The Return of the Black Technology of Immortal World

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

It was the solar energy that Blue Star received over billions of years, and stored it mainly through biological photosynthesis, and then turned it into the fossil energy that is now widely used.

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

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

·According to the depth of the oil, its origin can even be traced back to the early stage of the formation of Blue Star, when it rained for hundreds of years.

The continuous lightning generated a large amount of organic matter, and the entire Blue Star ocean has become a large soup pot of organic matter that has been boiling for hundreds of millions of years.

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

Then at a certain moment, Blue Star underwent drastic changes, and part of the organic matter was buried underground. Under the long-term geological movement, high temperature and pressure, it became oil.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis, just like many hypotheses on Blue Star. Anyway, except for part of the energy coming from the core of Blue Star that has not yet been cooled, most of the energy that the Blue Star people are using is From the sun, this is certain.

With the development of the solar system by humans, the seemingly huge reserves of helium-3 on the moon, or the even more amazing reserves on the surface of Mercury, will one day be insufficient.

Because as human beings expand their footprints within the solar system and build a large number of spaceships, battleships, alien colonies, and asteroid factories, the energy and power required will not grow linearly, but in a geometric progression.

Originally, the reserves of helium-3 on the moon could be used by people on the Blue Star for hundreds of years.

That is based on the current energy of Blue Star. If a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion is achieved, helium-3, a fusion reactant that does not produce thermal neutrons when paired with deuterium, will inevitably become the first choice of nuclear raw materials.

Controllable nuclear fusion means unlimited energy, so some projects that have been canceled due to energy consumption issues will inevitably be re-initiated.

Especially the ability to turn stone into gold is definitely the most needed.

The Midas touch here is not magic, but a change in the room, which is to use high-energy particles to bombard the lead atom nucleus, causing it to obtain neutrons, and undergo alpha and beta decay, thereby turning it into gold.

Although there is only a few atomic numbers difference between lead and gold, the reserves and the difficulty of mining are quite different.

Although it stands to reason that heavy elements such as gold and platinum can no longer be produced by ordinary nuclear fusion. They are all elements that can only be produced after supernova explosions.

The order of lead in the periodic table of elements is actually behind gold. However, the abundance of elements is just like the universe being uneven. In fact, there is not much reason to explain. For example, NASA once discovered a whole body They are all gold asteroids.

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

It has to be said that in addition to being rare and heavy in quality, gold has far better properties than lead and is easier to process.

It is for the above reasons that although lead is poisonous, due to its huge reserves, it has become one of the elements used by Yang Qing as a spiritual energy isolation material, instead of the equally effective gold.

But unlike Blue Star, the lead reserves on the moon have been detected by prospecting satellites, which are much lower than those on Blue Star, and they are still far away from the base.

But this is not a problem. Anyway, with the existence of robots, mining on the moon is not a very difficult task.

But in the solar system, the sun is a star with unlimited energy. If it is not used, it is indeed a waste.

Except for a part of the sun's light and heat that is absorbed by the planets, satellites, and asteroids in the solar system, most of it is scattered throughout the universe.

The amount of this wasted energy is countless times the yield of known nuclear bombs in Blue Planet. Humanity has been busy for billions of years, and the energy of the fusion reactors created may not be as powerful as a star.

In fact, Blue Star scientists have put forward a conjecture in order to utilize the energy of stars. That is to build a Dyson sphere to completely surround the sun, so that the radiation energy of stars can be fully utilized.

Although Dyson underestimated the size of the sun and the difficulty of constructing 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 utilize it. Dyson spheres are not good. Dyson rings, or some grid-like things that surround the sun and absorb the sun's radiation energy and solar wind energy, still have a chance to be built.

Once 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 the need for a too powerful reactor of its own as power.

You must know that navigation outside the solar system and the interior of the solar system are completely different concepts. Although there are infinite galaxies in the universe, there is no way to know how many there are, but when it comes to each galaxy, it is actually quite sparse.

Especially the Orion Arm, where the solar system is located, is already on the outskirts of the Milky Way compared to the densely populated center of the Milky Way. The number of stars is not only small, but also far away.

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

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

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

The matter content in the universe, especially in galaxies like this, is pitifully low, lower than a man-made vacuum, so the idea of ​​collecting supplies on the road is basically unrealistic.

Therefore, the first task of a solar system spacecraft that wants to travel interstellarly 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 remaining fuel sources are those extracted from the gaseous planets, especially Jupiter.

Jupiter is the most sun-like planet 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 it, a large amount of deuterium, the raw material for fusion, should be obtained.

Because the reactor made by Yang Qing is similar to the principle of the sun. It uses high pressure and high temperature ignition. A large number of pressure arrays will limit the range of activity of neutrons, which are the most difficult to control in the reactor, and prevent them from affecting the inner wall materials of the reactor. Cause damage.

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

Slow neutrons could even be collected in some way and used as weapons 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 actually facing elimination due to limitations in attack distance and attack speed.

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

Unconsciously, the base seemed to have mastered the method of accelerating neutrons, and neutron beam weapons were put on the agenda.