Chapter 559 Development Plan (I)
May 5, Xinghe year 3.
The earth remains the same. Extreme weather caused by global cooling is becoming more frequent. In the face of this huge climate crisis, the free world is still scheming against each other.
The Zhiren Company, which has been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, continues to expand its offshore platforms on the high seas and continues to absorb human resources in East Asia.
Before we knew it, the number of employees owned by Sapiens had once again broken through the historical record, reaching a huge scale of 3.4 billion.
As the company's employees grew, management began to prepare for a rainy day.
Because Sapiens Company encourages its employees to have children actively, the current natural population growth rate of Sapiens Company was 5.13% last year.
Of course, the reason for such a high natural growth rate is that, on the one hand, employees have no fertility burden, which leads to many families having three or four children.
On the other hand, the mortality rate has dropped significantly and the average life expectancy has reached 107 years.
The combination of the two makes the natural growth rate of Sapiens appear a bit high.
In this regard, the management of Sapiens has no intention of suppressing employees' fertility. After all, suppressing employees' fertility can easily backfire. Encouraging fertility is the best option for Sapiens at present.
As to whether the population will explode as a result.
Sapiens has no worries.
Even if there is no way to develop a habitable alien planet in the short term, with the current resources on Earth, as long as Sapiens can allocate them reasonably, the company can still afford to support 3.4 billion employees, even if the scale is increased to 10 billion.
If this is the case, why suppress fertility?
Not only should we not suppress it, but we should also increase encouragement to ensure that the natural growth rate of Homo sapiens companies can be maintained above 3% for a long time in the next 20 years.
Apparently the management of Sapiens has gotten a little bloated.
The management generally believes that after a large number of new human employees gradually transform into scientific researchers, the company will completely break free from the constraints of the earth in the next twenty years, thus entering the first-level civilization and gradually moving towards the second-level civilization.
The company's employees are full of confidence and are generally optimistic about future development.
This has led to many people not caring about the consequences of population explosion, and Sapiens is so confident.
Of course, no matter how confident they are, they have not spent a penny less on expanding their living space and investing in technological research and development.
Li Qingye has been obsessed with scientific research recently and has not paid much attention to the company's management. As long as the general direction is not a problem, he usually does not interfere with the management's ideas.
The management is also working hard to develop the company.
For example, the symposium held by the Space Business Department this time.
Liu Zhifan, head of the Industry Management Department, Wang Xinya, head of the Finance Department, Xiang Jiangmingxuan, head of the Science Department, and several other department heads all appeared at the symposium.
The head of the Space Division was Mikoyan. Under the gaze of hundreds of eyes, he did not show any fear. Instead, he pulled out a plan and projected it in front of everyone through a holographic projection:
"Everyone, the testing of the Cloud Palace project is going very smoothly. Judging from the current operating conditions, everything is in line with expectations. We plan to start the second phase of the project..."
"Ahem, Dr. Mikoyan, are you sure Venus is suitable for long-term human habitation?" Wang Xin had a doubtful expression on his face.
Dr. Mikoyan nodded. "The Science Division has conducted relevant experiments at the Cloud Palace Base. Some humanoid test subjects have stayed there for up to 273 days, and no obvious discomfort or problems have been found."
Hearing this, Jiang Mingxuan had to speak up. After all, the scientific research work of the Yungong project was carried out by their science division, and he needed to answer other people's questions.
Jiang Mingxuan cleared his throat. "Well... in our simulation experiments, animal experiments, and human experiments, we have not found any space sickness in the microgravity space station, and Venus is also the closest terrestrial planet to the Earth in the solar system..."
While explaining, he also called up some data about Venus.
For example, the surface gravity values of the major planets in the solar system are as follows:
Mercury: 3.70 N/ kg .
Venus: 8.78 N/kg.
Earth: 9.80 N/kg.
Mars: 3.72 N/kg.
Jupiter: 23.12 N/kg.
Saturn: 12.50 N/kg.
Uranus: 8.70 N/kg.
Neptune: 11.40 N/kg.
Among them, the surface gravity of the Earth, Venus and Uranus is the closest.
However, Uranus is a gas planet, and its distance from the Earth is much farther than Venus.
Therefore, Venus is more suitable to be the second home of mankind in terms of gravity and distance.
Liu Zhifan did not doubt the research of the scientific division, but he had some doubts about how to transform Venus. After all, he saw a lot of very tricky data from the Venus data provided by Jiang Mingxuan.
For example, the surface temperature is 500 degrees Celsius, the air pressure is 100 times the atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth, 97% of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide, and the vast majority of the rest is sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide. Coupled with the frequent volcanoes on Venus, it is simply hell.
He asked , "Dr. Mikoyan, how do you plan to overcome the harsh environment on Venus?"
Mikoyan, who was well prepared, explained to everyone: "This is the core of the second phase of the project, please see..."
The holographic projection lists a large number of conceptual models and chart data.
He pointed to the Venus model and said, "At present, the Yungong base is testing the synthesis process of vacuum carbon balls. From the test results, the carbon ball synthesis fungi are very stable and do not encounter the same problems as the space station and the lunar base."
"The atmosphere of Venus is rich in carbon dioxide resources, which can be easily obtained locally. In addition, we plan to build a large solar power station in the low-Earth orbit of Venus to take advantage of Venus's proximity to the sun and make full use of its solar energy resources."
Liu Zhifan looked at the massive Venus Orbital Solar Power Station project and couldn't help rubbing his temples: "Isn't this scale a bit too large?"
Because the Venus orbit solar power station planned by the Space Business Department is indeed astonishingly large in scale. It is basically to build a large circle of solar panels around the equator in a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 500 kilometers around Venus.
However, Mikoyan shook his head and said, "Minister Liu, don't worry. We don't plan to transport supplies from Earth. Instead, we plan to build solar panels and satellite equipment at the Yungong base. Earth only needs to provide a small number of precision instruments."
"Is that so? That's something we can consider." Liu Zhifan nodded.
As long as there is no need to transport such a large amount of supplies from Earth to Venus, everything will be fine.
"Using orbital solar power stations to supply electricity, we can continuously extract gases such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide from the atmosphere of Venus, and we can solve a large part of the raw material problem."
Then Mikoyan continued: "As the scale of the Cloud Palace base continues to expand, the Cloud Palace can basically stabilize, and then we can use the floating platform to sink to the surface of Venus..."
Wang Xinya asked: "Why not use carbon nanotube cables?"
Jiang Mingxuan explained the situation to her: "Carbon nanotubes cannot withstand high temperatures. The surface of Venus maintains a high temperature of 500 degrees Celsius all year round. Only nano-ceramic coatings and high-temperature resistant alloy cables can be used."
“So that’s how it is.” Wang Xinya suddenly realized.
