Natural Disaster Strikes: From Joining the Rescue Team

Chapter 993, Hydroelectric Power Proposal
Yue Feng, who followed Ye Lin to hear the introduction of the "Universal Underground City", did not initially consider hydropower generation because he had first-hand underground data.

When the Queen's team saw with their own eyes that Gu Sheng was building an underground city area to collect supplies, the underground city area was actually not very deep and could only be considered the lower level of the basement.

However, the hardness of the ice on the ground and the absence of water seepage and landslides in the project still left a deep impression on Yue Feng.

The president has a daily report, which is called a daily report for short. In addition, there are weekly reports, monthly reports, etc., so that Yue Feng can understand the company's situation in a timely manner without having to return to the company's meeting room.

The commander-in-chief in charge of the underground project was named Kang Jianguo. When the Life Eternal Investment Company arranged his underground project and the ground base to be carried out simultaneously, he wrote an email to the president's mailbox every day to complain.

The importance of underground projects is no less than that of ground domes, and may even be equal.

After reading the first few emails, Yue Feng gave Kang Jianguo his private email address in order to facilitate future contact with Kang Jianguo.

The president also participates in rescue operations every day and has to attend a series of company and base meetings. If he wants to know the progress of underground projects at the first time, it is not enough to rely solely on the communicator.

Yue Feng makes too many calls every day and too little time to sit down and listen. The same is true for Kang Jianguo, the commander-in-chief.

Sometimes you can only finish one sentence due to time constraints, but using email can expand the data and make a long speech, thereby gaining more support from the other party.

This support is not just one-sided support from employees. Sometimes the boss also needs the understanding of the employees so that the boss's instructions can be fully completed.

Kang Jianguo confided in his earliest email: "The ground is too hard and the soil contains ice and snow. It seems that the difficulty of construction now is only due to the hardness. In fact, according to the president's requirements, the underground project must ensure that the original position remains unchanged after the ice and snow melt, or change as little as possible. This is too difficult."

The ground was covered with ice and snow, and the soil was also covered with ice and snow. This kind of soil had an official name before the snowstorm: permafrost.

It is not difficult to start construction under such conditions of hardness due to ice and snow. On the contrary, there are benefits. The surrounding harder land will only provide more load-bearing capacity for the underground project. In such geological conditions, even if the company requires to build a thousand underground floors, the actual load-bearing capacity can be borne by the surrounding land. Kang Jianguo does not need to do more load-bearing calculations, nor does he need to design additional load-bearing-related supports.

However, the president’s requirements are far from being as simple as building a hundred or a thousand underground floors until it is large enough for people to live in. His ultimate goal is that one day the ground dome will no longer protect everyone, and the underground project will become the living space for survivors around the world.

"By that time, our company will continue to open its doors to accept all survivors from around the world, and they may live in the underground project for one, ten, one hundred or even more generations."

Then Kang Jianguo will face a huge problem.

When building an underground base in permafrost, it is also necessary to ensure that the base will not shift horizontally or fall as the soil becomes softer after the permafrost thaws.

If the relocation is unavoidable, then no key facilities in the underground base can be damaged during the move, and it must not affect everyone living in it.

People who live in places where it snows in the winter might want to think back.

If you leave a handful of frozen soil in a room that is as warm as spring, it may become loose after thawing, or it may become very soft.

The softness is caused by the ice water that is almost melted into the soil during the thawing process. If it is too soft, the soil will only fall apart.

There is another situation. After it disperses, it will form several small pieces of compaction that are competing with each other. That is, the small pieces seem to be firmly held together, but they are broken into pieces with other small pieces and will never interact with each other.

Thawing and frost heaving are characteristics of permafrost.

No matter which of the above situations is true, there is no guarantee that the external environment of the underground project built in the permafrost will not fall down after the planet rejuvenates.

If the timing could be controlled so that the surface of this planet could warm up completely before falling down, it would be much simpler. We just need to send everyone back to the ground to live in time.

However, the computer has calculated many times and there is only one result. The current snowfall will dominate the environment after the surface warms up. By then, the ground will be covered with water. If human society wants to return to live on the ground, it will still have to temporarily live underground.

In fact, there is a poem that goes, "The ducks know first when the river water warms in spring." Before human society has fully felt that the ground has warmed up enough to be habitable, the ice and snow on the ground know it first.

