At 3 p.m., Roy Richardson, the CEO of Space Plants, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gene Umbrella itself, came to meet Henry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no doubt that growing plants in space is of great significance.

Astronauts cannot live in space without oxygen, food and water, and almost all of these supplies are currently sent into space by spacecraft, which is very expensive. Growing more plants in space can produce more oxygen, while also growing vegetables to achieve self-sufficiency, and even domesticating animals on the space station as a source of meat. These can not only reduce the cost of astronauts' lives in space, but with the development of technology, they may also be of great significance for human beings to live in space for a long time, or even to immigrate to foreign planets.

Roy Richardson is tall and thin, with a high nose, big eyes, short hair, and is in his fifties, with a Ph.D. in biology from Cambridge University.

Henry asked Villelet to pour him a glass of water, and then began to inquire about the Space Plant Company.

"Roy Richardson, a brief introduction to Space Plants!"

"Yes, Your Majesty," Roy Richardson nodded respectfully, "back in 1997, the Gene Umbrella Company set up a department dedicated to the study of space plants. In 2003, the Gene Umbrella Company spun off this department and established the Space Plant Company, which has a total of 1,000 researchers so far, and about 20 of them need to work on the space station for a long time! Factors such as weightlessness, cleanliness, and cosmic rays in space will have a unique impact on the survival, development, aging, and mutation of plants. Breeding in space is a completely new challenge for us. In order to discover the difference between space breeding and earth breeding as soon as possible, when we were studying space plants in the earliest days, we specially selected bean sprouts, greens, radishes and other vegetables with short growth cycles, and brought them to space for cultivation, to observe how various vegetables affect growth and disease resistance in the space environment. After years of hard work, Space Plant has achieved very good results. We have successfully cultivated 30 new crops with high quality, high yield and strong disease resistance in the space environment.

Among the food crops are: rice, corn, wheat.

Among the cash crops are: oilseeds, peanuts, roses, lavender, sesame, tea, coffee, and tobacco.

Fruits are: apples, pears, strawberries.

Medicinal crops are: ginseng, angelica, honeysuckle, mint.

The most abundant vegetable crops are: bean sprouts, radish, cabbage, celery, leeks, garlic, onions, carrots, lotus flowers, peppers, tomatoes and coriander. ”

"Oh, that sounds good!" said Henry, surprised, not expecting so many products to be available.

"Your Majesty Xie's compliments! However, the conditions of space production are harsh, and these crops cannot be mass-produced for the time being, and can only serve astronauts and those engaged in space research on the space station!" said Roy Richardson.

"The technical difficulties will one day be broken through, and the wisdom of mankind is infinite!" Henry said, "The Williams Empire has decided to vigorously develop the space industry, and space food is the basis for survival, which is particularly important! I will allocate $25 billion in research funds to the Space Plant Company, and from now on, the Space Plant Company must increase its research and development efforts!"

"Yes!" Roy Richardson replied with a heavy nod.

After Roy Richardson left, Henry pondered alone.

The key factors that prevent space plants from being mass-produced are water and space. The space station doesn't have much space in the first place, and it's definitely not like it's used to grow plants. The spaceX space station is an inflatable space station, and the space area is much larger than other space stations, which is okay in this regard. But to transport water to the space station, it would be too expensive, it would cost tens of millions of dollars to launch a rocket, and it would also be expensive to transport space plants to Earth!

Therefore, if the big problem of transportation is solved, then the mass production of space plants can be realized. The ideal solution would be to build a space elevator to deliver water to the space station! The Williams Empire is close to Antarctica, which has 72 percent of the world's freshwater reserves. Without a doubt, Antarctica is the best place to get water!!

The scientific community unanimously agrees that graphene is the best material because it is both the thinnest material in the world and the strongest material in the world, and its breaking strength is 200 times higher than that of the best steel! Unfortunately, graphene itself is difficult to manufacture, and using it to make a space elevator is tantamount to a fantasy! However, this is possible for the Williams Empire.

Super Materials has been ahead of the world in the field of graphene manufacturing for more than a decade, and Henry has already come up with China's graphene manufacturing technology in 2015 before 2000. Henry understands the importance of graphene very well, and it is definitely the most important point in all research projects! Therefore, the research and development of graphene is by no means imaginable to the outside world. Perhaps, all the institutions or companies engaged in graphene research around the world have not invested as much in their R&D funds as they have invested in supermaterials.

Super Materials Inc. is recruiting the world's best materials talent every year, and its annual R&D expenditure has exceeded $20 billion, and the funding is increasing year by year. The more esoteric the research, the more things will be involved, and naturally, the more R&D funds and talent investment will be needed.

Henry's acquisition of graphite mines around the world is precisely for the future. How much graphene is needed to build a space elevator. What's more, Henry didn't just build a sky elevator. Some sky elevators are used for pipeline water transportation, some are used for freight, some are used for tourism, and some are used for the military, so at least 4 sky elevators will also be built.

For the time being, Henry does not intend to rush to build a space elevator, but to make technical reserves. When the Williams Empire establishes a base on the moon, the "sky elevator" program will be officially launched, and the moon and the earth have built sky elevators, with the space station as an intermediate station to connect the moon and the earth, so that the sky elevator can play the greatest role. At that time, the manufacturing technology of graphene will definitely make a breakthrough.

At this moment, the lunar base program is underway. SpaceX is responsible for building spaceships, Alpha is responsible for building intelligent robots and space vehicles, and Space Plants is responsible for making food.

SpaceX will land on the moon next year, sending 10 astronauts to the moon and then establishing a lunar base there.

(To be continued.) )