Chapter 310: Mobile base·Under planning

The Snow Country Train is both a train and a science fiction work. The train itself is the most important stage in this science fiction work.
In the original work of "Snow Country Train", Blue Star turned into a cold for some unknown reason. In the end, the surviving humans squeezed on a non-stop train driven by a perpetual motion machine, and the train just stopped. Humans will freeze to death, so the train has been moving forward, endlessly.
On the train, the rich live a life indistinguishable from before the disaster. Coffee, tobacco, botanical gardens, aquariums, libraries...everything in the past is enjoyed by the rich as they should, while the poor at the bottom Living in the last-class carriage, relying on protein blocks made of cockroaches to survive, must endure the torture of crowding, filth and hunger, and live a life without dignity.
This is a rather dystopian science fiction work, which depicts the huge difference in life between the rich and the poor and the polarization of social class in an extremely ironic way. It is a fairly classic work.
Of course, for Chen Xinhe and the staff on the train, it is of little practical significance. Although the current environment of Blue Star is also an extremely cold hell, it is even worse than described in the original "Snow Country Train", but Blue Star The surviving humans in Shanghai have not yet reached the point where they need to squeeze on a train to survive, especially a train driven by an impossible thing like a perpetual motion machine.
However, the concept of Snow Country Train is desirable. In today's harsh environment, humans need rail transportation. Trains that can operate normally in this environment are very important, and Snow Country Train is a good reference object.
"The design tasks required by the state include the planning of mobile shelters, which is to develop permanent or long-term residential trains based on railways and move along the railway to transport survivors from the north to the south with a better environment. Or simply drive along the railway line.
The staff did not hide this matter, and this is not something that needs to be kept secret.
Regarding this topic, Chen Xin thought for a while and shook his head and said,
It’s too expensive to travel along the railway. Without mentioning how you provide enough food for the survivors on the train, the number of people that a train can carry is no more than one to two thousand. People only.
Taking into account the need to carry supplies to ensure survival, a train can guarantee the survival of hundreds of people is already very impressive, and the cost of keeping the train running is enough to build a shelter that can accommodate more people. "
"That's right, but it can be considered as a backup plan. After all, in case something really needs to happen, it is always good to be prepared." The staff naturally understands that the construction of a column can accommodate several hundred. How much resources are needed to survive the train, but as he said, it is better to be prepared instead of used, not available and not prepared.
Chen Xin agrees with this. Science and technology will never be too small but not too much. If someone thinks that technology has reached its peak and humans will no longer have new inventions, it will only be that some people's brains are not so good.
So for the Snow Country Train, Chen Xin also gave some suggestions of his own.
After all, he is a fiction writer. Chen Xin may not have as much knowledge as scientists in certain aspects, but he does not lose to those scientists in creativity, and even because of his profession, he has more inspiration.
The staff were also very interested in Chen Xin’s suggestions. After recording some of the feasible ideas, the staff was very interested in inviting Chen Xin to go to Jianning’s train factory when he had time. Participate in the development and design of Snow Country Train.
Chen Xin was very interested in this, but he did not agree directly, only that he would consider the past when he had time. After all, he still has a lot of things here.
As for the reason for accepting the invitation, it is because Chen Xin thought of a more feasible but also more difficult setting from the Snow Country Train's vision, that is, a mobile base.
This is a setting that is more common than the Snow Country Train in various science fiction or fantasy works, and it appears in many games, novels, comics, and film and television works.
The small one might be a car, similar to Chen Xin's own RV, but the larger one might be the super-large units like Rhode Island, the mobile city-state, and the floating city.
A small mobile base is easy to realize, and with modern technology, it is not too much trouble to create.
As for the larger mobile base, it is not that there is no such thing. For example, an aircraft carrier can be regarded as a mobile base swimming in the water.
But in addition to these, it is somewhat difficult to build a land mobile base similar to Rhode Island.
It's not that it can't be made, but that there is no suitable road for such a big thing. Not to mention the structure, materials, shock absorption, energy, life support...A series of problems are restricting the mobile base on the landing ground.
However, these problems may be constraints and troubles for others, but for Chen Xin, they are not a problem at all. The big deal is system upgrades, which can be created anyway.
It's just that Chen Xin turned his head and thought about it. It seemed that he didn't need to build such a thing, or that he didn't need to build such a big one.
The mobile base is not a necessity for him, it is just to take his family to avoid the disaster when there may be an irreversible disaster~EbookFREE.me~, so there is no need to accommodate too many people. At the same time, there is no need to build too much.
So he doesn't necessarily really want to build Rhode Island, just a mobile base vehicle.
After turning a few thoughts in his mind, Chen Xin did not intend to put this idea into practice immediately. After all, mobile bases are different from fixed refuges. There are so many things involved, even if Chen Xin can now obtain them from the country. Help and resource support, it is impossible to easily create a mobile base for use.
However, he feels that when upgrading his refuge in the future, he can appropriately add some functions, integrate the structure of the existing refuge, and slowly adjust it in the direction of the mobile base. Maybe after several upgrades, it It can become a mobile base and go everywhere.
When Chen Xin was thinking about where he would go when he had a mobile base in the future, he and his staff finally walked to the front of the train and saw the nuclear reactor in operation.
"This is the nuclear reactor of this car. It can currently provide up to 35MW of output power. We are only running it at 70% power." The staff is obviously very concerned about this nuclear reactor, which is less than a six-seat minivan. Satisfaction and pride.