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Chapter 445 Airbag Ark

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    Chen Xin has long had the idea of ??building an airship, but the investment in previous airships was too high and the price-performance ratio was too low, making it unsuitable to meet the needs of the current country.

    But the Airbag Ark is different. It is more similar to a flying shelter, somewhat similar to the lighthouse in "Spirit Cage", but it is much simpler and easier to build than the lighthouse.

    Looking through the information he had collected before, Chen Xin was also thinking about how to build this airbag airship.

    The story he read in the novel was so long ago that he couldn¡¯t remember it clearly, and he had no idea how to make it.

    What can be thought of at present is to use the same method as building an airship, using large airbags as the source of lift.

    Because if you use a hot air balloon, fuel is a big problem. Although heating the air can make the air volume larger and provide more lift, obviously the Airbag Ark needs to fly for a long time.  Rather than flying for a while and then landing to refuel.

    Chen Xin vaguely remembered that in that novel, the protagonist built a super-large airship with a staggering load of 800 tons. Calculated with an adult weighing 60 kilograms, this airship was enough to carry 5,000 people living on it.  There is enough spare capacity to carry daily necessities and other necessities.

    But how easy is it to build an airship that can carry 800 tons of weight?

    The largest airship ever built in human history, the Hindenburg, has a load capacity of only a few dozen tons. It is impossible to build ten airships of the size of the Hindenburg and then bundle their airbags together, right?

    Not to mention how many resources it takes to build, the final result will be an extremely huge behemoth, which is really not cost-effective in terms of cost and investment.

    But this idea gave Chen Xin inspiration. Modern technology is not comparable to the era of Zeppelin airship construction. Light alloys can greatly reduce the total weight of the airship while providing sufficient support to ensure that the airbag of the airship will not deform.

    The original Zeppelin airship was made of aluminum. Although aluminum is light, it is undoubtedly much heavier than new materials such as carbon fiber and graphene.

    Scientists have already created a new graphene material in the laboratory that is lighter than plastic sheets but ten times tougher than steel.

    If cost is not considered, Chen Xin is confident that the load capacity of the new airship can be increased to 100 tons. In this way, it is theoretically possible to build an airbag ark that can carry a thousand people.

    And with the support of system upgrades, Chen Xin felt that he could try to build such an airship to transport personnel in the southwest region when necessary.

    After all, trains are currently the most efficient means of transportation in the country, but if a geological disaster occurs, the passage of trains will inevitably be greatly affected. Once the railway line is cut off, you can't go anywhere.

    The same is true for airplanes. The aviation network that has just restored its navigation capacity is very dependent on airports. If there is no airport suitable for landing, even if there is an airplane, it will not be able to land, not to mention that ordinary airplanes can only carry more than a hundred people.  .

    As for helicopters, they can be used for search and rescue at critical moments and for transporting the wounded. However, if you want to transport survivors on a large scale, unless you can dispatch hundreds of helicopters at a time, it will be a drop in the bucket.

    It can be seen that it is necessary to build a vehicle with sufficient carrying capacity and terrain adaptability.

    Now that he had made up his mind, Chen Xin opened the drawing software on the workstation and began to draw the design drawing.

    Of course, this so-called design drawing is just a concept drawing that is not even a draft. The specific design will be perfected later. Now Chen Xin is just recording the thoughts in his mind.

    It¡¯s just a concept map, and of course it¡¯s quick to draw.

    Chen Xin quickly drew a cigar-shaped structure on the screen similar to that of a Zeppelin, with a large pod underneath.

    However, looking at this design drawing, Chen Xin quickly rejected such a design.

    The cigar-shaped design is not unreasonable. It can be regarded as a very classic design for airships. Even modern airships mostly use this design. On the contrary, special-shaped airships are rare.

    But what Chen Xin needs is an airbag ark with sufficient lift, not just an airship. So of course, sufficient lift and air-staying capabilities are what Chen Xin needs. To the more advanced cigar-shaped airships  Fast forward speed is not necessary for Chen Xin.

    So soon, the airship on the drawingThe shape changed into a disk-like shape.

    The entire airship looks more like a flying saucer. The flat circular shape makes the airship look larger. Although the length has not changed, the volume has undoubtedly increased a lot, and the total amount of gas that can be accommodated inside has also greatly increased. The airship can  The weight that can be carried is also increased.

    Looking at the modified structure, Chen Xin scrawled and made changes on it. After a while, the design of the airbag ark was completed.

    It has a maximum diameter of 240 meters, and the entire airship is 130 meters high when filled with gas. Internally, Chen Xin plans to use graphene material as a support and multiple airbags to provide lift, so that if one airbag is damaged,  Sometimes, other airbags can still provide enough lift to prevent the entire Ark from falling due to airbag damage.

    The main part of the entire Airbag Ark is located below the airbag. It is a multi-layered saucer-shaped structure with a large top and a small bottom. It looks somewhat similar to the inverted Tower of Hanoi.

    The largest floor is used as a living cabin. The structure is somewhat similar to the circular layout of the city in the ice and steam era. The rooms are arranged around the center and maintain the same size. It is designed to accommodate two people, with a maximum capacity of 1,200 people.

    Further down is the living area that provides daily needs and the power area on the lower level to ensure the normal operation and advancement of the Ark. At the same time, it also has the ability to temporarily prepare the gas required for inflating the air bag. When necessary, it can inflate the Ark.  The upper airbag provides emergency gas replenishment.

    As for the material storage part, it is placed above the living area and set up between the air bags, which can reduce the occupation of living space.

    After completing the entire design drawing, Chen Xin couldn't help but scratch his head. This thing is easy to make, but before there is large-scale and low-cost manufacturing of lightweight materials, the investment in this thing is still too high.

    If nothing else, the graphene material used as airbag support is a material that has excellent performance but is surprisingly expensive.

    So before we can build an airbag airship, we need to get cheap materials first?  Chen Mo scratched his head, took his notebook, and wrote down the large-scale preparation of lightweight materials.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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