Chapter 477 Innovation
After landing from Khaleej Space City.
Lake and Baisha took a Phoenix airliner and flew to the Oasis City of Atlon.
The two places were relatively close, and after some trouble, the two finally met Li Qingye coming out of the laboratory three hours later.
A villa is built inside the small artificial ecosystem of Atlon Oasis.
This small ecosphere was developed by Green Home Group, a subsidiary of Sapiens.
It uses a hemispherical dome and is built in the desert. Various equipment and nuclear batteries are used inside to maintain the stable operation of the entire small ecosystem.
It can be used as a park, botanical garden, zoo, museum, amusement park, ski resort, aquarium, or residential area.
Green Home Group has developed a total of five specifications of artificial ecosystems, namely 20 meters in diameter, 50 meters in diameter, 100 meters in diameter, 300 meters in diameter, and 500 meters in diameter.
The small ecosystem where Li Qingye lives is an ordinary small ecosystem of 50 meters. There are dozens of small ecosystems of the same style around it, which are for senior researchers to live in.
In fact, this kind of small ecosystem is very common throughout the North African desert area, mainly because it is very comfortable to live in.
Ordinary employees usually live in larger artificial ecosystems or underground artificial ecosystems, which are also very comfortable.
When Lake stepped into the ecosystem where Li Qingye lived, he felt as if he had returned to the Principality of Nimanya. The plants in this ecosystem were actually of Mediterranean type, such as olive trees.
"Ms. Sanjibada, please inform me that I am Baisha and this is Lake, the head of the Nimanya branch. We have an appointment for a meeting at 3 pm."
Sanjibada Layal glanced at the two of them, smiled and nodded: "Please wait a moment."
After a while, Bagheira hurriedly left the living room, nodded slightly to Lake and Baisha, and left quickly.
"Come in!" Sanjibada Layal led the two of them into the living room.
Several other maids had already cleared the teacups on the table and replaced them with new ones.
Li Qingye raised his head: "Lake, Baisha, please sit down!"
"Mr. Chairman! It's a great honor to meet you." Lake said excitedly.
Baisha smiled and sat down: "Chairman, I have completed the Babel project of the Nimanya branch."
"Have some tea!" Li Qingye took a sip of Ceylon black tea. "Not bad, is there any problem with the project?"
Baisha shook his head and said, "No, our technology is very mature. The Babel project has already started operation. According to the designed traffic volume, the maximum number of take-offs and landings per day is 480, which initially meets our needs in and out of the Nimanya area."
"Thank you for the company's support for Nimanya." Lake said quickly.
"You're welcome. We're all family." Li Qingye waved his hand. "I asked you to come here this time because we haven't met formally yet, and I also want to give you some instructions."
Lake sat up straight and said, "Please give me your orders, Mr. Chairman."
"I know you are very upset about the Blackbird Land incident, but after all, you are not a family, so don't force it. What you should do now is to take away those people in Blackbird Land who are willing to join the Nimanya branch."
Lake also showed a trace of helplessness, then he nodded: "I understand, Mr. Chairman."
After all, Nimanya and the Blackbird Land in the south are now at loggerheads.
Although the Intelligent Company has the means to use tough measures, Li Qingye has no good feelings towards the people of that place.
Due to the deep cooperation between the Principality of Nimanya and the Sapiens Company, the people of Blackbird Land have very strong opinions about the Sapiens Company.
Li Qingye didn't force it. Anyway, he had no interest in this kind of dog that he couldn't tame.
Li Qingye put down his teacup and said, "The future positioning of the Nimanya branch is to be the company's nail, beacon, and radio station in the European region. The blockade of the Free Federation and the European Federation cannot stop the company's progress. I want to let them know that in the face of absolute power, any conspiracy is pale and powerless."
"Chairman, although we have recruited all the unemployed through the work-for-relief method, the industries of the Nimanya branch are now facing some problems." Lake said tactfully.
The industrial problems of the Nimanya branch are not just some problems, but very big problems.
