manynovel Chapter 143 Dyson Cloud, the spectacle harms the country
Chapter 143 Dyson Cloud, the spectacle harms the country
I sat there for a while and looked at the progress of other research and development plans.
Su Wen said goodbye to Helena.
Leaving the research building of the Physics Department.
Immediately afterwards...
Came to the Engineering Department.
"Oh? Commander is here, nya?"
Before Su Wen entered the door, the cat ears on the top of Ming's head twitched and turned in his direction.
"Yeah, come and see."
"Is there anything I, the hands-off shopkeeper, can do for you?"
Su Wen said casually.
"It's not a particularly difficult problem, nya."
"However, there are plans that require the commander to review in person."
Akashi swung his tail and followed Su Wen.
He took him to his office.
Compared to Helena's office, the number of various access terminals in this control room is almost doubled.
It’s almost time to catch up with the glorious Governor’s Central Control Room.
Su Wen bypassed the pipelines and repeaters all over the ground and couldn't help but marveled.
Obviously, as a busy man who holds two positions at the same time, he holds two positions in the engineering research and development department and the industrial production department.
Akashi's workload is not much smaller.
If she hadn't been a perfect intelligent life evolved from a beta core...
I'm afraid the risk of death from overwork is inevitable.
"Now the Ministry of Industry, in addition to the production capacity support provided to the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Scientific Research, that is, the manufacturing of military fleets and engineering fleets, the biggest project is to build wonders... Ah, no, it is to build giant structures."
Akashi didn't know what Su Wen was thinking about, so he went straight to the point,
"If you include the 'Anti-Particle Cage' you just identified next door, Commander, there are quite a lot of projects that have been listed now."
Indeed, the Ministry of Industry currently has quite a lot of tasks.
We need to build warships for the Ministry of National Defense and an engineering fleet for the Ministry of Scientific Research.
A large amount of production capacity is also needed to provide labor for the construction tasks of its own department.
can only say...
At the moment, Su Wen is indeed a bit aggressive in his expansion.
Struggle with military force and ruin the country with spectacle,
We will vigorously develop infrastructure and deepen scientific research reforms.
It can be said that he jumped into any bottomless pit into which national power could be filled endlessly.
Highlight one who spends money like water.
Fortunately, with the help of a group of mental humanoids, and Su Wen's own previous plan, it was very reasonable.
This has barely supported the current development progress without depleting the national treasury or production capacity.
To be fair, if it were any other ordinary civilization,
When he first stepped out of his home planet, he should have gone bankrupt long ago by farming everywhere like this.
“The Reach Space Elevator has been basically completed, the main structure has been completely built, and it is now put into use.
There are only some small tasks such as interior decoration, and it will be completely completed soon - in fact, if you don't consider the interior decoration and the placement of some hardware equipment, it will actually be completed by now. "
"The construction of the space elevator on the far side of the moon has also begun...According to my estimation, due to the mass and gravity of the moon, the workload of this space elevator should be much smaller than that of the one on Reach."
Akashi said.
The structural size of the space elevator is closely related to the mass of the planet on which it is located.
Reach is very large and is considered a relatively large one among the jungle and ocean planets. Therefore, the amount of engineering required to build a space elevator on its equator is much larger than that on the Blue Star.
After all, this kind of facility has a lot to take into consideration.
The magnitude of gravity caused by the mass of the planet;
How fast the planet's axis rotates;
The amount of angular momentum brought by rotation;
The amount of air resistance caused by the density of the atmosphere...
All kinds of things.
In the universe, it is difficult to find two identical and identical planets.
So think about it from this perspective.
Every space elevator is tailor-made for a planet.
but...
Compared to Blue Star and Reach, construction on the moon is much simpler.
After all, it has a much smaller mass.
And it doesn’t even have an atmosphere.
It is a satellite in itself, and the engineering pressure brought by the 'planetary mass' is very small.
construction on such a low-mass, atmospheric satellite.
The most obvious benefit is that there is no need to build a very large space station at the end like in Reach, so that the space station can rotate around its axis and slow down the angular momentum torque caused by the rotation of the planet.
Not to mention there is no need to build a particularly huge base to simultaneously maintain stress balance on the ground.
There is no need for these on the moon.
Just take the super tensile material track and lay it down.
According to Akashi's estimate...
The space elevator on the moon is at most one-fiftieth the amount of work required by the one on Reach.
The latter is a road to heaven stretching for thousands of kilometers.
The former is much more compact, just a small tube with a length of about a hundred kilometers.
It doesn’t even take hundreds of kilometers.
With hard work, it is easy to compress the mileage to dozens of kilometers.
..
In addition to the Ministry of Defense shipbuilding, anti-particle cage bases, and the moon’s space elevator.
The Ministry of Industrial Production still has a big job on hand right now, which is the preparation of the Dyson Sphere of the central galaxy.
Dyson Cloud.
Dyson Cloud refers to the most primitive first step before the construction of a complete Dyson Sphere.
It is composed of countless solar sails orbiting the star.
Solar sails are usually hexagonal, octagonal, or simply circular structures.
The size is not necessarily the same, and the standards of each civilization may not be the same, but the diameter is usually within a few meters to tens of meters.
The side of the solar sail facing the star is slightly curved.
In order to improve the reception range of star light irradiation.
The other side houses the solar converter and ray generator.
The converter uses solar energy to generate electricity.
Convert the light of stars into endless abundant electricity.
The ray transmitter emits this power through microwave rays to the ray receiving station on the surface of the parent star.
...To put it bluntly, this thing is actually a solar power panel.
Of course, it is not a hard material, but a flexible material, so it is called a 'solar sail'.
But in terms of function, its use is no different from those solar panels placed on roofs and walls that are extremely common in cities and rural areas.
The only difference can only be that its placement, compared with the latter...
Closer to the sun.
Well, more than closer.
It's much, much closer.
Moreover, there are many more of these things.
Solar sails are not sustainable;
Although it doesn't break down very quickly and becomes consumable, it does have a lifespan.
A few years or a dozen years at most.
therefore...
If we want to obtain sustained energy, we can only continuously produce solar sails and replenish them in close orbits of stars.
If you can completely surround the entire star and increase the coverage of the Dyson cloud to 100%, thereby obtaining an endless power supply...
The number of solar sails required is at least eight or even nine figures.
It also depends on the size and mass of the star.
If it were a superstar, it might have to be expanded by another order of magnitude.
Because of this construction method, it is called the 'Dyson Cloud'.
To describe these solar sails that shroud the star in its close orbit and block its light, they themselves are like clouds one after another. The prototype of the giant structure they form is indeed like a dense sea of clouds.