Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 93 Steam Core and “Heavy Water”

In the library that was transformed into a makeshift laboratory, Purficott was "dissecting" a maid doll.

A maid doll that had stopped working was lying on its back on a huge experimental table. Her maid uniform had been taken off and neatly stacked aside. The partition on her abdomen had also been opened, revealing the precise gears and steam inside. core.

These maid puppets are also powered by steam, but Purficott's sophisticated design allows them to move freely without strong power. Combat models such as Befa can also burst out with powerful force when needed. combat effectiveness.

However, due to the use of miniaturized steam cores, the output of these maid puppets is also limited, and they are unable to output more powerful power.

After all, there is only so much space in the abdominal cavity of a maid doll. Purficott has streamlined their internal structure as much as possible, but it is still difficult to stuff a more powerful steam core.

The so-called steam core is actually a specially modified miniature steam engine.

They are small and exquisite. They were originally miniature powerhouses created by watchmakers for some precision parts or instruments. Some noble families have steam clocks driven by this power, which is much better than the old clocks that needed to be wound up frequently. It is relatively more convenient.

This steam core adopts a special design and integrates a series of components such as the furnace, cylinder and runner. It is directly integrated into a whole and is easy to install and use. It is a small power source that is currently very practical in Langton. mechanism.

The steam core used by Perfectcott for the maid puppet has been optimized and improved by herself. She specially added an exhaust gas collection device on it, which can collect the smoke generated by burning coal in the furnace, and at the same time also can recover waste heat.

The advantage of this is that the maid doll will not emit black smoke and emit unpleasant smells when working. Although the fuel she uses for the maid doll is anthracite coal, this does not mean that there is no soot and other Gas is discharged.

Through the exhaust gas collection device, this impact can be effectively reduced and reduced.

As for waste heat recovery, it is mainly to improve energy utilization efficiency and allow the steam core to output greater power.

After all, this thing is really too small. Even if Purficott spent a lot of effort to improve it, the power it can output is only less than 0.3 horsepower.

For such a small thing, it can output 0.3 horsepower, which is not too small. Especially, Purficott needs to consider that it is installed on the maid doll, and it also needs to make compromises in performance for noise reduction.

Otherwise, she can completely lift the restrictions on this thing, allowing it to output up to ten horsepower like the same type of steam core on the Steam Knight Armor.

But if that happens, the maid doll's stomach will sound like someone is playing with an inflatable drill, and the operation of the internal precision parts will be greatly affected.

After all, if a large power output is required, the steam core will inevitably produce noise and vibration during operation.

But now, with an additive that can double the evaporation and expansion volume of water, Purficott estimates that he should be able to increase the output power of the steam core to one horsepower while maintaining the original silent effect.

After all, this is still a part of the maid doll, not the steam knight armor. It focuses more on silence than output. Even though he said this, Purficott also made some additional calculations to see what level of power output he could achieve if he also used new technology on the Steam Knight Armor.

As for the calculation results...Perficott is already considering whether to build mechas and large robots.

Influenced by the doomsday game he played back then, Purficott actually still has a longing for large robots.

In fact, it is not that there are no such large robots in Langton City, but most of them do not have good control programs, or they are simply controlled by humans.

Even Purficott needs to rely on the knowledge provided by Cuiyulu to write a sufficiently intelligent program. No matter how talented others are, if they don't even have a miniaturized difference engine, they should not imagine that they can solve this problem. .

This is not something that can be done by recording information with a roller like a music box. That will only make the gears ultimately used to record commands incredibly complicated.

Especially when you need to record more than one command, you may need a recording wheel for each different command.

As for Purficott’s alchemy doll? Sorry, they use digital commands, and rely on the micro-difference engine to act as a functional unit for interpreting and executing instructions. Their intelligence is not low at all, and they can store up to a dozen instructions at the same time.

Of course, in order to avoid a crash due to too much calculations, Purficott set an upper limit for the maid puppet to store a maximum of nine instructions.

Mechanical logic is an integrated instruction set. After receiving the command, the maid puppet only needs to interpret and calculate it. After finding the corresponding instruction in the instruction set, it can drive the maid puppet to execute the instruction.

The instruction set on these ordinary maid dolls is simplified, so they can only do some simple maid tasks.

As for Befa beside Purficott, she is the only individual equipped with the complete original set of mechanical logic instructions, so her level of intelligence is so high. Not only can she fight, but she can also speak and think, or she looks like It's thinking.

"If you use additives, the pressure of the steam core will be significantly increased. It's okay for the maid. After all, I limit the output of the steam core. But if you want to use it on the Steam Knight, you still need to do some work on the cylinder of the steam core. An enhancement." Purficott took apart the steam core in his hand, and after doing a simple inspection and maintenance, he tried to fill the water tank with water with additives.

This kind of water Purficott plans to name "heavy water". Of course, it is not the heavy water used in the world's nuclear industry. It is a deuterium oxide compound, which is completely different from the "heavy water" with additives in Perficott's hands. It's two different things.

If you have to make an analogy, this "heavy water" is probably similar to the high-density and stable liquid that appeared in the animated movie "Steam Boy" where Perfection traveled through the original world and can be used to create ultra-high-pressure steam.

Of course, compared to the incredible thing in the anime where three steam balls can drive a steam city, Purficott's technology is still far behind.

Although in her opinion, if more jade records can be opened, it may be possible to create a power source that is not weaker than the steam ball.

(End of this chapter)