One Hundred Thousand Kilowatts Per Day, The Perpetual Motion Machine in the Sky

"Photonic Stealth Drone?"

"I didn't design it with stealth capabilities this time!"

"Wait! Could it be this..."

Looking at the drone's name and description, Chen Yi seemed to realize something.

He walked over and picked up a laser pointer, pressing the button. A beam of environmentally friendly green laser light shone out.

The green light was dazzling when it illuminated other objects.

But when the beam moved to the drone's surface, the light suddenly dimmed.

The dazzling green light turned into a hazy, dim, flickering glow.

"Hoo!"

"It really is this!"

Chen Yi's hands trembled slightly.

He had been so focused on how to improve the solar panels.

He had almost forgotten the fundamental nature of sunlight.

--Electromagnetic waves.

Sunlight is an electromagnetic wave.

Laser light is an electromagnetic wave.

Radar detection waves are also electromagnetic waves.

The spectrum of sunlight, in addition to the usual visible light.

It also includes invisible ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, radio waves, microwaves, and even trace amounts of X-rays and gamma rays.

The combination of all these spectral lights forms what is commonly known as sunlight.

Since the current solar panels have a conversion rate of over 50% for sunlight, and the concentrating structure distorts and destroys the light signals.

In this situation, when the radar detection system performs echo detection, it can at most detect a mass of clutter, and cannot display a clear signal at all.

This situation is equivalent to Chen Yi's drone having achieved radar stealth.

If the attributes were adjusted, and the gallium nitride solar panels were upgraded to solar cell films with a conversion rate of 84.6% using light quantum technology.

At that point, let alone radar, even if the drone was placed in front of you, it would appear as a blurry, distorted black mass to the naked eye.

The principle of human vision is that light shines on an object and then reflects into the eyes.

The retina senses the light signal, which is converted into nerve signals, and the brain processes them to form an image.

Now, 84.6% of the light is converted into electrical energy, and some light is absorbed by the object's surface and turned into heat.

Finally, the light that is reflected back is converged by the concentrating structure, causing the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection to undergo random distortions, and even if it is reflected back, it loses all its information.

Looking at it this way, wouldn't it appear as a distorted blur?

"The solar cell film just now seemed quite light, thin, and soft. If I were to tailor a set of double-layered, double-sided clothes with it, and walk out at night, I'd definitely be mistaken for a ghost."

Having figured out the drone's stealth logic, Chen Yi refocused his attention on the drone's attributes.

"The warning sign for energy is a bit scary."

Looking at the prompt indicating a tenfold increase in explosion risk, Chen Yi retreated a few meters to a safe distance, his gaze lingering on each attribute as he pondered how to make adjustments.

"The attribute for endurance supplement needs to be upgraded by 25 points."

"This adjustment requirement is a bit high. It's difficult to squeeze out that many attribute points from other attributes."

"It seems I can only perform layered upgrades this time."

Chen Yi pondered for a moment.

He realized that no matter how he adjusted, it would severely weaken the drone's core performance.

There was no other way. He would have to spend more cost and more consciousness waves to choose layered upgrades.

Anyway, the key technologies of the drone were either designed by himself and already mastered, or the technical information had been read.

The impact of not being able to read the information after a layered upgrade was not a big deal at all.

"Battery production will take several hours, and the communication and radar modules will also require layered manufacturing."

"This way, the fastest modules to manufacture will be the avionics modules."

Having determined the direction for layered improvement, Chen Yi moved his mind.

Seven-colored light bloomed, enveloping the Manta Ray Drone in front of him.

[Avionics: 34.5 → 1.5]

[Endurance Supplement: 44.6 → 69.6]

[Strength: 13 → 21]

More than ten minutes later.

The light faded.

The model drone, which had been covered in armor, had changed its appearance.

The armor had become a skin, perfectly fitting the carbon fiber body underneath.

At the same time, the solar panel armor had transformed into a solar cell film that perfectly adhered to the drone's body.

Attributes such as quality, stability, and speed, which had been affected, also returned to their original values.

"This motherboard is shot."

