Six hundred thousand?
Levi shook his head. It was too much, and it was not convenient to take it away. It made him feel a little overwhelmed.
"Expert Song, there are also large areas of grassland and open space within the settlement zone of the space city. If we make reasonable use of those grasslands and open space and plant fruit trees and wheat, assuming that 30% of the area is covered, can we save some standard growth chambers?" Levi asked.
"This can save a lot. It is equivalent to adding more than one million mu of arable land, which is enough to meet the survival needs of one million space residents. The number of standard growth chambers will be reduced to 400,000. If residents raise some domestic pigs and sheep in the settlement zone, it will not only solve part of the meat supply, but the wool from sheep is also a good raw material for clothing, and it will save at least tens of thousands of standard growth chambers." Expert Song said.
"Okay!"
Levi thought for a moment and said, "Bringing so many standard growth chambers is a bit too much trouble. Then I'll start with myself. In my palace, I'll raise some pigs and sheep, as well as chickens, ducks, and geese. I'll try to maximize the utilization of the space, and I'll encourage other residents to follow suit."
"Your Majesty is wise. This is a very good example."
Expert Song said with a respectful bow.
Of course, there is the task of building the remaining nearly 400,000 "standard growth rooms".
Levi thought for a moment and said to his butler, Bowen, "400,000 is indeed a bit too many. Bowen, design an 'agricultural spaceship' with an independent power system and an internal volume of over 16,000 cubic meters. Only 10,000 of these agricultural spaceships would be enough to ensure sufficient agricultural production while maintaining flexibility and maneuverability."
"No problem, Your Majesty!"
Butler Bowen nodded, and after briefly running the photonic quantum chip in his mind, he found that this task was not difficult. A 16,000 cubic meter agricultural spacecraft with a power system is only about 100 meters long x 20 meters wide x 10 meters high, and its weight will not exceed 2,000 tons. He already has hundreds of design plans in his mind.
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The agricultural system inspection was completed.
Levi also went to inspect the power system.
That is, visit the "power plant" at the outermost edge of the space city, which looks like a round petal.
Currently, 12 such power plants have been built, each providing an average power generation capacity of 500,000 kW, totaling 6 million kW.
Such a huge amount of power generation is not only fully sufficient at present, but even somewhat redundant. We have to resort to turning on the axial ion engine to consume the excess electricity and offset the reverse thrust generated by the light pressure of the giant solar panels during the power generation process.
In fact, this thrust is not particularly large, but if there is no force to offset it, the entire space city in the future will slowly accelerate to 1m/s and may be pushed to the outer edge of the star system.
Therefore, the ion engine at the end of the core axis of the space city is always turned on.
Of course, if necessary, the Axis Ion Engine can increase the engine power by dozens or hundreds of times. Coupled with the auxiliary engines installed in various places, the entire space city can be accelerated and can leave the orbit of Blue Mercury. In three to five years, it can go to Mars or other planets and develop the resources of other planets in the star system... The flexibility is very high.
Therefore, this space city is equivalent to a "resource development system" in interstellar space, bringing huge convenience.
also.
In terms of the power system, in order to reduce the intensity of light, a layer of power generation material is also applied on the surface of the transparent protective cover of the 24 settlement zones (or rings) of the space city. It absorbs about 20% of sunlight and converts it into electricity, which can also generate more than millions of kilowatts of electricity. The total power generation capacity of the entire space city is more than 10 million kilowatts.
It's almost as powerful as a small nuclear fusion reactor.
Energy issues have become the least worrying and least considered issue.
Even if there is a need for nuclear fusion reactors, they will only be used in large industrial spacecraft or future interstellar battleships.
But that will be at least several years later.
After all, the primary industrial spacecraft that Levi needs very much is still lying in that simple space dock, and the construction progress is only 33.5%, and it will not be completed until at least 30 months later.
I silently calculated it in my head.
Levi murmured to himself:
"The construction, renovation, and completion of the space city will take at least three years..."
"The recruitment and screening of immigrants and the subsequent training of high-quality talent also require a lot of time and energy."
"It is estimated that the primary industrial spacecraft will be able to provide some primary industrial products in three years."
"Also, the space dock is a massive project equivalent to half a space city, and it will take a lot of time to complete."
"When the space city is built with complete structures and functions, and all the immigrants are in place, the space dock is completed, and construction of the first interstellar battleship begins... That moment will take at least five years."
Even if they moved into space.
It would take Levi five years to officially rebuild his own force and regain his interstellar battleships...even if they were the F-class battleships with the lowest combat effectiveness.
Only then will he be truly "safe". At least within this star system, he does not need to be on guard against or worry about threats from any force.
"We still need to continue to develop step by step for another five years!"
Levi shook his head helplessly. It was a pity that there was no "time fast forwarder" in front of him. If there really was one, he would like to press the fast forward button and make all the time like progress bars run out in an instant.
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