At this moment, with abundant electricity and huge resources, this comprehensive grain base has been put into operation. The agricultural AI trained by Li Qingsong, which he named "Shennong", has now taken over most of the work of the comprehensive grain base. In order to enable Shennong to work better, Li Qingsong also specially built a supercomputing base of the highest standards. Under the management of Shennong AI, this huge grain base only needs 20,000 clones to operate at full power. When developing on Roselle, half of the clones are often required to engage in agricultural production in order to supply the food needed by all clones. The ratio of agricultural production personnel to full-time personnel once reached one to one, or even higher. This obviously means low efficiency. But at this moment, the ratio of agricultural production personnel and off-duty personnel has directly soared to 1:750. The improvement in efficiency can no longer be said to be a surge, it can be called a leap. Looking at the wheat starting to grow in the wheat fields, the rice starting to grow in the rice fields, as well as the various vegetables, beans, fish, livestock, and mushrooms, and then taking a look at the aerospace mothership, which had less than 10% of the food reserves left, Li Qingsong breathed a sigh of relief. At least we don’t have to worry about running out of food or the clones starving to death on a large scale.
At this moment, food, electricity and steel are already available. As a result, with the concerted efforts of 15 million clones, and the cooperation of many intelligent programs such as Jade Emperor AI, Industrial AI, and Construction AI, in just three years, the total industrial scale of the Ganymede base has been raised to the same level as the two planets of Rosene and Dionysus. But this obviously has not reached Li Qingsong's limit. With a maximum number of consciousness connections of over 10 million and 15 million clones, a system has been initially formed with a certain level of intelligence. In addition, the AI in various industries is still evolving rapidly. Together, they are sufficient to support an industrial scale at least three times this size. Before on Luoshen Star, it was not that Li Qingsong was incapable of building a larger base, but that the resources there were too scarce to support it. Now that I have come to the inner solar system and to Jupiter, if I am still constrained by resources, then wouldn’t my trip be in vain? At this moment, the development of Ganymede has reached a high level. Li Qingsong made a decisive decision and began to expand to other planets. The aerospace motherships and heavy cargo ships came in handy at this time. They were loaded with heavy materials produced on Ganymede and began to move towards the other three large satellites and other more important satellites. The total size of the entire Jovian system - calculated based on the orbit of the farthest satellite of interest - is about 3 million kilometers. Jupiter's rings are also within this range. 3 million kilometers, the communication delay is only 10 seconds. With the already initially perfected AI in various industries, the construction capacity of the clones will be weakened by 20% at most, which is completely within the acceptable range. Thus, large-scale construction started simultaneously on the eight satellites of Io, Io I, II, III, IV, V, 14, 15, and 16, as well as in Jupiter's rings and interstellar space. At this time, Li Qingsong gradually began to notice a problem. With the large-scale construction of multiple planets, Jupiter's rings and space bases, the demand for transportation between the surfaces of different planets and interstellar space is becoming increasingly huge. At present, for aerospace dual-use spacecraft, they still use old-fashioned chemical fuel propulsion. Because of their large size and mass, secondary pressure thrusters can only be used on heavy cargo ships. In the short term, Li Qingsong does not see the possibility of allowing dual-use spacecraft and landing spacecraft to use secondary pressurization thrusters. This means that the huge demand for cargo has to rely entirely on landing spacecraft and dual-use spacecraft to travel back and forth between space and the surface, which is extremely inefficient and consumes a lot of energy. The electromagnetic catapult is not very useful in the complex environment of the Jupiter system, and its overall efficiency is also low.
Besides, it can only be ejected, not recovered. The speed of material circulation has become another shackle restricting Li Qingsong's development. "In that case... let's solve this problem thoroughly and once and for all!" Li Qingsong decided to develop space elevator technology! The so-called space elevator is to build a cable that directly connects the surface of the earth and space. Every celestial body rotates, and as long as the cable is long enough, the speed at its end will always exceed the escape velocity of the celestial body. In this way, the end of the cable that reaches the escape velocity will hold the cable straight so that it will never fall. Just like a person swinging a ball and a hammer hard, the ball and the hammer will stretch the chain tightly and straighten it. With this cable, Li Qingsong can transport goods directly from the surface of the planet into space like taking an elevator, or he can let the goods in space take a downward elevator and come directly from space to the surface. Not only will the efficiency and speed be greatly improved, energy consumption will be reduced, and it will also be more convenient. Moreover, building a space elevator on these four satellites of Jupiter is much easier than building it on Earth. Because their gravity is lower than on Earth, space elevators don't need to be as long and the cables don't need to be as strong. At this moment, Li Qingsong decided to build four space elevators. Yes, four, not just one. Four large satellites, one for each! The remaining small satellites are not needed because they are too small and large spacecraft can take off and land directly on their surfaces. Having decided to tackle the space elevator technology, Li Qingsong's attention instantly shifted to the materials laboratory. As early as when he was on Luoshen Star, Li Qingsong had never relaxed his research on materials science and had already accumulated sufficient knowledge reserves. Even if we don't tackle the space elevator technology at this moment and let things develop naturally, we will almost reach this point. While carrying out the huge construction, Li Qingsong was manipulating many clones busy in the laboratory. In just two years, in a materials laboratory, two huge machines roared and vibrated dully, slowly pulling out a thin filament in a vacuum environment. The thread is so thin, with a diameter of only about 50 micrometers, that even a person with good eyesight can barely see it under ideal conditions. But such a thin thread was produced by Li Qingsong using the most advanced technology and combining all his scientific and technological strengths. A thick, extremely tough steel plate was taken out by the robotic arm and moved closer to the filament. So the next moment, the steel plate was directly cut into two halves by the thin wire. And under the microscope, the filament is still intact! "Great, with this material, I can build a space elevator." Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy.