When the Black Light, the first alien-galaxy immigration spacecraft in human history, entered subspace, it had already disappeared in this universe. No signal would be transmitted back. Chen Chen had no way of knowing whether it was successful or whether it was trapped in subspace. Or die outright.
No one knows everything about Blacklight until it returns to the solar system.
On the other side of reality, Chen Chen's experiments on subspace navigation are still continuing, and he has not slackened off because of the mission of the Black Light.
At the same time, with the birth of the subspace engine, Chen Chen built ten large transport ships without authorization, comparable in size to aircraft carriers. These ships can carry thousands of small unmanned mining ships less than ten meters in length.
In this way, large transport ships can jump directly into subspace every time in the orbit of Mars, then sail out of Pluto's Mandeville Point, and finally enter the Kuiper Belt, where they can collect more resources and bring them back to human society.
Countless time is saved in one trip, and at the same time, the short-term subspace navigation is not very dangerous. Even if a large transport ship is damaged in danger, the loss is completely bearable.
At the same time, this simple and efficient resource collection system also gave Chen Chen a bold idea...
"What, you're going to build a Dyson sphere?"
On the top floor of the Black Light Building in the Life Sciences City, Xiao
"No, building a Dyson sphere is completely uneconomical."
However, Chen Chen unexpectedly shook his head, "Let's not talk about the technical feasibility. With the resources we have now, if we want to build a Dyson sphere that surrounds the sun, we will probably have to dismantle the entire planet in the solar system. What I want to build is not a Dyson sphere, but a Dyson cloud, or a Dyson ring..."
Chen Chen stood up slowly with a thoughtful expression, "If you don't worry about the long term, you will have immediate worries. Although our nuclear fuel is mainly deuterium in seawater and helium-3 on the moon combined for nuclear fusion reactions, helium on the moon -3 is still limited. According to current exploration, there are about 700,000 tons of helium-3 on the moon. According to the electricity consumption standards of human society in 2040, 700,000 tons of helium-3 can be used by humans for three hundred years. "
"Three hundred years is a lot for humans."
Little
"Having said that, why not do it now?"
Chen Chen changed his words and asked, "And don't forget, this number seems to be a lot, but do you still remember the electricity consumption standards in 2020?"
"2020?"
Little
"That's right, that's an increase of twenty times!"
Chen Chen solemnly said, "Humanity's electricity demand in twenty years' time will be twenty times that of twenty years ago. This number will continue to expand with the continuous development of human society. Can you say that in ten years' time, the amount of helium on the moon will be -3 resources, can humans still use them for three hundred years?"
Suddenly, Xiao X fell silent.
If human power consumption continues to expand according to this index, not to mention three hundred years, but at most fifty years, the helium-3 resources on the moon will be exhausted.
"So we must not put all our eggs in one basket."
Chen Chen sighed, "In the present time, we have to look for new energy solutions, and now, a solution has been in front of us for hundreds of years. This is also our best solution so far..."
Xiao
The so-called Dyson cloud is actually the same thing as a Dyson sphere. The only difference is the size. The concept of Dyson sphere is a theory proposed by Einstein's assistant Freeman Dyson in 1960.
He once imagined 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 to an advanced stage. In a star system, most of the energy - the radiation from the star is wasted out of thin air. Although Human beings have solar energy devices, but compared with the total energy radiated by the sun at all times, the energy received is like a grain of sand in the desert.
Therefore, he believes that the sun is a gift from the universe to mankind. A highly developed civilization must be able to wrap the sun in a huge spherical structure, so that most of the sun's radiation energy is intercepted. Only in this way can it obtain enough energy to support the development of human civilization.
So, in his imagination, the Dyson sphere appeared - a giant artificial structure with a diameter of about 200 million kilometers, used to wrap the sun. Such a structure is composed of satellites orbiting the sun, completely wrapping the surface of the sun, and Through a method similar to solar energy conversion, most of the energy emitted by the sun is intercepted and converted into electrical energy needed by humans.
This is the definition of a Dyson sphere.
However, later generations have refuted this theory, because in the opinion of most people, ordinary civilizations do not have the ability to create Dyson spheres, because such giant celestial bodies with a diameter of more than 200 million kilometers require ordinary civilizations to cost thousands or even tens of thousands. Years of time, and at the same time, it consumes almost all the matter in the entire galaxy. This is a completely unrealistic project for ordinary civilizations.
And if they are the kind of advanced civilization that can chase the stars and the moon with a wave of their hands, they naturally already have more advanced energy conversion technology, and they don't bother to build Dyson spheres at all.
To put it simply, the setting of the Dyson Sphere is really useless. Civilizations that can use it cannot build it, and civilizations that can build it may not necessarily value it. That’s it.
So gradually, later generations designed a compromise plan based on the idea of a Dyson sphere, which was to turn the Dyson sphere into circles of rings, with countless rings surrounding the sun, just like the clouds above the sun.
