After several years of operation, the current Northwest Research Center, or the Northwest Research Base as many people call it, has reached a certain scale. In the hinterland of the endless desert Gobi, an oasis with a radius of tens of kilometers has been formed.
The oasis is full of life, with various trees, flowers and plants everywhere, as well as various animals and birds that shuttle through the forest and swim in the water.
In this oasis, there are various large and small building facilities and basic service facilities. As well as the airport, there are also solar photovoltaic power stations surrounded by oases, solar thermal molten salt power stations, and various wind energy power stations scattered among the oases.
These facilities are connected by asphalt roads. These asphalt roads are horizontal and vertical, turning the entire Northwest Research Center into several grids.
An intelligent transportation system has been set up at each intersection to direct the operation of the entire park. In fact, Wu Hao and his colleagues experimented with the intelligent transportation system in the smart city system, including the prototype of the smart city, here.
Each intersection includes an intelligent traffic light system that can be independently adjusted according to the amount of traffic, identifying pedestrians and vehicles on the road, a safety monitoring system, and laser projection zebra crossing facilities at each intersection.
These zebra crossings are all projected using lasers. When the zebra crossings are formed, a red barrier will also be formed at the intersection to remind drivers that these roads are temporarily impassable.
This system can even regulate the projection changes of each lane to manage each lane in more detail. For example, the signs on these lanes can be changed according to the traffic flow, thereby controlling the traffic flow of each road connected to the intersection. The advantage of this is that it can avoid excessive traffic flow on a single road, resulting in congestion. occur.
Of course, at the Northwest Research Center, there is no need for these things. We are just conducting experiments here.
At present, the entire Northwest Research Center has approximately 30,000 employees. Most of these employees are scientific researchers, and in addition there are other administrative and service personnel.
Nearly 30,000 people, which is almost the population size of a small town, is also almost the number of people in a university. So in order to manage these people well, Wu Hao and the others also developed an intelligent management system for this type of research and development. This system The management system is different from the intelligent management system at the Linghu headquarters. It is more in line with the actual situation here.
With this intelligent management system, all personnel entering the base can be managed in a very detailed manner, such as attendance management of all personnel, peer authority management of all personnel, basic information services of all personnel, etc.
In addition to this intelligent management system, in order to ensure that these nearly 30,000 people have food, drink, sleep, and sleep, the base has a very complete life support system. For example, for food, there are not only several large restaurants distributed in the base to meet the daily dining needs of employees, but also a specialized supermarket. In addition to daily necessities and department stores, this supermarket also has a variety of vegetables and foods. Employees can order according to their own needs. Make a purchase.
The entire supermarket is quite large, with a full range of daily products. In addition to supermarkets, there are also shopping malls selling clothes, shoes, and all kinds of items.
Even to allow employees to relax, there are also special cafes, dessert shops, special entertainment and game halls, KTV, cinemas, etc.
All facilities are available.
As for drinking, the base’s water source is imported from more than a hundred miles away. At present, a lake covering more than ten square kilometers and a large area of wetland have been formed in the base.
The water source used by personnel is filtered and purified from here. It can basically meet the standard of direct drinking water. In order to ensure the safety of drinking water, there will be a system for real-time monitoring. Once a certain substance in the drinking water exceeds the standard, it will Alert the police immediately and automatically shut off all water supplies unless the problem is corrected.
And in order to deal with possible problems, the base has also made very complete response plans, such as activating backup plans and organizing fleets to collect water from hundreds of kilometers away, which can temporarily guarantee the water needs of personnel and equipment facilities in the base.
Of course, this is just a backup plan. An artificial lake as large as this, and under strict monitoring, is unlikely to have pollution problems.
As for the issue of excrement, in order to protect it completely and avoid pollution, all sewage in the base is subdivided into domestic sewage and production sewage.
The first is domestic sewage, which is basically gray water and black water used in daily life. When it was originally designed, the pipelines of the two systems were separated to facilitate treatment and meet environmental protection requirements.
First of all, these domestic gray water are basically water sources used in daily life, such as sewage from washing vegetables, washing and washing hands. These domestic gray water will be collected together and purified to filter out heavy metals, grease and other pollution. The materials will then be discharged into the field to serve as a water source for the field and nourish the growth of plants in the wetland.
As for the black water used in daily life, these are human excrement. These will also be transported by pipeline to a treatment plant several kilometers away, where they will be harmlessly treated and turned into various organic fertilizers for use in improving soil in the desert.
Although this is a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive, it can indeed effectively control these excrement pollution problems and protect the environment. It can also turn waste into treasure and help improve desert soil and plant trees to control desertification.
As for the sewage used in production, because the pollutants are relatively serious, more stringent treatment measures are needed to ensure that the sewage is well treated.
For example, there is sufficient sunshine in the desert and the amount of evaporation is relatively large. Therefore, the sewage will be funneled into some huge evaporation ponds, allowing sunlight to evaporate the sewage. In this way, the clean water vapor will evaporate away, leaving only the pollutants inside.
These pollutants include various oleochemical raw materials, heavy metals, etc., which will be re-refined and used or treated harmlessly.
This sewage treatment system has also been inspected by local, provincial, and national relevant departments and given high praise. It has also been listed as a national desert pollution control demonstration project and has become the focus of many enterprises and local inspections.
As for the last sleep, it is actually a matter of accommodation. In addition to high-standard apartments for employees, there are also some small apartments throughout the base to meet the living needs of some employees.
To put it bluntly, after several years of development, this place has slowly become a community, and this will also be the prototype of a city.
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