Tower Defense Strategy

The alien technology craze has been going on for some time, and the first results and their units are surprising.

Next to the Institute of Thermodynamics, the affiliated laboratory engaged in high-temperature and high-pressure application research usually makes some synthetic diamonds and sells them for subsidies.

Some people like to study the theory first, and some people don't look at the thing at all, just talk about the application.

This is the case for an engineer surnamed Liu in the affiliated laboratory.

Liu Gong is very self-aware, saying that he is an engineer, but compared with the boss of the Institute of Thermodynamics, he is at most a foreman who takes care of the laboratory.

The institute mobilized everyone to study extraterrestrial science and technology. He glanced at it and didn't understand the theory at all, but he accidentally found something familiar to him, synthetic diamond, from the book.

The principle of synthetic diamond is very simple. Put graphite in a container and press it to death. When the pressure breaks through the critical value, the atomic structure of graphite changes to form diamond.

However, the maturity of the technology is relatively general, and the application has also moved in two different directions, namely the pursuit of clarity and the pursuit of one-time molding volume.

Pursuing clarity is actually requiring strength. Pure diamond has extremely high hardness and is very suitable for industrial cutting tools. Compared with general industrial knives, pure diamond knives are not easy to wear, but the diamond body will break and fall from the supporting parts due to various reasons, which is the same as burning money.

The pursuit of quantity is different. It is not colorless and transparent. A small amount of unaltered graphite will weaken the diamond. However, because most applications do not require the high hardness of pure diamond, this economy will be more economical. Better.

What is mentioned in the alien knowledge is not the existing artificial diamond on the earth, but the super material used to make semiconductors, blue diamond.

Coincidentally, there have been relevant cutting-edge research on the earth in recent years, and Liu Gong looked for papers while comparing extraterrestrial knowledge.

In alien knowledge, the description of blue diamond is very simple, with only two sentences, among which it is mentioned that the mixing method of boride and graphite is a vibrating screen.

Don't ask for any proficiency in the principle, just press the ingredients and process keywords directly, and directly use the small laboratory machine to do the experiment.

The laboratory itself has a production function, and the cost of a small amount of diamond experiments is too low, and there is no need to write a report in advance.

Tried three times and made a one-carat blue diamond!

Blue diamonds are darker in color than most natural blue diamonds, and the chromaticity distribution is more even, which is very beautiful.

Do a few more simple experiments to verify the semiconductor characteristics.

Report it quickly.

The big guys from the Institute of Thermodynamics are excited, with high-speed approval, and the largest equipment in the affiliated laboratory was launched on the same day for trial production.

The results are relatively general. In one experiment, a total of 12 blue diamonds were produced, the largest of which was 8 carats (similar to a coin), and the smallest was only 0.2 carats.

Test performance, broken the test.

Drive out the conclusion in the middle of the night.

The theoretical semiconductor performance of blue diamond is close to some frontier speculations, and is significantly higher than that of silicon crystals.

There are three problems.

First, the raw material ratio and mixing method that were messed up are far from optimal, and the clarity of each point is inconsistent, requiring a lot of later work to improve.

Second, diamonds can’t be like silicon crystals. They can only be made piece by piece if they are just one foot thick and several meters long. Special equipment can be made through thorough understanding of some related alien technologies, and then mass production may be carried out.

3. Processing diamonds and processing silicon crystals are obviously not the same concept. It is very difficult to integrate blue diamonds and requires a brand-new type of equipment. It is not impossible to research on your own, but considering the length of time, you still need extraterrestrial knowledge. More reliable.

In any case, the emergence of the simple production principle of semiconductor blue diamond marks a new direction in the computer industry.

Integrated circuits based on silicon crystals, as the lithography technology reaches a precision of 5 nanometers, it is difficult to make a huge improvement. Even if the accuracy is further improved to the extent that the atoms are directly controlled, the calculation power per unit area will increase by several times. Even if a much better structure can be built, it will definitely be the end if it can add up to a dozen times. In theory, it will not take too long to reach this step. Maybe 20 to 30 years, or even more, it may not reach that high level. On the one hand, technological development has stalled.

The appearance of semiconductor blue diamond means that the upper limit will be higher in the future.

Some people say that graphene is the future of semiconductors... who knows.

Graphene can indeed exhibit semiconductor properties in theory, but it is a single-layer atomic structure film. How to make it into a collection of semiconductor chips with complex computing capabilities? How to connect between the two films? How many layers of film are needed to reach the scale of the current integrated circuit? And so on, the question is completely clueless. If someone says there is, it is absolutely nonsense.

The structure of blue diamond is closer than graphene to the crystals required for integrated circuits in the understanding of the earth globe people. With the simultaneous advancement of the two technologies, the progress of blue diamond will also be faster.

