Interstellar Energy Tycoon

As if in the blink of an eye.

The time has come to 2040.

A full ten years passed like this.

Li Xingyang has also changed from a 30-year-old young man to a 40-year-old middle-aged man. However, due to proper maintenance, regular exercise, rest, and very good physical fitness, he still does not seem to have changed much. The national husband in the minds of countless women, his fans are still tens of millions.

In the past ten years, the development of Xingyuan Group has still maintained a relatively high speed, and has not stopped the pace of expansion, and has continuously consolidated its position as the overlord of space energy, and continues to monopolize the energy of the sun. Commercial competitors can compete with it, but it is impossible to shake the absolute monopoly position of Xingyuan Group. No matter how much money is invested and how powerful the technology is, in space, it is impossible to snatch even one customer belonging to Xingyuan Group.

Naturally, for Azure Star, the past ten years has also brought about very huge changes, whether it is technology, military, culture, entertainment or other aspects, the drastic changes that have taken place are like a century has passed, and Called the 'Golden Age of Development', it is the period that many people like and miss the most.

For example, in the field of virtual games, after seeing the huge profits brought by virtual online games, one after another fun virtual online games have been developed. In the game world, the senses of smell, taste, and touch are simulated to obtain a sensory experience similar to the real world. Sometimes it is so real that it makes players have serious illusions, and it is difficult to tell whether they are in the game or in reality.

Correspondingly, chip technology is also developing vigorously. Although there is no way to continue to reduce the size of transistors, the number of internal layers of the chip, materials with better conductivity, and higher operating frequencies have all been successfully realized. With the great progress in algorithms, and the stability and maturity of quantum computing technology, the computing power of supercomputers has been improved several times, and qualitative changes have taken place. The ability of artificial intelligence is no longer close to human beings, but far exceeds 99% of the work can be done by robots, which leads to a more serious unemployment problem, or you have to improve your innovation ability and strive to become innovative talents, pioneering talents, or just Being able to survive by receiving welfare relief loses the meaning and value of personal existence.

In terms of science and technology, the controllable nuclear fusion technology has successfully realized commercial applications. It can output more than 1 billion KW of energy in a long-term and stable manner. It can even output 10 billion KW under full load. It can also play a big role and is a very important technology. It can fill some of the shortcomings of Xingyuan Group in the energy field, not to mention that controllable nuclear fusion can also be used as the energy and power system of super giant space facilities, so that it will not be too heavily dependent on Xingyuan Group. The indispensable backup redundancy makes the space energy empire of Xingyuan Group more complete and perfect.

Then there is today's Huaguo. After ten years of rapid development, the total GDP has increased by more than ten times, exceeding 1,000 trillion yuan, and the per capita annual income is a terrible 500,000 or more. Just find someone It’s a good job, with an annual salary of one million, it’s not too difficult, but even if the per capita income has increased by five or ten times, and there are hundreds of millions of high-paying jobs, but in terms of prices, there has not been much change. The fruits and vegetables in the vegetable market , The prices of daily necessities remained basically the same, or rose a little bit, such as 15 pounds of pork, 30 pounds of beef, 20 yuan and 30 eggs, etc., fully enjoying the benefits of rising wages without rising prices, Only the artificial side becomes very expensive. If the faucet at home is broken, buy a better quality faucet, which costs about 30 yuan, but ask the master to come and repair it. The service fee is at least 300, and you can’t find it for less than this price. To people, can only grope for repairs.

In addition, there are quite a few catering service industries, but anyone who hires a human waiter must give a certain "tip" according to the quality of the other party's service, at least 50, and there is no upper limit. The better the service, the more thoughtful. The higher the tip, the higher the tip. Of course, if you are not willing to pay for consumption, you can also go to the shops that use robots completely. Because robots serve you, you can save the cost of tips, which may save half of the cost, but It will also expose the secret that you are a poor ghost. After all, you can’t even give tips, and you can only accept the cold robot service. It means that your financial situation is not good, and you are not a decent middle class. Naturally, you are at the end of the chain of contempt. No more humane service.

traffic.

