Chapter 332: Martian transformation
Although there are already a lot of man-made structures below the surface of Mars, in fact, at this stage, the planetary transformation work of the Martian world has not really had time to start.
This is because, if you want to terraform, it is a very technically demanding thing.
Not only are the technical requirements and financial requirements high, but also the requirements for all aspects of human and material resources are extremely high, which is a huge challenge that must be gathered by the entire civilization before it can be truly completed.
For a planet that does not even have an atmosphere and a planetary magnetic field, it is even necessary to start from activating the core of the earth and recreating the planet's atmosphere.
Although the earth's civilization is not lacking in all kinds of related technologies and knowledge because it has inherited the civilization heritage of the Canglan civilization, it is difficult to carry out this great project of the century for a while due to the speed at which the entire civilization can raise manpower and material resources.
Because strictly speaking, although after detailed exploration, it was found that Mars has some extremely primitive life cells and organisms in some underground ice and water sources, but this planet is still a huge gap from a real ecological planet.
Those who know a certain amount of astronomical knowledge know that although Mars has a certain scale of atmospheric structure, the density of the atmosphere of Mars is even less than one percent of that of the earth, and the atmospheric structure is also quite far away from being able to allow the survival of life on the earth. Obviously, it has to go through an earth-shaking transformation, and the amount of work is obviously huge.
Moreover, the atmosphere of Mars is not something that can be changed if you want to change it now, because its existence actually needs to rely on the planetary magnetic field of Mars.
And the planetary magnetic field of Mars, it turns out. But it is quite imperfect, far from enough to meet the needs of an ecological planet, which means that it must also undergo a complete transformation.
Although Mars has a certain planetary magnetic field, its magnetic field source is not like ordinary ecological planets, which is generated by the metal fluid activity in the core of the earth. Its magnetic field exists because of the magnetization of iron elements in the surface crust.
And such a magnetic field, because its strength is too low, and the magnetic field is unevenly distributed, it does not have the ability of conventional ecological planet magnetic field to protect the planet's ecology.
For conventional life stars, such as the Earth, the existence of the planet's magnetic field cannot be seen or touched. However, for the establishment of a complex ecology on the planet's surface. But it is of great significance.
For the planet, the existence of the planet's magnetic field can form an electromagnetic force field within the entire planet, and form a complex electromagnetic force field exchange within the entire planet, thus forming a huge force field that envelops the entire planet, in this huge force field. Complex electromagnetic changes occur all the time, and once any foreign stream of high-energy particles enters it, it is equivalent to cutting magnetic inductance lines, and thus is affected by the entire electromagnetic force field.
The planet is protected by such a force field, high-energy particle rays from the planet's exterior. Streams of high-energy particles, such as the solar wind, will be deflected and weakened in the electromagnetic field, benefiting the entire planet.
Otherwise, the ecological planet has no electromagnetic force field protection, and the high-energy particle flow in the alien environment carries out high-energy irradiation on the surface ecology without obstruction, for life on the planet, this is no longer ordinary ultraviolet radiation, or even X-ray irradiation, but more powerful and terrible nuclear radiation, slightly weaker, often lead to genetic mutations, body lesions, biological radiation death, more serious, a wave of high-energy rays over, the whole planet has become a microwave oven, and life has become a roasted sheep.
Not only can it protect life on the planet from the damage of foreign high-energy rays, but the existence of the planet's magnetic field can also protect the existence of the atmosphere, so that the gas in the atmosphere will not be stripped and lost by the continuous solar wind and other high-energy particles of the universe.
Therefore, it can be said that the existence of the planet's magnetic field is one of the basic environmental elements for a planet to establish a complex ecology, which has unparalleled significance for a planet.
For most planets, the reason why they do not have a planetary magnetic field is often because the planet's inner core is too cold or too hot, the planetary inner core is overcondensed, and the internal metal fluid cannot exist and rotate, and the planetary magnetic field is difficult to generate, and once the planet's interior is too hot, it will also lead to the complete liquefaction of the inner core, so that the planetary magnetic field cannot be formed.
Therefore, if you want to form a planetary magnetic field, the situation is also more complicated, the temperature of the planet's core must be kept in a state that is neither too cold nor too hot, so that the planet's core is in a state of semi-melting and half-condensation between solid and liquid, and only in this state, the planet's magnetic field can be generated through the complex changes of the inner core flow, so as to protect the entire planet.
Generally speaking, the reason why Mars does not have a proper planetary magnetic field is because Mars has experienced a large-scale asteroid impact in history, which has led to too much energy accumulated in the internal core of Mars, and the proportion of the fluid part of the planet's inner core is too large, so that it is difficult to form a proper planetary magnetic field environment.
For the current earth, Mars is due to excessive internal fire, which leads to the difficult birth of the planet's magnetic field, which is still a very difficult and complex problem, but this problem is already a great good news compared to the magnetic field dystocia caused by the cooling of the planet's core.
Because compared with the difficulty of the planet's internal energy being too high, the problem of cooling the planet's inner core is the real thorny problem.
If we say, for the current earth, solving the problem of overheating the planet's inner core is a complex and thorny problem. If it is a super project that needs to pay a huge price to solve, then the problem of cooling the core of the planet can be regarded as a temporary unsolvable solution for the earth civilization.
The solution to the overheating of the planet's interior lies in the release of geothermal energy. Releasing a part of the excess heat in the deep underground environment, so that the core core core is naturally cooled, and becomes a core environment that meets the needs, although this treatment method is still extremely difficult, but it is not without a solution, it is nothing more than a huge amount of work, the technical difficulty is super high, and it takes a long time. The earth civilization is barely trying, and it takes a hundred years of hard work to do it, and it is not necessarily impossible.
