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Chapter 217 New Energy in the Interstellar Era

Chapter 217 New Energy in the Interstellar Era

The Underworld of the Moon.

In the underground space of the main mining base, located in the center of the deep mine shaft leading directly to the moon, there was a sudden "bang" like a waterfall, and silver liquid metal poured out!

These are exactly the 500-ton mechanical bugs that Nie Yun separated out. They have been dredging and leveling the mine all the way, and now they have finally completed their task and arrived at this underground base.

This means... Nie Yun's energy crystals in the underground space are about to enter the stage of large-scale mining!

After a large amount of liquid metal landed, it immediately turned into nearly ten thousand small robots, and began to drill into every corner of the core area of ​​the base with short legs, repair equipment, replace parts, and upgrade mining technology.

The original ant robot production workshop was replaced by Nie Yun's small robot production line, and the spherical mining vehicle manufacturing plant was restored and reopened...

After tens of thousands of years of silence, this base has regained the breath of civilization!

The huge base covers an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers. Even if such a large number of robots enter it, it is like a mud cow entering the sea. It only occupies a few key functional buildings and core areas, and it is unable to expand. It is far from completely digesting the resources in this base. Think about it for a while.

Restoration and transformation on the basis of the original base is much faster than Nie Yun's re-establishment of the same scale of mining capacity. If the existing underground mining sub-bases are counted, this mining system left by the aliens will save Nie Yun. Clouds quite a bit of the time.

And the large amount of steel materials inside the base also provided the mechanical bugs with enough devouring materials. Although the aging was serious, it was like instant noodles that had been soaked for a long time. Except for the poor taste, Nie Yun said that the mechanical bugs were not picky eaters.

But the mechanical bug only eats steel, if you look at it from this point of view, then it's a bit too picky!

"In the future, I have to find a way to change your stinking problem. It's what your parents got used to when you were young!" Nie Yun expressed dissatisfaction with this characteristic of the mechanical bug.

Mechanical bug: "..."

As for why the mechanical bugs only eat steel, Nie Yun has not yet come to a definite conclusion. With the current level of microscopic observation, even with the scanning tunneling microscope with the highest magnification, it can only observe a single object by non-visual means at best. atom.

But the volume of atomic nucleus-level mechanical bugs is only hundreds of billionths of the atomic volume. Even with Nie Yun's technological development speed, it is not possible to observe the atomic nucleus in a short period of time.

If there is any way to shorten this time, Nie Yun said that he can only look forward to visitors from afar. After all, no one is rich without windfall...

……

Soon, the first batch of soil containing traces of energy crystal particles was collected, and they were directly thrown into a liquid pool of mechanical bugs. After being decomposed and swallowed by the mechanical bugs, a piece of soil slid out from the outlet below 10 minutes later. A cubic energy crystal with a length of only 1 cm.

From the point of view of cutting, transportation and ease of use, the cube shape is undoubtedly the most suitable. Nie Yun has already planned to use this specification of energy crystals as the standard energy blocks used by his machines.

Although the volume is small, the energy contained in it is comparable to a small nuclear fusion power station. If it is installed on a small robot, it can run at full power for thousands of years.

However, Nie Yun naturally would not be so extravagant to use this precious energy crystal on this small machine. This kind of high-density energy substance can only reflect its true value in high-power weapons and equipment!

For example, just obtained the graviton technology, the core component of the gravitational bomb is indeed installed with this kind of energy crystal!

From the perspective of consumption, the graviton collection device is quite normal, but the energy consumed by the stand shield is simply an astronomical figure!

Even if Nie Yun has nuclear fusion miniaturization technology, if nuclear fusion is used instead of energy crystals to maintain the operation of the position shield for a long time, then the volume of fuel consumed alone is enough to fill the entire bomb.

From the perspective of interstellar navigation, the quality of nuclear fuel that a space battleship can carry is limited. If you encounter a battle, using the stand shield can greatly improve the protection, but after a battle, your fuel reserves You have to spend seven, seven, eighty-eight.

In this case, the endurance combat capability of the battleship will be greatly limited, and even a huge logistics fleet will be required to follow in order to fight remotely.

Look at the history of modern human science and technology development, from coal for steam engines, to fuel oil for internal combustion engines, to electricity in the age of electrification, and the age of nuclear energy that has not yet fully arrived.

There is a close relationship between the stage of technological development of civilization and the energy and matter currently used!Every industrial revolution can be said to be a large-scale popularization of new energy!

Judging from the structure of the gravitational bomb, this malicious alien civilization not only has graviton technology, but has also developed the technology to use energy crystals.

In addition, the Aerys Civilization, the creators of the lunar relic civilization and the mechanical bugs, both have mining and internal records of such things as energy crystals.

The commonality of the three shows that such things as energy crystals are not uncommon in the universe!And it is also used by advanced civilizations as an advanced energy source of nuclear energy.

In Nie Yun's view, energy crystals... are the necessary new energy sources in the interstellar era!

This kind of substance can't even be analyzed by mechanical bugs, which means that it can hardly be produced by ordinary means, and it belongs to non-renewable energy. If you look at the oil war, you will know that if its quantity is scarce, it will inevitably become a kind of human. People scramble for precious resources!

So to a certain extent, the reserve of energy crystals can greatly affect your interstellar war potential.

It was precisely because Nie Yun saw the amazing development potential of this kind of thing that he stepped up the pace of mining, and even prepared to leave a nail here even if the war lost the solar system!

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Just as the development of multiple bases on the moon gradually spread out, the recovered mechanical bugs of the two alien probes finally approached the target!

Near the two Lagrangian points, the two micro-thrusters started jetting in opposite directions and slowly decelerated to approach the wreckage of the two probes.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, the two propellers began to deform and expand, and soon transformed into two film-shaped capture nets of about one kilometer.

20km…10km…5km…

The distance between the two sides approached rapidly, and finally, the giant net came into contact with the wreckage. Under the action of inertia, the extremely tough capture net was hindered by the wreckage and then directly rebounded and wound up, enveloping several pieces of wreckage layer by layer.

Soon, the mechanical bugs penetrated into the wreckage of the probe, and visible to the naked eye, a silver speck began to expand on the wreckage...

(End of this chapter)