Chapter 275: The Moon's Resources Are Abundant
Coming to the main control room of the computer room, Anwen started the host.
"Hello Dear Commander, the Star Spirit is happy to serve you."
When the host starts, holographic projections appear.
A galaxy whirlpool swirled in front of An Wen and Chen Yun's eyes, and made a sound.
"Simulate a start button, wait for the button to be pressed, and the whole plant starts production." An Wen said.
"Okay, Commander."
A classic red button appears in front of you.
"You press it." An Wen said to Chen Yun.
"Okay."
Chen Yun was also very excited, after all, this is a moon factory, and it is also the start of the project to build a spaceship, who doesn't have any feelings.
If this image is preserved, it will also be able to go down in history.
Click!
Chen Yun pressed the virtual button, and the dubbing sound sounded.
And then...... I don't feel anything.
"Why hasn't there been any movement?" Chen Yun felt that the atmosphere was wrong.
"The vacuum is soundproof, you can see it from the outside." An Wen said with a smile.
When I came to the window of the main control room, I could see dozens of lighting robots rushing to the mine.
On the moon, in fact, just dig the earth.
The extraction is all ore, but it is inefficient, and now the mine that the robot goes to is the place with the highest mineral content in the surrounding area after detection.
To build this spaceship, a large amount of tri-titanium alloy was needed.
As you know, the price of titanium alloy is very expensive.
As long as it is because the refining of titanium is too difficult, the post-processing is also difficult, so the price is so high.
But on the moon, you dig down, and the content of titanium and iron is not too high.
Coupled with the state-of-the-art smelting equipment, a standard 100X100 (m) titanium alloy outer deck module only takes 25 minutes from mining to smelting to shaping and cold rolling and forging.
This efficiency far exceeds the industrial capacity of the planet.
It's not impossible to do this on Earth, but it's a big problem.
The first is to have a huge site, the second is to upgrade the equipment and replace it with otherworldly smelting equipment, and the third is to equip the factory with artificial intelligence and robots.
The workers are all going home, and robots and artificial intelligence have replaced people's jobs, and that person should live.
Waiting for the state to issue benefits.
No, that's going to happen.
This is the industrial norm of the future, but it is definitely not the industrial norm of the present.
If you really do this, then it's not a matter of taking too big a step and pulling the egg, it's tearing off your hip bones and throwing out your legs.
Therefore, Anwen can only do this on the moon, seize the time to upgrade the industry on the earth, and then be like that.
Anyway, on the premise of not raising the national welfare standards and raising the knowledge level of the whole people, it is a dead end to do so.
"Those are quarried rocks?"
Chen Yun looked at the first robot to return, and the minecart behind it was loaded with rocks, a little curious.
"Well, there's nothing wrong with saying rock, but it's basalt. Previous detection results show that the basalt of the mineral contains a large number of metal minerals, including titanium and iron content of more than 13%, and the remaining lunar soil dust also contains a large amount of helium tri, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, thorium, potassium, silicon, magnesium, calcium, aluminum, and many rare earth elements.
It can be said that on the moon, if you dig it with a shovel, it is all treasures, and everything that is refined is useful, it depends on whether you can use it or not. An Wen said with a smile.
"If these resources are shipped back to Earth, how much will it cost to transport them?" Chen Yun's eyes lit up and he immediately asked.
"I haven't calculated it, but the transportation cost shouldn't be very high, but it's very troublesome." An Wen shook his head and said.
Transporting mineral resources from the moon is no problem.
One of the most critical links is how to smoothly transport materials from space to the earth.
His previous idea was to project material directly from the moon, and then after the mineral resources passed through the Earth's atmosphere, the electromagnetic anti-gravity system inside the outer package was turned on, and then slowly landed on the Earth.
But his idea was directly denied by the above.
Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with this material transportation process, and it is also the lowest cost method.
But how can you guarantee that, after adding the goods, there will be no problems with the mineral delivery box weighing hundreds of tons and with titanium alloy armor.
No problem, everything is easy to say.
But what if something goes wrong, and the electromagnetic anti-gravity system doesn't work, and it smashes directly into the earth.
When the time comes, it will not be material transportation equipment, but a titanium electromagnetic artillery shell with a speed of Mach 35 per hour and a mass of 100 tons.
This risk, even if China believes in Anwen, it is not possible to support Anwen above.
No other country will agree to you doing that.
If one day, you drop an airdrop on their heads, who can stand it.
Therefore, if you want to transport the materials of the moon back to Earth, you can only use the space shuttle to carry them, and the efficiency will be slow.
Even if it's 1,000 tons at a time, it's useless.
Of course, if you want to transport gold, precious rare metals, helium or whatever, that's fine.
But you can't meet the domestic demand when you are tired of transporting iron ore.
"Let's go, let's go around the base."
After watching the work of the factory for a while, An Wen took Chen Yun to the moon base.
After passing through the isolation pod and entering the base, the two took off the hunter mecha and walked around the base wearing protective suits.
"This is a musical fountain, I designed it, right?" An Wen said with a sigh of relief.
"Won't it be a waste of water?"
Of course, Chen Yun knows the preciousness of water resources, so she has no feeling for the musical fountain or anything at all.
"Just kidding, can I not think about water? And such a simple problem, easy to solve.
Not to mention that there is a water circulation system in the base, it is said that the base can naturally produce a lot of water resources by combining hydrogen and oxygen.
Of course, the water produced is not for drinking, and the water we drink is the water source for microcirculation from the biosphere.
Although there is no guarantee that the microcirculating water source is compared with the mineral water on the earth, it is by no means much better than these artificial waters. ”
Although An Wen has built a musical fountain, he will not waste water stupidly.
In fact, with the various equipment of the base, even if the water molecules in the air are in a very standard range, they will be replenished if they are missing, and they will be absorbed if they are exceeded.
In this way, it will make people very comfortable, the constant temperature and humidity, and even the illumination of the lights is also to simulate the intensity of sunlight in the earth's room.
He also built a swimming pool specifically for sunbathing.
"You're still planting grapes in the hallway?"
In the passage to the living quarters, the ceiling overhead is covered with vines.
"Of course, these are good grapes that can be used to dry raisins."
"......" Chen Yun didn't say anything.
The idea of planting grapes on a lunar base and drying raisins also did not sleep.
An Wen took Chen Yun around the base and visited all the functional areas.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the gun."
"What else do you want?"
"No, I'm talking about the electromagnetic cannon."