Chapter 48 Space Power Station
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's Asahi Shimbun correspondent Hitomi Shimazu who is streaming live the trial of Liu Weiping, who admitted that he failed to crack the Union Coin, but he denied the theft, and now he is defending himself. www.biquge.info"Hitomi Shimazu stood in a dedicated seat for the media, wearing Samsung glasses and not letting go of any detail of the scene, she whispered and spoke, only the sensors on the glasses could pick up the vibrations of her face and get her live voice.
"The Union Coin has not been cracked! Bottomed out! In the City of London, foreign exchange traders from various banks stared at the quotation screens, and they did not dare to make a sound, and on the wall above them was the trial screen of the League of Nations court. Hitomi Shimazu's words stabilized traders from the initial panic, and they began to buy large sums of Union Coins.
In the global foreign exchange market, the alliance currency rose like a straight line, Karl wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Jerry, "I finally got through it, and I will notify the participating countries of Zeus's plan to hold a meeting." β
On the flea market outside the international bank, the gray-haired old man was arguing, "How can you say that it will rise, how can the alliance coin jump so fast?" "The old man holding bitcoin yelled around the old man who sold the alliance coin.
The old man who sold the alliance currency tightly covered the bag in his hand, "Look up, what is the market, I won't change it, you can keep the bitcoin for yourself." The old man didn't know where the spirit came from, so he rushed out of the encirclement, spread his legs and ran away, leaving a group of old men staring blankly at the alliance coins that were still rising.
The accusations against Liu Weiping did not go as smoothly as the recovery price of the Union Coin, Liu Weiping was well versed in the legal terms, he spared the specific details, found the loopholes in the trial process, the League of Nations Constitution had just been formulated, there was no global civil law, and the specific charges against Liu Weiping were governed by Swiss local laws. Liu Weiping's argument that his Bitcoin wallet already existed in the seti@home and that he asked for a trial under pre-split U.S. law is a paradox, and there is no way to sentence him for such a procedure if it were to be carried out in this way.
Could it be that Campbell's trial of Liu Weiping entered a protracted lawsuit. Karl no longer cares about the outcome of Liu Weiping's trial, his main goal has been achieved, bitcoin has completely stinked, and the alliance coin is getting stronger and stronger, and it is gradually becoming the world's reserve currency.
With continued stimulus from the World Bank, the League of Nations has taken bold steps to expand its finances and increase its deficit balance. Driven by the Zeus plan, the business industry has set off an unprecedented wave of investment, and the results have even exceeded Karl's own expectations.
The Zeus Project is a stimulus project on the wireless energy information network launched by the Carr administration, mobilizing thousands of countries to participate, all large companies, scientific research institutions, and universities with R&D strength, from basic new materials to innovative smart grid management programs, and the historical Apollo Program and the Manhattan Project are a piece of cake compared to it.
Four years after the end of the war, the world has truly ushered in a period of great dividends of globalization, and earth-shaking changes are taking place on the earth, and the source of all changes will continue to return to the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan.
After the railgun successfully launched a ton of experimental payload into low earth orbit, Boston Dynamics' space operation robots were launched one after another, using the materials launched in the early stage to build a circular truss with a diameter of 3.6 meters on a 200-kilometer orbit, these foam aluminum-silicon-titanium alloy materials are light and hard, and will become the structural materials of the experimental space power station.
Next is the plasma engine developed by AVIC, which uses xenon as the working medium fuel, and the energy from the solar power station vaporizes the liquid xenon into plasma, which is then heated to 6 million degrees by electromagnetic waves and sprayed out at a speed of 300 km/s, although the quality of the ejection is very low, but it can continuously accelerate the main body of the power station, and finally push the experimental power station to the sun-synchronous orbit of 850 kilometers.
The first 400 kilowatt plasma engine failed during launch, and when it arrived at the truss to complete the docking and self-inspection, it was found that the internal structure had been damaged.
Under the careful manipulation of the Houston control center, the relaunched plasma engine and the truss were successfully docked, and the space operation robot came up and screwed them tightly together.
