Chapter 156: Energy
Before leaving, Lu Xiaoqi also mentioned the matter of Xiaoba to Old William. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The old man was surprised that Lu Xiaoqi and Xiaoba had become friends, and then he glanced at the young man beside him with a smile, and then turned to Lu Xiaoqi and said, "Mr. Lu, please rest assured, your robot friend will be completely free in the future!" There will be no more government or military people to harass him, I can still assure you of that! ”
Old William's influence on the government and the military, Lu Xiaoqi can still guess, since they have made a guarantee, then believe him for the time being, after all, the cooperation has just begun, and it is time to show sincerity.
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Lu Xiaoqi did not go to watch the trial of General Roosevelt the next day, because the purpose of his trip had been achieved.
General Roosevelt was sentenced to death because of a command error in military operations, which killed nearly 2,000 American citizens and injured more than 5,000.
This "war criminal" will forever be recorded in the history of the United States as a negative textbook.
Although the top leaders, including the president, already knew that it should have been done by the plane invaders, the truth can only be hidden now, and it is clear which is more important than the death of a general and the large number of casualties caused by the mass of casualties caused by the national riots, as well as the Great Depression in the United States.
Lu Xiaoqi told Anne and Xiaoba about the harvest of this trip, and then the three returned to Boston.
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Broad River Coalfield, Wyoming.
It is one of the largest coalfields in the world, producing 40% of U.S. coal.
David is a blender at the Rochester Coal Mine, from which about 21 trains full of coal depart every day.
Here, the coal mine is only rough-machined before being loaded and then transported away.
Most of this coal is shipped to more than 100 coal-fired power plants across the United States, except for a portion of the export.
David has always been quite satisfied with this high-paying job, but recently, he has always been pulled over by the boss to admonish.
The reason for the reprimand is that many power plants are dissatisfied with their recent coal mines, because the combustion efficiency is so low, and the same tonnage of coal can now only produce two-thirds of the original electricity!
The boss suspected that David's supervision was not effective, so that when the coal mine was rough processing and separating slag, there was a mistake, resulting in impure coal, so that people complained to the door.
But David said that he was very wronged, all production was in line with the standard process, he cherished this job very much, how could such a low-level mistake be made?
Then, he sampled the coal that had been screened and ready to go, and came up with a result that sent chills all over his body, and the pass rate was only -0.3%!
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Carrizo is an independent energy company that only started making shale gas in 2003, but its development is fast, the technology is so advanced that the success rate of drilling wells is almost 100%, and almost every gas well can be put into production within January.
Recently, after hearing about the declining quality of coal in the Pod River coalfield, which was resisted by many power plants, Carrizo decided to lobby these companies to switch to natural gas for power generation because it was cheaper and cleaner.
Carrizo's latest shale gas extraction technology could further reduce the cost of extracting natural gas, and thus the price of natural gas, and they are ambitious to seize the energy market on the wave of the "shale gas revolution" and their own advantages.
However, the technicians found that many mines could not be exploited to the estimated output, and there were a lot of reserves during the exploration, but after the wells were opened, the natural gas was like a "gas leak", and I don't know where it went!
This has never been encountered in previous mining!
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All of the above is not just an isolated phenomenon, almost half of the United States, a similar situation has happened!
Not only coal and natural gas, but also oil, almost all traditional energy fields, "earthquake"!
In today's increasingly scarce energy on the earth, this is really terrible for a country to happen!
The U.S. economy is indeed the first in the world, there is nothing to say, but energy is always the driving force for a country's progress! If there's a problem with energy, then everything will go wrong!
Because energy is the most urgent issue!
To the annoyance of the US government, it seems that only the United States has experienced a similar phenomenon, and everything is normal in other countries, even Canada and Mexico, which are close to each other!
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Mr. President sat at his desk with a blank face.
He had just finished handling the siege of Los Angeles because of the nationwide boycott march, and General Roosevelt was sentenced to death.
I thought I could stop for a while, but something bigger was pressing again!
He's almost trying to pick on him now!
He didn't know what was wrong with the country, it seemed that God no longer blessed the country, but began to curse, one after another mysterious events occurred, and then he was told that the invaders of the outer plane may be bad for the earth in the near future, and before he came to his senses, the matter has arrived!
All traditional energy sources are out of order!
He wasn't sure if it was the so-called invaders who started to act, but he was pretty sure it wasn't natural causes, and it couldn't be any earthlings who did it, because no one could do it!
With elimination, it's easy to get the answer, isn't it?
But Mr. President is resisting this answer in his heart, because he is not ready, and the United States is not ready!
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As a scientist, William Sr. naturally started his research as soon as possible.
The samples sent from all over the world, he tested them very carefully, and there seemed to be no other problems except "low purity", but the "purity" of the samples placed in the laboratory has been slowly decreasing!
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Ferretti found the alien individual with the sample.
“…… That's the way it is," Ferretti explained the situation to the aliens in great detail, "I suspect it's an attack from 'them', may I ask you, have you ever encountered something similar when you resisted?" What enemy could carry out such a terrible attack? ”
The alien remained silent for a long time before replying, "The energy situation on our planet back then was very different from yours, but I can understand what you mean, I'm sorry, I can't find an enemy from the record that matches your description!" ”
"That is, you've never met each other?" Ferretti instinctively felt that he was lying!
"We have encountered quite a few monsters that can directly devour pure energy, and they are all kinds and varied, but according to your description, it is not the loss of pure energy like 'power loss', but the decline in the purity of the initial mineral deposit as a source of energy, in this case, I really can't provide a meaningful answer, sorry!" The alien replied, "And, if you are going to say that it is some kind of enemy attack, then I ask you, where is the enemy?" Did you see that? (To be continued.) )