Chapter 12 This chapter on the tip of the tongue can be eaten with food
12. This chapter on the tip of the tongue can be eaten with food
After catching a group of smugglers in Dubrac-Quinto, in the next more than a week, everything returned to calm, and the colony was developing steadily.
The number of mining stations built around the gas giant planet has increased to four, providing the mothership with a large amount of helium-3 fuel used in the fusion reactor. However, there are only four modular mining stations in the mothership. If new mining stations are to be built,
Station, you need to build it yourself. Fortunately, there is no shortage of metal resources in the galaxy. Currently, some metal asteroids have been captured by the mothership for decomposition and refinement.
In addition, 3 of the 9 satellites surrounding this gas giant planet also called Endor are rich in various metal minerals. Now people from the Engineering Department are working overtime to build an interstellar system on one of the asteroids.
Mining fields provide raw materials for construction work in space.
The same is true for the colonies on the ground. Currently, 1,000 modular 2-story residential buildings have been built in the colony on the Dawn Star. The number of residents has increased to more than 1,700, and the entire colony can already accommodate 1,000 residents.
Daphne Clement of the Administration Department is constantly selecting suitable residents to wake up and send them to the Dawn Star to join the construction work. By the way, Goolaham is no longer the village chief. He was just promoted to the town mayor yesterday.
long.
The biggest problem now is, first, the job pressure caused by the rapid growth of population, and second, there are not enough transport ships to and from the mothership and Dawn Star. There are only 5 small transport ships on the mothership, and each transport ship is a one-time use
It can only carry 100 passengers or 50 tons of cargo, which is far from meeting demand.
Moreover, this kind of transport is about 30 meters long and belongs to the level of light frigate. It cannot be built on the production line built into the mother ship. If you want to build more transport ships, you must build a small space dock. Although this has already started, even if it is
The mothership is equipped with modular materials, and it will take another week to complete a building of this scale.
What's even worse is that one of the transport ships probably left some faults when the mother ship passed through before. Now it is used so intensively that it directly goes on strike...
These things made Tang Xiao very anxious. When the colony first started to be built, there were not many problems. Now it is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more problems. In the past few days, he has no time to think about the plot of "Star Wars".
All kinds of problems are constantly going back and forth between Dawn Star and the mothership, making various decisions.
However, the benefits of doing so are also obvious. He has been instilled with all kinds of knowledge in his mind. Now after using it during this period, it has been developed a lot, and many tasks have become familiar.
If more than a week ago, when he had not traveled through time and was just an ordinary college graduate, who would have told him that he could manage such a growing interstellar colony, Tang Xiao would have thought that person was talking about science fiction.
plot.
But now that things have developed so far... Could it be that I have traveled through time in a science fiction novel? Tang Xiao looked up at the sky, wondering if he could see the author's extremely handsome face.
In short, under the leadership of Tang Xiao, the colony is still developing in an orderly manner. They set up hunting teams to allow the marines to gain practical experience and to supplement the colony with meat...
Find mines on Dawn Star to mine lime, coal and metal raw materials...
Open up farms and fruit fields to plant native plants, and build closed hydroponic farms to grow rice, wheat, corn and other crops brought from the mothership.
Build steel plants, cement plants, sewage treatment plants, power stations, metal refining, parts processing and other factories.
There are also roads, spaceports on the ground, and pipelines and fiber optic cables laid.
And the most difficult step - sewage discharge. Because on this pristine planet, how to discharge and plan the waste water and wastewater generated by factories and domestic sewage are very difficult issues.
The biggest problem is that 95% of the Dawn Planet is on the ground, so most of the water bodies are underground, which also brings great difficulties to sewage discharge. The processing capacity of the modular sewage treatment plant carried on the mothership
Limited, the current problem is that more and larger sewage treatment plants need to be built...
And now Tang Xiao has begun to have an inexplicable feeling for this planet. After all, when he awakened to the Force, he was breathing the air here and feeling his own nature. He didn't want to destroy the beautiful scenery here. Even coming here
Say, this has become a bond.
So once when he went to inspect the colony and saw the residents building sewage pipes, Tang Xiao suddenly had an idea. After returning to the mothership, he began to discuss a very serious issue with Daphne Clement very seriously: He
It is planned to build a giant excrement collector on the mountain next to the colony to collect all the sewage and excrement, and then build a dam to use the excrement to generate electricity.
