Chapter 377 Pilot Oil Well
The whole project was discussed and took about a week.
In the end, Meow Star Group received a project contract worth hundreds of billions from the camel funder. Of course, it would not determine everything at once, but would divide it into more than ten phases of work to arrange it, and the time span may exceed several decades.
Even though the Camel Financial Administrator is very confident in Meow Star Group and trusts Li Maoye's design ability very much, he should first see how the first phase is.
Judging from the contract of one phase of the project of hundreds of billions, the cost of at least trillions of dollars is required for more than ten phases, and it is calculated based on US dollars. I am afraid that even the camel funder will not be able to take out so much working capital at once, so the contract stipulates that resources and real estate can be used to offset it.
"And we only charge RMB, don't spend US dollars soon!" Zhou Lin emphasized in particular.
The situation of US dollar bills is indeed not optimistic now. If the rabbit hadn't let go of his hands, and had secretly joined forces with the bald eagle to clean up the metal futures market and cut off financial leeks, I'm afraid that both US dollar bills and US bonds would have exploded long ago.
It was all because the rabbit was worried that the bald eagle would hurt him, so he took action to pull the other party and also acted as the global economic savior, stabilizing the world situation again, which can be regarded as winning more than ten years of peaceful development for himself.
As long as you survive these ten years, when the anti-gravity engine is mass-produced and all rabbits are immigrated to space, the Blue Star will explode immediately and will not have much impact on the rabbits.
What's more, even if all the human nuclear warheads are released, they cannot hurt Blue Star. People who have always needed to be saved are humans, not Blue Star.
The Rubhali Desert, which means "a quarter of the open" in Arabic, is named after its area that occupies about a quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. It is one of the largest deserts in the world.
This desert is roughly northeast to southwest, with a length of 1,200 kilometers, a width of about 6,540 kilometers, and an area of 650,000 square kilometers. Because it is rich in iron oxide, it is mostly red, with an altitude of between 100 and 500 meters. From the perspective of morphology, answering questions can be divided into two major deserts, east and west.
This time, camels' financial owners wanted to use an abandoned oil field in the Rubhali Desert as a pilot, and then promote the "growing mushrooms in the oil field" model after the experiment was successful.
The oil field is relatively close to the Persian Gulf coast. According to the normal plan, the ditches used to extract seawater must be dug first. Only by turning the oil field into a swamp can there be sufficient water to plant mushrooms. Otherwise, if you rely on groundwater that is unknown how many meters deep, you may not survive even if you plant super golden mushrooms.
The groundwater of this large desert is extremely rich, and local oasis will be formed in some places with higher water levels, and even a good pasture.
In the 1970s, Gavar, one of the world's largest oil fields, was discovered in the Rubhali Desert. It is an oil field named after a nearby town. The abandoned oil well is also on this oil field area. Therefore, if the super golden mushroom trial planting is successful, it is estimated that it will soon provide the city of Gavar with a large amount of freshwater resources.
Of course, these fresh water will not be used for free. The camel government intends to sell it to local residents to recycle part of the funds to pay for the project costs. Anyway, there are many ways to make money. According to the surrounding plans formulated by experts based on the project, it is indeed very expensive to turn the desert into an oasis, but overall it is a profitable thing.
A few days after signing the contract, on a dark night, a flying Tmall transport plane took off from Pengcheng and flew directly over the Gaivar oil field. According to the data provided by the Beidou positioning system, it landed next to an abandoned oil well.
When the huge transport plane landed, it raised the wind and sand that covered the sky, dimming the light in this area a little, as if it was a scene when a sandstorm came.
This Flying Tmall transport aircraft is no longer the first generation model. After many technological improvements, it has the ability to lift and take off vertically. Moreover, due to the use of a super electric thrust engine to replace the propeller engine, it is completely different from that of ordinary aircraft. The electric thrust engine will emit light blue light when working. If it is clearly seen at night, six long light belts are dragged out behind the fuselage.
Therefore, among military and military fans, the new flying Tmall transport aircraft has the nickname "Six-winged Tmall".
The "Six-winged Tmall" flew from thousands of kilometers away and transported all the materials and personnel needed for this test in one go, without having to take a bus to the destination in batches. Therefore, the rabbit's work efficiency really made the camel admire it.
After the transport plane stopped, the hatch door behind the fuselage opened, and several off-road vehicles and a large truck drove out from above. The rest was a team of cat-headed rabbit mechas, which glided in front of the convoy, and protected them from the left and right and rear for all-round protection.
