NovelBonte Chapter 168 225~226 Energy Crisis (for Subscription)
Chapter 168 225~226 Energy Crisis (for Subscription)
Chapter 168 225~226 Energy Crisis (for Subscription)
After a burst of applause, the order of the meeting was restored and the scene became quiet.
The host of the meeting looked solemn: "What I just said is good news, it is a good thing."
"Then, next, let's talk about the difficulties we are facing now..."
"Let's take a look at some data first."
"This is the specific data on the efficiency of killing enemies since we started the war."
"Everyone look at this line chart."
"Each line on this line chart shows the number of enemies our smart city kills every day."
"As you can see, as the artificial intelligence training model data of our smart city defense module becomes more abundant, the efficiency of eliminating targets is gradually increasing steadily."
"You can also see that the defensive war of the base cities in the interior started relatively late, but because the city defense model of the coastal cities was borrowed, the efficiency of killing enemies during combat is almost comparable to that of the coastal cities."
"This fully shows that we use artificial intelligence to carry out automated defense. This idea is fully feasible. However, according to the theoretical basis of the current model, at present, our model training level, our intelligent weapon system, is far from Reach the peak of combat power."
"However, you can see that in the past two days, the upward trend of our smart model has slowed down."
"This is very abnormal!" The host frowned solemnly.
Here comes the point.
When everyone heard the words, they immediately raised their spirits again, nervously staring at some specific data shared on the big screen. After seeing this, someone immediately saw some key points.
"It turns out that our model is still improving, but our energy consumption, power distribution, and energy consumption are under control, as well as our logistical production of ammunition, and the efficiency of weapon accessories is decreasing, and we are even depressing accessories on purpose. The replacement speed is fast, and the least material is used as much as possible in exchange for great results.” Some experts have already stated the key reasons.
"Yes."
"That's it."
"Our algorithm model is not only a combat model, but also dynamically linked with the resources in each smart city."
"Everyone, look at this resource form again!"
After saying that, a main resource table was switched on the big screen, including water, air, energy, and various minerals.Among them, electricity is the most consumed. Ventilation requires electricity, factory production requires electricity, and cities require electricity for normal operation. It can be clearly seen that almost every city's electricity supply has begun to make ends meet, and has begun to use reserved electricity for subsidies.
In some non-sea cities, since the monsters know to block the water sources outside the base city, even if the base city reserves a huge amount of water at the edge of the base, it will eventually be used up.
Production requires water, and life requires water.
Modern cities cannot live without electricity, let alone water.
"As you can see, we are not short of food and mineral resources for the time being, but we are relatively short of water and electricity. It can be said that we are nervous."
"The reason why the combat level of our city's model has not continued to rise is that it is limited by our resources."
"If our firepower is stronger, it will inevitably increase our production efficiency. Once the production capacity increases, then we will consume more electricity and water. Then, our base city will , the time you can persist will be correspondingly reduced.”
"According to the current passivity due to the increase in the attack power of the monster group, it is conservatively estimated that the defense time predicted by the supercomputing model can last for about one and a half months."
"After one and a half months, we will either run out of energy reserves or run out of water resources. At that time, the base city will be destroyed by itself."
For a month and a half, it was self-defeating.
Everyone felt the pressure. Now there are more than 1 million people living in each base city. Once the base city is breached, everyone can imagine what kind of tragedy it will cause.
"Everyone can understand the dilemma, so we absolutely cannot let this happen."
"We only have one and a half months, and we don't have much time. Everyone, hurry up and think of a way."
"Also, Mr. Fang, what do you think of the current situation?" the host of the meeting asked.
The camera cuts to Fang Cheng.
Fang Cheng straightened the microphone in front of the table, and said in a deep voice: "To be honest, the intensity of this monster swarm's attack has slightly exceeded our initial estimate."
"In our vision, the attack intensity of these monsters will be much lower."
"As it is now, there is less time left for us."
"However, from an overall point of view, I don't think it's a big problem."
"Today, our star palace is still expanding, and we have officially won permission for the construction of the star ring from the international community. The condition is that during the process of star ring construction, when we have the ability to clean up the monster targets on the ground, Assist the other party as appropriate.”
