Interstellar Energy Tycoon

May 2062.

The 22nd year of the new era of human civilization.

The sight returned to the solar system.

The 'Sun Temple' not far from the orbit of the Blue Star has become quite lively after more than 20 years of development. The number of people living in it has increased from two to three hundred to two to three thousand. People are quite popular, and there are also roles such as tutors, maids, staff, group veterans, loyal guards, etc. Only those who can gain enough trust can enter this temple and are qualified to be the Lord of the Sun 'Li Xingyang' Provide various services.

Today, Li Xingyang is 62 years old. He cannot be described as young in any case. Even if he takes anti-aging drugs and does regular exercise and maintenance, he still looks like a handsome middle-aged man. There is still a lot of collagen on his face, without any wrinkles, just a beard on his lips, which makes him look handsome and mature. Today, the female fans who still regard him as the national husband have finally reduced some, leaving only 50 million.

over the past twenty years.

Li Xingyang still focused most of his energy on the space energy industry. Family was also very important and consumed part of his energy. However, as his children grew up one after another, and even reached the age of falling in love and starting a family, It wasn't until all eight of his children had established families and stabilized that he basically let go of worrying about his children. He finally breathed a sigh of relief and lost a lot of worries.

Nowadays, not only does he have a harmonious and happy family, his career is also developing quite well, he also has a very high public reputation, and his basic base is very strong and solid. There is no longer any power that poses any threat to his interests. It can be said that It is stable and peaceful, with no resistance ahead.

The main reason is that the attention of human civilization is now focused on the stars around the immigrants. Starting from the first 'Infinity Pioneer' more than 20 years ago, an immigrant spacecraft has been dispatched almost every year to bring immigrants with them. With a million crew members and hundreds of millions of population bombs, they will conquer new stars and open up more living space for mankind.

More than twenty years later.

Almost all star systems containing heavy elements within a radius of 15 light years around the sun will be visited by human immigrants and become new territories for human civilization, bringing more resources and energy, thus allowing the relatively lonely human civilization to gradually expand. It will develop into a powerful human federation and occupy a place in the galaxy that will not be underestimated by other civilizations - if there are alien civilizations.

Precisely because the main energy of human civilization has been put in the direction of opening up a new living space, internal conflicts have naturally been reduced a lot. Regarding the established fact that Xingyuan Group has monopolized solar energy, no one will challenge or contain it. , has always maintained an attitude of acquiescence and non-objection - in fact, it is not without action. The Federation of Human Civilization has also built multiple ultra-high-power nuclear fusion reactors in space, with a power generation of at least 10 billion KW starting from the total supply. The energy power exceeds 100 billion kilowatts, which can theoretically meet the needs of most space activities, and the cost is also very low. It can also reduce the price of space energy to 3 cents or 2 cents/degree, which can be compared with Xingyuan Group competes.

However, in the space energy market, the proportion of nuclear fusion power generation has never exceeded 10%, and it has never been able to take advantage. Efforts to squeeze the market share of Xingyuan Group have always been difficult to make progress.

After all, over the years, Xingyuan Group has kept pace with the times, worked hard to improve service levels, and brought great convenience to its customers. It has established a rather dense and complex energy trunk network, which has been able to cover fifty All users within the astronomical unit, and some large customers, such as large interstellar cruise ships with a length of more than ten kilometers, can continuously and accurately supply energy without worrying about interruptions, even if they travel tens of billions of kilometers away. , after decades of service, the probability of errors is less than one in ten million, and the number of casualties is less than one in a billion. There have been only a few accidents, but huge amounts of money have been paid to them. The compensation and service attitude have been recognized by the majority of users and have cultivated their loyalty.

Energy prices have even dropped to 3 cents per kilowatt-hour. Users use 10,000 kilowatt-hours a day, which only costs 30 yuan for electricity. And if you catch a space meteorite weighing several hundred tons, you can earn hundreds of dollars. It can’t reach tens of thousands of yuan, it can only be described as the ultimate cabbage.

Although today's Xingyuan Group has collected more than 150 trillion kilowatts of space energy power, most of this energy has been utilized, so it can bring in tens of billions of revenue every day just by selling electricity, but Xingyuan Group The group no longer makes money by selling energy. Instead, it will lose a lot. Just to maintain the loyalty of customers, most of the profits are still brought by the manufacturing of chips, powerful materials and various super materials. The annual profit exceeds 5 Trillions, allowing tens of millions of employees to live a very decent life, a proper high-income class.

Even at this time, Xingyuan Group can use nearly unlimited energy as an anchor to issue so-called 'energy coins' and enter the financial field. This can maximize benefits instead of working hard every year. After creating such a huge value, banks issue tens of trillions more currency every year, but there is no change in inflation. It has become a wedding dress for banks, and it is obvious that they have suffered a lot. After all, energy prices are so cheap. If we don’t raise prices, we will support the fiscal deficit and become the biggest victim.

Fortunately, Xingyuan Group has also engaged in some side businesses in recent years. It has built some high-end indoor vertical agriculture factories to produce a lot of grain, fruits and vegetables, built many pig farms, and wineries. We have done several, and a large amount of materials produced every year are digested within the Xingyuan Group, reducing part of the welfare expenditure, otherwise there will not be such good profit performance.

Just after decades of development.

Now Xingyuan Group has entered a bottleneck stage, and the room for upward growth is very small. In terms of energy, even if prices continue to be lowered, users will not be able to use more electricity. It has reached a level of Saturated, even the most authoritative experts have come to the conclusion that the development of Xingyuan Group is about to enter a plateau period, and its performance cannot continue to grow.

Is this really the case?

Does Li Xingyang have to accept this reality?

Should we consider increasing the production capacity of powerful materials, which will also increase energy consumption, or find ways to launch some space projects that consume huge amounts of energy? As long as you use your brain, there will always be ways.

