Chen Yue only made a slight calculation before coming to a preliminary conclusion.

Just this plain, even if the thickness of these torins is not deep, in total, there are at least a million tons of reserves here!

And that's not all. Satellite surveys have shown that there are many areas of this green color in the rest of Europa.

Chen Yue didn't know how many Torin reserves there were in total, but it was certain that there would be a lot.

At the very least, it should be enough to support yourself through the early stages of development! When these Torin reserves are depleted, and then you may be able to leave Ganymede and reach the rest of the moons, will there be a shortage of fuel?

Chen Yue's heart was full of excitement.

Without saying anything, the mining robot immediately began to work. The team of robots first cut several large pieces of ice tollin, with a total mass of about a dozen tons, and dragged them back to the camp.

At the moment, the power plant equipment is being intensively manufactured "by hand".

The smelting robot refines the required minerals little by little, the intelligent machine tool processes it into parts, the 3D printing equipment prints the complex parts that cannot be processed, and the robot acts as an operator and undertakes the assembly work......

After a few days of busyness, a strange-looking, vat-like thing was finally created.

It is about five meters in diameter and three meters high, and is divided into combustion and steam chambers, with complex pipes extending from the outside. One of the pipes was connected to another similar-looking, but smaller canister.

At this moment, the generator has also been manufactured. Several robots worked together to move it over, dock it with the boiler, and lead another pipe from the smaller tank to the generator.

On the other side of the generator, two lines are connected, and a light is connected to them.

The robot responsible for the pre-treatment of the fuel placed the solid oxygen and ice tollin from the two inlets into the smaller canister, where the two items would be subjected to preliminary processing.

They first heat up and melt, turning from a solid into a gas. During this process, the dust, stones, and other materials mixed in will fall down due to gravity, and eventually be expelled. The combustible gases released when oxygen and Torin are heated are sent to the combustion chamber after being easily filtered.

The ignition is then activated and the two gases are ignited, releasing the heat.

The heat heats the upper layer of water ice, causing it to boil and then vaporize, exerting tremendous pressure. This water vapor, which has a huge pressure, is sprayed down the pipes and comes to the generator, which can push the fan blades of the generator to rotate.

The fan blades drive the wire to cut the magnetic inductance line, and the power will be continuously generated.

Now, it's time for the first experiment.

The wires that came out of the Glowing spacecraft supplied power to the pre-treatment device. After heating up, Chen Yue carefully manipulated the gas to be discharged into the combustion chamber and then ignited......

The pressure sensor transmits back the pressure in the steam chamber at this moment.

Before ignition, the pressure inside it is almost zero. Because this is Ganymede, which is extremely cold, there is no such thing as atmospheric pressure at all.

But as soon as the bottom burns, the pressure rises as the water ice melts. After a while, it rose to the level of a standard Earth atmosphere.

On the almost vacuumed surface of Callisto, a jar with an internal pressure of up to one atmosphere is almost equivalent to a bomb. If the strength of the material is not up to par, it will blow up with a bang.

Chen Yue was a little worried. But it turns out that the quality of the boiler that you "rub" out by yourself may not be good, but it can be done to bear these pressures.

The pressure continues to rise. When it finally reached a threshold, the valve was burst open, and the hot, high-pressure water vapor gushed out. The generator began to vibrate slightly, and the heavy fan blades slowly began to spin.

The next moment, the hanging light flickered.

It's bright and dark. Obviously, the voltage is not stable at the moment.

Chen Yue was not in a hurry and waited slowly. Sure enough, after a few seconds of stabilization, the light began to stay on and never flicker again.

The soft light illuminated the dim surface of Ganymede, making Chen Yue seem to feel as warm as the sun.

There seems to be something called hope hidden in this light.

With the support of solid oxygen and ice tolin, there is finally a little bit of light that has been made by its own hands, rather than relying on the relics of human civilization.

Chen Yue was a little excited in his heart.

At this moment, although it is only the power to light a lamp, Chen Yue seems to have seen a grand future.

The lights are turned off, and the electricity is continuously supplied to a "shed" that has been built next to it through the pre-set line.

There were dozens of seat-like things in the shed, and there were already robots sitting and waiting on them.

They have an interface connected to the seat, through which a steady stream of electricity enters their body, providing them with the power to work later.

Finally, there is no need to draw electricity from the Glowing spaceship. That precious fuel can finally be saved for emergencies.

The generator ran for a moment, and Chen Yue was drawn out of the Luminous spaceship, and the power to heat the pretreatment device for the ice tolin and solid oxygen was also cut off.

The temperature of the water vapor is still very high after the fan blades of the generator are pushed. They are meant to be cooled down and recycled. Rather than letting the calories they carry go to waste, they can be used to thaw solid oxygen and ice toline, the best of both worlds.

So the rudimentary open-pit power plant began to run in a circular manner. As long as there is no malfunction, as long as there is a supply of fuel, it can generate a steady stream of electricity.

The power of the power plant designed by Chen Yue can be adjusted. At the moment, its power is about 60KW, which means that it can generate 60 kWh of electricity in one hour. After Chen Yue's dispatch, this electricity will be charged into the bodies of those robots, which is almost just enough to support their daily work.

If there are more places to use electricity in the future, Chen Yue can also increase the power of the generator to a maximum of 200KW, that is, 200 kWh of electricity per hour.

At this speed of power generation, even an ordinary small village on earth cannot sustain it. But on Europa, Chen Yue feels that this is a key step in his development process.

Most importantly, it proves that the idea of generating its own electricity and supporting subsequent industrialization is completely feasible.

"Well, the next step is to scale up the power plant. Also, the construction of a steel plant should be on the agenda. ”

Chen Yue didn't think about improving efficiency, improving accuracy, improving quality and reliability, and reducing waste.

At this moment, that's not something you can think about. In terms of the number of reactors, it is imperative to pile up the power generation first.