Insufficient energy

Of course, the most important thing for Steven right now was energy, after all, he was about to go on hiatus, he didn't want to face despair just after being reborn. Time was a race against time for Steven, as the SCV opened up to the last 1 meter, the engineering vehicle had already increased the throttle and started to rush outwards.

With Steven's seamless connection, the SCV had just cut the opening, and the engineering vehicle had already rushed out, carrying the excavation tools and the SCV towards the target.

By this time Steven was beginning to take basic measurements of the planet.

An earth-like planet with 2 times the gravity of the earth, while the air contained a large amount of oxygen, the oxygen percentage reached 45%, the mass was 8 times that of the earth, and the volume was 12 times that of the earth.

A mere 2 times the gravity was nothing to the dozens of tons of engineering vehicles.The SCV was also under Steven's control, secured to the engineering vehicle.

The SCV was also controlled by Steven, fixed on the engineering vehicle, and slackened on the endless ice field. As the command center descended at the center of the North Pole, there was no other living things to be seen in the icy sky and snow, only the polar day.

Steven controlled the SCVs as they stepped on tank-like tracks and roared through the snow, the stormy white plains no barrier to the SCVs.

Half an hour later, the SCVs arrived at their destination, 26 kilometers away from the base, there is a combustible ice storage site, with a storage capacity of 130 million tons, which is considered a small to medium-sized energy site.

Naturally, the SCVs didn't come here this time to set up an energy supply station, but to pull back the energy. First stabilize the energy in the command center, then pull out the capacity for the energy station and mine establishment.

SCV began construction, engineering vehicles surrounded the city in a circle to keep the wind and snow out.SCV how to say is also close to 3 meters tall big guy, is also the command center usually store the most.

If it wasn't for the fact that half of the automated robots and automated SCVs were lost when the SCVs were first repaired in hyperspace, it wouldn't be so embarrassing for Steven to have only a measly two dozen of them out right now, and the other SCVs would still need to set up a thermal power plant at home.

Star 2's technology tree is basically centered around high-energy gas and silicon crystals, in the current lack of high-energy gas and silicon crystals, the only option is to choose the cheapest electricity and basic mineral alloys, although not up to the high hardness of the silicon crystals transformed out, but the victory is in the amount of more.

Naturally Steven also prepared for the possibility that this planet may not have silicon crystals and high-energy gas, so silicon crystals can be used sparingly, and can use minerals resolutely do not use silicon crystals. It is estimated that in addition to the old engineering vehicles, the new engineering vehicles are estimated to have to overhaul the production line and switch to electrical energy engines for operation.

Coupled with the fact that the empire's technology has mainly developed large units with nuclear fusion, small infantry and SCVs with cold fusion technology, tanks and Goliath, Thor using high-energy gas engines, there is no technology tree that uses electricity.

This gave Steven a huge headache, and had to be developed by Steven himself, or else he would have to put up with the snail-like speed of the engineering vehicles and their uncomfortable range.

The continued mining of combustible ice and the construction of supply stations made Steven feel very cozy, Steven thought about it, a good development like this will be able to break out of the atmosphere and go to the stars.

Then build a fleet of ships and go wherever you want. Just not yet cozy for a while, the base of the following began to a large number of water, and the base is also slowly sinking.

Steven understood on the spot, below is also ice, Steven simply do not know how deep this underground, the production of the base will inevitably lead to the dissemination of energy, before the adjutant's dormancy can not spend much energy, naturally do not need a lot of heat dissipation.

But now in production, heat dissipation is an inevitable event, heat dissipation will naturally lead to the ice below being melted away, the exit will also be sealed with the melting.

This situation will also be increasingly serious with the dissipation of energy, Steven instantly Spartan, no energy no way to take off, if you take off to consume a large number of high-energy gas, now high-energy gas is still very expensive, surely can not be so casually be depleted ah.

Immediately after, Steven thought of an even more troublesome thing, with the surge of ice, if this area is melted empty, the weight of the polar center of the ice will be a large number of pressure over, very easy to produce ice earthquake. That is to say, the ice in the high position moves toward the ground position because of gravity.

This will produce ice quakes, and then there's the expansion at night that will cause cracks and minor ice quakes in the ice, which could be the end of the world for the base.

