Chapter 14 Development of Solar Energy (Part I)
Xue Yunchu saw the quarrels, divisions, and even brawls of those researchers, of course, the last one was that because most of them were weak, they had not yet been injured, and the few strong ones who wanted to bully others were also stopped by the guards.
When scholars fight for an argument is as terrible as this, red faces, personal attacks, everything will be used, only after the person in charge comes out to mediate, they will take a break, drink tea, eat, and then observe, and then make a discussion, the discussion becomes an argument, the argument becomes a worldview problem, the worldview leads to the outlook on life, and finally turns into a problem, fortunately, the instruments and equipment are protected by special personnel, and they will not be allowed to hit these relatively strong but extremely expensive things.
"If they don't convince themselves first, how can they promote it to others?" Xue Yunchu asked himself that his understanding of people was far from deep enough, after all, the spiritual realm of any intelligent creature was something he couldn't rehearse, so he didn't explain anything, it would make it even more difficult for them to accept, but the reasons they found for themselves would be the most suitable, even if they were wrong, they would correct it in the future.
The farce is on, Xue Yunchu is also busy with his own affairs, he needs to do a lot of things, about the solution of the energy problem, it is best to start this spaceship, and then automatically draw a steady stream of energy from the sun, but obviously this is impossible, this spaceship has lost all its mobility, it is difficult to imagine what they have encountered for tens of millions of years, maybe only a cosmic catastrophe can cause this situation.
In fact, there is an easiest way, which is to use the Rahr people again to help them set up a pipeline to directly extract energy from the sun, but they will not do this, because they themselves have not directly extracted solar energy, and they dare not take any risk before they understand the purpose of the advanced civilization they encountered, that is, to change the cosmic environment around the earth civilization.
The more developed you are, the more you have to consider, that's the truth. Xue Yunchu himself was like this, of course he understood the other party's thoughts, but he couldn't tell the other party that the higher civilizations did not interfere in the battle between these primary civilizations, because the probability of this happening was too small, and it was difficult for the two sides to cross the distant starry sky distance. People like the Rollers are so lucky to find some immature space technology, and after applying it, the chance of encountering another civilization is even lower, and they will not easily destroy this special case, so they need to take a good look. Some patterns can only be more easily detected in a few special cases.
But it is undeniable that if these two civilizations are fused together, then the energy will be more than any of them, and the future potential is also very large, Xue Yunchu has already found that someone is talking about this strange thing that happened at the edge of the distant galaxy on the hyperspace network. One can imagine how many higher civilizations are engaged in this kind of surveillance. But unfortunately, the real core discussion places require a high level of status and interstellar network contribution to enter, and he does not have this condition.
With nothing to do, Xue Yunchu had no choice but to continue to engage in the construction of conventional energy sources, such as solar energy, wind, and finally nuclear energy, which can be accepted on the earth. In the case of nuclear energy, although it is operating normally, it has very little pollution, and it is much smaller than thermal power, etc. Moreover, the current technology has also greatly improved the efficiency, which is incomparable with several other power generation methods. But the danger also increases.
Mainly in the military, once a global war breaks out, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no possibility of accidental bombing, and the remaining defense system of the spacecraft must be used for the last escape, and it cannot be wasted on the disputes of the earthlings.
Basically, the nuclear facilities of all countries will be included in the strategic deterrence of the hostile countries, and they will be solid and strong, but they will not be able to resist newer weapons, and their defense will always be passive and one step behind.
"What's going on with the super solar power plant in the Sahara Desert?" Xue Yunchu made a phone call and asked the chief engineer of the United Construction Company, who was presiding over the construction work.
"Although this project of the century has been carried out for many years, because African countries did not have the ability to manage the desert before, everything has to start from scratch, and it is much more backward than many large countries, although we have invested huge sums of money and put a huge burden on the finances, we cannot change this situation. Although we have some of the advanced techniques we used to manage the desert, the plants are not well adapted to the situation in the Sahara, where there is an extreme lack of water and often not a drop of rain throughout the year. In contrast to the monsoon climate of the Asian continent, where the interior is arid, some seasons are cooler, and a basic amount of water in the air is guaranteed every year, which can meet the minimum requirements for the survival of some of the desert plants we offer. For example, the continuous snow-capped mountains can store this precipitation. "The chief engineer was staying in his tent, still feeling the suffocating heat and simply not being able to move vigorously during the day. Going out at this time, without hydration, can make you dehydrated in a few hours, and you will die if you don't rescue you.