There are even several ghost fighter jets in the invisible air to prevent the people of the Meow Star Group from encountering dangers while working. Even if the Bald Eagle and other countries cannot openly take action now, they must also prevent attacks in such a barren land.
Surrounded by a team of nine mechas, the convoy quickly arrived at the edge of the abandoned oil well. After many days of seawater irrigation, it had long become a swamp. The shallow water surface overflowed the instep of the mechas and looked a bit muddy, but in fact, except for the dust on the surface, there were extremely strong sand and stones soaked in seawater.
"Squeak!" With a series of brake sounds, the convoy finally stopped. The staff members wearing protective suits got off from four off-road vehicles. Even after years of research, they had a way to curb the growth of environmentally friendly spores, but the bloody lessons were still fresh in memory. It is better to be well prepared than to remedy them when an accident occurs.
The staff moved the test supplies from the truck and prepared to spray spores, and then put the super golden spores into the oil wellhead.
Theoretically, super golden mushrooms can grow well as long as they have sufficient nutrients. However, in order to transform this desert land so that the water does not pass away quickly, it is necessary to first use water purification algae to complete the environmental transformation task, which can not only speed up seawater desalination, but also make this area more suitable for the growth of super golden mushrooms.
"Report! Spraying spores in the East District is completed!"
"Report! Spraying spores in the West District is completed!"
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Under the intense and orderly work of the crowd, the area of thousands of acres of water was sprayed with algae spores in the area of thousands of acres before the sun rose. These spores were much easier to control than mushroom spores, so they were sprayed first, and then the super golden spores were placed in the designated location.
This time, there was no need for the staff to do it myself, so naturally a special mecha was transported from the truck. It was a safe-sized device with spores of super golden mushrooms placed inside.
According to the location provided by the plan design, a special mecha placed the box on the oil wellhead, and below was the metal steel plate used to seal the wellhead, and then opened the safety device on the box, and the mecha and the convoy immediately turned around and left.
It was more than an hour before dawn, but for safety reasons, they decided to leave early to the observation station served by the transport plane, where the entire process was monitored through the equipment on the plane.
When the sunlight on the horizon shines on the ground, the spores in the swamp begin to sprout and grow. The land in this area was originally relatively barren, but since the oil extraction, a lot of scattered crude oil has accumulated on the ground, making the ground soaked in oil and shine black.
When the water-cleaning algae grows rapidly, not only will the sea water be filled with traces of water-cleaning algae, but the black sand and gravel are also restored to the color. However, the water-cleaning algae reproduces too much, making this area like a thick green blanket.
In terms of growth rate, water purification algae is not as good as garbage mushrooms. After more than an hour, the water purification algae in the mud reached its peak in growth rate. At this time, the project leader on the transport plane subconsciously looked at the test memorandum and reconfirmed the opportunity to open the box insurance.
"In another ten minutes, listen to my order to release the restrictions!" said the project leader.
The box on the wellhead has not been opened yet, and the super golden spores inside are not exposed to sunlight outside, so it has not moved at all. It needs to wait until the safe is opened.
Just as everyone was waiting anxiously, it was finally time to open the box, and the project manager also issued an order to let the operator of the console open the box through remote control.
When the outside sunlight shines on the spores in the box, it quickly expands and becomes larger, just like a golden liquid flowing out of the box. In fact, it is the roots of the super golden spore. It is looking for nutrients and water around.
These tentacle-like roots quickly penetrated into the green algae around the wellhead, and immediately expanded like bubbles. The larger, longer and thicker roots spread out in all directions with the oil wellhead as the center. The water-cleaning algae directly became a high-level nutrient in front of the more powerful super golden mushrooms, and were quickly absorbed by the mushrooms.
As the mushrooms approached, the water purification algae was constantly swallowed up, but the area of thousands of acres of water purification algae was too large, so the super golden mushrooms could not eat them all, and in the end only the hundreds of acres of the area became roots, and then the growth direction of these root systems changed.
The super golden mushrooms have long swallowed up the safe box and oil manhole cover, and then continued to extend down along the oil trace. The crude oil itself is rich in a large amount of organic matter, which is more nutritious than its water purification algae. So the root system continues to chase these high-energy substances and grows downward.
At this time, everyone on the Flying Tmall transport plane can see all this through the holographic computer display screen. It is a CG animation that uses computers to simulate data detection. Even if there is a little difference from the actual situation, it is not much different.
From the screen, people can clearly see that the mushroom roots have reached more than 300 meters underground, and are still continuing to extend downwards. It is estimated that it will not take long to penetrate the oil outlet layer.
By that time, super golden mushrooms will receive sufficient nutrients afterwards, thus ushering in explosive growth!
Chapter completed!