Food Crisis
Chapter 12:Food Crisis
The next day, a meeting of more than 300 people was held inside the base, with elites from the scientific community and representatives of skilled workers.
Yu Yifeng sat in front of the meeting, touched the horny hair, he slept through the night last night, after disbanding the fanatical crowd, he spent almost all night to understand the operation of the entire base.There are joys and worries, the situation is slightly better than expected, but it is not too good to see.
The ruling team in the base was killed by them, and they could only drive the ducks to the shelves, and temporarily established a government organization.
First of all, Calvin and others unexpectedly expressed their intention to obey themselves, and they were imprisoned for rebellion, and there was no resistance in the middle.He may have been brainwashed by himself, but it was a good thing.
The second good thing is that by Calvin, more than 20,000 people believe that Yi Feng is the legendary savior, and can save them... and the remaining 30,000 people, more than 5,000 of them were attacked by the mob, just saved by Yi Feng, who also became his loyal supporters.
Most of the others are hiding in underground facilities, although they are not on the scene, but they have also watched some videos, listened to some rumors, and are currently in a state of doubt.
In short, the public is generally stable.Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng has some headaches, in fact, he does not have a particularly big ambition, who wants to be the leader of the moon base, this is not forced...
As for the perfect and the secrets of the alien spacecraft, it seems that it has been completely exposed.But in addition to a small number of people have a reaction, the rest of the people are as numb, there is no special feeling, after all, to the moment before the life and death of the entire race, who still consider what life and so on.
If you die tomorrow, what is the point of living in 100 million years?
The real problem is... this is the real big problem!
Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng no longer hesitated, and opened with a low voice, "Gentlemen!I call everyone here, not for anything else, but for the survival of mankind!”
“At the moment, all positions at our lunar base are in a state of passive absenteeism.On the one hand, the reason is that the former top ruling officials were attacked, the base is unmanaged, and on the other hand, it is a psychological factor for people.”
"The earth is destroyed, each of us is full of sadness and despair, we need rest, we need comfort, there are countless emotions to vent..."
"I know that this time to let everyone go to work is very contrary to human nature.But all of you here are elite, and one thing to know is that we can no longer get supplies on Earth!And our lunar base, can not produce 50,000 people of living supplies!"
“We lack water, we lack oxygen, we lack food, we lack almost everything!”Yu Yifeng's voice is getting higher and higher, "Time is tight, the people we have survived, sitting so waiting to be seen, will lose the opportunity to survive..."
At this moment, Dr. Roman, who was sitting directly opposite him, spoke.He is the chief biologist in the base, but also Yu Yifeng more familiar people, "Captain Yi Feng, what you want to say directly."Although we live here for a long time, we have our own work and we do not know what is happening in the base.”
The voice fell, and some people around him nodded their heads.
"Well, then I'll tell you straight."Yu Yifeng said, “First of all, it is the food problem!”
"Suppose a person eats a pound of grain a day, our base of 50,000 people, a day to consume 25 tons of food!"However, we currently eat high-energy compressed foods rich in sugar and fat, which can be reduced by two-thirds, that is, about one tonne of food needs to be consumed every day.
Everyone around me nodded their heads, and the calculation was accurate.
"Before the destruction of the earth, our Victory spacecraft happened to transport 400 tons of food, plus the original base, about 700 tons ... that is, can only hold on for more than 90 days, even if you save a little, a hundred days!" 」
One hundred days, only one hundred days!In a hundred years, we will have a food crisis!Without food, I don’t have to explain it to the end, right?”
One hundred days, that is, a little more than three months, everyone was silent, and this time was too short!A feeling of burning eyebrows appeared in the heart in an instant.
The people here are all elite, smart and knowledgeable, and if they continue like this again... they seem to see themselves starving to death.When people are hungry, everything is done, what is the same kind of salience, easy to eat and so on, then it is really hell on earth.
“We need to hurry up and do something!”Yu Yifeng punched the steel table, "We still have time, there is still hope!"
Does the Moon have a food production base?Yes!However, the output is insignificant compared to the demand.
The moon's food base mainly produces agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits, because the taste of those high-energy foods is not very good, and they may be sick, so people need vegetables and fruits to improve their taste, and by the way, add some of the necessary fiber of the human body.
But even so, the price of these fruits and vegetables is staggeringly high, at least a hundred times that on Earth!
Other foods, of course, are not mass-produced, not only for technical reasons, but also because the production cost is too high, far less cheap than the earth.
“Captain Yifeng, maybe we can grow rice on a large scale!”The opening was a middle-aged man in his thirties, who was the head of the entire agricultural base and the one who knew best.
"If we don't take into account the cost, we can cultivate rice on a large scale!"There are some rice growing cycles around three months, and if it is properly cultivated, we can produce the first grain before the food crisis comes!”
Everyone listened, the spirit is a vibrating, soilless cultivation on the moon can be said to be a relatively mature technology, soilless rice per mu yield of more than a thousand pounds, the most important thing is that it is very economical site, the cultured dish can be layer by layer stacked up.If an acre of land can be cultivated up to ten layers, it can be said that it is worth a thousand pounds per acre!
According to this calculation, as long as 500 acres, that is, equivalent to 330,000 square meters of land, can feed 50,000 people.
But the voice did not fall, but a voice forcibly broke this illusion, is the chief biologist Dr. Roman, he said unceremoniously, "Mr. Cherff, I have to remind you that you think too simple!"Our food base is not so large, and it is feasible to scale up, but a series of subsequent supplies need to keep up.We need facilities, we need petri dishes, culture fluids, inorganic salts, floor-to-ceiling lamps, air conditioning, etc. ... It takes time.”
More importantly, CO2!This is not the Earth, we lack carbon dioxide!Have you ever wondered how plants grow without carbon dioxide?
"Everyone knows that most of the oxygen we breathe is produced by industrial production, and photosynthesis accounts for only a small part.As for the carbon dioxide produced by breathing these years, because it is not valued, most of it is lost because of air leakage!”
“The idea of expanding the food base was set aside for that reason.”,
The middle-aged man listened, sat down with a blue face, and he also recognized the importance of carbon dioxide.
“To solve this problem, we have to build a new ecosystem, a biosphere!”This is no longer such a simple problem to grow food, but a comprehensive and systematic problem!”Dr. Roman said out loud.
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