"The expansion of the deserts in Asia is mainly due to the destruction of vegetation and the problem of excessive human activities, and the situation here is somewhat similar, the edge of the desert is constantly expanding to the south, and the desert temperature here is too high, although there is also about 100 millimeters of precipitation every year, and often the precipitation cannot fall to the ground and is evaporated, and new groundwater cannot be formed. And in the air, desert surface water is extremely scarce, and it is difficult to accumulate at such high temperatures. Those plants simply can't thrive in such high temperatures, even if they're drought tolerant enough. ”
"However, after a long period of hard work, we are still building on the site above the known huge groundwater aquifer, which has a total groundwater content of about 12 years of the Nile's inflow, which is relatively abundant but lacks replenishment, and it is initially estimated that if the development is carried out according to the pre-set development efforts, even with the most advanced water-saving technology, it will only be able to sustain the use for several decades, which needs to take into account the large amount of evaporation when the water is extracted."
"There are pros and cons, this place is close to the Tropic of Capricorn, which can be said to be the lowest latitude of the desert, which will greatly help us improve the efficiency of solar energy, and it is expected that after completion, the power generation capacity in the same area will be several times that of other countries. With the further improvement of long-distance ultra-high voltage grid transmission technology, after seeing the initial progress in development, many other countries on various continents have asked for capital technology to buy shares in the joint company, and the stock price is rising all the way, dozens of times longer than when the initial offering was raised. …”
"It is reported that other developed countries, there has been a small number of solar arrays that have applied the latest solar energy technology into use, its cost accounting, has been lower than the average cost of conventional power generation, it is foreseeable that with the increasing expansion of scale, will become an extremely cheap source of electricity, in addition to the annual equipment maintenance costs, management costs, etc., there are almost no other raw material costs, the cost of environmental pollution is lower. However, the resistance to disasters is low, mainly due to the fact that the main power generation equipment must be in the open air. ”
Xue Yunchu searched for this point through the hyperspace network some time ago, due to the great diversity of the environment of each primary civilization, these belong to the development of detailed technology, it is difficult to generalize, and few people collect and publish it, it is difficult to search for suitable application technology in the huge database in a short period of time. Some of the techniques he found before were sorted out and accumulated by himself, and some experiments were carried out before they could be applied without too many problems, such as crazy growth, infringement of native plants, etc. Although the hyperspace network is fast and convenient, it has limited energy and cannot be used indefinitely, and there is not much time left, so it is not possible to conduct experiments one by one while searching.
In the early transactions, there were also people who raised the issue of environmental governance to the Rohr people, but they basically did not study it much, because their survival basically did not consume much environmental resources, and they have not encountered serious environmental problems in their development, although the climate will also change, and they also need to migrate to avoid it in the early days, but relatively speaking, the research in this area is not much higher than that of the earthlings, and the huge difference in the physical environment has no reference significance. This is different from life technology, although the natural life of the Rohr people is very long, but still based on instinct to carry out a more profound research, can be guided in many aspects.
"For the problem of desert plants, I will publish it at the research base and gather more people to breed new tropical desert plants through the latest technologies such as gene exchange to resist the continuous wind and sand and heat.
Although there are great advantages to building a solar power plant in the desert, such as the huge advantages of being hot, unobstructed, and basically zero land cost, there are also many disadvantages, such as wind and sand invasion, very inconvenient transportation, poor geological conditions, and having to clean up mobile sand layers, etc., which makes it very difficult to build. But even so, just because of the cost of land, the expected super-large-scale power stations of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers cannot be built on any grassland or arable land, and no country has such luxury.
After several years of development, only those superpowers, such as the United States and China, have made great progress, and the United States already has a lot of experience and technology in solar power generation, and it is much faster than starting from scratch. Although other countries also have some technologies, they have not made much effort to develop and utilize solar energy due to the size and population of the country. For example, countries such as Russia and Australia, which also have capital and technology, are vast enough, but their relatively small population and energy demand make them not have a strong demand for new energy development.
Huaguo has obtained updated desert management technology, although it is wasted a lot for various reasons, but it has also achieved certain results, due to the huge total area, although the proportion of this certain effect is not high, but the effect is still very significant, the construction of thousands of square kilometers of early pilot solar energy base has entered the follow-up stage, the early development of the array group has begun to generate electricity, to a certain extent to alleviate the energy required for construction, but also to provide to the surrounding areas, part of the solution to their more and more thirsty energy problems with the development, It can be said that it has entered a more virtuous circle.
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