Wanting to solve this Steven, instantly made two choices, the first spend a large amount of crystals to create a platform, and then the base flew up from the ground to land on the platform, the platform underneath also have to be padded with heat insulating materials.

At the same time the construction of the thermal power station also had to use high level combustion, and the same had to be padded with heat insulation underneath. The conception of this scenario gave Steven a vestigial feeling of a mobile city.

As an empire with a large amount of technology, these were not big problems and the platforms were very good at solving them, if not for the current lack of energy and materials, Steven really wanted to build a mobile city.

It was often said that an energy station was the core of an industry, and along with the start of dozens of SCVs and the transformation of silicon crystals, a thermal power plant occupying hundreds of square meters was established.

Except for the small cold fusion which used direct conversion of nuclear energy into electrical energy, with the help of the large amount of electronic energy released by nuclear energy in order to drive small armored actions.

The energy extraction program adopted by mankind is still the simplest boiling water, with the help of heat to convert water into kinetic energy, and then from kinetic energy into electrical energy.

Until 2020, the utilization of nuclear energy is still the most basic way to boil water, but the way to boil water has changed dramatically, and the amount of energy and the use of energy is also unmatched in the past.

Steven now lost the silicon crystal and high-energy gas corresponding to the technology tree, only to choose the simplest mode of boiling water, and then use the current resources to build up the steel factory.

Especially the construction of the flat land under the ice made Steven lose a large amount of silicon crystal supplies, this made Steven very difficult. The production of SCVs also cost a large amount of silicon crystals, the good thing is that when SCVs do repetitive things they can be completely handed over to the adjutant for command, it's just that when they need to be flexible, the AI adjutant's IQ feels very insufficient.

For example, when building a thermal power station, according to the drawings AI can build it quickly, but when building a flat land, the ice cracks will cause the AI to go straight out of the bug, requiring Steven to manually clear the bug and solve the problem.

This was very difficult for Steven, but it also made Steven understand why SCVs needed humans to operate them. It was mainly because of the underdevelopment of automated robotics, coupled with the fact that humans were able to adapt very well to various emergencies, and robots were more likely to only be able to work on a step-by-step basis.

The good thing about robots is that they are excellent in a single area, for example, you have the adjutant in a single area and you set up the rules and situation response. As long as the robot can find a counterpart in the filing, then that problem can be solved on the fly.

The appearance of ice cracks was set up by Steven a few times for special situation solutions, and the intelligent SCV was able to solve those problems quickly until the time when it encountered a new unsolvable problem, the AI SCV would feed back information to Steven to give him a new solution.

While the thermal power plant was being constructed, Steven was also looking up a lot of the power drive technology that was once the strongest source of electrical energy that had long been phased out of use in the face of cheap fuels such as high-energy gas with high energy levels and stability, and large units such as the Battlecruisers were the ones that used the Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology. At the same time, the battle cruiser is also the ultimate weapon of the human race, the only strategic weapon to deal with the swarm and the gods in space, as for the rest of it, there is no bright spot.

Together with the development of small cold fusion, electric motors have long been eliminated to the side, replaced by the rapid development of cold fusion motors. The basic infantry of the human race is to use cold fusion to provide energy, want to do like Iron Man for the Star 2 human race is not impossible to do, the Reaper is a very good case, as long as the Reaper's paint system to change a little bit will be done, but then the energy consumption is even more expensive, for the former and swarm of the Terran race of the fight is very uneconomical.

So much so that the strongest motor Steven had on hand was actually a 2,000 hp electric power drive technology, putting it on an engineering vehicle would have to reduce the speed by 60%, and the only advantage for Steven was that it actually worked.

Electrical energy storage technology is even more Steven lamented, this civilization has no awareness of this aspect, or the most conventional graphene batteries.

To put it bluntly is once the earthlings in the twenty-third century, after reaching the Prue star area with the help of controlled nuclear fusion technology, after discovering a large number of silicon crystals and high-energy gas, they have never thought about the matter of insufficient energy.

What he saw inside Steven's technical data base was actually a large amount of knowledge on psychic energy extraction and psychic energy utilization storage, while electrical energy storage was only the earliest graphene batteries.

Steven calculated, can only maintain dozens of tons of engineering vehicles, 100 kilometers to and from once, and then waiting for 3 hours of charging time, as for the so-called charging 1 minute, range for a whole week can only be said that the pattern is not up to the standard of technology.