There is actually no basis for his thinking, because he has done this in a certain game before. He thought that since even the spaceships in the game can be brought into reality, what kind of collection of shit can be achieved in the game?
It should be possible with a device too.
However, Clement was directly frightened. She tried her best to suppress the urge to arrest Tang Xiao and check his brain. She told her manager seriously that this was impossible in reality, because you pumped out the excrement.
The energy consumed on the mountain is already much greater than the electricity used to generate it, and the pressure of the dung water is not enough to drive the turbine of the dam, and there are too many impurities in it that can easily clog it.
After all, you don’t know if someone is constipated, right?
In addition, seasonal issues must be considered. What if the excrement water in the excrement collector freezes in winter? So a heating device is needed, right? This is all a cost!
In order to strengthen his persuasion, Clement also grabbed the energetic expert Guan Yan who was eating and explained that Guan Yan was innocent, although she immediately vomited out the lunch she had just eaten after hearing this topic.
But she still worked very hard to help Clement convince Tang Xiao.
Seeing that this road was impassable, Tang Xiao, who had already entered a state of bewilderment, asked them how many water purification plants would be needed to filter excrement water into drinking water.
Clement and the others were stunned by Tang Xiao's imagination. They called in Qu Xuewen and Feng Yongwang, and combined with the earnest persuasion of several experts, Tang Xiao finally abandoned the idea of manure water power generation and recycling.
He didn't let himself go further and further down the road of being shot.
This interesting topic still had to come to a conclusion, so they continued to discuss it for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that this thing is really possible to build a giant feces collector, but it is actually a super dirty (feces) water collector.
Although the cost of the treatment center is a bit high, it seems that it can really solve the problem of sewage discharge on a planet where most of the groundwater is underground.
Of course, the excrement collector cannot be built on the mountain, otherwise it will be a big deal once the embankment breaks, and excrement will directly flood the city.
Tang Xiao immediately decided that every city must build a central excrement collector in the future! Not only can these concentrated excrement water be used for fertilization after treatment, but it can also maintain public order when necessary, right?
They finally decided to set up the Department of Public Health to handle this matter. When making this decision, Tang Xiao had no idea that he had single-handedly created the most terrifying department in the history of the galaxy.
However, Tang Xiao quickly broke away from this interesting topic. At this moment, he was happily stirring a bowl of mushy chocolate with a spoon, eating a spoonful from time to time, and chatting with a newly awakened elite.
Sociologists discuss a very important topic.
There were no snacks on the mothership, so Tang Xiao could only satisfy his cravings with these semi-finished products.
"Manager, what we have to consider now is the cohesion of the colony. We are currently small and everyone is around you, which is good. But if we continue to develop, this will not be enough. You
Take a look at my proposal..." The sociologist named Norris-Barry said to Tang Xiao in a serious tone.
At this time, Guan Yan, who was carrying a lunch box, passed by. When he saw Tang Xiao, he said smoothly: "Ah, you are here, manager. By the way, there is something. The analysis of the infrared laser weapon is very smooth. It should be possible."
Finished ahead of schedule. We will conduct the first weapons test in the afternoon, do you want to go?"
"Ah, no problem, I'll go in the afternoon." Tang Xiao replied. She had completed the preliminary analysis of infrared laser weapons in more than a week. He thought he should praise her a few words, but he suddenly got stuck and didn't know what to say.
What, so she picked up the mushy chocolate in her hand and said to Guan Yan, "Would you like to eat it?"
Seeing this bowl of sticky brown object that was stirred into a spiral shape by Tang Xiao, Guan Yan's face darkened and she quickly refused, "Uh, no, I don't have much appetite..."
"Ah, what a pity, this is quite delicious." Tang Xiao shook his head regretfully, stirred the bowl again, then scooped out a large spoonful of sticky food and put it in his mouth and ate it.
Guan Yan's face turned from black to green, she didn't want the box lunch in her hand, she covered her mouth and turned around to run away.
[Pictures 1 and 2 attached to the Easter Egg Chapter: Various poop collection devices.]
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