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Solar system.
The nine planet stars revolve around the core of the Galaxy like a moon, like an everlasting loyal guard.
The only light source in the solar system emits endless light and heat, dissipating the eternal darkness of the boundless universe, illuminating the entire Galaxy, burning itself, igniting the solar system, and igniting the flames of civilization on the earth.
The sun is the central celestial body of the Galaxy and occupies 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system. The remaining 0.14% of various celestial bodies and interstellar dust are revolving around the sun, while the sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way.
It is a stellar body intertwined with hot plasma and magnetic field, with a diameter of about 1.39 million kilometers, equivalent to 109 times the diameter of the earth, and a volume about 1.3 million times that of the earth.
From the perspective of chemical composition, about three-quarters of the sun’s mass is hydrogen, and the rest is almost helium. It uses nuclear fusion to release light and heat into space. It is the 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 various countries on the earth is also increasing. .
With the chaotic Nie Yunhe technology eroding the daily life of the earth, the long Universe distance and high temperature can no longer prevent the thoughts of the people on the earth from flying, so they turned their eyes to the sun!
In fact, Freeman Dyson put forward a theory as early as 1960, the so-called “Dyson ball”.
He believes that the energy contained in the planet itself is very limited, and it is far from enough to support the development of the civilization on it to an advanced stage, and in a Star-Planet system, most of the energy comes from the Star!
But the radiation of the Star 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 enclose the sun with a huge spherical structure, so that most of the sun’s radiant energy is intercepted. Only in this way can it support the civilization for a long time and make it develop to a sufficient height.
When civilization develops into the interstellar age, it must have entered full electrification, and the demand for energy will reach a very alarming 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 age, will inevitably turn his attention to the use of solar energy.
The “Prometheus” project was led by Captain Phantom, proposed by top scholar Lawrence, and was certified by the Phantom Cloud Research Institute. The Earth Defense Force joined the support of the first Galaxy-class project of human civilization!
Prometheus is the god who steals fire for mankind in Greek mythology, and what Prometheus plans to steal…is the endless energy of the sun!
Speaking of this plan, there are “historical reasons” for its proposal and implementation…
Originally, Nie Yun’s time into space was too short. Even if he used mechanical insects to mine madly to build a colony base, he didn’t occupy much territory at all. For the solar system, it was not 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.
Nie Yun has built controllable nuclear fusion energy centers of various sizes in the Universe colony bases on major planets and small planets. The abundant nuclear fuel in the universe is sufficient to provide the base’s energy needs.
However, with the large-scale entry of the Earth people into the Universe, hundreds of millions of robot troops have been put into use, various infrastructure constructions have gradually spread, and energy demand is increasing exponentially!
Among the major energy consumers include various mining heavy industry equipment, smelting centers, shipyards, quantum computer centers, and daily mechanical insects…
According to statistics, the current size of the small robot army in the solar system has reached about 350 million, and about 1 billion humans are taking turns using these avatars to enter the Universe through virtual helmets to engage in various industrial and entertainment activities.
Even if the energy consumption of each robot is not high, such a large number, coupled with 24 hours of non-stop operation, still needs to consume a huge amount of energy for charging every day.
The smelting center is even more a black hole of energy. All industrial construction and infrastructure, including the daily rations of mechanical insects, are inseparable from metal. The largest building in each colony is a smelting center.
Countless minerals have been collected and put into the smelting center for high-temperature smelting. A large amount of steel and parts produced are sent to various production lines to manufacture robots and industrial equipment, which require a lot of energy.
The emerging space shipbuilding industry needs to consume huge amounts of metal. The importance of the shipbuilding industry to the Interstellar Era is absolutely far greater than that of the Great Navigation Era!
For the stability of the rear, Nie Yun has not released the permission to build the warship for the time being. The warship shipyard currently only has an exclusive shipbuilding base for the Earth Defense Force in the Little Planet zone.
The ordinary warships produced here are basically delivered to the Earth Defense Forces.
As for the super warships of mechanical insect materials… well, 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 that there is no military power, but in reality, mechanical insects are too capable of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers.
When needed, Nie Yun can let the mechanical insects at the rear pull out a fully mechanically insectized super fleet in just a few hours.
In this respect, the ever-changing liquid metal warships can be said to have inherent “sneak” concealment skills.
At present, most of the mechanical insects are secretly devouring and multiplying in hidden areas that are not open to the outside world. The number of mechanical insects is equal to Nie Yun’s strength. As long as they continue to eat goods, Nie Yun’s strength will steadily expand…
If it were not for the security of the wormhole defense line, Nie Yun would not even want to be stationed there just in case, because the resources near the wormhole were not abundant.
However, the two warships stationed in the wormholes are not idle. There is a lot of metal mined in the fortress and nearby celestial bodies. Except for the construction of war weapons, some steel will be transported to the two warships for them every once in a while. Swallow.
