I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 577 - 475 The Hollowed-Out Mobile Base

Inside the hangar of the base, the large Mobile Base now no longer looks like it did before.

The upper deck has been almost completely dismantled, and the interior space has been cleared out. From the topmost deck to the bottom garage, the intermediate layers have also been removed.

If the pre-dismantled Mobile Base looked like a gigantic entity full of deterrence and power, after dismantling, it is now merely a huge metal framework.

Although not all parts have been cleared, only the upper hangar, crew cabin common area, and the bottom garage were cleared, this still makes the entire Mobile Base appear much thinner.

"Academician, the currently cleared space still can’t accommodate the Weather Controller!" A staff member holding blueprints stood by the Mobile Base, frowning as he spoke to Chen Xin: "According to current measurements, at least three times the space is needed to fit the current Weather Controller. It’s simply impossible!"

Although the team has been trying to reduce the volume of the Weather Controller as much as possible, even after removing many unnecessary parts, it is still a huge entity that cannot fit into the Mobile Base.

Chen Xin was naturally aware of this, and he didn’t show any particular expression. He merely nodded to show he understood, then said: "Don’t rush this. First, install the fusion reactor onto the Mobile Base.

As for the Weather Controller, try to reduce the size of its components. If it really doesn’t work, just expand the capacity of the Mobile Base! There are always more solutions than problems, take it step by step."

"Alright, Academician." The staff member understood this logic too and nodded before heading off to his work.

Meanwhile, Chen Xin walked into the already mostly dismantled Mobile Base.

This was one of the two Mobile Bases he had upgraded and modified while in Siberia, the other is now back home, and Chen Xin did not inquire about its specific use.

But this one has had most of its internal structure removed, and it is about to serve as the mounting platform for the Weather Controller.

The bottom garage, originally used for housing vehicles, will serve as the installation site for energy transmission and conversion modules, channeling the surging energy produced by the small fusion reactor into the Weather Controller, providing ample energy for it.

It sounds like the fusion reactor could be directly connected to the Weather Controller, but that’s not actually feasible.

The fusion reactor designed by Chen Xin uses magnetohydrodynamic generation, different from the traditional high-temperature steam method. It involves ionized gas passing through a strong magnetic field at high speed, with positively and negatively charged ions deflecting in opposite directions due to the Lorentz force and landing on opposite electrode plates, forming the positive and negative poles of the power supply.

The benefits of this are clear, enabling continuous production of nuclear fusion materials intake—heating—reaction—exhaust—power generation—product separation—recycling un-fused atomic nuclei.

However, while this reduces the demands on the reaction container, it does impose certain requirements on power consumption, because if such high-power output cannot be withstood, the circuit will be overloaded and burn out.

Therefore, some equipment is needed to bind and tame the overwhelmingly flood-like electric energy, making it gentler before transmitting it to the Weather Controller.

This is akin to how high voltage power cannot be directly plugged into household appliances and needs a transformer for conversion.

Moreover, although the Weather Controller requires substantial energy during its operation, this energy cannot be fed directly into the machine from the fusion reactor’s output, as this would likely burn the machine out.

The energy transmission and conversion modules also serve as a safety measure for the Weather Controller to prevent faults or damage due to electrical issues.

It was precisely out of such considerations that the Suyians in the past built a nuclear power plant as a power supply facility for the Weather Controller, along with preparing a dedicated substation and transmission lines for it.

But when it is mounted on the Mobile Base, the nuclear plant can be replaced with a small fusion reactor, while the substation isn’t as easily replaced.

Fortunately, technological advancement has brought convenience not only in power generation capacity but also in miniaturizing power conversion equipment.

Chen Xin cleared out the bottom garage to accommodate modern technology-upgraded energy transmission and conversion modules.

Thanks to the significant progress in technology since the Suyia era, the Mobile Base’s garage can indeed house these modules.

Besides these auxiliary devices, the Weather Controller itself still has many other modules, and the volume of these modules is not small at all. Even if the Mobile Base’s personnel cabin common space, upper hangar, and topmost deck are all cleared, it’s challenging to accommodate the huge Weather Controller.

Not to mention that just the Weather Controller’s microwave-emitting antenna is a gigantic over-fifty-meter-diameter device. Although it can be placed outside on the top deck of the Mobile Base, it still appears too large to accommodate.

If just an antenna poses accommodation challenges, the coil used to generate microwaves for the Weather Controller, with its diameter exceeding one hundred meters and forming a giant circular coil, can hardly fit into the Mobile Base without structural changes.

Moreover, the Weather Controller has more than just these two components, and the protective shield needed to prevent microwave leakage must cover the entire machine...

Therefore, even though the Mobile Base’s internal space, now cleared, is vast and comparable to the hangar of a heavy aircraft carrier, it still struggles to fit the gigantic Weather Controller.

Chen Xin must find a way to reduce the Weather Controller’s size or expand the Mobile Base’s internal space.

Fortunately, for him, neither poses much difficulty, as system upgrades allow these tasks to be easily accomplished in an instant.

The Mobile Base only needs to be enlarged, elongated, and its internal space expanded, but the Weather Controller poses more of a challenge.

After all, even though the system upgrade can be controlled by Chen Xin’s cognition and thoughts to determine the upgrade result, as he is not a true professional, it’s difficult to ensure the upgrade path he chooses is the best.

Therefore, it’s prudent to wait for the researchers to come up with an appropriate plan, then upgrade the Weather Controller based on that plan to fit it into the Mobile Base.

Currently, the Mobile Base doesn’t require significant modifications, whereas the Weather Controller’s size needs to be gradually reduced.