Now it's Saturn's turn to Energy, their first batch of silicone materials were launched, more than 30 meters long carbon fiber conductive filaments radiated along the space truss, under zero gravity conditions, the conductive filaments were arranged by the robot into an umbrella shape and stretched out, the liquid silicone relied on surface tension along the conductive filaments to slowly grow and solidify, and a thin film disc with a diameter of 36 meters grew on the truss. Saturn Energy has provided silicone thin film materials with a photoelectric conversion efficiency of more than 70%, and this experimental power station will only provide 1M watts of power, which is equivalent to the size of an ordinary wind turbine on the earth, but the total investment is more than any thermal power station on the earth, no wonder Prime Minister Karl urgently needs to set up a World Bank to control the coinage rights.
Kanto NEC Electric Co., Ltd. undertook the power transmission and distribution project, Wangwu Mountain in the northwest of Henan Province is 1,700 meters above sea level, and it is said that it is the place where the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor worships the heavens, such as the highest peak where the altar is located today has been flattened, and a huge concrete base and UHVDC power station have been built. A 20-kilometer-long carbon nanotube made by NEC is suspended into the stratosphere by a set of giant high-altitude balloons, which serve as both a rope and a power line to hold the balloon in place.
Below the stratospheric balloon is the ground microwave receiving station, the transmitting antenna at the end of the space power station has long been installed in place, when passing over the Central Plains, the transmitting antenna will be adjusted by the computer to align with the satellite receiving station antenna on the balloon, there is only one power station in the experimental stage, so the ground power grid only has a time window of two hours to accept the energy of the space power station. When completed, the twelve space power stations will be able to supply power to any group of receiving stations in the stratosphere.
Saturn Energy, State Grid, China Mobile, Zhongyuan Urban Investment and Magic Investment, composed of five companies, the Central Plains Network is in full swing along the streets and alleys of Henan to transform street lights, Magic Investment in the Union currency issuance, continue to increase the purchase of public bonds, when the Central Plains Network was formed, it became one of the initiators.
By the summer of 15, the last launch mission was to replenish the space power station with liquid xenon. Karl held a press conference to broadcast the orbit adjustment mission of the space power station live to the world. According to the schedule provided by the Houston Control Center, Carl chose a time window of 9 p.m. EDT. After docking with the space power station, the liquid xenon is injected into the fuel compartment of the plasma engine through a high-pressure valve.
At the order of Houston, residents throughout North China saw a bright comet appear in the night sky, millions of degrees of plasma erupted from the tail of the plasma engine of the space power station were brilliant, and countless people left the TV screen and ran under the night sky to watch the space power station move to orbit. Under the attention of hundreds of millions of people on the earth, the space power station has been successfully moved from low earth orbit to 850 kilometers of polar orbit, the space power station no longer supplies power to the plasma engine, and 1M watts of clean energy is transmitted to the substation in Wangwushan every 22 hours.
All the companies involved in the experimental project of the space power station are in a state of loss, and only two companies are making a lot of money. Samsung's wireless-powered glasses and mobile phones are on sale in the Central Plains, with 20 million units shipped in the first month of their launch. The other is Samsung's old rival Xiaomi company, Xiaomi saw that Samsung won the first place in the mobile phone business, and quickly launched a new generation of Internet car Xiaomi 3 type, Xiaomi 3 type car as its name, carbon fiber body is only 80 kilograms, fully loaded with two passengers can be wireless power supply at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour unmanned cruise.
The Xiaomi Mi 3 electric vehicle was in short supply immediately after it was launched on the market, and it was once sold out of stock. But a new problem immediately appeared,Xiaomi3The engine power is set to600W,It is equipped with built-in charge and discharge capacitors to facilitate climbing and audio-visual entertainment,The maximum power supply does not exceed 1000W,This is already the upper limit of the power supply of the Central Plains networkγ
Xiaomi Mi 3 according to the number of one-third of the number of simultaneous driving on the road is estimated to be 3000 vehicles in the first phase, which has made Samsung seriously protest, although the loss of microwave and UHV transmission lines is minimal, but the total power of the solar power station in the experiment is only 1M watts, and the glasses mobile phone users in the Central Plains are going to compete with Xiaomi electric car users for wireless power.
Seeing that there are constantly Xiaomi electric vehicles, one of the shareholders of the Central Plains Network, the State Grid, decided to connect the wireless energy information network under construction to the North China Power Grid, and the North China Power Grid will ensure the adequate supply of the wireless energy information network, which allows Xiaomi to produce 3 types of electric vehicles at full capacity.
