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Chapter 404 Historical Reasons
Chapter 404 Historical Reasons
solar system.
The nine planets revolve around the core of the galaxy like stars and moons, like loyal guards that have never changed since ancient times.
The only light source in the solar system emits endless light and heat, dispels the eternal darkness of the boundless universe, and illuminates the entire galaxy. It burns itself, ignites the solar system, and also ignites the flame of civilization on the earth.
The sun is the central celestial body of the galaxy, accounting for 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system, and the remaining 0.14% of various celestial bodies and interstellar dust are revolving around the sun, and the sun is revolving around the center of the Milky Way.
It is a star intertwined with hot plasma and magnetic field, with a diameter of about 139 million kilometers, equivalent to 109 times the diameter of the Earth, and a volume about 130 million times that of the Earth.
From the perspective of chemical composition, about three-quarters of the mass of the sun is hydrogen, and the rest is almost all helium. It uses nuclear fusion to release light and heat into space, which is the well-deserved energy heart of the solar system!
All activities on the earth are inseparable from the energy provided by the sun. In recent years, with the development of earth science and technology and the huge demand for electricity consumption, the photovoltaic industry has grown rapidly, and the utilization rate of solar energy in countries on the earth is also getting higher and higher. .
And with the intrusion of Nie Yunhei technology increasingly eroding the daily life of the earth, the long cosmic distance and high temperature can no longer stop the people on earth from letting go of their thoughts, so they turned their attention to the sun!
In fact, Freeman Dyson put forward a theory as early as 1960, the so-called "Dyson sphere".
He believes that the energy contained in a planet like the earth itself is very limited, which is far from enough to support the development of civilization on it to an advanced stage, and a star—a planetary system, most of the energy comes from stars!
But the radiation of stars is actually wasted. At present, the solar radiation energy received by the planets in our solar system only accounts for less than one percent of the total.
Therefore, a highly developed civilization must have the ability to surround the sun with a huge spherical structure, so that most of the sun's radiant energy can be intercepted. Only in this way can this civilization be supported for a long time and develop to a sufficient height.
When civilization develops into the interstellar era, it must have entered into full electrification, and the demand for energy will reach an astonishing level. Therefore, ensuring energy supply and improving energy collection efficiency are major issues that every civilization that enters space must face.
Nie Yun, who has entered the interstellar era, inevitably turned his attention to the utilization of solar energy.
The "Prometheus" project is the first galaxy-level project of human civilization led by the ghost captain, proposed by the top scholar Lawrence, and certified by the cloud scientific research institution of the ghost system, and supported by the Earth Defense Force!
Prometheus is a god in Greek mythology who stole fire for mankind, and what Prometheus plans to steal... is the sun's inexhaustible energy!
Speaking of this plan, its proposal and implementation have its "historical reasons"...
Originally, Nie Yun's time in space was too short. Even if he used the mechanical bugs to frantically mine and build a colony base, he didn't occupy much territory at all. For the solar system, it wasn't even a drop in the ocean.
In terms of the current scale of solar system development, energy has not yet become a factor restricting the development of earth civilization.
In the cosmic colony bases on major planets and asteroids, Nie Yun has built controllable nuclear fusion energy centers of various sizes. The abundant nuclear fuel in the universe is enough to provide the energy needs of the bases.
However, as people on earth enter the universe on a large scale, hundreds of millions of robot troops are put into use, various infrastructures are gradually rolled out, and energy demand is increasing exponentially!
Among them, the major energy-consuming households include various mining and heavy industry equipment, smelting centers, shipyards, quantum computer centers, and daily mechanical bugs, etc...
According to statistics, the size of the small robot army in the solar system has reached about 3 million, and nearly 5000 billion human beings are using these substitutes in turn, entering the universe through virtual helmets to engage in various industrial and entertainment activities.
Even if the energy consumption of each robot is not high, but with such a huge number and 24-hour non-stop operation, it still needs to consume a lot of energy for charging every day.
The smelting center is a black hole of energy. All industrial construction and infrastructure, including the daily rations of mechanical bugs, cannot be separated from metal. The largest building in each colonial base is the smelting center.
Countless minerals are collected and put into smelting centers for high-temperature smelting. The large amount of steel and parts produced are sent to various production lines to manufacture robots and industrial equipment, which requires a lot of energy.
And the emerging space shipbuilding industry needs to consume massive amounts of metal.The importance of the shipbuilding industry to the Interstellar Age is definitely far greater than that of the Great Navigation Era!
For the stability of the rear, Nie Yun has not released the construction permit of the warship for the time being. The warship shipyard currently only has the exclusive shipbuilding base of the Earth Defense Force located in the asteroid belt.
The ordinary battleships produced here are basically delivered to the Earth Defense Force.
As for the super battleship made of mechanical bug materials... Well, then there is no need for a shipyard at all.
The current solar system can be said to be loose on the outside and tight on the inside. It seems to have no military power, but in fact, the mechanical bugs are too capable of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers.
When needed, Nie Yun can let the mechanical bugs in the rear pull out a super fleet of fully mechanical bugs in just a few hours.
From this aspect, the ever-changing liquid metal warship can be said to be born with the hidden skill of "stealth".
At present, most of the mechanical bugs are secretly devouring and multiplying in hidden areas that are not open to the public. The number of mechanical bugs is equal to Nie Yun's strength. As long as they don't stop eating, Nie Yun's strength will steadily expand...
