Chapter 404

The solar system.

The nine planets revolve around the core of the galaxy like stars and moons, like eternal loyal guards.

The only light source in the solar system emits endless light and heat, dispels the eternal darkness of the boundless universe, illuminates the whole galaxy, burns itself, ignites the solar system and ignites the civilization flame of the earth.

The sun is the central object of the galaxy, accounting for 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system. The remaining 0.14% of various celestial bodies and interstellar dust revolve around the sun, while the sun revolves around the center of the Milky way.

It is a star intertwined with thermal plasma and magnetic field. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers, equivalent to 109 times the diameter of the earth, and its volume is about 1.3 million times that of the earth.

In terms of chemical composition, about three-quarters of the mass of the sun is hydrogen, and the rest is almost helium. Using nuclear fusion to release light and heat into space 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 power consumption, the photovoltaic industry is growing rapidly, and the utilization rate of solar energy in all countries on the earth is becoming higher and higher.

With the disorderly Nie yunhei technology increasingly eroding the earth's daily life, the long cosmic distance and high temperature can no longer prevent the earth people from flying, so they turn their eyes to the sun!

In fact, Freeman Dyson put forward a theory as early as 1960, that is, the so-called "Dyson ball".

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 the vast majority of energy in a star planetary system comes from stars!

But the radiation of stars is actually wasted. At present, the solar radiation energy received by the planets of our solar system accounts for less than 1% 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 solar radiation energy can be intercepted. Only in this way can we support this civilization for a long time and make it develop to a sufficient height.

When civilization develops into the interstellar era, it must have entered full electrification, and the demand for energy will reach a very amazing level. Therefore, ensuring energy supply and improving energy collection efficiency are major problems that every civilization entering space must face.

Nie Yun, who entered the interstellar era, inevitably turned his attention to the utilization of solar energy.

"Prometheus" project is the first Galaxy level project of human civilization led by Captain ghost, proposed by top scholar Lawrence, certified by ghost cloud scientific research institution and supported by the earth defense force!

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, its proposal and implementation have their "historical reasons"

Originally, Nie Yun's time into space was too short. Even if he used mechanical insects to open mines and build colonial bases, he didn't occupy much territory at all. For the solar system, it's not even a drop in the ocean.

In terms of the current development scale of the solar system, energy has not yet become a factor restricting the development of earth civilization.

Among the cosmic colonial bases on major planets and asteroids, Nie Yun has built controllable nuclear fusion energy centers of different sizes. The rich nuclear fuel in the universe is enough to meet the energy needs of the base.

However, as the earth's people enter the universe on a large scale, hundreds of millions of robot troops are put into use, various infrastructure is gradually spread out, and the energy demand is increasing exponentially!

Among them, major energy consumers include all kinds of mining heavy industrial equipment, smelting center, shipyard, quantum computer center and daily machinery and so on

According to statistics, at present, the scale of the army of small robots in the solar system has reached about 350 million, and nearly 1 billion humans are using these doubles in turn to enter the universe through virtual helmets and engage in various industrial and recreational activities.

Even if the energy consumption of each robot is not high, such a large number, coupled with 24-hour non-stop operation, still need to consume a large amount of energy to recharge every day.

The smelting center is an energy black hole. All industrial construction and infrastructure, including the daily rations of mechanical insects, are inseparable from metals. The largest building in each colonial base belongs to the smelting center.

Countless minerals are collected and put into the smelting Center for high-temperature smelting. A large number of steel and parts produced are transmitted to various production lines to manufacture robots and industrial equipment, which requires a lot of energy.

The emerging space shipbuilding industry needs to consume a large amount of metal. The importance of shipbuilding industry to the interstellar era is definitely far from the super navigation era!

In order to stabilize the rear, Nie Yun has not released the construction license of warships for the time being. At present, the warship shipyard only has the exclusive ship building base of the Earth Defense Force located in the asteroid belt.

The ordinary warships produced here are basically delivered to the earth defense force.

As for super warships made of mechanical insect materials... Well, there is no need for a shipyard at all.

The current solar system can be said to be loose outside and tight inside. It seems that it has no military power, but in fact, mechanical insects can play pigs and eat tigers too much.

When needed, Nie Yun can let the mechanical insects in the rear pull out a fully mechanized super fleet in just a few hours.

In this regard, liquid metal warships that can change a lot can be said to have the hiding skills of "sneaking".

At present, most of the mechanical insects secretly devour and multiply in the secret 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 don't stop eating goods, Nie Yun's strength will expand steadily

If he wasn't worried about the security of the wormhole defense line, Nie Yun didn't even want to garrison 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 in 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 every once in a while for them to devour.

