Chapter 32 The Industrial Horn
During this time, the scientists suddenly went crazy en masse, getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning and resting after 10 o'clock in the evening.
Their eyes were red, and in the cafeteria and elevator halls, there were voices of their discussions and arguments everywhere.
The most important thing is that they are voluntary, and if it is not for the government's mandatory regulations, they would want to add more shifts......
In the next period of time, the most proud days of the Wild Wolf Design Bureau began, and their scientific research points were originally surpassed by Tesla Research Institute, but now, they are quickly catching up!
Because in the few months of their voyage to Mars, they silently completed a super project: the miniaturization of nuclear power plants!
Ding Yidong's big mouth could barely hide things, and it was only a short time after they completed this matter, and they finally couldn't help but release it!
This nuclear power plant derived from aircraft carriers, after the improvement of the Wolf Design Bureau, is smaller in size, but the output power is almost the same, and it has strong shock resistance.
What does it mean that this project is really too important for humanity?
Scientists have newly designed super trains, super excavators, etc., and if you want to use nuclear power, then you have to use their devices!
Smug, proud, on the Noah, the wild wolves can be heard everywhere.
A group of young men led by Professor Ding Yidong finally had a good time, but they didn't learn it, but Ding Yidong's madness was all learned.
It's not because of a temporary defeat to rival Tesla Research, but because of a sense of identity.
The results of painstaking scientific research are like children to scientists. If this result can be recognized by everyone, then it is really the most comfortable and happy thing.
A great industrial trumpet sounded in November of the new human calendar, which can be said to be the third industrial revolution. The government began to issue detailed tasks for major enterprises and research institutes.
Information technology, new energy technology, new material technology, and biotechnology will be the mainstream of this industrial revolution. All laboratories, scientific institutes and factories are provided with a large amount of energy, resources and industrial indicators.
Scientists can let their imaginations run wild.
Old excavators were the first to be active in various mineral resource points, and railways began to be laid. Of course, these old-fashioned machines are temporary, and they will be used for a while.
When new supermachines are produced, they will be obsolete.
Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical, Biological ...... Scientists from all walks of life were busy all night, and they didn't feel the hard work, in fact, many people were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
It's a great environment that can spark all imaginations. As long as you have an idea, you can put it forward, you can design it yourself, you don't need to think about financial matters, and you can even be encouraged by your superiors.
What a cool thing this is, please!
The research of intelligent robots has become the mainstream of various research institutes, and they have stepped up their efforts to study unmanned means.
Such a robot does not have to be humanoid, it may be just a mechanical arm, it may be a car, or an excavator, but it must be automatic, unmanned, and intelligent.
Because the population is too small and the amount of mining work is too large, automation will be the only means.
Such technology is not unattainable. After decades of research, the automation program has been relatively mature, and in the automobile factories in Germany and Japan, it has long been fully automated.
Now, people just want to take this automation technology to more places.
In addition, the emergence of unmanned driving technology and artificial intelligence technology in recent years is of great reference significance for the research of intelligent robots. Scientists are preparing to make smart machines do more complex work.
Of course, they didn't want to study a truly intelligent robot, which would be too difficult. They're still working on a programmatic thing, but it's more complex and adaptable.
Satellites are being developed to prepare for unmanned mining in the future......
Yu Yifeng was in the captain's room, drinking tea and reading a report. Compared to the past, he is not very busy now, unless he needs to take care of something very big. It's also very fulfilling to see the progress of new human civilization every day.
In fact, in addition to his regular job, Yu Yifeng is learning knowledge almost every day, and he has all kinds of knowledge anyway. Although he swallowed dates in general, and the depth was not enough, the breadth was so-so, and he could understand most of the reports.
Today, the biggest key is to build the "Kinov Industrial Base". This huge industrial base is home to 6,000 engineers, scientists, and 2,000 mechanical specialists!
A total of 8,000 people, accounting for 16% of the total population!
They are working around the clock to build machine tools and various mechanical production lines, such as stamping lines, engine assembly lines, inspection lines, and production lines for various parts.
A large number of laboratories are designing intelligent programs for production lines. As soon as the Kinov industrial base is built, then various forms of machinery and equipment can be produced.
Like a snowball, the production energy will get stronger and stronger.
Yu Yifeng picked up a report and read it carefully.
