Chapter 1575

Go to Beijing.

At the track Design Institute of the Pan Asian Academy of Sciences, a group of researchers in white coats are standing in front of a map, frowning and pointing at several red circles drawn on the map.

"What about point 104? I remember in the alternatives... "

"It's impossible. It was discussed at the last seminar. Although there is no strong geological activity in 50 years, this area is still on the volcanic belt!"

"That 86 point --"

at this time, the footsteps outside the door suddenly interrupted the discussion of the researchers around the holographic map.

Looking towards the door, when you can see the people entering the office clearly, the scholar with white sideburns immediately showed an expression of surprise and went forward to say.

"President And the secretary general? Academician Lu? You Why is it all of a sudden? "

Two powerful figures in Pan Asian cooperation!

And academician Lu, the leader of academia!

Although the speech at the celebration of ignition day made him feel that the space elevator project is becoming a national key project of Pan Asian cooperation, he did not expect that his small temple has attracted so many big people to visit.

"Please come, excuse me," said Li Guangya, looking at the old scholar who was greeting him. Then he looked at the introduction to the land boat standing beside him.

"This is academician Ge Huaizhi, director of the orbital design and Research Institute, and also the actual director of the current space elevator project. Since about five years ago, his research team has been tackling the technical problems in the field of space elevator, which is the top bull in this field. "

When I said the first half of the sentence, it was OK. When I heard chairman Li Guangya introduce the second half of himself, academician GE's face suddenly showed an embarrassed expression, saying subtly.

"I don't dare to be, I don't dare to be, I've studied in this field for so many years, and I'm really ashamed that I can't get a decent result."

"There's no need to be ashamed of such a thing. Scientific research is not farming. It's not that seeds can be sown and watered. There will be results," said Lu Zhou, looking at the embarrassed academician Ge, after comforting him casually. "So, what question did you encounter?"

Before academician Ge spoke, Li Guangya coughed softly and spoke for him.

"I have encountered problems since the site selection..."

"Location?"

speechless looked at GE academician, and got a positive expression from his face. Lu Zhou's face showed a silent expression. He could not help but make complaints about it.

“…… What happened to you was beyond my expectation. "

"Cough, as the saying goes, it's hard to start everything..." Li Gaoliang gave a dry cough, hurriedly shifted the topic to the right track, put on a serious expression and continued, "academician Ge, please tell academician Lu what's the situation on your side."

Several researchers got to know each other. At last, academician Ge sighed and said.

"Let me tell you, it's like this..."

In about three minutes, academician Ge explained the whole story to Lu Zhou in simple words.

It turns out that about five or six years ago, when the whole space elevator project started, they had already chosen the anchorage of the space elevator.

It's a small island near Malaysia on the equator. Although it's very close to the Pacific Rim volcanic belt, in theory, the island is not an active seismic zone.

Unfortunately, an earthquake three years ago completely derailed their plan.

However, no one cared at that time. Until a few days ago, the research on space elevator was a relatively marginal research project in Pan Asian cooperation. Even the researchers in the project team didn't pay much attention to it. They just regarded applied science as theoretical research.

Anyway, the site selection is not so crucial. When the whole project starts has not been confirmed. It doesn't seem to make much sense to find a place to anchor the space elevator in such a hurry?

However, no one expected that this day was so sudden that all the problems that were not considered or seriously considered at that time were exposed.

After listening to academician GE's description, Lu Zhou didn't hesitate and said rudely.

"Let me see the map."

"Right here." Academician Ge nodded his head, immediately took the boat to the map suspended in the holographic window, pointed to the red dots on the screen, and said, "these are all the anchorage sites we have inspected before. Basically, each of them has been evaluated by marine geologists Point 104 and point 86 were in our alternatives before, but for a variety of reasons, we eliminated them again. "

He didn't listen to what academician Ge was talking about at all. After staring at the map and thinking for about 5 minutes, he suddenly reached out his index finger and clicked on the high seas of the Pacific Ocean east of the Malay islands.

"It's nonsense to find the anchorage of the space elevator on the Pacific Rim! The safest way is to build directly in the Pacific. "All the territorial waters on the equator of the Pan Asian cooperation are almost distributed at the junction of the Indian Ocean plate and the Pacific plate, or close to each other. It is almost impossible to find a suitable anchorage.

