Chapter 350: The World's Largest Thorium Mine
In the past few days, there will be five more guarantees, and at the end of the month, there are more things in Xiaomo's company, and the manuscript is completely gone, so Xiaomo can only keep the guarantee updated, but Xiaomo strives to save some drafts in the next few days, and at the end of the month, there will be a small outbreak
The next day, Tang Feng, who had been busy for most of the night, rarely did not get up early for morning exercises, but slept in the tent until nine o'clock before getting up. After working for two nights in a row, Tang Feng also felt a little tired.
After packing up their things, the group began to descend the mountain. However, this time the route down the mountain did not choose the route from which I came. The route he took when he came needed to cross a snow-capped mountain pass with an altitude of nearly 6,500 meters, which was too dangerous and too guilty, anyway, the mission had been completed this time, so Tang Feng chose to take another route that was safer and lower in altitude.
This route is a regular route, which requires more than 40 kilometers of mountain roads, but the altitude of all the way is about 4,000 meters, and both the temperature and air pressure are within the acceptable range of ordinary people. And because he had to walk nearly twenty kilometers east along the valley and then turn back to the southwest, Tang Feng was also happy to take this route. Now that the star core is not full, walking more than 20 kilometers to the east can make the survey range of the star core more than 20 kilometers to the east.
To the east is the confluence of the Himalayas and the Pamirs, and the famous Karakoram Corridor is actually that area. The main walking route in that area is the upper valley of the Indus River. In fact, along the valley of the upper Indus River to the east, you can directly reach the territory of China. However, Tang Feng's Sophia Sweetheart is still parked at Islamabad Airport, and Tang Feng must return the same way.
This time, it was not in vain to walk an extra 20 kilometers to the east, although it took a day, but within the extra 20 kilometers, Tang Feng found several deposits containing rich radioactive elements. Therefore, after encamping at night, the star core ate another dream with an open belly. Although he did not eat enough, he completely replenished the energy consumed by carrying the corundum deposit and the gold and silver mine, and there was a surplus.
In this way, after Tang Feng and his group of five walked for three days, they finally returned to Cole, and the star core was not idle along the way. Secretly ate all the way, and finally increased the energy storage of the star core to 75%.
After returning to Muzaffarabad from Kohl, Tang Feng took the bear and hyena to break up with Hansen and Antenna, in the original plan, if the sapphire mine could not be found in the Himalayas, then after the group returned to Islamabad, they took the Sofia Sweetheart direct flight to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, and then searched in Ratnapura, the largest gem producing area in Sri Lanka, and then transferred to Myanmar.
But now a vein of corundum has been found in the Himalayas that is large enough to be mined for decades. And it is also the kind of corundum vein of excellent quality, so Tang Feng is not ready to go to Sri Lanka. After all, the relationship between Sri Lanka and China is quite good, and Tang Feng's impression of this small island country is also good, so Tang Feng decided to let Sri Lanka go.
But letting go of Sri Lanka does not mean that Tang Feng will let go of the other two countries, anyway, Tang Feng has always had a bad impression of Myanmar and Thailand, so Tang Feng can let go of Sri Lanka this time, but Tang Feng does not plan to let go of the ruby vein in Mogok in Myanmar and the sapphire vein in Chonthaburi in Thailand.
However, because the star core has been upgraded to level four. Tang Feng has a new task, that is, to feed the star core as soon as possible. At the very least, you have to take out the four star cores separately, and then replenish the energy of the star cores, so that this trip can be considered perfect.
It was precisely because of such an extra task that Tang Feng decided to replenish the split body and energy of the star core to full on the way before thinking about other things. However, if you want to split the split of the star core and then replenish the energy of the star core, it will take a considerable amount of energy, so Tang Feng must find a place with enough radioactive elements to complete this task.
The upgrade of the star core has already caused disaster to India once. Then if you don't bother the two masters, then continue to calamity you again. Who told you to shout with Huaxia all day long, relying on the support of an American father behind you, provoking this today and that tomorrow. Lao Tzu is not a Chinese nationality now. But Lao Tzu's body is still full of Chinese blood!
Besides, in the entire South Asian subcontinent, that is, your Indian thorium mine in Bihar can meet the needs of star cores, so well, since Lao Tzu has already drained one of your nuclear waste storage bases, then Lao Tzu doesn't mind tossing your world's largest thorium mine again.
Thorium is a good thing, one ton of thorium can produce the equivalent of 200 tons of uranium, or 3.5 million tons of coal, and the proven reserves of thorium can provide the world with energy consumption for at least 10,000 years. Compared with the traditional nuclear raw material uranium, thorium is easier to enrich and refined, so the cost is not high; What's also exciting is that the use of thorium does not produce carbon dioxide, which means that it is a clean energy source, and the use of thorium energy does not create carbon emission issues, and it also produces only 0.6% of the radioactive waste equivalent to conventional nuclear power plants in the process of power generation. What's more, reactors built with thorium don't have to worry about core meltdowns.
And most crucially, thorium cannot be used to make nuclear weapons. Therefore, thorium, a radioactive element, can be said to be the best radioactive element at present.
In the world's proven thorium reserves, India is the first, the proven reserves of thorium alone are as high as 340,000 tons, and the proven thorium reserves in China can only rank second. Of course, as for how much thorium remains on the planet that has not been discovered, it is not known. At the very least, Tang Feng believes that with the current level of human exploration technology, there are quite a lot of thorium deposits in the vast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that cannot be explored.
Tang Feng doesn't plan to take care of those radioactive elements that have not been surveyed, there is a ready-made world-class thorium mine in front of him, which is enough for the star core to eat, if Tang Feng doesn't go over to eat enough, it will be called brain damage!
It was precisely because of this willingness that Tang Feng sent Hansen and Antenna back to Islamabad, and then drove the Sophia Sweetheart back to Spring City, while Tang Feng and Bear and Hyena drove a GL65 along the southern foothills of the Himalayas on a trip across the South Asian subcontinent. Visit the thorium mine in Bihar, then through Bangladesh to Mandalay, Myanmar, then to the ruby mines of Mogok, then to Thailand, to the sapphire mines of Chonthaburi and back to China.
This is a journey of more than 4,000 kilometers, and Tang Feng plans to complete this section of the journey in a week, and by the way, all the purposes of this trip will be realized!
That's Tang's plan. (To be continued......)