Shen Bing's suggestion to use both approaches naturally did not mean creating two units of measurement. Using two units for a single concept would only increase their workload, not reduce it.
The unit they ultimately settled on for dark matter was si, abbreviated as SI. Why not S? Well, people would mistake that for seconds.
The si had two reference values. First, one si was a hundred times the UI Dark Energy needed to produce one dose of tier-two Gene-Enhancement Drug. Second, one si of dark matter released energy equivalent to two million kilowatts of electricity.
The first was easy to establish, but the second was much more complicated. It factored in the Dark Matter Shield's energy dissipation, the energy tiers of dark matter, mass-energy conversion, and several other considerations.
"Releasing energy" here did not mean that a given amount of dark matter could generate a corresponding amount of electricity. Many low-energy forms of dark matter would not release energy under normal circumstances, but could anyone therefore claim that they contained no energy?
For example, would a block of ice release energy if left at room temperature? But could anyone therefore deny that the ice contained energy?
Shen Bing did not dwell on the dark matter unit of measurement any further. Even if it still had some flaws, they could refine it later.
"By that calculation, we produce only fifty thousand si of UI Dark Energy a day. That's still a little low."
According to their calculations, using UI Dark Energy as the basis, fifty thousand si of it could fill only a million cubic kilometers of space.
That sounded enormous, but in reality, it was merely a space a hundred kilometers long, wide, and high. Compared with the space with a radius of 3,200 kilometers they had discussed earlier,