Chapter 325: Energy Crisis
NASA headquarters.
"Back, back!" In front of a row of complex instruments, a middle-aged man with glasses and NASA overalls shouted.
"Great!" Several staff members next to him immediately gathered around and carefully watched the signal curve on the display screen in front of them.
"Hurry up, take notes, and do a good job of translating at the same time!" At this time, Jackson, the person in charge of the observation hall, said.
Several people work together and cooperate very tacitly. Soon, the signal was translated, and the original signal was saved synchronously and backed up.
"I'm glad that you were able to reach out to us and start the black box agreement. We will send a representative soon to wait. When the signal was translated, Jackson was excited.
NASA headquarters has been monitoring signals from all over space for decades, and Jackson has been in that position for more than two decades. In the past, some chaotic signals were received, and occasionally there were some regular signals, but they were seriously damaged, and the signals had long been damaged in the process of transmission in space, and they had lost their research value. However, this signal just now is extremely clear, and the content is also very clear, which is obviously the signal feedback sent by the United States to the constellation Sirius not long ago.
Some people rejoice and some people worry. Jackson was excited, but there were people at NASA headquarters who were worried, and Rip was one of them. Rip has long been engaged in space signal detection at NASA, and Rip has long understood that the Earth is not the only planet with life in this universe, and many regular signals from various directions and coordinates are already very revealing. However, from these signals, Rip can feel the malice from some constellations, and can imagine that the civilization of these constellations has already surpassed the civilization of the earth.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Is the government of the United States luring the wolf into the house? Rip had a deep concern in his heart.
Since Dahua gave the United States government a blow in the face of ultra-micro robots some time ago, the United States government can no longer be calm, and finally sent a signal to the direction of the Sirius constellation in the depths of the universe and activated the black box protocol. Now that the Black Box Protocol has received a response from Sirius, it seems that it will soon be sending a spaceship over to Earth, and Rip has deep worries about what kind of variables the Earth will usher in at that time.
However, this is a decision made by the government of the United States, and Rip cannot influence it. All he could do was pray fervently.
At the same time, a hidden place in Dahua, the Dahua government's space signal detection center also received this mysterious signal. In addition to Dahua, many countries and folk enthusiasts in various parts of the world have received this regular mysterious signal from the depths of the universe.
However, there is no way to decipher it, and although these people have received this signal, no country or institution or individual enthusiast has deciphered this signal except for NASA headquarters in the United States.
After receiving the report from NASA, President George couldn't help but be excited. The long-awaited moment is coming, when the country will re-establish itself on the top of the world, and the overlord of the earth is still the country of the United States! And he, as the president of the world hegemon, will remain the most powerful man on this planet, without one.
At the 303 base not far from Dahua Shanhai, the R&D team led by Xiangxiang is working day and night. Ma Fan brought a key maintenance manual some time ago, which gave great inspiration to the experts at Base 303. They quickly figured out how pipi mi made and were working equipment to make pi mi.
Xiangxiang preliminarily estimated that in another half a year, the 303 base would be able to produce the first batch of Pimi robots.
And during this time, the United States is obviously much more honest, at least in the military aspect, it has kept a low profile.
However, the US government has tightened its control over countries around the world in other areas. For the most critical strategic resource---- oil, the United States has strengthened its control and issued a dead order to several major oil exporting countries in the world not to export a drop of oil to Asia.
As the former world hegemon, the United States controlled all the oil-producing countries in overseas regions through war ten years ago. Therefore, 80% of the world's oil is now under the control of the United States.
Although Dahua and the fighting countries also have a small part of oil resources, they are obviously far from meeting the demand.
At this time, Dahua's new energy utilization and research are still in the initial stage, far from replacing the traditional energy status of oil, so the United States government pinched Dahua's neck very accurately.
For a time, Dahua was in a hurry to generate energy.
"Hey, there's a power outage again!" Shanhai City, the originally brightly lit city, was dim for a while, and only some sparse lights were left alone.
In order to cope with the energy crisis, the Shanhai municipal government had no choice but to take measures to restrict electricity consumption, and began to stop civilian electricity after 9 o'clock in the evening, retaining only the electricity needs of a few institutions such as hospitals, transportation, and fire protection.
And the same scene is played out from time to time in various parts of Dahua. On the streets, there are more than half fewer vehicles. Because all gas stations have announced that there is a shortage of oil, and occasionally some oil can be transported, but it has already been filled up by the long queue of vehicles, and the vehicles that rushed to the back after hearing the news can only sigh with hope.
In Ephelia's quarters, Marfan was lying on the bed, enjoying Ephelia's warmth.
Ephelia was in Shanhai City during this time. Ma Fan will come to her and enjoy a night of warmth with her.
"My dear, now Dahua's energy has become a big problem, and George of the United States can no longer listen to our Ross family, do we need to take action?" Ephelia is obviously very considerate of Ma Fan, a big Chinese.