After ten years of development, a total of 500,000 "energy supply towers" serving flying cars have been built in Huaguo, including 200,000 giant towers with a height of 500 meters, which are mainly set up in cities. There are 300,000 small towers with a height of 300 meters, which are mainly built in rural areas to provide energy for flying cars, allowing them to have almost unlimited battery life. It is easy to fly thousands of kilometers in a row, and benefit from With the continuous improvement of battery energy density, the battery life of flying cars generally has a distance of 500 kilometers, 550 kilometers, 600 kilometers or even 800 kilometers. Service, it looks like charging 10,000 kWh of electricity, but at the current price of 10 cents/kWh for ground use, even if you go to a very remote place, the energy cost is only a thousand dollars, which is completely affordable. Where do you want to go? Just go wherever you want.

The 200,000 500-meter-high large-scale "energy supply towers" will be equipped with a large indoor vertical agricultural factory next to it, covering an area of ​​about 20 acres, but the interior is divided into 500 floors, which is equivalent to a 10,000-mu building. The cultivated land, multiplied by 200,000, is a full 2 ​​billion mu of high-standard cultivated land, which can produce melons, fruits and vegetables 365 days a year, as well as special fish farms, pig farms, cattle farms, and chicken farms By the way, not less than one million heads of various livestock are raised, bringing a lot of meat, eggs and milk, and creating more economic benefits.

What's more, the 500-meter-high energy supply tower can also be used as a communication base station, allowing 6G signals to cover a wide area. As long as the residents living around the energy supply tower can enjoy very good wireless network signals.

In addition, if such a huge energy supply tower is equipped with an electromagnetic slide rail device, it can directly accelerate that small civil spaceship to a relatively high speed, and at the same time provide energy for it until it enters the space environment. Such space launch services can also bring considerable economic benefits to the energy supply tower.

In addition, the job of the "energy supply tower" is to provide a steady stream of energy, whether it is a signal base station, an electromagnetic guide rail, an indoor vertical agricultural factory or a charging service for flying cars, it is all to guide the flying car down from the sky. High-power electricity should be allocated and used reasonably to maximize benefits.

If there is extra power left, it can also supply power to the communities around the energy supply tower. This is also very popular, because the electricity provided by the energy supply tower only costs 1 cent per kilowatt-hour, while the price of ordinary national grid is 2 cents. , the difference between the two is as much as double, who doesn't want to save a little electricity bill.

However, no matter how great the changes on the ground of the blue star are, even in the past ten years, the changes in Huaguo have been earth-shaking. The surface of the blue star has undergone very obvious changes. The fresh water resources of icebergs in the north and south poles have been exploited to the point of disappearing, leading to more serious global warming, but the sea level has not risen significantly because of the large amount of fresh water resources , was transported to space, or used to transform the desert environment, increase the living space of human beings, and have more livable land resources.

The above are all the various changes that have taken place on Azure Planet.

Considering that the population on Azure Star has not increased explosively, it has just exceeded 11 billion at present, the environmental carrying capacity of Azure Star can still bear it, and a lot of achievements have been made in environmental protection. Using Xingyuan Group The high-energy beam of light has disposed of hundreds of billions of tons of garbage, and directly launched the toxic, harmful and difficult-to-dispose garbage into the scorching sun in the form of space garbage, so the garbage problem that plagues mankind has been obtained. perfect solution.

Green water and green mountains everywhere, beautiful environment, like a fairyland.

Especially in the territory of China, there is a large-scale conversion of farmland to forests and grasslands, replacing the previous crops with fruit trees, like a huge garden and orchard, which makes people linger and forget to return, and just want to live in this fairyland-like country for a long time.

but……

No matter how great the changes on Azure Star are, they still cannot compare with the huge changes in space.