Chen Yi opened the drone's outer casing and looked at the motherboard, which appeared as if it had been exposed to the elements for two and a half years, its color faded and partially weathered.

He took out a screwdriver and carefully unscrewed the motherboard.

He then meticulously disconnected the wiring harnesses connecting the motherboard to the communication, radar, hydraulic wheel set, battery module, wings, tail fins, and the solar cell film. Finally, he removed the motherboard.

The avionics module, nothing else.

Essentially, it was the drone's control motherboard plus the avionics control system.

The motherboard was a standard template.

The true core was the avionics control data and system within it.

Chen Yi had already backed up this part of the system and data.

He picked up two high-performance drone control motherboards, connected them to a burner, and began burning the underlying code.

After more than ten minutes, the underlying code burning was complete.

He verified it to ensure there were no issues, then connected it to a computer and began importing the complete avionics control program.

In just 40 minutes, two brand-new, high-performance avionics control motherboards were ready.

Chen Yi picked up one of the motherboards, reconnected the wiring harnesses, and installed and secured it inside the drone.

[Avionics: 1.5 → 34.5]

[External function module added, Quantum Field Collapse and Reorganization, subsequent information unreadable, consciousness wave adjusted by a hundredfold!]

"This time, I'll resolve the battery energy issue, further improve the quality attribute, reduce the drone's mass, and then adjust the stability attribute to further refine the drone's aerodynamic layout and internal structural stability."

Chen Yi glanced at the notification about the consciousness wave increasing a hundredfold.

Without hesitation, he continued to adjust the attributes.

[Avionics: 34.5 → 1.5]

[Energy: 41.1 (!) → 49.1]

[Quality: 21 → 29]

[Stability: 35 → 43]

The light faded.

The drone before him had become more streamlined, and its overall height had decreased by 6 centimeters.

The angle of the wings, the length and width parameters, and the curvature of the fuselage surface had all changed.

"I see now, aerodynamic layout isn't just about fine-tuning details; it requires a holistic approach to the overall picture.

The previous fuselage curvature and the previous wing height were excellent when designed individually, but they created airflow interference during high-speed flight.

The overly short tail fins and their sweep angle would affect the fine balance of the fuselage at supersonic speeds.

Now that the tail fins have been adjusted, this effect has significantly disappeared.

The two components work together, further enhancing stability."

Although he couldn't read the information, Chen Yi relied on his mastery of aerodynamic layout.

He compared and examined the adjusted drone, carefully pondering and calculating.

He discovered many aerodynamic effects he hadn't known before, deepening his understanding of aircraft aerodynamic layout.

"With the adjustments, the drone's lift coefficient exceeds 2.57, and its drag coefficient is as low as 0.012. This aerodynamic improvement has increased the overall flight efficiency by 4%.

Considering the fuselage's aerodynamic curvature, the solar conversion area on the back reaches 6.28 square meters, and the area on the belly reaches 5.89 square meters.

Although the belly area cannot directly receive solar energy, with an astonishing conversion rate of 84.6%, it can still capture a significant amount of energy through diffuse reflection from the air and reflection from clouds.

This drone, flying in the stratosphere, can convert at least 70 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day."

Chen Yi took out paper and a pen to calculate the lift and drag coefficients of this aerodynamic layout.

Then, he took out a scanner and scanned the drone's surface area for calculations.

Once all the results were calculated and confirmed, Chen Yi had only one thought in his mind.

Strong!

Too strong!

It can actually increase the drone's surface area while further improving aerodynamic performance, increasing the conversion power of the solar cell film.

Supplementing 70 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day, this is practically an aerial perpetual motion drone with ultra-long endurance.

"Three AM."

"Take this drone to the coating spray room to apply the thermal barrier coating, add a layer of transparent beryllium oxide ceramic, and complete the final process."

"As expected, performance testing and flight registration will be completed by morning. Racing against the sun, I won't stop until the sun sets, and I'll admire the great rivers and mountains of our motherland!"

Chen Yi suppressed his excitement, removed the scrapped control motherboard, replaced it with a new one, and then used a hand pallet truck to take it to the coating spray room on the side.

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