Chapter 327 Super submersibles, mining deep-sea resources
Gaoyang used super plastics to fill in the Taiwan Strait and obtained 60,000 square kilometers of land, of which 30,000 square kilometers were donated to Taiwanhou. γγ
The remaining 30,000 square kilometers of land, in order to recover the cost, Gaoyang sold it at a public auction at a price of 500 yuan per square meter, and the people in the Fujian area gave priority.
The land of the Taiwan Strait, backed by the mainland and facing the Taiwan, has unlimited business opportunities, and the price of 500 yuan per square meter makes merchants rush to it. Not only domestic, but also many foreign investors are vying for this big cake.
After 30,000 square kilometers, or 30 billion square meters of land, were put up for auction online, the first day of transaction reached tens of millions of square meters.
Gao Yang handed over this piece of land to Aihua as a business, and it is initially estimated that the 30,000 square kilometers of land, according to 500 square meters, will bring 1.5 trillion US dollars in income to Aihua Company, in addition to about 200 billion US dollars in taxes and personnel expenses handed over to the state, and more than 500 billion US dollars in reclamation costs, Gao Yang can also make a net profit of 800 billion US dollars. However, it will definitely take a long time for the money to arrive, but it finally has a big income.
Gao Yang still has 1.2 trillion US dollars in funds on hand, and with the income brought by these lands, Gao Yang's funds are about to reach 2 trillion US dollars. γγ
St. Ann's Bio-Oil Project, Dinosaur Park, and Game World can bring in revenue in just a few months, desert renovation projects are increasing at a rate of 70,000 square kilometers per month, and maritime cities are being built at a rate of one per month.
Gao Yang began to work on another seemingly impossible plan.
Gao Yang must bring human beings to the stars, to complete all this, must have spaceships, although human beings have lunar and Mars probes, but this exploration process is too slow, although human beings have space shuttles, each cost is expensive, and can only carry a dozen people at a time. This doesn't do much to develop extraterrestrial.
If Gao Yang accomplishes this feat, it will have a profound impact on the future of mankind, and human beings can only be considered intelligent life if they can go out of the earth and immigrate to aliens.
Gao Yang now has nearly two trillion dollars in funding, and if international cooperation is pursued, it will likely get another trillion dollars, which is enough to build a spaceship. Gaoyang already has a nuclear fusion engine to provide powerful capabilities for the spacecraft. γγ
Gao Yang also has the JΔ« Light Growth Accelerator, two technologies that allow humans to produce their own food in spaceships.
Gao Yang now only needs that super metal x16, after combining this metal with super plastic and super ceramic, the spacecraft has a super strong shell, which can resist the high temperature of 30,000 degrees, so that it can be manufactured, and human beings can go high interstellar. Funds, technology, Gao Yang has been completely mastered, and materials are the only thing that restricts Gao Yang.
Fortunately, Gao Yang has long known that in the deep sea, there is a super metal called X16, this metal, because it is hidden in the sea at a depth of 10,000 meters, human science and technology have not found this super metal so far. Gao Yang has decided to go to the bottom of the sea to mine this super metal and build a spaceship.
The deepest ocean trench in the world is called the Mariana Trench.
It is located in the Philippines It is located in the northeastern part of the Philippines, near the Mariana Islands, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and this trench is estimated to have been formed for 60 million years. It is part of a series of trenches on the ocean floor in the western Pacific Ocean.
It is located at latitude 11Β°20 N, longitude 142Β°11.5 E; , between the Asian continent and Australia, from the Iwo Islands in the north to the vicinity of Yap Island in the southwest. γγ
It has the Aleutian, Kurile, Rìmoto, and Ogasawara trenches to the north, and the New Britain and New Hebrides trenches to the south.
The total length is 2,550 kilometers, arc-shaped, with an average width of 70 kilometers, and most of the water depth is more than 8,000 meters. The maximum water depth is in the Fichaz Abyss, which is 11,034 meters, which is the deepest point on Earth. If you put the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, at the bottom of the ditch, the summit will not be able to rise out of the water.
Humans are able to fly into space, but little is known about the ocean floor. Exploring the mysteries of the deep sea is extremely difficult, because in the middle of the sea, the air pressure reaches 1,100 atmospheres. You must know that in a supersonic aircraft, 9 air pressures can put the pilot in an extremely dangerous situation.
1100 atmospheres, how terrifying, we can calculate. 10 air pressures is equivalent to the weight caused by placing 100 tons of objects on a one-meter square object. 1,100 bars is equivalent to the powerful pressure generated by placing 11,000 tons of objects on one square meter of objects.
Under this super-intense pressure, any living form would be crushed. It is impossible for large organisms to move under this pressure.
In modern society, people are able to measure the deep sea with the use of ultrasound.
Human submersibles can only dive to a depth of 800 to 1,400 meters at most, and China's newly developed Jiaolong submersible can dive to a depth of 7,000 meters, carrying up to three people and working for nine hours. Further down the dive will be several times more stressful than before.
