Chapter 41: Extreme Cold
The person in charge said in a bleak tone: "Just like everywhere else, we have production limits here. We have too much oil to use up."
Zhou Cheng asked, "How deep do oil wells usually go in our oil fields?"
The person in charge said: "We are relatively shallow here, about 600 meters."
Liu Yu asked, "A shallower one, 600 meters?"
"Isn't 600 meters shallow? In their heyday, some oil wells could be dug several thousand meters deep. But now those wells are too uneconomical and have long been abandoned.
The oil in wells a few hundred meters deep can't be used up, so what's the point of using wells a few thousand meters deep?"
"This oil well... does it start seeping out on its own after digging to 600 meters? And can we just pump it out and use it?"
"It's not that simple."
The person in charge pointed to a huge machine in the distance and said, "That's a high-pressure water injection device.
Today's oil wells have generally been mined for so many years that there is no such high pressure underground, so crude oil cannot flow out at all.
What to do if the pressure is not enough? Inject water into the formation. By injecting water, the pressure will increase, and the crude oil can be squeezed out.
"If we don't use water injection equipment, we can't extract oil?"
"It's impossible to extract it. Nowadays, even with water injection equipment, it might not be possible to extract it. You still have to use that thing."
The person in charge pointed to a huge device in the distance and said, "That's a heat injection device, used to pump steam into the ground.
There are also microbial methods, chemical polymer methods, etc.
Water injection is secondary recovery. After the water injection, these tertiary recovery methods are used to barely extract all the crude oil from the ground. Those artesian wells you mentioned, wow, they existed in the world decades and centuries ago, but where are they now?
Zhou Cheng and Liu Yu looked at each other and nodded silently.
The answers we got from the coal mines and oil fields were similar to the ideas we had when we were conceiving the plan of human "self-castration" in the early days.
In order to prevent omissions, Zhou Cheng and his team visited several more oil fields and got similar answers again.
So, with only a few days left in their one-month deadline, the two returned to Dajing City, and the team disbanded.
Using the remaining few days, the two worked together to write out their plan in detail and completely, adding a large amount of information and data that was not previously available, and thoroughly sorting out the logic, and then submitted it.
The one-month deadline had expired, and the teams that had departed for various parts of the world gradually returned to Dajing City. Then, a meeting was convened again in the World Government Building.
After a month of self-improvement and examination, 9 of the original 17 plans were self-rejected and abandoned without review.
The remaining eight plans underwent another round of review.
The decision-maker who chaired the meeting announced: "Next, we will enter the public cross-examination phase. Participants can form their own teams to examine the eight options and raise questions and doubts during the final review phase one month later."
One month later, the scientific expedition team will reach its final conclusions and make a formal report to the world government."
Liu Yu looked at Zhou Cheng: "Let's go and take a look too."
"good."
The two then set off and came to a place where it was said that a giant volcano would erupt.
Looking at the hot spring emitting hot steam in front of me and the hot steam gushing out from the ground in the distance, the details of Plan No. 3 slowly flowed through my mind.
"Plan 3: Extremely cold weather.
Overview: By changing the tilt of the Earth's axis, the amount of solar energy received by the Earth would be reduced, lowering the global average temperature by more than 10 degrees Celsius. This would cause the Earth to enter an era of extreme cold.
An overly cold climate will greatly restrict human activities and change the human body physiologically, always limiting the population size to a lower level.
The combination of the harsh climate, the human body's constant low energy consumption to adapt to the extreme cold, and the relatively low population size will ensure that even under the most ideal conditions, human civilization can only maintain and inherit the current technological level, and will permanently lose the possibility of further developing science and technology.
1. How to change the Earth's inclination.
It's important to understand that even at the peak of human civilization, the ability to change the Earth's tilt is far from complete. The only viable method is to achieve this through indirect influence.
Bluestone is a massive volcano with enormous potential for eruption. Once it erupts, it will spew out a massive amount of ash, steam, and gas, potentially reaching far beyond the atmosphere.
An eruption of this magnitude would be able to change the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation to an ideal angle, reducing the amount of solar heat received by the Earth.
At the same time, huge amounts of volcanic ash will reflect sunlight, effectively lowering the earth's temperature in the early stages of the eruption.
By then, the ocean will be covered by ice sheets, plunging the world into extreme cold. The ocean ice sheets have a higher reflectivity, and even if the volcanic ash dissipates, they can still take on the task of reducing the solar energy.
The change in the Earth's tilt, coupled with the reflection of the ice sheet, will cause the Earth to fall into extremely low temperatures for millions of years or even longer.
Second, how to make the Bluestone volcano erupt in a controlled manner.
We have conducted extensive investigations into the geological environment surrounding the Bluestone Volcano. Combining this with data from the Peak Era survey and using supercomputer simulations, we have ultimately confirmed that we can use a 'multi-point directional detonation' method, using high-yield hydrogen bombs to simultaneously detonate the corresponding geological points. This will induce the Bluestone Volcano to erupt at a controlled time and location, achieving the desired effect.
3. The explosive yield required to induce a controlled eruption of Blue Rock Volcano.
According to model calculations, to achieve this, the explosion equivalent must be at least 23.5 billion tons of TNT equivalent.
We have comprehensively surveyed the nuclear arsenal left over from the heyday of the war, conducted on-site investigations into the preservation and maintenance of hydrogen bombs of various yields, and, in combination with expert opinions, ultimately concluded that the total equivalent of hydrogen bombs we can currently deploy is over 30 billion tons of TNT equivalent, which is fully sufficient to meet our needs.
In summary, we believe that the 'Extreme Freeze' scenario has a high probability of achieving the goal of 'preventing our civilization from developing technology, posing no threat to the Moon God, and eliminating future competition for survival with the Moon God's forces.'
"Let's go."
Zhou Cheng called out to Liu Yu, and the two of them headed towards several geological spots in the Blue Stone Volcano Park at the same time.
The corresponding geological exploration equipment is already operating there. Zhou Cheng, Liu Yu, and other members of the public cross-examination panel will conduct in-person surveys and perform computer simulations to confirm the feasibility of the plan.
When we entered the institute's hall, the members of the review team had already arrived in advance.
There was a screen in the hall, on which some clumps of different colors were moving, various complex data were constantly changing, and people were constantly talking in low voices.
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