Because the Principality of Nimanya itself does not have much industry, its core industry is actually the tertiary industry, namely tourism and services, which account for more than half of the total income, and the rest is agriculture and industry.
This is a typical tourist-oriented economy.
And now this part is definitely not possible.
After all, the Europa Union is not stupid. In order to suppress the Nimanya branch, they are now crazy enough to directly demolish the railways, blow up the roads, and set up isolation zones with barbed wire.
Now, let alone tourists, even sneaking across the border is difficult.
It is obvious that the Europa Union is so wary of the Sapiens Company that it is on edge.
Therefore, the Nimanya branch can only rely on itself now.
Fortunately, the head office delivered a large number of new human employees and important materials to the Nimanya branch through airdrops by aerospace transport aircraft.
For example, the airship factory that Baisha led his men to build.
"If the tertiary industry is gone, then we can make up for it through industrialization and agriculture. What mineral resources does the Nimanya region have?"
Lake quickly replied, "There are more than 8 billion tons of coal, and there are also natural gas, iron ore, copper ore, molybdenum ore, etc. Other limestone, silica, etc. are also available."
After hearing about these minerals, Li Qingye discovered that the mineral resources in the Nimanya area were pretty good: "Go back and communicate more with Liu Zhifan from the Industrial Division to build a number of new industries based on the local mineral resources."
Thinking of another thing, he added: "By the way, coal and natural gas power generation and heating must be completely phased out and replaced with nuclear power."
"I understand." Lake nodded.
The nuclear power technology of the Sapiens company is currently the best in the world. It would be stupid not to use nuclear power within the company and to use coal and natural gas to generate electricity.
By absorbing the best nuclear power technologies from many sources and adding a wealth of manufacturing experience, Zhiren Company's nuclear power technology has become increasingly advanced.
Various nuclear fission reactors and nuclear batteries are springing up everywhere.
There are also 14 underground nuclear fusion power stations built.
Sapiens Company is not worried about nuclear leakage at all and has introduced nuclear power technology in various fields.
Among the current power generation types of Zhiren Company, nuclear power accounts for the largest proportion, reaching 78.4%, followed by geothermal power at 11.7%, thermal power at 4%, hydropower at 3.4%, photovoltaic power at 1.6%, and wind power at 0.9%.
In other words, traditional thermal power is gradually disappearing from the historical stage.
At present, the oil, natural gas and coal of Zhiren Company are mainly used as chemical raw materials, and natural gas also has a part of the fuel gas market.
Therefore, the Nemanya branch must gradually change its energy model.
After all, Sapiens does not have much oil, gas and coal, and continues to use traditional fossil fuels, which not only causes serious pollution but also faces the problem of resource depletion.
Fossil fuels are different from other minerals. They cannot be recycled and reused, and their regeneration rate is very slow.
Why is Homo Sapiens now investing large amounts of gold and silver into industry to manufacture gold-based electric heating materials and silver-based low-temperature superconductors?
The reason is that gold and silver do not disappear and can be recycled and reused in the future.
After fossil fuels are used, they directly turn into things like carbon dioxide and water. Water and carbon dioxide can then be used to synthesize things like natural gas, although there is no technical problem with this.
But wouldn’t it be better to use electricity directly?
Just like the hydrogen fuel cells developed by the Japanese, the hydrogen needs to be prepared using fossil fuels, so wouldn’t it be better to directly use fuel cars or electric cars?
You know, the more energy conversions there are, the lower the overall thermal efficiency will be.
The hydrogen fuel cell route is: fossil fuel - hydrogen - electric power.
The route of fuel vehicles is: fossil fuel - mechanical power.
The route of lithium battery vehicles is: power generation - battery - electric power.
Obviously, the advantages of hydrogen fuel cells are not obvious, but there are many disadvantages.
Previously, Sapiens would rather choose hybrid power with micro gas turbines than hydrogen energy, precisely because this thing is a sinkhole.
