Chapter 404 Energy Bar
On this day, Zhang Hao, as usual, accompanied Ace to guide the selection of materials for the spacecraft.
In fact, all the materials for building spaceships are available on Earth.
The metal ores needed for spacecraft are refined in various places and made into metal plates.
These metal sheets are then sent to the global alliance in a steady stream .
Here, the raw metals are further forged.
The most critical of these is the forging technology, which is also the bottleneck that prevents further progress in earth materials science.
Just like building blocks, the models built by master builders are always more exquisite and have better performance.
Zhang Hao watched Ace instruct the workers to blend the raw materials in a certain proportion.
The boiling furnace, after going through a new process, produces ultra- high-strength plates that can adapt to the low-temperature environment of the universe and to flying at the speed of light.
These metal sheets will then be further cut, processed, and finally constructed into the overall frame of the spacecraft.
What impressed Zhang Hao the most about the advanced technology of AI Star Technology, and is also one of its core technologies, is the welding technology.
Ace gave everyone a demonstration on the spot.
He asked the workers to cut two pieces of equal size, the size of stools.
Then he slowly moved the two boards closer together.
When the edge of one board touches the edge of another board, something magical happens.
Without the help of any welding equipment, the two sheets actually began to fuse together on their own.
Finally they merge into one, as if it was originally a single piece of board.
Zhang Hao couldn't help but step forward and take a closer look, but there wasn't even a trace of welding.
He remembered seeing this level of smoothness on the AI star carrier.
His first impression of the mothership was that it was seamless, round and shiny.
He thought that AI Star’s welding technology was so advanced that the welds could be hidden perfectly.
When I saw it today, I realized that this was not the case at all.
But there is no welding procedure here at all!
The engineers on site were amazed; they had never seen such a technology of fusion of metals.
In order to enhance the strength and resistance of metal, one-piece molding is the most commonly used method on earth.
It is to make the metal blank very large, and then process the entire metal blank to get the desired parts.
However, this method has a great limitation, that is, it can only process simple and small parts.
Once the parts to be processed are too large or complex, laser welding technology is the only option.
Just imagine, if you want to build a spacecraft of the cosmic level, this technology will definitely not work.
It's impossible to melt a metal embryo as big as a spaceship, right?
Not to mention that a series of equipment needs to be placed inside the spacecraft!
The engineers present couldn't help but ask: "Master AI, how did you achieve this?"
Now Ace is the chief designer of the Earth's technological upgrade, so everyone respectfully calls him the AI Master.
Ace smiled and answered, "The universe is a delicate balance, and the molecular particles that make up metals also have rules for arrangement."
"As long as we know the balance of this molecule between different metals, it can be achieved."
The engineers present here are some of the best talents on the planet.
Of course, they understood Ace's explanation.
The difficulty lies in how to find the balance point between different metals.
With the current technology on Earth, we can only understand the properties of a single metal. If we advance a little further, we will be able to understand the fusion of several different metals.
Abbreviation: alloy.
However, the alloys currently produced on Earth are all formed by fusing different metals when they are in a high-temperature liquid state, thus obtaining alloys with different properties.
Like Ace in front of us, two already formed metals can actually be fused at room temperature without leaving any trace. This is really unheard of.
It was difficult for Coach Ace to explain it clearly at the moment.
He said: "This is what AI Star has discovered after tens of thousands of years of research. Your Earth has only been developing for a short time, so it is normal that you have not figured it out yet."
Zhang Hao didn't care. With the master Ace, the Earth could just overtake others.
While they were discussing, a truck full of energy cards drove into the Global Alliance base.
After seeing this, Zhang Hao and Ace immediately left the construction site.
The two of them had been keeping an eye on the number of energy cards. After this truckload of energy cards arrived, the number needed to replenish the mothership's energy had been reached.
The two came to the building where the energy cards were stored at the Global Alliance Base.
Soldiers are carrying the transported energy cards into the building.
This building contains an energy conversion device built by Ace.
The entire energy device is about the size of a football field, and its shape is like a large integrated circuit board.
It's a bit like the motherboard of our computer.
Hmm~ a motherboard as big as a football field.
There are countless densely packed card slots on this energy device that resembles a computer motherboard.
The energy card that was brought in was inserted into this card slot.
There are special cables connecting each card slot.
Each of these special cables is as thick as an elephant's leg.
The thick cables form a sharp contrast with the energy cards, which makes people sigh that such huge energy is contained in such a small energy card.
The card slots are connected to each other via cables and finally all point to the middle of the device.
In the middle of the device, five blue energy bars are inserted vertically.
Each blue energy bar is one meter high and ten centimeters in diameter.
These five energy bars are located in the middle of the entire device, like the CPU on a motherboard.
After being inserted into the card slots, all energy cards will transfer all the energy stored in them into these five energy bars!
At this time, the five energy bars have become saturated and are wrapped in blue light.
"I didn't expect to complete the collection so quickly!" Ace said excitedly.
At this time, it had only been three months since Zhang Hao proposed the plan, the global alliance approved it, and it was subsequently implemented.
The Tanaka Group spent more than a year collecting energy, but the energy still wasn’t as good as the energy contained in one energy bar here!
Zhang Hao smiled and said, "The population controlled by the Tanaka Group is only about the same as that of several large cities in the island country."
"And here, it's three months of effort by the entire world's population! And this isn't even at full speed, after all, there are still too many people who haven't participated!"
Zhang Hao made a conservative estimate that out of the current world's population of approximately 10 billion, only one-tenth of them participated in this operation.
Of course, this is because energy harvesting is in its early stages and many people still have concerns, including the fact that it is being implemented free of charge.
Ace couldn't help but sigh: "I really envy your Earth's population resources. Just these five energy bars are almost catching up with the results of AI Star in a few years."
Zhang Hao was surprised and asked, "So exaggerated?"
Ace said: "You think every planet has such a large population like Earth? We AI people only have a few million."
Speaking of this, Ace was a little sad again.
There were only a few AI aliens to begin with, and after Zeus's rebellion, there were even fewer left.
Zhang Hao looked at the energy bar in front of him and became worried.
The richer the Earth’s population resources are, the greater the possibility of being remembered once it is connected with the cosmic society!
