Earth Era - v2 Chapter 442

Even with Shen Qingyuan’s consent and requiring all departments to do their best to cooperate with the Scientific Planning Committee, it was still not an easy task to complete this project, and even the project was in a dilemma from the very beginning.

There is still a big gap between mastering the principle and owning the real thing. Just like the ancient earth, humans have long mastered chemical energy, but the diesel or gasoline engines used to drive cars were not finally manufactured until the arrival of the industrial revolution.

Now, human beings have mastered the electromagnetic interaction forces that have undergone some mutations in that special environment, but manufacturing propulsion equipment that meets the requirements still requires a lot of resource investment.

The design team composed of top materials scientists, engineers, mechanics experts, physics experts, etc. has been put into the busy work. Under Huang Yuan’s arrangement, more than 20 such teams were established in total, and each began to design the thrusters. In the future, after a series of tests and evaluations, the design with the best performance will be selected and then mass-manufactured.

In addition to these design teams, theoretical exploration and research on the overall architecture of the super planetary accelerator is also continuing. At least ten teams of astrophysicists have begun to study the best way to combine planets and build models to simulate them, and many more teams have begun to study the most detailed physical data of all aspects of messenger stars.

This is undoubtedly a huge project. In such a project, every detail, every tiny step, such as the materials used in the accelerator, its installation and transportation process, the interaction force with the planet, and even the weather and atmospheric circulation that originally existed on the planet, Satellite systems, magnetic field systems, etc., every detail needs to be considered, and every detail requires several specialized scientific research teams to explore and study. Even, although scientists have temporarily given up on basic science research, and tens of millions of people have put all their energy on the current project, Huang Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the messenger project, still feels that there is not enough manpower.

And that’s just within the community of scientists. Expanding to the entire human civilization, there is much more that needs to be dealt with. For example, the early energy reserve-obviously, after the two planets converge into a brown dwarf, the mining of fusion energy will be very inconvenient, so people need to reserve enough energy for more than 2,000 years in advance. project. Not only will this require mobilizing the power of almost all energy companies, it will also require more detailed planning in terms of transportation, storage, etc. Or the reserves of various mineral resources, the demolition of various equipment originally built on satellites, the construction of large space factories, and a series of tasks. Each task will inevitably consume a huge amount of human and material resources, requiring at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of human resources. As a result, the regular meeting frequency of the Administrative Committee was changed from once a week to once a day, and later to twice a day, so as to prevent the backlog of important matters.

The entire Phoenix galaxy has become a busy construction site in a very short period of time. Countless spaceships shuttle between different planets, and countless people in a hurry travel to and from different spaceships, and an indescribable amount of data is transmitted back and forth between major institutions relying on the newly laid super-light communication network.

The rough details of the energy reserve plan were released four months after the messenger plan was announced. In this project, the scientists once again showed their madness to everyone.

“It is impractical to rely on gas tanks or giant energy ships to store enough fusion fuel for an entire civilization for more than 2,000 years. Although the main energy source of the superaccelerators used to propel the messenger stars comes from the radiation of the messenger stars, migratory fleets can also Get a part of the energy supply from the messenger star, but after removing this part, we will still need a total of 5 billion tons of fusion fuel. This is equivalent to 100 times the total mass of the earth’s atmosphere, and the energy released after fusion is about equal to the sun The sum of the energy released in twenty-five years. To store so much fusion energy, we need at least one billion super-energy ships of the largest size. This is undoubtedly unrealistic, so we can only find solutions in the remaining directions way.”

On the Political Affairs Committee, Dr. Huang Yuan once again told the members about his crazy idea: “There is a simple and convenient plan, that is to store these fusion materials on an existing planet. We have selected, A suitable planet has been found, and it is what we commonly call the desert star. It is the largest moon of the new Saturn and has a mass of fifty-four percent that of Earth. It had no atmosphere, We can harvest fusion fuel in gaseous form and release it directly on the surface of the desert star, and use the gravity of the desert star to fix the gas… Yes, we will artificially create an atmosphere of almost all fusion fuel for it, At the beginning of the voyage, we will take it away with us to obtain enough fusion fuel for us to last more than 2,000 years.”