If Gemini's radar is accurate enough, you will find that the two warships are slowly "getting fat"

Compared with cheating mechanical insect warships, the manufacturing of ordinary warships is much more serious.

After continuous expansion, the ship building base of the asteroid belt is making dumplings at the speed of one ship per month, and the ship building speed is still improving.

In addition to the first Soyuz launched, another warship has also been completed. At the moment, it is transporting a batch of materials to the wormhole to join the defense front.

Nie Yun in the military shipbuilding industry temporarily forbids the countries and forces on earth to interfere. However, Nie Yun took the initiative to open the construction application of civil shipyards in order to stimulate market competition and promote the development of the industry,

Some powerful countries or forces, which do not want to be strong and powerful, cross the stars and the sea?

Even if we can only build civilian ships, it is also a kind of technology accumulation. Moreover, we can get some technical support from captain ghost. Naturally, no one wants to let go of this good thing.

However, space shipyards are heavy assets and sophisticated. They can't play without certain scientific and technological strength and economic strength. Therefore, at present, only the four forces of Europa, the United States, hairy bears and flower growers have their own independent shipyards, and after completion, they can only produce small spacecraft of less than 10000 tons.

Many consortia and fortune 500 enterprises have also applied for the construction of more than ten small shipyards to produce thousands of tons of small spaceships by taking shares or jointly raising funds.

In order to meet the market demand, Atlantis also set up special banking institutions to provide special low interest loans, which further accelerated the development of the ship building industry.

With the continuous expansion of the development scope of the solar system, the problem of resource complementarity among various colonial bases has also been put on the agenda. The hidden demand market for transport spacecraft is huge to coveted. With huge orders and tonnage ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of tons per ship, no amount of production capacity can fill the rapidly increasing demand black hole.

With the current production capacity, the orders of governments alone are scheduled to 2025, not even civil society organizations that can't get orders.

What followed was a surge in demand for materials.

According to the prediction of the code, they need to expand at least twice the number of current smelting centers to meet the market demand. The supporting energy centers must also keep up, and the subsequent fuel demand will rise!

In addition to these infrastructure projects, with the popularity of virtual technology, billions of people pour into the virtual community. Countless streams of consciousness need massive computing resources to deal with. Virtual laboratories also need to consume a lot of computing resources. Coupled with countless automatic production lines and equipment, the occupancy rate of code computing power is rising to a new high.

The quantum computer center on the moon has been expanded and now occupies an area the size of almost five football fields.

Such a huge quantum computer center consumes a lot of energy all the time. Fortunately, the moon is rich in nuclear fuel resources.

Of course, the above series of resource consumption was also expected by Nie Yunhe. With the current energy collection efficiency, it is enough to meet all needs, and there is a surplus of about 10% to 20%.

However, life is always full of surprises. Nie Yun still ignores the amazing consumption ability of some groups

Scientific and technological research and development always needs to occupy a lot of social resources, including energy. However, what Nie Yun didn't expect is that the energy consumption of these scientists began to rise from unknown time to break through the sky

For a long time, Nie Yun, who insists on rejuvenating the country through science and technology, has carried out policy preference and financial subsidies for scientific research projects, and the power cost is basically zero.

It has to be said that this measure has stimulated the R & D enthusiasm of Yu Lao and accelerated the scientific and technological development of earth civilization.

But facts have proved that scientists are the closest group of people to madmen, and crazy scientists without restrictions are a group of old hooligans!

Nie Yun's connivance made Yu Lao and other scientists use energy without scruples. Just a "energy plasma research" organized by these guys last month, the energy consumed accounted for 3% of the total energy consumption of that month!

This is almost a month's electricity consumption of a colonial base!

However, these guys don't know how expensive they are. Some time ago, they applied for a series of "super" experiments starting with "super", such as super large quantum collision, ultra-high temperature plasma, super long-range fortress level laser gun, super heavy gravity collapse, etc.

One today and two tomorrow. It seems that the future plan is still increasing in the form of equal difference series. I'm afraid these guys will turn all celestial bodies in the solar system into laboratories if they are not understaffed

Then the housekeeper code found that his energy growth rate could not catch up with the energy consumption rate

Not long ago, Nie Yun, who worked hard on the front line, was stunned when he received the system prompt of "insufficient energy, please recharge as soon as possible"!

I have nuclear fusion! You told me I owed money?!

Do I have to start using the strategic reserve of energy crystal before the war on the front line?