“Something important happened.”
As soon as she said it was important, a big dog ran towards Benjamin.
Loki is the guardian of the Antarctic Inn.
Loki flirted with Captain Benjamin.
Even Benjamin doesn’t like his face.
“Come on time.”
When permission was granted, Diana grabbed my arm and walked out.
“Where are you going?”
There was no answer to the question. It’s just heading somewhere with a fierce momentum.
Thanks to Diena, I was able to tour the USA base in Antarctica again.
The facilities passed quickly in front of my eyes.
The US base had hospitals, gyms, post offices, pubs, and even Antarctic stations.
The place I arrived with her was an Antarctic ice cream shop.
This is the place I went to when I first came to the US base.
“Here… … ?”
“I thought I was just going to put up with it, but I keep thinking about it. No one knows when we will be able to eat again.”
Diana looked at me with sorrowful eyes.
“Then let’s eat quickly.”
“like.”
We walked into the store one step at a time.
The store owner Michael looked at me and said bluntly.
“You are here again.”
“I came here again because I remembered the taste of ice cream.”
to let u know that i been through a lot then i been going non stop with this practice for nothing
Michael frowned at my words. Even geeks can laugh.
“Two outlines of glacial ice cream.”
Diana shouted bingo.
to let u know that i been through a lot then i been going non stop with this practice for nothing
Michael made glacial ice cream with his lightning strokes.
Diana ate the ice cream as if inhaling it.
“Eat slowly.”
“No. Eat quickly so you can be on time.”
She ate ice cream in a frenzy. I also ate ice cream without losing.
We swallowed Antarctica in one bite.
It’s time to go out after emptying the ice cream.
Diana handed me a handkerchief.
“I had ice cream in my mouth.”
* * *
Returned to base in Chile.
It was late in the evening. They used Chilean Air Force planes, so they had to be on time.
Lee Jang-woo was waiting for me at the dorm.
he asked, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
“Is it good that I met Mohammad?”
“Very good.”
“I knew it would too.”
“Did you have a good time while I was away?”
“I suffered tremendously. I was educated on my own.”
Lee Jang-woo said with a yawn.
Just as he taught the crew at the base in Daehan, he taught me how to manage hydroponic facilities here.
“I told Carlos, but it was a little difficult.”
Carlos is the chef at the Chilean base. He said it was difficult to understand hydroponics.
“I’m going to let Carlos know as much as possible in the remaining time.”
The next morning we headed to the hydroponic plant.
“what? It has become a sea of water!”
Lee Jang-woo shouted with a surprised face.
I couldn’t control the water.
I went into the kitchen to get some cleaning tools.
Carlos followed us.
Carlos was restless as he looked at the bottom of the sea of water.
“I last checked… … .”
Carlos was sorry and didn’t know what to do. He seems to think it was his fault.
There was no time to say it wasn’t his fault.
First of all, I had to check.
I sent a signal to Lee Jang-woo with my eyes.
He took Carlos out.
The inspection began in silence.
Fortunately, there were no major problems with the crops and facilities.
The problem was elsewhere.
The solution of vertical cultivation has been lost.
I thought that the water circulation structure that falls from top to bottom like a fountain would be the solution for vertical cultivation.
Contrary to what I thought, it could not withstand the water pressure and the load of water.
Hydroponics plants are more difficult to build as they grow larger.
This is because it is difficult to grow vertically by stacking facilities up high in the sky.
It is also the reason why Plant Factory, a pioneer in hydroponics, has not yet succeeded in vertical cultivation.
I thought I was the only one who found the answer, but in the end it was a failure.
It was when I was heartbroken.
Water spurted out of the hose with a squeaking sound.
There seemed to be water leaking from somewhere.
I stopped the water with my finger.
That was then. An idea flashed in my mind.
I took my finger off the hose.
The water came out again.
It was like water from a sprayer.
I repeated the action two or three times.
It’s not a silly thing to do for fun.
I was chewing on ideas.
I thought I had failed, but I found a hole to spurt out.
I thought of a way to raise my hydroponics plant high in the sky.
It is a solution for vertical cultivation that no one has come up with.
great discovery
The smaller the hydroponic plant, the easier it is to make.
This is the reason that it was possible to make a bean sprout growing machine relatively easily.
Conversely, the larger the scale, the more difficult it is to build a facility.
Building a hydroponic plant like an apartment building is the most difficult task.
This is because the taller the facility, the more things to consider.
Water pressure and water load are issues.
For the salad container, I used a pipe. A single pipe supplies water and nutrients to the roots of the crop.
The reason that it was able to withstand the water pressure and the load of water was because it was manufactured with a three-tier height.
Water pressure and water loads were also taken into account when laying out the pipes. Stacking it higher than that could cause problems.
At the Chilean base, water was circulated in a fountain-like structure, so it could be manufactured without the proper equipment.
Then I did a little experiment. Small hydroponic cultivation facilities were stacked layer by layer as much as possible.
The results were satisfactory. I even imagined that it would be a solution for vertical cultivation.
That’s why I spoke confidently to Mohammad.
