The Rise Of Space Technology

Chapter 379 The History Of Mankind Is The History Of Energy

“Is this power generation too much?”

“According to your plan, it can generate 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity this year, which is more than ten times that of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station.”

Lu Yong carefully looked at the space solar power plant plan sent by Wang Chen in his mind. When he saw the theoretical annual power generation calculated above, he couldn’t help but be shocked, and his eyes widened.

When he read the news before, he had seen reports about the Three Gorges Hydropower Station. As the largest hydropower station in our country, the Three Gorges Hydropower Station can generate nearly 100 billion kilowatt-hours of terrifying power per year.

This is already the largest hydropower station in the world, and it is also the power station with the largest power generation capacity.

Who knows now that it is said that building a space solar power station casually in space can achieve 17 times the power generation of the Three Gorges. Thinking about it, it is impossible.

Originally, he thought that space solar power stations were actually not profitable, because even though going to and from space has become extremely cheap now, building solar power stations in space is still a hugely expensive project.

What’s more, the electricity price is very cheap. The market price is 50 cents once. If you sell it to the State Grid, it may only be 2 cents.

Even if your power generation can catch up with the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, this year is only a business of 20 billion. For Xinghai Technology, 20 billion is just a drizzle, and it is nothing at all.

But now according to such power generation, it is completely different.

This year, it can generate 1,700 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. Even if it is calculated at 2 cents a year, it will still generate 340 billion yuan in revenue a year. This figure is quite impressive.

The key is that since it is built, its maintenance and operation costs can be very low, all of which are fully automated and intelligent management, and there are not many employees. This is basically profit.

This is very Xinghai technology, and it is in line with the identity of high-tech.

“Haha, this power generation is based on the results calculated by our tests in space.”

“With the development of this technology, the energy and energy that human beings can master is getting bigger and bigger.”

“In ancient times, we humans had just mastered fire. At that time, we could only burn wood, straw, etc., with very little energy.”

“Later we gradually learned to use coal, oil, and electricity. We were able to master more and more energy, and we also consumed more and more energy.”

“This shows that with the development and progress of our human technology, the energy we can master, use and consume is constantly soaring.”

“Now an ordinary family uses dozens of kilowatt-hours of electricity casually every month, and the aircraft needs to burn dozens of liters of bio-fuel, which was unthinkable in the past.”

“The technology we use to obtain energy is also getting more and more powerful, from mining coal and oil, to hydropower, wind power, nuclear power, and more.”

“Now we are building space solar power stations in space. One power station can be equivalent to 17 Three Gorges hydropower stations. There is nothing strange or surprising about this.”

“Perhaps in the future, when our controllable nuclear fusion technology is researched, it is possible that the energy we can master is hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times that of the Three Gorges.”

Wang Chen smiled and said.

The development of science and technology is like this, every advance seems to be inconceivable in the past.

Just like in the 1990s, those who could use a mobile phone were the real big brothers. The market price of a big brother was 28,000 yuan, the network access fee was 6,000 yuan, and the pre-storage cost was 1,000 yuan. In an era when there were very few people, anyone who could spend as much money as a big brother was a real genius.

But with the development of science and technology, the mobile phone has gradually reached the era of one hand. In the 1980s, can you imagine all this?

It is estimated that even if I told you, you would say that this is impossible. Everyone has a big brother, and everyone is a big brother. Who will be a little brother.

“The history of our human development can be said to be a history of energy development.”

“We have slowly developed from burning straw and wood to burning coal and oil, and then electric energy, nuclear energy, etc. In the future, we will also master nuclear fusion energy, even antimatter energy and so on.”

“Continuous progress, continuous mastery of more powerful energy.”

Liu Yuan followed suit.

The study of history is actually a very interesting thing.

Human history can be studied from multiple perspectives, such as means of transportation. Primitive humans were tested on walking, and the range of activities was very limited, often only a few dozen miles. Later, horses and cattle were slowly domesticated, and they could ride on a horse and sit on a cow. Cars, etc., ordinary people can move within a hundred miles.

Later, with the development of science and technology, the invention of trains, cars, bicycles, etc., the trajectory of human activities can be farther and faster.

Then there were planes and ships, and people’s activities became wider.

Up to now, with anti-gravity aircraft, the earth has become a village, and people’s activities have begun to spread to every corner of the earth.

In the future, when human beings set foot on the sea of stars, the trajectory of their activities will be farther and larger.

“Just such a huge amount of power generation, are we running out of it?”

“And to generate electricity in space, how should this electricity be transmitted is also a problem?”

Lu Yong thought about it and said again.

“Are you afraid of too much energy?”

“In the future, there will be many places where electricity will be used. For example, anti-gravity aircraft use electricity. Now the Academy of Sciences is researching a high-energy matrix battery. The power storage will have a qualitative leap and will be a thousand times that of the most powerful battery today , 10,000 times, it can be used exclusively on spaceships at that time, and no amount of electricity can be consumed by you.”

“Besides, our smelting factory on the moon is a big power consumer. It is used to smelt copper, aluminum, iron and other metals, which is very power-hungry.”

“Not to mention the 17 Three Gorges Hydropower Stations, then maybe a few more will not be enough for our company’s consumption.” Liu Yuan replied with a smile.

Energy is definitely not afraid of too much. Humans have mastered more and more energy, and at the same time, they are consuming more and more energy.

In the parent star civilization, the spaceship that consumes the most energy is the spacecraft.

After the powerful high-energy matrix battery is developed, the power system of the spacecraft can use all anti-gravity engines instead of auxiliary rocket engines.

