The development of the moon's resources is now in its infancy, and the main constraint is energy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 With the strong promotion of the International Space Agency, the number of engineering robots working on the moon has reached 219, and these engineering robots are all leased by the International Space Agency from Penglai Aerospace.

Like this advanced robot, Lu Yang has no intention of selling it to the outside world.

With so many robots, the productivity is very powerful, not to mention the rest, let's just say that the Xuanyuan Sea Moon Base belonging to Luyang has now reached an area of 60 square kilometers, which is two times more than a year and a half ago.

According to the statistics of the International Space Agency, mankind has established a built-up area of 100 square kilometers on the moon, which has met the basic conditions for lunar migration.

Li Yilong and Huo Sheng also attach great importance to the lunar solar power station, and the two companies they lead are both rich and wealthy, and there is no financial pressure to jointly invest in this kind of project of more than 50 billion yuan.

"The solar power station project is progressing very smoothly, and Mr. Huo and I have set up a lunar new energy company, with both parties holding 50% of the shares, to operate the lunar energy plan. If all goes well, the first lunar solar power plant will be ready to generate electricity next month, with an estimated annual power generation capacity of 10 billion kWh. Li Yilong said.

"Will electricity be generated next month?" Lu Yang nodded with satisfaction, Li Yilong and their movements were fast enough, except for Penglai Island, no one dared to think that within half a year, a solar power station of this scale would be established on the distant moon.

"It just so happens that next month Space 2 can also be officially commissioned, and in another three months, Space 3 will be completed. With these three aerospace aircraft, the pace of lunar development will increase significantly. Lu Yang said.

Li Yilong is overjoyed, now Penglai Aerospace Company and the International Space Agency have a lot of space programs, but they suffer from insufficient transportation capacity -- Space-1 has undertaken 80% of the two missions, and this is already its limit. With these in mind, some of the ISA's missions are completed by rockets from China, Russia, and the European Space Agency, which is relatively risky.

"Boss, what's next for lunar development?" Li Yilong asked.

Penglai Aerospace and the International Space Agency have doubts about this, scientists always say that the moon is very rich in resources, but how to develop and use these resources is a problem for mankind. Except for some scarce resources, such as helium-3, which have no problem being transported back to Earth, other resources, such as iron, titanium, aluminum, etc., are simply not possible to be transported back to Earth for use.

If you want to really make use of the resources of the moon, you also need to build a factory on the moon and use it locally, so as to conform to the economic law.

Lu Yang was also thinking in this way, he opened the map of the moon and clicked a few times near the Xuanyuan Sea base.

"According to our exploration, there are tens of billions of tons of iron reserves here, and 16 elements such as titanium, rare earths, helium-3, aluminum, uranium, and silicon are rich here. And that's why I chose the moon base here in the first place. ”

Looking at the circle drawn by Lu Yang, Li Yilong was very surprised: "Boss, this Xuanyuan Sea is simply a big treasure trove." ”

"It's a big treasure trove, and most importantly, we have now found the key to open this treasure trove!" Lu Yang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "I plan to establish an industrial zone on the moon, but considering that there is no atmosphere on the surface of the moon, it is more dangerous, and it is more appropriate for the industrial zone to be established underground." ”

"Underground?" Li Yilong looked at the simulation map opened by Lu Yang, and a special industrial zone appeared 300 meters deep underground in the Xuanyuan Sea base, and hundreds of meters away from the industrial zone, there were two closed buildings.

"Boss, is this a human settlement?" Li Yilong asked, pointing to the two buildings.

"Not bad!" Lu Yang gave him an appreciative look, "I have provided a lot of data in the ecological laboratory on the moon, and it has been proved that in a certain space, we can transform the ecological environment close to the earth, whether it is human beings or other animals and plants, they can survive in this environment without any burden." ”

"This, this is to immigrate to the moon?" Li Yilong couldn't believe it, he felt that Lu Yang's plan was getting bigger and bigger, "Is it really okay for people to live underground for a long time?" Although there are many human beings on the earth now, it is not yet time to immigrate, right? ”

Lu Yang turned off the image: "The so-called people have no foresight, there must be near-term worries, the carrying capacity of the earth is indeed not to the limit, but it is always good to prepare early." Of course, what you said also makes sense, within ten years, lunar migration, or extraterrestrial migration programs, will not be launched, at least not on a large scale. ”

"As for living in an underground city, you can rest assured that we can fully simulate the Earth's environment. Living in the underground city of the moon and living in the community of Penglai Island, I feel no different! ”

"The progress of technology is so fast that I feel like I can't keep up with the times." Li Yilong suddenly sighed, "Boss, maybe I'm really old and it's time to retire." ”

Lu Yang looked at Li Yilong in surprise and found that he was not lying. Lu Yang immediately understood that Li Yilong's impact was a bit big, and he couldn't accept it, so he had the idea of retreating.

"Lao Li, don't say that, for the international community and Penglai Island, your role is irreplaceable!" Lu Yang patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "Nowadays, technological progress is getting faster and faster, not only you, everyone will be confused, as long as we can grasp the application of technology." ”

"Of course, given your age, it's time to retire." Lu Yang changed the topic, Li Yilong is indeed not young, he is almost 70, in fact, many companies of Penglai Group are also facing the problem of leadership change, "If it really doesn't work, you can make a choice between Penglai Aerospace Company and the International Space Agency." ”

As Space-1 gets closer to Mars, the world's attention to it is getting stronger. This flight is the farthest manned space flight so far, and it is of great significance for mankind to understand Mars.

"Success or failure is here!" Thousands of ISA staff members are busy, and the data is transmitted back for final approval by the command center.

"Boss, Mi Guo's artificial intelligence Gaia has just fallen silent, I think, they should be making the fourth upgrade." Lu Yang, who was in the space center, received a message from Pangu.

"The people of the United States are going to upgrade Gaia again?" (To be continued.) )