Chapter 993, Hydropower Proposal
Yue Feng, who followed Ye Lin and heard the introduction to the "Universal Underground City", initially did not consider hydropower because he had first-hand underground data.
When the Queen's team saw with their own eyes that Gu Sheng built an underground city to collect supplies, the underground city actually did not have much depth and could only be regarded as the lower level of the basement.
However, the hardness of the ice on the ground and the non-existent water seepage and landslides in the project still left a deep impression on Yue Feng.
The president has a daily report, which is simply called a daily report. There are also weekly reports, monthly reports, etc., so that Yue Feng can understand some of the company's situations in a timely manner without returning to the company's conference room.
The commander-in-chief in charge of the underground project is named Kang Jianguo. When the Life Endless Investment Company arranged for his underground project and the above-ground base to be carried out at the same time, he wrote an email to the president's mailbox every day to complain.
The importance of underground projects is no less important than the above-ground domes. After Yue Feng read the first few emails, in order to facilitate better contact with Kang Jianguo in the future, he gave his private email to Kang Jianguo.
The president also participates in the rescue every day, and has a series of company and base meetings to intervene. He wants to know the trends of the underground project as soon as possible. Just relying on the communicator is not enough.
Yue Feng talks too much every day and has too little time to calm down and listen. The same is true for Kang Jianguo as the commander-in-chief.
Sometimes you are stuck for time and can only finish one sentence, but in the email you can expand the data and make a long speech, thereby getting more support from the other party.
This support is not unilaterally supported by Yue Feng. Sometimes the boss also needs to get the understanding of the employee so that the boss's instructions can be fully completed.
Kang Jianguo confided in his earliest email: "The ground is too hard and the soil contains ice and snow. It seems that the difficulty of construction now is only in the hardness. In fact, according to the president's requirements, the underground project must ensure that the original quality after the ice and snow melts." It is too difficult to keep the position unchanged, or change as little as possible.”
The ground is full of ice and snow, and the soil is also everywhere. This kind of soil had an official name before the wind and snow, frozen soil. .
It is not difficult to start construction under such conditions that are forcibly hardened by ice and snow. On the contrary, there are benefits. The surrounding harder land will only provide more load-bearing for underground projects. In such geology, even if the company It is required to build a thousand underground floors. The actual load-bearing can be borne by the surrounding land. Kang Jianguo does not need to do more load-bearing calculations or design supports related to load-bearing.
But the CEO’s request is far from being as simple as building a hundred and a thousand underground floors until there is enough room for people. His ultimate goal is that one day the dome on the ground will no longer protect everyone, and underground projects will be the only survivors around the world. living space.
"At that time, our company will continue to open its doors to accept all survivors around the world, and everyone may live in the underground project for one, ten, one hundred or even more generations."
So what lies ahead of Kang Jianguo The problem is huge.
When building an underground base in frozen soil, it is also necessary to ensure that the base will not shift horizontally or fall due to the softness of the soil after the frozen soil thaws.
If it must be moved, then any key facilities in the underground base must not be damaged during the move, and it must not affect everyone living in it.
Those who live in places where it snows in winter think back.
Just grab a handful of frozen soil and return it to the warm spring-like room. This handful of soil may fall apart after thawing, or it may become very soft.
The softness is caused by the ice water that is almost integrated with the soil during the thawing process. If it is too soft, the result will only be scattered.
There is also a situation where after it spreads out, it will form several small pieces that are in the same style. That is to say, several small pieces look like they are holding together and are solid and unbreakable, but they are torn apart from other small pieces. , until old age and death, no contact with each other.
Thaw and frost heave are the characteristics of frozen soil.
No matter the above situation, there is no guarantee that the external environment of the underground project built in the frozen soil will not fall down after the planet rejuvenates.
If the time could be controlled so that the planet's surface could completely warm up before falling down, it would be much simpler, as long as everyone could be returned to the ground in time.
However, there is only one result calculated by the computer many times. With the current snowfall, after the surface warms up, the ground will be a vast ocean. If human society wants to return to the surface, it still needs someone to temporarily live underground. process.
In fact, you can refer to the poem "The Duck Prophet of Warm Spring River Water". Human society has not yet fully felt that the ground has warmed up enough to be habitable, but the ice and snow on the ground know it in advance.
