Chapter 855: A Colony Beginning to See

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The Aurora-20's deterrent power against the nations of the world is not applicable to the Northern Union. Although the Aurora-20 did not detect the existence of fighter planes in the United Nations Territory, they inherited the technology of Pan-Asian cooperation and could pose a lethal threat to the Aurora-20 with ground-based anti-aircraft missiles and laser anti-aircraft weapons.

If war breaks out, there will undoubtedly be a situation where the battlefields of both sides will be on the ground.

After staying in the last days for three days, Jiang Chen returned to the present world.

This time, he brought back ten Aurora-20s newly manufactured by the Sixth Block Military Factory, as well as a K1 mechanical exoskeleton production line newly built by the Zhao Group.

In the past, the mechanical exoskeletons on this side of the world were all produced by the military factory in the sixth block, and then Jiang Chen acted as a porter to pour the materials over there. However, now that the end of the world has to bear the pressure from the United Nations Region, and it is really a bit stretched to divide a small amount of production capacity to serve the present world.

Now the future military industry has begun to see the scale, fully capable of integrating this production line, following the hummingbird drone, another set of 22nd century arms production line settled on Anga Island.

The whole set of production equipment is spread out to tens of thousands of square meters, and Jiang Chen chose the coconut island he used to dock at Shuidi No. 1 as a "transshipment warehouse". After transferring all the equipment to the island, Jiang Chen called the transport ship of Transwarp Trade and dispatched a frigate to escort the equipment, and transported the equipment to Anga Island without pulling a single screw.

With the manpower and resources of the last days, there is an obvious bottleneck in the development of industry, but this bottleneck does not exist for the future human group. The Futures Mining will transport a steady stream of ore to the Singapore and Malaysia Special Economic Zones, where it will be roughed and shipped to Anga Island, where the Futures People's Army will refurnace the finished steel, smelt it into C-shaped steel and pour it into abrasives.

A more sophisticated interior will also be completed by the factory on Anga Island.

All the mechanical exoskeletons produced can not only fill the gap in the equipment of the currently expanding Foreign Legion, but also meet the needs of the three major NAC legions in the post-apocalyptic world. Because there has been no war for a long time, the exoskeleton penetration rate of several corps in the last days is not as good as in the present world.

It is believed that this dilemma will soon be improved.

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Two weeks have passed since the start of the lunar colonization program, and from the images transmitted from the moon, it can be seen that the lunar colony in Guanghan City has begun to take shape.

Several long barracks were placed on the edge of the crater, and colonists in spacesuits set up solar generators in open fields. Before the fusion generator was delivered to Guanghan City, they had to rely on solar energy to get the energy to keep the colony running.

Not far away, there are mines for drilling lunar ice and mines for collecting lunar soil.

Lunar ice was one of the sources of drinking water for the colonies, as well as the main source of oxygen for the colonies. The oxygen tanks carried on the ship were only enough for the twenty-four colonists to survive for a week, and for the rest of the day, all oxygen would be obtained by electrolysis of water.

As it stands, this is the least cost-effective way to get oxygen. 1 liter of water electrolysis can produce 0.623 cubic meters of oxygen, and 1.25 cubic meters of hydrogen. Based on the oxygen content of 15% of the air, the pure oxygen consumed by each person per day is only 0.5 cubic meters at normal atmospheric pressure. As for the by-product hydrogen, it will be stored in a special container, with the carbon dioxide produced by respiration under a high-temperature catalyst to produce methanol with a small amount of water.

Methanol will be used as an industrial feedstock in production.

This creates a simple cycle.

Of course, Jiang Chen sent them to the moon not just to let them solve the problem of how to survive. In addition to driving the lunar rover out to prospect for mines and maintain these life-supporting devices every day, they also shoulder the task of assisting ground scientists in scientific research.

And in all scientific research projects, the key is the helium-3 acquisition project!

The small mine that excavated the lunar soil was the one that shouldered such a heavy task.

Since there is no global "dipole magnetic field" protection on the moon, the solar wind containing carbon, nitrogen, helium, neon, argon, krypton and other rare gas ions can drive straight into the lunar surface for a long time, continuously bombarding the lunar surface and entering the lunar soil particles, so that the lunar soil is quite rich in helium3.

And as for the value of this energy, here is a set of data that can be intuitively expressed. One kilogram of helium-3, if used to generate electricity, produces 19 megawatts of energy, enough to power the lighting of the city of Moscow for six years. And only 10 tons of helium-3 are needed, and the power generation is enough for the entire country to use for a year!

In addition, for every 1 tonne of helium-3 extracted from lunar soil, 6,300 tonnes of hydrogen, 70 tonnes of nitrogen and 1,600 tonnes of carbon are obtained. However, compared to the value of the former, the value of these by-products is negligible.

The lunar soil itself is also rich in minerals such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, titanium and rare earth metals.

Jiang Chen already has nuclear fusion power generation technology, and the source of electricity in Penglai City is the nuclear fusion generator obtained from Yizhou Island in the last days, as well as several deuterium storage tanks. What needs to be solved now is how to efficiently mine that helium-3 from lunar soil.

This was also one of the main tasks of these colonial pioneers and researchers.

Just like that, the colony of 24 people cost Jiang Chen 1 billion Singapore dollars.

But he believes it's worth it.

After watching the video, Kerrwin found Jiang Chen.

"NASA wants us to be open about the lives of the colonists and to share our expeditions to the moon. They are willing to trade with us a file that has not yet been made public to the United Nations Space Division for this information. ”

"Is that information important? I mean them. Jiang Chen asked.

Kirwyn thought for a moment before replying.

"It's not very important, NASA officials revealed that the unpublished archives are mainly about the analysis of the kripp rock and the distribution of helium 3 reservoirs in the lunar soil, which our researchers are also working on, but we don't know where they have come. ”

"There's no need to exchange information with them, I'm sure you'll get ahead of them. After Jiang Chen finished speaking, he paused for a while, and then continued, "But the living conditions of the colonists can be made public, after all, this is also part of the propaganda. Isn't there a rumor on the Internet that the astronauts are all guinea pigs and are now dead? Filming a short documentary of their lives is a powerful riposte! As for what can be made public and what must be kept secret, I think you should be clear. ”

"You can rest assured. Kerrwin smiled and nodded.

After explaining the incident, Jiang Chen was about to leave, but Kirwin stopped him as if he remembered something.

Jiang Chen turned around and asked.

"Anything else?"

"One more thing. Two days ago, we at the Cosmodrome received a request for a visit from the United Kingdom. Kerwin replied.

"Aren't we going to have to receive a stack of access requests every day?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.

"This person is a bit special. I can't say no outright, I'll have to ask for your opinion. Kerwin said cautiously.

"Who? Could it be the Queen of England?" Jiang Chen quipped.

"No, it's Stephen Hawking. (To be continued.) )