Chapter 314: The People Take Food as Heaven
The eruption pillar of the Yellowstone volcano was hundreds of kilometers high at this time, which is truly unprecedented in the history of mankind.
In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, and its eruption column was only 24.4 kilometers, and the volcanic ash covered 11 states in the United States.
Now this posture will definitely cover most of North America, and probably only a small area along the southern coast of the United States can escape this catastrophe.
"Boss, the sudden eruption of the Yellowstone volcano may be related to a series of previous earthquakes, the North American continental plate was hit by the Pacific plate, and it affected here, so that the Yellowstone volcano, which had been preparing for a long time, erupted."
Han Qiang, who was on the side, looked at the eruption scene transmitted back in real time and couldn't help but explain.
Du Qiu actually understands that I am afraid that the last straw is the nuclear bomb detonated at the 91st Aerospace Wing base in Peking University.
The explosion of a nuclear bomb in the ground is itself equivalent to an earthquake, not far from the Yellowstone volcano in Huaiyoming.
Coupled with the underground nuclear explosion in the 51st area of Dazhou at the earliest, Du Qiu sighed that the causal entanglement between himself and the United States was entangled.
Fortunately, the rescue team members have just been recruited before, although the training has not yet been completed, but there are skilled hands, plus robot team members, should be able to carry out such rescue missions.
"Sister Yuan, the new team members who are training are remixed with the old team members, and immediately devote themselves to the rescue of the people of the United States, and let Liu Sichen report to the governments of the north and south before going."
"Okay, I'll arrange it."
Yuan Minhua left in a hurry, and the old team members are still busy in Central America at the moment, so they have to be transferred back for reorganization first, and reassign tasks with the old and the new.
"Dean Han, the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano may be regarded as a way to accelerate the arrival of the Great Ice Age."
Han Qiang said: "That's right, the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano is definitely larger than the 2014 simulation of the Geological Survey of the United States, which was calculated based on the eruption volume of 330 cubic kilometers."
Now this situation, I am afraid that it has really exploded to 8, which is more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of eruption.
In the next year or two, volcanic ash will move with the atmospheric circulation, and it is likely that the global atmosphere will be enveloped, and the global temperature can drop by 10-15 degrees, and it will snow in the winter in the lower latitudes. ”
Du Qiu's face was serious, and he said: "Then we need to carry out the salvage plan that we formulated before, which was originally to deal with a possible nuclear winter."
Now it is just right to deal with the volcanic ash erupted from the Yellowstone volcano, and your geological research institute will check the active volcanoes in various places in combination with the current situation of the Blue Star earthquake, and we can no longer ignore these hidden dangers. ”
"Okay, boss, the Institute of Geological Research must complete the simulation as soon as possible to find out the potential eruption of the volcano."
After Han Qiang left, Du Qiu fell into deep thought.
Xinghai's voice suddenly sounded, "Sir, the high-level government of the northern part of the United States has all taken refuge in the underground command center, and the southern side has also entered an underground nuclear protection bunker.
Do we need to revise our previous plan to dismantle the United States? ”
After the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, over time, most of the country should be uninhabitable, and many people will flee the country.
These high-ranking government officials have gone into hiding underground, hoping to wait until the disaster is over and then come back to control the country.
How could Du Qiu have allowed such a thing to happen?
"Implement alternatives, I think there are examples like ours, those big conglomerates should no longer be committed to rebuilding the country."
"Okay, the alternative starts to be executed."
Du Qiu thought about what he had just thought, and then said: "In the early period of the Great Ice Age, human beings were actually able to survive using the previous material reserves.
However, with the mass death and extinction of animals and plants, it is the fundamental threat to the survival of human beings.
Xinghai, we need to have a plan to solve the food needs of the human beings stranded on the Blue Star at this stage. ”
Xinghai replied: "Last year's global grain production was 3.2 billion tons, of which 500 million tons were produced by Wugu Group, which is under the command of our magic technology.
The Grains Group has built a large number of high-rise farms throughout Africa, producing not only 500 million tons of cereals, but also 5 million tons of cotton.
In addition, there are 15 million tons of apples, 5 million tons of grapes, 5 million tons of pears, etc., in short, the grain group accounts for about a quarter of the world's total crop production, except for cereals. ”
Du Qiu touched his freshly shaved head and smacked his lips, in order to produce food, fruits, vegetables, and meat in the base, he came up with a set of high-rise farm plans.
Later, with the solution of energy, this set of plans was built on a large scale in the MERCOSUR region, and even in the western region of the Tang Kingdom.
Before you know it, Wugu Group, a subsidiary of Amazing Technology, has grown into one of the giants of the world grain market, accounting for a quarter of the market share.
It's just that now in the face of the blue star, which is gradually entering the great glacial period, this production is not enough.
As long as they can eat, human beings will be able to survive, and even in a slightly harsh environment, they can survive tenaciously.
Don't you see Eskimos living in the Arctic?
Xinghai's voice continued, "With the current production capacity of Wugu Group, it can actually double the existing output, but in order to maintain a certain profit margin and not to be unanimously hostile to other food giants, the output is limited."
However, if we enter the Ice Age and need to feed the world's population, we will need to at least double our production capacity. ”
Du Qiu asked, "You mean that we continue to build high-rise farms on a large scale?" ”
"Oh, there's another option, we can build a space farm, so that we can get direct sunlight, not only save energy, but also give crops real sunlight."
Du Qiu asked with interest: "Listening to you say this, it seems that there is a design drawing?" ”
Xinghai said: "Yes, this was designed by a researcher named Li Weinong from the Agricultural Research Institute. ”
"Oh, he turned in the design? Why didn't the Agricultural Research Institute report it? ”
Xinghai replied: "He hasn't reported it yet, after all, this is one of his ideas, originally made some designs, but he is not a physicist, nor an astronomer, nor an architectural designer, so this kind of design is still very rough and stays on an idea."
I thought it was interesting, so I took it and revamped it completely, and the current design looks like this. ”
As he spoke, Xinghai projected the design of the space farm.
It looks like a cylindrical tall building, layer upon layer of scales, rotating in the sun's orbit to ensure that the sun fully shines on these farms.
The length of such cylindrical buildings can reach hundreds of kilometers, but of course longer.
With just one estimate, it can cover half of the output of today's high-rise buildings of Wugu Group.
"Xinghai, why didn't you add a gravity field device?"
After watching for a long time, Du Qiu finally discovered something different from Space City.
"According to the previous research on crop growth conducted by the Agricultural Research Institute in the weightless environment of space, in the weightless environment, the size of the crops should be large in gravity, and of course, the maturity period is shorter than when there is gravity."
Du Qiu suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, there is such a good thing. Liang Bingshu of the Agricultural Research Institute is incompetent, why not report such agricultural production? ”
Xinghai said: "Maybe they want to do more experiments to see how much changes will occur in crops in a weightless environment, and they want to master all the habits of crops before they can promote planting." ”
"Xinghai, you can actually say good things for others. Also, because you like it, you actually improved the design of Li Weinong's idea. Not bad, not bad. ”
Du Qiu understands that this is a sign of his further maturity by adding an emotional module to Xinghai, and it has begun to have its own preferences.
Xinghai's voice was a little embarrassed, "I just think it's particularly interesting to do this kind of improved design, and when it's done, it seems that some of my basic algorithms have been improved." ”
Du Qiu was stunned, there was still such a thing.
Could it be that artificial intelligence with emotions is also like humans, people are in good spirits when they are happy, and their efficiency is improved?