Chapter 585: Full of Confidence
Li Qingye's car slowly stopped on the coastal avenue of Sing Tao Island.
He did not get out of the car, but only glanced at the harbor.
At this time, the sea level dropped a lot, and with the influence of low tide, the water level in the port dropped by nearly 4 meters.
This drop in water level will not be fatal to a deep-water port like Sing Tao Port, but it will be a disaster for ports with a water depth of no more than 10 meters.
However, Sing Tao Port did not sit idly by.
Although the proportion of sea transportation in the total transportation of Sapiens Company has decreased, it does not mean that it has no place.
Sea transportation still has certain cost advantages for bulk minerals, large parts, steel bars, cement and the like which do not require high timeliness.
Now Sing Tao is digging an undersea canal to prepare for a rainy day.
In the next 10 years or so, the global sea level will continue to drop by 13 to 15 meters. In addition, it has already dropped to nearly 3 meters now. The Strait of Malacca will become the Malacca Canyon Plain.
By then, large ships will have no way of passing through the Malacca area.
Therefore, the Sing Tao branch and the Malacca branch have been looking for ways to dig an undersea canal, and even specially modified three canal-dredging ships for this purpose, turning them into models that can completely sink to the bottom of the sea.
Sing Tao Island and other coastal areas in Southeast Asia are also trying to find a solution.
For example, we can build offshore cities based on the seabed topography. Even if the sea level drops by 100 meters in the future, we can use these offshore cities as new ports.
Li Qingye stayed on Binhai Boulevard for more than ten minutes, and then drove to the technology exhibition venue in Sing Tao.
The venue is inside a gymnasium on the ground level.
Many people were not too surprised when they saw a robot getting out of the car.
He entered the venue with several security personnel.
Suddenly he stopped. This was the exhibition area for biosynthetic materials. More than a dozen related subsidiaries of Sapiens, such as Sea Snail, Mandalay Metallurgy, Nanyang New Materials, and Qingye New Materials, had set up special exhibition areas here.
At this time, he was standing in front of the exhibition area of Sea Snail New Materials, a subsidiary of the company that is a veteran of the Sapiens Company.
Since the Star Island Technology Exhibition was for internal communication and no other Earth forces were invited, a lot of new and confidential technology achievements were displayed.
For example, the clothing synthesis machine launched by Sea Snail.
"Sir, welcome to come and inspect." Although the female tour guide did not know which executive of the company was behind this synchronous robot, she still introduced it with a smile.
"For this clothing synthesis machine, our company has adopted new technology, integrating the synthesis mechanisms of cotton, flax, abaca, wool, spider silk and silk into it, and with the help of artificial intelligence, it can quickly synthesize various clothes."
Li Qingye turned around and said, "Xiao Lu, go and give it a try."
Security guard Xiao Lu nodded: "Okay, sir."
The instructor guided: "Just put your hand into this device."
There is a concave model on the device that can be pressed with the palm. Xiao Lu put his hand on it, and suddenly some tiny tentacles emerged from the concave model.
This is the biological armor data connector. Xiao Lu knew what to do immediately. He transmitted his detailed body shape and movement data.
The device then pops up a holographic projection screen.
[Please select clothing type...style...details...].
Xiao Lu quickly ordered a T-shirt, then asked for it to be white and made of loose cotton, and have a famous quote written on the back.
[Begin manufacturing…].
The humanoid model inside the synthesizer became almost identical to Xiao Lu's appearance based on Xiao Lu's physical parameters. Except for the lack of a head , the rest of the body appearance was the same.
Because Xiao Lu's requirements were more relaxed, the model automatically became larger.
Then a large amount of cotton fiber was drawn out from the material reserve box of the synthesis machine and quickly assembled into a T-shirt on the surface of the model.
The biosynthetic bacteria of the synthesis machine also started simultaneously and began to connect fibers to fibers, completely eliminating the sewing process.
There is no need for separate dyeing, it can be done in one step in the synthesis machine, and the biological dyeing technology is used, so the colors are more natural and harmless.
In less than twenty minutes, a T-shirt was synthesized and the remaining culture medium was dried at the same time.
Xiao Lu picked up the T-shirt, took off his special suit, put on the T-shirt himself, and tried to move around for a while.
"Yes, it fits me perfectly and it doesn't irritate like the clothes I wore before."
Li Qingye took a look at the T-shirt and immediately saw the secret. The one-piece synthesis raised the textile fineness of cotton fiber to the same level as silk, and without sewing lines, it would naturally be very soft.
He gave a relatively pertinent comment: "It does have certain application value for use in specialized clothing stores."
"Sir, you have a keen eye." The commentator nodded.
The stylish device launched by Sea Snail is definitely not targeted at the employees, but at the company's clothing stores.
With the explosive development of the economy, the employees of Sapiens Company are also pursuing a higher quality of life.
Although clothing companies everywhere can provide private customization, it usually takes about a week, and communication between the two parties is also a problem.
After all, Party A and Party B are not the same person.
Sea Snail saw the market potential in this area and, after targeting the market, developed a special clothing synthesis machine for this purpose.
Clothing stores can even set up clothing synthesis machines to function similarly to vending machines. As long as the customer operates it properly, the equipment will automatically synthesize the clothes and can also provide mailing services.
This is the adjustment of operating mechanism brought about by technological innovation.
Li Qingye continued to look at the other equipment of the sea snail.
For example, there are toy synthesis machines, gun synthesis machines, and general-purpose synthesis machines.
The universal synthesizer is the flagship product of Sea Snail. This thing is not only used by various branches on Earth, but also widely used in the Homo sapiens space station in outer space, the moon base, the Venus Cloud Palace base, the Utopia Station on Mars, etc.
This thing can synthesize a variety of parts as long as special materials and microorganisms are inserted.
It is even possible to use universal synthesis machines to produce related spare parts and components, which can be combined into new universal synthesis machines, thereby achieving an exponential increase in production scale.
The reason why the Venus Cloud Palace project can expand wildly is that the universal synthesis machine developed by Sapiens on Earth can be used directly on Venus.
The area of the Yungong floating platform on Venus has now expanded to 2,738 square kilometers, and is expanding at a rate of doubling every year.
Sea snails have laboratories and researchers in various outer space bases, specializing in the study of biosynthesis technology to quickly synthesize qualified parts under other gravity conditions.
Li Qingye took a walk around Sea Snail and went to the exhibition areas of several other material companies. These companies did not stand still and also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the research and development of new technologies.
In fact, the major subsidiaries of Zhiren Company have very strong innovation capabilities.
This is mainly due to the "no bankruptcy" and "no unemployment" characteristics of Sapiens. In this environment, the management is naturally not afraid to invest heavily in scientific research.
After all, the company is not going to go bankrupt. If it takes the wrong technical route, the worst that can happen is restructuring.
The current productivity can already meet most of the needs of all employees without much problem.
With money, resources and a large number of talents, the company is not afraid of bankruptcy and will not be too afraid of investing heavily in scientific research projects.
