Chapter 547: Unprecedented Scale
For the ice and snow in the northern hemisphere.
Sapiens Corporation did not care too much about it. Although there were people from the Free World coming to work at Sapiens Corporation every day, and the number was not small, this did not affect the various plans within Sapiens Corporation.
As time went by, it came to January of the third year of Xinghe.
Although Li Qingye is still in the Pangu Realm in Africa, conducting biological evolution experiments, this does not mean that he is oblivious to what is happening outside. On the contrary, he is very aware .
For example, America 's research progress on brain chips is still in a difficult stage, and the combination of chips and the brain is extremely difficult.
In a series of animal experiments, not only did the chip and the brain fail to cooperate with each other, but side effects occurred, causing the experimental animals to become manic, mentally ill, and brain dead.
America has not made any breakthrough progress in brain chips.
On the contrary, Lucia, who took a gamble, established a nuclear fusion power generation experiment project by excavating her father's heritage and successfully completed a 500-megawatt nuclear fusion power generation experiment.
Li Qingye rubbed his temple and listened to Bagheira's report.
"…Lucia built this nuclear fusion power station in a mine in the southern Ural Mountains. Its power generation principle is the same as our nuclear fusion power station, and both use the nuclear explosion furnace solution."
"Their hydrogen bomb is so miniaturized?" Li Qingye felt a little surprised.
Bagheira explained: "They have cooperated with Seris and can currently achieve a low-pollution equivalent of 300 tons, so the mine cavity must be large enough, otherwise it will not be able to withstand the explosion."
"300 tons equivalent? Not bad!" Li Qingye smiled and shook his head.
Obviously, humans can abandon some concerns under tremendous environmental pressure.
Is nuclear fusion power generation difficult?
No, it's not difficult at all.
The key is which approach to take.
If it is the nuclear explosion furnace plan that the Sapiens Company is currently adopting in Lucia, there is basically no great difficulty. As long as there is small hydrogen bomb technology at the level of several hundred tons, plus a large enough furnace, it can generate electricity continuously.
However, if you want to develop a tokamak device or a stellarator, it would be quite difficult.
Even the Sapiens company, which now has high-temperature superconductors of more than 20 degrees below zero, has not made much progress in the tokamak device.
Lucia, who was careless, obviously did not have the cost and energy to develop a tokamak device, so she picked up the nuclear explosion furnace plan left by her father.
The method is a bit simple and crude, but the key is that it is very useful !
Now that high-latitude regions are affected by global cooling, the future situation is not optimistic. Lucia will certainly not sit idly by.
The safety of the nuclear explosion furnace plan is also good, even safer than the general fission reactor. After all, when the hydrogen bomb explodes directly, a lot of radioactive materials are reacted, and the remaining radioactive materials are also concentrated in the furnace.
If better technology becomes available in the future, the furnace can be sealed and the radioactive material inside allowed to decay naturally.
This technology can be used in the sparsely populated desert areas of Xianbeilia and Central Asia, as long as it is not close to towns and agricultural areas.
On the other hand, the Sapiens company has a more miniaturized and more efficient firefly-type hydrogen bomb, so the ground furnace can be built smaller and have a higher thermal efficiency.
On some remote islands, the Homo sapiens company likes to build this kind of nuclear explosion furnace power station.
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Li Qingye saw the annual report of the Space Business Department again.
In the entire year of Galaxy 2, Sapiens launched a total of 7.38 million tons of materials into outer space, which is an unprecedented scale.
And specifically to the project.
Last year, the Space Business Unit completed a total of 37 space projects of varying sizes.
These include: a Homo sapiens space station with a spiral arm of 700 meters, an Earth-Moon Lagrange L1 transit space station, a Copernicus base on the moon, a mass projector on the far side of the moon (35% progress), a Mars exploration project, a Venus-Cloud Palace project (23%), an asteroid belt exploration project, a Jupiter exploration project, a solar storm early warning system, etc.
In addition to these completed results, the Space Business Unit also gave a rough report on this year's work arrangements.
Li Qingye had no objection to this. Although the new humans could not live in outer space for a long time at this stage, these investments were laying the foundation.
For example, the Homo sapiens Space Station, this project is planned to be expanded to a radius of 1,000 meters this year, so that the pseudo-gravity cabin at the rotating end can ensure that organisms can live in it for a long time.
Once the spiral arm length of the Homo sapiens space station reaches 1,000 meters, the gradient difference caused by centrifugal force will become relatively unnoticeable.
This is also a sign that the project is ready to enter long-term testing. After the spiral arm reaches 1,000 meters, the Homo sapiens space station will no longer be expanded.
In addition, we are preparing to build the Homo sapiens 2 space station, which will also be located in the middle orbit, but at an altitude of about 2,400 kilometers.
Space Station 2 is a pure microgravity laboratory, specially prepared for the synthesis of biological materials in outer space.
The Copernicus base on the front side of the moon will not be expanded, but two more branch bases are planned to be built.
As for the mass projector project on the back of the moon, construction of the remaining parts will continue this year, and the project is expected to be completed in Xinghe 4.
Suddenly he saw another big project.
Gyroscopic class interstellar spacecraft project.
To put it simply, this project is a spacecraft similar to the Homo sapiens space station. It can rotate itself to meet the gravity requirements inside the spacecraft and create a bionic environment inside the spacecraft where new humans can live for a long time.
Obviously, this is an experimental spacecraft specially prepared for long-distance exploration of outer space.
This project is expected to start in August this year and be completed in August next year. By then, a bionic environment will be set up in the pseudo-gravity cabin, and then some primates, monkeys, cats and dogs will be released to test what changes will occur in animals during long-term interstellar voyages.
The gyroscopic-class spacecraft No. 001 will travel to Mars and then return to Earth, and the round trip will take about four years.
Li Qingye flipped through the related concepts of the gyroscope-class interstellar spacecraft. Although the gyroscope-class spacecraft is quite large, it can still be afforded by the Homo Sapiens company.
So he approved the project outright.
As for the other dozens of small projects, Li Qingye also approved them with a stroke of his pen.
Projects like the super astronomical telescope are actually small projects for the Sapiens company.
With the current productivity and space launch technology of Sapiens, it is more than enough to transport tens of millions of tons of materials into outer space every year.
If you have money and resources, you can be so willful.
All of Sapiens' current investments can be summed up in one word: inhumane and extravagant.
In fact, the four major forces can also massively increase their investment in outer space and achieve leapfrog development in space business.
However, in reality, most of the resources and funds in the free world are currently eaten up by the two money-eating beasts, military industry and medical industry, leaving only a small part .
Human beings waste too much resources in their internal conflicts.
The reason why Li Qingye's Homo sapiens company can get rid of this internal friction is due to technological progress.
Now the military strength of the Intelligent Company has become very powerful, so the investment in the military industry has been reduced a lot, and many resources and talents occupied by the military and medical industries can be transferred to the aerospace industry.
This is why the scale of Sapiens’ aerospace industry is unprecedented.
