After more than a month of continuous expansion and construction, the Solar System's "Energy Network" under the "Prometheus Project" finally reached the Global Village today!
Relayed through dozens of "Torchbearers" along the route, vast amounts of solar energy were transmitted at the speed of light using high-energy lasers!
In only about fifteen minutes, the immense energy collected close to the Sun could cross the vast distance to reach Atlantis Spaceport.
Because of transmission losses along the route, and because space colonies such as Mercury retained some of the energy to meet their own needs, the amount currently allocated to Earth was not particularly large. Its average power output was roughly equivalent to that of three supersized nuclear fusion power plants.
Still, this energy was already enough to meet Atlantis Spaceport's needs. The surplus could also be transmitted directly through the Space Elevator to Atlantis Island on Earth, then distributed across the world.
In other words, from this day onward, Atlantis Island would not only be Miracle Island and an island of fantastical technology, but also the energy heart of the entire Earth!
Granted, the current supply alone was not enough to sustain Earth's steadily growing energy consumption.
But as the number of "Torch"-series energy collectors on the Sun's surface continued to increase, the amount of energy collected would keep rising.
In theory, if the entire Sun could be surrounded, meeting Earth's development needs would be trivial-even supporting development projects throughout the Solar System would be no problem. However, even with Nie Yun's industrial capabilities, such a project would take an astonishingly long time.
Solar energy as a virtually permanent source for everyday consumption, nuclear fuel as a supplementary backup, and energy crystals as a strategic reserve-this was the complete energy supply system Nie Yun envisioned!
Connecting the Global Village