One billion! Li Qingsong could never have imagined that after integrating the Blueprint Man's biotechnology, his own biotechnology would be advanced to this level. I originally thought that it would be great if it increased to 200 million, but I didn’t expect it to increase tenfold! At any given moment, there will be one billion clones connected to his consciousness. Each clone is equivalent to a top scientist who has mastered all the knowledge in the discipline. There will be no internal friction or communication costs between the one billion clones, and they can devote themselves wholeheartedly to the development of science and technology... How powerful will your scientific research capabilities be? Even though the total population of the human world had reached about 40 billion, 40 times more than his own, compared to his scientific research capabilities, he would probably be lucky to have even 1% of his own! Not only China's scientific research strength, but also its industrial strength can leave human civilization far behind. Not only human civilization, but even the Blueprint civilization in its heyday, which had a population of hundreds of billions, was far from comparable to himself in terms of scientific research and industry. "Okay, okay." At this moment, the threat of the artificial intelligence scourge was always like a sword hanging over Li Qingsong's head, and no one knew when it would be cut down.
At this moment, the maximum number of consciousness connections has increased to 1 billion. He has enough scientific research and industrial strength to quickly digest and absorb the technology of the Blueprint civilization, quickly build an interstellar long-distance fleet, and escape from the solar system in the shortest possible time. As for staying in the solar system to break through to a strong nuclear civilization and have a real fight with that intelligent natural disaster and defeat it, Li Qingsong had no extravagant hope. The further technology develops, the more difficult it becomes. Especially as it can serve as a key and basic physical theory for dividing two major levels and unifying the strong nuclear force, the difficulty of this matter is bound to be beyond one's imagination. Unable to break through the level, facing the artificial intelligence disaster, he can only passively take the beating. It was so difficult for them to defeat the Bluetook warships. They had to rely on hundreds of years of preparation, sufficient logistics, super-high efficiency, super-high industrial strength, and sufficient unmanned combat forces to barely tie with them when the other side had many unfavorable factors such as insufficient logistics, long expedition, and panic among the people. Later, the opponent took advantage of the loophole and occupied Venus. If I hadn't replenished the water source of Venus as quickly as possible, I might have lost in the end. In this situation, how could I possibly defeat the robotic Scourge? Only by escaping can we have a chance of survival and maintain hope for the future. At this moment, the maximum number of consciousness connections suddenly skyrocketed to 1 billion. The top priority, of course, is to build more bases, including food bases, living bases, industrial bases, etc., in order to feed these clones. More clone production factories need to be built in order to produce enough clones for their own use as quickly as possible. The maximum number of consciousness connections is billions, so the number of commonly used clones must reach billion, and with the backup clones, it will be 2 billion. In addition, a number of clones in hibernation are needed as final backup, and the total number of clones will reach 3 billion. At this stage, he only has billion clones in total, and needs to produce another billion. This is also an extremely large project. However, these things are already familiar to Li Qingsong, and he just needs to do them step by step. After assigning some clones to do the work, Li Qingsong no longer paid too much attention to this aspect, but instead focused his main energy on another matter. Research controlled nuclear fusion technology! Whether it was Li Qingsong’s own previous deduction or the actual verification obtained from the Bluetook civilization spacecraft at this stage, it proved one thing to Li Qingsong, that is, controlled nuclear fusion is the basis for star system navigation.
The reason is very simple. The highest efficiency of converting mass into energy through nuclear fission is only about . According to the mass-energy equation, a piece of uranium 235 with a mass of 1 kg can only produce about 8*10^13 joules of energy at most. Nuclear fusion has a higher mass conversion efficiency. There are also several different types of nuclear fusion, including deuterium-tritium fusion, deuterium-deuterium fusion, deuterium-helium-3 fusion, proton-proton chain fusion, carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion, etc. These types are relatively common. In addition to these, in some massive stars, as well as in violent physical processes such as neutron star collisions and supernova explosions, there are fusions involving heavier elements, but those are unconventional and can be temporarily ignored. Among these common types of fusion, taking deuterium-tritium fusion, which is the easiest to achieve and has the lowest environmental requirements, as an example, its energy conversion efficiency is about , which is times that of nuclear fission! 1KG of deuterium and tritium can produce *10^14 joules of energy! Proton-proton chain fusion and carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion, which have higher environmental requirements and technical content and are more difficult to achieve, can achieve an energy conversion efficiency of about , which is about times that of nuclear fission! Li Qingsong also conceived a fusion model with higher fusion efficiency, which is to combine the first two steps of proton-proton chain fusion with deuterium-helium-3 fusion. Ideally, the energy conversion efficiency is expected to reach more than 1%, which is times that of nuclear fission. Of course, that is a matter for the future. Even the Blueprint civilization has not been able to achieve it. It is estimated that it will have to unify the strong nuclear force and become a strong nuclear civilization before it can do it. For now, let's not think too much about it. Just focus on the simplest and easiest to achieve deuterium-tritium fusion, and open the door to nuclear fusion first. Compared to nuclear fission, nuclear fusion not only has higher energy output, but the fuel is also easier to obtain. In the universe, generally speaking, the higher the atomic number of an element, the lower its average content. Materials such as uranium 235, uranium 233, thorium 232, neptunium 237, and americium 231 used for nuclear fission are extremely rare in nature. Plutonium 239 is extremely scarce and can only be formed by bombardment of high-energy cosmic rays. Mining nuclear fission fuel is extremely troublesome and difficult, and its output is severely limited. But nuclear fusion is different. Take deuterium-tritium fusion as an example. Although the deuterium content is low, about part per 100,000 in Jupiter's atmosphere, this also means that for every ton of Jupiter's atmosphere separated and processed, about ten grams of deuterium can be collected, and the absolute value is quite high. For a planet as large as Jupiter, deuterium resources can be considered almost endless. As for tritium, it is not important because in deuterium-tritium fusion, tritium can replenish itself and does not need additional supplementation from the outside. Once we master controlled nuclear fusion and a more advanced energy supply system than nuclear fission, then the numerous uranium mines, thorium mines, etc. will no longer need to operate, and a large number of uranium enrichment plants will also be able to stop working. If there is a lack of energy, we only need to take it from Jupiter's atmosphere. In terms of energy, I can almost say that I have completely eliminated all restrictions. Envisioning a bright future, after the maximum number of consciousness connections skyrocketed, Li Qingsong put at least 100 million clones into the research of controlled nuclear fusion.