Even so.

But this time Li Xingyang no longer intends to adopt those old methods, because the stimulation effect is very limited.

reform.

This time, he wants to make a relatively systematic and huge reform to Xingyuan Group.

The space energy industry must be upgraded from version 1.0 to version 2.0.

The specific measures are mainly in four aspects.

First, improve the efficiency of power generation.

Li Xingyang has asked technicians to develop the latest light energy collection converter, which uses a completely different generator mechanism internally. The device will be deployed closer to the sun, about 10 million kilometers away, and the light energy density will be higher than the previous 3,000 kilometers. The 10,000-kilometer 'golden power generation track' has increased by nine times. When high-density light energy hits the surface of an object, it can heat it to several thousand degrees in just a short time. Conventional photovoltaic panels simply cannot withstand it. But this time, a pure black endothermic material is used, which directly heats the material to a plasma state of more than 3500 degrees, and then uses the plasma flow to generate electricity. The overall power generation efficiency can be close to 70%, which is no better than the previous generation of light energy. Poor collection converter.

However, because it is closer to the sun, the light energy density has increased by as much as nine times, which means that the power generation capacity of a light energy collection converter of the same size has also increased by nine times. On the premise of achieving the same power generation power, the number of equipment required It can be greatly reduced, and the later maintenance costs will also be significantly reduced, achieving a cost reduction and efficiency increase effect.

The second is to continue to increase the capacity of energy main roads and establish several ‘super energy main roads’.

The reflector area of ​​this type of energy main channel will increase to the level of 1 billion square meters, which is a thousand times higher than the previous maximum of one million square meters. This means that the light energy that can be accommodated will also increase by thousands of times. , very amazing and terrifying. In addition, counterweights will be added to keep it stable enough, and the consumption rate of internally stored light energy will also be reduced.

Not to mention, it may also increase the length of the main energy channel and the density of light energy, making the capacity of light energy extremely amazing.

Third, establish multiple 'strong material' synthesis factories near the sun, using huge energy nearby, to increase the daily synthesis production capacity of strong materials from about 100,000 tons to more than 1 million tons, so as to meet the needs of more people. needs of multiple users.

There are also several other space factories to be established. Although these factories are closer to the sun and are easily affected by the sun's gravity, solar storms and radiation, these effects can be minimized by finding ways. Xingyuan Group will deploy a large number of third space factories. The second-generation light energy collection converter blocks a large amount of sunlight and forms a black 'ring'. As long as the space factory is placed behind this black belt, it will not be affected by solar storms and can be very stable and stable. Carry out production safely.

Since the production center is close to the energy center, it can significantly reduce costs and energy consumption, thereby enabling mass production of more market-competitive products.

The fourth is to let the solar system enter the era of "highway" and greatly increase the speed of manned devices. It is best to easily break through 0.1 times the speed of light, so that even a distance of 100 astronomical units can be reached at a distance of 100 astronomical units. It can be completed within 24 hours, achieving true high-speed one-day delivery, which is at least ten times faster than before.

That's right.

Xingyuan Group intends to help human civilization speed up.

Build a series of space 'highways' filled with a large number of high-energy short waves, and then let small and medium-sized shuttles coated with a layer of 'strong material' on the surface to accelerate crazily with an acceleration of more than 100G, lasting for tens of thousands of times. In seconds, you can run at an ideal speed and quickly reach where you want to go.

It's just an acceleration of 100G. How can a normal person bear it without being crushed into a meat pie?

But for superpowers, it is completely bearable and the pressure is not too great.

The current human civilization has cultivated about one million superpowers, of which 600,000 are employees within the Star Source Group, which means that the Star Source Group can dominate.

By the way, once the space 'highway' network is successfully constructed, what benefits will it bring to Xingyuan Group? Can it bring great benefits?

There are definitely benefits, and they are quite large.

For example, if a long-distance space express service can complete the delivery of express items to a place one hundred astronomical units away within three days, then it is more reasonable for such an express service to charge a relatively high fee. , and there will definitely be many customers willing to pay, after all, they need such services very much.

Also at the military level, we can establish the ability to respond quickly. No matter where there are traces of other civilizations, we can quickly gather forces and make timely responses.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Xingyang has a greater and more grand plan.

That is to find a way to enter the era of 'super-light speed'.

The scientific research team of Xingyuan Group has made breakthroughs in many advanced technologies, using high-power energy and 'star core crystal' technology to achieve distortion of time and space, thereby accelerating time and space, thereby achieving faster-than-light flight, and is now able to escape. The technology of ten times the speed of light only lasts for about an hour before it exits the super-light state. Unless it continues to supply high-power energy, which cannot be less than 10 billion kilowatts, a person with superpowers will be required to assist in space and time. twist and continue the curvature voyage.

But there are still two problems.

One is that the supply of energy is not stable enough in the long term, and the size of the nuclear fusion reactor is too large. Light beam energy supply is a better way, so we must find a way to increase the power of light beam energy supply, at least ten times or a hundred times. .

The second is that the production of 'star core crystals' must also be increased. However, 80% of the crystals in Jupiter's core have been mined and are about to be exhausted. If you want to increase the amount of 'star core crystals', you can only find a way to go there. From other stars, mine more 'star core crystals' to make up for the shortcomings here, and then you can cultivate more superpowers, preferably more than 10 million or 100 million, as long as the number of superpowers is large , it will be easier to achieve 'super-light' navigation, and the duration will be longer. Even if it can only fly ten times the speed of light in the early stage, it will only take a year at most to travel to the surrounding star system. Compared with ten A long voyage of several decades is completely acceptable and very cost-effective.

Therefore, a larger plan is also brewing and planning in Li Xingyang's mind.