By the time humans realized that the temperature was warming, a large number of large and small ice cubes and the ice water mixed in them from the melted snow had already forcibly occupied the surface of the planet.

There must be a process of living underground, and waiting until the water recedes and the surface reappears is the best time for the survivors to return.

Yue Feng held frequent meetings with the company for this purpose. Many of them were very brainstorming. Some of them discussed efforts to develop submersible life boats, and some discussed whether the dome could be transformed into an underwater protective cover at critical moments. Finally, they decided to build an underground project that could divert flood water first.

For such a large project, the only way to describe it is to “do one first”.

Snow and wind suddenly hit the planet, and Yue Feng was able to convince the company to build a ground base and be willing to accept survivors from all over the world. This showed how much wisdom he had used.

They currently have no better idea as to how to control the surface of the planet after the snowstorm stops.

The only thing we can do is “build an underground project first” and then wait for the wisdom of future generations, or for a better plan that may come out tomorrow or the year after tomorrow.

Just like except for Yue Feng himself and those staunch supporters who thought that following Yue Feng would lead to a future, the rest of the people did not think that the ground dome could be built. Every day they scolded Yue Feng for wasting countless steel and irresponsibly consuming everyone's property.

But Yue Feng had Ye Lin's words as a guiding light, and he would never waver.

The result was that he waited for Dr. Li Qi, and the ground dome stood firmly in mid-air.

Therefore, under the current conditions, we should "do one first" and "complete the project first". Maybe in the future, there will be other PhDs in architectural engineering specializing in this field, just like Dr. Li Qi.

First, we should build an underground project, which can ensure that the ground is completely used for living, and the maximum capacity can accommodate the survivors of the world. In addition, there must be a place for some important things, such as breeding and planting, and scientific research also requires large laboratories, which can all be carried out in the underground base.

Kang Jianguo, who lived abroad and made a name for himself in the architectural world, followed the officials to the base. Before he could even catch his breath, he encountered such a big task.

In the base establishment document that Ye Lin had heard, there were a few sentences of Kang Jianguo's original voice. He still appeared as the complaining protagonist, saying that the base only gave him 1 billion people, but the task he received was to ensure the underground project for 7 billion people to live in, and also to ensure the use requirements of the scientific research rooms.

Kang Jianguo was not scared and did not dare to take over. Besides the fact that he and his family were already inside the base and the underground project would be his family's future living place, he was a tenacious person with a spirit of never giving up.

The most difficulties were encountered in the early stages of construction, including personnel deployment, material availability, technical strength, etc. This period was also when Kang Jianguo frequently contacted the president. At most, there were more than 30 emails a day, an average of more than one email per hour.

Yue Feng was still in the process of revenge at that time. After the revenge, he went out of the city with Ye Lin and the team to rescue. However, he never delayed the work of the company and the base, always responded positively, and cooperated with Kang Jianguo's requirements. However, in all the exchanges of exhausting all efforts to build the ground dome and the underground base, hydropower generation did not exist. Under the circumstances at that time, there was no way to consider hydropower generation.

Hydroelectric power generation first requires a difference in water levels to generate powerful potential energy. The powerful potential energy then drives the turbine, which in turn drives the generator, thus completing the process of converting potential energy into electricity.

There are more than seven billion people in the base. In order to meet the electricity demand, the large-scale power plants built must be group-based.

At this point, let’s not talk about where the space will be freed up. The underground rivers close to the surface have been frozen into the land, so where will the flowing water come out?
Besides, when you look up, you can hear the whistling wind, and the momentum of the raging sea is like an oil pan that has exploded in the universe. Wind power generation is already available and can be used after the equipment is installed.

Who would have a grudge against the electricity that is right in front of them?

Instead of wasting manpower and material resources and long waiting time, we just decided to build hydroelectric power plants.

The base is still under construction, and the living quarters, working places, and breeding and planting areas have not yet been completed. No one would think of proposing hydroelectric power generation, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive and may not be enough for everyone's use.

If the top leaders are so obsessed with the idea of ​​only pursuing hydroelectric power, they should first use wind power to warm an area, and then build large-scale power plants... This proposal will obviously be rejected by others as an ice sculpture.

Even if someone had thought of it and proposed it at the time, the result would have been the same.

