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Space Plant Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary established by Gene Umbrella. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Roy Richardson, the company's CEO, came to meet Henry.

There is no doubt that growing plants in space is of great significance.

Astronauts cannot live in space without oxygen, food, and water. At present, almost all of these materials are sent into space by launching spacecraft, which is very expensive. Cultivating more plants in space can produce more oxygen. At the same time, you can cultivate vegetables to achieve self-sufficiency. You can even domesticate animals on the space station as a source of meat. These can not only reduce the cost of astronauts living in space, but with the development of technology, they may also be of great significance to human beings in the long-term life in space, and even the migration of alien planets.

Roy Richardson is tall and thin, with a high nose bridge, big eyes, and short hair. He is in his fifties and has a PhD in biology from the University of Cambridge.

Henry asked Willett to pour him a glass of water, and then began to inquire about the Space Plant Company.

"Okay, Your Majesty," Roy Richardson nodded respectfully and said, "As early as 1997, Gene Umbrella Company established a department specializing in space plants. In 2003, Gene Umbrella Company separated the department. The Space Plant Company was established. So far, the Space Plant Company has a total of 1,000 researchers, of whom about 20 need to work on the space station for a long time! Factors such as weightlessness, cleanliness, and cosmic rays in space will affect the survival and development of plants. , Aging and mutation have a unique impact. Breeding in space is a new challenge for us. In order to discover the difference between space breeding and earth breeding as soon as possible, we specially selected growth in the earliest research on space plants. Vegetables such as bean sprouts, greens, and radishes with a short cycle are brought to space for cultivation, and observe how various vegetables will affect their growth and disease resistance in the space environment. After years of hard work, Space Plant has achieved We have successfully cultivated 30 new crops with high quality, high yield and strong disease resistance in the space environment.

The food crops are: rice, corn, and wheat.

The economic crops include: oilseeds, peanuts, roses, lavender, sesame, tea, coffee, tobacco.

Fruits are: apples, pears, strawberries.

The medicinal materials are: ginseng, angelica, honeysuckle, mint.

The most vegetable crops are: bean sprouts, radishes, cabbage, celery, leeks, garlic, green onions, carrots, lotus vegetables, peppers, tomatoes, and coriander. "

"Oh, it sounds pretty good!" Henry was pleasantly surprised, unexpectedly there are so many products.

"Your Majesty Xie praises! However, space production conditions are harsh, and these crops cannot be mass-produced for the time being. At present, they can only provide services for astronauts and personnel engaged in space research on the space station!" Roy Richardson said.

"Technical difficulties will one day break through, and human wisdom is infinite!" Henry said, "The Williams Empire decided to vigorously develop space undertakings. Space food is the guarantee basis for survival, which is especially important! I will allocate it to space. The plant company’s US$25 billion research funding, from now on, the space plant company must increase its research and development efforts!"

"Yes!" Roy Richardson nodded heavily.

After Roy Richardson left, Henry thought alone.

The key factors that make space plants unable to mass produce are water and space. The space of the space station is not very big, and it is definitely not plausible to use it to cultivate plants. The spaceX space station is an inflatable space station, and the space area is much larger than other space stations, which is not bad in this regard. But transporting water to the space station is too costly. It costs tens of millions of dollars to launch a rocket, and transporting space plants to the earth also requires expensive expenses!

Therefore, if the big problem of transportation is solved, mass production of space plants will be possible. The most ideal solution is to build a space elevator to deliver water to the space station! The Williams Empire is near Antarctica, and Antarctica's freshwater reserves account for 72% of the world's freshwater resources. There is no doubt that Antarctica is the best place to fetch water! ! !

The establishment of a "space elevator" requires light and heavy materials. The scientific community agrees that graphene is the best material because it is both the thinnest material in the world and the strongest material in the world, and has the best fracture strength ratio. Steel is 200 times higher! It is a pity that graphene itself is difficult to manufacture. Using it to build space elevators is tantamount to a fantasy! However, this is possible for the Williams Empire.

Super materials companies have been ahead of the world in the field of graphene manufacturing for more than a decade. Henry had already used the previous China's graphene manufacturing technology in 2015 before 2000. Henry understands the importance of graphene very well, and in all research projects, it is definitely the most important thing! Therefore, the research and development of graphene is by no means outside the imagination. Perhaps, all the institutions or companies engaged in graphene research all over the world have not invested as much as super materials companies in their research and development funds.

Super Materials Corporation is absorbing the world’s best materials talents every year, and its annual R&D expenditure has exceeded 20 billion US dollars, and the funding is increasing year by year~www.readwn.com~ The more esoteric the research is, the more it involves There will only be more and more things, and naturally, more R&D funding and talent investment will be needed.

Henry's acquisition of graphite mines on a global scale is precisely planning for the future. How much graphene is needed to build a space elevator. What's more, Henry didn't just build a sky elevator. Some sky elevators are used for pipeline water transportation, some are used for freight, some are used for tourism, and some are used for military. Therefore, at least 4 sky elevators must be built.

For the time being, Henry is not planning to rush to build a space elevator, but to make technical reserves. When the Williams Empire establishes a base on the moon, the "Sky Elevator" project will be officially launched at that time. Sky elevators have been built on the moon and the earth, and the space station is used as an intermediate station to connect the moon and the earth. , Sky Elevator can play its greatest role. At that time, the manufacturing technology of graphene will definitely get a breakthrough.

At this moment, the lunar base plan is underway. The spaceX company is responsible for the manufacture of spacecraft, the alpha company is responsible for the manufacture of intelligent robots and space vehicles, and the space plant company is responsible for the manufacture of food.

spaceX will land on the moon next year, send 10 astronauts to the moon, and then establish a lunar base there.

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