Especially after Xingyuan Group took the lead in attracting countless entrepreneurs to come to space to engage in "big projects" by supplying energy almost for free, ten years have passed, and the time for harvest has come. These large-scale space construction The project has basically been completed, and it is even larger than originally imagined.

For example, the giant space cruise ship "Hope" originally planned to build a 10-billion-ton class, but a large number of modules were added later, making the total mass reach 30 billion-ton class, exceeding the mass of ten space cities. Its facilities are even more perfect, it can provide all kinds of services, and it has certain industrial capabilities. It can receive 1 million tourists at a time, and then travel to many places in the solar system. The power system is abundant, and it can carry about 5 billion tons of The working medium has an endurance of up to five years and a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per second. It even has certain military capabilities and is equipped with several laser weapons.

For example, the surface of the giant bubble planet is a layer of highly elastic film material, which is not easy to be cut. After injecting air, the diameter can be expanded to 100 kilometers, and then living and living facilities can be built inside to build a relatively closed environment. Ecosphere, and then set up a variety of institutional entertainment equipment to create a giant space player, which can receive at least 100,000 tourists at a time, experience hundreds of rides, and it is extremely interesting. I want to play again after playing.

As for the water planet in space, the Azure Star 2 living planet built in the habitable zone of the solar system, etc., these two projects are half-failed and half-successful. The failure is because it is difficult to achieve a diameter of more than 2,000 kilometers, which requires transportation. Too much material, and fresh water resources have high economic value. It is better to sell them directly to various companies that need water, so that the money will come in faster. The failure of the Azure Star 2 planet project is Because human beings now have a lot of living space, and they can't even live in it.

For example, hundreds of large and small immigrant bases on the moon have already lived in more than 5 million humans. They have very complete supporting facilities, and the comfort level is no worse than that on the blue star. They have also specially built supercomputing servers belonging to the moon. , you can also play fun virtual online games, the competition between players is very small, you don't need to fight each other to get particularly irritable and exhausted, and the atmosphere is more harmonious.

Another example is the number of immigrant cities on the Martian equator, which has now increased to fifty, each with a population of more than 300,000, and the total number of immigrants is nearly 20 million. Now it has become quite lively. It is definitely incomparable, and sometimes it still looks a little deserted, but the population on Mars is constantly increasing, and the policy of encouraging births is also very strong. If you don’t have three or four children, you will receive a lot of criticism and pressure , because population is hope, if there are always so few people, how can Mars become prosperous and prosperous.

But at present, it is the space cities that absorb the largest number of immigrants. Now the number of space cities has increased to 101, which is a relatively large number. Each space city has a population of 600,000 on average, and has absorbed more than 60 million people in total. There are more than half of the immigrants living there, but only half of these immigrants are Chinese immigrants, and the other 30 million are allocated to various countries. There are all kinds of races, and they live mixed together to avoid forming small groups. The scope of the group, the text and language, mainly Chinese, as long as the more thorough the understanding of Huaguo culture, the more opportunities will be obtained, so this also greatly increased the cultural influence of Huaguo, setting off a wave of The climax of learning Chinese, because it means wealth and opportunities. Foreign men can apply to enter the space city after learning Chinese, and get a high-paying job with a monthly salary of more than 30,000, which brings huge changes to the family. Foreign girls learn Chinese , not only have the opportunity to find a high-paying job, but also marry a Huaguo boy and become a real Huaguo person. This is undoubtedly a better shortcut to change their destiny, allowing countless foreign girls to marry a Huaguo boy and change their own destiny dream.

As for whether allowing too many foreigners to develop in space will affect Huaguo's space dominance, this is naturally an unnecessary worry. After all, energy, city management, and space industry systems are all in the hands of Huaguo people. , even if someone wants to move some crooked thoughts, they can only reap disappointment.

It's a bit of a stretch.

In fact, no matter how it develops, Li Xingyang is most concerned about the development of his energy business, hoping to sell as much of his energy as possible.

So ten years have passed, how far has his space energy business developed now? (end of this chapter)