Solaris helped adjust the artifact book, and this time the changes were slightly bigger.
There are not many usable pages in the first edition of the artifact book, less than 400 pages. The pages are closer to coated paper, thicker, and the total weight is more than ten kilograms.
After adjustment, it weighs nearly thirty kilograms, comes with dozens of pages of instructions, extra book pages, and even a large seed.
It was a bit unexpected to see Big Seed again. Wang Qi asked on the spot: "Isn't it recycled?"
The answer was: "You know the difference between seeds, there is no need to ask."
Wang Qi was a little confused. He didn't realize until he sent Solaris away. It should be due to the difference in the autonomy of "Plasma".
As long as data is poured into the seeds of the Royal Court Tree, it will grow according to the steps. Whether or not the seeds are used as "switches" does not seem to have a direct impact, and the growth plan will be completed. The outpost tree is much worse. Once the seeds are removed, no matter what subsequent functions are not completed, development will stop.
An extra seed is always a good thing anyway.
In the instructions section, Solaris gives a plan for metalizing wood.
In the conference room of the main hall in front, Wang Qi made a real-time model of the Wangting tree. The thing was colored with metal, but it did not improve the structural strength. It was just a way of metabolic enrichment. The effect was similar to painting.
In addition, Wang Qi also modified the siliceous cell wall according to the morphology of diatoms, and the effect was not bad. However, the silica wall cells are mediocre as a structure, and are actually just equivalent to a layer of inferior concrete on the inside and outside of the wood.
The next megastructure will have a bottom area of 150 square kilometers.
Not counting the supporting structure, based on the 24 cm thickness of the concrete road pouring structure and the density of jellyfish wood before drying of less than 0.6, we can get a total weight of 20.88 million tons!
Obviously, it is impossible for a 24-centimeter-thick wooden board to support a huge structure on the lake. When Wang Qi made conceptual calculations, he planned to make the floor thickness about three meters...of course, it would also need to be matched with a huge underwater support root system.
Calculated in this way, after deducting the underwater buoyancy deduction, the first floor of the platform has to bear a weight of 150 million tons. Adding a second and third floor to it will be very scary. In the end, it may be a quarter of the 150 square kilometers. It must become a second or third layer of support.
A giant structure of this scale cannot be afforded by silicon wall cells that can easily crack, and a real metallization solution is required.
Wang Qi can use the biological properties of the artifact seeds to metalize the cell walls, but if he really does this, he will still encounter problems similar to those of silicon-walled cells. Insufficient or even severed exchange of internal and external materials will cause the cells to die and become dead bodies.
The silicon wall cells are now mainly in the underground part. When they become dead, they are equivalent to turning into porous quartzite, which has no impact on the tree.
When placed on a giant structure, with the strength of the silicon wall cells and their inactivity, big problems would arise.
In short, he really couldn't use the existing results to arrange a safe enough city, so he needed Solaris' knowledge investment.
The solution given by Solaris is a non-enclosed metal wall cell structure.
Its special feature is the shape of the metalized part, which is a special-shaped curved surface that can provide strong structural support when cells are alive. However, after the cell activity is lost and the organic matter is hollowed out by wind or other reasons, the metal curved surface will naturally stack. Forming a stable honeycomb-like structure that will not collapse.
Wang Qi took some active samples of the trunk of the Wangting tree and calculated the stress characteristics of the curved metal wall based on the positioning accuracy of the cell growth. The results obtained were very exaggerated.
Taking iron, which is relatively easy for living organisms to process, as an example, to ensure wind and earthquake resistance, the cell wall composition needs to be close to that of low carbon steel, and the strength of the cold-rolled steel with the best sales in the iron factory is brought in. The supporting force formed is about that of a jellyfish. 35 times that of wood.
It may not seem like much, but it is really exaggerated. The strength of metal and cell walls composed mainly of carbohydrates is not that different at the microscopic level. Eighty percent of the success is attributed to this strange curved surface.
It is not easy to calculate such a surface using a computer. Apart from biotechnology, Wang Qi could not think of any other way to create it.
This is not over yet, Solaris seems to be considering
To the problem of metal crystal phase structure, the cell body structure of the inner circulation magic array is given.
It is not the same kind of metal wall cell. When placed on a tree, the difference is the bark and the trunk.
Its function is to be able to adjust to the required magic array at any time, absorb natural magic power at a lower power, and transform metal.
The effect is equivalent to quenching and tempering, which determines the current distribution of rigidity and toughness of wall cells according to different needs.
Solaris also thoughtfully illustrated the intracellular organs that absorb magic power next to the cross-sectional diagram of the cell, and even marked a few small dots - footballene.
Therefore, for a life like Solaris that can recognize basic particles, it is not a secret that footballene can absorb magic power.
Is it possible to mass-produce footballene through this kind of cells?
The physical and chemical properties of footballene are very excellent. The disadvantage is that the finished product is difficult to be 100% separated from its raw material graphite. At least the current technology and knowledge accumulation are completely insufficient.
If it were changed to biological manufacturing, things might become much simpler. Maybe I would mark this little thing specifically to remind him on purpose?
Regardless of whether there is the possibility of biomass production, new big seeds must be planted first.
But there is still far from a suitable planting environment.
On the pretext of finding a new residence for "Great Mother", Wang Qi and Li Xiang rode white horns to the artificial reservoir area to take a look.
It's really... a mess.
Now, half a year after the second phase of the project, the central cooling tower has been started again in short cycle mode.
The so-called short circulation means that the water does not take the northern route to the Ice Forest, but only connects to the New City and Yinghuo City, and then uses the artificial forest on the mountain north of the reservoir and the cooling tower's own heat dissipation system to cool the water.
The water pipes in the reservoir area do not have outer insulation. The cold water pipes will condense air and flow into the reservoir. The ice forest in the reservoir area can also flow a little, but the total amount is not much. It may only be one or two hundred cubic meters of water per hour.
When the two came to visit the reservoir, the maximum water depth was less than 20 meters.
The water depth of twenty meters is a very large flow in the river, but this is a hilly reservoir with a maximum water storage depth of more than one hundred meters. Now this does not account for 3% of the total water storage. If according to the giant structure From the concept of a city, only 1.5% of the city's water body is water.
And it was just a little water, because there was a lot of rotten wood in it, making it look very sloppy.
The reservoir area was originally a volcanic hot wind zone. The temperature of the hot wind can exceed 60 degrees, and basically no vegetation survives. However, after the volcano extinguished, due to the strong fertility of the accumulated volcanic ash, it quickly turned into a forest area. Now the trees at the bottom are soaked to death. .
"It's a bit stinky." Li Xiang was disgusted.
Wang Qi thought it was okay: "It's too early to salvage these things now. We have to wait until there is more water."
The water level of the reservoir is not enough, and the dock will soon be submerged when built. Moreover, the water depth is not enough, and the roots of the trees are still in the soil, making it difficult to get rid of it.
"How long will it take to get this little water?"
"Use the magic circle."
