Faced with the rainbow he saw with his own eyes for the first time, Technician Su, who had been buried in boring technical materials before, directly threw the learning task out of the clouds. An artistic heart is burning, the photographer's personality is instantly online, and I can't wait to start this collection journey.

Su Zhao was so excited that he was perverted on the spot, no, it was deformation, and it wasn't, he was actually wearing protective armor. A set of procedures is familiar with the road, and the duo rushed to the shore where the rainbow appeared on the shuttle, and began the filming of the third episode of the straw star nature documentary "Natural Rhythm".

The three of them have a tacit understanding and remarkable results, and after the film is released, it will definitely be able to surprise the four and win a lot of applause, anyway, Director Su thinks so, and has the ability to find a voice with opposing opinions from Straw Star.

After filming the rainbow river, I flew to the offshore sea for a few laps. The scenery on the sea is really monotonous, that is, the black and blue water with no end in sight, and the nearest island shown on the map is still far, far away, and Su Zhao, who is playing the same, is not interested, and goes back to Sirius to maintain.

By the time the maintenance was completed and some of the minor problems caused by the crazy skiing last night were solved, the snow outside had melted away.

After Su Zhao issued an order to use rock to build a support structure for the pipeline, the ship's automaton staff began their work the next day, and I looked at the results of the work of the probes during this time, that is, some regional resource data submitted.

"Let me be Kangkang, well, the resources are very sufficient, you did a good job, and you really picked a good place, I still wonder if you are fooling me, it turns out that I am waiting for me."

"Well, rich in rare metals, the mining area is not small. Silicon-group minerals are abundant in this rocky area, as well as many rock formations left by volcanic activity. Well, there are many gemstones in diamonds, but they can be used to make optical parts; There is also combustible gas in very low glaciers, but it can be used as a synthetic raw material for conventional fuels. ”

Su Zhao was dazzled by the abundant mineral resources, although his current industrial capacity was still very weak, and Sirius' machining capacity could only use a small part of it.

However, as the saying goes, if you have food in your hands and don't panic in your heart, these resources are the basic guarantee for the smooth development of industry in the future.

Su Zhao sorted out the main goals of the future industry.

The first step is to focus on the main objective of producing conventional fuels, to determine the extracted resources on the required raw materials, and to manufacture the corresponding extraction equipment and refining units. Although I don't know how to make it yet, I believe that there will be technical reserves in those materials.

At the same time, with all the resources at hand, the first artificial intelligence host was modified, and under the condition that he had detailed information and a core optical brain, there was great hope of achieving this goal by relying on the processing capacity of automatic machinery.

Then the main function of the first artificial host produced should be set to industrial production, presumably such a federal high-tech can better plan and allocate all the resources of Sirius than itself.

"So let's just filter out the resources needed to produce the fuel for the ion engine, and I think about what we need...... Well, check the information and check the information......"

The principle of the ion engines used by the Federation Starship is related to the dynamics of space travel, which is briefly described in the materials.

Unlike planetary environments, where the abundance of matter particles in the space environment is close to a vacuum, starships need to follow the most basic principle of reaction force and output extremely high kinetic energy in order to obtain kinetic energy.

And the magnitude of kinetic energy depends on two aspects, muzzle velocity and mass. The plasma state is the high-energy state of matter, and the process of the particles of matter constituent being separated from each other due to the intensification of high-energy interaction is macroscopic expansion.

The higher the energy, the faster the expansion rate, which determines the initial velocity of the ejection, and the mass of the particle itself carries this energy to provide a huge amount of kinetic energy.

This is also the reason why the Antimatter Engine and the Fusion Engine cannot be used directly for Starship propulsion.

The annihilation reaction of the former produces a large number of high-energy rays, but there are basically no matter particles. High-energy light does not have a basic concept of mass, and the light energy carried by it does not exist without the carrying of material particles.

In layman's terms, kinetic energy is the energy that an object has in motion, but high-energy light is not considered a substance. Naturally, this reaction does not provide a reaction force to the spacecraft.

The same is true for fusion reactions, which is a process in which material particles lose energy, and the reaction mainly releases light energy, although there are also material particles generated, but the kinetic energy level of particles is not ideal, and how to direct the flow of these particles is also a huge problem.

The principle of the warp engine is that antimatter drives the warp to generate the warp field in front of the expanding spacecraft, so that the space field behind the starship pushes the starship forward because of the density difference, because it is a kind of spatial movement without providing kinetic energy.

