Chapter 453 Stellar Energy Extractor, Research Star City Yan Xia left the headquarters of Super Star Technology Company very quickly. The headquarters is not competent for research and development, so it is necessary to go to the research and development star city mentioned by Giotto before. The research and development star city is supported by the energy of the entire star system and can complete large-scale research and development tasks. When arriving at the star system, Yan Xia found that the energy devices here are somewhat different. The Federation has now changed the energy collection method of almost all star systems to gravitational energy devices, and has withdrawn a large number of Dyson clouds. The energy collection efficiency of Dyson clouds is very low, only 17% of gravitational energy devices, and there is also a disadvantage. That is, if the Dyson cloud collects 100% of the star energy, it means that the star will not emit light, and the photons it emits will be intercepted. The Federation is not short of that little energy now. Most of the star energy devices are directly placed on the star city, and some are supplied to the mechanical god. In the equipment for light and heat energy conversion, the Federation controls each star system below 30%, that is, at least 70% of the light will be released. There are pros and cons.
The benefit is the improvement of the quality of life of the Federation. After all, if everything is fake, it will cause a sense of depression to life, just like people in the 21st century who always stay in the city of reinforced concrete. If you occasionally go hiking and see some natural wonders, you can relieve some anxiety. In addition, the light of stars can be used as navigation. Positioning in the starry sky depends on the light of stars. If you are in a dark starry sky, you may get lost. These are small benefits. In fact, the most important thing is the maintenance cost. The Dyson cloud has a large area, and the annual maintenance cost is too high. The gravitational energy device has a lower maintenance cost than the Dyson cloud. Now the only Dyson cloud that the Federation still retains is actually the ring world of the Water Commission, because the ring world is more energy-consuming, and most people live in the ring world, and the ring world can see stars. The rest of the Dyson clouds are outside the ring world. The disadvantage of canceling the Dyson cloud is of course the reduction of energy, which may reduce the energy of the entire Federation by 5%~6%. This number will gradually decrease over time. The Super Star Technology Company does not use a Dyson cloud or a gravitational energy device. Instead, it uses a huge stellar energy extractor. As the name implies, it absorbs the energy of a star like a blood-sucking worm on the surface of a star. This absorption is predatory. This thing evolved from the original star destruction plan. In fact, most of the dwarf planet-class battleships are now equipped with this device for rapid charging. The energy it can absorb each year is 140 to 200 times the energy released naturally by a standard star, depending on the size and power of the stellar energy extractor. This is terrifying. You can use a star as 200 stars, but it is easy to cause the star to collapse. It may take a billion years for a star to die, and if it is sucked like this, it will only have a lifespan of 5 million years. Because it is absorbed from one side, its interior will also be extremely unstable as the energy is absorbed. It will have a lot of stellar winds and waste more energy. So generally speaking, a billion-year-old star will die completely after being absorbed for 1 million years, and will not exceed 2 million years at most. This is still quite a long time ago, and it is also because of the advancement of stellar energy extraction technology that high-temperature and high-activity energy can be directly mined without destroying the star. "No wonder they say there is no shortage of energy." Yan Xia looked at the star and felt a little sorry. It was like a forest being cut down, and the stars were the trees in the universe. If the Federation adopted this method to collect energy, wouldn't it mean that it could directly reach level
Federal officials had similar ideas before, and they were submitted layer by layer, but were rejected by Yan Xia and Ella. The focus of the Federation is still people-oriented, and a sustainable civilization is needed, not a cyberpunk-style civilization. The Federation's use of stars in exchange for energy will only make the Federation itself very unstable. When the society is unstable, it will be followed by the loss of talents, the difficulty of the birth of new generations of talents, and other chain problems. If it is a social model like the Purple Thorn civilization, there will be no problem. But that kind of nomadic civilization itself also has a fundamental problem, that is, the universe is unknown to all civilizations, and you have no idea when you will encounter a super civilization and then be directly destroyed. Especially this kind of civilization is very dependent on the dividends brought by development and plunder. When development encounters a bottleneck, internal contradictions will arise. And if there is a problem with plunder, the entire civilization will shatter like glass in an instant. The point is exactly. There are often more advanced civilizations in places with more cosmic resources. So for the stability of the entire society, nomadic civilizations must challenge more advanced civilizations. If you just look at some small meat, it's like a company with a scale of 100 billion, and the annual profit is only 1 million. Isn't that funny? Can this company last long? So fundamentally speaking, it is more difficult to be a nomadic civilization than to be a normal civilization. Because it has to ensure that everything it gets can be converted into profit, so that it can complete the next plunder again, but this is basically impossible. This is not farming, and even if there is a drought, a farmer's family can be starved to death. Yan Xia will not allow the Federation to go this way. The only way it can be realized is in the game, because the game is that if you harvest resources, you can definitely use them to develop technology 1:1. In the game, if I am stronger than you, then I can definitely defeat you. This does not exist in reality. Being able to develop 1:1 is enough to make any scientific researcher ecstatic. Although there may be a person in a company who invests 1 million and then earns 100 million. But it does not exist in civilization, because this company earns resources from the entire civilization, which means that if you earn 100 million, there must be many people who lose this 100 million. There must be countless losers behind a successful person, and the money of all losers converges on a successful person, creating this successful person. This is the realistic model. However, this is enough to show Yan Xia's foresight. He allowed the emergence of the Star Country. The Star Country can do many things that the Federation cannot do. Its purpose is to explore taboos. If human civilization always maintains good and steady choices, there will be no explosiveness. The Star Country provides explosiveness for human civilization. When a civilization has more explosiveness, it means that its upper limit is higher. Many of these star countries use star energy extractors, but the scale is not large, and the star energy extractor itself is very expensive. This star energy extractor can cover 300 billion square kilometers, and one is enough to build dozens of star cities, which is a huge investment. To be honest, it is unlikely that the Federation will be able to complete the assembly of habitable star systems within 3 million years, let alone other resource stars. It is estimated that it will take 100 million years to assemble them, after all, there are millions of stars. ... Yan Xia entered this star system, which is called Super Star No. 4, a very ordinary name.
