“In addition to the investment cost for hydrogel, most of the other costs are investment costs for land transformation in the Tarim Basin. Although such planning also has huge economic value and other added value.
But in my opinion, there are still big shortcomings. Everyone knows that there is no set of rivers in the Tarim Basin that can allow the water system inside to flow out.
In the past, the amount of water itself was not sufficient. During the period when the amount of water was relatively abundant, most of the water was injected into Lop Nur, and the area was only tens of thousands of ordinary kilometers.
Although this area is quite large, it is not worth mentioning compared to the entire Tarim Basin, so I don't have much feeling for the salt water in Lop Nur.
But in the future, if a large amount of rainfall is really injected into the Tarim Basin every year, in addition to part of it being used for production, soil and water conservation, and evaporation, a large proportion will be injected into Lop Nur.
At this time, the water area of Lop Nur is likely to be larger than the 26,000 square kilometers 4,000 years ago. However, they are destined to be salt water and cannot be effectively developed and utilized, which is a serious waste of resources.
So what I want to do is to use technical means to change the water quality of Lop Nur in the future from salt water to fresh water. In this way, not only can an urban agglomeration be built around Lop Nur, but also more and more livable land can be provided for the residents of the northwest region.
At the same time, a large number of fish and other aquatic products can be cultured in the Lop Nur water system, and the comprehensive development of Lop Nur's ecological system can bring greater economic value.
It's just that Lop Nur has been a saltwater lake since ancient times. If you want to transform the saltwater lake into a freshwater lake, a lot of investment is also required. In order to maintain the freshwater status for a long time in the future, continuous investment will be required.
In addition to these investments, in order to make the area around Lop Nur suitable for the construction of a western urban agglomeration, it is also necessary to solve the nuclear radiation caused by historical reasons. This also requires investment in technology research and development and radiation environment purification. " Zhao Yi said.
He has no burden at all to change the water quality of Lop Nur. Anyway, Lop Nur has dried up, and the ecological environment is already very bad, so there is no problem of ecological damage.
Due to the influx of a large amount of rainwater, the Lop Nur water area will be very large in the future. However, since there is no water outlet, the water in Lop Nur is destined to be salty water in its natural state.
Seeing that Lop Nur, which has a very large water area, cannot be effectively used, this seems to him to be a waste of resources, so he proposed to turn salt water into fresh water and carry out comprehensive development, which will bring more considerable benefits.
As for how to change the water quality in such a large area, Zhao Yi doesn't have a good way for the time being, but there is a high probability that he will use biotechnology to create a kind of aquatic plant that can absorb a large amount of salt.
Anyway, it is impossible to deal with this problem at low cost through mechanical capabilities, and the biotechnology in his hands can play a huge role in this aspect. These aquatic plants can even be reused and have certain economic value.
Turning Lop Nur's salt water into fresh water can not only be used for fish and other aquatic product cultivation, but also allow the construction of urban agglomerations around Lop Nur. This is something he values very much. Maybe it will become possible to rebuild the ancient city of Loulan.
In fact, Lop Nur is not without merit. In the past, my country's largest potash mine was located in Lop Nur, which reduced my country's heavy dependence on foreign potash imports and played a positive role in my country's agricultural development.
In addition to potash, there are many other salt substances that have great economic value in the industrial and agricultural fields. If aquatic plants can absorb these salts on a large scale, it is equivalent to mining these salt minerals.
So although there is input, the output may also be quite large. As for whether it can achieve balance or even large-scale profitability, he is not very clear, so he did not go into detail.
Everyone at the scene has already developed a certain immunity to his idea. Compared with the previous transformation plan for the Tarim Basin, Lop Nur's water quality improvement plan pales in comparison.
“The above basically describes the transformation plan of the Tarim Basin. In addition, we also need to extend eastward along the outlet of the Tarim Basin to transform the desertified land in Gansu and other areas.
Of course, if the transformation of the Tarim Basin is successful as mentioned above, precipitation in arid areas such as Gansu will inevitably increase significantly.
By then, even if the desertification and desertified land in these places are not artificially transformed, a certain degree of ecological recovery will be achieved over time.
However, this process may take a relatively long time, because the change in the soil structure of the land is not just about sufficient water sources, because most of the nutrients in the desertified land have been lost.
Returning to the level of farming may take decades or hundreds of years to achieve due to natural recovery capabilities, so we also need to carry out artificial transformation to speed up the ecological recovery in these areas.
At present, there are hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of desertification and desertified land in Gansu, and they are scattered. Unified transformation cannot be achieved, and the overall cost will increase.
Fortunately, although these places are also desertified and desertified, compared to the Taklimakan Desert, both the environment and soil structure are still better, and the cost of transformation of the Tengger Desert can be calculated.