At that time, spaceships will fly around in the solar system, mining asteroids, mining on various planets, flying between the earth and the moon, etc., the energy consumption will be very large, and space solar power generation is also inevitable.

Otherwise, relying on those power stations on the earth, it is estimated that they cannot withstand consumption at all.

“The smelting factory on the moon is indeed very power-hungry. Wan Hanrui has already told me several times. Because the electricity on the moon side is not enough, the smelting factory is not operating enough.”

“It is said that we want to build a nuclear power plant on the moon to meet the demand for electricity, but this is not something that can be approved so easily, and it is something we cannot touch now.”

When Lu Yong heard this, he nodded and said.

“So, don’t be afraid of too much energy. As for power transmission technology, the Academy of Sciences is also working on wireless power transmission technology. Once this technology is successfully researched, electricity can be directly transmitted from space to the ground. The company’s factories, There is a lot of money left over for electricity like the base.”

Liu Yuan nodded and said that Xinghai Technology is a big power consumer. There are dozens of bases, factories, and industrial areas large and small, and the daily electricity bill is a large number.

If it can be solved directly, it can leave a lot of expenses.

“It’s time to start building solar power plants in space.”

At this time, Wang Chen looked outside and quickly reminded.

Liu Yuan and Lu Yong came back to their senses, looked outside, and saw three huge spaceships parked on the huge open space. At this moment, the hatches of the spaceships began to slowly close, and the astronauts and engineers had already Entered it and began to prepare to fly to space.

“Allow to take off~”

Soon, with the approval of the take-off application, the three huge spaceships began to lift off slowly, like a feather without a trace of weight, light and fluttering, constantly floating, flying higher and higher, and soon disappeared in the crowd. in the field of vision.

In just a few minutes, the three spaceships flew into space smoothly, and then adjusted their orbits and entered the predetermined orbit.

Here in the control center, a huge display is showing pictures in space, and three huge spaceships are flying around in space.

I saw that the hatch of the spacecraft opened slowly, and the robotic arms above the spacecraft began to get busy, and the robotic arms were extremely flexible, and began to continuously carry the things inside the hatch of the spacecraft.

The first is that a huge round tube like a space capsule is transported out.

All these large columns are the main frame of the space solar power station, which is full of solar power panels, and each column is also a high-tech product.

There is not only a device similar to the injection of rocket solid fuel, but also an anti-gravity device, which can be used to change the orbit of the space solar power station, as well as a very intelligent control system.

The future control system of this space solar power station will all adopt a fully intelligent control system. At the same time, each solar power generation panel can be accurately monitored. Once damaged, the maintenance personnel can be notified in time for replacement. .

The cylinders are carried out from the spaceship. The cylinders are very heavy on the earth, and the mechanical arms are very difficult to carry, but in space, in the microgravity environment, the mechanical arms are very difficult to carry. easy.

I saw that the two cylinders were precisely butted together under the control of the robotic arm. This type of cylinder was designed with reference to space capsules. The operating systems can also be perfectly connected to each other.

As the two cylinders are docked together, the automatic control system at the hatch above the cylinders is activated, and they are perfectly docked with each other to form a new cylinder with a length of 20 meters.

Soon, after the two cylinders were docked, another robotic arm installed a pair of joints at both ends. The four-way pipe between the pair of joints and the water pipe is a principle and function.

However, this is used in space, and a lot of technology is used in it. After all, it is used for docking in space.

Like building blocks, the cylinders are constantly butted together.

Half an hour later, a square with a length and width of 20 meters appeared in space, like a big frame.

Above the large square frame, and above the pillars, there will soon be small sticks sticking out every 1 meter. These sticks have been designed for a long time and adopt a folding structure.

The two opposite frames are 20 meters away from each other, and the sticks extending out about 10 meters from each other are perfectly butted together, and they are opposite each other.

Soon, the 20-meter-long square was cut into small squares by sticks, a total of 400 small squares of 1 square meter, and the size was just enough to be used for a standard 1 square meter. Solar panels.

A square was built, and soon the astronauts on the spacecraft began to work again, and standard cylinders were continuously transported out and then spliced to it.

After more than ten hours, a huge ‘Tian’ appeared in space, and then spacesuits and engineers, with the help of a robotic arm, came to this ‘Tian’ and entered the huge cylinder like a space capsule.

The cylinder has a diameter of 4 meters and a length of 10 meters. It is like a huge space city. It has complete facilities, not only a life support system to maintain survival, but also a lot of various things. There are even small emergency facilities. Space capsule to escape.

In the event of an emergency special situation, the personnel working on it can directly fly into the earth in the escape capsule, and rely on the escape capsule to land on the earth, which is enough to ensure safety.

The astronauts entering the space capsule activate their respective systems in the space capsule. There is also a mechanical arm outside the space capsule, open the cabin door of the space capsule, and start to control the mechanical arm to start the solar panels in the space capsule one by one. laid on top of the frame that has been added.

The work efficiency in space is really too slow. Even now, the combination of robotic arms and virtual technology has greatly improved the efficiency of astronauts working in space, but it is still very slow.

A few hours have passed.

With the assistance of several astronauts, the smallest ‘field’, only a 20-meter-long ‘field’ was paved, and 400 solar panels were laid.

The first batch of astronauts and engineers who came to space began to take a spacecraft to return to the ground to rest, and put on another batch of space suits and engineers. The spacecraft, which was also full of cylinders for the construction of space solar power stations, arrived In space, continue to build this space solar power station.

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