By the time humans know that it is getting warmer, a large number of large ice cubes, small ice cubes and ice water mixed in will have already taken over the surface of the astrological sphere.
There must be a process of living underground. Waiting until the water recedes and resurfaces is the best time for the survivors to return.
Yue Feng held frequent meetings with the company for this purpose. He held many imaginative meetings on how to develop submersible boats and whether the dome could be transformed into a seafloor protective cover at critical times. In the end, he decided to build a structure that could divert floods first. Underground works.
For such a big project, the only explanation for it is “do one first”.
A storm suddenly hit the planet. Yue Feng was able to convince the company to establish a ground base and be willing to accept survivors from all over the world. This is already the end of his wisdom.
They can't think of a better way to stop the snowstorm at present.
The only option is to "do an underground project first" and then wait for the wisdom of future generations, or a better plan that may come out tomorrow or the year after tomorrow.
Except for Yue Feng himself and those staunch supporters who would think that following Yue Feng would lead to a way out even if their eyes were dark, no one else believed that a ground dome could be built. They kept scolding Yue Feng every day and accused Yue Feng of letting go of countless steel and taking away what belongs to everyone. Irresponsible consumption of property.
But Yue Feng has Ye Lin’s words as a pointing light, and he will never waver.
The result was that when he waited for Dr. Li Qi, the dome on the ground stood steadily in the air.
So under the current conditions, "build one first", "get the project started first", maybe there will be other buildings that specialize in this area like Dr. Li Qi. Maybe a doctorate in engineering.
Building an underground project first can also ensure that the ground is completely used for living, and the maximum capacity can reach survivors around the world. In addition, there must be a place to do some important things, such as breeding, planting, and scientific research, which also require large-scale laboratories. These can be carried out in underground bases.
Kang Jianguo, who lived overseas and became famous in the architectural world, followed the officials to the base. Before he could take a breath, he encountered such a big issue.
There were a few original lines by Kang Jianguo in the base establishment document that Ye Lin had heard. He still appeared as the protagonist complaining, saying that the base only gave him one billion people, but the task he received was to guarantee seven It is an underground project where one billion people live, and it also needs to ensure the use requirements of scientific research rooms.
Kang Jianguo was not too intimidated to take over. Apart from the fact that he and his family were already inside the base, and the underground project would also be where his family would live in the future, he was a tough man and had a spirit of refusing to admit defeat. .
The initial stage of construction is the most difficult, including personnel deployment, material availability, technical strength, etc. This is also the time when Kang Jianguo frequently contacts the president. At most, there are more than 30 emails a day. On average, More than one letter an hour.
Yue Feng was still in the process of revenge at that time. After the revenge, he went out of the city with Ye Lin and the team for rescue. However, he never delayed the work of the company and the base. He always responded positively and was extremely demanding of Kang Jianguo. Cooperate. However, in all the exchanges that exhausted all efforts to build above-ground domes and underground bases, hydropower did not exist. Under the circumstances at that time, there was no way to consider hydropower.
Hydropower generation requires a gap between high and low water levels to generate strong potential energy. Then the strong potential energy drives the hydraulic turbine, and the hydraulic turbine drives the generator, thereby completing the process of converting potential energy into electricity.
There are more than seven billion people in the base. If we want to meet the demand for electricity, the large-scale power plants built must be group-based.
Let’s not talk about where the space comes from. Let’s just say that the underground rivers close to the surface have been frozen into the land. Where will the flowing water come out?
Besides, when you look up, you can see the whistling wind, and the momentum of the violent sea is like a frying pan of wind in the universe. Wind power is readily available, and you can use it after installing the equipment.
Who would have a grudge against having power supplied right before their eyes?
We must waste manpower, material resources and long waiting time to build hydroelectric power.
The base is still under construction, and the living, working, and breeding areas have not yet been completed. No one would think of proposing hydroelectric power generation that is time-consuming and labor-intensive and may not be enough for everyone.
If the high-level officials must be crazy enough to only pursue hydropower generation, then they must first use wind power to warm an area, and then build a group of large-scale power plants... This kind of proposal can only be accepted by others. Spray into ice sculptures.
Even if someone thought of it and proposed it at the time, this would be the result.