If the transformation cost is 1 million yuan per square kilometer according to the standard of grassland soil, and the transformation area is 190,000 square kilometers, then about 190 billion yuan will be needed. If the construction of necessary water conservancy facilities is added, it will definitely exceed 200 billion yuan.
This is also the cost of improving the soil structure. Once the soil structure is improved, a large amount of money will need to be invested in the management and development of these lands, which also requires a large amount of money. "Zhao Yi continued.
As for the Loess Plateau region further east, Zhao Yi did not say that the environmental transformation work in this area has been formally determined to be carried out by the Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, and the relevant preparations are nearing completion.
After the Spring Festival, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company will continue to transform the environment in the Loess Plateau area. This is a transformation project that will last for ten years.
Although he provided a lot of technical support for this, because the geographical environment of the Loess Plateau is more complex and the area is not small, it will take a lot of time to completely achieve the transformation effect.
Without the relevant technical support he provided, it would not take more than ten years to transform these areas, and the cost would be astronomical.
But what is certain is that when the environment in the west of the Loess Plateau is improved, the environment in the Loess Plateau will also be greatly improved, which will play a huge role in the work of the Lucky Light Environmental Management Company.
As for Qinghai, which is also located in the east, he did not elaborate too much. Due to the Altyn Mountains and Qilian Mountains, although the transformation of the Tarim Basin will have an impact on the climate of Qinghai, the extent of the impact is not yet certain.
However, the population density in Qinghai is not high and it is located on a plateau. It is not the main source of environmental degradation in northern my country. Although there is also the Qaidam Desert, the impact is not significant.
Therefore, for the treatment of Qinghai area, the necessity of human intervention and transformation is much lower. The climate environment of Qinghai area can be slowly changed through natural methods.
"From the above data, we can conclude that the total investment in climate, soil, and water system modification in these areas will need to reach at least 2.2 trillion yuan.
After these works are completed, we will need to invest more funds to effectively develop and utilize these places. The scale of funds required may reach about three to five times the funds required to transform the environment.
Therefore, the total amount of funds involved in the environmental transformation and management construction of the entire northwest will be 10 trillion yuan, and the investment period will last at least 10 to 20 years.
Of course, the scale of investment is not small, and the returns in the future will also be very huge. First of all, it can completely solve the water shortage and rain shortage in the north.
The harsh environment in the north is mainly caused by too much desertified land and low rainfall. After this plan is completed, the north may have a climate as pleasant as the south.
Secondly, there is actually not much developable land in the north compared to the south. Before, there was less rainfall and more desert land. After the transformation plan is completed, the available land in our country will increase greatly.
Everyone knows that our country's future population will reach about 1.8 billion. Such a huge population requires a huge amount of food.
Although the offshore farms of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company are well constructed and the safety of staple food can be guaranteed to a certain extent, with the improvement of people's lives, the demand is no longer just to fill their stomachs, but also need other richer food supplies.
This extra available land will well support the Chinese people's needs for a diversified food structure and reduce our country's dependence on foreign food.
And judging from the size of our country's population, in fact no country can guarantee our country's food safety problems. Only by our own efforts in this area can we solve our own food safety problems.
As long as our country can fully guarantee food safety, our country's social stability will be guaranteed and we can avoid threats from the external environment.
Moreover, offshore farms are in a sea environment after all. Compared with land, the environment is a bit harsher, and the risk of unpredictable occurrences is much greater than on land.
Therefore, when it comes to ensuring food security, we need to walk on two legs. The first leg is to make full use of the technological advantages of offshore farms to solve the problem of insufficient land planting area for food in our country.
In this process, on the one hand, we are carrying out comprehensive food replacement work; on the other hand, we need to store a large amount of food. According to my point of view, we must store the food consumption required by the national residents for at least three years.
The other leg is to maintain the area of usable land in our country in a stable state. Although it may not be used to grow staple foods at present, once natural disasters and other reasons occur, the production of offshore farms will be reduced on a large scale or it will be unsustainable.
Then we will have enough time to convert the available terrestrial land into land that can be used for staple food cultivation and solve the crisis problem facing our country's staple food.
Although my idea is a bit unfounded, it does have to be guarded against. The most obvious one is that the ocean is contaminated by nuclear pollution, so food grown in the ocean environment must not be used for food. "
This was when Zhao thought of the Fukushima nuclear leak in Japan, although he didn't know whether Japan would discharge a large amount of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean because he had already traveled through it at that time.
But based on his understanding of the character of the Japanese, it is not impossible that they are a group of people who are loyal to Taoism but not poor. For the sake of their own petty profits, it is not impossible that they would not hesitate to drag the whole human race down. They are actually a group of people who do not have much responsibility.
He was not fooled by the glorious appearance of the Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's offshore farm. Although it is now very well run, it can obtain huge economic benefits every year and provide high-quality staple food products to the domestic people.
However, the risks faced by offshore farms cannot be ignored. Especially as a person who has lived in the past life, he understands very well that jealousy is not only a personal emotion, but also exists at the national level.
