Shengshi Technology will equip the earth with a pair of huge wings. Eventually, there will be a 26.4 million square kilometre solar harvesting system on each side of the planet, each roughly equivalent to the land area of three Chinese countries.

The solar energy harvesting system designed by Shengshi will be connected to the earth with a 60-meter-diameter 'cable', which does not rotate with the rotation of the earth, but adjusts the angle with the rotation of the earth, always facing the sun.

With such a pair of huge 'wings' providing energy for mankind 24 hours a day, at least for four billion years, human beings on the earth will never face the dilemma of energy shortage, and there will be no need to use dangerous energy sources.

This 'wing' provides green clean energy, and it will also be green because of its use of light energy, which is based on chloroplasts.

The whole pair of 'wings' is actually two giant plant leaves, which will convert light energy into chemical energy, and then further convert it into electrical energy or directly output chemical energy as needed.

In order to protect the chloroplasts and simulate the light environment of the earth, the light reaching the chloroplasts is covered by multi-level shielding and a certain degree of Rayleigh scattering.

According to the design of Shengshi, the entire pair of 'wings' will eventually grow into a daily energy supply of up to 130 trillion kilowatt hours, enough for all mankind to give up other energy sources and use only the energy provided by the space solar energy harvesting system to meet the energy needs of the entire earth.

Each pair of wings will weigh up to 660 million tons.

In order to realize this plan, the people of Shengshi first had to install a 'belt' on the earth - the base of the space solar energy collection system.

On November 27th, when the Shengshi terminal was released, the Shengshi people had completed the 'belt' they assembled for the earth.

In the air 5 kilometers above sea level, the Shengshi people used an alloy frame composed of various metals to build a complete ring of pedestals on the 'belly' of the earth.

The 'belt' installed by Shengshi is 80 meters wide, and there is a set of brackets every ten kilometers. In total, nearly 4,000 sets of brackets support the pedestal.

This 'belt' was not built on the equator, but on a coil of latitude at 0:30 degrees north latitude. There are no important cities on the circle of 0:30 north latitude, and the pedestal is built high enough that it does not have much impact on humans on Earth.

The reason why Shengshi Technology uses a cable that slides on the pedestal to connect the solar energy harvesting system in space is mainly based on cost considerations, which is low in construction cost now and lower in the future. Another reason is that the cable can be used as a space elevator.

The nearly 4,000 sets of brackets not only play a supporting role and serve as a transmission channel for electricity and materials, but also undertake another important task, collecting nutrients.

Nearly 4,000 sets of brackets are not only connected to Shengshi Technology's factory near the brackets, but also have countless branches like tree roots, which are deeply rooted in the ground in the shape of tree roots, and will automatically collect various raw materials and then directly transport them to outer space through 'cables'.

Except for a very small number of materials launched by rockets, 660 million tons of materials need to be transported to the blades of the 'wings' through those supports and 'cables'.

While the employees of Shengshi Technology were busy building the pedestal, the rocket launch team that Mark participated in had launched ten super giant rockets developed by Shengshi Technology in the launch base of Space Exploration Technology Company, which Mark sold to Shengshi Technology, in the United States, and sent two sets of equipment with a total weight of 1,460 tons to an altitude of 65,900 kilometers and assembled them into two sets of 'big guys'.

The two 'big guys' launched first are the main power system and control part of the entire space solar energy harvesting system, which will serve as the interface between the 'cable' and the solar energy harvesting system, and also act as the power system, pulling the 'cable' connected to the ground to operate at high altitude outside the ground.

In the future, they will also control the angle and attitude of the entire collection system, so that the entire collection system will always face the sun, and the efficiency of the collection system will not be affected by the inclination of the earth. More importantly, they will also power huge solar harvesting systems to avoid possible asteroids, meteorites, and comets in space.

The two power systems are fully deployed at a predetermined height and are triangular in shape, each covering an area of 9.2 square kilometers, which is all solar panels and weighs a total of 230 tons. The other 500 tons are a set of small inertial confinement nuclear fusion engines, which will irradiate the nuclear fuel balls with the laser regenerated from the energy collected from the sunlight to produce ultra-high temperatures, generate extremely dense ions, and thus trigger fusion reactions, and generate controllable kinetic energy when needed to adjust the momentum, position, and angle of the 'wings' to maintain a correct attitude and avoid possible attacks. When not needed, the energy generated will also be converted into electrical energy and sent back to the earth.

This powertrain is only enough for the initial period of use, and as the blades of the 'wings' grow, more will be put into use.

The whole space solar energy collection system is a 'kite' that is released into the sky. The 'cable' is the string that pulls the kite, and the fusion engine is the wind that pushes the kite. The earth is the one who holds the kite.

After the completion of the construction of the base and the assembly of the power system, Shengshi Technology will carry out the launch of the main cable of the 'cable'.

The main cable of the 'cable' is a 1-meter-diameter, hexagonal, and cable belt composed of countless carbon nanotubes, which is a material composed of pure elements that is rarely used in the prosperous era.

One of the two main cables alone, with more than 200 million cubic meters, is piled up to form a huge mountain. As far as the production capacity of Shengshi Technology is concerned, it has also used raw material production plants in countless cities to produce these two main cables day and night for nearly a month. It was then assembled at the selected launch site - in the Vaud province of Columbia.

Just placing the main cable well and being able to pull it up smoothly when the rocket is launched is a technical job that tests the ability of organization and management. If it weren't for the junior and intermediate employees of Shengshi Technology, if it wasn't for the assistance of Yatana. For other companies and even local governments, this is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Mark wanted to be a part of this, too, but he could only wait. Because at this time, the communication between the core employees of Shengshi Technology is not carried out with mouths and words. So as an 'outsider', he can't intervene at all.

Seeing that the people of Shengshi were extremely busy tacitly, Mark asked to join Shengshi's work network more than once, but unfortunately, Yuan Yulou refused.

After two days of intense work, two main cables, which had been fixed to the base, were finally launched into the outer atmosphere of 65,900 kilometers and connected to the power system.

All that's left is time to build up the huge wings, and the final completion of these wings, or leaves, will be in five years. The main cable will also be extended to a collection of 20 carbon nanotube ribbons and countless pipes of various types, with an overall diameter of 60 meters.

The entire space solar energy harvesting system will have the ability to export electrical or chemical energy in a month's time, although the energy output at that time is not as good as that of a small hydropower station. But there will still be a breakthrough of zero solar energy in space.

After the launch of the main cable was completed, Mark received the Shengshi terminal presented to him by Yuan Yulou on behalf of Shengshi, and listened to the detailed explanation of various aerospace technologies in use by Shengshi Terminal. Mark not only shook his head and smiled bitterly, this professional knowledge that would have taken years of hard work to possess was just knowledge that anyone on the street could obtain at will in the eyes of Sheng Shi. With the knowledge and design solutions provided by the Shengshi terminal, as long as someone is willing to spend money, a spacecraft to Mars can be built.

And after watching the demonstration of the Shengshi terminal, Yuan Yulou told Mark that his dream of flying to Mars was about to come true. Wang Xiao began to discuss and solicit plans and life forms to go to the sea of stars among the high-level leaders of the prosperous world.

Life forms? Mark was puzzled. Didn't you say that you would go to Mars for the rest of your life? Aren't we going? What does this have to do with other life forms?

Yuan Yulou said with a smile: "Why are you still talking about your dream of going to Mars to die of old age, can't you imagine it more boldly?" ”

Mark disagreed: "I'm going to be fifty, can I still have time to travel through the galaxy?" ”