Sprint 6,500 meters of engineering construction what are the difficulties
1. Personnel safety. Most of the technical engineers are mainlanders. They live in low-altitude areas and work in high-altitude areas for a long time. If their physical condition is not good, they will be prone to pulmonary edema and brain edema, which will endanger their lives.
2. Material transportation. Materials that can be transported by vehicle can only be transported up to 5,200 meters, and then all the way up can only be transported by people's backs and local Tibetan yaks, and it is also very expensive.
3. The problem of generating electricity, which is so simple in the plain, has become a technical difficulty at such a high altitude. Everest is snow all the year round, if using solar panels, snow would be easy to put the solar panel cover, although now are generators at work, but the oxygen content is low, leads to the generator output efficiency is very low, only about 20% of the low altitude area, so in the original basis to use four to five times more generators to maintain a set of equipment operation.
Given the difficulties, why invest in a 5G base station on a mountain that seems so far from our daily lives?
An article on the Internet questioned whether the cost of building a 5G base station on Everest is very low. The answer, of course, is no. 5G should not only look at the economic value of Everest, but also see the social value. China's 5G technology can also make people feel proud to climb Everest."
Xiang Ligang, a Chinese communications expert, said tens of thousands of people visit the mountain each summer, and it is important for climbers who want to go further to the summit to know the exact location of their companions. Xiang told reporters that in the past, team members sometimes communicated with each other by satellite phone, but satellite phone is very expensive, if 5G signal coverage of Everest, communications costs can be greatly reduced, "if you are a mountaineer, do you want to go up after the live broadcast? Do you want to talk to your family?" 'These things weren't done before,' Mr. Xiang says. 'Now they're very valuable to every mountaineer.' Xiang said that 5G signal coverage is also of great significance for scientific research activities such as climate and environmental monitoring. "If cameras or a variety of environmental monitoring instruments are placed on them to obtain the freshest information at the fastest speed, field data can be quickly obtained," he said. He believes that 5G construction on Mount Everest also offers lessons for communications and scientific research in other extreme environments.
