Chapter 461 Prediction Service
Alexander, the head of Lucia's space department, did not deny Thoth's proposal, but instead put forward his own opinion:
"In fact, a hybrid solution can be adopted, with the bottom airbag using a mixture of hydrogen and helium and the top using pure helium."
Roberts nodded quickly: "Yes, that's right, the pure helium airbag only needs to be used at the top."
Bill had a quiet discussion with several NASA technical directors.
In fact, even if you use only helium, you can do it if you grit your teeth.
After all, America is the world's largest helium producing area and the region with the richest helium reserves. In addition, the Maple Leaf Country and the Kangaroo Country within the Free Commonwealth also have helium reserves.
There are also a lot of helium resources in Lucia's eastern natural gas producing areas.
In addition, the Al Thani Kingdom in West Asia also has helium resources in its natural gas fields.
The helium production in these regions basically accounts for 90% of the world's production.
Of course, this does not take into account the output of Homo sapiens companies.
Sapiens can extract helium directly from underground magma and volcanic underground rock formations. Its helium reserves are very large. If mined at full capacity, its production capacity will be about 7 times that of America.
What's more, Sapiens Company now rarely uses helium for direct refrigeration.
The main reason is that Sapiens has developed materials that can produce superconducting effects in an environment of minus 20 degrees Celsius, which has led to a decrease in the demand for liquid helium refrigeration.
Likewise, a vacuum airship would not require the use of helium.
But Tot had no choice but to use the helium airbag solution.
Bill finally made up his mind: "I agree to promote this plan. Since the plan was proposed by a company in Maple Leaf Country, let's invest and build it in Maple Leaf Country!"
"I object." Alexander stared at Bill's eyes without hesitation. "The territory of Maple Leaf Country is all in high latitudes. It is not conducive to increasing the payload as a launch site."
And Conde also had his own idea: "How about setting it up near the equator in South America?"
The four parties started to argue and fight openly and secretly again.
After all, this is a project worth tens of billions of dollars, and no one is willing to give up the benefits of it.
…
Li Qingye was on his way to the Republic of Suez at this time.
He went there on the aerospace fleet.
After completing the inspection of the Mada Island Branch, he went north and inspected the Moon Islands Branch, the Horn of Africa Branch, and the Red Sea Branch.
At this time, he was heading to the Khalij Oasis area under the Suez branch, where the Khalij Space City invested by the company was located.
Suddenly, Bagheera came to the door and knocked on his office door.
"Come in."
"Sir, news came from Munich that the four major forces are negotiating there and seem to be preparing for cooperation in the aerospace industry." Bagheira quickly reported.
Li Qingye paused while reviewing documents: "Space cooperation? Not bad! It seems they have made a lot of progress."
"Sir, do we need to take some action?"
Li Qingye waved his hand: "No need."
"There is another thing about the space station. The second group of astronauts has arrived at the space station and completed the shift change two hours ago. The Meng Haiyang team is returning to Earth on the space transport plane."
"Give them my condolences."
"Yes, sir." Bagheira nodded.
What Li Qingye was reading at this time was the application form for the Pacific Rim Earthquake Early Warning Company to be established by the Geological Division.
The business of the Pacific Rim Earthquake Warning Company is to assess earthquakes and issue warning reports. This application is mainly for expanding the market.
Li Qingye dialed Liu Zhifan's number.
After a while, Liu Zhifan's figure was holographically projected in front of him.
"Mr. Chairman! Good afternoon!"
"Zhifan, what do you think about the Geology Division's preparations to commercialize earthquake prediction?"
Liu Zhifan thought for a moment and said, "From a purely commercial point of view, selling earthquake prediction services is not a bad idea. From a strategic security point of view, this will also help us increase our influence in various regions."
"So you agree with this?"
Liu Zhifan nodded: "Yes."
Li Qingye opened the holographic map. The most suitable area for harvesting leeks at the moment is naturally the Pacific Rim earthquake and volcanic belt.
For example, Japan, the Aztecs were all earthquake-prone areas.
These regions are very wary of the entry of Homo sapiens companies.
"Zhifan, the management of the Pacific Rim Earthquake Prediction Company is the responsibility of your Industry Department. You must make good use of this opportunity and make them open up the market obediently."
"Yes, I will make a plan."
Li Qingye immediately turned off the holographic projection.
With the accuracy of earthquake prediction of Sapiens, there is currently no competitor at all.
As long as the Sapiens Company does not do anything stupid by then, it can basically further establish full-power branches in these earthquake-prone areas.
As for rejecting the prediction service of Sapiens, when the time comes, as long as they see those successfully predicted earthquakes, they will naturally make the right choice.
If they don't want to cooperate, Sapiens will be even happier, because this is simply handing Sapiens an advantage. As long as we do more "public opinion guidance" at that time, we can soon make these areas uneasy.
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Two o'clock in the afternoon.
Aerospace Carrier 009 appeared at the eastern edge of the Kharja Oasis area.
Li Qingye and Sangjibada Layal stood on the floor-to-ceiling window observation deck of the aerospace mothership, overlooking the land.
This low-lying oasis area is clearly distinguished from the surrounding desert environment. In addition to a vast expanse of emerald green seawater rice fields, there is also a forest formed by a large number of genetically modified fruit trees.
The genetically modified fruit trees use mangroves as their mother plant and have genes from other fruit trees inserted into them. Currently, 17 varieties have been cultivated, including mangrove pistachios, mangrove durians, and mangrove macadamia nuts.
These genetically modified fruit trees can also grow in seawater.
As the aerospace carrier entered the sky above the Kharji Oasis, the area covered by green vegetation became increasingly larger.
The southern canal runs through the Kharji Oasis area and forms a series of artificial lakes in the low-lying areas.
The Southern Canal and the Northern Canal in Suez together cover an area larger than the Nile River.
These canals not only brought convenient canal economy, but also provided abundant water resources to the land on both sides.
For Sapiens, seawater is also a usable water resource. Whether it is used to directly irrigate seawater crops or to convert seawater into fresh water through solar water purification plants, it can bring enough water resources to the local area.
Li Qingye had read the report of the Geological Division before. In order to prevent the Nubian aquifer in the northeast of the Sahara Desert from continuing to sink, they gradually closed many groundwater extraction facilities.
In the cloudless Kharji Oasis area, the aerospace mothership at an altitude of 10,000 meters looks like a white cloud floating by.
Unknowingly, the aerospace carrier had passed by three riverside cities in the Kharji Oasis area.
"Please note that we have arrived at Khalij Space City."
After hearing the flight attendant's broadcast, Li Qingye turned his head and finally saw a large group of silver-gray buildings appearing on the high ground not far away.
That is the Khaleej Space City.