If it wasn't for worrying about the safety of the wormhole defense line, Nie Yun didn't even want to station the Sea Wolf there just in case. After all, the resources near the wormhole are not rich.
However, the two warships stationed in the wormhole are not idle. There are a lot of metals mined from the fortress and nearby celestial bodies. In addition to being used for the construction of war weapons, some steel will be transported to the two warships for them every once in a while. devour.
If Gemini's radar is accurate enough, it will be found that the two warships are slowly "fat"...
Compared to cheating mechanical bug warships, the manufacture of ordinary warships is much more serious.
The shipbuilding base in the asteroid belt has been continuously expanded, and dumplings are being produced at a rate of one ship per month, and the speed of shipbuilding is still increasing.
In addition to the first "Union" launched into the water, another battleship has also been completed, and is currently transporting a batch of supplies, rushing to the wormhole to join the defensive front.
For the time being, Nie Yun does not allow countries and forces on the earth to get involved in the military shipbuilding industry. However, in order to stimulate market competition and promote the development of the industry, Nie Yun took the initiative to open the construction application of civilian shipyards.
With some powerful countries or forces, which one doesn't want to have strong ships and cannons to cross the stars and seas?
Even if only civilian ships can be built, it is still a kind of technology accumulation, not to mention getting a certain amount of technical support from the ghost captain. Naturally, no one wants to let this kind of good thing go.
However, things like space shipyards are asset-heavy, high-tech, and cannot be played without certain technological strength and economic strength. Therefore, only the four major forces of Europa, Miguel, Maoxiong, and Flower Planters have their own independent shipyards. , and after it is completed, it can only produce small spaceships below the [-]-ton level.
Many consortium forces and Fortune 500 companies have also applied for the construction of more than a dozen small shipyards to produce thousand-ton small spaceships through equity or joint fundraising.
The major forces on the earth do not have many infinite coins on hand. In order to meet the market demand, Atlantis also established a special banking institution to provide special low-interest loans to the outside world, further accelerating the pace of development of the shipbuilding industry.
As the scope of solar system development continues to expand, the issue of complementary resources between various colonial bases is also on the agenda. The hidden demand market for transport spaceships is so huge that it is coveted, with massive orders, and thousands of tons to tens of thousands of tons per ship. With varying tonnages, no amount of production capacity can fill the sharply increasing demand black hole.
With the current production capacity, the orders from the governments of various countries are scheduled until 2025, and this is not counting the non-governmental organizations that cannot even get orders.
What followed was a skyrocketing demand for materials.
According to the forecast of the code name, they need to expand the current number of smelting centers by at least 2 times in order to meet the market demand. The supporting energy centers must also keep up, and the subsequent demand for fuel will also increase!
In addition to these infrastructure projects, with the popularization of virtual technology, billions of human beings are pouring into virtual communities, countless streams of consciousness require massive computing resources to process, and virtual laboratories also need to consume a lot of computing resources, coupled with countless automation Production lines and equipment, the computing power occupancy rate of the code continues to climb to new highs.
The quantum computer center located on the moon has been continuously expanded, and now occupies an area almost the size of 5 football fields.
Such a huge quantum computer center consumes a lot of energy every moment, and thanks to the abundance of nuclear fuel resources on the moon.
Of course, the above-mentioned series of resource consumption were all within Nie Yunhe's expectations. With the current energy collection efficiency, it is enough to meet all needs, and there is still a surplus of about 10% to 20%.
However, life is always full of surprises, and Nie Yun still ignores the amazing spending power of certain groups...
Research and development of science and technology has always required a large amount of social resources, including energy. However, what Nie Yun did not expect was that the energy consumption of these scientists began to rise steadily until they broke through the sky...
For a long time, Nie Yun, who insists on the prosperity of the country through science and technology, has provided preferential policies and financial subsidies for scientific research projects, and the cost of electricity consumption is basically zero.
It has to be said that this move has stimulated the research and development enthusiasm of Mr. Yu and his gang, and accelerated the technological development of Earth civilization.
But it turns out that scientists are the closest group of people to madmen, and mad scientists who have no restrictions are a group of old hooligans!
Nie Yun's connivance made Yu Lao and other scientists use energy without any scruples. The "energy plasma research" organized by these guys last month alone accounted for the total energy consumption of that month. 3% of the amount!
That's almost the electricity consumption of a colonial base for a month!
However, this group of guys don’t know how to control the family and don’t know how expensive they are. Some time ago, they actually applied for a series of applications starting with "ultra" such as super-large quantum collisions, ultra-high-temperature plasmas, ultra-long-range fortress-level laser cannons, and super-heavy gravitational collapse. , It sounds like a very tall "super" level experiment.
One today, two tomorrow, and the future plan seems to be increasing in an arithmetic progression. I am afraid that if it is not for the lack of manpower, these guys will turn all the celestial bodies in the solar system into laboratories...
Then the big butler codename discovered that the speed at which his energy was added could hardly keep up with the speed of energy consumption...
Not long ago, Nie Yun, who was working hard on the front line, was completely dumbfounded when he received the system prompt "Insufficient energy, please recharge as soon as possible" from the rear!
I've gone nuclear fusion!You actually told me that I was in arrears? !
Do I have to start using strategic reserves like energy crystals before the battle starts?
(End of this chapter)