Chapter 78: Core Industries

Senior Brother Zhao smiled, "Our heat dissipation capacity isn't enough, leading to insufficient wastewater treatment capacity. Do you know how much water each of us has on average?"

Zhang Yuan shook his head.

Zhao Qingfeng held out his hand: "5 tons, the entire spaceship only has a little over two million tons of water, which averages out to only 5 tons per person. And how much does an average person on Earth have? 0.13 cubic kilometers, that is to say, 130 million tons."

"One person has fifty times the total amount we have!"

"Just think, with so little water, our self-purification capacity is almost zero. The water we use has to be processed across several levels, including drinking water, industrial water, domestic wastewater, and so on. Among these, drinking water needs to be distilled again—do you know how much energy that requires?"