Back into Trouble

Of course, considering that most people are in Hibernation Pods during the Warship's voyage, fuel consumption is relatively low. The total fuel used for the sixty years of acceleration and deceleration is approximately 75% of the current reserves.

In other words, excluding this portion, the currently and future available nuclear fuel can only last for eighteen years.

However, the new Warship project is predicted to take twenty years to complete. This is still manageable, not a big difference. I believe with effort, it's possible to complete it ahead of schedule.

As for the Interstellar Dust situation, it will take at least fifty years before it's suitable for current humans to travel through space.

Could it be that we really have to rush to build a Warship and then gamble on the fate of all humanity to start the voyage? At this point, Gan De also fell silent.

Xu Zhenyi considered and said, "In the past two years, many Hibernation Pods have been built. Can we allow some people to enter Hibernation Pods now to reduce resource consumption?"

"The Warship project is currently underway. If we start the Hibernation plan at this time, there is absolutely no way the Warship construction can be completed within eighteen years." Yue Yuan shook his head.

He had already made up his mind to cancel the Warship plan. If the Warship plan is canceled, the large cylindrical Warship may be completed a few years earlier.

And the Hibernation Pods are all prepared for future voyages, it is impossible to use them during the construction era.

Although automated equipment is already very intelligent, building a Warship cannot rely entirely on automation. Many detailed tasks and positions still require people.

If there are no other solutions, then we can only try to take a risk.

Of course, we can't take risks rashly, that's no different from sending ourselves to death. Gan De just said that the scientific data is there, and a rash voyage will definitely lead to death.

Therefore, when Yue Yuan decided to cancel the Warship plan, another crazy supporting plan gradually emerged in his mind.

If there is really no other way, then increase the efforts to build Hibernation Pods, and then stop everything except building Warships and researching Controlled Nuclear Fusion, and then let all irrelevant personnel enter Hibernation. In this way, the nuclear fuel saved may be enough to cope with the resistance of Interstellar Dust.

Of course, if we really want to do this, we still need to have the relevant departments calculate all the data and formulate a feasible plan.

Yue Yuan superficially denied Xu Zhenyi's suggestion, but he also took the suggestion to heart.

"Alas, if the Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology hadn't been lost so much..." At this time, Gan De sighed deeply, expressing the thought that almost everyone in the base felt heartbroken about.

Yes, if the technology had not regressed, Controlled Nuclear Fusion could have been developed within ten years, and then Helium-3 abundant on Callisto or hydrogen diffused in Interstellar space could be used as fuel.

The dust cloud formed by the Supernova Remnant has a large amount of hydrogen and its isotopes, but humans cannot use it.

The real technology is not up to par, so we can only worry in vain while looking at the gold and silver mountains.

Seeing that there was no good solution for a while, Gan De changed the subject and wanted to find hope from another direction. He put down the tablet and then looked at Yue Yuan, and asked, "By the way, Chief Yue, what about the Alien Spaceship? Has there been any progress in the recent research?"

Yue Yuan shook his head. When he heard Gan De mention the Alien Spaceship, he knew what Gan De was thinking.

"The main body has been excavated, and the internal silt layers and some compartments, especially the cockpit, are still being excavated and cleaned... There are no major discoveries yet."

Since the entire Warship is stuck in the soil, in order to avoid destroying anything that may be valuable, the progress of the excavation work has been very slow, no different from archaeological excavation.

As a result, two years have passed, and the cockpit has not been cleaned up.

Moreover, Yue Yuan did not have any hope for the Alien Spaceship at all, mainly because the Warship was too broken. Not to mention that it was covered with soil inside and out, but also that many places were found to be rusty after cleaning, and it did not look like the immortal creation of an advanced civilization at all.

Therefore, before the disaster occurred, those who knew of the existence of the Warship already knew that this broken Warship could no longer fly. If it wasn't for wanting to dig it out to study its various constituent materials, it is estimated that no one would buy it for scrap iron.

Of course, the final situation will have to be determined after the head and tail are completely cleaned up.

Yue Yuan estimated that it should be completed in another year and a half.

Next, Yue Yuan discussed with the two scientists for a long time, but he couldn't think of any good solution. In the end, Yue Yuan could only ask them to go back first.

It is understandable, after all, one is an astronomer and the other is a materials scientist. They may not be as good as other department leaders in this kind of plan and strategy.

This is not a question of whether you understand it or not, but a question of information mastery.

Yue Yuan was very clear about this, so in the following days, he anxiously convened many emergency meetings with various departments. Then scientists, experts and other professionals from various disciplines listened in and provided various professional knowledge references for the proposed solutions.

This way of holding meetings is very effective.

For example, someone comes up with a solution, but sometimes he doesn't know whether the things used or involved in this solution can be produced, which requires experts in various fields to participate in the evaluation.

It's like crossing a river, and then someone comes up with a way to build a raft, but he doesn't know the technology needed to make a raft at all, such as what kind of bamboo to choose, whether the bamboo should be dried, how to tie the bamboo, and so on. At this time, experts who understand rafts are needed to answer.

In one emergency meeting and technical seminar after another, many people also proposed some solutions, but without exception, none of them could be realized, or they only seemed to be possible.

For example, someone proposed to reduce the power generation of the Nuclear Power Plant in order to save energy, and only retain the power consumption of necessary facilities to save nuclear fuel.

Then, all ordinary electricity, lighting electricity, heating electricity, etc. are replaced with fuel oil. Humans mastered the technology of producing gasoline from Carbon Dioxide and hydrogen in the last century.

This method seems feasible, but the person who proposed the method did not realize that making gasoline is just an energy conversion, not crude oil directly extracted and separated from nature. The fundamental energy needed to support this process still has to come from the Nuclear Power Plant.

That was indeed the case. What humanity lacked now wasn't energy forms, but energy sources.

If the sun were still around, none of this would be a problem.

But now... Yue Yuan, having finished another day of work, returned to his residence, but his mind was so full of thoughts that he couldn't fall asleep.

"Could it be that we really have to bet everything we have?" Yue Yuan leaned back on the sofa, staring at the ceiling as he muttered to himself.

Since the nuclear fuel crisis emerged, the mountain of responsibility had been pressing down on him, almost suffocating him. He was under immense pressure now because he wielded great power. If he made even one wrong decision, it could plunge humanity into an abyss of eternal doom.

Therefore, he had to deliberate deeply before making any decision. He consulted every expert he should, and these experts had almost become his think tank, all for fear of oversights that could lead to mistakes.

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