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Chapter 749 Cheap Energy
Because when their discussion ended, it was already the second year that Zhu Lei became the emperor of the Ming Empire.

In the past two years, the most important project launched by the Ming Empire is to make a collar for the stars, which is the start of the star energy collection technology project. In fact, this is also one of the core projects of the Ming Empire's ultra-long-range wormhole group and portal technology. After all, whether it is an ultra-long-range wormhole group or a future portal, it is inseparable from the support of energy.

The star collar currently under construction is the energy source for ultra-long-range wormholes and plane portals.

After all, both long-distance large-scale wormhole groups and super-large plane portals are energy-hungry consumers. If this technology is not used, the Ming Empire will not be able to provide enough energy for these two energy-hungry households. The technologies that have been proposed since the time of the earth have given energy solutions.

Generally speaking, when the technological civilization in the universe reaches the fifth level of civilization, they will try their best to collect the energy emitted by the stars.

Once the civilization level reaches level five or above, the demand for energy is very huge. Generally speaking, although level five civilization has mastered a lot of energy technologies, such as controllable nuclear fusion technology, dark matter energy technology and various energy crystallization technologies , but these technologies simply cannot meet the basic energy needs of the entire civilization, so the energy emitted by stars, the most common items in the universe, has become one of the main sources of energy for major civilizations.

There are many ways to obtain stellar energy. It can be said that 99 civilizations have 99 different collection methods, scientific and technological civilizations have collection methods of scientific and technological civilizations, biological civilizations have collection methods of biological civilizations, energy civilizations have collection methods of energy civilizations, and The collection methods and collection efficiency of major civilizations are very different.

Some civilizations can only utilize less than 50% of the energy from stars, while some civilizations can be infinitely close to all the energy emitted by stars. Of course, when the civilization level reaches level five, basically all civilizations have no use for stars. The energy utilization rate emitted is basically above [-]%.

Take the current Ming Empire as an example. Although the Ming Empire has also mastered controllable nuclear fusion technology, dark energy technology and energy compression technology, and even the Ming Empire has mastered the technology of extracting energy from spiritual stones, these technologies are basically still Serving the military, even the lowest-end controllable nuclear fusion technology is rarely used among civilians except for civilian spacecraft.

In addition to controllable nuclear fusion technology, there is also dark energy technology. It is impossible for the Ming Empire to popularize this technology among the people. After all, compared to ordinary energy, dark matter is too dangerous. A little carelessness may cause extremely serious consequences, so dark matter must not be popularized among the people on a large scale at this stage of civilization.

Of course, in the end it is the energy of the spirit stone. Although the energy in the spirit stone is quite huge and the danger is not high, compared to other people, the energy contained in the spirit stone is already very safe, so it stands to reason Lingshi already has the conditions for large-scale popularization.

However, due to the special nature of the energy in the spirit stone being absorbed by living things, its energy is destined to not be used for other purposes. What's more, since spiritual energy is one of the most advanced energies in the universe, it is very troublesome to convert it into other energies. , even the energy consumed in the conversion process is very huge, so even in today's Ming Empire, spiritual stones, as auxiliary energy for cultivation, have become one of the currencies of the Ming Empire.

Moreover, as the population of the Ming Empire increased, more and more people were cultivating, so resources such as spirit stones were naturally consumed more and more, so it was impossible to use them in other places. After all, energy in industry There are ways.

Therefore, like other civilizations, the Ming Empire has begun to move towards large-scale use of stellar energy. However, what is different from other civilizations is that although other civilizations generally have projects like the Ming Empire this time, they use stellar collar technology to obtain energy. The energy of stars, but most civilizations are not like this. Although these civilizations also use various methods on a large scale to obtain the energy of stars, not all civilizations have the ability to build a huge stellar collar for the star.

Although the construction of the stellar collar is a huge project, even for many civilizations in the galaxy, it is simply an impossible project, but it is still very easy for the current Ming Empire, not to mention the empire's civilization level and reaching the sixth level civilization. To the extent that such a project is huge, it will only take a little more time at most. Secondly, many projects in the empire no longer require people to build them themselves. Basically, they have been completed by robots controlled by artificial intelligence, and this star The collar project will also be completed by these artificial intelligences. Of course, not all of it will be completed by robots. A small number of engineers and experts are still needed. Although the artificial intelligence technology of the Ming Empire is advanced and far surpasses other civilizations in the galaxy, robots after all Even if it is a robot, it is still far from being comparable to humans themselves.

And basically every civilization uses different methods. Some civilizations use materials like steel to surround the entire sun, some use solar panels, and some use plants, but basically they all Almost, basically it is necessary to surround the entire star, after all, only in this way can the energy of Hengchang be obtained to the maximum extent.

After all, if you want to obtain more energy from stars, you must get as close to the stars as possible, but every star has a strong gravitational force, and because the stars will generate huge centrifugal force during the rotation process, you must put The entire star is surrounded by a circle, only in this way will it not be thrown away by the strong centrifugal force.

Since the Ming Empire is now a level six civilization, it will definitely not use the technology of low-level civilizations to build star collars. Instead, it will use the magnetic field technology and space technology that the Ming Empire has mastered to collect all the stars. Emitting all kinds of energy, this technology can be extremely effective in collecting the energy of stars, and even the energy utilization rate has reached an unprecedented 90.00% or more.

In fact, once this technology is verified to be feasible in this project, then the entire Ming Empire will not lack cheap and efficient energy in the future.

(End of this chapter)