[{"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-518":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},1306175,1735,"Chapter 518 - 507 Microwave Removal of Four Pests_1","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-518",518,"\u003Cp>\"Mr. Ding, this sparrow is really delicious, much better than roasting it over a fire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiong Cheng, the foremost disciple who followed Ding Biyun into the mountains, picked up a roasted sparrow still oozing oil with a stick, he had already smelled the aroma from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person in charge of the construction of the antenna array nearby also approached and offered a critical evaluation:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aside from the side of its belly where the feathers got burnt due to accumulated heat, other areas are truly heated evenly. The heat gets to both the inside and outside at the same time. If we could control the duration of heat a little better, the meat would be even more tender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in my hometown, there used to be vendors selling this, but if it wasn’t done well, it would be quite tough to eat. This way of cooking really hits the spot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing next to the flat-panel array antenna, Ding Biyun had a face full of black lines and wanted to kick the overcooked sparrow but was afraid of getting oily and eventually just hummed twice and gave up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first satellite-based energy transmission test—50% successful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time went back to about fifteen minutes earlier, when the Red Crow No. 1 satellite accurately confined the microwave beam within the antenna array’s range. The solar energy, coming from outer space and traveling a distance of 0.12 light-seconds, reached the ground and was then efficiently transformed into electrical energy by the receiving coil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over a period of 10 minutes, Red Crow No. 1 had an average power generation of 451 kilowatts, transmitting power of 447 kilowatts, and the ground station received an average converted electrical power of 375.5 kilowatts, with a transmission conversion rate of 84%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The efficiency was lower than expected by quite a bit—missing 7.5% of the power—but it was still acceptable and pretty good overall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The temperature of the receiving antenna was also manageable. In an outdoor temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, the receiving antenna’s temperature rose only to 24 degrees Celsius and remained stable, showing good control over the temperature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after a while, the control room suddenly noticed a slight drop in efficiency. An infrared detection station outdoors immediately issued a warning about a temperature anomaly at the antenna, and for safety reasons, the control room immediately shut down Red Crow No. 1’s microwave transmission antenna and then hurried to check the site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, they discovered a sparrow, origin unknown, lying on the antenna, enduring the roasting of the microwaves with an average power as high as 447 kilowatts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The poor sparrow first became dizzy and confused due to the enormous microwave radiation, losing the ability to struggle, and then its entire body began to be evenly heated from the inside out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just this heating power was not too bad; after scattering over 36,000 kilometers, the spread of the 447-kilowatt power over an area of 12,500 square meters meant that the power per square meter was only 36 watts, not enough to be fatal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately for it, the spot where it lay was right near the center of the receiving antenna, where most of the microwaves would be focused onto a small area by the reflector surfaces. So the heat from other areas kept accumulating at the point of contact, the localized heat rapidly increased, and it began to cook from the side it had collapsed on. By the time Ding Biyun and the others arrived, it was already almost done...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This could only be considered a minor accident. The transmission test itself was quite successful, it was just that the transmission efficiency was somehow lower than expected, but an efficiency of 84% was actually already good enough for practical use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The trees here are too dense. Initially, we chose Qinling near Chang’an for its minimal influence of clutter and proximity, but in hindsight, this might be very detrimental to the ecological environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We would at least need to cut down a circle of trees around the area to prevent small animals from causing interference. We should move to a more open space in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing his mentor’s words, Xiong Cheng’s face fell:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Ding, we’re not going to move to the Great Gobi, are we?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That won’t be necessary.\" Ding Biyun scratched his head; although, in theory, a Gobi Desert would be ideal, he didn’t want to go there either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, in the future, we could make the antenna into a semi-enclosed parabolic shape. That would not only focus the microwaves but also prevent interference. However, the construction cost for that is too high, not necessary for tests. I better go and arrange for the tree cutting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Immediately contact Xinyuan Company and the Sichuan government, and tell them that the test was very successful. Hurry up and transfer the remaining half of the second batch of funding. Also, urge Kuafu Company to mass-produce the upgraded solar cells by the end of this year. The real trouble is if we can’t control the costs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frank Yang hobbled on his crutch through the campus of Tsinghua University, and as usual, students and teachers passing by greeted him warmly, to which he politely nodded and responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after the students walked past him, they would immediately gather together and whisper, while occasionally glancing back at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for this was that a big piece of news had broken in the past few days, reported by Hua Xin Agency: Frank Yang, who had once been firmly against building an accelerator, now strongly supported the construction of a high-energy particle accelerator!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was all there in black and white, with audio and video evidence to boot – and he wasn’t talking about any small or medium-sized accelerator, but a construction of a super ring proton accelerator with a circumference of over 100 kilometers to charge at the final barrier of frontier physics!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as this news was released, it instantly sparked heated discussions throughout the nation. When Frank Yang returned to China, he believed that the country’s scarce resources should not be spent on an accelerator that was useless to people’s livelihoods. And indeed, he had managed to prevent its construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, entering the 2010s, people began to emphasize the importance of basic scientific research, but Frank Yang kept silent, always feeling that the time was not right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In 1970, immediately after his return to China, he opposed the accelerator, and he maintained this opposition throughout the 1980s, but the High Energy Physics Research Center withstood the pressure and succeeded in building the BEPC.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In 2012, when Wu Yunfeng talked about building the CEPC, a 100-kilometer electron-positron collider, Frank Yang’s attitude remained unchanged. Five years have passed, and has the moment finally arrived?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there has been no official news yet, there are widespread rumors that the new proton accelerator will be named \"TEPA (Three-hundred trillion Electron volts Proton Accelerator),\" signifying a 300 TeV proton accelerator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gossip also suggests that the TEPA project will be completed in two phases: the first phase with an investment of 24 billion yuan, and the second phase of 87 billion yuan, with a total cost of about 110 billion yuan to build a ring accelerator with a circumference of 140 kilometers, more than five times larger than the LHC.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with TEPA, a new National High Energy Physics Research Center will also be constructed, with an investment of about 7 billion yuan, which will raise the country’s basic scientific research capacity to a leading international level in one fell swoop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So by the time the upper management boarded the flight back to Beijing, the trending news headlines had already become:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frank Yang proposes spending 200 billion yuan to build an accelerator.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hawking, among more than 170 top UK physicists, along with over 1000 domestic scientists, jointly support the initiation of the TEPA project, with several top global universities also expressing their support.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lin Ju: Invest 10 billion yuan in basic science!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Liu Cixin, in an interview, denies the feasibility of building a super-collider along the equator, calling it a science fiction concept, and states that real-life scientists are even greater.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nobel laureate Langsova Engler: Willing to conduct research in China if TEPA is completed, TEPA is a remarkable breakthrough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Baidu’s poll results are in: of the 75 million participants, over 80% agreed to donate to the construction of the accelerator, indicating the importance of basic science has resonated deep within people’s hearts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the airplane landed, the higher-ups began to shake people up, targeting not the Institute of High Energy, but the Ministry of Finance.\u003C\u002Fp>",1440,"2026-06-05T18:21:09.962Z",1,"novelbin.me","e8814789a4be7bb73a3cf9ec3f4187f7ee7f42e0c6f9ab9b6cfc152208acd78f","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-519","you-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-chapter-517",804,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fyou-were-told-to-build-a-tractor-but-you-re-buil-cover.jpg"]