Chapter 694： Preparing for the School of Transportation

Latest website: "Vacuum Hyperloop?"

Chen Hao was stunned, he was no stranger to this thing.

The official name of the Vacuum Hyperloop is the vacuum tube maglev train.

As early as 1904, the American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard put forward the conjecture of "Super High Speed ​​Rail". Since ancient times, the hero has been a teenager. This old brother was a freshman in college at that time.

He proposed that the train is suspended by electromagnetic repulsion and runs at high speed in a vacuum tube.

The concept of "Hyperloop" in the modern sense was proposed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. It envisages a high-speed vehicle running in an underground vacuum tunnel. At 0.01 atmospheric pressure, it is calculated that the theoretical maximum speed can reach 22,500 kilometers per hour.

After that, the famous American mechanical engineer Daryl Oster optimized the design, and in 1999 obtained a patent for the invention of the vacuum pipeline transportation (ETT) system.

After that, countries around the world have launched research on the hyperloop, but the progress has not been smooth.

Don't look at it as just a high-speed rail, which involves the integrated application of pipeline transportation technology, vacuum technology, and magnetic levitation technology.

The integration of the first two is still a worldwide problem, but it is the last maglev technology, and our country is at the forefront of the world.

After more than 40 years of development, magnetic levitation technology has formed three independent technologies, namely: electromagnetic levitation, electric levitation and high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation.

The representative countries of these three technologies are Germany, Japan and China.

As mentioned above, "Hyperloop" was proposed by Robert Goddard in 1904, but it was Hermann Kempel, the pioneer of German maglev technology, who made a pioneering contribution to maglev technology. The world's first scientist who treats maglev trains as serious science and is also known as the "father of maglev trains".

Hermann began to study maglev train technology in 1922. After 10 years of hard work, he applied for a patent for a maglev train to the Berlin Patent Office and was approved.

The German maglev train was developed based on Hermann's invention.

As for the [low-temperature superconducting electric suspension technology] developed by Japan, it is borrowed from the United States, and the research in this field has surpassed the United States.

my country is leading in the field of high-temperature superconducting maglev technology. The representative breakthrough was in 2000. The world's first high-temperature superconducting maglev experimental vehicle "Century" was successfully developed by Southwest Jiaotong University, bringing my country's maglev technology to the world's forefront. status.

But unfortunately, a serious crash of a maglev train occurred at the 2006 German train show, causing the world to suspend or delay the construction of the maglev line.

After the crash, in the high-speed maglev test, only the countries that had a good life continued to continue their research.

In 2016, under the attention of the world media, the L0 train of Japan's JR company reached 603 kilometers per hour (374 miles per hour) on the Yamanashi experimental track, creating a decisive new world record and becoming the world's fastest maglev. train.

It is also because of Japan's breakthrough in high-temperature superconducting maglev technology that countries around the world have begun to increase investment in scientific research in this area.

This is still the case for maglev trains, not to mention the more advanced vacuum tube maglev trains. In the current knowledge of the scientific community, this is a matter of ten or twenty years. Even if some countries are conducting related research, they are just doing it in advance. Just a technical reserve.

When Chen Hao of the Hyperloop was in the MIT library, he read relevant materials, but he didn't dare to come up with this technology!

After all, this is a hyperloop that claims to be able to achieve 4,000 kilometers per hour...

"It can't be true, right?" Chen Hao muttered.

Rubbing his eyes, he glanced at the screen several times to make sure that he was right.

Chen Hao frowned, puzzled: "But why is it a B-level technology? This thing is at least 20 years beyond the current level of technology."

Logically speaking, it should be the same A-level technology as the photonic screen technology. This is considered a B-level. Isn't that only the controllable nuclear fusion is an S-level?

In any case, Chen Hao intends to finish receiving this vacuum hyperloop technology first.

"System, start transmission."

【Vacuum Hyperloop technology begins to transmit...】

A huge flow of information poured into Chen Hao's mind, even if he had a high degree of brain development, it was still a little difficult.

Large drops of sweat dripped from his forehead, and his mental power ran at a high speed.

After a while, heavy breathing sounded in the room.

"call--"

The sweat on his face couldn't hide Chen Hao's joy.

"Vacuum Hyperloop is ready!"

...

The next day, at the Office of the President of Guanghua University.

