Chapter 458 Modification of the Weather Controller
After comparing the two tests, it is enough to see that although the weather controller is useful, its usefulness is not very obvious in the current environment.
Judging from the test results, the stage where the weather controller is effective is a stage where the temperature is relatively low. After the temperature rises, the effect of the weather controller decreases year-on-year.
The best workmanship curve used with chemical agents requires the ambient temperature to be at least above zero degrees. The irreconcilable dividing between the two is really a dilemma.
Although it is not impossible to use the weather controller to irradiate the target area first, and wait until the temperature rises and then spread chemicals to maximize the effectiveness of the weather controller, this is still not an efficient approach.
Or, it is not a quick way to take effect.
According to Chen Xin's idea, the weather controller should be able to quickly change the weather within a certain area, quickly form precipitation and strong winds, affecting the dust in the current atmosphere.
However, judging from the current situation, this weather controller can only increase the temperature in some areas in a short period of time.
Although controlling the temperature controls the weather, in an environment of more than minus 100 degrees Celsius, the water vapor in the air has long condensed into ice and fell down. The air dryness here will not be lower than that in the desert.
In this case, if local heating wants to cause rain or snow, at least it must maintain this temperature, so that the snow on the ground melts and evaporates, so that the air humidity can be saturated, and rainfall can be formed.
But in this case, it will inevitably require a long time to use the weather controller to irradiate the target area.
However, the weather controller is not a searchlight or a stove, and can be turned on for a long time. The power consumed by starting this large machine is equivalent to half of the current electricity consumption of the Lucia capital.
If Chen Xin and his team have isotope generators for a long time, it will be difficult for them to withstand such a large amount of power consumption.
And more importantly, such huge power consumption and the converted electromagnetic waves also have a heavy burden on the machine itself.
During the last test, there was no problem because the startup time was short, but this time the machine was running time, you can clearly feel that some parts of the machine were overloaded.
Although there is no problem for the time being, and it can be supported by a little longer, no one can guarantee that there will be no problems.
Although a broken part or two of such a large machine may not necessarily affect the overall operation, no one wants something to happen.
Therefore, after the completion of this test, the staff proposed to limit the use time of the weather controller to avoid excessive use as much as possible.
In fact, if it is the environment before the disaster, short-term exposure and the temperature will be increased by several degrees will be enough to achieve the goal. There is no need to irradiate the target area for a long time to increase its temperature to above zero degrees before it can take effect.
Therefore, after this test, the staff needed to further repair the entire weather controller and replace some of the vulnerable parts again. At the same time, based on the data from the two tests, they considered how to further improve the machine.
This time Chen Xin gave the improvement work completely to the staff below to handle, while he himself was considering how to reduce the current behemoth weather controller to be installed on a mobile base.
Through these two tests, Chen Xin has also figured out the limits of this weather controller.
Judging from the data currently obtained, when the irradiation range of this machine is reduced to the minimum, the projection distance can reach fifty kilometers, and the area it can affect is about a circle with a radius of five kilometers.
This area looks very large, but from the actual results it can cause, it is just a rainfall in some areas.
Of course, this can be used to expand the impact area by adjusting the projection range of the weather controller, but overall, it is nothing more than expanding the small range to a certain range.
If only such performance is available, of course, it will not be able to meet Chen Xin's needs, or even the needs of changing weather in the current environment.
Therefore, improving the performance of the weather controller and expanding its scope of influence are what needs to be done right now.
As for reducing the size, installing it on a mobile base, allowing it to move, and affecting the weather in more areas, it is a further thing.
Now, Chen Xin has left the work of improving the performance of the machine to his staff, and he has personally taken care of the work of reducing the volume.
In general, a weather controller can be regarded as a large microwave transmitter. One of the main reasons why it is so large that it occupies the entire base is that it needs to convert electrical energy into electromagnetic waves. With the technology of the Soviet era at that time, it can only build such a large one.
In fact, even with current technology, the machine can be made smaller, but overall, it is still impossible to reduce the weather controller to be placed on a mobile base.
Taking human current technology as for this, it will take decades to achieve this even before the disaster, with the speed of scientific research in Yan Country.
Because one of the most critical factors is that if you want to influence a large enough range, the power of the machine must be large enough. If you want to have large enough power, the easiest way is to build a large size.
But it is easy to build large sizes, and it is difficult to reduce the large size and maintain sufficient power.
What is necessary for all aspects of this to improve the overall scientific and technological level in order to achieve a reduction in volume.
However, for Chen Xin, this is relatively simple. Everything is left to a universal system. As long as there is enough investment in survival points, the system will always satisfy you.
In fact, if Chen Xin is willing to smash the survival point, he can even reduce the weather controller to the point where he can put it in his pocket.
Of course, the survival point that would be spent is also an astronomical figure, even more than Chen Xin directly upgraded the weather controller to a planetary transformer.
Of course, Chen Xin would not consider this kind of thing. Even if he wanted to smash the survival point to achieve the purpose of reducing the weather controller, he would not be able to do so.
Judging from the current situation, if you want to reduce the size of the weather controller, the first thing you need to remove is its original huge power supply structure.
The nuclear power plant originally built by the Soviets has now been replaced by isotope generators, but the isotope generator does not require the bloated power supply mechanism originally equipped for the nuclear power plant.
So this part can be removed.
The rest is still optimization in structure and materials. The last optimization and upgrading can only be considered a preliminary optimization, and this time it will be a further optimization.
Chapter completed!