On the World's End, according to Cheng Ying's calculations, most of the planets have been bypassed. Because of the stamping ability of the storage soul guide, nearly perfect gears and springs can be made, so that the accuracy of the navigation clock can finally be used.
Longitude was measured.
They are now not far from the east coast of Douluo Continent. At that time, they only need to go south, bypass the Star Luo Empire, and return to Doujiang along the coastline to complete their first circumnavigation.
It stands to reason that there should be another continent, which was mentioned in the third part of Douluo, but Cheng Ying did not encounter it on his route, perhaps because it is in the southern hemisphere.
However, this cannot be seen from the description in the original work, which is normal. After all, in most novels, who has nothing to do to run to the southern hemisphere! Anyway, Cheng Ying has never read any novels where the sun rises in the east.
It sets in the west, but is not in the south at noon...
As the World's End cruises along, it also improves along the way. The combination of soul guidance technology and mechanical technology keeps Chengying in a state of technological explosion.
When we return to the mainland, with the perfect processing accuracy of the storage soul guide stamping, we can completely process a perfect sealed reaction pool. In theory, the pre-processing technology of ammonia synthesis can be used to build high-pressure sealing equipment for submarines.
This is an extremely important subject in the chemical industry. If we cannot find a way to convert nitrogen in the air into ammonia or nitrate, the acquisition of nitrogen will always be a big problem. At least nitrogen fertilizers for agriculture cannot be produced, and gunpowder is used.
You can only rely on scraping the saltpeter from the toilet. Even if you scrape the saltpeter from all the toilets on Douluo Continent, it won't be enough for Chengying to last long!
Even if he is using high explosives, neither nitroglycerin nor trinitrotoluene can be separated from nitrogen. Relying on nitrogen fixation by plants is a fool's errand to develop the chemical industry.
In addition to a series of chemical industries such as ammonia synthesis, alkali production, sulfuric acid production, etc., Chengying is also planning to build several fractionation towers. In the past, refining kerosene from petroleum was really just a piece of cake, including gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil, asphalt, and so on.
Industrial blood must always be extracted from here.
Internal combustion engines are no longer a problem. The basic structure of this thing can be found in junior high school physics books. It is much more detailed than the structural diagram of a steam engine. Let alone a normal four-stroke cylinder engine, even a rotary engine can be designed by Cheng Ying.
As long as industrial blood can be supplied, gasoline and diesel engines will be available immediately. History has proven that steam engines will be eliminated sooner or later. Although steampunk is romantic, it will not adapt to the times and will be abandoned by the times.
The current steam engines, even steam locomotives, steam spinning wheels, and even steam engineering machinery are nothing more than excessive products before petrochemical technology matures.
If you want to use steam power in the future, you have to wait until nuclear reactors come out. That sentence is indeed true. Human beings develop and develop, but they still have to boil water in the end.
During the time when he is about to return to the mainland, Chengying also lights up some technology trees that have no bottlenecks at all, so that this return can be more shocking.
The so-called technology tree without bottlenecks is actually electric energy. In fact, even in the primitive era, it was possible to make electric piles and hand-cranked generators. In fact, electric energy has no bottleneck at all. It is just that historically,
The application of this energy happened to be discovered relatively late.
Now that we have the conditions, although it is not possible to popularize electricity in the mainland for the time being, mainly because we don't have that much copper on hand, it is more than enough to power the World's End.
In fact, it is not difficult to make a generator. It is nothing more than cutting the magnetic field lines with wires and winding them with coils. It is easy to make an alternator. Driven by the steam engine, it can easily supply power to the entire ship.
With electricity, it is natural to use electrical appliances. Naturally, the first thing that comes to mind must be electric lights. Talking about mobile phones is too much!
As we all know, the most suitable material for incandescent lamps is tungsten metal. This kind of ore is not particularly rare, but because we don’t know how to smelt it, no one has refined this metal before Chengying.
In fact, it’s not that difficult to refine it. When you encounter metal oxides that you can’t handle, you’re right to use hydrogen. If you can’t handle hydrogen, then it’s basically difficult for the element to exist in nature.
Because metal elements that hydrogen cannot handle will basically react with water, such as metallic sodium, and water is everywhere on the planet...
In short, electric lights are not that difficult. Glass may seem expensive in this era, but for those who have mastered the technology, it is just a daily necessity that can be mass-produced. You won’t feel bad if you break a large piece of it that is half a person tall.
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As a result, the World's End soon became brightly lit. Compared with dim candlelight or oil lamps, incandescent lamps were undoubtedly much brighter. Like a nouveau riche, Chengying filled the ship with light bulbs.
At night it's as bright as during the day, it's like light pollution moving on the sea.
At this point, many sea soul beasts were attracted and rushed up to give everyone a meal. Many soul beasts are phototactic, which is good. Turn on the lights at night and even the bait is saved.
Although Chengying's arrangement is extremely vulgar, it has to be said that lights are indeed a symbol of civilization, just like the earth in Chengying's previous life. When viewed from space at night, the more prosperous the place, the brighter the light.
Bright.
This moving light pollution was indeed extremely shocking, and even the crew members themselves couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sense of pride, because nothing could be brighter than them at night.
In fact, it is very unscientific to turn on the lights so brightly at night. On the one hand, it will affect the lighthouses observing the coast. On the other hand, it will also increase the possibility of getting lost at night.
Fortunately, Chengying provides mental scanning, so you don't need to worry about the danger of running aground, you just need to move in the direction of the target as much as possible.
Cheng Ying leaned on the armchair in the cab, looking at the lights that flickered on and off due to unstable voltage, his eyes full of nostalgia.
Why is he obsessed with climbing the technological tree and building a civilization that is different from this era? Apart from self-preservation, why is it not the memory of the previous life?
If you really can't go back, then try to find ways to make this place more like your hometown.
Cheng Ying cannot be like many senior time travellers, who forget all about his previous life when he arrives in another world, and only focus on improving his strength. Maybe this is the softness hidden deep in his character! But who knows, when this happens
How can he act decisively when his trust is violated?
The distant coastline gradually reaches its end, and the familiar continent is right in front of us...
