Energy shortage, Liu Peiqiang is not alarmist, but something that really happened in the Xinghan civilization.

Some people may think that it is incredible, this Xinghan civilization has already mastered the powerful civilization of space technology, and there will be an energy shortage, isn't it a bit nonsense?

However, no, it is true that there is an imminent energy shortage.

It is precisely because the Xinghan civilization has been highly developed that there will be a shortage of energy.

Every adult can be assigned a small spaceship for free, and this spaceship alone is definitely a huge energy consumer.

You must know how huge the population base of the Xinghan civilization is, a huge population calculated in Jingzhao, coupled with the development of science and technology, it has an extremely large number of spaceships, space warships, and countless space factories.

All of this is a big energy guster.

If nothing else, a factory in space alone consumes more energy than the entire earth consumes in the age of the earth.

If it weren't for the fact that controlled nuclear fusion technology has already been mastered, and the nuclear fusion reactor is getting smaller and smaller, most of the major energy consumers use controllable nuclear fusion reactors as energy sources, it is estimated that Xinghan would have been short of energy long ago.

Energy, since the Industrial Revolution, has become an important factor in human development.

From the earliest use of coal, to later oil, electricity, to nuclear energy, 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 it needs.

Even though it has mastered the technology of small-scale controllable nuclear fusion, the energy of the Xinghan civilization has become increasingly tight over the years, and the price of fuel related to controlled nuclear fusion has also risen again and again.

The population base of the Xinghan civilization is too huge, and the key is that there are too many places that need to use energy.

Moreover, the population of Xinghan is still growing explosively, which means that more energy will be needed in the future, and traditional nuclear energy has become more and more difficult to meet the huge energy needs of Xinghan civilization.

In the future, if space technology is further developed and space teleportation technology becomes more and more mature, it can eventually be installed on spacecraft, so that spaceships can also be teleported to adjacent river systems through space, which requires even more 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 is no longer enough to satisfy the huge appetite.

Scientists have set their sights on controllable antimatter technology, the energy produced by the annihilation of antimatter and positive matter is hundreds of millions of times that of nuclear fusion, and the energy released by one gram of antimatter is almost equivalent to the energy released by three Hiroshima nuclear bombs, and the antimatter needed to destroy the earth is only a few tens of grams.

This is where the power of antimatter energy comes in.

A long time ago, the Xinghan civilization had already mastered the antimatter bomb, but this antimatter bomb and the controllable antimatter reactor were completely different things.

One is an elementary school problem and one is an advanced math problem, and the two are not on an equal order at all.

Xinghan's scientists have been studying this thing for a long time, but because antimatter is extremely unstable, once it encounters any positive matter, it will immediately annihilate, and when it is annihilated, it will produce extremely powerful and terrifying energy, so the controllable antimatter reactor has become a problem.

However, with the development of space science and technology, especially the development of space folding technology and space blockade technology, scientists have finally found a way to solve this problem.

The method is very simple, using space folding and space blockade to form a unique space dedicated to antimatter annihilation, so as to successfully realize the control and safety problems of antimatter reactions.

"It's solved, this space-time gate is too big, too manpower-consuming, material, financial, and time-consuming, it takes thousands of years to build this space-time gate alone, which is seriously not in line with the speed of the cosmic era."

Hearing Liu Peiqiang's words, Qin Yi nodded happily.

Looking at the huge space-time gate in front of me, when I was in it, I had to be deeply shocked by this huge space project, it was too big.

But Qin Yi also clearly knew how expensive this gate of time and space was, and the resources consumed to build a gate of time and space were too great.

One of the most important reasons for this is the energy issue.

To achieve space teleportation, to cross great distances in a very short time through the space-time portal, it requires an extremely large amount of power, and it is obviously not possible to use a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, which can only use stars as energy.

And it's not that one or two stars are enough, dozens of stars are needed.

The size of the star is so large, and it is only natural that this space-time gate will have to be built very large.

If a controllable antimatter reactor could be used to replace the star, the space-time gate could be built in a very small size, and there would be no need to waste so much resources and time to build it.

"It's really too big, too resource-consuming, and in order to build this space-time gate, the Magellanic system has hollowed out a lot of star fields here."

"It's still no problem to build a few space-time gates, but if there are too many, we won't be able to bear it, and we won't have enough resources to build this space-time gate, unless we go to mine the black hole."

Ye Zhiqiu, who was on the side, also nodded and said, he is the chief engineer of this space-time gate, and he knows too well the resources consumed by this space-time gate.

All of them are made of degenerate materials, and degenerate materials are all materials constructed from an atomic point of view, and dozens or hundreds of tons of steel are used to create degenerate materials, which may only be able to create a little bit, and how much steel does it need to build this huge space-time gate?

That's an astronomical amount.

That is, the interstellar era of the universe, occupying the vast void, the universe is extremely rich in materials, and it can be mined at will, otherwise, where will there be so many resources to create a gate of time and space for you.

"Get the controllable antimatter technology out as soon as possible, and use the antimatter technology to act as an energy source when you build a space-time gate in the future, and then build ten or eight space-time gates at a time, and you can expand several river systems at one time."

Qin Yi smiled and nodded, and then said happily.

There is no doubt that the 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.

The second is also for the safety of the Xinghan civilization itself, the galaxy is too small, and the Xinghan civilization is only expanding in these areas around the galaxy now, and it knows too little about the entire vast universe.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a huge territory with the Milky Way as the center, and at least hundreds of river systems around the Milky Way can be included in the territory of Xinghan, so that a relatively safe area can be constructed.

"There aren't many people in the Andromeda Galaxy now, not even in the center of the Milky Way, even if we have a hundred river systems, we can't develop them for the time being."

A huge Ye Zhiqiu pouted and said, Qin Yi likes to expand externally, since the establishment of the Xinghan civilization, the Xinghan civilization has been constantly expanding, and it is almost rare to stop.

Therefore, although the population of the Xinghan civilization has been constantly exploding and getting bigger and bigger, Xinghan has always been vast and sparsely populated, and there are large and large areas of land that no one has developed them, and there are large and large areas of star fields that are empty, which is a bit of a violent feeling.

"Development or not development is another matter, the territory must be large, so that there is enough room for maneuver, not to mention, with our development speed, in fact, it will not take too long, I estimate that in a million years at most, this galaxy and Andromeda information will be overcrowded."

Liu Peiqiang smiled and shook his head and said, it is one thing to have a vast land and sparsely populated territory, and it is another thing to have a huge territory, as long as there is a huge territory, enough living space and resources, whether there is anyone to develop it can also be taken slowly, no matter what, first grab the territory.

"Our national policy determines that we can quickly become strong and rise, and it also determines that we must continue to expand externally and seize more space and resources."

"It's still early, it's just the expansion around the galaxy, for the entire huge universe, this range is estimated to be a very insignificant point, and only when we have thoroughly eaten up space technology can we really appear in the eyes of the universe powerhouses."

Qin Yi also said with a smile, from the time when the national policy of Xinghan civilization was formulated, Qin Yi knew that the Xinghan civilization must continue to expand externally and constantly migrate to new territories.

If you don't expand, you can't meet the growing population, and once that time comes, then the population that explodes inside alone will kill the Xinghan civilization, and there is a high probability that the Xinghan civilization will be divided internally, competing with each other for resources and space for survival.

This is obviously a situation that Qin Yi doesn't want to see, so he must expand externally, even if he encounters a powerful opponent and is beaten on the head and bleeding, it is better than his own people attacking his own people and being cruel to his own people.

What's more, in the cosmic era, you don't have a huge population base, you don't have a huge territory, what do you use to compete with other powerful races?