Chapter 584 Continuous Innovation
Li Qingye's synchronized robot took the elevator from the Daman Port Station on Sumatra Island to the ground station.
This ground station is also connected to two skytrain lines and a subway, one of which can go directly to Sing Tao Park.
Using a special temporary pass, Li Qingye and several security personnel boarded the Skytrain and traveled a distance of more than 160 kilometers, arriving at their destination, Sing Tao South Station, in less than 40 minutes.
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of Sing Tao South Station, he could see most of Sing Tao Harbor.
However, there are fewer ships docked at Sing Tao Port than before. Most of the ships belong to the Zhiren Company, and the rest belong to several oil giants in West Asia.
Of course, there is another important reason why there are not too many ships in Sing Tao Port. That is, the Homo Sapiens Company owns a large number of transport airships. In addition, the recent opening of the stratospheric railway has gradually absorbed the market share of sea transportation.
After all, the average flying speed of a transport airship can reach 200 to 400 kilometers per hour, and the stratospheric railway is even more terrifying. The speed of a cargo train can reach 1200 to 2400 kilometers per hour.
In addition, the transport airship can transport a maximum of 15,000 tons, and the load-carrying train can also transport a maximum of 15,000 tons.
As a result, the low-cost advantage of sea transportation cannot withstand the efficiency impact brought by speed.
After all, the maximum speed of a large nuclear-powered transport ship is only 55 kilometers per hour.
For the same distance, a transport ship can make one trip, a transport airship has made 6 to 7 trips, and a stratospheric railway has made about 40 trips.
The gap is really too big.
If it weren't for the advantage of transport ships in transporting super-large parts and cheap minerals, oil and natural gas, they would have been eliminated by transport airships and railways long ago.
The market size of container ships is now suffering the most losses.
This trend can be seen from the ships docked at Sing Tao Port for supplies. Those slow-moving container ships have been squeezed out by transport airships, sky trains and stratospheric railways, making them uncompetitive.
Li Qingye did not interfere with this internal competition. After all, survival of the fittest is progress. Since you are lagging behind, don't blame others.
There is no such thing as a tail that is too big to be cut off within the Zhiren Company. No matter how big the subsidiaries and industries are, as long as they are inappropriate, the management will definitely take steps to break them up and divert them, rather than leaving the industry to rot.
This is one of the reasons why Sapiens is so powerful.
A company is like a person, and Homo sapiens is also a person. However, once Homo sapiens finds that its organs are aging or diseased, it will take the initiative to seek treatment or simply replace them with a new organ.
Only by doing this can we become stronger and stronger.
Anyone who tries to stand in the way of this process will be completely crushed by the company.
Li Qingye constantly adjusted the industrial chain and system procedures of Zhiren Company based on new technologies in order to make productivity and operating systems adapt.
He came to Sing Tao without notifying the management of the local branch, but came quietly.
After all, he is now in a synchronized robot state, there is no possibility of him being harmed, and he does not need to eat or drink. Accommodation is also very simple, just leave the robot in the hotel.
Synchronous robots all use nuclear batteries and do not even need to be charged.
He came out of Sing Tao South Station.
I swiped my card directly at the rental station and rented a Ruby.
Although Li Qingye has a driver's license, he hasn't driven for more than 9 years. After all, he usually has a dedicated driver to drive, and for safety reasons, he must rarely drive.
He found at the rental station that the penetration rate of liquid-filled electric vehicles is very high, currently reaching 66%.
When driving a car , in fact, the automatic assisted driving system of this car is very powerful, and there is no need to worry about car accidents at all.
Xingdao is very prosperous. After the second transformation, the entire city gradually developed into a stilt city model.
Stilt towns are not only suitable for tropical rainforests, but also for coastal cities, which must be wary of tsunamis.
While Homo sapiens can predict earthquakes and even induce them, there is no way to prevent an eruption.
Therefore, coastal cities must have the ability to resist tsunamis, especially the coastal areas of Central America. The previous major California earthquake caused heavy losses to the coastal cities west of the Aztecs.
Faced with the threat of tsunamis, building dams and the like is obviously a thankless task.
After all, when a tsunami reaches the coast, the water will become shallower, causing the tsunami to rise suddenly, and the waves can instantly reach more than ten meters or even dozens of meters.
Building a dam several dozen meters high was naturally not difficult for the Homo sapiens company at that time. The problem was that the project was too large, the cost-effectiveness was not high, and a lot of coastal flat land was wasted.
Since the solution of head-on resistance is not an option, then the solution of temporarily avoiding the attack is adopted. The stilt city that was previously popular in tropical rainforest areas stands out among the many solutions.
The main urban area of Xingdao is composed of 11 stilt cities of various sizes, which are about 50 meters above the ground.
The ground has either been transformed into a park or a botanical garden, with roads and overpasses.
Even if a tsunami comes, the tsunami waves rarely exceed 50 meters, which ensures the safety of coastal cities.
As for the rental station where Li Qingye rented a car on the ground, these ground facilities are actually not managed by Shangxingdao City, but by Xiaxingdao City.
The so-called Lower Star Island City is a city underground, which will not be affected by tsunamis.
Once a tsunami warning is issued, people on the ground can quickly evacuate to Upper Star Island City or Lower Star Island City.
When it comes to responding to natural disasters, Sapiens has been investing relentlessly.
The Diting system and the simulated earth that we have been promoting are now very complete. There will basically not be too big an error in the prediction of large earthquakes, and the error time can be reduced to within a week.
Of course, this error is still somewhat large. In order to reduce the error, Diting Company jointly with the Geological Institute developed a new technology - earthquake induction technology.
The so-called earthquake induction technology does not create earthquakes out of thin air, but rather utilizes the existing stress in the strata, finds its weak points, and releases the stress through directional blasting of hydrogen bombs.
In short, this technology is to detonate the earthquake in advance in the strata where an earthquake is about to occur, so as to achieve the purpose of accurate prediction.
In addition, this technology has another function, which is to effectively control the scale and destructive power of earthquakes by detonating them in advance .
After all, the prediction error is one week. During this period of time, the area must be closed and managed, which is really too troublesome. It is better to carry out direct and precise blasting.
Of course, it is extremely difficult to achieve precise blasting, which is also the fundamental reason why Diting Company collects global geological data. By building a simulated earth, it is possible to find weak points in the geological formations.
If the weak point is not found, even a hydrogen bomb as powerful as Big Ivan will not be able to cause the ground to earthquake prematurely.
The clean hydrogen bomb used by the Diting Company for directional blasting usually has an equivalent of 500 to 5,000 tons. A hydrogen bomb of this level is definitely not powerful enough to directly induce an earthquake and can only attack weak points in the strata.
As for whether earthquake weapons can be developed in the future, Li Qingye estimates that it is possible, but the cost-effectiveness is not high and there is no need for it.
