The rise of nanometers

With the preliminary plan for the floating module in hand, everyone struck while the iron was hot and started a discussion on the design of the Venus industrial system.

Zhang Guoxue, a researcher on the atmosphere of Venus, first started to introduce the topic: "First of all, the main component of Venus' atmosphere is carbon dioxide, which accounts for about 96.5%, and then nitrogen is about 3.5%."

As he spoke, he called up a composition diagram of Venus’ atmosphere:

"Don't think that the nitrogen content in the atmosphere of Venus is only 3.5% and ignore the total amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere of Venus. In fact, the total amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere of Venus is about four times that of the blue star's atmosphere."

Another researcher added: "Based on the total nitrogen reserves in Venus' atmosphere, our N series fuel will be the mainstream fuel for Venus spacecraft."

Jiang Feng, the head of the Venus Exploration Agency, heard this: "In this way, the N30 fuel manufacturing plant must be included in the industrial projects of the floating city."

"Yes." Zhang Guoxue nodded.

From the diagram of the composition of the atmosphere of Venus, it can be seen that in addition to carbon dioxide and nitrogen, other components of the atmosphere of Venus, from high to low, are sulfur dioxide, argon, water vapor, carbon monoxide, helium, and neon.

In terms of development value, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, and water vapor have higher values.

Sulfur dioxide and the like have little temporary use.

After all, from the nitrogen reserves of Venus, we can see how huge the carbon dioxide and other reserves of Venus are.

As for carbon, its application in nanomaterials is much more abundant than sulfur, argon, neon, etc. The Federation can completely extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of Venus and extract a large amount of carbon.

Then use carbon to synthesize various primary materials such as graphene, carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, fullerene, diamond, graphite, and carbyne, and then use these primary raw materials to further synthesize composite materials.

Nitrogen is currently the material used to make N30 fuel, which can completely make Venus self-sufficient in fuel.

In addition, the solar intensity of Venus is about 1.4 times higher than that of Blue Star's low-Earth orbit. If solar panels are used here, the power generation power of solar panels of the same area will be about 1.4 times higher.

Coupled with China National Nuclear Corporation's nuclear fusion power plant miniaturization technology, it has now achieved the design and construction of a complete machine of 3,000 tons, and the power generation can also reach 15,000 megawatts.

Of course, this kind of miniaturization technology can currently only be used in nuclear fusion using helium 3 as nuclear fuel.

But there is good news here, that is, Venus has a lot of helium content. In addition, Venus's own magnetic field is not strong and its atmosphere is thick, which effectively traps the helium 3 brought by solar storms.

According to detection analysis in recent years, the total content of helium 3 in the helium gas in the atmosphere of Venus may be about 8 to 15 times that of the moon.

This is conducive to the floating city refining helium 3 in the atmosphere of Venus and achieving self-sustainment of part of the nuclear fuel for nuclear fusion power plants.

At the same time, although the air pressure on the surface of Venus has reached 92 times the standard atmospheric pressure, which is equivalent to the pressure of more than a thousand meters under the sea of ​​Blue Star, this is not an insurmountable pressure.

At least the Huo Qubing class built by the Federation can withstand this pressure, and the latest generation of shell materials can withstand the pressure of 10,000 meters of water depth.

In fact, the reason why the surface of Venus is difficult to develop is not because the air pressure is too high, but because the surface temperature is too high, coupled with frequent volcanic eruptions, magma spurts everywhere.

Since volcanic eruptions occur frequently, earthquakes caused by volcanic eruptions are also commonplace.

Therefore, to establish a permanent base on the surface of Venus, several factors must be considered, namely: resistance to high pressure, high temperature, corrosion resistance, and the ability to withstand volcanic magma and volcanic earthquakes.

Based on everyone's discussion, they concluded that a surface base on Venus can be established, but the initial cost will be very high.

In such a harsh environment, it is certainly impossible for the base to be assembled on-site. Instead, it must be built as a whole in the floating city.

Then the buoyancy is adjusted through the floating module, and it is slowly lowered to the surface. Finally, multiple modules are combined to become a ground base.

And even if a ground base is established, the harsh environment on the surface of Venus still makes it impossible to carry out manual operations. It is estimated that even robots will be choked.

After all, high temperatures, high pressures, high corrosion, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes make it difficult for robots to ensure safety.

"It will definitely be difficult in the early stage." Huang Xiuyuan knew the difficulties, and he continued:

"But once the scale of the floating city increases, we can consider producing sedimentation agents to sediment the dust in Venus' atmosphere and gradually reduce its atmospheric concentration."

"Academician Huang is right, and I believe that the Federation's technology will become more and more advanced, and by then it may be possible to establish a base directly on the ground of Venus." Another old academician said with confidence.

Obviously, the Federation's rapid technological progress over the years has given everyone a sense of confidence.

In fact, Huang Xiuyuan is also very optimistic about the future. In many aspects, the current Blue Star technology is even more powerful than the future world in his memory.

This is the potential that Blue Star, which has not experienced a biochemical crisis, has gradually exploded with its huge population advantage, coupled with the federal investment in education and medical care.

The future in his memory was a great blessing to be able to recover after the depopulation caused by the biochemical crisis and the near-collapse of society.

This is also the goal that Huang Xiuyuan has been working hard for. He does not want mankind to repeat the same mistakes. He hopes that mankind can become a true interstellar civilization in his lifetime, instead of cowering inside Blue Star and scheming.

For example, now, the resources obtained by the Federation from developing the moon are more meaningful to mankind itself than blindly squeezing the resources of Blue Star.

At this stage, Blue Star's ecological environment is still difficult for human civilization to get rid of.

Once Blue Star's resources are over-exploited, it will inevitably lead to the deterioration of the ecological environment. Blue Star may not care, but humans will definitely pay the price for their actions.

The purpose of developing the moon, Mars, Venus, and the asteroid belt is to protect the ecology of Blue Star and prepare for the future.

The strategy of Venus has now been upgraded to the highest level, one level higher than that of Mars.

The reason is that Venus has the potential to become the "second blue star". If the floating city project is successful, the plan to extract the atmosphere of Venus can continue. One day, the atmosphere of Venus can become similar to that of the blue star.

By then, Venus will be a planet rich in resources and able to accommodate some human beings.

Although this development period may take decades, on the time scale of the universe, decades are just a short moment.

Huang Xiuyuan and hundreds of industry insiders continued to discuss the Venus development plan for more than a month before finally finalizing the first draft of the Venus Development Plan.

This development plan is only a first draft and will continue to be improved. If modifications are needed or there are alternative projects, a second discussion will be conducted.

at the same time.

The Pioneer 003 spacecraft heading to Venus has sailed about a quarter of the way and will reach the low-Earth orbit of Venus in about three months.

The specific time is around October 2018.

The tide of the times is endless, and the pace of human beings will not stop either.

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