April 1st. Today was a day of great significance for the Moon colony.
Lu Fan looked up at the magnificent hemispherical building outside the colony, and a hint of admiration appeared on his face.
Two months ago, in his knowledge, it was almost impossible to transmit electricity to Earth hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. However, at this moment, he had no doubt that this project, which could be called a miracle in human history, had been completed in their hands.
The original hexagonal laser generator was wrapped in a giant hemisphere composed of hexagonal grids.
These hexagonal grids were made of special materials. Under different conditions, they would even produce completely opposite light transmittance.
According to the set program, only one side of the hexagonal grid was transparent, and the other six grids reflected all light. Lasers from different directions were constantly reflected throughout the sphere, and finally, they were gathered in one direction and released through a vent, hitting a point hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
This was the mechanism of the entire device.
Under the precise control of the quantum computer, the direction of the high-energy beam was accurately controlled by changing the light transmittance of the hexagonal grid on the sphere. After all, this was a distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Even light would take more than a second to travel, and any slight error would be infinitely magnified.
The target receiving the laser was moving relative to the Moon all the time. Only the quantum computer with terrifying computing power could steer the entire project.
"Are you surprised?" He Biao, who had an unshaven beard, walked next to Lu Fan, touched his balding head, and grinned. "When I return to Earth in a few days, I can also brag to everyone that the life and death of Earth was in my hands for a moment."
Lu Fan also smiled. "Didn't the colony manager say that even if this laser was shot on Earth, there would be no problem?"
"That's true." He Biao also looked at the giant egg and grinned. "But who cares so much about bragging."
Lu Fan smiled and shook his head when he heard his boss' irresponsible remarks.
Suddenly, he realized a problem and couldn't help but frown with some concern.
"What do you think … if other countries make things difficult for us because of this problem?"
He Biao laughed and patted him on the shoulder.
"Then let them make it difficult. This is a national event, and it's not something small people like us can worry about. Even if the sky collapsed, there would still be tall people to hold it up, not to mention people like us who were already in the sky. There are only a few days left before the shift changes. If I were you, I wouldn't think about these things. You might as well think about how you're going to spend the money you've earned in the past six months when you return to Earth. "
Just as the two members of the Ministry of Electric Power were joking, Tang Weijie solemnly issued the launch order in the colony command room.
Inside the giant egg, the hexagonal base began to faintly emit a dark purple light that was visible to the naked eye.
There were no flashy lights or fancy special effects.
Everyone waited nervously for three seconds.
Three seconds later, a green signal light lit up, and the command room was filled with cheers and whistles. Even the usually calm Tang Weijie couldn't help but throw his hat into the air.
Just three seconds ago, a little more than two seconds to be exact, the spectrometer next to the dome received a return light to check whether the laser hit the target. This beam of light that ran for more than two seconds brought them the news of victory.
Half a minute later, Tang Weijie received a call from the ground command center.
The person on the other end of the phone only said one sentence.
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"Congratulations to you, congratulations to you, and congratulations to us. This is a great moment."
After he sent this blessing to the commander of the Moon colony, he put down the phone, patted Calvin's shoulder, and walked out of the deafening cheers in the command room.
Through the corridor, through the front hall, and standing on the lawn outside the ground command center, he could still hear the cheers behind him. Although he didn't see it, he could imagine people hugging each other, high-fiving each other, celebrating, and crying tears of joy.
Jiang Chen's tensed face slowly relaxed. First, he subtly smiled, then he quickly burst out laughing.
He finally succeeded.
The efforts of the past two months were not in vain.
It wouldn't take long for the high-voltage electricity "shot" from the Moon to cover the grid spanning the two oceans. When they saw the ultra-low cost of power generation from the Moon, more and more small and medium-sized countries would abandon nuclear thermal power and join his Global Grid Plan. They would be forever tied to the chariot of Celestial Trade by the submarine transmission cables.
At this moment, Xia Shiyu walked to his side and poked his waist with her finger, shattering his fantasy.
"That's it?" With a hint of doubt, Xia Shiyu whispered.
Jiang Chen turned around and gave Xia Shiyu a bear hug. Before she could scream, he kissed her lips hard. After their lips parted, he looked at her pretty face and joked, "What else do you want? To hang a colorful aurora in the sky? "
Beams shorter than ultraviolet wavelengths couldn't be observed with the naked eye. Not to mention standing on the ground, even if they stood on the space elevator, they wouldn't be able to see the transmission laser from the Moon.
Xia Shiyu blushed and looked around nervously. After confirming that there was no one else, she relaxed her tense body and gently poked the tip of Jiang Chen's nose. "Look at you, excited like a child."
Ayesha came over and looked enviously at Xia Shiyu, who was picked up by Jiang Chen, and gently pulled the corner of Jiang Chen's clothes.
"What's wrong? Shasha. "Jiang Chen turned his head and looked at her with a smile.
Ayesha didn't speak, but her watery sapphire-like eyes seemed to be able to speak and reflected the envy in her heart.
"I want it too."
Just as Jiang Chen was enjoying the happiness of having two women, the ground command center was already in a jubilant mood due to the success of the power connection.
After the excitement, Kelvin looked at the three-dimensional image on the holographic screen with a hint of fascination in his eyes.
The three satellites floating in the synchronous orbit formed an isosceles triangle, like a work of art that combined the beauty of mathematics and physics.
These three uniquely shaped satellites were like three "prisms" that always remained relatively static. They reflected the received transmission laser through one or two reflections and shot it precisely to the receiving ring on the outside of the space elevator.
There, light energy was converted into electricity and transmitted from the synchronous orbit to the ground or up to Celestial City along the superconductor transmission line installed outside the space elevator.
If the space elevator only allowed the world to see the broad prospects of the starry sky and ignited people's enthusiasm for investing in the aerospace industry, then this laser from the Moon was a tangible benefit that everyone could "see" …
Without the need for any products, just by selling electricity, the lunar colony that burned hundreds of millions of Xin New dollars per month could easily achieve profitability.
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