"At nine o'clock in the morning, the first type III precision parts production line was successfully tested, and this assembly line specializes in the production of precision parts of mining machines from 8 to 27. There were no incidents and all data were in line with expectations.
The assembly line of this model can be replicated in seven days, and it needs to consume 1,530 tons of steel......"
Yu Yifeng nodded secretly, at this rate, the Kinov Industrial Base will be completed within two or three months after the New Year.
"At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the railway to and from the various mineral resource points was officially completed. The older trains have been tested and can operate normally, with a capacity of around 20,000 tons per trip. ”
"Some old-fashioned excavators began to operate normally, with an initial investment of 51 units, each with a daily output of about 10,000 tons of ore, which can fully meet daily needs."
"The super train is being designed urgently, and the main work is in charge of the Wild Wolf Design Bureau. It is expected that the capacity of a single trip will be in the million ton range. ”
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"What an exaggeration!" Looking at this project, Yu Yifeng suddenly felt that he was a little outdated, how big his heart is, how big the world is.
He calculated carefully, and asked suspiciously: "It seems a little wrong, the 100,000-ton excavator is still not enough in the face of 300 billion tons of ice ore, wouldn't it have to dig for hundreds of years?" ”
"Of course not."
His assistant Yuriko happened to hear the question and answered it for Yu Yifeng: "Many scientists believe that ice mining does not necessarily use an excavator, but a more affordable cutting robot. ”
"The cutting robot is simple in design, cheap in cost, and can be mass-produced."
Because the ice is mixed with a large number of carbon dioxide bubbles, the structure is loose, and the hardness is not comparable to that of stone, and the ice ore can be cut directly into the shape of small cubes with a cutting machine. The cubes are then transported by crane to the crawler belt and transported directly to the super train.
Ice cubes with sides about 2 meters long, with a mass of up to 8 tons, can be cut and transported in 10-20 minutes. All this will be done automatically by the machine and will not require any human hands.
"According to the plan, 300,000 such cutting robots, working 20 hours a day and maintaining 4 hours, can produce up to 150 million tons per day. 600,000 cutting robots, with a daily output of up to 300 million tons, it doesn't take 1,000 days to complete the ice mine task......" Yuriko spat out a large string of numbers.
"According to the design, a cutting robot consumes 3.3 tons of steel, 13 kilograms of copper, and ...... of aluminum"
She spoke calmly about the data. The cutting robot has a simple structure, and the material consumption is about the same as that of a small car. In fact, there are some design work that she is personally involved in......
Now Yu Yifeng is not very busy, and he can do his job alone. Yuriko has been involved in mechanical design, and only occasionally comes over to do some assistant work, but she is still a scientist after all.
At a time like this, it's time for everyone to maximize their work.
Yu Yifeng opened his mouth, and his scalp was numb when he heard it, hundreds of thousands of robots ...... It turned out that it was going to engage in crowd tactics?
But it's also difficult for these scientists, if you don't do this, you won't be able to complete the task at all.
He thought about it carefully, hundreds of thousands of robots, each of which has the engineering amount equivalent to a car, is actually not very much......
On earth, a large automobile factory can produce 1.5 million cars a year, and a car like Shanghai Volkswagen can produce 2 million cars a year!
If the Kinov industrial plant is really completed, with a massive and ever-increasing number of assembly lines, this number of robots is really nothing.
300 billion tons of ice, equivalent to the water resources of three Qinghai lakes, is barely enough......
(Here is the data source: an ordinary excavator on the earth can dig about 1,500-2,000 cubic meters of soil a day, equivalent to about 3,500 tons of mass.)
The power of the excavator on the moon is much greater than that on the earth, a little awesome, 10,000 tons a day is not too much, right?
And the latest nuclear-powered excavators...... This is nuclear power, tall and big, and the industrial capacity will be expanded tenfold, 100,000 tons, not too much, right?
Of course, mining is not the same as excavation, the rock in the mining area may be softer, it may be harder, these have an impact, and the open-pit mine is more difficult to mine than the deep pit mine. I won't elaborate on the specifics, the mining data is a little exaggerated, and everyone should be able to accept it.
Although it's a bit exaggerated for me to write like this, it's related to the plot later, after all, everyone doesn't want to mine on Mars for ten or eight years, so the whole plot will drag on too much. So exaggerate the data a little and speed up the plot process a little...... )