"Principal Chen, is there something wrong?" Zheng Qiang looked puzzled. Isn't the college entrance examination going well recently? Could something happen again?

"Come, drink tea." Chen Hao smiled and poured a cup of tea for Zheng Qiang.

"Old Zheng, I checked, our school has a traffic engineering major, right?"

Zheng Qiang nodded, "Yes, in the School of Engineering and Technology, but after the adjustment of the department next month, it will be assigned to the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the School of Engineering."

Guanghua University originally had six or seven second-level colleges. The law school had the strongest faculty, while the engineering and technology college was the most complex, and a bunch of engineering majors were left in it.

Holding up the teacup, Zheng Qiang, who had just brought in the mouth, was almost spit out by Chen Hao's words.

"Transfer traffic engineering from the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and transfer it to the newly-prepared School of Transportation (second-level college), which will set up the Department of Transportation and four majors in transportation, transportation engineering, logistics engineering, and port, waterway and coastal engineering."

Zheng Qiang hurriedly asked, "No, wait a minute, when did another traffic academy be prepared?"

Chen Hao blinked, "Just now."

Zheng Qiang: "..."

"Why did you suddenly set up a traffic academy?" Zheng Qiang persuaded bitterly, "Our school doesn't have an advantage in terms of traffic, so there's really no need to set up a separate academy."

Chen Hao said with a smile: "There is no advantage now, but there will be in the future."

Zheng Qiang was stunned and said, "How do you say it?"

"Old Zheng, do you know about the vacuum hyperloop?"

"Vacuum Hyperloop???"

Zheng Qiang was stunned, he knew about the high-speed rail, but what is the vacuum super high-speed rail?

Chen Hao didn't take it seriously, waved his hand, "You Baidu first."

"good."

Zheng Qiang opened the mobile browser and Baidu searched.

Looking at the page that popped up, Zheng Qiang fell into silence.

"Hyperloop hyperloop production in southern Spanish town", "China-US submarine vacuum hyperloop will open in 2019! China's high-speed rail is about to shock the world! ", "China's super high-speed rail is coming! The top speed is 4000 km/h, shocking the world! ", "China's first "super high-speed rail" has settled down at 1,100 kilometers per hour, and the United States has become a partner", "over 1 trillion investment, China and Russia have reached a super high-speed rail project, and it only takes 30 hours from Beijing to Moscow"...

It's inexplicably embarrassing. Some news was published several years ago, and it looks like a clear statement. It opened in 2019, opened in 2020, and now it's all in 2021!

There is no shadow of the hyperloop!

In the past few years, it was all the rage, and Batie, endorsed by the local government, was also exposed in 2017, defrauding hundreds of people with financial products, and the amount involved was as high as 4 billion.

Zheng Qiang put the phone on the table and pushed it forward, "Principal, isn't this what you want to make a hyperloop?"

Looking at Zheng Qiang's strange appearance, Chen Hao felt a little baffled. He picked up the phone and looked at it, and suddenly he had an embarrassing cancer attack.

It was almost possible to cut out three rooms and one living room.

Chen Hao scratched his hair and explained patiently: "These are all written by the unscrupulous media in order to attract attention. I am really sure!"

"Are you sure?" Zheng Qiang hesitated, then raised his head and asked uncertainly, "Can such an exaggerated technology really be created?"

Chen Hao nodded seriously, "Yes!"

"When I was a Ph.D student at MIT, I was very interested in this aspect. Recently, my research has been quite promising, and I can start relevant research right away. It is just the research that drives the development of the discipline."

Zheng Qiang sighed and had no choice but to say, "This... well, I will organize a meeting for the relevant teachers and leaders of the next school in the past two days to discuss the preparatory work of the School of Transportation."

What else can I say The principal said so, so I had to obey.

His own position is the school's big housekeeper, responsible for the coordination and management of school administration, operations and many other aspects.

After sending Zheng Qiang away, Chen Hao was thinking about another question.

"Would you like to get some air from the top too?"

After thinking about it, this super high-speed rail project involves too much. It is only the laying of magnetic levitation tracks. This is a project of hundreds of billions of dollars, which is completely impossible with Guanghua's cash flow.

Still have to rely on the strength of the country to complete such a large-scale infrastructure project.

at the same time.

In the capital, the cell phone of an unknown leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology rang.

ps: There is one more chapter, around 23:00.

(Vietnam can't even play it, and the New Year's Eve is really a block!)