Chapter 573

Roy Richardson, CEO of space plants, a wholly-owned subsidiary of gene umbrella, met Henry at 3 p.m.

There is no doubt that planting plants in space is of great significance.

Astronauts can not live in space without oxygen, food and water. At present, almost all these materials are sent into space by spaceship, which is very expensive. Growing more plants in space can produce more oxygen. At the same time, it can cultivate vegetables to be self-sufficient. It can even domesticate animals on the space station as a source of meat. These can not only reduce the cost of astronauts living in space, but also with the development of technology, it may be of great significance for human beings to live in space for a long time, or even emigrate to other planets.

Roy Richardson, tall and thin, with a big nose, big eyes and short hair, is in his fifties. He has a PhD in biology from Cambridge University.

Henry asked Villette to pour him a glass of water and then began to ask about space plants.

"Roy Richardson, let's give you a brief introduction to space plants!"

"Well, sire," said Roy Richardson, nodding respectfully, "as early as 1997, gene umbrellas set up a department specializing in space plants. In 2003, gene umbrella company set up the space plant company. So far, the space plant company has a total of 1000 researchers, of whom about 20 need to work on the space station for a long time! Weightlessness, cleanliness, cosmic rays and other factors in space will have a unique impact on the survival, development, aging and variation of plants. Breeding in space is a new challenge for us. In order to discover the difference between space breeding and earth breeding as soon as possible, when we first studied space plants, we specially selected bean sprouts, green vegetables, radishes and other vegetables with short growth cycle, and took them to space for cultivation to observe the effects of various vegetables on growth and disease resistance in space environment. After years of hard work, space plants has achieved very good results. We have successfully cultivated 30 new crops with high quality, high yield and strong disease resistance in space environment.

Grain crops are: rice, corn, wheat.

Economic crops include oilseed, peanut, rose, lavender, sesame, tea, coffee and tobacco.

Fruits are: apple, pear, strawberry.

Medicinal crops are: ginseng, angelica, honeysuckle, mint.

Vegetable crops are the most, including bean sprouts, radish, cabbage, celery, leek, garlic, scallion, carrot, lotus, pepper, tomato and coriander

"Oh, that sounds good!" Henry surprised that there were so many products.

"Thank you! However, due to the harsh conditions of space production, these crops can not be mass produced for the time being. At present, they can only provide services for astronauts and personnel engaged in space research on the space station! " Said Roy Richardson.

"Technological difficulties will break through one day, and human wisdom is infinite!" Henry said, "the Williams Empire decided to vigorously develop the space industry. Space food is the foundation of survival, especially important! I will allocate 25 billion dollars of research funds to space plant company. From now on, space plant company must increase its R & D efforts! "

"Yes Roy Richardson nodded heavily.

After Roy Richardson left, Henry began to meditate.

Water and space are the key factors for the mass production of space plants. The space of the space station is not very big. It's not decent to use it to cultivate plants. SpaceX space station belongs to inflatable space station, the space area far exceeds other space stations, this aspect is OK. But the cost of transporting water to the space station is too high. It costs tens of millions of dollars to launch a rocket, and it also costs a lot to transport space plants to the earth!

Therefore, if the transportation problem is solved, mass production of space plants will be possible. The most ideal solution is to build a space elevator to deliver water to the space station! The Williams empire is close to Antarctica, which accounts for 72% of the world's freshwater reserves. There is no doubt that Antarctica is the best place to get water!!!

The establishment of "space elevator" needs light and heavy-resistant materials. The scientific community unanimously believes that graphene is the best material, because it is not only the thinnest material in the world, but also the strongest material in the world, and its fracture strength is 200 times higher than that of the best steel! Unfortunately, it's difficult to make graphene itself. It's impossible to make a space elevator with graphene! However, it is possible for the Williams Empire to achieve this.

Super materials company has been more than ten years ahead of the world in the field of manufacturing graphene. Henry had already come up with China's graphene manufacturing technology in 2015 before 2000. Henry very understand the importance of graphene, in all research projects, absolutely belongs to the key! Therefore, the research and development of graphene is beyond the imagination of the outside world. Perhaps, the R & D funds of institutions or companies engaged in graphene research all over the world are not as much as those of super materials companies.

Every year, super material companies are absorbing the best materials talents in the world, and the annual R & D funds have exceeded 20 billion US dollars, and the funds are increasing year by year. The more profound the research is, the more things will be involved. Naturally, more R & D funds and talents will be needed.

Henry's global acquisition of graphite mines is a plan for the future. How much graphene does it take to build a space elevator. What's more, Henry didn't just build a sky elevator. Some sky elevators are used for pipeline water supply, some for freight transportation, some for tourism and some for military use. Therefore, at least four sky elevators should be built.

For the time being, Henry is not going to rush to build a space elevator, but to make a technical reserve. When the Williams Empire establishes a base on the moon, it will officially launch the "sky elevator" program. Sky elevators will be built one after another on the moon and the earth, and the space station will be used as the intermediate station to connect the moon and the earth. In this way, the sky elevator can play the greatest role. At that time, the manufacturing technology of graphene will definitely get a breakthrough.

At this moment, the moon base project is in progress. SpaceX makes spaceships, alpha makes intelligent robots and space vehicles, and space plants makes food.

SpaceX will land on the moon next year, sending 10 astronauts to the moon, and then establishing a lunar base there.