The popular explanation of the principle is like discharging the liquid in front of the liquid in a fluid similar to water, and the liquid behind will flow and replenish on its own, and the effect of position movement can be achieved by the movement of the fluid without the kinetic energy provided by the object itself.

And the Federation's long-ago warp navigation theory also has an interesting little oolong. The first people to conceive of the idea imagined the warp principle as a compressed space, calculating an incredible figure for energy consumption that even today's federation cannot achieve.

Later, people of insight used the evolving space field theory combined with fluid mechanics to point out the conjecture of the expansion of space, which was in line with the theory of the expansion of the universe. This theoretical guidance led to the development of an epoch-making prototype of a space-warping device just a few decades later.

Later, the rapid development of navigation technology in the Federation enabled mankind to step out of the solar system for the first time and enter the magnificent Age of Interstellar Discovery.

This theory has also been described by historians as a stepping stone for mankind to knock on the door of interstellar civilization, and its emergence opened the prelude to the interstellar era.

"It's a fork, but no matter how many times I've seen the development of warp speed in history textbooks, I'm still very excited, it's a great invention. Okay, okay, let's move on to the knowledge of plasma. ”

The principle of the ion engine is to inject the material in the plasma state, and the huge energy provided by the fusion unit has greatly expanded the concept of combustible substances in the original engine fuel, which is the metal fuel used in the ion engine today.

The plasma state of metal-based raw materials has an extremely high energy level, which can provide a huge muzzle velocity, and its own mass density is extremely high, and the combination of the two can provide a huge kinetic energy.

Other advantages include simple industrial production, solid properties that make the combustion efficiency ratio extremely high, and the proportion of storage space required is very low; In addition, the stable state brings a high degree of safety, and it is very convenient to store and transport radioactive heavy metal elements.

The most commonly used metal element is gold, which is the main component of the conventional fuel used in the Sirius ion engine, and the others are auxiliary elements similar to additives. That is to say, if there is gold, it can be operated continuously, and if there is anything else, it will be more efficient, and it will be successful if there is none.

After watching it for a long time, Su Zhao finally figured out that the conventional fuel used in the starship's ion engine was not the same thing at all.

While the powerful ion engine is compatible with these combustibles, and even stones have a way of heating you to a plasma state, the energy efficiency of these things is not enough for a massive starship.

Either the power is not enough to fly at all, or although the power is enough, the storage ratio is not high, and the flying star will run out of fuel.

All kinds of metals are the qualified mistakes of the starship's ion engine, and gold is its favorite.

However, it is a pity that it cannot eat the metal elements with high radiation, because the essence of strong radiation, that is, the escaping neutrons, the particle flow formed cannot be constrained because of the electric neutrality of the neutrons, which will damage the engine itself.

Fortunately, starships generally have a variety of neutron protection layers, that is, it is okay to drop radioactive elements, and a small amount will be absorbed by the neutron protection of the ion engine, and eating it is diarrhea.

Su Zhao rubbed his temples, lay on a chair and looked into the distance, soothing the eye fatigue and brain discomfort caused by reading for a long time.

"Anyway, if you find gold, you'll be able to satisfy the appetite for the ion engine, right? I remember that gold is enriched in the interior of the stars on ordinary planets, and surface gold needs to be mined and refined, and the abundance of natural gold is generally not high.

The Federation is a gold mine found near large stars such as various stars, and most of them are in simple form, no wonder they are called conventional fuel, and the price is almost the cost of transportation. ”

Sighing, I could only hope that I was lucky enough to find a shallow mining area with acceptable gold content on this planet, so I connected the gold element as an index to the host's detection database.

"Wow, what a big piece of natural gold!! There really is such a good thing! ”

The data shows that there are some exposed gold elements on the shallow surface near Qingshan, and there is a piece of natural gold with a large volume in the rock below that has been induced by a magnetic field, with a preliminary estimated mass of about 6 tons and an upper surface depth of 7.24 meters. The rest of the data is some mining data, but it doesn't matter, anyway, there is no corresponding refining method now.

Su Zhao hurriedly rushed to the vehicle cabin and entered the power mecha, came to the surface and asked the heavy shuttle to lift the power mecha to the destination, and at the same time instructed all flight units to load the corresponding automatic machinery and go together.

"Little ones, all of them, come with me to be a gold miner and open a gold mine!"