Not to mention those points on the monsoon belt, in a sense, it is more terrible to encounter typhoons than earthquakes and volcanoes.

Therefore, from this perspective, only the Pacific Ocean is the most appropriate choice.

"I'm afraid not," Secretary General Wu Shuhua, who had not opened his mouth when he heard Lu Zhou's words, frowned slightly and reminded him, "this violates international conventions and is inconsistent with the diplomatic norms of Pan Asian Union for building a community with a shared future for mankind."

Academician Ge showed a wry smile on his face and made a helpless expression towards the landing boat.

If he could find a small island to build in the Pacific Ocean, he would have proposed it.

However, this is clearly unrealistic.

"Not necessarily," Lu Zhou said after hearing Wu Shuhua's words, looking at her and offering a rebuttal, "because the diplomatic principle of Pan Asian cooperation is to build a community with a shared future for mankind, we should set an example and build this space elevator on the high seas."

Wu Shuhua frowned and was about to say something. Li Guangya, standing next to him, suddenly smiled and put in a word.

"Academician Lu is right. Once the space elevator is built, the whole world can benefit from it. From this point of view, there is no problem with our behavior. We represent the interests of all mankind."

“…… This is too messy. Don't you think this explanation is a bit far fetched? "

Hearing Li Guangya's words, Wu Shuhua's face couldn't help but emerge a wry smile.

In fact, what she wants to say is that this is too rogue, which undermines the international image of Pan Asian cooperation.

However, Li Guangya smiled heartily, as if he didn't take it seriously.

"Far fetched is not enough. At best, it's a bit reasonable But I think we are still strong. There should be no problem in doing such a thing. If a diplomatic dispute arises out of a ten thousand step retreat, I'm sure it will be settled easily with your ability! "

Wu Shuhua sighed, and did not say anything more on this issue, but advised from a different angle.

"Diplomatic issues aside Have you ever considered the cost of building a space elevator on the high seas? "

Before Li Guangya could speak, Wu continued.

"In terms of cost, the farther the anchorage of this space elevator is from our economic zone, the higher the cost of construction and maintenance, and the lower the economic utility. Even if this is a project that benefits the future and contributes to the present, what we should consider is to leave a precious wealth for future generations, rather than a heavy burden. "

Academician Ge nodded his head and added.

"Cost is really a big problem The logistics cost of building materials is an astronomical figure, let alone the construction of the 36000 km space elevator. The further away this construction site is from our transportation network, the greater the pressure on our cost. "

The discussion seems to be in trouble.

Even Li Guangya, who had previously agreed with Lu Zhou's view, now had an expression of embarrassment on his face.

Yes.

If the space elevator is far away from the border of Pan Asian cooperation, there is no point.

In addition, he also thought of other aspects, such as national security and so on.

It is obviously not as convenient to guard an elevator with a vertical height of 3607 kilometers on the high seas as this elevator is in China.

To Lu Zhou to cast a look for help, director Li Guangya said sincerely, "is there any alternative?"

After thinking for a while, the boat gave a feasible answer to him.

“…… Although I don't know much about economics, the decision of our lunar orbit construction committee was to build a city on the moon. "

Build a city?

Hearing this, Wu Shuhua was stunned.

"Build a city? You mean reclaiming the sea and making land? On the high seas of the Pacific? How is it possible -- "

" I didn't say land reclamation, "interrupted her, and the boat continued in a calm voice," we build a big ship, which is about the size of Guanghan City, and then let it float on the sea, symbolically moving one or two centimeters every year No one's going to measure it anyway. "

"I see what you mean," Li Guangya's eyes brightened and he woke up. "Just like the strategy we adopted in Guanghan, the territory of the moon belongs to all mankind in name, but the spacecraft we deployed on the moon is the property of the Pan Asian people!"

The boat smiled and nodded.

"That's it."

Freedom of navigation is the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, organizations and regional alliances. We can't let this ship go into the water because it's a little slow, right?

With the current technical strength and industrial capacity of Pan Asian cooperation, it is fully possible to build this floating city. At the same time, this project can be carried out together with the space elevator!Li Guangya's eyes became more and more bright, and he made a fist with his right hand and hit hard on the palm of his left hand.

"That's it!"

"The name of this city is Penglai!"