Therefore, before Yue Feng heard the term "universal underground city", hydroelectric power generation was an impossible suggestion. It is an all-round blind spot in thinking and will be automatically blocked by conventional cognition.

Then Ye Lin brought surprises to Yue Feng one by one. "Universal Dungeon" appeared in the ears of the Queen team. Yue Feng's first thought was: Doesn't this city need electricity?
The president has been threatening the intelligent computer to behave itself by threatening to blow up the power supply channel?

At this point, Yue Feng's mind was as clear as a mirror. He had been tricked by the intelligent computer. This electronic thing had no shortage of electricity at all.

It owns a city. The Queen team once encountered a talkative person with the universal channel car whose number was 33377, and the largest number they encountered on the universal platform was 2999999.

Before encountering 2999999, the number you encountered was 1999999.

It has a paragraph introducing the data that reads: ".Universal Underground Passage Platform 1999999, also known as the Million Human Transit Station, this platform can accommodate up to one million humans and can provide nutritional supplements for one million humans for only three days."

The CEO suddenly realized that with such a large amount of data, the intelligent brain has a deep foundation and does not need to worry about the threat from him.

Another answer also surfaced: what the intelligent computer cares about is only the "all-round girl".

Yue Feng, who was inevitably a little angry, thought about it himself while asking Shan to analyze the data. Finally, they both came to the conclusion that the intelligent computer should be using hydropower.

Nowadays, people living on the ground and in shelters and bases close to the surface have no shortage of wind and snow. However, the aliens underground do not have these two harsh benefits. The only thing the intelligent computer can use is the water in the abyss.

Following this line of thought, if an underground city can be built, then building enough power plants will be no problem for the intelligent computer. It has been operating for more than a thousand years.

Then it came to my mind that if there was electricity underground, the water in the underground river could remain smooth. The existing underground river was the most convenient water level potential energy. If it was not enough, it would not be a big deal to dig it out myself.

About a thousand years is enough time for the intelligent computer to complete the endless water level power generation facilities.

At this point Yue Feng was no longer angry, he suddenly realized that he could also use it. The board of directors agreed to his underground supply point plan, so each supply point could dig as much as they wanted in their own area.

Digging horizontally in the front, back, left and right directions, we found supplies from the city and survivors.

If you dig deeper, you will definitely see an underground river, or you can dig an underground river yourself that can generate electricity.

In order to facilitate reading and convince the board of directors as soon as possible, Shan specially made simple and beautiful animations, which are the ones he showed to Ye Lin today.

The snow was flying all over the ground, freezing everything.

A group of hardworking little people walked out from some rooms under the ice and snow.

They took the elevator to the dark underground construction site. The lights came on, and the ground, walls, and construction machinery were scattered here.

They worked diligently, and before long they discovered a passage filled with ice and snow while digging. The robot was called in to clear the passage, and finally it went deep into the passage and sent back complete data, revealing that this was part of an underground river that circulated endlessly, leading to the ground.

The shape in this current area is an irregular "U", with the upper section that completes the loop on the ground beneath the snow.

This "U"-shaped channel also radiates in all directions, connecting to several other underground river channels.

Then the above paragraph is unnecessary.

Punch a horizontal channel directly through the middle of the U to form the lower half of the open "θ" shape.

The workers widened the closed lower half of the channel and reinforced some of the waterways that were not strong enough to withstand the erosion of artificial water flow. The pumps, turbines and generators were installed, and everything was ready for artificial water injection, and a steady supply of electricity was provided.

This is one way to generate electricity, and the other is right next door.

After the first power generation water level appeared, electricity was first supplied to warm the surrounding areas. Gradually, the underground river not far away began to flow slowly at first, and then after the thaw was completed, the entire river began to flow.

This section of underground river is a completely underground circulation type, so as long as the environment warms up, it is only a matter of time before the water circulation is restored.

Of course, the installation of power generation and related equipment must be completed before the water circulation is fully restored. The river inspection and reinforcement can also be done when the waterway is still covered with ice and snow, just dig some small channels and let the robots go in to complete it.

In this way, as long as the water circulation is restored, water level potential energy can appear and hydroelectric power can be generated.

A steady supply of electricity was supplied, and the voltage was increased by transformers, and the power was still supplied nearby, but this time the power was supplied to the hollowed-out underground mineral veins.

See you tomorrow.