Compared with the huge project of fusing two gas giant planets, creating a star, and then directly taking the star away, the shock of this plan to the committee members is no less than that, which even made the committee members not know for a while. What to say, they can only look at each other.

After a long time, Han Luo often murmured and asked, “I remember that hydrogen will continue to escape from the planet’s gravitational field due to its low mass.”

Huang Yuan replied immediately: “It is true. But this is a geological concept, and its time scale is extremely long. It is only two thousand years, and no matter how high the escape rate is, it cannot affect the whole.”

General Lei Zhen asked: “How do you ensure that the desert star is not thrown away or swallowed by the planet during the fusion of the planets?”

Huang Yuan said: “This problem is easier to solve. We only need to build about a hundred planetary engines on it, and with the adjustment of the orbit of the new Saturn, it can easily break free from the gravitational field of the new Saturn and become a planetary engine. A planet orbiting Phoenix. Once the planets are fused and stabilized, we can adjust their orbit again to bring it back to orbit around the messenger star.”

The members looked at each other again. Wu Wei couldn’t help but sigh: “Sure enough, scientists are the craziest guys.”

Huang Yuan turned a deaf ear and continued: “We can also put the rest of the resources that need to be stored on the desert star. It will become a huge warehouse that our human civilization carries with us, and no matter how many materials can be put down. In this way, we It will save at least 500,000 resource spacecraft construction tasks. Overall, the execution of this task will not increase the difficulty of the task, but will save us a lot of manpower and material resources.”

“In that case, there is nothing to say. I agree with the plan.”

“I agree.”

The advisory committee composed of 11 members unanimously approved the request for the implementation of this mission, so many energy spacecraft rushed into the atmospheres of new Jupiter and new Saturn at the fastest speed, and started the collection of fusion energy. Just a month later, at least ten billion tons of gas appeared on the desert star, which even gave it some breeze.

The transformation of the desert star is just one detail of the whole huge plan. In addition, more people and more spaceships are busy. One year after the messenger plan was proposed, the No. 7 team took the lead in completing the drawing of the planetary accelerator’s structural drawings and successfully produced the first prototype. After that, more than 20 teams have come up with their own construction plans.

These programs have similarities and differences. Various advanced technical concepts collide, inspire and mix with each other, and give birth to the next generation of manufacturing solutions with more advanced performance and higher efficiency.

Other aspects are also steadily advancing, and progress is smooth. As Huang Yuan originally said, this project only involves new technology, but not new science. This means that any technology required for engineering is within the scope of existing theories, and at most it only needs to be deformed or recombined.

Another night ended, and the morning came as promised. As before, Dr. Huang Yuan opened his eyes as soon as the bell rang, and left the bedroom after a brief wash.

There are endless things waiting to be dealt with every day~www.mtlnovel.com~ Although he has long since left the front line of scientific research, and the daily administrative work does not need Huang Yuan to be involved, the entire messenger plan is still inseparable from Huang Yuan. Because only Huang Yuan is proficient in and understands every detail of the messenger plan and the technology involved in every link. Most importantly, only Huang Yuan knew how to proceed with the plan.

Even Huang Yuan himself sighed a little, that the peak of his life would actually be that moment of inspiration. To this day, apart from Mo Xiangsheng and himself, there is still no scientist who dares to claim to understand the data and formulas he wrote down.

Specific research projects are important, but without themselves, they won’t even know what to research. Only oneself can know the direction of the future, and this is the gift that the flash of inspiration brought to him.

A spaceship quickly left the capital city, taking Huang Yuan, Mo Xiangsheng, and some escorts to the new Saturn. The planetary accelerator is about to enter the mass production stage, and Huang Yuan is really worried if he doesn’t go to the field to investigate.

The huge gaseous planet outside the window has occupied most of the field of vision, and even hurricanes and lightning can be seen all over the planet’s surface. But at this moment, a trace of flame quietly appeared in a corner that no one noticed.