"This is very good news. Once the star ring is successfully built, our planet will have more defense capabilities. Moreover, once the star ring is successfully built, the star ring alone will be enough to deploy our entire population. "
"Of course, all this takes time, and that will be in the future, and what we lack most now is time."
"The monsters block the water source. We can use the plasma cannon in space to evaporate and dissolve them. As long as we have enough energy to attack the monsters in groups, we are not afraid at present."
"So, in the final analysis, there is only one, our energy is not enough for the time being."
"However, the good news is that according to the current progress, the wireless power transmission network of each of our base cities and star palaces can be connected immediately."
"According to our design, 32 wireless power transmission interfaces are being urgently built on our star palace."
"The power transmission interface only needs to be aligned with the protective film over our base city. When the wireless energy shines on it, it will be automatically received and converted into electrical energy, and then transmitted to the city network."
"Moreover, in the process of using our special materials to convert electric energy and electromagnetic waves, and then transforming electromagnetic waves into electric energy, the loss of electric energy has been reduced to [-]%. Therefore, the energy is only supplied by the solar panels of Xinggong. "
"I just did the math. With the current monster attack intensity and growth rate, we won't have any problems, and we can even maintain it for a long time!"
"And our solar wireless power supply can be officially completed in only ten days."
"So, you don't have to be nervous."
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief when they heard this.
Fang Cheng took a slight breath: "But, I said it before."
"Dealing with these monsters is ultimately just a case of mange."
"It's what's behind these monsters that we really need to grapple with."
"That is an intelligent civilization that can cross the stars and attack another civilization."
"You can imagine how powerful they are."
"With our current space facilities and planetary defense capabilities, it is already difficult for us to deal with an asteroid. It is conceivable that when the real enemy arrives, if this is all we have."
"If they come to the solar system and want to destroy us, they don't need to bother at all. Even if they just stand in the asteroid belt and keep throwing asteroids at us, we will be thrown to death alive, so don't mention other things. attack method..."
"Therefore, I have only one opinion, that is, in the current situation, no matter how strong and intense the monster group's attack is, we must maintain the production and development plan without any compromise."
"Only when we become stronger quickly can we have the opportunity to face the fate that is very likely to face in the future."
"We don't just want to build a star ring."
"Even in the near future, we will go to colonize the moon, Mars, Saturn, and even go further to the Kuiper belt to build a detection and detection network."
"The enemy is unknown. Only when we build the solar system like Tietong, will our chances of final victory be greater..."
Fang Cheng spoke sonorously and forcefully, and everyone listened to them, and they continued to communicate with each other.
After all, some people still raised questions: "Is this really necessary? Moreover, the monsters are attacking so intensely now. While dealing with them, we must maintain high-speed production. Then our remaining resources, under the current situation, can be used to support us." less time."
"Can't we wait until everything is resolved before trying to develop?"
As soon as such a question came out, many people agreed with it. It is impossible to say that it is wrong. These people are only seeking stability. After all, any decision made now is related to the fate of at least [-], [-] million, or even more people. .
You have to be nervous, you have to be cautious.
Ultimately, the meeting did not directly discuss a definitive outcome.
No one has been able to convince anyone. On the one hand, it is a more terrifying future, and on the other hand, it is the protection of more than one billion people in the short term. Either one is important. But, to be more realistic, if there is a future, we must get through the present.
But it doesn’t work if you don’t look at the future.
So, the meeting was terminated.
Ten days later, that is, after the wireless power transmission network of the star palace and the ground base city is officially connected, the meeting will discuss again. At that time, a definite result needs to be discussed.
Teleconferencing is off.
Fang Cheng and the others didn't stop any longer, they went straight out of the meeting room, and then quickly walked towards a new physics laboratory.
This building is on the edge of the park.
However, it is a very important, high-secret unit.
Because here, just over a month ago, it was deployed to create a new fusion reactor.
A large number of nuclear fusion talents gather here.
