Chapter 408

A month passed quickly. The scientific investigation of TEP civilization has made preliminary progress.

"Is this civilization still using fossil fuels《 Survey on the popularity of fossil fuels, survey on the possibility of global atmospheric warming... "

On this day, Zhang Yuan was sorting out this information in the captain's room, and there were all kinds of messy reports. He also heard the voice of folk tourism, including the topic of their own bionic transformation has been raised again.

If robot VR technology is used to replace tourism, the effect will be much worse. It will take at least five or ten years to reproduce using virtual world technology. Where can it be so fast? The weak human body can not adapt to three times the gravity, and it is impossible to strengthen exercise. The only way to experience it personally is bionic transformation.

Of course, the voice of the people can't be realized immediately. If you want to transform yourself, you have to go through some legal procedures.

Li Cheng of the Secretariat replied: "some of them use fossil fuels. The planet is very rich in fossil resources. According to our geologists' estimation, it is at least 20 times that of the earth! Because the size of the planet is large... Some are renewable biofuels. "

"Oh? "Biofuels?" Zhang Yuan wondered.

"Yes, this civilization generally grows an annual herb called 'ALC', which can extract industrial alcohol and methane very simply and efficiently. Most of the fuel for the airship engine is provided by this plant. Only a small number of military weapons need high calorific value fuel to use oil. "

"It's really a very good plant. This is an unexpected joy. "

Many chemical raw materials in Kunlun Mountain are also provided by plants. Therefore, biologists in Kunlun Mountain are thinking that if this plant is really excellent, they can try to introduce it into the whole industrial system.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Yuan frowned and asked, "has TEP civilization considered renewable energy so early? Are they so visionary? But when the oil crisis really happened, mankind made great efforts to develop controllable nuclear fusion. Most of the oil was simply burned. Is there a deeper reason, for example... "

"It's not. It's mainly economic." Dr. Li Cheng said with a smile: "for this civilization, although there is oil, it is too difficult to dig. Under the high gravity environment, the shallow oil is very scarce, and it needs more pressure to be exploited. Oil exploitation depends on the energy supplemented manually such as oil well pump and gas lift, which is more difficult in high gravity environment. "

"High quality oil is on the deeper surface, resulting in high exploitation costs."

This is also true. In the high gravity environment, the stones on the deeper surface are harder, and it is more difficult to extract oil.

Just like the earth's shale oil, the reserves are about 11 trillion ~ 13 trillion tons, far exceeding the oil reserves, but the development is very difficult, and only a small part can be really utilized.

Dr. Li Cheng continued: "this planet is vast and sparsely populated, its surface area is four or five times that of the earth, and the birth rate is not high, only less than 4 billion. Therefore, these farmers choose to plant such plants on a large scale in plain areas, which is economical and affordable. "

"I see." Hearing this, Zhang Yuan asked, "do you think this excellent energy plant is deliberately left by the enlightenment civilization? Even if there is more oil, it will run out, but renewable energy is completely different and can last for a long time. "

Looking for the traces of enlightener civilization has always been the key goal of this scientific research action. People have been looking for the so-called evidence. It's impossible to think that any disturbance or coincidence is left by the enlightenment civilization. That's too funny.

Facing Zhang Yuan's question, Li Cheng replied: "it depends on whether this plant called 'ALC' had large-scale gene mutation like the 'World Tree' of Riley civilization at the time point of '150000 years ago'. If so, it can basically be concluded that it is the act of enlightening civilization. "

"... it is indeed very difficult for this civilization to enter space from an innate perspective. If controlled nuclear fusion cannot be achieved all the time, even if there is no energy crisis now, there will be one in the future. "

"The emergence of this plant will undoubtedly greatly alleviate the energy crisis and provide more development time."

Zhang Yuan nodded and said: "however, it doesn't seem to be in line with the concept of enlightenment civilization. If this civilization gradually stops its progress in the next few thousand years and continues to use this plant to survive, wouldn't it be the same as Riley civilization? What's the point of perpetuating it? So I think, for this reason, the probability of deliberately producing this plant is not high. "

"According to my personal idea: if a civilization runs out of fossil fuels, but does not ignite the spark of nuclear fusion and leave the planet, it will die if it dies. There is nothing to regret."

Li Cheng replied, "I don't quite agree with your idea. I think we need to consider the technical difficulty of leaving the planet itself. If a planet's gravity is ten times that of the earth, can its creatures leave the planet? It's impossible. Even our ship is difficult to take off and land. Then the emergence of an energy source to give these lives a chance to breathe can be regarded as a kind of kindness. "

"Our scientists are trying to figure out whether it is possible to leave a planet with three times the gravity and open the interstellar era if it develops step by step according to the scientific and technological level of mankind at the end of the 20th century."

"The relevant mathematical modeling work is still in progress. Some scientists believe that it is possible, while others believe that traditional rocket technology is difficult to help the TEP people leave the planet step by step."

"If you really can't, it shows that the innate environment of this civilization has defects and needs some help. Enlightened civilizations with foresight may try to do something in this regard... "

"This idea makes sense." Zhang Yuan saw a picture on the screen. The anthropologist was visiting the museum.

This civilization also has its own Archaeology and is studying its own origin. This may be the common feature of scientific and technological thinking. Everything wants to trace its origin, rather than mistakenly attributing its existence to the gods.

Therefore, the current research direction is divided into two parts. One is archaeology, focusing on the history of 150000 years ago.

The other is to investigate whether the TEP civilization has scientific and technological defects, environmental defects, implicit help of enlighteners, etc.

"There is no particularly good discovery yet... In 150000 years, we have been able to form a series of complex evolution. It would be too slow for us to make our own scientific research without the help of the power of TEP civilization itself."

"Our diplomatic team is considering whether we can directly put forward such scientific research requirements to each other. In other words, it would be better if we could directly read each other's archaeological documents... After all, the other party's materials are not completely open to us. "

Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "it's no problem... The content we can trade is in this form, and the corresponding price is clearly marked."