Compared with the engineering volume of the Dyson sphere, the Dyson cloud may only be one thousandth to one ten thousandth. Of course, the energy obtained will also be reduced accordingly. However, the advantage is that humans can control the construction cycle at will and quickly harvest the corresponding solar energy. As humans continue to develop, they can continue to increase the number of Dyson clouds until one day in the future a Dyson sphere will be completely formed.
Little Not only are the resources limited, but they are also polluting the global environment.
Therefore, humans began to experiment with nuclear fusion a long time ago, but now, Chen Chen is just looking forward to the future like people in the past, looking for new energy systems in advance.
Obviously, Dyson Cloud is the one that best meets the requirements.
Thinking of this, Xiao
"That's natural."
Chen Chen replied, "First of all, Mercury is the planet closest to the sun, and the material is simple. Secondly, the main components of Mercury are metals and silicates. These elements are also needed to build solar panels. The sum of these conditions , it can be said to be unique.”
Little
"This isn't difficult either."
Chen Chen replied, "The surface temperature of Mercury is around 400 degrees Celsius. This temperature is still bearable for some robots with thick armor. We only need to build a kind of robot. This kind of robot must have three major abilities:"
"First, it can withstand the 400-degree high temperature of Mercury; second, it has the ability to self-replicate; third, it can automatically complete a series of complex processes from collection, smelting to manufacturing; as long as the above three points can be achieved, Dyson Cloud's Building is half the battle.”
"Moreover, Mercury has no atmosphere and the escape speed is not fast. We only need to use electromagnetic technology to directly launch the Dyson cloud created on Mercury into the solar orbit. The rest will have another satellite robot responsible for receiving those Scattered Dyson clouds and assembled them."
"Then what happens after enough energy is collected?"
Little X continued to ask, "Use laser or antimatter transmission?"
“Do we now have the technology to create large amounts of antimatter?”
Chen Chen shook his head and thought, "Of course it's a laser. Convert the energy collected on the Dyson Cloud into laser light, and transmit the energy to space stations, space cities, and all human colonized planets in the solar system over long distances. This is currently the most appropriate and simplest way. .”
“…”
Little
Chen Chen did not answer, but continued, "Originally, I still had some doubts about executing this plan. After all, even if the entire Mercury is dismantled, it will be difficult to create a decent Dyson cloud. However, the birth of the subspace engine has solved this problem very well. everything."
"Using subspace as a springboard, we can adjust the Dyson Cloud's trajectory at any time. In this way, the possibility of collisions between Dyson Clouds caused by accidents due to orbital problems is much smaller."
After hearing what Chen Chen said, Xiao Added some details and optimized some processes."
"Take it and take a look."
Chen Chen's eyes lit up and he said immediately.
Suddenly, a huge void screen appeared in front of him, which was densely packed with a series of numbers and formulas. This was the Dyson Cloud plan that Xiao X had integrated.
In this plan, Xiao X designed the Dyson Cloud into countless ring-shaped objects. These man-made objects surround the entire sun, like huge rings.
The first phase of the plan is three years. Blacklight Technology needs to establish an industrial system on Mercury and launch the first Dyson cloud unit to the surface of the sun within three years.
According to the description in the plan, a Dyson cloud unit is a huge solar cell with a surface area of 136 square meters and a regular hexagonal shape. The middle is integrated, and only the six edges will be made of a material that can withstand high temperatures. These edges can both transmit energy and be firmly connected to other units.
After the first Dyson cloud unit is successfully launched, the next thing is very simple, that is, countless replications, connecting these hexagons together one by one, and finally forming a closed loop spanning the entire sun.
This is the first Dyson Cloud, and it is also the goal of the second phase of the plan, which will take about thirty years.
Eventually, after the second phase, the Dyson Cloud will form a ring-shaped artificial celestial body that is huge enough to surround the entire sun. At the same time, there will be a laser generator that can change the angle every tens of thousands of kilometers. In this way, no matter how the Dyson Cloud moves around Rotating above the sun, there is enough angle to illuminate the collected laser light to the required location.
Then, when the Dyson Cloud forms the first closed loop, you can then, depending on the situation, form a new Dyson Cloud Ring, or continue to increase the number of the original Dyson Cloud. These are all free choices...
After reading the plan, even Chen Chen had the urge to be amazed. He was responsible for the framework of the plan, while Xiao X was responsible for filling in the details. The entire plan was seamless and an extremely mature plan.
"This is it."
Chen Chen immediately made a decision. This is the advantage of Yiyantang. Both the decision-making time and the speed of the process are simplified to the extreme. If this project is a national project, I am afraid it will take several years from project establishment to implementation, and Chen Chen From the discussion just now to now, it takes less than half an hour...
Next, now that the project has been decided, the next step is to notify the whole world. After all, the sun is not only the sun of black light technology, but the sun of all mankind. This kind of project naturally needs to be notified to the whole world.
On the official website of Blacklight Technology, Xiao Industrial machines run at high speed!
Blacklight Technology occupies the influence of most of the human society, and his every move affects the minds of countless people, so almost within a few minutes of the announcement, this announcement caused shock to the entire Earth Federation.
For a time, the whole world was shocked!