Energy shortage, Liu Peiqiang is not an alarmist, it is a real thing that happened in the Xinghan civilization.
Some people may find it incredible that the Xinghan civilization, which is a powerful civilization that has mastered space technology, is still experiencing energy shortages. Isn't it a bit nonsense?
However, it is not the case. There is indeed an energy shortage problem soon.
It is precisely because the Xinghan civilization has been highly developed that the problem of energy shortage has arisen.
Every adult can be assigned a small spaceship for free. This spaceship alone is definitely a huge consumer of energy.
You must know how huge the current population base of the Xinghan civilization is. With a huge population measured in Beijing megabytes, coupled with the development of science and technology, it has an extremely large number of spaceships, space battleships, and countless space factories.
All of this is a big energy consumer.
Not to mention anything else, just a factory in space consumes more energy than the entire earth consumes in the earth era.
If it weren't for the fact that controllable nuclear fusion technology has been mastered for a long time, and nuclear fusion reactors are getting smaller and smaller, and most of the major energy consumers use controllable nuclear fusion reactors as energy sources, Xinghan would have already been in energy shortage.
Already.
Energy has become an important factor in human development since the industrial revolution.
From the earliest use of coal, to later petroleum, electric energy, to nuclear energy, and solar energy, with the development of science and technology, the energy required is also exploding in geometric multiples.
The more advanced technology is, the more energy is required.
Even though it has mastered the technology of small-scale controllable nuclear fusion, the Xinghan civilization has become increasingly tense in energy over the years. The price of fuel related to controllable nuclear fusion has also been rising again and again. From this aspect alone, we can know the problem of energy shortage.
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The population base of the Xinghan civilization is really too huge. The key is that there are too many places where energy is needed. This spaceship has already reached everyone, and the energy required is so huge.
Moreover, the population of Xinghan continues to explode, which means that more energy will be needed in the future. Traditional nuclear energy has become increasingly difficult to meet the huge energy needs of Xinghan civilization.
In the future, if space technology develops further and space transmission technology becomes more and more mature, it will eventually be installed on spacecrafts so that spacecrafts can also teleport to adjacent river systems through space. This will require even greater energy.
Therefore, a very urgent task is placed in front of Xinghan scientists: how to solve the energy needs of Xinghan civilization.
Nuclear energy alone can no longer satisfy the huge appetite.
Scientists have set their sights on controllable antimatter technology. The energy produced when antimatter and positive matter are annihilated is hundreds of millions of times greater than when nuclear fusion occurs. The energy released by one gram of antimatter is almost equivalent to three Hiroshima bombs.
The energy released by a nuclear bomb would only require a few dozen grams of antimatter to destroy the earth.
From here we can understand the power of antimatter energy.
The Xinghan civilization had mastered anti-matter bombs a long time ago, but these anti-matter bombs and controllable anti-matter reactors are completely different things.
One is an elementary school question and the other is an advanced mathematics question. The two are not of the same magnitude at all.
Xinghan scientists have been studying this thing for a long time, just because antimatter is extremely unstable. Once it encounters any positive matter, it will immediately annihilate. When annihilated, it will produce extremely powerful and terrifying energy, so antimatter can be controlled
The reactor became a problem.
But with the development of space technology, especially the development of space folding technology and space blocking technology, scientists have finally found a way to solve this problem.
The method is very simple. It uses space folding and space blocking to form a unique space specifically for antimatter annihilation. In this way, the control and safety issues of antimatter reactions are successfully realized.
"Okay, it's solved. This time and space gate is too big to build. It consumes too much manpower, material and financial resources, and it takes too time. Just building this time and space gate takes thousands of years. This is seriously inconsistent with the age of the universe.
The speed.”
Hearing Liu Peiqiang's words, Qin Yi nodded happily.
Looking at the huge gate of time and space in front of me, when I was in it, I couldn't help but be deeply shocked by this huge cosmic project. It is really too big.
But Qin Yi also knew clearly how expensive the construction of this gate of time and space was. The construction of a gate of time and space consumed too many resources.
A very important reason for this is the energy issue.
To achieve space teleportation and to cross vast distances in a short period of time through the gate of time and space, it requires extremely large capabilities, and the use of controllable nuclear fusion reactors is obviously not possible, and stars can only be used as energy.
