Chapter 427: The Vanishing Desert
Zhou Yu has returned to Earth from the moon for a week, and Xinghuo Technology is now developing steadily, and there is nothing for him to worry about at all.
The children's education is mainly responsible for his wife Chen Jin, and Zhou Yu usually teaches them the principles of life when he is entertaining the children.
Zhou Yu received a message from the front desk customer service that Mr. Jiang Zhongyun Jiang was on his way to his office.
He was a little surprised, usually he invited Jiang Zhongyun to come to Xinghuo Technology, Jiang Zhongyun rarely took the initiative to come to Xinghuo Technology.
Especially during this time, there were no major events, and large spaceships are now being built and are not being sold openly to the public.
The aerospace industry is very stable, and there is no possibility of major accidents.
In addition to other industries of Changshou Optical Technology, Xinghuo Technology only stabilizes the stock, and some low-end businesses are gradually withdrawn, only retaining high-end technology.
When Zhou Yu was puzzled, Jiang Zhongyun pushed the door and walked in with a smile on his face.
"It's amazing, it's amazing, we can now officially declare that there will be no more deserts on Earth," he said excitedly.
When Zhou Yu heard Jiang Zhongyun say this, he remembered that when the space plant was announced, someone posted on the Internet suggesting that Xinghuo Technology should research plants that solve environmental problems such as desertification on the earth.
He didn't know about the situation related to the desert before, but when he learned about the desert situation through Xianghua, Zhou Yu immediately gave an order to the scientific research center to develop a technology to solve the desert problem.
This technology is not important to Xinghuo Technology at all, and Zhou Yu only proposed research goals and allocated funds, and then stopped paying attention to the progress of the project.
Now seeing the arrival of Jiang Zhongyun, this technology has been a great success.
Zhou Yu is also very happy in his heart, the desert and semi-arid areas on the earth, which occupy more than 20% of the total land area of the earth.
If the desert area is completely greened, the effect he can release is stronger than the effect of fully developing the moon.
The main role of the moon is to serve as a forward base for space development, which is suitable for human reproduction, and it is really not as good as a transformed desert.
Jiang Zhongyun said excitedly: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that your Xinghuo Technology's technology could make the impossible possible."
He was very emotional in his heart, because he knew that this technical difficulty was too high, and the problem of desertification was a headache for any country in the world, and it was easy to solve it, and they would have solved it long ago.
The world's land area is 162 million square kilometers, accounting for 30.3% of the total area of the earth, of which about 33.5%, or about 48 million square kilometers, are arid and semi-arid desert areas.
It is expanding at a rate of 60,000 square kilometers per year.
Deserts already cover more than 20 per cent of the total land area, and 43 per cent of the land is under threat of desertification.
Desert areas have a dry climate with scarce rainfall, with annual precipitation below 250 mm, and some desert areas receive less than 10 mm of annual precipitation.
Even by chance there are sudden heavy rains, and the evaporation in the desert area is very large, far exceeding the local precipitation.
The humidity of the air is low, and the humidity can be as low as 5% compared to the normal year.
Desert climate changes considerably, with average annual temperature differences of more than 30 degrees Celsius. The difference in absolute temperature is more often above 50 degrees.
The daily temperature difference is extremely significant, with near-surface temperatures reaching 60 to 80 degrees Celsius at noon in summer and autumn, and dropping below 10 degrees Celsius at night.
Desert areas often have clear skies, cloudless skies, and strong winds, with maximum winds reaching hurricane proportions.
The Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert in China, has the typical conditions of these deserts.
The desert receives less than 10 mm of precipitation a year, and the only bit of groundwater is sustained by the flow of snowmelt from the mountains.
The temperature difference in Turpan is even more famous.
This ecological environment of the desert is not conducive to the growth of plants at all.
The current desert greening operations are all on the edge of the desert, near areas with dense human activities.
These areas have abundant water sources and can provide sufficient water for plantations.
Like Ulan Bu and the desert, the Yellow River flows through it, and its tributaries carry abundant water.
In the past, when the desert was transformed, this kind of easy-to-transform desert was chosen.
The Sahara Desert and the Taklamakan Desert are really dry deserts, and people simply can't green them.
Now there has been a major change, and even this very dry desert can be transformed by the technology of Spark Technology.
Zhou Yu saw that Jiang Zhongyun's expression was not fake at all, and his shock was second only to hearing about the longevity light technique.
"With the development of technology, we can now solve problems that were previously unsolvable." Zhou Yu said confidently.
At the same time, he asked Xianghua to project the transformation of the desert, and he is now also curious about what kind of technology the scientists of Xinghuo Technology use to solve the desert problem.
Zhou Yu showed an indifferent smile and said to Jiang Zhongyun: "Let's look at the scientists' solution to the desert problem again.
What I am providing here is an internal material, which is more detailed, so that you can clearly understand the overall solution of the scientists. ”
Wang Xiaoxiao, whose hair has become somewhat bald, appears in the video.
They are planting a low shrub every 100 meters on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert.
Concrete cisterns are installed around the perimeter of the shrubs, which provide an abundant source of water through an automatic irrigation system with water balance.
The edge of the desert is close to people's gathering areas and has an abundant supply of running water.
Tap water from distant desalination plants is connected to these reservoirs.
Wang Xiaoxiao introduced in a flat tone: "Through gene editing technology, we independently designed a shrub water vine tree for desert transformation.
Strawberries can reproduce asexually, and the stems that grow out can take root far from the original plant.
Nutrients are transported by the mother plants until they are self-viable.
We took advantage of the characteristics of vegetatively propagated plants such as strawberries to develop the water vine tree.
It is a shrub that can reproduce asexually through sticking out of the stem.
Connected by stems and vines, as long as they are separated from the same mother plant, they can transport nutrients such as water to each other.
As long as one water vine tree takes root in a place where water is abundant, tens of thousands of water vine trees can share the corresponding water source through vegetative reproduction.
The water vine tree can absorb water as much as a high-powered pumping machine, providing abundant water for other plants.
Any water vine tree that finds a place with abundant water can reincarnate into a mother plant and reproduce a colony again. ”
After Wang Xiaoxiao introduced the information of the water vine tree, this video began to use time-lapse photography to show the process of the water vine tree covering the entire desert.
At first, the water vine grows very slowly, and it slowly stretches out into the desert through the stems, taking root in the right place.
With a mother plant to provide it with nutrients, the plant will not die even if it takes more than ten days to take root.
When the water vine accumulates to a certain number, it acts like a carpet, quickly covering the desert and taking root in the desert, holding the sand dunes around it in place.
The emergence of the water vine tree directly changes the ecosystem in the desert, it can provide water and food for the animals in the desert, and the desert ecosystem has gradually become richer.
After Zhou Yu read it, he said with emotion: "The water vine tree is a good plant, it can completely solve the desert problem."
Jiang Zhongyun also agreed: "Other countries have also discovered the benefits of water vine trees, and are contacting our country to introduce this technology.
The country is also preparing to promote the water vine tree, and the ecological environment of the whole earth will be better, which will be beneficial to everyone. ”