[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil":3,"chapter-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-195":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","You were told to build a tractor, but you're building a rocket?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1305798,1735,"Chapter 195 - 189 Laser_1","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-195",195,"\u003Cp>Upon leaving Qingyang Base, Lin Ju, who had originally wanted to look at the crops to relax, instead felt a bit depressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smart agriculture project was technically and economically successful, but it obviously did not take the market’s ability to accept it into account.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast lands in China are suitable for large-scale mechanization, and while important relative to the immense food demand, the majority was in the hands of officials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also for the consideration of food security, but the downside was that introducing smart agriculture would greatly reduce staff numbers, and one could imagine the resistance that would ensue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju felt that he might as well consider the project a failed investment; after all, he wouldn’t lose much money, and there had been some technological gains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smart agriculture encompassed a comprehensive system that included satellites, weather, disaster prevention, market fluctuations, etc., not merely the integration of simple intelligent systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This team could easily be used in future unmanned construction on the Moon or Mars, where there would be fewer human disruptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Moon rice or Mars rice probably couldn’t be sold back to Earth on a large scale; it should mainly be to supply astronauts’ food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju had already tried extraterrestrial food ahead of time, as the Indomitable had brought back a good amount of space crops deemed edible after its first manned commercial flight. The taste, in fact, was not much different from that on Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Francis is dead, he, he’s still out there...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the evening, Lin Ju and the engineers watched a movie in the small conference room. He had intended to go to a cinema, but due to his inability to disguise himself, he was nearly surrounded a couple of times and had only managed to escape with the heroic protection of his security team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Lin Ju’s status within China was referred to as East Lin and West Mar, signifying the most outstanding figures in the private space field of both countries, \"East Lin\" being even more so, though his net worth quite possibly was not as high as Ma’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju’s net worth was a mystery; just the shares in Xin’an Automobiles were worth at least tens of billions, while the highly secretive Xinyuan Company, not being publicly listed, was impossible to estimate; however, industry insiders believed that once it went public, its market value would easily break through a trillion RMB.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was far from being the country’s richest person, but at this level, wealth couldn’t be measured by money alone. After all, if a real estate tycoon died, it might lead to inheritance disputes, but Lin Ju’s death would mean the collapse of a colossal aerospace industry chain and talent system, which would have much broader implications.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the public attention Lin Ju received was actually very large, and everyone knew that Factory Manager Lin liked to keep a low profile, frequently staking out food stalls or late-night eateries, where he’d been caught several times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid any further incidents, Lin Ju simply decided to watch movies in the company, where the tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of ultra-large touch screen, aside from displaying PPTs, also offered a decent movie-watching experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The movie was \"2001: A Space Odyssey,\" released in 1968—an absolute classic in the science fiction genre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Androff and Guo Shen were in Qiongzhou, while Lin Ju was accompanied by Zhao Xiaowen and Cheng Nankai, who happened to be at the base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju watched the movie while simultaneously listening to the progress of the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In over six months, under the leadership of Zhao Xiaowen, a B+ grade laser specialist engineer, the underground laser laboratory staff had grown to over 80, each of them rated C+ or above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, they had already burned through 1.6 billion RMB in funding, but Zhao Xiaowen said they had only just confirmed the direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are many types of lasers: gas-excited, solid-state, liquid, semiconductor, and so on, very many of them. In the end, we settled on two directions: gas lasers and free-electron lasers;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By using pulsed lasers, the free-electron laser can achieve very high power, but has a larger size, while the gas laser is a bit smaller but does not have as high a power limit as the free-electron laser.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you done any experiments?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Xiaowen shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The noise from accomplishing this on the ground is too great, at least we can’t experiment at the base. A high-power laser can easily lead to speculation, so I think if we want to conduct ground tests, it would be best to move to Cheng Nankai’s nuclear base, where the nuclear power station provides cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the best would be to launch a satellite laser experiment, which would be very inconspicuous. The only thing is we would have to wait a bit longer, perhaps a year at the most, to complete the prototype’s principles. This will help us decide which method to use for the first-generation megawatt laser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This timeline is not too late, as the design of the capacitors will also take a significant amount of time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju understood his meaning. The first generation of laser satellites would not be able to continuously output megawatt-level laser power; they must charge capacitors with solar panels or reactors before they could discharge high power with the capacitors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, the requirements for such capacitors were extremely high: they needed to charge quickly, have a long lifespan, and allow high discharge power. A large portion of the laser lab’s efforts would be spent in this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would not be until the second or third generation, when issues with the reactor’s size, cost, and heat dissipation had been resolved, and there was no need to charge through capacitors, that they could sustain laser attacks like the Grim Reaper himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, there would no longer be any worries about the collision risks for large spacecraft on deep space voyages. They could directly annihilate not-too-large asteroids and even protect Earth’s orbit and the space station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Xiaowen spoke, \"Although the laser for large targets will take some time, next year I can produce a practical small laser for probes or lunar bases, gas-excited, in pulse mode.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Nankai said, \"To strike tiny asteroids? The power needed for that isn’t high. Next year’s nuclear-powered vehicles will be able to maintain it. 30 kilowatts should be enough, right? As long as the laser doesn’t overheat, the reactor can maintain this power continuously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the power should fluctuate, right? It can go 50% over the load for a short time. That should be sufficient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a fellow engineer at the System Research Institute, Zhao Xiaowen did not doubt Cheng Nankai’s assurance and simply nodded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A laser of this level can be used in scientific research to ablate rock or minerals for material analysis; it can also rapidly evaporate small micrometeorites. As for the weight... I’ll try to keep it under 900 kilograms.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>kilograms in mass, 30 kW of continuous output power—these specifications greatly satisfied Lin Ju.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laser technology exchanged from the Desert Base was already relatively advanced; with the unscientific power of the System Research Institute, they quickly reached the global elite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if we take the laser vehicles currently on the international market that are used for cruise missile\u002Funmanned aerial vehicle attacks as an example, the power of the lasers in those vehicles range from 3 to 6 kilowatts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>kilograms, 30 kilowatts—that was nearly seven or eight times the advantage. Of course, there were certainly superior laser technologies in the secret labs of various countries, some of which might even approach this level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it is 30 kilowatts; is 3,000 kilowatts, that is, 3 megawatts, far off?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could achieve megawatt power levels, an asteroid weighing about 500 kilograms would only take about 1.5 seconds of exposure to be completely destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it’s not fully vaporized, it would cause its orbit to change, no longer posing a threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ju imagined the scene of hundreds of such laser satellites operating in Earth’s orbit—it was a breathtaking thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, there would be no need to oppose Ma Yilong for launching Star Chain projects. Once in space, a stealthy 0.1-second laser burst would mean one more piece of space debris.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1388,"2026-06-05T18:20:54.444Z",1,"novelbin.me","a297d6ac70e7240b23a443109866ab14a520f0331adbd6d86097b1bdf5a1714b","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-196","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-194",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]