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Chapter 93 Economic circle around the solar system

Thinking of this, Say didn't delve into this issue. Instead, he recuperated in the ward for a while, and asked the PDC to look for space development experts from the PDC and the three major fleets.

Soon PDC found a large number of experts, so everyone gathered together and began to discuss the issue of developing the solar system.

"Hello, elites, my new plan is to build an economic circle around the solar system. Do you have any suggestions on how to develop the solar system?"

"You are focusing on the inner solar system, right? The outer solar system outside the earth is still in the exploration stage, and it is difficult to fully develop it." The chairman of the PDC Space Assets Council asked

"Yes." Sai nodded and said: "The first phase of the economic circle around the solar system will focus on the development of Mercury and Venus, and at most Mars will be added, and the four gas planets will not be considered for the time being."

"If we only talk about Venus and Mercury, the energy problem is easy to solve first, because the surface temperature of Mercury and Venus is extremely high, which means infinite energy." The chief of staff of the Asian Fleet said.

"What infinite energy, thermal energy?" Say asked.

"That's right, precisely because of the high temperature, just building a thermal differential power station is enough to produce enough electricity, and there is no need for a controllable nuclear fusion power station."

"It means that energy is not a problem, so is there any technical difficulty in developing these two planets?"

"Let's talk about Venus first," said the mayor of the new Paris space city: "Venus's corrosive atmosphere, thunderstorms and air pressure are extremely destructive to mechanical equipment.

"However, we have considered a solution, which is to build air cities and space cities to avoid the terrible air pressure and thunderstorms on Venus."

"Space cities need no explanation, just like space cities in near-Earth space, and sky cities are essentially giant balloons floating in the air."

"The atmosphere of Venus is dominated by carbon dioxide. Balloons filled with nitrogen and oxygen can float at an altitude of tens of kilometers. At this altitude, the atmospheric pressure of Venus is almost the same as that of Earth."

"At the same time, the temperature at this altitude is not even [-] degrees Celsius, and the protection work is much easier, so the cost of this kind of air city is lower than that of a space city."

"It's an interesting idea." Sai couldn't help admiring, "It's as magical as living in a modern giant airship."

"Indeed." The mayor of the New Paris Space City continued: "These giant airships will revolve around Venus under the influence of the circum-Venus wind belt, flying just like the airships of a century and a half ago."

"The automated mines on the surface of Venus will extract resources and then transport them to the sky city or the space elevator. As for most people and industries, they will be located in the sky city above."

"I'm sure transportation won't be an issue, so what about Mercury's development?" Say asked.

"As for Mercury, it's even easier." Another expert explained: "The environment there is much better than that of Venus. There is no need to consider the issues of air pressure and corrosion, but the high temperature is more difficult to deal with."

"More importantly, the mineral resources on it are also richer than Venus. You must know that the entire Mercury is composed of 70.00% metals. Such a natural mine has infinite economic value."

"Because of Ray Diaz's hydrogen bomb project, we also have rich experience in the development of Mercury. Mining equipment can hide on the side of Mercury facing away from the sun through Mercury's slow rotation."

"So these two planets are so hot, can the space elevator and spaceship over there bear it?"

"The spaceships and space elevators on the two planets are too simple. Now our cold heat shield system is equipped with a new generation of nanomaterials, which is enough to resist the high temperature near Mercury."

"So aerospace equipment and space elevators are not affected by high temperatures. For example, the Wannian Yandi can stay near Mercury for a long time, as long as it doesn't plunge into the sun, it will be fine."

"What about the shipping costs?"

"A lot of fuel can be saved through the gravitational slingshot. In addition, the spacecraft of this era can achieve one-thousandth of the speed of light. The ecological cycle device will not consume fuel."

"So the cost will be much higher than that of ground-to-moon transportation, but it will definitely be profitable, and there will be no loss-making transactions."

"So what about the difficulty of ore mining?" Sai asked again.

"Mercury is very simple. Just use a super giant excavator to dig on the surface. As for Venus, you will use a special anti-pressure laser drill to mine ore." Someone said,

"Okay, then show me the details, such as the distribution of mineral deposits on Mercury and Venus..."

After chatting with the experts, Say submitted his conformation to the PDC. It may be because the project fully fits the interests of all countries, so it was passed without any debate.

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Crisis Era 48

After Say's concept of the economic circle around the solar system was proposed, traces of human civilization began to gradually appear on Mercury in the past three years, and there were little lights on it.

Those rays of light are mainly composed of the space city of Mercury, and a small amount is provided by the mines on the surface of Mercury, and those of Venus are blocked by the thick atmosphere.

At the same time, with the advancement of space development technology and nano-material technology, many super-giant projects have gradually come out, such as the super-giant Venus Sky City that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

As well as the super-giant bucket wheel excavators on the back of Mercury, these giants weighing hundreds of thousands of tons on Mercury are equipped with wireless power supply receivers.

Powering these behemoths are thermal differential power stations all over Mercury, and microwave transmitters on giant solar power stations in low-Earth orbit.

Just as experts speculate, the abundant thermal energy of Mercury and Venus is enough to meet the electricity demand of the mining industry on the surface of the two planets, and there is no need for controllable nuclear fusion at all.

With the support of sufficient power, the ultra-giant bucket wheel excavators used giant bucket wheels with a diameter of several hundred meters to level the mountains on Mercury.

The mined ore will then be sent to the microgravity factory in Mercury's near-Earth space through the space elevator for smelting and processing, and then transported back to the Earth-Moon economic circle to be made into industrial products.

Therefore, after the great development of the earth and the moon, human beings once again ushered in the prosperity of economy and industry, that is, relying on the development of the three solid planets outside the earth.

Compared with a satellite like the moon, Mercury and Venus are undoubtedly richer in resources. For example, Mercury's helium 3 reserves are an order of magnitude larger than that of the moon, and it is less difficult to refine.

Not to mention other mineral resources, so the scale of developing Mercury and Venus is much larger than that of the moon. The resources hidden in the solar system have inspired human desires to seek gold.

(End of this chapter)