A moment of great change in the history of human transportation has arrived. Human Footprints Company officially announced through BBC. The Telegraph officially announced that the full-time free global tourism route was officially opened. It traveled from the southernmost tip of Africa to the entire Asia and North America, and finally reached the southernmost tip of South America. The whole journey was 30,000 kilometers, and there were countless scenery along the way. In the early days, there were 100 unmanned settlements to settle down. Visitors could eat, drink and have fun in these 100 settlements just after spending 3 hours on airships. At the same time, the scenery of the settlements was quite unique and tried not to be repeated.

Although it is free, because the route does not pass through Europe, Europeans have to take trains or ships and airships to arrive at the port of Windsor, the capital of Israel, before they can start a free journey of blue whale in the air. Inhabitants of India, China, the Soviet Union and the United States are happier because the route passes through their territory and is relatively close.

In order to transport passengers in the valley, ordinary passengers on the same flight must depart and stop at each stop at the same time. There are also "free tickets" that can be allowed to leave at any time, as long as there is a flight. In order to stimulate passenger consumption, each passenger will be issued a travel bracelet that can be used for payment during the journey. Of course, the more tourists who recharge the travel bracelet are given priority. Travelers who want to travel around the world but are not wealthy may have to wait until later to embark on the journey.

Major European cities have opened airships that go directly to the human footprint route. According to the Telegraph, Footprint Company has opened 100 Blue Whale luxury airships for the first wave of tourists. Each airship can carry 200 passengers. The first 20,000 passengers recharged on average 100 pounds into the travel bracelet. If they spend all this money, the first wave of business on this super travel route will be 2 million pounds. This is really a scary number.

Of course, all the £2 million went into the pockets of those merchants who had a great trust in the Windsor Consortium to develop settlements, including the Suiyuan Hotel, which came to join in the fun, and became the leader of high-end Chinese restaurants. In order to protect the interests of tourists, all goods have the right to return them, as long as they pay a certain depreciation fee according to the category of the goods. Can ordinary global travelers return something if they buy something in a foreign country? That is simply a fantasy. I am afraid that only Footprint companies can do this. This is the benefit of monopoly operations.

Travel bracelets have become a major opportunity for Tangning to promote bracelet payment. After the trip, tourists can return the bracelet to get the balance back, or retain this payment tool, and spend it at merchants that cooperate with the Windsor consortium. At the same time, the official issuance of "payment bracelets" by Bank Zurich has become an extension of credit cards. Its main purpose is to simplify payments and do not need to sign like credit cards to consume. It is quite suitable in the field of small payments. Of course, rich people can also recharge huge wealth in the bracelet.

Since bracelet payment is the only payment method when traveling, everything purchased through it can be traced back to sellers. The largest commodity consumed by travel may be specialties from all over the world, and if it is a handicraft, it can even be traced back to specific craftsmen. Downing has always been quite friendly to artists. If these craftsmen of these unique artworks are very popular in the data displayed, they will also attract the attention of the footprint company. They may invite him to hold a personal exhibition in the metropolis to spread the art to the whole world.

In order to attract tourists, the Footprint Company was extremely provocative and sent photographers to collect folklore in advance, capturing a large number of exquisite landscape paintings on the global route, and teasing the middle class who loves nature to the point where the amazing number of tourists today was today.

Some scenery is so intoxicating that many people plan to stay there for a while, Tangning took the opportunity to launch another major category of cars: towed RVs. Earlier, he designed a mini-type small RV for reindeer herders. Nowadays, RV models also include this, which is called "reindeer-grade". In addition to the bedroom type, reindeer-grade RVs also have kitchen types, bathroom types, living room types, and office types. They can be combined by customers at any time, and all are rented at an affordable price in units of days, so as not to be discouraged by tourists who have little leisure time. Its price is roughly equivalent to the daily price of staying in a small hotel, 3 shillings (20 shillings are one pound).

In addition, there is a RV with a huge space of 4 meters wide and 20 meters long, equivalent to an 80-square-meter housing, called the "palace level". It has all the conveniences you can at home, and it also provides basic and excellent services with integrated water and electricity equipment. It is a great tool for wealthy tourists to enjoy the fun of life in global attractions. Its price is a daily consumption for staying in a big hotel, 14 shillings.

If you have a car yourself, that's great. If not, the company that rents a cart will provide moving services, and there are airship cranes in some places where birds do not lay eggs. At this time, the travel bracelet also has a helping function. As long as the red helping plate is turned on, the airship patrolling in the sky will receive your electronic signal. This travel bracelet has an ultrasonic resonance to stimulate power, so even if it does not have hydrogen fuel, the ultrasonic waves of the patrol airship will find that you will turn the bracelet to the "help" position when you sweep the area you are in, provided that you have to be within 200 kilometers of the human footprint.

Tangning thought that the promotion of freight logistics by the Earth's artery would make a big profit in its transportation function, but he didn't expect it to make a lot of money in free unmanned land tourism projects. No wonder, all the poor countries in Africa and the Middle East have the consumption capacity of European, American, China, India and Japan.

The successful opening of the earth's artery means the arrival of the era of "electrified airships". Commercial analysis generally believes that the speed of the land blue whale-class airship reaches 100 kilometers and does not need to be loaded with a large amount of fuel. Therefore, the transportation efficiency is higher than that of sea freight, and sea freight cannot be electrified. It can be seen that the seafar power era gave way to the landfar power era.