And not just one or two stars are enough, dozens of stars are needed.
Given how huge the star is, it is natural that the space-time gate must be built very large.
If controllable antimatter reactors can be used to replace stars, then the space-time gate can be built very small, and there is no need to waste so many resources and time building this space-time gate.
"It is indeed too big and consumes too many resources. In order to build this gate of time and space, a lot of star fields have been hollowed out in the Magellanic Galaxy."
"There is no problem in building a few gates of time and space, but if there are more, we will be overwhelmed and we will not have enough resources to build this gate of time and space, unless we mine black holes."
Ye Zhiqiu on the side also nodded and said, he is the chief engineer of this time and space gate, and he is very aware of the resources consumed by this time and space gate.
All are made of degenerate materials. Degenerate materials are materials constructed from an atomic perspective. Dozens of tons or hundreds of tons of steel are used to create degenerate materials. It may only be possible to create a little bit.
How much steel does it take to build this huge gate of time and space?
That is simply an astronomical number.
That is, the interstellar era of the universe occupies the vast void. The matter in the universe is extremely rich and can be mined at will. Otherwise, where would there be so many resources for you to build the gate of time and space.
"Get controllable antimatter technology out as soon as possible. In the future, antimatter technology will be used as energy when building time and space gates. By then, ten or eight time and space gates will be built at once, and several river systems can be expanded at once.
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Qin Yi smiled and nodded, and then said happily.
There is no doubt that Xinghan civilization must expand externally.
One is its own population growth, which must have enough space and resources to meet the explosive growth of the population.
Secondly, it is for the safety of the Xinghan Civilization itself. The Milky Way is too small. The Xinghan Civilization is now only expanding in these areas around the Milky Way. It knows too little about the entire vast universe.
Therefore, we must build a huge territory with the Milky Way as the center, and include at least hundreds of river systems around the Milky Way into Xinghan's territory. Only in this way can we build a relatively safe area. Once we encounter a powerful
Civilization, Xinghan Civilization can also handle it with ease.
"There aren't many people in the Andromeda galaxy now, and there aren't even many people in the center of the Milky Way. Even if we have a hundred river systems, we still have no way to develop them for the time being."
Ye Zhiqiu curled his lips and said, Qin Yi likes to expand externally. Since the establishment of Xinghan Civilization, Xinghan Civilization has been constantly expanding and rarely stops.
Therefore, although the population of Xinghan civilization has been exploding and getting larger and larger, Xinghan has always been a vast land with sparsely populated areas. There are large areas of land that no one has developed, and there are large areas of star territory that have been left empty.
, it feels like a waste of natural resources.
"Development or not is another matter. The territory must be large so that there is enough room for maneuver. What's more, with our development speed, it actually won't take too long at all. I estimate that it will take at least a million years.
In time, this Milky Way and Andromeda information will be overcrowded."
Liu Peiqiang smiled and shook his head and said, "It's one thing to have a vast land and sparsely populated areas. It's another thing to have a huge territory. As long as there's a huge territory, enough living space and resources, it doesn't matter whether there's anyone to develop it."
Take your time, no matter what, first seize the territory first.
"Our national policy determines that we can become strong and rise quickly. It also determines that we must continue to expand externally and seize more space and resources."
"It's still early. It's just a sudden expansion around the Milky Way. For the entire huge universe, this range is probably a very insignificant point. Only when we have a thorough understanding of space technology can we truly appear in the universe.
In the eyes of the powerful people in the universe."
Qin Yi also said with a smile, from the time when he formulated the national policy of Xinghan civilization, Qin Yi knew that Xinghan civilization must continue to expand externally and move to new territories.
Without expansion, it will not be able to satisfy the growing population. Once that time comes, the internal explosion of the population alone will kill the Xinghan civilization. There is a high probability that the Xinghan civilization will split internally and compete with each other for resources and space for survival.
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This is obviously a situation that Qin Yi does not want to see, so he must expand externally. Even if he encounters a powerful opponent and is beaten to a bloody head, it is better than having his own people attack his own people and be cruel to his own people.
What's more, in the age of the universe, you don't have a huge population base or a vast territory. How can you compete with other powerful ethnic groups?