Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 137 Circum-Equatorial Clean Energy Complex
The world continues to move forward at an accelerated pace, and for Jiang Yang, it can be described as truly changing with each passing day.

Every time I wake up, the world I see is different.

He watched as one popular star after another rose to fame like a rocket, shining brightly and gaining countless fans, enjoying unparalleled popularity for a time, but after only a dozen or so hibernations, they faded into obscurity and were never mentioned again.

He saw one after another trendy shop and brand after another appear like a thunderclap in spring, leading the trend and attracting countless people to check in. But after only a dozen or so hibernations, they became deserted and left in a mess.
He saw that those grand plans, which had only appeared a month ago, instantly sparked heated discussions in society, but after only one or two cycles, they lost all their fervor, attracting no attention from ordinary people except for professionals. And after only a few dozen hibernations, those incredible and magnificent projects finally came to fruition, quietly changing a part of the human world;

He saw that world governments were becoming more popular and authoritative, and that the world was functioning more smoothly.
He saw all sorts of scientific and technological breakthroughs emerge like fireworks, at a dazzling speed, one after another, seemingly never stopping.

He saw so much.

Those living in it might not feel the speed of these changes. After all, information overload is a normal phenomenon in society.

Only by stepping back like myself and looking at things from an observer's perspective can one truly appreciate how rapid the development has been over the years.

Only now did Jiang Yang truly realize how prescient the person who suggested forming a small group of people he knew to hibernate with him, instead of letting him hibernate alone, had been.

If it weren't for so many people with him, he couldn't imagine how lonely he would be.

This loneliness is not physical loneliness.

In fact, no matter how society changes, one's existence is always similar to that of a "national treasure," and any government will do its utmost to meet all one's demands.

Are you afraid of being alone?
It's okay, there will be thousands of people with you every moment, and you can be sure that every companion will treat you with utmost respect and will meet any of your needs anytime, anywhere.

But this is useless.

Spiritual loneliness cannot be alleviated in this way.

Fortunately, I have a small group of people around me who are from the same era and in the same situation.

Jiang Yang felt that his connection with the specific people and things in this world was becoming weaker and weaker.

Not only him, but he also knew that everyone in the hibernation team felt the same way.

Zhou Yu's father, that very interesting old man, also passed away peacefully five years after his wife's death.
Sun Changhe's grandson is now in his fifties and will soon have his own grandchildren.

After one of his awakenings, Sun Changhe made a special trip to visit his grandson and great-grandson, but this visit failed to lift his spirits.

He didn't say exactly what happened. But since then, he never mentioned visiting again.

Jiang Yang had his own guesses, and it was really just that: although there was still a blood connection, the two sides were already strangers.

In that family, Sun Changhe was just an "outsider".

Further contact will only make things awkward for both parties.

The same applies to the rest of the team.

The connection between each member and those specific people and things is weakening, and the ties in the mundane world are becoming fewer and fewer.

At the same time, people can clearly feel that they are becoming increasingly close to the concept of "human civilization" as a whole.

It's like this: in real life, I can hate many people, like many people, and be indifferent to most strangers. But when all these people I like, hate, and am indifferent to combine into the concept of "motherland," I can be willing to give my life for it without hesitation.

Today, the concept of "motherland" has been replaced by "human civilization".

Ensuring the continuation of civilization and safeguarding its development is the only remaining duty and mission in our lives.

Time continues to fly by, and the cycle of hibernation and awakening continues.

Upon waking up this time, Jiang Yang received good news.

The equatorial clean energy complex has been completed.

This news is more significant and meaningful than previous awakenings from hibernation, such as the successful manned landing and return to Mars, the completion of a permanent lunar base and the arrival of the first batch of 15 astronauts, the ongoing excavation of the underground cavity, the establishment of a four-in-one risk monitoring network covering space, the sky, the surface, and underground, and the rapid progress of the underground base cluster, which now has more than 5000 large, medium and small bases that can accommodate about 10 billion people in case of emergency. Moreover, more underground bases are under construction.

This time, the shopping trip was cancelled upon awakening. Within a limited time, people flew to the vicinity of the Earth's equator, and then dozens of helicopters were brought in to carry everyone to this unprecedented and magnificent spectacle.

Jiang Yang looked down and saw countless photovoltaic panels, as vast as an ocean.

As the helicopter continued its flight, he came to see a windmill field made up of countless windmills.

Upon arriving at the ocean, in addition to the windmill fields, he also saw a large number of floating devices.

That's a surge generator.

Meanwhile, one after another, objects resembling airships floated in the sky.

He knew it was a high-altitude wind power generation device.

An endless array of clean energy devices stretches out like a giant dragon, almost circling the Earth.

Jiang Yang knew that even though this giant dragon was already so huge, it was only a part of this great project.

In those desert areas on Earth that were previously unusable, solar panels are now forming oceans, and windmills are turning in the wind among towering mountains.

In this way, when one side of the Earth is in daylight, the wind weakens and the sunlight strengthens, allowing the photovoltaic panels to work effectively; when the other side of the Earth is in darkness, the wind power generation devices will be able to operate.

Power can be conveniently allocated between different regions under varying light and wind conditions, and supplied to any location in the world through ultra-high voltage power transmission systems that are distributed globally.

Sun Changhe, sitting in front of Jiang Yang, spoke with deep emotion: "We started planning the Equatorial Clean Energy Complex and the Global Power Transmission and Distribution Network more than a hundred years ago."

If this project is completed, it will completely solve the global energy crisis, and there will be no more energy pollution or power shortages.

Even the food crisis will cease to exist. This abundant electricity, coupled with large-scale starch synthesis equipment, will enable the continuous production of food around the clock, eliminating the need for humans to cultivate and graze on the land at the expense of environmental destruction.

We have been planning this project for many years, but we have not been able to actually move it forward.

Now that the world government has been established, this project has finally come to fruition...

(End of this chapter)