Chapter 580 The New Generation
Venus Construction and air transformation are definitely the first major market, and the technical content of this market is relatively low. The second is the huge space visor - but this thing can be produced by a master company itself, and there is no space factory, and the production cost of ground factories is too high.
"The first and most critical step in the transformation of Venus is to compress the atmosphere below 50 kilometers and replace the air components inside. At least it must be done: even if the temperature is high, humans can breathe safely and freely." In the huge conference room, Long Xingwang was full of energy. The success of Venus' transformation allowed Long Xingwang to reach the peak of his life.
However, this meeting was a bit special. There were more than a dozen young men and women in line next to it. These people were led by Zhang Chengye, and the rest were the children of senior executives. The new generation of master companies has finally grown up, and the older generation has begun to gradually move their power out.
Zhong Yuanxing, who was already gray-haired, said tremblingly, "It's a prosperous, if you transform it like this, it would be a huge project. I calculated that Venus's atmosphere is now 130 kilometers thick, and Venus' diameter is about 12,600 kilometers. If the atmosphere is reduced to 50 kilometers thick, even if the volume fluctuations caused by atmospheric pressure changes are not calculated, it is an invisible project.
According to the plan, we need to drain almost all the atmosphere and replace it with an atmosphere similar to the earth. Then, after calculation, we need to compress 21801582,000 cubic kilometers of gas.
Considering the efficiency of the work, it can be calculated as about 22 billion cubic kilometers. This project is too huge.
As far as I know, the maximum compressor that technology can produce now is about 150,000 cubic meters of compression per hour. Of course, if we use it in Venus in a large amount, according to current technology, if our company provides materials, it can theoretically produce a compressor set of 500,000 cubic meters per hour. The cost of such a compressor set is estimated to be around 300 million yuan, and its weight may reach 400 tons.
500,000 cubic meters, equivalent to 0.05 cubic kilometers; the annual work can barely achieve a compression efficiency of 440 cubic kilometers.
Now there are only ten factories that can produce such compressors on Earth, and each factory has an average output of more than one unit per month. In a year, we can only obtain up to 150 such compressors. The annual compressed air volume is 66,000 cubic kilometers.
If all conditions reach an ideal state, it will take about 170,000 years to complete all the air compression work. Of course, this is calculated based on the existing industrial output. But even if the speed is increased by 1,000 times, it will take 170 years. However, it is impossible to increase the existing industrial system by 1,000 times. The economic and technological conditions on the earth are already saturated. Even if the space environment is added, it can only speed up by 30 times on the existing basis. Such speedup will leave irreparable trauma for the development of later society.
So, I suggest that in terms of compressing and releasing air, we cannot rely solely on compressors. We also need to find another efficient and cheap method. This method may require looking for chemists. Unfortunately, the atmospheric chemistry research department of the expert company is still in the future!”
It's still in the future. The old expert is also proud.
The detailed data list made Long Xingwang feel a little taken for granted. Now it seems that the compressor can only be said to be a relatively important auxiliary means.
"I remember there was such a method in the United States." The fourth son of Albert inherited his father's business and inherited the environmental research department of the expert company. In his early 30s, it was the peak of life. "Considering that the Venus atmosphere is mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide, this provides a good foundation for chemical sedimentation. We can sprinkle some simple compounds or minerals into the Venus atmosphere to make water, carbon dioxide and compounds form carbonates, and it is a high-temperature-resistant carbonate that is insoluble in water to ensure the normality of the Venus atmosphere and water.
In fact, the temperature of Venus is no more than 180 degrees, so basically we can sprinkle alkali metal ions into the atmosphere. For example, the more common calcium metal box metals are included. These two metals are made of modern metals. They are easy to extract and can be obtained by simply ionization. Also, magnesium can also be considered.
We can establish such bases on Venus, use sodium and calcium, recycle it, continuously absorb water and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and then heat the spot to re-extract the sodium and calcium. The separated carbon dioxide is compressed and stored; the water is directly discharged.
This plan is to detect the calcium and sodium content on Venus to see if it is worth developing resources. Otherwise, relying on all the inputs from alien planets will be too expensive."
"Mr. Albert, I want to mine minerals rich in sodium and calcium on the new planet. There is no need to think about it." Zhang Fengyu expressed his own point of view. As the grandson of Zhang Chen, an old scientist who was originally exploring the geological environment for expert companies on the moon, Zhang Fengyu is also an excellent geologist.
After a little pause, he continued: "The sodium on the earth is mainly sodium chloride and natural alkali; the calcium that is easy to develop is mainly calcium carbonate. However, in the environment on the earth, sodium chloride and natural alkali are mainly the long-term evaporation and accumulation of water flow. The distribution of calcium is very scattered, and accumulation also requires crust movement.
Now Venus has just experienced two rebirths, and the entire planet melts on both sides. These things are basically difficult to exist. However, magnesium is worth mining. However, exploring Venus, for the mineral salt minerals of sodium and calcium, I personally recommend that you not have too much hope. These will only be produced by the deposition of time and the movement of the Earth's crust will stabilize."
"I remember there is a degradable biogel that can also absorb water and carbon dioxide on a large scale. Also, some high-temperature resistant cyanobacteria can absorb carbon dioxide in large quantities." Biologist Tang Yunfu stood up, "We often ignore the power of life. In fact, when discussing science, we must remember that the reason for the current earth is that cyanobacteria has been reproduced on a large scale on our earth. They absorbed carbon dioxide, sulfides, etc. from the early Earth. It once made the oxygen content of the earth's former atmosphere as high as more than 35%.
Today, on Earth, craters and oceans with a depth of 1,000 meters, there are still many lifes that can reproduce at high temperatures of more than 200 degrees. There are high-temperature-resistant cyanobacteria. We may be able to directly place the cyanobacteria here. The environment of Venus is extremely suitable for the survival of cyanobacteria. Maybe it won’t take long to make the bare Venus turn into a huge green oxygen.
However, the growth of cyanobacteria requires a lot of sunlight dependence, and may require space visor adjustment.
With cyanobacteria, we don’t have to inject oxygen to carry it out, just inject nitrogen and rare gases. Even cyanobacteria can be used as food for some advanced life. When the temperature of Venus drops to 40 degrees, we can directly put the suitable lives on the earth on Venus."
The new generation is very active, and everyone is rushing to show off. Next to it, Zhang Chengye and others are very calm and are investigating these authors who are about to become their own subordinates.
Chapter completed!