Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 89 Resource Crisis
A brand new nuclear fission power station has been built by Li Qingsong controlling the clones.

But unlike other nuclear fission power plants, this one is not divided into many structures, such as reaction rooms, cooling rooms, exchange rooms, motor rooms, etc.

It's a whole.

All the components that make up a nuclear fission power plant were integrated together by Li Qingsong to form an integrated structure.

In the huge factory building, such a nuclear power plant is operating smoothly.

It is about 16 meters high, more than 40 meters long, 25 meters wide, with a total volume of more than 1.4 cubic meters and a total mass of more than 4000 tons.

Its surface is not smooth, but is filled with dense pipes and numerous slightly messy bumps and depressions. The overall look is like an enlarged version of a vehicle's engine.

Although it is so huge, compared with the other nuclear power plants built by itself, the total mass of all the components of those nuclear power plants added together is probably more than ten times that of this nuclear power plant.

It also has an advantage that other nuclear power plants cannot match.

It's movable!
As long as there is enough transportation capacity, it can be directly lifted up. No matter where it is placed, it can perform nuclear fission operations and continuously convert nuclear energy into electrical energy or thermal energy according to demand!
Looking at the extremely large power station in front of him, which is extremely small compared to its "peers", Li Qingsong knows that he has overcome the first difficulty in miniaturizing nuclear fission power plants.

At this moment, it has the ability to be stuffed into a spaceship and take on the responsibility of supplying energy and electricity to the spaceship.

Of course, the spacecraft must be extremely large, with a mass of at least 20,000 tons.

But if it is a spacecraft with a mass of more than 20,000 tons, the power of this nuclear fission power plant is a bit low at this moment.

Its maximum power can only reach 10,000 kilowatts, which is still a little less than such a huge spacecraft.

"Hmm... To achieve practicality, its mass and volume need to be reduced by more than half, and its power needs to be doubled.

In this way, its volume can be reduced to about 7000 cubic meters, its mass to about 2000 tons, and its power to kilowatts... and it can be truly put to use."

but……

After reviewing the development and manufacturing process of this nuclear fission power station, Li Qingsong sighed softly: "It's difficult."

In order to cram an entire nuclear power plant into such a small iron shell while ensuring its stability and reliability, tens of thousands of clones have worked tirelessly day and night over the past few years.

In order to carry out various experiments, seek better materials and structures, and achieve higher processing precision, hundreds of clones even died due to engineering or experimental accidents.

It took a huge amount of resources and a lot of effort to successfully build it. Trying to shrink it in half and double its power at once was so difficult that even Li Qingsong didn't know how to start.

Everything that can be optimized has been optimized. What else can be changed?
Of course, the Deep Space spacecraft has a sample of a small nuclear fission power plant on board, but...

Reverse engineering is indeed useful, but it is hard to say how useful it will ultimately be.

For example, in the Earth era, theoretically speaking, if we disassemble a car into its parts, imitate them one-to-one, and then assemble them together, can we learn to manufacture cars without mastering the principles of cars?
The answer is obviously no.

Because this ignores two extremely important factors.

First, the material. Second, the tolerance.

Reverse engineering cannot crack the material formula. If we cannot produce materials that meet the requirements, how can we guarantee their performance?

And tolerances.

There are always errors in the casting of any component, but as long as the errors can be controlled within a certain range, they will not affect the overall quality. Simple measurement can indeed confirm the dimensions of a component, but how do you know its tolerance?
Tolerances are uncertain, and there will also be tolerances during imitation manufacturing. So when a bunch of parts are finally assembled, the tolerances will be so large that they cannot be ignored, and it will be completely impossible to compare with the original.

Not to mention the various torques, connection forms of various connectors, cable laying principles, etc. There are a lot of complicated things that cannot be solved by reverse engineering.

Because of this, even if Li Qingsong was guarding the Deep Space Spacecraft, he could not build a sufficiently small and efficient nuclear fission power station. Similarly, he could not obtain much technology from the mother ship of the Bluetook civilization.

but……

Li Qingsong looked in the direction of the enemy star with some worry.

"With my large-scale mining, the resources on Enemy Star won't last long.

When the resources of the enemy planet are exhausted and there are no other planets nearby, where can I get energy and resources?
We must reach the inner solar system before the resources are exhausted.

However, such a large-scale migration is inseparable from the miniaturization technology of nuclear fission power plants and secondary pressurization propulsion technology.

Without these two technologies, large-scale interstellar migration would be impossible.

At the same time, secondary pressurization propulsion technology was developed based on the technology of miniaturization of nuclear fission power plants, and its roots are still in the miniaturization of nuclear fission power plants."

Looking at the huge guy in front of him, Li Qingsong felt a little headache.

If possible, Li Qingsong really wanted to use his hands to pinch it into a size small enough to fit into the spaceship.

It’s a pity that I’m not Superman and can’t pinch it.

"Oh, there's nothing I can do. Let's continue researching."

Li Qingsong manipulated numerous clones and continued his research on miniaturization. During this process, he even added engineering-related Bluetuks to the mix, causing them to complain bitterly.

In this way, after a whole year of high-intensity research work, the Bluetuk engineer who participated in the research could no longer bear it.

He found a clone of Li Qingsong regardless of possible punishment.

"Respected Blue Star people."

He looked at the clone cautiously.

This Blue Star man's attire was slightly different from the rest of the Blue Star men, which seemed to imply that he had a higher status.

There's no way, every Blue Star person looks exactly the same - at least in my opinion, they are exactly the same. Apart from their clothes, I really can't tell who is who.

He didn't dare to ask, because not being able to tell the faces of the Blue Star people seemed to be an offense to them, and he would be punished if he asked.

"I ask you to convey some of our views to the project commander.

Our view on this project is that it cannot be solved through some sophisticated structure or some inspiration.

It requires advances in basic technology, basic technology, you understand?"

……

(End of this chapter)