Although there are no problems with offshore farms now, it does not mean that there will not be problems in the future. Especially when international competition is at its fiercest, unexpected problems are likely to arise.
After all, the ocean does not belong to a certain country, and all oceans are seamlessly connected. It is not impossible to attack the offshore farms of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, and then attack our country's food supply.
Only by ensuring that our country's land area of cultivated land is sufficient to supply the food needs of all our people can we remain invincible.
It can also make people in other countries understand that this method cannot truly attack my country's food security. On the contrary, it will make Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's offshore farms safer.
Of course, normal people cannot do this kind of retaliation that harms others without benefiting oneself, but there is no absolute guarantee. There may be people with abnormal brains and government officials.
After Zhao Yi finished speaking, the leader of the Ministry of Water Resources asked: "Do you have any different opinions or suggestions on Academician Zhao's explanation?"
“Although this plan is expensive, overall, I think it is something worth doing, but more detailed certification is needed before doing it.
As mentioned earlier, using computers to simulate the evolution of the meteorological environment is an indispensable link. Even if the simulation effect is very good, we still need to conduct small-scale field experiments to see whether the expected rainfall effect can be achieved.
Only when we get more specific actual data will we formally launch relevant plans on a large scale, and we cannot launch them hastily. "said the leader of the Ministry of Land and Resources.
Zhao Yi nodded after hearing this. He had no intention of launching it directly on a large scale. He would first let Fluolight Environmental Management Company build a small-scale hydrogel production base in the cities on the edge of the Tianshan Mountains.
Then conduct experiments on the combination of hydrogel and high-density water vapor to see what the effect is. If a certain effect is really achieved, then large-scale construction can be carried out in the future.
Of course, if the effect is not as obvious as expected, it does not mean that all plans will be stopped. He has a golden finger and cannot replace the hydrogel with another substance, or use other methods to do this.
In short, with him, as long as he wants to do something, there is always a way to do it. He just needs the support of the government and private forces, so that it will be much easier to take action.
"I just noticed that you want to use explosives to flatten the dunes in the Taklimakan Desert to facilitate subsequent operations. What I want to say is that it seems difficult to do this with ordinary explosives," said one participant.
Of course, normal explosives cannot do this. You must know that it is not uncommon for the pyramid dunes in the Taklimakan Desert to reach a height of 300 meters.
It's hard to imagine how much explosives would be needed to flatten such a large sand dune, so it's not surprising that some of them have such questions.
"Not all of our sand dunes will be flattened. We need to conduct a detailed analysis based on the specific situation. After all, it is not a bad thing to occasionally have one or two high mountains on the plains.
Ordinary TNT explosives are definitely much less effective and require a very large amount. Although it is not convenient for me to go into too much detail here, I can still reveal a little.
China Military Industrial Company has explosives that are much more effective and powerful than TNT bombs. When this explosive explodes, it is not much different from a nuclear bomb, and it does not cause any pollution. " Zhao Yi explained.
This matter also starts with his development of pollution-free fireworks. He did not think of this at first. After all, the power of gunpowder in the modern military field is not small.
But in the process of researching fireworks, I simply beat two dates for one date and developed a new type of military explosives, and gave them not one kind, but two kinds.
The first is a total nitrogen metal explosive, and the other is a hydrogen metal explosive. Although the power of nitrogen metal explosives is three to four times lower than that of hydrogen metal explosives, the cost is also much lower.
Through the technology he gave, the cost of nitrogen metal explosives is almost the same as that of TNT explosives, but its power is more than ten times that of TNT explosives.
China Military Industrial Corporation has planned to replace all current missile explosives with nitrogen metal explosives and has begun to provide such explosive products to domestic military industrial companies.
Since it involves military secrets, no information has been disclosed to the outside world. Since the people present have nothing to do with the military field, it is normal for them to not understand the situation.
If nitrogen metal explosives will be used as conventional military explosives in the future, then hydrogen metal explosives are not only more powerful, but also much more expensive than nitrogen metal explosives, so they can be used in strategic weapons.
Because these new explosives are not only extremely powerful, they already have the explosive power of a nuclear bomb, but at the same time do not have the nuclear pollution of a nuclear bomb, and can break through the international community's restrictions on the use of nuclear bombs.
More importantly, our country's rockets, missiles, etc. only need to carry warheads with smaller size and weight, which can reach or even surpass other conventional warheads, which can give our country more room for weapon design.
Since there are two advanced new explosives, hydrogen metal explosives are more powerful and have greater strategic value. Therefore, the confidentiality of the less powerful nitrogen metal bombs is relatively low.
As long as safety and confidentiality are maintained during use, there is still a great possibility of using it in the economic field. This is why he was so confident just now.
When everyone heard that explosives were classified as confidential, they stopped entangled in these details and avoided asking questions that they shouldn't ask. (End of chapter)