Chapter 17 Where are the seeds?
What happened on Earth was not much related to Chen Yu, and he did not care about these things that were separated from him by hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
After a few days, he had been in space for fifteen days, and had been live broadcasting the process of building a star ring by himself for twelve days. After more than ten days, he also paved a basic automated mining line and began to harvest minerals continuously.
With automated mining lines, Chen Yu now only needs to transport satellite mining arrays to mine them every day, and then compress the volume of the high-density ore, instead of mining by himself as hard as before.
The increase in output has undoubtedly greatly accelerated his construction process. Now he has started the construction of a space hydroponic farm.
In addition to building, Chen Yu is still conducting live broadcasts every day, communicating with the audience in the live broadcast room to avoid getting sick by himself.
"I just asked me to introduce what facilities I have now, so I will start with the construction platform and give you a systematic introduction." Chen Yu noticed that someone left a message asking him to introduce various facilities, but he did not refuse. Instead, he adjusted the lens of the smart terminal and pointed it out on it: "This T-shaped building is the construction platform. The 'one'-shaped flat panel on it is the storage, production, and refining module of the construction platform. The ore mined before was refined here, turned into raw materials to store, and then produced into various equipment I need.
As for the ‘丨’ below, it is the living compartment and two ship berths, which are also my current residence. The mining barge is also docked here. The berths on both sides of the ‘丨’ type, but although there are two berths, only one mining barge is currently parked here.”
This is the first time Chen Yu has shown the full picture of the construction platform to the audience in the live broadcast room, so the response in the live broadcast room was very enthusiastic.
Seeing that everyone was so interested in these facilities, Chen Yu naturally came to talk to the audience in the live broadcast room and continued to introduce: "In addition to building the platform, the pole more than 600 meters long you are seeing now is the control tower, which is responsible for providing energy for other facilities.
Near the control tower are satellite mining arrays, ore storage arrays, refining arrays and general storage arrays, and the unfolding space hydroponic farm. As for the solar wind collecting sails that everyone could see on Earth with the naked eye, it is currently used to provide energy for space hydroponic farms and block radiation from the sun."
This was also the decision made by Chen Yu after some thought after anchoring the space hydroponic farm.
He did not load the solar wind collecting sail into the airdrop pod and threw it back to earth, but planned to continue using it.
This is not to say that Chen Yu is reluctant to collect sails with a pair of solar wind. At the speed of obtaining materials now, he can make one every day, but although the materials are abundant now, they are not yet wasteable.
Moreover, solar wind collecting sails is still very useful for Chen Yu now.
On the one hand, it can obtain energy from the solar wind, making the control tower reactor that cannot operate at full capacity less burden. On the other hand, it is what Chen Yu said to block the radiation from the sun.
On the earth, frequent sunbathing is good for the body, and warm sunlight can also dispel the moisture generated in dark and humid environments, making people feel warm.
However, long-term exposure to excessively strong sunlight is also harmful. Excessively strong sunlight will accelerate the aging of the skin, darkening, and even sunburn and peeling.
The reason for these damage is the various rays in the sunlight.
The sunlight on earth is already very gentle. Humans only need sunshade equipment or apply sunscreen to their bodies to isolate the damage of various rays in the sun.
But in space, if you lose the protection of the Earth's atmosphere and face the various radiation in the universe, it is not as simple as tanning or sunburn. Protection is not simply sunscreen, but requires a thick space suit.
Even if people are like this, plants are naturally even more so.
The sun itself is an extremely huge fusion reactor. It is constantly undergoing huge fusion reactions every moment, and it also releases a large number of rays.
These rays have an impact on the genes and traits of animals and plants. Space agriculture on Earth studies what kind of mutations will occur in the space radiation environment, screening out the undesirable mutations or variants that are not required for agricultural production, leaving only the benign mutations required for agricultural production.
But for Chen Yu, his space hydroponic farm needs stable agricultural output, and he still respects the current situation of mutant crops.
Therefore, it is necessary to cover the entire space hydroponic farm and reduce the solar wind collecting sails from the sun's radiation.
After Chen Yu's explanation, everyone also learned about Chen Yu's purpose of doing this, and said that "I learned it" and "the useless knowledge has increased again."
Chen Yu just laughed it off. After all, the vast number of silly netizens have a virtue. As a UP host, he also knows it. He is already very grateful that he does not have the "next time" full of screens.
At the same time, the space hydroponic farm was finally launched and the anchoring was completed.
Seeing this, Chen Yu hurriedly drove the mining barge near the newly anchored space hydroponic farm and then entered the hydroponic farm.
In theory, space hydroponic farms do not have much essential differences from soilless cultivation on the earth. They are all made through artificial technology to create a space suitable for crop growth, so that they can grow in the optimal environment and not be affected by changes in the natural environment, thereby achieving the maximum theoretical output.
However, the space environment is undoubtedly thousands of times worse than the environment on the earth, which also makes the space farms much more stringent in terms of architectural requirements than the greenhouses on the earth.
Both building structures and materials have amazing requirements.
As for Earth Technology, it is easy to build a greenhouse as big as the space farm where Chen Yu is now, but it is impossible to build such a large space building.
Neither resources nor technology can be achieved.
Because the entire space hydroponic farm, the internal space is a huge space that is 500 meters long, 300 meters wide and 50 meters high, which is even enough to package the entire International Space Station, the largest artificial celestial body currently in orbit, in the world.
But at this moment, Chen Yu looked at the hydroponic farm with a look of at a loss, not knowing what to do.
The hydroponic farm was built, and he also made reserves of the water resources needed in advance, but what about the seeds? The space farm is just a construction, and he has to do the seeds himself.
Chapter completed!