Chapter 221: Asteroid Mining
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Time flies, and in August 2016, the second phase of the construction of Huanyu Xinghai City, which was expanded by Huanyu Company, has been completed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In these two phases of the project, all of them were expanded into factories, and the equipment for the expansion of the factory, Yang Yu had prepared it before he hibernated, and some of these equipment were exchanged by him and placed on the top floor of Huanyu Xinghai City and built some zero-hour sheds to shield it.
Others were exchanged for places on ships, which were improvised and were nothing more than an empty hull, without any power plant or other equipment inside.
The main function of these ships is to store all kinds of manufacturing equipment exchanged by Yang Yu, and to manufacture this kind of ship without any power units and equipment, with the strong manufacturing capacity that Yang Yu's factory currently has, it took a few days to build hundreds of offshore warehouses with a width and length of more than 1,000 meters.
These warehouses are all made of super-extruded material and are also hexagonal in shape, because the hexagonal shapes are more convenient to connect with each other.
Now, with the completion of the construction of the second phase of the city in August 2016, the expansion of the factory and the construction of the space spacecraft have officially begun.
In February 2017, the first HY-K001 spacecraft named by Yang Yu also completed all the construction work, and then this is the first real aerospace vehicle in human history was officially born and began to fly test.
When the HY-K001 spacecraft gradually rises and enters outer space, it means that mankind is about to enter a real interstellar civilization.
After the HY-K001 spacecraft successfully entered outer space, netizens on the Internet also began to discuss it: "Huanyu has now completed the manufacture and test flight of the first HY-K001 spacecraft, then the asteroid mining plan should start next, at this rate, the International Space Station and the moon base can be completed within 10 years, and maybe we ordinary people will have the opportunity to travel to outer space at that time." ”
"I believe that the construction of the International Space Station and the moon base will be completed within 10 years, but I think it is still unlikely that ordinary people will travel and live in outer space within 10 years, after all, the specific cost is certainly not low, and perhaps only those who have the money have such an opportunity. ”
Before that, there was a lot of talk about human Martian migration, lunar migration, and space tourism, but these plans were empty talk before, and they were news created by some experts, scholars and the media.
Now, with the successful test flight of the HY-K001 spacecraft, these ideas are not just ideas, but plans that can be realized.
However, these plans can be realized, but they cannot be fully opened to all mankind in the short term.
Therefore, for a long time in the future, only elites and wealthy people in various fields of human society will be able to go to outer space on earth, and ordinary people still do not have this opportunity to see the style of space.
Because for a long time in the future, although Huanyu has the ability to send humans to the moon and Mars, because neither the moon nor Mars can allow humans to live normally, during this time, human beings who can leave the earth can only be scientific researchers in various fields.
Among the series of space programs formulated by Yang Yu, another plan is to find a planet suitable for human habitation outside the solar system through a deep space telescope, which has been sent to space for a year.
However, so far, the space telescope has not found any living planets outside the solar system.
In May 2017, Peerworld's asteroid mining program began to enter into earnest.
At present, Uniworld has established several mining sites on an asteroid with a diameter of about two kilometers, which contains a variety of metal minerals, including many rare minerals that are very rare on Earth.
Therefore, Huanyu has now begun to use space spacecraft to transport a large amount of equipment and began to build a mineral smelting base in space, and the main material for building this smelting base is the kind of super expanded material that has been used in various fields.
However, due to the high breathability of this super-expanded material, after the construction of this material is completed, it is necessary to use other composite materials and metals to make the corresponding barrier treatment inside.
The overall shape of this smelting base is like a huge windmill, with three large blades around one and a shaft in the middle, all of which rotate around the axis in the middle.
The central axis is the entrance and exit of the ship, and the three 'blades' that rotate around the axis are the corresponding smelting plants.
There is no gravity in space, and it is obviously impossible to smelt various minerals in such an environment, so it is necessary to have a certain gravity in the factory to be able to operate the entire smelting plant normally.
In space, the centrifugal force generated by this continuous rotation around the axis is actually a way to obtain gravity, and it is also the easiest way to create a gravitational environment in space.
When the construction of this space smelting base containing three sets of C-class smelting equipment is completed, the various raw ores obtained by Universal on the asteroid will no longer need to be transported to Earth for smelting through space spacecraft.
Once mined, the ore will be transported directly to the axis of the smelting base by a small space carrier, and then the ore will be transported to the three smelting plants through the corresponding conveyor belts.
These small carriers that transport raw ore in space are a very simple transport device, because they are a gravity-free environment in space, and they can transport very large items with very little power.
Therefore, it is naturally not necessary to use the HY-K001 spacecraft for transportation, and the main role of the HY-K001 spacecraft is to transport various items to and from space and the earth.
For example, at the beginning, the HY-K001 aerospace spacecraft transported various equipment and materials to the space to build a smelting base, and transported the mining equipment to the asteroid for mining, and during the construction of this space smelting base, the raw ore mined on the asteroid was transported to the earth by the HY-K001 space spacecraft for smelting.
Therefore, up to now, most of the various raw materials required by Huanyu are no longer purchased externally, because these raw ores obtained from space can already meet the current internal consumption of Huanyu.
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