If the Gemini radar is accurate enough, you will find that these two warships are slowly getting fat…
Compared with cheating-like mechanical insect warships, the manufacture of ordinary warships is much more serious.
The shipbuilding base of Little Planet has undergone continuous expansion, and dumplings are being released at the rate of one ship per month, and the shipbuilding speed is still continuing Ascension.
In addition to the first launch of the “Soyuz”, another battleship has also been completed. At this moment, a batch of supplies are being transported to the wormhole to join the defensive front.
Nie Yun, the military shipbuilding industry, temporarily prohibits countries and forces on the planet from getting involved. However, in order to stimulate market competition and promote industry development, Nie Yun took the initiative to open up civil shipyard construction applications.
There are some powerful countries or forces, who doesn’t want to have strong boats and cannons to cross the star sea?
Even if only civilian ships can be built, it is also a kind of accumulation of technology, not to mention the ability to obtain certain technological support from Captain Ghost. Naturally, no one wants to let go of this kind of good thing.
However, the space shipyard is a heavy asset and high-tech. Without certain technological and economic strength, it cannot be played at all. So currently only the four major forces of Europa, the United States, the bear and the flower planter have their own independent shipyards. Moreover, after completion, only small spaceships of less than 10,000 tons can be produced.
Many consortia and Fortune 500 companies have also applied for the construction of more than a dozen small shipyards to produce small spacecraft of the 1,000-ton level through equity participation or joint fund-raising.
There are not many unlimited coins on hand by the major forces on the earth. In order to meet market demand, Atlantis has also established a special bank institution to provide special low-interest loans to the outside world, further accelerating the development of the shipbuilding industry.
With the expansion of the solar system, the issue of resource complementarity between various colonial bases has also been put on the agenda. The hidden demand for transport spacecraft is huge and coveted, with massive orders, and each ship has thousands of tons to tens of thousands of tons. With varying tonnages, no amount of production capacity can fill the black hole of rapidly increasing demand.
With the current production capacity, the orders from governments of all countries alone are scheduled to 2025, which is not even counted as a non-governmental organization that can’t even get orders.
And with it, the demand for materials has skyrocketed.
According to the prediction of the code name, they need to expand the current number of smelting centers by at least twice to meet market demand. The supporting energy centers must also keep up, and the subsequent fuel demand will also increase!
In addition to these infrastructure projects, with the popularization of virtual technology, billions of human beings have poured 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, plus countless automations. The hash rate occupancy rate of production lines and equipment, code names continues to rise to new highs.
The quantum computer center on the moon has been continuously expanded, and now it occupies almost the size of five football fields.
Such a huge quantum computer center consumes a large amount of energy at all times. Fortunately, the moon is rich in nuclear fuel resources.
Of course, the above-mentioned series of resource consumption was also within Nie Yunhe’s expectations. With the current energy collection efficiency, it is enough to meet all needs, and there is a surplus of about 10% to 20%.
But life is always full of surprises, Nie Yun still ignores the amazing spending power of certain groups…
R&D of science and technology has always taken up a lot of social resources, including energy. However, what Nie Yun did not expect is that the energy consumption of this group of scientists will start to rise, until the breakthrough sky…
For a long time, Nie Yun, who insists on promoting the nation through science and technology, has given policy incentives and fund subsidies to scientific research projects, and the cost of electricity consumption has been basically zero.
I have to say that this move stimulated the enthusiasm of the old guys in research and development, and accelerated the technological development of earth civilization.
But it turns out that scientists are the closest group of people to lunatics, and mad scientists without restrictions are even more old hooligans!
Nie Yun’s indulgence made Yu Lao and other scientists use energy without hesitation. Just last month this group of guys organized a “energy plasma research”, and the energy consumed accounted for the total energy consumption of the month. 3% of the amount!
This is almost a month’s electricity consumption of a colonial base!
However, these guys don’t know what Chai Migui is not in their homes. Some time ago they actually applied for a series of super-large quantum collisions, ultra-high-temperature plasma, ultra-long-range fortress-level laser cannons, and ultra-heavy gravity collapse. , It is very high-level “super” level experiment.
Do one today, and two tomorrow. Looking at the future plan, it seems to be an arithmetic increase. I am afraid that if it is not short of manpower, these guys will turn all the celestial bodies in the solar system into laboratories…
Then the housekeeper’s code name discovered that the new rate of own energy could not keep up with the rate of energy consumption…
Nie Yun, who was working hard on the front line not long ago, was confused when he received the system prompt of “Insufficient energy, please recharge as soon as possible” from the rear!
Daddy has nuclear fusion! You actually told me that daddy owes money? !
Don’t I have to start using the strategic reserve of energy crystals before the frontline has started war?