"No, I don't. This is a contest of interests between countries, and now the Ross family had better not get mixed up. Marfan rebuffed Ephelia's offer. Marfan has many solutions to the energy crisis, but they will take time.
At present, the earth science and technology is still very backward in the use of nuclear energy, but these nuclear energy technology can not be solved in a short period of time, a slightly more reliable way is to use the existing nuclear energy technology, the existing nuclear energy is fully converted into electricity, and to achieve fast wireless power transmission.
This technology has been eliminated in the Haotian Continent for thousands of years, but it is very suitable for the needs of the earth now, especially in the face of the oil blockade of the United States.
As for the technology of wireless power transmission, there is already a ready-made information in the information that Ma Fan handed over to Xiangxiang.
"What! Is wireless power transmission really possible? "The 303 base, not only Xiangxiang, but also a group of scientists were dumbfounded.
At present, the power supply of the 303 base has not been affected in any way, after all, this is the project base guaranteed by the Dahua central government on a priority basis, and there will never be a problem with the energy supply.
"That's right, I'll leave this matter to you, and as for the contact with the Dahua government, I'll find someone else." Ma Fan said to Xiangxiang on the phone.
Ma Fan then sent Diao Wu as a representative to the imperial capital to negotiate with the Dahua government. Diao Wu has performed well during this time, and under the recommendation of Zhao Tongtong, he was quickly recognized by Ma Fan. Ma Fan began to reuse Diao Wu, so the responsibility of going to the imperial capital to negotiate this time was handed over to Diao Wu.
The Dahua government attached great importance to Ma Fan's proposal, and immediately set up an expert group to start detailed discussions with Diao Wu, who came to the imperial capital.
Soon, the two sides hit it off. Ma Fan provided the technology, and Dahua provided all the rest of the funds, manpower, space and equipment, and took the lead in establishing a wireless power transmission demonstration project in the country.
The revenue of wireless transmission is divided by the Dahua government and Ma Fan, and the Dahua government is divided into 40%, and Ma Fan gets 60% of the revenue.
In fact, Ma Fan does not necessarily have this sixty percent income, but now Ma Fan's material foundation is still too poor, and he needs more funds to realize his next plan, so he has to make this request to Dahua. Who knew that Dahua actually agreed to Ma Fan's request, on the condition that Ma Fan and his 303 base should ensure that any new scientific research results in the future must be guaranteed that the Dahua government has the right of first refusal.
Ma Fan naturally did not refuse Dahua's request. After all, the purpose of his vigorous development of science and technology is to be able to improve the backward level of science and technology of the earth as soon as possible, so that the earth can have the power to protect itself in response to the impending crisis.
Therefore, after the agreement was reached, the Dahua government immediately sent a total of 12 experts from the Academy of Sciences to Zhengchuan City, Central Plains Province, ------ the project site selected by both sides to start the project inspection.
And Xiangxiang, as a representative of Ma Fan, also arrived in Zhengchuan City with two experts from the 303 base.
"Old Han, it turned out to be you!" Dr. Yuan, the chief expert of the Academy of Sciences, was very excited when he saw the experts brought by Xiangxiang, one of whom turned out to be his classmate friend Lao Han.
"Old Yuan, let's meet again! It's been decades, we have only heard its voice and never seen it, and I can't imagine that you are now the chief expert of the Academy of Sciences, which is really impressive! Lao Han is an expert recruited by Xiangxiang from a private scientific research institution with a high salary, and is an authoritative expert in Dahua's research in the field of new energy, while Dr. Yuan is an authoritative expert in nuclear power conversion.
"This time, we can be regarded as a blessing of Xiangxiang, and when we are old, we will have the opportunity to see the day when the times are rewritten!" Lao Han naturally admires Xiangxiang very much.
And Dr. Yuan seemed to be a little ignorant of the little girl in front of him, but out of politeness, he still coped with it politely.
Xiangxiang was not surprised, she knew that these scholars and experts had their own arrogance, and she didn't care.
It wasn't until Xiangxiang concisely described the theory of wireless power transmission technology that Ma Fan gave her, and the dozen or so experts present were impressed by Xiangxiang. At this time, Dr. Yuan finally reacted that this little girl is now the host of the 303 base, and is presiding over the scientific research work of the world's leading Dahua microrobot. You know, this miniature robot foiled the plot of the Mi country to conquer the world not long ago!
As a result, Dr. Yuan and the other dozen or so experts from the Academy of Sciences finally became humble in front of Xiangxiang, and they were no longer as arrogant as they were at the beginning.
Xiang Xiang was recognized by these people and immediately began to work on the new project.
Zhengchuan City, home to Dahua's largest nuclear power plant, is an ideal place to conduct wireless transmission experiments after nuclear energy and electrical energy conversion.