1855 United States Tycoon

"Mr. MacDonald, we have just received information. At the Central Park Laboratory yesterday, Edison and the others just conducted their first engine test drive. Our intelligence personnel could not get the complete design, only a part of the station. The data of the test drive are all in this information." Bond handed a piece of information to Scrooge.

"Very good." Scrooge took the information, did not open it immediately, but put it on the table, and then asked, "Our people will not increase the risk of exposure because of this? This type of information is certainly important. , But the safety of our intelligence personnel is more important. Don’t let him do things that are too reluctant."

"Sir, our intelligence officer just happened to be in charge of data recording, so he took the data out while recording the data." Bond replied.

"That's good. It's best to record it with your brain, not record it on other things." Scrooge reminded. This is to show the care for the intelligence personnel, and secondly, it is also because the intelligence personnel who can work in the central laboratory are very rare.

Generally speaking, people who can enter a laboratory of this specification to be responsible for related work will not really be short of money to the extent that they need to do such dangerous work. Therefore, it is naturally difficult to find such a person. More importantly, a person's energy is limited, and even those so-called geniuses can hardly be guaranteed to become scientific research talents while also becoming an intelligence elite. Therefore, it is impossible for such a person to be specially trained like an intelligence officer. Can only be recruited among scientific researchers. Compared with those recruited in this way, their anti-reconnaissance capabilities will naturally be far from those of formally trained intelligence personnel. It's easier to expose, so you need to be more cautious in using it.

After the explanation was over, Scrooge indicated that Bond could retreat first. Then he opened the information and looked at it.

This information is actually very simple. Mainly some data from yesterday's engine bench test run. It's just that these data are a bit abnormal.

According to intelligence, there should be two types of engines yesterday and the engine was tested on a bench. Although one of the data is not bad, it is generally within a reasonable range. It was a V8 engine with a displacement of 6.0 liters. The power figure of forty-five horsepower was even better than that of McDonald's. But Scrooge knew that this did not mean that their engine technology surpassed McDonald's engine of the same type. You only need to make some trade-offs in technology indicators, sacrifice some costs, reliability, and so on, and you can easily increase the power of the engine. Scrooge then looked down and found that this type of engine really failed after a certain period of testing. In terms of failure rate, it was much higher than that of McDonald's."Edison would not fail to understand that the reliability of the engine is even more important than the power in many cases. What is he paying so much for now? If such an engine is put into general civilian use, it must be guaranteed. For normal use, the protection required is extraordinary. Normally, whether it is for household use or for heavy-duty vehicles, it is impossible to withstand such maintenance costs and troubles. Isn't it because they want to build a racing engine first? "Scrooge thought so.

If the data of the above group of engines is understandable, then the data of the other group of engines below is simply terrifying. This group of engines, in terms of structural data, is also V8 structure, 6.0 displacement, but its power is as high as 85 horsepower, almost double the previous one. Such power can't be achieved by the above methods.

"God, this Edison is too horrible?" Scrooge knew that if the cost was not taken into account, the use of heat sinks such as pure silver with a water pump, plus some other methods, such as higher precision manufacturing Yeah, better fuel, and on this basis, a higher compression ratio, you can increase the power of the engine to more than 60 horsepower, but the horrifying figure of 80 horsepower, at the current level of technology, almost It is impossible to achieve.

"Did Edison make a big killer such as supercharger or exhaust gas turbocharger? Even if he is Edison, but... this is unscientific!" Scrooge couldn't help thinking like this.

Continuing to look at this information, Scrooge discovered later that Edison did not use such a terrifying technology. He just equipped the engine with an oxygen cylinder. It is used to inject oxygen into the cylinder instead of letting the engine directly inhale air. Compared with directly inhaling air, oxygen has a better combustion-supporting effect and higher combustion efficiency. Moreover, if you directly inhale oxygen, you can inject more gasoline into the cylinder and ensure that they can be fully burned. Therefore, more power can naturally be obtained.

"It turned out to be like this. This is understandable. But if you do it like this, the life of this engine will definitely be a mess?" Scrooge thought.

