But in any case, there is this technology to manufacture single-walled carbon nanotubes with a length of up to 4 kilometers.

Next, Lin Feng was full of confidence in how to manufacture the first generation of supercapacitors.

Of course, Lin Feng also needs to find a reason to manufacture and release this second-generation space elevator.

After all, Daxia has launched the Space Skynet Plan and the Tiangong City Plan, which require a large amount of transportation capacity.

Now with the second-generation space elevator system, the material needs between the Earth and Tiangong City can be completely met.

Lin Feng is very much looking forward to the day when Daxia can deploy hundreds of Space Network satellites into various orbits of the earth in one day, and then the countries around the world will be stunned.

Time continued to pass rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, several months had passed, and time quietly came to June 2019, 6.

On this day, tens of thousands of tourists once again gathered on Tiangong Island, a newly built artificial island at the southernmost tip of the South China Sea.

Last time, Xingtu Technology conducted its first space elevator experiment here, and then a little more than a week later, it conducted its second space elevator experiment.

The two successful space elevator experiments made Tiangong Island, which Daxia had put all its efforts into building, famous all over the world.

Several months have passed since then, and today's Tiangong Island is several times larger than before.

It can be said that the construction speed of Tiangong Island is enough to go down in history, which fully proves how terrifying the infrastructure maniac is when he gets serious.

Of course, the fully automated engineering machinery controlled by the artificial intelligence Jarvis also made a great contribution.

Otherwise, how could it be possible to build a Tiangong Island out of thin air right in the middle of the equator in less than two years?
Moreover, the location of Tiangong Island is actually hundreds of kilometers away from the South Sea.

But when Daxia really started construction, the nearby forces only dared to make noise in the media and did not dare to actually use force to drive them out.

Finally, if Starway Technology’s space elevator plan is successful, nearby countries will also benefit from it.

It thus became an area for the storage and transit of materials, and the economy took off, so they just let it go and acquiesced in Daxia's behavior.

Therefore, with the successful construction of Tiangong Island, the territory of Daxia's Southern Sea extended downward by hundreds of kilometers, which can be regarded as an invisible expansion of territory.

Although they are all underwater territories and there is only one Tiangong Island on the ground, the underwater territories are still territories.

Therefore, the people of Daxia are now quite excited, praising Xingtu Technology for its good work, which has invisibly allowed Daxia to expand its territory.

As for why it was necessary to deviate hundreds of miles from the South China Sea and build Tiangong Island at a huge cost in the middle of the Earth's equator?
The reason is that the base of a space elevator is best located in the middle of the equator.

When the space elevator is at the equator, the Earth's gravity acts in the vertical direction and will not affect the center of gravity of the elevator's main structure.

That is, the space elevator and space station built at the equator can always remain in a stable static state due to centrifugal force, and the cables will be stretched as straight as possible, reducing the risk of accidents and enhancing transportation capacity.

Finally, because it is at the equator, it also means that you don't need to expend energy to constantly adjust the position of the space elevator.

It will stay in a fixed position, just like there is something tied to the other end of a rope.

When you swing the rope, the centrifugal force will automatically straighten the rope and the trajectory of the movement will also be quite straight.

Therefore, Daxia spent huge costs to build a Tiangong Island here at the center of the equator.

Of course, in practical terms, Daxia did not lose anything, because with the Tiangong Island, it was equivalent to opening up hundreds of kilometers of territory.

The potential resources hidden in this hundreds of kilometers of sea area alone are worth the money spent on building the island. And at this moment, tens of thousands of people gathered here again to watch Xingtu Technology's third space elevator experiment.

Of course, it’s not quite right to call it an experiment, because what we are going to do this time is to use a new cable to replace the old cable.

By then, the distance between the Tiangong Space Station and the Earth will increase to 4 kilometers, which is the distance of one circle around the Earth.

That is to say, the old cable will be abandoned and then the new cable will take over the task of replacing the old cable.

As for why the distance between the Earth and the Tiangong Space Station needs to be extended, this is naturally to enhance centrifugal force and other factors.

Therefore, if this experiment is successful, the new cable with stronger carrying capacity will eventually replace the old cable, and the Tiangong space station will be farther away from the earth.

The entire experimental process will take about 16 hours to complete, and after 16 hours the third space elevator experiment can be carried out.

This was the press conference before the experiment began, and Lin Feng slowly walked onto the stage of the press conference amid applause.

"Making love……"

There was warm applause.

"Thank you all for the warm applause."

Lin Feng bowed his hands and thanked him, then continued:

“What we are going to release this time can actually be called the second-generation space elevator system.

The reason why it is called the second-generation space elevator system is because it has undergone great changes compared to the first-generation space elevator system.

The reason why the second-generation space elevator system will be available so soon is that I successfully overcame the problem of the length of single-walled carbon nanotubes when I was developing new supercapacitors.

Ultimately, the significant breakthrough in the length of single-walled carbon nanotubes naturally led to a breakthrough in the second-generation space elevator system.”

At this press conference, Lin Feng plans to take advantage of the current popularity and take the opportunity to bundle and release the first generation of supercapacitors to provide a foundation for future upgrades to the second generation of supercapacitors.

When the people at the scene heard Lin Feng's words, they were very curious.

After all, they didn't know that Lin Feng was actually developing a new type of supercapacitor, which made them very curious.

Of course, Lin Feng did not intend to introduce the first generation of supercapacitors immediately, so Lin Feng changed the subject and said:

“Speaking of this, I believe everyone is curious about the length of our single-walled carbon nanotubes.

First, let me introduce the length of the single-walled carbon nanotubes used in the previous generation of space elevator systems.

The single-walled carbon nanotubes used in the previous generation of space elevator systems only reached a maximum length of 196.3 meters.

The reason why we can make such a long space elevator cable is that we use the rope weaving method to weave it.

Therefore, although the length of our single-walled carbon nanotubes is only 196.3 meters, we can weave an ultra-long space elevator cable.

The cable structure this time is very different, because the length of the single-walled carbon nanotubes is an astonishing 4 kilometers. (End of this chapter)