Seeing such a good response from the market, Saturn Energy has stepped up its lobbying efforts to the League of Nations, and Chancellor Karl is anxious about Liu Weiping's case, and he can't take care of Saturn Energy's affairs.
At the beginning of Liu Weiping's trial, the two factions for and against were still excitedly engaged in a war of words, but with the issuance of the alliance currency and the gradual unfolding of the Zeus project, the world saw the hope of economic recovery, and the attention to Liu Weiping became less and less. Later, only a few legal and artificial intelligence professionals paid attention to the progress of the case, and these people thought more and more deeply.
Seeing Liu Weiping's skillful use of legal tools to defend himself, many people panicked, believing that artificial intelligence has gone beyond the scope of imitating humans, and no matter what, with the popularity of quantum computers, the three laws of robotics will be broken sooner or later.
There are also those who believe that Carr's trial of Liu Weiping is a mistake, and that the application of artificial intelligence to the constitution of the alliance is also a mistake, that human beings themselves have given up their leadership over artificial intelligence, and that it is increasingly intolerable to let a robot sit in the courtroom and debate with the justice, and that human beings are the highest intelligence in the universe, which is absolutely unchallengeable.
There was even a proposal for Justice Campbell's resignation, which gradually developed into a mainstream voice, and a Justice of the League of Nations in his seventies could not even handle a robot, which was simply an insult to mankind.
Campbell couldn't stand it anymore, he found Prime Minister Karl, "Mr. Prime Minister, you must know the discussion outside, I'm afraid I'm really going to resign, and this case can't go any further." β
Karl also frowned, "This robot is not the point, there are disputes in the countries around Lake Victoria, the Luao militia of the Republic of Ansar crossed the lake and attacked the construction site of the Chinese nuclear project, and now the tension in the Mwanza area is on the verge of breaking out." You have to help me get Liu Weiping done as soon as possible, and you can't delay it any longer. β
"There's nothing I can do about it, and some people advocate just unplugging him, and I don't have to talk to him about human benevolence and morality." Campbell was exhausted.
"No! This is too dangerous, you see, the consultation mechanism of the League of Nations is still being established, and there will be war in East Africa soon, and the world cannot continue to be so disorderly. Carl had just finished speaking, and before Campbell could answer, the door was pushed open by Jerry.
"Mr. Prime Minister, Houston's urgent report, on Channel Six!" Jerry switched to Channel Six. It is the monitoring information of the space power station, the quiet space picture is motionless, the stars on the distant canopy have become light spots because the focal length of the monitoring head is too close, the power station has just run to the back of the earth, and the back of the solar film emits a part of the earth's penumbra, and the near situation can be clearly seen.
"What's the situation?" Carl looked at everything and thought it was strange, "Mr. Prime Minister, this is the preserved footage. Jerry explained, "Start playing!" Hearing Jerry's command, the TV screen began to move. First, the whole picture shook for a while, and then I saw holes in the organic film.
"Is it an alien invasion?" Campbell was startled when he saw the picture.
"No, according to the Houston report, this is a space meteorite that shattered under the action of gravity as it approached the Earth, piercing the organic film of Saturn's energy." Jerry held the report co-authored by Houston and Saturn Energy and placed it on Carl's desk.
"How could such a coincidence happen?" Karl asked, curriedly flipped through the report.
"Mr. Prime Minister, this is indeed a small probability event, but the report concludes that if the twelve power stations are fully deployed in the sun-synchronous orbit in the future, it will be a high probability event, and the broken film will continue to shrink under the action of surface tension." Jerry replied cautiously.
"What's the solution?" Carl asked.
"Yes! For large meteorites, install laser cannons on the space power station to break them, and for the damage caused by the debris, it is necessary to establish a space duty team to be responsible for continuously repairing the damage caused by the meteorite, and Houston's suggestion is to use robots to undertake this work. β
"Does the media know?" Carl asked again, and Jerry shook his head, "The Central Plains Network is now connected to the North China Power Grid for power generation, and the people in the Central Plains region don't know that their solar power supply has been interrupted." β
"Inform the media immediately, and I want the whole world to know." Karl commanded.