Chapter 15 Great abundance of materials
Yu Yifeng, he himself is too busy. X
Seeing boxes of finished products being transported up by elevators, and the data in the table getting bigger and bigger, he had a wonderful pleasure like a miser.
It's not just him, it's every citizen of the Noah. Everyone can see a steady stream of robots, delivering a full load of goods.
These things are broadcast on TV or in newspapers every day.
Although the Noah was fully loaded by the time it departed from Nix, it was limited to regular, readily available materials such as iron, copper, and aluminum.
Resources such as gold, silver, and platinum are not many, which can be met by industry, but it is basically impossible to meet the needs of the people.
Nowadays, with a large amount of precious resources dumped on the ground like garbage, how can humanity not be ecstatic?!
One day, a large number of diamonds were suddenly found in the D3 region of the planet, and they were in very good condition, even the size of peanuts!
These shiny things directly aroused the strong interest of women! Many researchers are in a hurry to study diamond cutters, digging up information from the time of the earth and trying to process these high-quality diamonds.
As a result, more and more diamonds were mined, and each person was able to get hundreds, and the women simply dismissed them......
A few more days later, a large amount of gold was found in a certain area!
The gold was made into hundreds of tons of gold bricks by factories, which were piled up in front of the Government Square and distributed in large quantities.
As a result, no one went to collect the ...... at all Only a few old people of the first generation looked at it with interest, touched the gold a few times, and then expressed a few words of emotion in their hearts.
Era...... It's changing too fast, too fast!
The affluence, low-level civilization of the interstellar age is simply unimaginable. It's long since gold is out of fashion.
The generations that followed, born in extremely affluent environments, did not experience the Earth period. Although some people have studied traditional economics, it is only superficial. They simply have no way of understanding the thirst for gold of the people of the earth......
The new discipline of "industrial economics" has long replaced the former financial system.
Therefore, in the eyes of later generations, gold is only a relatively rare industrial raw material, and many factories and laboratories are still very happy to store these things.
Gold has a high stability that cannot be replaced by other metals and is widely used in electronics. Due to its high temperature resistance and corrosion resistance, gold is also widely used in the aerospace field. Even, there is a "gold" component in a superalloy.
At least gold is more useful than diamonds......
On this day, Yu Yifeng was personally visiting the resource reserve warehouse in the Noah.
These warehouses are located in all corners of the Noah, and there are different levels of security management depending on the stockpile.
Ordinary civilians can visit the conventional iron and aluminum warehouses through glass, and they can also freely apply for a share of materials. Some toxic substance warehouses require certain permissions.
Boxes of nanocarbon, full of adsorbed helium-3, a truckload of rare metals...... Seeing the material resources like mountains of gold and silver in the warehouse, Yu Yifeng felt a sense of satisfaction and security.
That's what it is...... The richness of the new human civilization!
The surface is silent, and he has already smiled in his heart.
The last thing he inspected was the "Radioactive Element Storage Warehouse" with the highest security level, and there were even heavily armed soldiers guarding it in all directions!
A large number of robots are coming and going, transporting new batches of uranium resources to the warehouse.
This place is in the high gravity zone of the Noah, and for safety reasons, the air inside has been specially drained, and it is almost in a vacuum. The entry and exit of humans or robots requires strict safety inspections.
All of them were wearing power armor, and a few young assistants were on the side, talking about all kinds of data......
"We have found a large concentration of uranium in the A11 region of this planet! The quality is very, very good...... At the same time, there is also a large collection of heavy metals. ”
"Area A11 is the best mining area on the entire planet, with a total of seventeen important industrial elements discovered, and these veins appearing in batches are incredible!"
The young assistant was doing some exaggerated pose, and after seeing so much stuff, he was in a state of extreme excitement. They can't be like Yu Yifeng, their joy and anger are invisible.
Almost all of them are deeply intoxicated by the opulence of civilization, as if they were billionaires themselves.
These young people grew up in an environment of great affluence and had no concept of money. But they have studied industrial economics, and in terms of the difficulty of smelting and extracting, they still know that some resources are rare and those are cheap.
So, they still have economic concepts.
After all, money does not equal the economy.
This staff member is named Xiao Yu, who is just 30 years old this year, but he has graduated with a doctorate ahead of schedule and has become one of Yu Yifeng's think tanks.
With the improvement of Noah's social level, the education level of the new human civilization is getting higher and higher, and the university is already universal education, and the master's and doctoral programs are higher education programs.
The Ph.D. degree is very difficult. For many people, it is still difficult to improve their intelligence, even with a brain chip installed.
After all, reading still requires a certain amount of talent......
In the Noah, because of the influence of the cultural atmosphere, almost everyone lives to learn from the old age, and the "doctorate" degree has become an honorific title.
Graduating with a PhD at the age of 30 is a remarkable achievement......
Of course, there are some old acquaintances in this think tank, such as Dr. Rimbaud, Wang Yufan of the Propaganda Department, etc., all of whom are geniuses.
Xiao Yu is the youngest one in the think tank, and the addition of fresh blood shows that the new human civilization is flourishing and is not declining. That's a good thing!
= We guess...... These minerals may be due to the ancient times, when the two planets violently collided and exposed the core of the earth......" Xiao Yu said excitedly, imagining the scene of the planet impact.
Hearing Xiao Yu's words, Yu Yifeng nodded.
So far, humanity has not been able to destroy a real planet!
Destroying planets, it's too hard...... Even if you use a large number of nuclear bombs, you can only blow up a little skin.
However, billions of years ago, two planets with a mass of ten trillion tons collided here, and in an instant, a huge amount of energy that is difficult for human beings to look up to was released!
This energy tore through the entire planet, revealing its core and richest parts.
Then, under the effect of billions of years of rotation, the broken core regained its spherical shape, but the original core remained exposed to the surface. And then...... These minerals are cheap for humans.
Of course, it cannot be said that it is cheap for nothing, but it is "gifted" to human beings.
Yu Yifeng made up the picture of the planet collision in his mind, and sighed in his heart, it would be good if human beings had such an energy level.
The warehouse of radioactive elements was filled with shelves, and more than half of the supplies were already loaded on it.
He took a few steps further and saw a silvery-white piece of metal in the vast amount of uranium hexafluoride, which was the metal "plutonium". It is packaged in a plastic bottle and displayed separately on one side, giving it an attractive metallic sheen.
This metal contains a certain toxicity!
Once, during the Earth period, when Japan's nuclear power plant leaked, there was such a news report: a pill-sized piece of plutonium is enough to poison 200 million people, 5 grams of plutonium is enough to poison all humans, and plutonium is 486 million times more toxic than arsenic.
Of course, this is just a rumor......
As long as you don't eat it directly, it won't poison people, and even if you touch it, it's not a big deal, but it has a warm feeling.
Plutonium, like uranium, is a good nuclear fission material, which can be used to generate electricity and can also be used to make high-power decay batteries.
Before the development of small-scale nuclear fusion technology, many human machines still needed fission energy, so the exploration of uranium ore was indispensable.
"We have so far collected and purified one million tonnes of uranium-235...... There are also sporadic associated plutonium elements. Xiao Yu looked at the plutonium block in his hand and explained with a smile.
The energy density of uranium is 2.5 million times that of coal, that is to say, this half of the warehouse alone is equivalent to the energy of 250 billion tons of coal reserves! (China's annual consumption is only 4 billion tons)
It's just a storehouse for humanity...... r