Vol 3 Chapter 222 Dyson ball

The sun is the core of the entire solar system, as well as the energy center. Before humans mastered controllable nuclear fusion, all fossil energy and biomass energy were actually consuming solar energy.

It is the solar energy that Blue Star has received for billions of years, mainly through biological photosynthesis, storing it, and then turning it into the widely used fossil energy.

Although there are many doubts about the cause of oil, because its quantity is really wrong, it is obviously an energy source that is about to be exhausted, but the more it is used, the more it is used, and no one will say how long oil can be used.

It is different from coal, because there are obvious traces of plant fossils in coal, and the burial is much shallower.

·According to the depth of the oil, its cause can even be traced back to the early stage of the formation of the blue star, the stage when the blue star rained for hundreds of years.

The continuous lightning produced a large amount of organic matter, and the entire blue star ocean has become a big soup pot of organic matter that has been boiled for hundreds of millions of years.

The ocean at that time was much thicker than it is now, and life was born by a certain coincidence.

Then at a certain moment, the blue star experienced drastic changes, and part of the organic matter was buried underground, and became oil under the long-term geological movement, high temperature and high pressure.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis, just like many hypotheses on the Blue Star. Anyway, except for a part of the energy coming from the uncooled Blue Star core, most of the energy that the Blue Star people are using is From the sun, that’s a sure thing.

With the development of the solar system by human beings, there will be a day when the seemingly huge reserves of lunar helium-3, or the surface of Mercury with even more amazing reserves, will not be enough.

Because with the expansion of human footprints in the inner solar system, building a large number of spaceships, warships, alien colonies, and asteroid factories, the energy and power required will not be linear, but will increase geometrically.

Originally, the reserves of helium-3 on the moon could supply the people on the blue planet for hundreds of years.

That is based on the current energy of Blue Star. If a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion is achieved, fusion reactants such as helium III, which is paired with deuterium and does not produce thermal neutrons, will inevitably become the first choice for nuclear raw materials.

Controllable nuclear fusion means unlimited energy, so some projects that have been discontinued due to energy consumption problems will inevitably be re-established.

In particular, the ability to turn stones into gold is definitely the most needed.

The touchstone here is not magic, but a change in the room, which is to use high-energy particles to bombard the nucleus of the lead atom, let it get neutrons, and undergo alpha and beta decay to become gold.

The difference between lead and gold is only a few atomic numbers, but no matter the reserves or the difficulty of mining, they are not the same.

Although in principle, heavy elements such as gold and platinum are no longer produced by ordinary nuclear fusion, but are only produced after supernova explosions.

The order of lead in the periodic table of elements is actually behind gold, but the abundance of elements is just like the unevenness of the universe. In fact, there is not much reason to say. For example, NASA once discovered a whole body All gold asteroids.

Perhaps in a corner of the universe, there will be a planet with reserves of gold far greater than that of lead.

It has to be said that apart from its rarity and high quality, gold has far better properties than lead and is easier to process.

This is the reason above, although lead is poisonous, but because of its huge reserves, it has become one of the elements that Yang Qing uses as an aura barrier material, instead of gold, which is equally effective.

But unlike Blue Star, the moon has been detected by prospecting satellites, and the lead reserves on it are much lower than that of Blue Star, and it is still far away from the base.

But this is not a problem. Anyway, there are robots, and it is not very difficult to mine on the moon.

But in the solar system, the sun, a star that can be said to have unlimited energy, is indeed a waste if it is not used.

Except for a part of the light and heat of the sun, which is absorbed by the planetary satellites and asteroids of the solar system, most of it is scattered throughout the universe.

The amount of these wasted energies is countless times that of the known nuclear bomb equivalent of the Blue Star. Human beings have been busy for billions of years, and the fusion reactor they have created may not be as powerful as a star.

In fact, scientists of Blue Star have conjectured to use the energy of stars, that is, to build a Dyson sphere to completely wrap the sun, so that the radiant energy of stars can be fully utilized.

Although Dyson underestimated the size of the sun and the difficulty of building a Dyson sphere, all the matter in the entire solar system would not be able to completely wrap the sun.

But this is a good way to use it. Dyson spheres are not good. Dyson rings, or something that surrounds the sun, absorbs the sun’s radiant energy, and solar wind energy, has a chance to be built.

When such a Dyson net is built, the actions of spacecraft in the solar system can directly use the energy collected by the Dyson net without having to have a too powerful reactor as power.

You must know that the voyage outside the solar system and the interior of the solar system are completely two concepts. Although there are infinite galaxies in the universe, and there is no idea how many there are, but each galaxy is actually quite sparse.

In particular, the Orion spiral arm where the solar system is located is already the outer edge of the Milky Way compared to the galactic center where the stars are dense. The number of stars is not only small, but also far away.

The small number and long distance mean that it will not be so easy to encounter cosmic disasters like supernova explosions, or black holes and gamma-ray bursts.

Therefore, within this range ~www.readmtl.com~ the life planet born can easily grow and produce advanced intelligent creatures.

The downside, of course, is that it is much more difficult to get rid of your own galaxy and colonize alien planets.

In the universe, especially in such galaxies, the matter content is pitifully low, lower than the man-made vacuum, so the idea of ​​collecting materials on the road is basically unrealistic.

Therefore, the first task of the solar system spacecraft that wants to travel between the stars is to bring enough supplies. Of course, the most important thing is to bring enough fuel for the fusion reactor.

In addition to the excavation on the moon and Mercury, the fuel source is the few gaseous planets, especially the extraction on Jupiter.

Jupiter is the planet most similar to the sun in the solar system, the difference is that it has not ignited nuclear fusion, so its composition is almost exactly the same as the sun.

From above it, it should be possible to obtain a large amount of deuterium, the fusion raw material.

Because the reactor made by Yang Qing is similar to the principle of the sun. It uses high pressure, high temperature ignition, and a large number of pressure arrays, which will limit the range of neutrons, the most difficult to control in the reactor, and prevent it from affecting the inner wall of the reactor. cause havoc.

After power generation, the temperature of the plasma decreases, and the fast neutrons will become slow neutrons.

Slow neutrons could even be somehow collected and used as weapon material.

In the space age, weapons can be roughly divided into several types, such as laser weapons, electromagnetic weapons, and particle beam weapons.

The guns and missiles of the Blue Star era are already facing elimination due to the limitation of attack distance and attack speed.

However, it can be combined with electromagnetic weapons, such as adding a seeker to the electromagnetic gun.

Unknowingly, the base seems to have mastered the acceleration method of neutrons, so neutron beam weapons have been put on the agenda.