Chapter 448

In the following time, Zhang Yuan completely went bankrupt, without any aristocracy, and could afford two failed ocean voyages. He became a down and out aristocrat in people's spare time. But he soon regained his spirits and began to slowly develop technology and make some small inventions.

My younger sister is really my own sister. She is willing to support Zhang Yuan's daily life. The original division of property was also wise. For Anna, as long as her brother settled down, the rest was nothing.

For Zhang Yuan's intelligence, a little invention can make life better. For example, the invention principle of air conditioning is not complicated. The low-pressure steam of the refrigerant in the refrigeration system is inhaled by the compressor and compressed into high-pressure steam, which is then discharged to the condenser. In short, the indoor air can do external work.

Then there is electricity, which, as a secondary energy, is far more applicable than steam.

People in this era are so poor that it is almost impossible to popularize electricity on a large scale. However, in the rich aristocratic group, it is possible to use electricity.

Of course, the nobles are the most powerful consumers. Civilian business is far less than noble business. The key is that they should look up to it!

Soon, air conditioning became popular again, and a large group of business people came to the door.

This is true of capitalists. When you are down, they want to bite one more piece of meat. When you show great value, they want to hold on to this strong thigh.

Zhang Yuan has seen this for a long time

In addition to technology, he still focuses more on the new world. Yes, without the new world, human beings will still be doomed. No matter how much we tramp, we can't turn the world upside down in such a small living place.

The new world, the new world.

Now that the north and south poles have been explored, there is a larger unknown area waiting for him.

That's the back of the planet!

A more distant journey.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and began to sort out the data collected during the previous two voyages.

The original way of looking for a needle in a haystack is not desirable. The low success rate is terrible. In this era, satellites cannot be launched. Without computers, rare earths and chips, even if it takes a lifetime, satellites cannot be launched. So he had to do it in a different way

On the one hand, we need to improve the technology to make faster ships; on the other hand, we need to use a more scientific way to predict whether there are continents on the back of the planet.

The last two long voyages exhausted him. After all, Zhang Yuan is flesh and blood. After all, a ship is just a ship. If you stay on it for a long time, you will feel tired. We must have a good rest for a while, raise our spirits and be well prepared.

In this way, twelve years have passed in a hurry

Some small thermal power stations appear in the world.

Because there is no oil, the internal combustion engine has not appeared for a long time, and the change of the whole society is not too big. The emergence of power station provides a good guarantee for new electrical furniture.

A series of electric furniture inventions, such as air conditioner, hot kettle and electric lamp, have become the first choice of rich people's furniture. Especially in some hot cities, air conditioner is a miracle!

Of course, ordinary people can't afford it. They can't even eat enough, so air conditioning can only improve the lives of the rich at most, not make the world change.

The emergence of power stations involves more, including electrical operation regulations, transformers and power control. Zhang Yuan has guided the whole world hand in hand and entered into the electrical era, which has greatly exceeded the scope of "golden finger" he got at the beginning.

But it's a headache without an internal combustion engine. Without oil, there would be no internal combustion engine. He once wanted to replace gasoline with animal and vegetable oil, but the biggest problem is that the world is so short of food that it is impossible to make fuel from food.

Even if such an internal combustion engine is produced, it is impossible to be popularized on a large scale due to the cost problem.

Without internal combustion engines, ships and trains can only use steam power.

The whole technology tree will inevitably tilt towards Steampunk. Such a technology tree obviously has a relatively low upper bound, which is difficult to solve the current dilemma.

"We still have to open up our territory, we have to open up our territory!"

In 12 years, Zhang Yuan has perfected some theories about plate tectonics and ocean currents.

The first two voyages were not without harvest. The sailors measured the depth of the ocean all the way and accumulated a lot of data. In recent years, with the continuous exploration of new era navigator, chart survey has been more and more perfect.

“…… Ladies and gentlemen, the formation of large continuous continents is largely due to the collision between crustal plates Oh, by the way, in my hypothesis, plates, like the eggshell on an egg, have only a thin layer. "

"Land is formed by the compression and collision between plates. It's like two pieces of bread, they squeeze each other, and they bulge in the middle. "Zhang Yuan is giving a speech on the stage, and there are many professionals and university students sitting underneath.

"According to the survey data, the areas where plates collide with each other are mostly shallow water areas. Even if there is no continent, there will be more frequent volcanoes. Erupting volcanoes may form smaller islands. "

"Such an island is not useless to us. It may have more abundant mineral resources. For example, the island of Pala is famous for producing all kinds of sulfur and precious stones. "

"If we follow this idea of plate tectonics to predict the existence of continents, it will undoubtedly be much easier. You see, some of the islands we found in the past are actually the result of plate collision I connect this island into a line, which becomes a plate.... "

Zhang Yuan's "plate theory" paper soon caused a sensation for many geologists!

This Earl is a very controversial figure in the city of boulder. Many down and out nobles, seeing Zhang Yuan constantly losing his family and making money easily, always feel as sour as a lemon. There are many people chewing their tongue behind him.

However, Zhang Yuan's reputation in the academic circle is quite good. After all, academic circles are mostly "result worship". As long as you are good enough and others can't catch up with you, they will worship you. Zhang Yuan is also the gold owner of many scientists. Without his sponsorship, many projects simply do not have enough funds to study.

This paper is not a copy of previous theories, but a combination of a series of geographical data of the world to infer the plate trend.

Finally, Zhang Yuan announced loudly: "according to the final conclusion of the paper, there is likely to be a new continent hidden in the back of the planet. A land full of light

Yes, back!

Many people at Newtown University exclaimed. Although Zhang Yuan had two failed voyages, he was the farthest person on the whole planet.

In addition to the sarcasm at the beginning, the voice behind was praise.

"Count, are you going on a new journey?" A young reporter yelled with a red face.

Many people cheered for it.

"Yes! I have this plan! "

Of course, the biggest point is that he has status and money. Two times of spendthrift, actually did not go bankrupt, but more money, even enough for him to spend the third and fourth time. If he falls because of this, there will certainly be more criticism.

One of the professors doubted a little bit: "count, you speculate that there is a continent on the back of the planet. Let's not say whether it is true or not If it's too hot or too cold, it won't be of much use. Especially in the light zone, if it is not the north and south poles, it will be very hot, just like our light zone cities. "