Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 145 2%
Upon hearing Sun Changhe's words, the leading expert in the field of geophysics showed a look of horror on his face: "Advisor Sun, this, this is impossible!"
Technological development has its own inherent laws, which cannot be ignored by forcibly piling up human and material resources!

Doing so will only lead to a series of disastrous consequences, and the failure rate alone cannot solve the problem:
Unlike traditional drilling equipment, ion drilling equipment is extremely troublesome to replace and maintain even if it is successfully developed. Just taking the equipment, which is thousands or tens of thousands of meters long, out of the wellhead can take one to two months.

This means that if a serious malfunction occurs, we won't have time to repair it, rendering all the initial work on the well useless! And we simply cannot guarantee that a serious malfunction won't occur!

Sun Changhe asked calmly, "So, in the best-case scenario, what is the minimum serious failure rate you can achieve for such a large-scale piece of equipment that was developed and put into operation urgently?"

This is a very complex problem. It is not only technical and engineering-related, but also involves speculation and understanding of the technologies that need to be urgently tackled next.

"I cannot make a judgment on my own; I need to discuss it further."

"it is good."

The leading expert hurriedly left the meeting room and convened the relevant scholars again to begin the discussion.

More than 30 minutes later, the expert went online again.

"At most, we can only control the serious failure rate to 98%."

Jiang Yang shook his head slightly.

A 98% serious failure rate means that on average, 98 out of every 100 units manufactured would experience a serious failure. That's far too high.

Sun Changhe's expression remained unchanged: "Then let's calculate based on a 2% rate of no serious failures."

To directly probe the mantle and obtain first-hand data, at least four deep wells of more than 20,000 meters are needed.

So, we'll trade quantity for success rate, and build 200 of these machines to excavate 200 deep wells simultaneously!
In addition, other unforeseen circumstances, such as complex geological environments and deep underground environments exceeding current estimates, should be considered, allowing for additional margin.

Then let's increase the quantity from 200 to 500!

"If we dig just four out of 500 deep wells simultaneously, we'll have achieved our goal!"

At that moment, the leading expert's expression suddenly froze.

The expressions of the hibernation team members, including Jiang Yang, remained unchanged throughout.

Having personally experienced the nationwide mobilization during the last apocalypse, these events no longer significantly affect their emotions.

But for researchers who are now accustomed to the smooth operation of this era, where everything is done in an orderly manner and in accordance with rules and regulations, this model is completely beyond their imagination.

Not only do they subconsciously reject such crazy solutions at the conceptual level, but even if such a solution is eventually proposed, they don't know how to implement it at the practical level.

Because we had never experienced this before, everything was unknown.

But there is a team of hibernators here at this moment.

Sun Changhe has extensive experience in promoting nationwide and civilized mobilization from the top level of administrative agencies, and knows which regulations should be introduced, how to adjust personnel, and how to mobilize resources in such situations.

Lu Zhaoming possesses extensive experience in organizing the scientific community and knows how to quickly mobilize the scientific community under extreme conditions to maximize its capabilities. In the previous cycle, Chen Yusheng, through Jiang Yang's repeated cycles of bringing back optimized engineering solutions, ultimately completed the task of building 292 rockets within 5 days, while ensuring a high success rate and quality. This gave him rich experience in engineering under extreme conditions, which he can now use to organize the large-scale rapid manufacturing of ion drilling equipment.
Gu Changshan has extensive military experience and knows how to allocate military forces to global logistical support and comprehensive support under extreme conditions in order to maximize efficiency.
Zhou Yu was aware of the psychological challenges that the public, research teams, engineering teams, and even leadership teams might face in the extreme environment of an impending apocalypse, and formulated strategies based on this to ensure the smooth operation of the entire team and the entire civilization.

The same applies to the rest of the hibernation team. They may not be involved in their areas of expertise for the time being, such as the chemical or steel industries, but as long as they exist, they will serve as a safety net.

Although, due to the gap of several decades, the hibernating individuals cannot seamlessly integrate into the existing administrative and research systems and directly replace the existing decision-makers and researchers in carrying out practical work.

However, as consultants, they can provide real-time assistance to people in this era, identifying gaps, offering advice, and doing their utmost to ensure the smooth progress of the overall plan.

Jiang Yang knew that this was the true meaning of the future plan's hibernator team.

Ignoring the expert who was stunned by his words, Sun Changhe looked seriously at the members of the World Government's council and decision-making group.

"This is the action recommendation of our Hibernator Advisory Group. We ask all council members and decision-makers to consider it."

The top-ranking decision-maker, who had an Eastern appearance, solemnly replied, "Received. We will consider it carefully."

Now, please give us 20 minutes.

The council and decision-making teams all went offline. They re-entered the internet 20 minutes later.

"On behalf of the World Government Delegation and Decision-Making Group, I fully agree with Director Sun's suggestion."

From this moment forward, the Doomsday Project Command Center is re-established, with Director Sun as Chief Advisor, Comrade Jiang Yang as Deputy Chief Advisor, Professor Lu Zhaoming as Scientific Advisor, Professor Chen Yusheng as Engineering Advisor, and Professor Zhou Yu as Social and Psychological Advisor…”

He announced a series of appointments, his voice still solemn and dignified: "Next, the World Government will lead and simultaneously advance the following projects with the power of civilization:

1. Earth exploration satellite launch plan.

The plan calls upon all existing satellite design and manufacturing institutions, rocket manufacturing institutions, and launch sites on Earth to coordinate matters related to the launch of at least one thousand Earth exploration satellites of various types into space orbit in the short term.
Second, a comprehensive global helium isotope monitoring system.

We mobilized relevant research institutes to quickly design standardized monitoring stations, mobilized capable manufacturers worldwide to quickly produce them, and after completing global geological surveys and site selection, we assembled engineering teams to go to the sites to install and connect them to the network.
Third, we will comprehensively promote the installation of deep well detectors.

We will investigate all existing deep wells worldwide, select those that meet our needs, and complete the repair, modification, and detector installation work in a short period of time.

Fourth, artificial seismic sources.

This part is managed by the military, with an unlimited supply of ammunition. If necessary, deep-sea torpedoes, missiles, bunker-buster bombs, and even nuclear weapons can be deployed.

five……"

He took a deep breath and softened his tone.

"This is the most important and also the most difficult part."

Mobilizing all relevant experts, research institutions, and factories worldwide, the design and manufacture of ion drilling equipment were completed within 36 days, and then... drilling operations for 500 ultra-deep wells were launched simultaneously!

(End of this chapter)