This is an extraordinary period, and the efficiency of the entire scientific research system is very high. The experimental conclusions are reported in the morning, and a group of engineers and a construction team have arrived in the afternoon. Several simple buildings have been built around the pressure laboratory in the evening.

A team around the mass production of blue diamonds was quickly established. There were not many people, and the scope of business was limited to achieving better quality uniformity of blue diamonds.

Subsequent integrated circuitization has not been established. There is too much knowledge and equipment in this area, and there is too much time to make it.

Can't be integrated, what is the use of blue diamond?

The answer is that it can replace the industrial application of low-clarity synthetic diamond. The strength difference between the two is very small, but the cost of blue diamond is slightly higher.

Industrial diamond production is not profitable, but blue diamonds are beautiful. In addition to tool factories, you can also try to supply jewelry companies. This is real diamond, not glass, even if it is man-made, the effect of cutting will dazzle a lot of people. As far as the laboratory is concerned, if it can connect with the jewelry company, the profit margin will be greater, which is equivalent to the reimbursement of project funds.

Antiques in the golden age of troubled times, jade and gem jewelry are more like antiques, their ingredients are too high in the earth's crust, and they can even continue to regenerate with the long-term crustal movement, and there are particularly many frauds. These characteristics are in real troubled times. , Can't even compare to aluminum cans carbonated drinks.

Aluminum cans carbonated drinks are very special. Aluminum is easy to process. It only needs scissors to make reflective surfaces, simple stoves, simple traps and other practical props in troubled times. Although carbonated drinks are not nutritious, they provide calories and precious clean water with high sugar content. But it can save lives. A complete jar can also heat food and water. In the long-term war-torn zone in Central Central, it is a hard currency bartering.

So be pessimistic. Jewelry companies probably won't be too long. Before the slow-sale of jade and gemstones lead to bankruptcy, it is reasonable to fudge and make some contributions to scientific research.

Some people are blindly pessimistic and some are blindly optimistic. Not everyone can see what the future looks like. There are always smart people who want to take advantage of the last chance to cut a wave of leeks and disperse quickly. Don’t worry about blue in a short time. Diamonds cannot be sold if they are made.

After all, the blue diamond is just an unexpected result, and the C National Academy of Sciences still puts its main force on the two key projects of electromagnetic weapons and laser weapons.

These two key projects include dozens of large and small branches, but the most important selections are superconductors and power supplies.

The laser lens is of course also very important, but this happens to be the part that country C is good at. Country C has the best laser lens in the world, and it is also a rare high-end achievement that can block foreign technology.

Compared with superconductors and power supplies, lenses are not the bottleneck that hinders the weaponization of lasers.

There are not many superconductors used in lasers, mainly to prevent the system from overheating when a large amount of power is transmitted. The existing superconductors whose superconducting criticality is around 200K are completely sufficient. 200K means that superconductivity can be achieved with an anhydrous alcohol cooling system, and the alcohol can be circulated for practical use without consuming a large amount of liquid nitrogen.

It's just that the power supply hasn't clarified the idea yet, and it's all because the power system in Alien Technology is too complicated. For a while, I can't figure out which is easier to mass produce.

But in order to make an emergency, the big guys also came up with a temporary plan, both in the form of an external power supply car.

In fact, some missiles need to be powered by an external power supply, but these things consume very little electricity, and it is enough to turn on the fuel generator temporarily.

The main body of the new power car is the battery. According to 0.5 kilowatt-hours per kilogram, it can carry nearly 30,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity with a 60-ton battery. It can barely put a few lasers with decent power.

A laser armored vehicle, two battery vehicles, and a fleet of vehicles with generators form a laser weapon unit with a certain firepower.

This set is too heavy to be transported. It can only be deployed in a small amount in key coastal cities ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ at least to solve the problem of existence first.

There are also some achievements on the superconductor side, but at this stage it is still based on the improvement of existing superconducting materials, and due to the actual processing technology and other reasons, the improvement effect has not reached the expected.

The 277 Institute now occupies the octopus’s electromagnetic laboratory for 7×24 hours. It has sorted out dozens of more versatile material processing technology combinations, and prepared to try to deduce the formula of high-performance superconductors in reverse.

This is basically an exhaustive experiment, relying on the power of the laboratory computer in the game to give real-time feedback of superconducting performance, otherwise I would not even dare to think about it.

However, once it succeeds, it is not a dream to produce materials with superconducting temperatures above 240K. Normal temperature superconductivity may be close at hand.

But no one knows when this approach will be fruitful, it's all fate.

Of course, if there are new materials and improved materials obtained by other friends through normal methods, they will also help to verify them. Anyway, it will only take a few minutes, including process optimization, and it will not take more than half a day. The rest of the time will be spent playing poorly. Lift.