Contrary to expectations, the problem of water pressure and water load was again encountered.
Another problem was that the hydroponic cultivation facilities were built high.
Failure is the mother of success.
I found the answer in a situation where I became a sea of water. How to raise your hydroponics plant to the sky.
Coincidentally, I found the answer in a leaking hose. Water was gushing out of the hose like a sprayer.
The answer is spray.
Just spray water and nutrients just like spraying water from a sprayer.
Spraying water and nutrients to the roots of crops.
It was possible by making the tube through which water and nutrients pass through it as thin as a blood vessel. That way I was freed from the water pressure and the load of water.
Crops could be grown just by spraying at regular intervals.
It sprays water and nutrients like a mist from a tube that is as thin as a blood vessel.
This is the solution of vertical cultivation.
This is an idea that no one has come up with until now.
I shouted Eureka in my mind.
* * *
Jangwoo Lee was comforting Carlos.
I helped too.
It wasn’t really his fault.
“It’s not Carlos’ fault. There was a problem with the facility.”
“Still, I think it’s my fault… … .”
I gave scientific evidence and told him it wasn’t his fault. At that moment, Carlos’s expression brightened.
Carlos wiped the worries from his face and went back to the kitchen.
We had to get our growing facilities back to normal again.
“Jangwoo, I’ve been thinking about it.”
Lee Jang-woo did not share what he found immediately.
First of all, I decided to deal with the things in front of me.
“I think we need to adjust the height of the hydroponics plant a bit.”
Like an engineer, Lee Jang-woo understood exactly what I meant. He also understood that the water pressure and water load were the problem.
The work of lowering the stacked facilities has begun.
After three days, they return to the Korean base. The work had to be completed in a day or so.
The day passed like an hour. I was so engrossed in my work.
After work, I went into a restaurant with Lee Jang-woo.
Carlos was looking at us with conversion eyes.
“Today, I prepared food for two of you.”
“Food for us?”
“I prepared Korean food.”
Lee Jang-woo’s expression brightened at the word Korean food. It seems that Chilean food didn’t suit my palate.
“What kind of food is it?”
“Bibimbap with sprouts.”
Carlos said with a smile. After the flood, some sprouted vegetables were also harvested.
Carlos seems to have used it to make bibimbap.
Jang-Woo Lee sat down with a look of anticipation.
“This is Sprout Bibimbap, please enjoy it.”
It looked reasonable. It was similar to the visual we saw in Korea.
When I saw the food, my stomach rumbled.
After all, I ate lunch and went to work.
Everything seemed delicious.
“I will enjoy this food.”
I rubbed the rice and took a large bite.
As soon as I ate, I looked at Lee Jang-woo.
He was also looking at my face.
It was. The taste was a bit odd.
Carlos was also a face that sensed a strange air current.
“why? Doesn’t it taste good?”
“No, it doesn’t taste good. It’s been a long time since I ate bibimbap and I was so moved. I was surprised by the taste of what I ate in Korea.”
I looked at Lee Jang-woo and said. He also nodded.
Carlos seemed relieved then.
The taste was strange for a reason.
Bibimbap had chili sauce instead of red pepper paste.
It was spicy and pungent, but it didn’t taste like bibimbap.
Ironically, the Chilean crew enjoyed the chili bibimbap well.
Captain Benjamin and Diena burst into admiration.
“Korean bibimbap is really good.”
He smiled and nodded, but inside he was shouting that this was not bibimbap.
A cold sweat was running down his forehead.
“I think it would be good to eat bibimbap every day before Deok-myeong and Jang-woo leave.”
Diana looked at Carlos and cried.
“I will make bibimbap every day. Lots of sauce.”
I tried to manage my facial expression as much as possible.
Lee Jang-woo’s face turned pale.
* * *
That night, I told Lee Jang-woo the secret of the newly discovered hydroponics.
While listening to the story, Jang-woo Lee jumped up from the bed.
“It is a great discovery. How did you come up with that idea?”
“It’s a shift in thinking.”
“awesome! That way, I think it would be possible to build the facility higher.”
Jangwoo Lee understood my words at once.
He immediately took out his notebook.
I used a formula to calculate how high it could be stacked.
Jangwoo Lee opened his eyes and said.
“I don’t think it would be a problem to build a hydroponics plant with 50 layers. Maybe even more.”
“Then a large-scale hydroponics plant is fine, right?”
“It’s already large enough for just 50.”
“This is a secret, first of all.”
“Of course.”
Lee Jang-woo said cautiously.
This was different from the technology that made the bean sprout growing machine.
It is a technology that the plant factory could not even think of.
There was a risk of technology leakage.
It is a technology that will be preempted by obtaining an international patent.
* * *
It is the day we leave the Chilean base.
Until the day I left the base, I taught the Chileans how to manage hydroponics.
Chef Carlos was more passionate about education than anyone else.
Before I left the Chilean base, Captain Benjamin called me.
“You’ve been through a lot.”
“no. Thanks to you, I was introduced to Mohammad and it was a good time.”
“This is a personal gift.”
“A gift?”