However, to solve the problem of cooling the core of the planet, with the current strength of the earth's civilization, it can be said that there is no way to solve it for a while.
Because what is needed is heat, and this increased heat is unimaginably huge. Moreover, it must also be completely controllable. This is too difficult.
To make a simple and crude analogy, heat reduction is very simple, open the padded jacket to be more breathable, and the use of geothermal energy can also generate a large amount of available geothermal energy, more or less is not without a small supplement.
However, if you want to heat up the core. It's a lot more difficult. Because this kind of project is a planetary transformation project under controllable circumstances, not a rude house demolition project.
If you want to heat up the core of the planet, there are actually many ways, some controllable and some uncontrollable. There are routes with high technical difficulty, and there are routes with low technical difficulty, and the earth civilization is not very useful anyway.
From the point of view of low technical difficulty, the easiest way to warm the inner core of the planet is to simulate nature, the so-called simulated nature, which is to engage in planetary impact.
Find an asteroid of about the same size and speed, and let it hit the surface of the planet with a pia, which will naturally heat up the planet, and this heat is quite large, according to the mass and speed of the impact opponent, it can easily add hundreds of millions of tons of equivalent powerful internal energy to the planet.
It is said that the extinction of the dinosaurs was because the earth was hit by a small blow to the waist, so the beacon fire lasted for many years, and the dinosaurs became extinct.
If you take this technical route, the technology of the earth's civilization has already met the standard, and the earth has already done a lot of familiarity with the business of escorting meteorites, and it is not difficult to give it a few times according to the planet.
However, if you don't say that this technical route is low in difficulty but not easy to use, because this technical route is not easy to control, not to mention how much it can warm the earth's core, but as long as such a few meteorites hit down, even if a planet is destroyed, at least for hundreds of years, the geological movement of the entire planet will be continuous, what volcanic eruptions, the earth's crust melts, and the surface of the planet becomes like a purgatory world or something, this is simply certain, for civilizations in a hurry to move, this is undoubtedly not good news, if you want to live on a new planet, you have to waitใ
If you want to refine the operation and carry out warming operations on the planet's core under the condition that it can be accurately controlled, there is one of the simplest technical solutions, that is, the tactic of adding firewood, and continuously adding special fuels to the planet's core that can be burned and warmed, that is, high-energy radioactive fuels, such as nuclear fission materials or something.
There is a certain controllable nuclear fission reaction inside the planet, once a large amount of nuclear material is added to the inside of the earth's core, it will soon be like a lit furnace, whirring and burning, this technical difficulty is the lowest, the problem is that it has a huge difficulty, to find so much nuclear fuel?
This is to warm the inside of the earth's core, the amount of nuclear fuel needed, its huge degree will be beyond imagination, tens of thousands of tons of nuclear materials are like a drift, it is not enough to see, the high level of technology can be accurately delivered, but also have to consume a large millions of tons, the technical level is slightly inferior, the demand is slightly larger, spending tens of billions of tons of nuclear materials are considered to be small, such material demand, obviously for the general civilization is simply an astronomical number, as far as the earth is concerned, how can there be so many nuclear materials, the entire earth's uranium ore has been dug up, I am afraid that it will not be able to make such a large weight, this can only be asked for from the alien meteorite beltThe time and consumption required is huge, and it may cost a lot.
Fortunately, the problem that the earth civilization needs to face now is to cool down the core of the planet, which is relatively much less difficult to solve, although the overall difficulty is still extremely huge.
The earth civilization has also found a reasonable solution to this situation, of course, this plan is not as simple and crude as stripping off the cotton jacket, but to prick the Mars with needles and do acupuncture.
By digging deep passages deep into the ground, open up the underground magma layer, and then, into the magma into the magma with high strength and high temperature resistance to heat energy conduction ability of special steel materials, to form a deep underground heat pipes, these tubes are closed at one end, inserted into the magma inside, and inside the tube is hollow, forming a cavity in the tube.
These pipes that go deep into the magma layer, after absorbing a large amount of heat energy in the magma layer, transfer the heat energy to the cavity inside the tube, so as to form a high-temperature environment, and then inject pure water into the tube, so that the pure water is heated and vaporized at high temperature, after the transformation of the energy conversion device, the heat is reduced and converted into electrical energy, and the cooled pure water is re-injected into the pipe and re-circulated, so that a geothermal power station that can not only cool the earth's core, but also produce a large amount of energy at the same time.
Similar underground geothermal power stations must form countless power stations around the world on Mars in order to have the fastest efficiency and maximum cooling of the Martian core.
Moreover, the types of underground power stations can also be divided into a variety of types, some are ordinary types of power stations, some are special types of other uses, such as underground garbage incineration stations or something, some industrial products that are difficult to deal with under conventional conditions, directly through underground pipelines, poured into the underground lava layer, digested and decomposed in the lava, without polluting the environment at all...... Even if it pollutes the underground lava environment, in terms of the complex composition of the underground lava, it is not afraid of this little bit of so-called pollution.
In addition, through the implementation of large-scale underground power plant plans, human intervention can also be applied to underground lava flows, which is undoubtedly of great significance for the control of geological movements, and can greatly alleviate the occurrence of geological anomalies such as earthquakes.
However, this plan is good, but it is still only in the preliminary preparation stage, and even an underground power station has not yet had time to start construction. (To be continued.) )