Chapter 78: The Spring
If that's all there is to it, then it's wrong.
Mars will move the island once and for all.
Even the underwater part will not be spared.
As for the rest of the plants, he had no place for Mars to store, so he would just replace them all, and then settle them underwater as part of the moving island.
Without shallows and vegetation, the moving island can be seen as a giant bucket.
However, there is a central island in the middle, and there is space around it where you can store a lot of things.
The west is now a vegetated area, and the south is a shallow area for hunting.
There are also east and north sides, but they have not yet been built.
So everything on this island will not be wasted, and will be used to fill the bucket in other directions.
Although the direction of the Moving Island cannot be changed, Mars can drive the Moving Island to the west of the island, so that the rest of the island can be filled up closely.
"The plants here should have enough water for the next few days, but if we leave here, I'm afraid there won't be as much rain to water them!"
Lawrence watched as Mars transplanted so many plants, most of them trees.
I thought that although there are plants here, there is still too little water as a resource.
"Father, don't worry, I can make some tools to turn the sea water into fresh water, and it will be enough to water them. ”
Mars said to Lawrence.
Lawrence looked at Mars, then at the sea.
Everyone knows that the water of the sea is not drinkable, but it is not easy to turn the sea water into fresh water.
If it could become, human beings would not die of thirst in the sea.
"Father, you see, the sun turns the water of the sea into moisture, just like when we cook broth, when the water is heated, it can have moisture, and then if it gets cold, it becomes water, which is why when you cook in the basement room, you say that the exhaust port is wet. ”
Mars's explanation is as analogous as possible to the situation that Lawrence encounters in his daily life.
In this way, Lawrence feels that this thing has been experienced by himself, has memories and experiences, so he will also feel that Mars's idea is completely that he has seen it, so this idea appears.
It's a good lesson learned, and Lawrence does something like that, so he doesn't feel like anything else.
That's all Mars said, but there's really no way to do that right now with the location of the Moving Island.
We had to wait for the east side of the moving island to be filled in a bit before we started building.
"Expand your mobile island while having over 1,500 square meters of planting area and get a freshwater replacement cap. ”
Mars was thinking to Lawrence about how he would artificially make water, which was a must.
Otherwise, the soil moisture will quickly evaporate from the soil under the prolonged sun, and the trees may die.
But unexpectedly, at this time, Mars actually got such a reminder.
That's a good thing!
Mars thinks like this, he really comes whatever he wants.
As long as you can replace fresh water, what do you do with distilling seawater?
So, he hurried to check the amount of fresh water that had been replaced.
Previously, Mars could replace three litres of fresh water a day, but now it has risen to six litres of water.
It doesn't seem to be much of an improvement, it's too little for watering the planting area.
However, Mars discovered that this thing was not just providing the amount of fresh water to be replaced.
Other accompanying abilities also appear.
Before the time, Mars knew that the fresh water could be set up as groundwater. That is, from a point where the water appears, and then it flows through the manufactured pipe to the specified location according to your idea.
And these three litres of water can be averaged over the course of a day, giving them the same effect as a spring's uniform flooding.
Now that the amount of water has doubled, the capacity of the spring is even more apparent.
In other words, if you have fresh water on the island, you can put it with the fresh water you have replaced, and then divert it to the whole island through the action of the spring.
And the excess water that has not been used up can be re-flowed back to the place where the water is stored.
It can be said that there is an automatic water circulation system.
And Mars can have two points at the same time as springs, forming a flow of water.
Let the fresh water flow out of the spring, the plants will absorb some of it, the sun will evaporate some of it, Mars and Lawrence will use up some of it, and the rest will seep into the ground through the soil and flow back, so if the spring actually forms water, the water will not flow back to the spring.
Of course, Mars can keep the fresh water out of the sun, and let it flow directly into the soil through the cracks in the reef, so that the plants can draw it and the excess will flow back back, and the two of them can make a small puddle of water, or drink it directly like a running water pipe.
Now, the only thing that doesn't feel enough for Mars is fresh water.
Although fresh water has been saved, after the island is completely moved, Mars will leave here, and when the time comes, it will be impossible to say whether the water will be drunk depending on the sky.
And the plants need a lot of fresh water, and it will not be less, so Mars will not last long with this point.
So Mars had to make a device that could distill seawater, so that there would be enough fresh water.
"Quickly fill a platform on the east side of the mobile island and make a seawater distillation device on the platform, so that fresh water can come out and there will be no shortage of water. ”
Mars was pleased with the characteristics of the springs, so now as long as he made sure that he had enough fresh water, the plants on the island would not rely on the sky to drink water or rely on manpower to water them.
"Before, there was enough water, and the island was so big, so I didn't get this thing, but now it's different, and there are so many plants, and they need more water, so we have to speed up the construction. ”
Mars had also thought about building a smaller seawater distillation unit, but found that he and Lawrence didn't need it because there was enough fresh water every day.
So basically, I didn't think about these things.
Now, if you make a larger seawater distillation device, you can have more fresh water, you can stew meat in a big pot, you can also take a hot bath, and the plants will have enough water to grow bigger.
The more Mars thought about it, the more he felt that it was necessary, and then looked at the rest of the island on the other side, and in the afternoon, emptied them completely.