Not long ago a month ago, it had been successfully ignited for [-] seconds, which is about an hour. This persistence time is already quite long.
However, there are other problems.
After Fang Cheng changed his clothes, he walked into the laboratory.
The person in charge of the nuclear fusion laboratory is Mr. Qiu Qiyuan, a nuclear fusion expert invited by Fang Cheng and an academician of the Academy of Engineering. Mr. Qiu Qiyuan is 73 years old this year.
I have already retired to the second line, and I occasionally go to a class to lead a group of students. I basically don't ask about many things. The only regret is that I didn't really get nuclear fusion out.
Therefore, because of this, even at the age of 73, most of the time, except for participating in international conferences, he devoted himself to the nuclear fusion laboratory.
It is a pity that the progress of the project is very little, which makes the old man very unwilling.
And when Fang Cheng went to invite the master with a specially prepared new plan, the 73-year-old Mr. Qiu Qiyuan insisted on staying up for two consecutive nights, and then he was forced to sleep before giving up.
And then, Qiu Qiyuan naturally agreed to come to Fang Cheng's laboratory, which was still zero in the field of nuclear fusion at that time.
Moreover, the old Mr. Qiu Qiyuan not only quickly recruited and built the team, but also went out of his way to dismantle some important equipment in the entire laboratory before.
According to Qiu Qiyuan's words, the previous laboratory has gone the wrong way, and if it continues on, it will only make a little bit of progress. As time goes by, it will make a little bit of progress, but it will definitely get better. It is getting slower and slower, and the distance to success, like the limit of points, will be infinitely close, but it will never succeed.
However, here in Fang Cheng.
It has only been more than a month since the laboratory was formed, and the nuclear fusion reactor has been able to run stably for an hour. This figure is many times better than those ignition times that only take 1 minute or a few minutes at every turn.
An hour is already quite practical.
Therefore, when the stable running time reaches an hour, the whole team is very excited.
However, stable operation does not mean that nuclear fusion is successful.
Because the fundamental purpose of fusion is to use only fusion reaction to generate electricity, which is to output electric energy.
Nowadays, in order to ignite nuclear fusion and maintain stable operation of nuclear fusion, external power supply equipment is needed, and a large amount of power is continuously supplied.
In fact, the output power is much less than the input power.
Nuclear fusion itself is used to generate electricity, but it turns out to be a power consumer, which is of course not possible.
In-depth research must also be continued.
Therefore, this is also the reason why although nuclear fusion can be ignited stably for an hour, it has not been directly said to be a success.
Moreover, one hour of stable operation meant that the energy consumption was too high and it could not make ends meet, so we took the initiative to stop the ignition experiment.
The real ignition and stable operation capability may be much more than one hour.
……
When Fang Cheng arrived, today's experiment seemed to have just ended.
Seeing everyone shaking their heads and looking gloomy on their faces, it was obvious that this was another failure.
"Boss Fang, you're here."
"Old Qiu, what's the matter? You look very pale, why don't you take a rest immediately, the experiment is important, but the body is more important, the body is the capital of work..." Fang Cheng saw Qiu Qiyuan's face full of guilt and asked.
Qiu Qiyuan waved his hand: "I'm not that bad, but I feel guilty. Under such good conditions, I have been stuck for a month, and I haven't broken through the problem of energy efficiency. It can obviously run stably, but I can't. The output power will be greater than the input power.”
"Ashamed!"
"Especially now that the battle is so tense and the source of the country's energy supply has been greatly reduced, it is the time when energy is needed. Not only is our progress slow, but also, every ignition experiment consumes so much energy."
"Sorry..." Qiu Qiyuan beat his chest and stamped his feet.
Hearing this, Fang Cheng patted Mr. Qiu on the shoulder: "Mr. Qiu, don't be like this. Although the situation is a little urgent, but if you are doing research, you are pregnant. If the time is not up, can you still survive?"
Qiu Qiyuan was suffocated when he heard the words, he just thought it was Fang Cheng who comforted them.
Then, Fang Cheng continued, "However, if I come today, maybe the time will come soon."
Everyone was shocked...
(End of this chapter)