Chapter 234 Farm
After issuing various orders.
Seka and Fan Yunfeng, the head of the logistics team of this secret base, went to check the storage and production situation of the base.
The construction work of this base has been ongoing. After nearly two years of expansion, it has become fully equipped and well connected.
In this base, there are two places in the core area.
At this time, Seka and Fan Yunfeng were inspecting one of the core areas.
This is an area of 5,000 square meters, divided into four floors, which are equipped with a large number of culture tanks. The genetic recombination culture medium in the culture tanks is the biological material culture medium secretly transported from Hongsavadi.
The bottom layer is the nutrient absorption pool, which can use animal excrement and plants as nutrients, and then supply nutrients and energy to the cultivation pools on the upper layers.
As for other metal powders, inorganic salts, etc., they can also be collected nearby through bioaccumulation lichens and mushrooms.
At present, this material and parts cultivation area can produce most alloys, non-metallic materials, biomaterials, and parts with less complex structures if there are sufficient raw materials.
The production volume is about 1,200 to 1,500 tons per month.
For example, firearms, small hardware, glass products, generators, pure mechanical equipment, crystal sponges, and rubber products in the base can all be produced here.
It is precisely because of this highly self-sustaining model that the Indian side did not realize that such a powerful force was hidden in this remote mountain village.
After all, the biggest advantage is that there is no need to import a large number of equipment and instruments from outside.
Even inside the base, a small number of precision parts and biological computers were supplied through Hongsavadi, and a mini chemical factory was built that can produce more than 200 tons of TNT or some other chemicals every month.
After inspecting the parts production area and chemical production area, Seka and Fan Yunfeng went to another core area.
Another core area is a "farm" built deep underground in a mountain.
As a highly self-sustaining base, food supply must be self-sufficient.
Although the new humans can install external auxiliary digestive sacs, and then directly feed the auxiliary digestive sacs with grass, trees, poisonous insects, carrion, cow dung, etc., and then obtain energy and nutrients from them, thereby maintaining the normal life needs of the human body.
Even in more extreme environments, "plant exo-armor" and "hibernation survival capsules" can be used.
Plant exo-armor is actually a variant model of exoskeleton armor. Its functions are more focused on survival in the wilderness and doomsday. It can maintain the life of the user by directly photosynthesizing and absorbing nutrients from the soil, air and water through genetically recombinant plant cells on the surface.
The hibernation life-support bag is used in special environments, such as when there are deserts, polar ice sheets, or areas with heavy chemical pollution around, and the body cannot escape from these places, so the bag will wrap the body up and put it into a state of suspended animation.
Currently, the hibernation life-support bag can maintain hibernation for up to about 120 days. Some new humans who perform special tasks need to use this thing.
The base where Seka is located is equipped with auxiliary digestive sacs, plant exo-armor, and hibernation life-support sacs.
However, these devices are only considered as a means of use in extreme circumstances.
Until you reach the end of your rope, some normal food is still very necessary.
Hence the “Farm” was born.
Because it is in an underground environment, natural light is basically out of the question. Artificial light requires a lot of energy, and the energy efficiency of plant photosynthesis is actually not high.
Genetically modified organisms such as luminous lichens are not suitable as light sources for underground farms.
After many studies and experiments, Li Qingye finally found a technology that can make plants grow quickly without the need for sunlight, and increase the speed of organic matter production in plants by more than ten times.
The specific principle is to use a composite electrocatalytic system to convert carbon dioxide and water into acetate, which can then be directly absorbed by the plant body, thus bypassing the photosynthesis stage.
Currently, this technology has been successfully applied to some genetically modified plants.
And this technology is also the core of underground farms.
In this way, a large number of planting rooms have been built in the farms inside the base, which can produce cucumbers, tomatoes, soybeans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, eggplants, pumpkins, winter melons, peppers, green peppers, strawberries, watermelons, and sugarcane.
Serka picked a cucumber, wiped it, and started to eat it: " Can the production of farms now completely replace surface farmland?"
"If we just maintain the current population, there will be no problem," Fan Yunfeng replied.
Seka frowned. The current population of the base is 793 people.
But this is only for now. As the plan unfolds, the population of this base will surely explode.
He continued: “ How many people can the maximum production capacity supply?”
"3,000 people is basically the sustainable limit."
“Is there any way to expand it?”
Fan Yunfeng thought for a moment and said, "We don't actually lack underground space. After all, we can build a few more floors. The key issue now is the power supply."
"Electricity..." When Seka heard this question, he also felt it was very difficult.
The electricity currently used by the base actually comes from more than a dozen small gas turbine generator sets with a total power of 1,400 kilowatts.
Its fuel source is the methane fermentation tank, which relies on human and animal excrement on the one hand, and on the plant raw materials collected on a daily basis, such as straw and dead branches and leaves on the other.
The power generation capacity of 1,400 kilowatts is already the limit of this base.
Even with gas turbines and generators, there is not enough biomass to produce methane.
After thinking for a while, Serka asked, "Can we develop underground shale oil and shale gas?"
"Haha... Unfortunately, there are not many oil-bearing shales in the rock strata near Shillong." Fan Yunfeng spread his hands.
The energy problem at the Shillong base left Serka scratching his head.
There are only more than 700 people now, so there is naturally no big problem. Once the population increases, the demand for energy will definitely skyrocket.
The problem is that according to the headquarters' estimates, the Indians will not give up on the Assam states, and this place will definitely become a meat grinder.
Thermal power plants, solar power plants, wind power plants, hydroelectric power stations and the like that are too obvious on the ground will definitely become targets.
Even if it was built, it would just be a target.
Therefore, we must find a way to solve the energy problem of the base. Only by solving the energy problem can the population capacity limit here be increased.
Although Serka considers himself a new human being that transcends race.
But ordinary people are innocent after all. If he can save more ordinary people, he is still willing to give it a try.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind. He turned on the tablet he carried with him, called up the three-dimensional topographic map of the surrounding area, and soon he found what he wanted.
"Old Fan, do you think this will work?" He pointed to a nearby river valley with a drop of more than 80 meters and said, " We can use artificial debris flow technology to artificially block the river valley and form a barrier lake."
"A barrier lake?" Fan Yunfeng looked at the 3D topographic map and said, "Are you planning to build a hydroelectric power station? But this is too obvious."
"No! We can use rapid excavation technology to create an artificial underground river, and then set up a hydropower station inside the mountain." As Seka said, he drew an underground river hidden in the mountain between two drops.
Fan Yunfeng recalculated and found that this plan was indeed feasible. With the flow of this river, it could probably drive a turbine with an installed capacity of 10 to 20 megawatts.
This power generation is almost 10 times that of the base.
