When it comes to expanding the scale of power plants and increasing power generation, Chen Yue once again deeply feels the limitations of insufficient metal processing capacity.

Pretreatment devices, boilers, generators, and electrical wires are all metals, and they all have to rely on the metallurgical industry to provide resources.

But now, all Chen Yue can use is a few multi-functional smelting robots, and he can only refine a little bit of metal through customized models every day.

It's not that Chen Yue doesn't want to build more smelting robots, but smelting robots are big consumers of electricity, and at the same time, the supply of raw materials, that is, ore, is also limited, and the supply of more ore can't be supplied.

Increasing ore supply?

This, in turn, has to increase the number of mining robots. But you also need steel to build mining robots.

This creates an endless loop. The only way for Chen Yue to crack the problem is to rely on time to grind slowly and slowly increase the output.

Now that it's off to a good start, at least the robot doesn't need to recharge the ship again. The smelting robot can also no longer care about power consumption and go all out to produce.

As a result, except for three robots to keep the power plant running, and 27 robots to collect solid oxygen and ice tolin, the remaining robots that could be mobilized were all put into the journey of collecting ore.

The hard steps of the robots spread all over the place with the Glowing Confusion spaceship as the core, and the surrounding area was dozens of kilometers. Where there are minerals, there are robots.

Large chunks of ore converge here, eventually turning into blocks of steel ingots, which begin to be processed by intelligent machine tools.

Under such circumstances, electric blast furnaces that can smelt a variety of ores on a large scale and refine a variety of metals have finally been produced.

Normally, a blast furnace will only be used for the smelting of one type of metal, and only one type of designation. Only in this way can the quality be stable and the efficiency be high.

This is also a common practice on Earth. I have never heard of a blast furnace that can smelt steel, copper, tin and aluminum.

The general purpose blast furnace is inefficient, poor in quality, and uneconomical.

But this choice, on this Callisto, is inevitable for Chen Yue.

Or because of insufficient production capacity. It is simply not practical to build a blast furnace for every metal, for every specification.

However, even if this blast furnace has such and such shortcomings, at least, its smelting speed is much faster than that of a smelting robot, and one blast furnace is almost equivalent to twenty smelting robots!

That's a huge increase in efficiency.

Chen Yue happily connected the wires to the electric blast furnace, adjusted the power of the generator to the maximum, and then started the blast furnace to start the smelting of the first batch of metal minerals.

This time, it is a batch of iron ore to be refined. Chen's ultimate goal is to smelt it into steel that is resistant to low temperatures.

This is also the raw material consumed the most by manufacturing robots. Chen Yue has a great demand for this.

If there is a blast furnace that can take on this part of the demand, the smelting robot can focus on the smelting of some key metals with higher performance requirements but less demand.

The blast furnace vibrates slightly, and the electricity is converted into heat, which begins to heat the ores, and through a series of processes at high temperatures, they begin to refine and purify them, and the corresponding elements are added to improve their performance......

Eventually, the red molten iron flowed out and solidified into ingots.

This time, a total of 100 kilograms of steel ingots were smelted.

Compared with the huge blast furnaces on the earth, which can easily reach thousands of tons and 10,000 tons, this output is simply insignificant. But this is still worth Chen Yue's excitement.

"The capacity of the No. 1 blast furnace has not yet been fully released. If there is enough electricity to run at full power, it can even smelt an average of 300 kilograms of steel per day! 300 kg, enough to build 4 robots! ”

"I didn't say it, open the furnace and continue refining!"

Chen Yue became more and more excited.

Ice tollin and solid oxygen are burning, generators are constantly running, and electricity is constantly supplied to the blast furnaces and robots. The molten iron continues to flow out and is transported to the smart machine for the manufacture of a new generator.

With the experience of the first generator, the power of this second generator has increased a little bit, reaching 250 KW. It was then started up and smoothly connected to the grid for power generation.

With enough power supply, the blast furnace immediately ran at full power and finally reached the rated output of 300 kilograms per day.

At this time, Chen Yue could build a few more blast furnaces and generators. But he didn't.

There are not enough bots. Any more would be insufficient for mining robots and fuel robots.

A total of 30 robots can only supply up to two generators to generate electricity from the ice tollin and solid oxygen.

The rest of the robots are running around, going all out to collect minerals, and it is more than enough to supply one blast furnace for smelting, but if you supply two, you will not have enough spare energy.

Indeed, the heart is not enough.

The heart here is more than enough, which refers to Chen Yue's computing power, even if all the robots and machines are activated, the occupation is far less than one percent. The rest of the computing power is all vacant.

Needless to say, the lack of strength is naturally insufficient.

There is no computing power, no robots.

Chen Yue always kept in mind that his first priority was to build a robot production line to produce more robots. Power generation and smelting are all services for expanding the number of robots as soon as possible.

Under these circumstances, Chen Yue decisively stopped the construction of generators and blast furnaces, and instead began to use the steel produced by blast furnaces to start the construction of metal processing plants.

An intelligent machine tool and a 3D printer have insufficient processing capacity. In fact, the steel produced at this stage can no longer be processed by the intelligent machine tool.

3D printers are responsible for the production of high-precision parts, which cannot be replaced for the time being. But intelligent machine tools can always be replaced.

Metalworking plants will take on this responsibility.

Like power plants and steel mills, metalworking plants are imbued with a "will-and-do, casual, usable, and don't care about anything else" style.

Chen Yue abandoned all aesthetics and pursued everything to meet the minimum requirements.

Under the guidance of this ideology, the metal processing plant is still open-air, and there is not even a factory building. A random plot of land next to a steel mill and a power plant was the site of a metal processing plant.

Intelligent machine tools produce parts bit by bit, and finally assemble a variety of metalworking equipment.

It took two months to complete the metalworking plant.

From this moment on, Chen Yue finally has an independent metalworking ability that is not part of the heritage of human civilization - ideally, processing ordinary difficult parts, processing about one ton of metal per day.