Chapter 2822 Wonders

The Wandering Plan was eventually approved by the world, but not because the sun was going to have a helium flash, but to use this incident to blackmail and stimulate the increasingly sluggish global economy.

In this special era where we cannot fight but have to survive, the powerful countries are trying to come up with all kinds of things to redistribute resources around the world and want to control the global distribution rights. But which country can prosper forever? If there were no nuclear weapons or an absolutely safe air defense system, the Third World War would have started long ago.

Unfortunately, because there are nuclear weapons and no absolutely safe air defense system, countries cannot fight. Even if they see that other countries have abundant wealth, they cannot directly rob them with strong ships and powerful guns, and they cannot make them cede land and pay compensation, so they can only use other means.

But no matter what the purpose is, there are a lot of industries in the Wandering Plan, and once they are promoted, they can't stop at all, and they can create a lot of jobs. Because starting from digging a pit, each planetary engine requires a lot of materials and skilled workers. This is not a simple pile-up, but a test of the entire industrial industry and the ultimate application of human industry.

And in the application of these technologies, new technologies will emerge.

Engineering companies, design companies, building materials companies... just like piranhas smelling blood gathered.

There are only three planetary engines in the first batch, which are built in three major countries. They must set a good example so that the subsequent small countries will follow. Of course, there is no shortage of wrangling within the United States. The two parties are in various confrontations, the party and government are constantly attacking each other, so their country's planetary engines have not been implemented.

The other two engines completed the site selection very quickly, and then the land was expropriated, relocated, and transformed. The cooperation of various departments was because this project is much more complicated than building a community. The requirements for cement and metal are completely different, which is very challenging.

Duran transformed himself into a construction worker and joined in to participate in the construction of this wonder. The process is full of problems. It is really not easy to implement the things on the design drawings. Duran is anxious for mankind. At this rate, four hundred years is not enough to build 10,000 planetary engines.

Because the project is really too big, first of all, a five-kilometer-deep pit must be dug, and an underground city must be built first. Because once it starts wandering, the temperature of the surface will drop sharply, and even the atmosphere will freeze at that time. You can only hide underground and rely on the land for insulation.

The first construction project was the civilian underground city, which will accommodate about 300,000 people. It must have sufficient facilities, including schools, hospitals, police stations, stadiums, museums, commercial streets, etc.

The construction environment was unprecedentedly difficult, and the five-kilometer pit was not just a casual remark.

So as a novel, The Wandering Earth is a romantic science fiction imagination. And to implement it step by step, the difficulty is unprecedented. It is not just a social problem, but also a technical problem, an economic problem, and even a religious problem. Anyway, this problem, that problem, so the Western science fiction builds spaceships and runs away, leaving the masses behind. This is really the lowest cost method.

Although it is difficult to build a spaceship, in the research institute, in the test site, and in the workshop, the environment will not be worse than five kilometers underground.

Ventilation alone is a huge project, and a compressor is needed to compress the air and transport it down, otherwise it will be full of carbon dioxide. Not to mention the various uncertain geological and hydrological environments underground.

Walking out of the research institute, out of the workshop, into the construction site, facing the mud, facing the construction site that is exhausted every day, and facing various "troublemakers", it is really a headache.

The underground project is too difficult, but it has to be done. This is only the first underground city, and there will be 10,000 more to come. If we can't overcome it, there will be no hope at all.

However, the underground city project is only one of the difficulties. There will be a heavy nuclear fusion technology engine later. To ensure the stability of the engine, in addition to outputting thrust, it must also be able to boil water and generate electricity to provide electricity for the underground city. Therefore, although the engine is more than 10,000 meters high, there are also various facilities inside, not only engines, but also generators, and heating machines.

Of course, in order to ensure that the engine will not sink into the ground, the entire ground within a radius of 20 kilometers needs to be reinforced with metal.

Anyway, the materials and technology are terrible to think about.

So if humans can really move the earth, it will really be a miracle.

Heavy nuclear fusion technology only needs stones to react continuously. However, it takes a huge amount of energy to start the engine.

Just like a nuclear bomb, if you want nuclear fission to occur, you first need to use a large amount of explosives to detonate and stimulate nuclear fission, and then there will be a chain reaction to release the energy of the nuclear bomb. The same is true for hydrogen bombs, which also require a starting energy. The same is true for the engine, and the initial energy of the engine is the nuclear bomb. By detonating the nuclear bomb, the entire heavy nuclear reactor is started, which means that the engine must be able to withstand the impact of the nuclear bomb.

Therefore, the requirements for materials science are unprecedentedly high. To continuously withstand the burning of plasma flow, this material is really amazing.

Anyway, the first engine was manufactured at no cost, but with the heavy nuclear fusion technology, electric energy is no longer a problem, and it can provide unlimited electricity, so it doesn’t matter even if the material manufacturing consumes a lot of energy.

In short, the first engine was full of problems. After overcoming these problems, humans probably didn't want to have children in the end. In the original book, many people wanted to have children by lottery, but if they really wandered and lived in a closed underground city, having children would not be such a good thing.

Duran listened to the workers chatting on the construction site and chatted with the engineers. He knew the difficulty of the whole plan. The budget of the first underground city alone had exceeded a lot. However, various mechanical design institutes and factories around the world often sent people to find business. After all, looking at the world, this planetary engine project is really the largest money-eating machine at present. A steady stream of financial budgets are invested in it, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie.

There is money for everyone to make, so various manufacturers gathered from all over the world to express that they can provide technology to help build parts for planetary engines.

At the same time, many people are worried about whether they can get their money back after spending so much money? What is the value of this underground city and planetary engine? Do you still want to fight a nuclear war? As a nuclear shelter, it is still good. It is five kilometers underground, and there is an engine that can withstand nuclear bombs. It can be used as a command center after a nuclear war.

Not many people really believe that helium flash will happen. The big chess party believes that this is the country preparing for nuclear war. When the whole country can hide, then there is no need to be afraid of nuclear bombs.

Of course, the real intention is to control the distribution and make small countries obedient. If small countries want to get a share, they can open schools, learn technology, and then receive language education and technical standards. This can be regarded as the same writing and the same track. Everyone can communicate with each other, and their thoughts are also connected, so the community of human destiny will be established.

In fact, now it seems that the first planetary engine is a spectacle. The altar is erected and everyone stands in a row around the altar. The symbolic meaning is far greater than the practical meaning.

This is why ancient emperors like to create wonders so much. First, they can deliver benefits through infrastructure, second, they can monopolize the right to interpret myths through wonders, and third, they can establish a profit distribution plan through wonders.