What lies in the seabed at a depth of 10,000 to 20,000 meters is something that humans simply cannot clearly know.
The only one Gao Yang can use is Yan Huang.
Deep-sea exploration is not a problem for Gaoyang, but the development of mineral deposits in the deep sea is a big problem.
Gao Yang had to ask Yan Huang: "Yan Huang, how many meters can you dive into the deep sea with the ability of the mecha?" β
"Master, Yanhuang is made of nanometal, this metal is 100 times stronger than steel, China's Jiaolong submersible can dive to a depth of 7,000 meters of seawater, its bearing capacity is 7,000 tons per square meter, but his size is 3.4 meters wide, except for people, can only hold 220 kilograms of objects. The iron shell of the Jiaolong submersible is at least more than one meter thick. My liquid metal is only three centimeters thick, even if my pressure resistance is three times that of a Jiaolong submersible. It is not a problem to dive to the bottom of the sea at a depth of 10,000 meters, but it is very difficult to extract mineral deposits from the bottom of the sea, and every kilogram of something picked up has to bear tens of thousands of times the weight. Yan Huang couldn't do it. β
Gao Yang pondered for a moment: "Yan Huang, if we have a heavy liquid gold, how difficult is it to build a submersible like the Jiaolong submersible and enter the deep sea to develop seabed mineral deposits. β
"Master, the dragon weighs 22 tons and can only carry 220 kilograms of objects, which means that his load is one percent of his body weight. If we also make a submersible out of a metre of nanometal, we could carry 10 tons of supplies. This technology is completely feasible. β
Gao Yang asked again: "Then how are we going to mine X16 ore?" β
"Master, we can use robots, let tiny robots, like ants, dig out the X16 metal little by little, and then load it into the submersible. In the deep sea, one square meter has to bear a weight of 11,000 tons, and the robot is relatively small due to its small size. Nano metal robots can do this kind of work. β
Gao Yang relaxed: "So, how much does it cost to develop such a submersible." β
"Master, it depends on how big the submersible you want to develop, just a submersible like Jiaolong, which is 8 meters long, three meters wide and three meters high, needs 22 tons of nano metal, and nano metal is 100,000 US dollars a kilogram, which is 2.2 billion US dollars."
Gao Yang was taken aback: "I grass, a submersible costs $2.2 billion, my God, $2.2 billion is enough to build an aircraft carrier." β
"Master, you're wrong, $2.2 billion is far from enough, you still need hundreds of robots to help you work, plus other expenses, a submersible capable of mining X16 metal, the minimum cost will reach $2.5 billion."
Gao Yang was depressed: "2.5 billion US dollars, it's too expensive, forget it, I can't bear the child, I can't trap the wolf, anyway, if this submersible is not used in the future, it can be returned to the furnace, 22 tons of nano metal can be reused, no matter how expensive it is, it has to be manufactured, a B2 stealth bomber in the United States will reach 2.1 billion US dollars, Lao Tzu's submersible, just a little more expensive." β
"So master, how many of these submersibles are you going to make?"
Gao Yang calculated a little.
If you want to build a spaceship with a load capacity of millions or even millions of tons, it will be dozens to 100 times the size of today's aircraft carriers. In other words, the minimum length will be 3,000 to 5,000 meters, and the width will be about 800 meters to 1,000 kilometers. This behemoth requires a very large amount of x16 metal.
Even if X16 metal is made into nano metal paint and coated on the shell of the spaceship, it will take at least 30 tons, and 10 kilograms of X16 metal will be refined according to one ton of X16 metal ore. A spaceship needs tens of thousands of tons of such 3,000 tons of metal ore.
It takes a day for a submersible to make a round trip to the seabed, and it takes two to three days to dig 10 tons of x16 metal ore. That is, if a submersible can only mine 2.5 tons of x16 metal ore per submersible, if you build 10 submersibles, you can only mine a maximum of 25 tons of x16 metal ore per day. To make the paint needed for a spaceship, the submersibles and robots worked for 120 days, or four months.
Gao Yang was ruthless: "Yan Huang, you immediately help me design such submersibles, and make another program to let robots help build these submersibles, and spend $30 billion to build 10 first." β
"Yes, master."
After receiving Gao Yang's order, Yan Huang has already begun to work, designing the submersible and standardizing the manufacturing process.
Gao Yang asked Yan Huang to help him build a large atomic furnace, the melting point of X16 metal reached 31456 degrees, and only the super temperature generated by the atomic furnace could refine this super metal. An atomic furnace made using nuclear fusion technology would cost $1 billion.
Mining X16 metal alone would cost Gao Yang $31 billion, and these materials are just coatings for spacecraft shells. To sanction a spaceship, manufacturing may exceed Gao Yang's budget.!...
(Tianjin)