There is only one star city here, without a name. The Star City is not big, 20 million square kilometers, and it is not a regular Star City. From the outside, it looks like a hamburger, with a total of 7 floors. Added together, it is 140 million square kilometers, barely enough for the standard of a normal Star City. Each floor has a special purpose, which can be regarded as a partition. This is somewhat similar to the pyramid research institute that Yan Xia used to work for when he was in the Water Commission. Before Yan Xia arrived, the highest minister of the entire research Star City came to pick him up. The minister is the highest head of the department. Here, it is called a research Star City, but it is actually the research department of the entire Super Star Technology Company. "Welcome President Yan." The other party is a pineapple tower tribe, which surprised Yan Xia. He almost forgot the existence of this race. He only glanced at the information of this race at the beginning. Calculating the time, the pineapple tower tribe has already taken root in human civilization, so it is not surprising that they came to Rusty Star Country. "Minister Nimiro, right?" Nimiro nodded, "Yes, it's my honor that President Yan can remember my name." "Your name is well-known to everyone in our company. You are almost always listed as an excellent manager." As a minister, Nimiro is actually only half a level lower than Yan Xia in the company. He can choose to ignore Yan Xia. But this guy should be a versatile character. As a new race, the pineapple tower tribe should not be easy to get along in the Star Country, and Nimiro can reach this level, which means he has two brushes. "Let me introduce our research institute to you." Yan Xia rejected Nimiro's kindness. "I just need to look at the information. Please ask Minister Nimiro to prepare some people related to materials science for me later. I need to do some research and development work." Nimiro was very happy, and he didn't want to take Yan Xia around and waste time. He arranged it. The work efficiency was very high, and everything was prepared for Yan Xia in less than 1 hour. Yan Xia was very satisfied. He directly threw himself into the research, but he only formulated opinions and proposed plans, and would not really participate in the research. It was not that he didn't want to, but he really didn't understand this aspect. There was no point in forcing himself to learn. We are all human beings. You can't be the last to come first, right? How can others get by? Yan Xia's own genes are definitely the most superior in the Federation, but there is no such fault-like superiority. Because human civilization is mainly about imagination resources, if Yan Xia is given an intellectual privilege, wouldn't it go against the trend? So basically, if there is the latest genetic technology, this technology will soon be spread to all parts of the Federation by Ella, and then "stolen" by other star countries. In a blink of an eye, 1100 years have passed.
Yan Xia has been staying in the research star city and has not gone to the headquarters. In fact, it's almost the same, because the headquarters also receives information from other places and discusses and processes this information. Yan Xia can also complete it here, and he has not delayed his work as CEO. And this kind of thing is too easy for Yan Xia. You have to know that he had handled the affairs of the entire federation before, and the affairs of this small company were just at his fingertips. For him, it was not tiring, but a kind of vacation and relaxation. All the information of Super Star Technology Company is not even one millionth of the information he had handled before. Being the ruler of a civilization must be very tiring. It's like many people in the 21st century want to travel through ancient times to become emperors, but the emperor has to review many memorials every day and summon officials to meetings before dawn in the morning. In the system of ancient feudal society, the operation of institutions was very slow. Since the world belonged to the emperor alone, the emperor had to do a lot of things to make the country run normally. People who entered the information age and industrial age in the 21st century got up at least at 9 o'clock, while the emperor of the Qing Dynasty got up at 4 o'clock and the prince got up at 3 o'clock. These emperors are more diligent than those who work 996. Of course, the kind of emperors who are bad are not among them, only wise monarchs. In 1100, Yan Xia finally researched what he wanted at the beginning. This research took a long time. There are many research projects in the Federation that have such a long time, because each research project is equivalent to completing the exploration again on the existing top technology. The progress of each material is not only a change in the production mode, not only a change in the alloy ratio, but also requires the support of physics. Long time also has its benefits. This kind of research is not only an integer change from 1 to 2, but also a change in the decimal point. The number after the decimal point is the progress of the corresponding technology. There were many diffraction products of rockets and space exploration in the 20th century, not to mention now. For example, in this research, Yan Xia got something better than the research target. He studied how evasion materials can achieve their own power, which requires this thing to change. So when evasion materials can change from evasion to conventional materials, can conventional materials change back to evasion materials? Of course. And this allows Yan Xia to get a new material-free evasion material. By changing and repairing the properties of the object, it can achieve the switching of penetration and non-penetration. I want this substance to penetrate other substances, and I want this substance not to penetrate other substances. Of course, this evasion material was placed on a plate before, and the special material of that plate can also prevent the evasion material from penetrating, but it is impossible to change everything around to this special material just to be able to touch this material. This is unrealistic, and even seems to be too smart. After the new free evasion material was made, Yan Xia instantly thought of the application direction of this material. It is much more useful than making evasion materials into bombs. What Yan Xia wants to do is a battleship!