In Scrooge's original time and space, there was a similar method called nitrogen acceleration. Many people who like racing games have seen this set of things when they play things like "Need for Speed" (also known as Need for Bumper Cars). The nitrogen acceleration system actually uses not nitrogen, but nitrous oxide, which is commonly known as "laughing gas." Its working principle is to form a high-pressure liquid state of N2O into a steel cylinder, and then mix it with air as a combustion aid in the engine and mix with fuel. When N2O is high temperature, it produces two nitrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The oxygen atom assists combustion, and the nitrogen atom Cool down the cylinder. In order to increase the integrity of fuel combustion, Ascension power.

This system was originally an engine stimulant developed by the Luftwaffe during World War II. At that time, the Luftwaffe lags behind the United States and Britain in engine technology, especially since they have not been able to break through the exhaust gas turbocharging technology. This caused the Luftwaffe's fighter jets to be beaten by United States fighters in various ways over Europe. In order to increase the engine power, especially the available power in a high-altitude hypoxic environment, the Germans came up with such a set of things. But the use of this set of things is also expensive.

Generally speaking, this system should not be used for more than one minute. This is because the cylinder temperature will rapidly ascending, and serious problems such as cylinder explosion are likely to occur after more than one minute. And too high temperature and pressure will damage the life of the engine.

Sure enough, it was mentioned in the information that follows that after using this system, the engine is generally used for 30 to 40 seconds, and serious accident damage will occur.

"Edison used oxygen directly. It's weird if you don't," Scrooge thought.

In the later nitrogen acceleration system, the reason why oxygen is not used directly is because it is difficult to control the stability of the engine with oxygen. In the nitrogen acceleration system, when N2O is decomposed, the generated nitrogen can cool the cylinder, but direct use of oxygen has no such effect. Therefore, it is completely normal for the cylinder to explode in about 30 seconds, and it is not impossible even to have a problem in 20 seconds.

"Look, this kind of system can be used continuously for ten seconds at most." Scrooge thought. At this time, it was already clear what Edison and Morgan wanted to do. What use can such an engine be used for besides racing cars?

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"Your engine can only be used safely for ten or so seconds. What use is it?" Morgan asked.

"Mr. Morgan, it's not that the engine can only be used safely for more than ten seconds, but the oxygen afterburner system can only be used safely for more than ten seconds. The engine itself can handle a game without any problem." Edison explained, and at the same time deeply. Deeply feel a kind of helplessness. If it were Mr. Macdonald, he would certainly not ask such a question.

"In this way, the power of 85 horsepower can only be used for ten seconds? What use is such a short time?" Morgan asked.

"When overtaking, and when we re-accelerate after slowing down a curve, ah, Mr. Morgan, you often watch horse racing. You must know that horse racing needs to slow down when it crosses a curve. After cornering, racing horses that accelerate faster will definitely be easier to win. Turning on this system will allow our car to speed up quickly and gain an advantage. This is a very big advantage.” Edison explained in detail.

"In this way, when we are designing the competition rules and the track, we have to consider the characteristics of this engine a lot. I hope your engine and car will surprise me at that time."

"We will never disappoint your expectations again." Edison said.

"The development of racing cars must also be stepped up."

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"Since they want to play racing with us, we will play with them." Dorothea said, "Give them a head-on, let them know how great! It's just... if we win, will we let them? Are you retracting it again?"

"It depends on how much capital they have invested in." Carroll said, "If too much capital has been invested in, they will not be able to withdraw easily."

"I think we should give them a victory and encourage them to invest more money and set up the factory. When they formally set up the factory and start preparing for the production of cars, we will drastically lower the price and force them. To the point of no profit." Rockefeller said.

Of course, Rockefeller is more willing to reduce the price of cars to expand sales, because this is too beneficial to the oil industry, especially the refining industry.

"I think we can lose, but we can't lose miserably. We have to give them hope, give them a reputation, but they can't damage our reputation. Therefore, they can run a car race, as we can. They will probably set up a short-term venue. Speed ​​races. We will host long-distance endurance races or ordinary road long-distance races, such as from New York to Philadelphia, and in the future, from New York to San Francisco. In these races, we should be easier to win." Scrooge said in the end. .

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