Tangning disagrees with these analysis. The ocean's transportation advantages are still very powerful. He told BBC: "In addition to setting up air train tracks for major cities around the world, I will once again carry forward the shipping and build navigation tools with a speed of 500 kilometers per hour and a significantly reduced fuel cost."

World public opinion was in an uproar. Everyone thought that the speed of a ship could not exceed 100 kilometers per hour. Now Boss Tang actually said that he would build a 500 kilometers per hour. Could it be a spacecraft? That's right! It's a flying ship. Now, scientists and engineers from all over the world are studying how to copy helicopters. In addition, some people are studying fixed-wing aircraft. Once they discover the secret of flight, they will soon find another secret that will suddenly feel the lift transmitted from the ground to the aircraft during the plane landing. This is called the wing-ground effect.

When a moving aircraft flies close to the ground or water surface, the airflow flows through the wings and flows back and downward. At this time, a reaction force will be generated on the ground or water surface. When it flies at an altitude equal to or less than 1/2 of the wingspan, the up and down pressure difference of the entire body increases, the lift will suddenly increase, the drag decreases, and prevent the aircraft wing from falling. This is a physical phenomenon that can reduce the resistance of the aircraft and at the same time achieve a higher lift-to-deflation ratio than air flight.

It is difficult to find a large area of ​​flat routes on the ground, so the wingland effect aircraft can be almost only used for water flight, but can land at a dedicated airport on the shore. Because it can obtain huge lift, it can be made like a ship's load. As Tangning imagined, a giant spacecraft reached 122 meters in length, even the ship was considered large. In order to lift such a huge monster, its wingspan reached 152 meters, and its payload was 1,400 tons, almost reaching the level of the largest ship except the Great Oriental-class Ocean Ship.

It is difficult to fly high without the wing-ground effect, so its flight height is about 6 to 15 meters. In order to avoid collisions between ships at sea, it has to deviate from the main channel. It will be affected by the waves and bump violently when taking off and landing at sea, and passengers will feel very uncomfortable, so a large dedicated airport must be built for it. Unless it is a war, it mainly uses special airports to take off and land.

Speaking of war, this is a major feature of its strategic deterrence. It can deliver up to 280 5-ton helicopters along the battlefield. For example, starting from Singapore to Madagascar, 6,800 kilometers, only 13.6 hours. From San Francisco to Taiwan, 10,000 kilometers, only 20 hours. The combat radius of these helicopters is another thousand kilometers. Therefore, on the entire earth, the military power of Windsor imperialism can be deployed to most areas within 24 hours.

The wing-ground effect increases the efficiency of the aircraft a lot compared to the fixed wing, and saves one-third of the fuel. However, this cannot satisfy Tangning in a non-war state. After all, the "zero fuel cost" performance of the earth's artery is really excellent. Tangning wants the wing-ground effect aircraft to achieve similar results. He is preparing to build a marine hydrogen refueling station, and there is a large hydrogen refueling station every two hours on the busiest route, that is, 1,000 kilometers.

The depth of the ocean is only a few thousand meters. Of course, these hydrogen refueling stations are floating. In order to fix the position, they must also have power to offset the drift by wind and waves. In Tangning's design, they are square, with a huge windmill at each corner. The wind power in the center of the ocean is extremely violent, especially when there are typhoons. For this reason, they dare not design it as a horizontal axis, but an H-shaped type with strong balance ability.

The consumption capacity of the wing-ground effect aircraft is amazing. Windmills alone cannot bear it. Therefore, various solutions are needed. The buildings on the platform are covered with rich brown perovskite solar energy conversion films. A giant hydropower integrated equipment must float on the roof, which not only increases the power supply, but also provides water to the platform employees without desalination at all.

The surplus fresh water also allows employees to grow various vegetables. This platform is a big guy who is 100 meters times 100 meters. The space of 10,000 square meters is spacious enough for employees to display their talents. In order to improve their lives, Downing also offers the "annual output value of 120,000 pounds" sonar fishing fork technology to employees on the platform. Obviously, they are likely to sell seafood to passing supply ships (not necessarily just wing-ground effect aircraft).

Working time at sea may be a bit boring, but fortunately, the ground-effect machine is fast enough to almost allow seafarers to go home and reunite with their families on weekends. The ground-effect machine has strong transportation capacity, so it is no pressure to leave a few seats for them to use a down-frigerator.

The sea surface, high altitude, and the sun are all used. I guess there is enough electricity to decompose water to make hydrogen? But Tangning is not satisfied yet, and there is still no use below the sea surface. The ocean is a huge solar absorber, and below 200 meters is the no-light zone, so the temperature difference is extremely large. In the Tropic of Cancer area, the surface sea water temperature is about 28 degrees, and the temperature at depth of 1,000 meters is only about 4 degrees.

Power can also be generated using this kilometer temperature difference. The specific method is to extract seawater with a higher surface temperature, so that the low-boiling liquid (such as ammonia) in the heat exchanger boils into vapor, then push the generator to generate electricity, then guide it into another heat exchanger, and use deep seawater to cool it, so as to complete a cycle.
Chapter completed!