Chapter 18 The Energy Crisis
With the deep involvement of AI, by the end of the golden age, robots have achieved dominance in both scientific research and social management.
The iron man only holds the last key and never dares to let go, that is, energy.
The construction and management of energy are strictly controlled by human beings; In this regard, although the robot has been fighting, it has not yet been given any right to speak.
Because of the guarding of the Golden Mountain, this president's palace is made of local materials, almost piled up with gold, and the high fence is carved with various sacred trees and sacred bird patterns.
In the splendid conference hall, on the left and right, there are three tall golden sacred trees, all twenty meters high, and various small divine beasts and sacred birds stand on the trees.
The meeting has begun, and on the left are more than a dozen ministers of the human race, and on the right are the chief of the computer people, and there are more than a dozen, and the names of the computer people are mostly suffix with AI.
President Yi'an opened the remarks: "Everyone, everyone has watched the news, last night, the capital hospital was out of power, causing a panic among the citizens, a lot of complaints, it seems that the energy problem must be solved." ”
Energy Minister Monte hurriedly stood up: "I'm sorry, it's the work of our department that hasn't done a good job!" But I must explain why, now our space power stations are seriously underpowered, and they are declining year by year. ”
Hearing this, President Yi'an turned his head to look at the Minister of Science and Technology.
Minister of Science and Technology, Luge AI hurriedly said: "At the technical level, there are no failures in the space power station, and now the problem is with the sun; According to the data sent back by the solar monitoring satellite, the core energy of the sun is weakening, and the output heat is also decreasing year by year, which is the main reason for the decline in the power generation capacity of the space power station. ”
Ian asked, "What is the cause of the weakening of the sun's function?" ”
Luger AI shook his head: "To be honest, we don't know now, but after analyzing the particles released by the sun, there is evidence that there is some kind of instability in the structure of the sun's inner core, and we must pay close attention to it." ”
Ian: "Do you have any countermeasures about this?" ”
Monte: "President, with all due respect, we already have 20 space-based power stations, and increasing the number is no longer moot, except for wasting resources, it will not solve anything fundamentally. ”
Luger AI nodded again and again and said, "Yes, yes, I very much agree with Mr. Monte, my suggestion is to quickly promote the construction of a space-based artificial sun. ”
This is not the first time that an artificial sun has been mentioned, since 20 years ago, computer people have proposed to build an artificial sun to completely solve the problem of energy shortage in Prince Star.
Some experts in human sociology understand that once the artificial sun is built, it will lose the last constraint on computer people; Lack of electricity is now the last barrier restricting the further rapid development of computer people.
Once this stumbling block is kicked away, no one knows for sure what will happen in the future.
For human development, a comfortable life is the first need; The shortage of electricity has indeed affected the comfort of people's lives.
No one wants a power outage while they're taking a shower, and no one wants to crash-land while they're traveling; Ordinary people do not understand the great strategic significance of energy.
Many people have become dissatisfied with the government; Some people, including computer people, are taking advantage of the hospital power outage to put pressure on the government; Demand for the construction of an artificial sun to get out of the energy dilemma.
"Mr. President, we must respond to the call of the people and build an artificial sun; In terms of basic theory and technical demonstration, we have done 20 years of pre-research work; We are equipped to carry out experiments and carry out construction. ”
President Yi'an understood that if he continued to block, his people would not agree, so he had to act first, so he said:
"Alright then, everyone, in view of the current energy situation, I agree to start building an artificial sun, experimenting while building, and the specific matters will be led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, with the full cooperation of other departments."
The first artificial sun was an underground installation, named Fusion Earth 1, built in a canyon 500 kilometers from the capital, using a cave about 300 meters deep.
In an experiment six years later, Dadi 1 turned into a hydrogen bomb, creating a huge shock wave that the capital also felt shaken.
The second artificial sun, a surface device named Fusion Mercury 2, ended five years later with an explosion that triggered a tsunami that washed up more than a dozen meters of waves and left patches of dead fish floating on the surface.
The third artificial sun is an aerial device fixed to a 200-meter-high iron tower and named "Magnetic Confinement Tower No. 3".
Finally, after 10 years of arduous exploration, with the blessing of nearly 100 million degrees of high temperature, the first beam of sunlight was emitted from the tower No. 3.
The experiment has finally made a breakthrough, but there is still a conundrum that plagues the scientific community; This device has never been able to achieve a net energy output.
In other words, the energy consumed by the experimental device is much greater than the energy output, which is unacceptable for a power generation device.
Over the next decade, the experimental setup continued to improve, but the net output dilemma could not be solved.
Finally, by chance, things took a turn for the better, a geological scientist occasionally picked up a small jet-black meteorite during a field investigation, and after laboratory analysis, it was determined that it was a dark matter meteorite, which belonged to the planet Butani.
After the computer man Luger AI learned about it, through the coordination of government departments, he cut off 3 grams of meteorites for artificial sun research.
Since then, the technology of artificial suns has made a qualitative breakthrough and is changing with each passing day.
Scientists bombard the atoms of dark matter with high-energy particles, causing the positrons outside the nucleus to split with the nucleus. The positron is removed to make a nuclear reaction magnetic cage, and the accelerant deuterium gas is added.
This is the fourth man-made sun, named "Shadow 4", built in a space orbit 200 kilometers above the ground.
After the deuterium gas encounters the nucleus of dark matter in the confinement magnetic cage, a matter annihilation reaction occurs, and both substances disappear at the same time, releasing a huge amount of energy.
The experiment used one gram of deuterium gas and one gram of dark matter, producing and exporting a total of 100,000 tons of explosives.
The Shadow 4 artificial sun experiment has finally succeeded!
The news quickly spread in the Prince Star, and the entire Prince Star was boiling, whether it was human beings or computer people, they were all cheering.
The Iron Men fell to their knees and prayed: Thank you to Dark Star, our protector!
Thank you to the Red Iron God Tree and the Futie God Statue for giving us strength!