So before Yue Feng heard the term "universal underground city", hydropower generation was an impossible suggestion. It belongs to a comprehensive blind spot of thinking and will be automatically blocked by conventional cognition.
Then Ye Lin surprised Yue Feng one by one. The "Universal Dungeon" appeared in the ears of the Queen's team. Yue Feng's first thought was: Doesn't this city use electricity?
Has the CEO been threatening Zhi Nao to stay safe by blowing up the power supply channel?
At this point, Yue Feng's heart felt like a mirror. He was fooled by Zhinao. This electronic guy was not short of power at all.
It owns a city. The chatty number of the universal channel car is 33377, and the largest number of the universal platform is 2999999.
Before encountering 2999999, we encountered 1999999.
It has a paragraph introducing the original data as follows: ".Universal Underground Channel Station 1999999, also known as the Million Human Transfer Station. This platform can accommodate up to one million humans and can provide nutritional supplies for one million humans. It is limited to Three days. "
The CEO realized in an instant that with such huge data, Zhinao has a very deep knowledge and does not need to care about its own threats.
Another answer emerged. All Zhinao cares about is the "universal girl".
Unavoidably a little angry, Yue Feng thought for himself while asking Shan to analyze the data. In the end, the two of them came to the conclusion at the same time that the smart brain should use hydroelectric power.
Nowadays, people living on the ground and in shelters and bases close to the surface are not short of wind and snow. The aliens in the underground do not have these two harsh benefits of wind and snow. The only thing the brain can use is the abyss. water in it.
If you think about it again, underground cities can be built, and Zhinao can build enough power plants. It has been operating for more than a thousand years.
I then logically thought that having electricity underground would ensure that the water in the underground river would still flow smoothly. The ready-made underground river is the most convenient water level potential energy. If it is not enough, it is not troublesome to dig it out yourself.
About a thousand years will be enough time to complete the inexhaustible water level power generation facilities.
Yue Feng was no longer angry at this point. He suddenly realized that he could use it too. The board of directors agreed to his underground supply point plan. Then each supply point can dig as much as they want in their own area. dig.
Dig forward to the front, back, left and right in the horizontal direction to find urban supplies and survivors.
If you dig deeper, you will definitely see an underground river, or you can dig an underground river that can generate electricity.
In order to facilitate viewing and persuade the board of directors immediately, Shan specially made simple and beautiful animations, which are the ones shown to Ye Lin today.
Flying snow covered the ground, freezing everything.
A group of hard-working little people came out of some rooms under the ice and snow layer.
They took the elevator to the dark underground construction site, and the lights came on. The ground, walls and construction machinery were scattered here.
They worked diligently, and soon they found a passage full of ice and snow while digging. The robot was transferred to dredge the passage. Finally, when it penetrated deep into the passage, it sent back complete data. This was an underground river that led to the ground and circulated endlessly. part of.
The shape in the current area is an irregular "U", and the section that completes the cycle is on the ground under the snow.
This "U" shaped channel also spreads out in all directions, connecting several other underground river channels.
Then the above paragraph is unnecessary.
Punch a horizontal channel directly from the middle of the U to form the lower half of the open "θ" shape.
The workers widened the lower half of the closed channel, and moved building materials to strengthen some parts of the channel that felt weak and might not be able to withstand the erosion of artificial water flow from high to low in the future. The water pump is installed, the turbine is installed, and the generator is installed. Everything is ready to start artificial water injection, and a steady stream of electricity is supplied.
This is one of the ways to generate electricity, the other one is right next door.
After the first power generation water level appeared, electricity was first supplied to the area around the warmth. Gradually, the water in the underground river not far away began to flow slowly and slowly, and then it thawed and ended flowing.
This section of the underground river is a completely underground circulation type, so as long as the environment warms, it will be a matter of time to restore the water circulation.
Of course, the installation of power generation and related equipment must be completed before the water cycle is completely restored. The river inspection that should be done can also be done when there is still ice and snow in the waterway. Just dig some small channels and let the robot go in. Finish.
In this way, as long as the water cycle is restored, water level potential energy can appear, and another hydropower generation can be generated.
A steady stream of electricity is supplied. The voltage is increased through the transformer, and the power is supplied nearby, but this time the supply is from the hollowed out underground mineral vein.
See you tomorrow.