After a brief period of warmth, as the refining furnace stopped operating, the two began to get busy again. The fuel cell can last up to 12 hours, so make the most of this time.
With the refining furnace, the supply speed of various materials has greatly increased, and Chu Jungui began to consider how to solve the energy supply problem that had become a bottleneck.
Usually the most common approach is to use biomass or chemical energy to generate electricity, such as building a diesel generator or something. But on Planet 4, Chu Jun still found no similar energy source.
Although there are plants and wood here, these trees only look like wood but are not flammable. Moreover, the oxygen content on this planet is pitifully low, and there is no way to carry out combustion in the conventional sense.
However, without oxygen, other oxidants can be used instead, such as chlorine. The content of chlorine in Planet 4 is exceptionally high. Analysis of the organs of known alien animals shows that they seem to rely on chlorine as an oxidant to provide energy for the body.
If living things live on chlorine, how do plants get energy?
Chu Jungui looked at the huge curved leaves in the forest in the distance, thoughtfully, and vaguely felt as if he had caught something.
The test subject was lucky. At this moment, an extremely violent ion storm suddenly surged in the sky, and a thunder pillar as thick as a stone pillar fell from the sky, surrounded by thousands of thunder balls.
The thunder pillars went straight down, hitting the forest directly, and the thunder balls also fell one after another, smashing into the forest one by one.
If it were on the human home planet, it would definitely cause a forest fire, but on Planet 4, a miracle-like scene appeared in front of Chu Jungui.
The entire forest sucked in the thunder column like a sponge, and every tree was glowing slightly. The same goes for those thunderballs, all of which are absorbed by the tips of leaves pointing straight toward the sky. Then the whole forest glowed dimly, like a fantasy world.
Lin Xi also saw this scene. She was shocked and suddenly said: "Look at those leaves, do they look like receiving antennas?"
Chu Jungui was suddenly reminded by her and said, "You mean..."
"All the trees in the entire forest are connected underground. In other words, this forest is like a huge battery that can absorb the lightning energy overflowing from the sky. In normal times, these trees rely on absorbing various energy from the ion storm layer. Living off radiation and electromagnetic waves.”
With that said, Lin Xi kicked the purple grass and said, "It's not just the trees, maybe the grass is like this too."
Chu Jungui lowered his head and pulled up a small piece of grass and looked at it carefully. This grass has purple leaves that open out at the top and look like petals. But from another angle, it can be said to be an open receiving antenna.
The grass has a tuber the size of a finger, which looks very plump, and its roots are extremely long. Even if they break when pulled out, there are still dozens of centimeters left. And on the remaining roots, there are obviously roots belonging to other grasses entangled. This also shows that the grassland is also connected underground.
Looking at the grass below and the forest in the distance, thinking that these seemingly independent individuals are actually connected underground, Chu Jungui felt inexplicably uncomfortable for some reason.
After Chu Jungui thought for a moment, he built two more wooden tables, doubling the working area outside the cockpit. Then he built another organic matter detector and placed it side by side with the original one so that the power lines could be shorter.
With two organic matter detectors, the analysis speed can be doubled. Chu Jungui discovered that the creatures on this planet themselves hide many secrets, and uncovering these secrets may be the key to survival on this planet. Just like analyzing the blood and muscles of alien beasts, Chu Jungui had a stable supply of bullets and fortification building materials.
Organic matter detectors are easy to build, and a new detector is ready to go within a few moments. This time Chu Jungui put in the trunk of the double-leaf tree that he had always ignored.
Unexpectedly, the analysis of the tree trunk material was extremely slow, taking more than three hours. Chu Jungui had no choice but to wait patiently.
At this time, another analysis of the internal organs of alien animals came to fruition. This is a fist-sized spherical gland in the body of the alien beast. It was only because it grew near the brain that Chu Jungui noticed it and checked it.
After Chu Jungui entered the test report into the chip, he obtained the potential processing directions and uses of the gland contents, the most important of which was to replace the contents of polymer batteries.
Polymer batteries are the most common cheap batteries in the 35th century, and their popularity is similar to that of lithium batteries in the home planet era. Most importantly, it can provide a vital transitional product until Chu Jungui can find a stable long-term energy source.
Chu Jungui immediately stopped other work on the chip and devoted all his efforts to designing a new polymer battery based on this. This task is not difficult, and the chip only took 15 seconds to come up with the design plan. This is actually because the glandular fluid itself is a nearly perfect battery material, so more time in manufacturing chips is spent on designing the battery casing.
The design of polymer battery casing is also a matter of knowledge. It should be easy to stack, seamlessly interconnected, and elegant and beautiful. It is best to have a special post-modern design...
Chu Jungui interrupted the increasing aesthetic demands of the chip and chose the simplest shell that could be stacked directly together. Then he formed a design plan and entered it into the workbench.
During the production of the first polymer battery, Chu Jungui told Lin Xi the new plan. The two of them worked together to move all the corpses of nearby strange animals and dissect the glands.
Because the function of this gland is to generate electric current to provide power for alien beasts, Lin Xi named it Thunder Gland.
In addition to alien beasts, lizard beasts and spinyback beasts also have thunder glands, varying in size.
The mine glands on these beasts are generally small. About ten mine glands are enough to produce one polymer battery. Although Lin Xi was a little disappointed, dozens of more batteries were better than none.
After the first polymer battery was produced, Chu Jungui cleared an open space outside the cockpit and connected it to the overall power supply network of the cockpit. After connecting the battery, the personal terminal immediately updated the power supply data. The final data showed that the battery output power was 20kw and the continuous power supply time was 48 hours.
Chu Jungui was overjoyed. This data far exceeded his expectations. It seemed that the creatures on Planet 4 had reached a very high level of utilization of electricity, which gave Chu Jungui an advantage.
Although the fluid of a single thunder gland is limited, the number of alien beasts seems to be endless. At least the two of them have enough stock on hand to make 30 fusion batteries.
Once the energy bottleneck is broken, the future of Chu Jungui and Lin Xi will have the first glimmer of hope.
