Chapter 598: Technical Overwhelm
Umbrella’s sudden announcement shocked the world and even made people feel unbelievable!
In theory, plants synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water to form most of the food we eat today.
Whether you are a meat or vegetarian, this can be used as a source!
Just like the flagella of many bacteria can have a more efficient structure than aircraft engines, humans themselves are still lacking in this aspect.
Theoretically, it is achievable and it is even possible to complete some operations in the laboratory, but when it comes to usage and large-scale practical application, there is still a long way to go.
Moreover, at present, there are also "benefits" driving the advancement of technology.
Traditional grain traders will suppress and resist similar new technologies, but at present, when various materials are abundant and there is no such urgency and lack of economic benefits, they will continue to oppose new technologies.
The investment in this type of experiment will also be relatively small.
After all, what if we figure it out?
Let’s not talk about whether artificial synthetic products have any defects, let’s just talk about people’s acceptance of them?
Can the taste be better than the crops grown today?
Today's staple food does not just consist of starch. Is it possible to simulate it completely?
What is the cost?
Is it a loss or a profit?
At least the forces that have the ability to research this will not have a food crisis, but those that have a food crisis are unlikely to have the ability to research, which is a contradiction in itself.
As a result, just when South Korea had just started to drive up food prices, this side directly took out such a heavy-weight thing?
It's simply shocking!
Although synthetic starch is currently a related area with relatively little investment, it is not an imminent issue.
But food problem has always been a serious problem for Blue Planet.
Places like Africa and South America are still full of hunger.
Since Umbrella dares to say this, especially at such a critical time, it should not be a small-batch solution. Can it really be mass-produced?
Umbrella also officially released some parameters and openly made available the schematics.
In essence, the "principle" is very simple, the difficult part is just the process of implementation.
"As for the combination of ordinary pure carbon dioxide and pure water, we have actually already made a breakthrough a long time ago , but we have not announced it accordingly because of the difficulty of popularization."
In the demonstration video, Red Queen's projection also provided relevant explanations.
In fact, this is a very common ability that Wang Yi has in the other world.
The art of making food and the art of making water are not things that are created out of thin air. The art of making water is to extract moisture from the air, similar to a high-efficiency dehumidifier.
The art of making food is the combination of carbon dioxide and water.
The principle is simple in itself and can be easily replicated with the help of magic. All that needs to be changed is to use electricity to complete the conversion operation in this lazy environment.
Therefore, the first pure food-making machine had long been gathering dust in Wang Yi’s wizard tower.
Later, it was taken out and handed over to Lin Shiqin and the hired research team to tinker with it.
The purpose of the research is to enable the instrument to filter out toxic pollutants such as sulfur and phosphorus at a low cost, thereby extending the life, production capacity and controllability of the instrument.
To put it bluntly, it is the various breakthrough elements for commercialization.
After all, food itself is not a very expensive thing, it's just that the demand for it is huge.
Therefore, burning coal just for this thing is obviously not advisable.
The best approach is similar to binding a thermal power station.
Burning one ton of coal can produce two or three tons of carbon dioxide. If we add water, it means that burning one ton of coal can produce several tons of food.
It’s just that there are usually a lot of impurities in coal. For example, a certain major coal-producing country likes to import coal from abroad because the cost of processing it is not as high as importing it due to the impurities.
Lin Shiqin is working with the research team to tackle this issue.
Now Umbrella's machines can directly attack thermal power plants, solving the problem of exhaust emissions while producing synthetic food as a by-product!
With the release of Umbrella's schematics and structural diagrams, as well as the on-site demonstration model.
It can be said that the whole world was shocked!
Oh shit!
It really solved the famine problem!
Now the food can be considered as 'dug out'!
"In addition to the industrial mass-produced version, our company has also launched corresponding home versions and outdoor portable versions. They mainly absorb carbon dioxide traveling in the air and work with solar energy. However, the efficiency is slower and the machine cost is more expensive."
In fact, the production difficulty of this portable version is much lower than that of the mass-produced version.
Just like seawater desalination, it is not difficult for one person to tinker with a set of desalination equipment by himself, but it is quite difficult to supply the entire city and complete the water power construction.
"In addition, we also have 'seasoning packages' for sale that are matched according to nutrition. Artificially synthesized starch itself is not only unpalatable, but also has a single nutritional value. We have added various vitamins and trace elements, as well as some protein, to the 'seasoning packages'. Mixing them in proportion can be eaten for a long time to maintain personal needs. At the same time, there are seven different combinations of 'physical version' to 'weight loss version' according to the amount of exercise. Everyone can make a rough judgment based on their daily amount of exercise..."
After seeing Umbrella’s serious introduction, everyone gradually understood that this was something Umbrella had prepared long ago!
No wonder, no wonder even though it has a huge influence on Pakistan, it mainly wants some minerals. The farms are only assigned some tasks of growing medicinal herbs, and have not asked for food.
My goodness, he is going to kill the four major grain traders with one punch!
In fact, the problem can be seen from the nutritional powder packets that Umbrella subsequently proposed.
Although the synthesized things seem very simple, there are endless possibilities with this foundation.
From 0 to 1, the follow-up is just pure improvement.
You can start making magical modifications with the "synthetic carbohydrates" produced by Umbrella.
This thing doesn’t taste good, can’t it be mixed into feed for livestock?
If you enter the feed industry directly, won’t you get beaten to a pulp?
You know, even though the nutrition pack that Umbrella took out later looks inconspicuous, it actually has a very high technical content.
This is much better than those single protein powders.
Although these may require the use of other materials, they are inherently threatening.
But no matter what the four major grain traders and some related stakeholders think.
At least this announcement by Umbrella is still a breakthrough that will benefit future generations!
Once fully rolled out, it will truly eliminate hunger as Umbrella itself said!
To take a data as an example, the annual corn production is about 1 billion tons, which is considered the highest-yielding staple food. The rice is 700 million tons, the wheat is 700 million tons, and the soybeans are 300 million tons.
This looks like a huge number.
But the annual coal consumption is 8 billion tons!
Not to mention the conversion of all coal consumption, even if only one-tenth of the "waste gas" from coal consumption is utilized, the carbohydrates that can be synthesized will far exceed the total global grain output.
In fact, the world's total food production is more than enough to feed everyone, but businessmen are just pursuing profits.
After the four major grain traders have taken control of all major grain industry chains, they serve purely for their own interests.
For example, Pakistan finally eliminated hunger, but because the four major grain traders controlled the planting of some high-economic crops for export, they in turn imported a lot of grain. While they made a lot of money back and forth, the people in Pakistan, the world's granary, could not have enough food!
Food is essential and is the core of survival.
Theoretically, the price of something can skyrocket tenfold, a hundredfold, or a thousandfold in a short period of time.
Not to mention the large-scale disaster, just imagine being stuck on the highway and being starving, and if a guy next to you sells a box of instant noodles to you for fifty yuan, you will definitely pay for it without hesitation.
At this time, South Goryeo had entered this situation.
With the chaebols controlling commodities, it would be easy for ordinary people to have trouble even having food to eat.
But all of this was easily solved by the machines launched by Umbrella!
It doesn’t matter if it tastes bad, as long as you can survive!
This is truly relying on technology to crush everything with one's own strength!
No matter how fancy or fierce your operation is, I can break it with one force.
Although it will take time for Umbrella to arrive in South Goryeo.
But the problem is that South Korea itself is not really short of food, but what it lacks is "confidence".
Now Umbrella’s official announcement has replenished the "confidence"!
The matter that was originally imminent was solved directly...
