The power generation equipment research and development company of the Suiren Group has developed a power generation solution for floating cities, that is, not nuclear fusion or solar energy, but geothermal energy.

That's right, it's geothermal energy.

To be precise, it is Venus' air heat energy.

You should know that the average temperature on the surface of Venus is between 424 and 462 degrees Celsius.

Just so happens that the temperature in Venus' atmosphere shows a gradual decline as the altitude increases.

Among them, at an altitude of 100 kilometers, the average temperature is minus 112 degrees Celsius; while in areas below 5 kilometers, the average temperature is between 424 and 462 degrees Celsius.

The huge temperature difference formed by the two provides application conditions for another power generation solution, that is, temperature difference power generation technology.

The design team of this project intends to use small floating modules to arrange the heat exchange system on the ground and then connect the floating city with cables.

Then at a height of 55 to 60 kilometers by the sea, the average temperature here is 27 degrees Celsius to minus 10 degrees Celsius. A small heat dissipation module is set up at this height. During this heat exchange process, temperature differential power generation can be carried out.

The two have a temperature difference of more than 400 degrees Celsius, which can fully meet the power generation of high power.

In addition, this power generation model also avoids the embarrassment of solar panels.

After all, solar panels need to be laid on a large scale, and the wind speed in the high altitude areas of Venus' atmosphere is too strong, so large-area solar panels are easy to attract wind.

In addition, the generation of solar panels requires the day and night alternation of planet rotation. Don’t forget the rotation speed of Venus, but it is super slow. On average, it takes 243 days for every rotation cycle.

This means that Venus' night cycle is 121.5 days for one night.

During the operation of floating cities, if solar panels are used to generate electricity, there are only two options: one is to go day by day; the other is to build super-large toner energy storage power stations.

To choose the first option, you need to install a high-power engine to keep the floating city in the position exposed to the sun.

To choose the second solution, to meet the 121.5-day night electricity consumption in floating cities, the toner energy storage power station that needs to be built will be very large.

Solar panels are used on low-Earth orbit artificial satellites and space stations, and they are also uselessly. They are obviously not suitable for the environment and environment.

The design team of the Suiren Group naturally saw that the solar panels were not accustomed to the local conditions of Venus, so they took a different approach to develop an air temperature differential power generation system.

You should know that in some of the thermal power stations of Blue Star, the water vapor of high-temperature and high-pressure boilers may not necessarily have 462 degrees Celsius, 92 times the atmospheric pressure.

Even if the atmosphere of Venus is a natural large boiler, it is simply a natural design for power generation.

In addition to utilizing abundant thermal energy in the underlying atmosphere, Venus has another source of energy that is overlooked, that is wind.

The height of the floating city has an average wind speed of 30 to 50 meters per second, and the wind energy resources are better than any wind farm on Blue Star.

If you hang up the windmill, you will probably be able to generate electricity crazily.

Another wind power company is doing technical research and development in this area, but they have encountered some difficulties, that is, the mechanical geared windmill transmission shaft, which cannot withstand such strong wind power at all.

The secret wind speed of 30 to 50 meters is equivalent to daily typhoons, and they are all super typhoons.

The wind turbine equipment before Blue Star would not generate electricity on typhoon days, but chose to put away the fan blades to avoid damage to the fan by typhoons.

As for the upper level of Venus' atmosphere, which has a more terrifying wind power than Blue Star, no company's wind turbine can withstand such terrifying strong winds.

Of course, these difficulties are not unsolvable.

The main reason why Blue Star’s wind power equipment research and development company did not develop equipment that could resist typhoons was because it was not necessary.

Because typhoon weather is not present every day, it is specially designed to fight typhoons, and the cost of equipment may increase by more than ten times.

In order to increase production costs by more than ten times in a typhoon period of up to a few days, even if the equipment research and development company is willing to spend money, no power generation company is willing to buy it.

It is because of the lack of demand that Blue Star’s wind power generation equipment cannot reach the intensity of the typhoon power generation level.

However, the special environment in Venus has led to wind power generation equipment that must ensure that it can generate power smoothly in typhoon-level weather, so technological upgrades must be carried out.

Will the gear drive shaft mechanical wear occur?

It doesn't matter, use magnetic levitation bearings instead.

Insufficient body strength?

It doesn't matter, use composite silene-carbon nanotube materials.

Is the power generation unstable?

The minimum power generation power is sufficient, and coupled with the toner energy storage power station, it can digest unstable power generation.

For the federal government, the manufacturing cost is more than ten times that of the cost of wind turbines. After all, the price of wind turbines can be offset by the internal circulation system.

In the special internal circulation system of the federal government, many cost issues in the capital era are actually not problems.

The cost of production calculated by the Federation is largely excluding capital costs.

The current federal production cost composition is usually material cost + energy cost + processing cost + labor cost + R&D cost.

In this case, the internal circulation system that has been perfectly closed will lead to a rapid decline in the production cost of the product.

As long as the federal government has enough material and energy, it can basically have unlimited explosive production capacity.

So what if the cost of upgraded wind turbines is increased by more than ten times? Federal can afford it.

Therefore, the Venus Development Plan began to be modified again, and the testing of the underlying atmospheric thermal power generation projects and high-altitude wind power generation projects were added.

As for the previously prepared solar power generation projects, they were directly cancelled, and only the part of the toner energy storage power station was retained.

As Venus Development Plan is gradually improving, it will remove the unreasonable parts of the first draft and add some projects that are adapted to local conditions.

This is the advantage of the Federation. Even if part of the plan has been implemented, if the error is found, it can be quickly corrected.

Instead of like in the capital era, even if you find that the technical route is wrong, capital may push it forward in order not to lose money.

Just like the Silicon Valley system that was fighting against the Suiren Group, they were obviously struggling with lithography, but they still would not give up lithography because they could not accept the losses.

If they had switched to the nanowire route, they would have died even more severely. This is the cruel reality of capital society.

Once it fails, it will be difficult to turn around and start over.

The federal side is different. After forming a perfect internal circulation system, even if the technology research and development is wrong, the route can be quickly changed because the federal government can afford it.

After entering the universe halfway, a simple capital company has become increasingly unacceptable to development.

After all, private companies need to make profits, and it is destined to be difficult to make a profit in the early stages of the universe.

Among Western commercial companies, the one that once commercialized the best in the aerospace field is Musk's space exploration company.

However, many people only see the brilliant achievements of the Space Exploration Company, but do not see the deep-seated fatal weaknesses of this company.

That is profitability. Space Exploration Company's profit model is very fragile and can only rely on NASA's orders. Once NASA has funding problems or the US economic recession, space Exploration Company will not be able to obtain orders.

A commercial company cannot obtain orders, which is not far from bankruptcy.
Chapter completed!