Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 161 Controllable nuclear fusion!
One billion!

Li Qingsong could never have imagined that after integrating the Blueprint People's biotechnology, his own biotechnology would be improved to this level.

I originally thought that it would be great if it increased to 200 million, but I didn’t expect it to increase tenfold!
At any given moment, there would be a billion clones connected to his consciousness. Each clone was equivalent to a top scientist with comprehensive knowledge. There would be no internal friction or communication costs between the billion clones, and they could devote themselves wholeheartedly to the development of science and technology...

How powerful will my scientific research capabilities be?
Even though the total population of the human world at that time reached about 400 billion, forty times that of our own, compared to their scientific research capabilities, they would probably be lucky to have even one percent of their own!

Not only scientific research strength, but also industrial strength can leave human civilization far behind.

Not only human civilization, but even the Blueprint civilization in its heyday, with a population of hundreds of billions, is far from comparable to itself in terms of scientific research and industry.

"Okay, okay."

At this moment, the threat of the robotic disaster was always like a sharp sword hanging over Li Qingsong's head, and no one knew when it would be cut down.

At this moment, the maximum number of consciousness connections has increased to 10 billion, and he has enough scientific research and industrial strength to quickly digest and absorb the technology of the Bluetook civilization, quickly build an interstellar long-distance fleet, and escape from the solar system in the shortest possible time.

As for staying in the solar system to break through to a strong nuclear civilization, and having a real fight with that intelligent mechanical disaster and defeating it, Li Qingsong had no extravagant hope.

The further technology develops, the more difficult it becomes.

Especially as a key and basic physical theory that can divide two major levels and unify the strong nuclear force, the difficulty of this matter is bound to be beyond one's imagination.

Unable to break through the level, facing the mechanical disaster, he can only passively take the beating.

Facing the Bluetuk warships, they were already struggling. They had to rely on hundreds of years of preparation, sufficient logistics, super high efficiency, super high industrial strength, sufficient unmanned combat forces and other factors to barely tie with them when the other side had many unfavorable factors such as insufficient logistics, long expedition, and panic.

Later, the enemy took advantage of the loophole and occupied Venus. If he hadn't replenished the water source on Venus as quickly as possible, he might have been the one who lost in the end.

In this situation, how could he possibly defeat the Omnic Scourge?
Only by escaping can we have a chance of survival and maintain hope for the future.

At this moment, the maximum number of consciousness connections suddenly soared to 10 billion. The top priority is of course to build more bases, including food bases, living bases, industrial bases, etc., in order to feed these clones.

More clone production factories need to be built in order to produce enough clones for their own use as quickly as possible.

The maximum number of consciousness connections is billions, so the number of commonly used clones will reach 15 billion, and with the backup clones it will be 20 billion.

In addition, a number of clones in hibernation are needed as a final backup, and the total number of clones will reach 30 billion.

At this stage, he only has 12 billion clones in total, and needs to produce another 18 billion.

This is also an extremely large project.

However, these things were already familiar to Li Qingsong, so he just had to follow the routine. After assigning some clones to do the work, Li Qingsong stopped paying too much attention to this aspect and instead focused his main energy on another matter.

Research controlled nuclear fusion technology!
Whether it was Li Qingsong's own previous deduction or the actual verification obtained from the Bluetook civilization spacecraft at this stage, it proved one thing to Li Qingsong, that is, controlled nuclear fusion is the basis for star system navigation.

The reason is very simple. The maximum efficiency of converting mass into energy through nuclear fission is only about 0.089%. According to the mass-energy equation, a piece of uranium 1 with a mass of 235 kg can only produce about 8*10^13 joules of energy at most.

Nuclear fusion has a higher mass conversion efficiency.

There are also several different types of nuclear fusion, including deuterium-tritium fusion, deuterium-deuterium fusion, deuterium-helium-3 fusion, proton-proton chain fusion, carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion, etc.

These types are relatively common. In addition to these, in some massive stars, as well as in violent physical processes such as neutron star collisions and supernova explosions, there are also fusions involving heavier elements, but those are unconventional and can be temporarily ignored.

Among these common types of fusion, deuterium-tritium fusion, which is the easiest to achieve and has the lowest environmental requirements, is taken as an example. Its energy conversion efficiency is about 0.375%, which is 4.2 times that of nuclear fission!
1KG of deuterium and tritium can produce 3.36*10^14 joules of energy!
Proton-proton chain fusion and carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle fusion, which have higher environmental requirements and technical content and are more difficult to achieve, can achieve an energy conversion efficiency of about 0.7%, which is about 7.9 times that of nuclear fission!
Li Qingsong also conceived a fusion model with higher fusion efficiency, which is to combine the first two steps of proton-proton chain fusion with deuterium-helium-3 fusion. Ideally, the energy conversion efficiency is expected to reach more than 1%, which is as high as 11.8 times that of nuclear fission.

Of course, that is something for the future. Even the Blueprint civilization has not been able to achieve it. It is estimated that it will have to unify the strong nuclear force and become a strong nuclear civilization before it can be done. For now, don’t think too much about it. Just focus on the simplest and easiest to achieve deuterium-tritium fusion, and open the door to nuclear fusion first.

Compared to nuclear fission, nuclear fusion not only has higher energy output, but also the fuel is easier to obtain.

In the universe, generally speaking, the higher the atomic number of an element, the lower its average content.

像是用于核裂变的铀235、铀233、钍232、镎237、镅231等，自然界含量都极为稀少。

Plutonium 239 is extremely scarce and can only be formed in small amounts by bombarding with high-energy cosmic rays.

Mining nuclear fission fuel is extremely troublesome and difficult, and its output is severely limited.

But nuclear fusion is different.

Take deuterium-tritium fusion as an example. Although the deuterium content is low, about 1.01 part per 100,000 in Jupiter's atmosphere, this also means that for every ton of Jupiter's atmosphere separated and processed, about ten grams of deuterium can be collected, and the absolute value is quite high.

For a planet as large as Jupiter, the deuterium resources can be considered almost endless.

As for tritium, that's not important, because in deuterium-tritium fusion, tritium is self-replenishing and does not require external supplementation.

Once controlled nuclear fusion is mastered and an energy supply system more advanced than nuclear fission is obtained, then numerous uranium mines, thorium mines, etc. will no longer need to operate, and a large number of uranium enrichment plants will also be able to be shut down. If there is a lack of energy, it will only be necessary to obtain it from Jupiter's atmosphere.

In terms of energy, I can almost say that I have completely lost all restrictions.

Envisioning a bright future, after the maximum number of consciousness connections skyrocketed, Li Qingsong invested at least 100 million clones in the research of controlled nuclear fusion.

(End of this chapter)