still sitting in the position of ambassador."
"Are you surprised?" Wu Yue spread his hands and smiled.
"No, I'm just curious why you didn't get promoted. Let's not talk about this. Where's the thing? "
Jiang Chen looked around and didn't see what he expected in the warehouse.
Wu Yue smiled and stomped his feet.
"It's under our feet."
Jiang Chen paused for a moment and looked at his feet.
With a closer look, this hexagonal platform was really something special.
On the dark black outer shell, one could see small scale-like bumps, about the size of a thumb, neatly arranged into a net, covering the hexagonal platform.
However, Jiang Chen didn't expect that this hexagonal platform covering an area of one square meter was actually part of the long-distance wireless power transmission equipment.
"How does this thing work? Can you demonstrate it to me?"
Jiang Chen casually stepped on the surface of the platform. Other than feeling that the surface material was soft, he didn't see anything special.
"This thing works in outer space. It can't be used in the atmosphere." Wu Yue shook his head and pointed to the researchers belonging to NAC. "You might as well ask your subordinates about the specific working principles. I don't know much … Well, let's settle the bill first."
When it came to settling the bill, Wu Yue's face immediately beamed.
Jiang Chen didn't waste time with him as he tapped on his watch, pulled out the data cable, and connected it to his EP. He then transferred ten thousand credits to his account. When he saw the string of numbers, the smile on Wu Yue's face widened. He respectfully bowed to Jiang Chen and left the warehouse.
Ten thousand credits were equivalent to one hundred thousand crystals. It was enough for Beluga Station to purchase supplies for an entire month at the Sixth Street. If he was working with a businessman, he would have to travel the distance of Honshu Island four times to earn that much money.
Helping the NAC military government salvage the equipment in front of the station was a lucrative job for the people at Beluga Station.
After Wu Yue left, Jiang Chen found the researcher who was busy working on the computer next to the platform and asked him about the use of the device.
The technician named Luo Yong was quite excited when the general asked him a question. He put down the work at hand and took Jiang Chen straight to an instrument in the corner of the warehouse. On the iron box that looked like a wardrobe, there was a transparent plexiglass tube about one meter long.
"This is a device that simulates wireless power transmission in an outer space environment. Electrical energy is converted into a laser beam carrying energy at the A pole of the aurora and converted into electricity at the B pole. Now this glass tube is pumped into a near-vacuum state to prevent the transmission laser from being lost in the form of heat. " Luo Yong explained the technical content to Jiang Chen in layman's language while he reached out to open the holographic screen and pressed the start button of the device.
He clicked a few times on it and set the transmission power. One end of the glass tube began to light up, and the indicator marked with the electric power began to jump and finally stopped at the position of 21KW.
In an instant, the blue laser filled the entire vacuum tube, like a flowing liquid, bright but not dazzling. At the same time, the indicator opposite the other pole of the vacuum tube also began to jump. When the surging laser stabilized, the degree finally stopped at the position of 20.997 KW.
Even considering that the distance was only one meter long, a 0.014% power loss was already quite impressive. Unlike traditional power transmission methods, under ideal conditions, this kind of laser transmission did not pass through a medium, so there was no so-called resistance and heat loss.
As long as the medium on the light path was as small as possible and the light beam was as concentrated as possible, electricity could be transmitted from one pole to the other with extremely low loss across tens of thousands or even millions of kilometers.
At that time, the helium-3 mined from the Moon would not need to be transported to Earth by spacecraft. It would be directly converted into electricity at the nuclear fusion power station on the Moon, and then directly "shot" to the end of the space elevator in outer space using this laser transmission method. After being converted into electricity, it would be transmitted to the ground power grid through the superconductor line.
"Because of the plexiglass material, we can observe the laser beam with the naked eye. Although it looks very gentle, it is also a kind of power loss. However, in the real universe, this light beam is invisible. In other words, only in areas close to the Earth, or if there are dust belts or water molecules passing through, can we observe the blue strip of light. "
While Wu Yue explained to Jiang Chen, he turned off the device.
"If a spacecraft passes through this laser beam, wouldn't it be dangerous?" Jiang Chen suddenly thought of a very serious problem.
Tens or even hundreds of millions of MW of electricity transformed into a laser, this was a moon-based laser turret! If there were any spacecraft or rockets in the middle of the light path, wouldn't it be directly baked into molten iron?
Also, if this laser accidentally missed its target and poked the Earth …
Jiang Chen was a little afraid of directly poking a hole in the atmosphere.
"This worry is unnecessary," Luo Yong laughed. "Generally speaking, the light path will be marked on the navigator of the spacecraft, and no spacecraft will fly over it. It's just like we don't carry a ladder to touch a high-voltage line."
"What if this laser misses?" Jiang Chen asked.
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