Chapter 15 Infrastructure
At this moment, among the more than 30,000 robots under Chen Yue's command, they have been divided into nine categories, with a total of more than 200 kinds of robots.
Some of these types are called robots, but they have actually begun to evolve in the direction of machinery, such as special mining robots, which look somewhat similar to excavators on earth.
They have their own heating and crushing functions, which can easily melt solid oxygen or ice tollin, or crush iron ore, copper ore, etc., and then mine them.
Or transport robots. They resemble trucks on Earth, with a large body that can transport large quantities of fuel or ore.
Of course, they are all intelligent and can be directly controlled by Chen Yue. Because of this, Chen Yue still habitually calls them robots.
In addition, for power plants, steel plants, metal processing plants, among these factories, Chen Yue has also developed special models of robots to keep them running.
These robots have a very single function, such as a robot used in a power plant, which has only one function, which is to clean up the residue and transport it away, and nothing else will be done. But it is precisely because of the single function that it is more efficient in this specialized work.
At this moment, the humble factories and machines that were built at the time of the original advent have long since completed their historical mission and are honorably retired.
Industrial upgrading cannot be achieved overnight, and the performance of production tools cannot skyrocket in a short period of time. They have to be slowly improved little by little through continuous iteration.
Just like those generators, they only had an installed capacity of 200 kW at the beginning, but then it was soon increased to 250 KW, then to 1,000 KW, and now to 10,000 KW.
The total installed capacity has skyrocketed, while the unit energy consumption has plummeted.
The same goes for steel mills. At the beginning, there was only one general-purpose blast furnace, with high energy consumption and low efficiency, and then it was gradually improved, and now, Chen Yue has a total of more than 50 blast furnaces of various types, and the production efficiency has been greatly improved.
At this moment, Chen Yue's industrial zone has already been replaced by shotguns, and all kinds of machinery are no longer directly operated in the open air. In pursuit of higher quality, Chen Yue finally built a factory for them and let them move to the house.
The new industrial park is still centered on the power plant, which now has a total installed capacity of 300,000 kW and consists of 30 generators of 10,000 kW each.
It's not that Chen Yue can't build a generator with a larger capacity, but it's that electricity is not easy to store, and it is always used as much as it sends. However, the overall power consumption fluctuates and cannot be stabilized.
By setting the generator to a single 10,000 KW capacity, Chen Yue can easily adjust the power generation. If you use more electricity, you will open a few more, and if you use less electricity, you will open a few less.
Around the power plant, the metal processing area, the smelting area, the robot production line, and the chemical industry area are each surrounded.
Now, Chen Yue finally has the robot production line that he has in mind. The production of robots has finally barely reached the requirements of streamlining and standardization. It's not very standardized, but it's a good start.
There are a total of nine production lines, which can produce nine types of robots.
Chen Yue splits the robot production into different processes and steps, each step is completed by a special robot, and after completion, it is sent to the next process, which greatly accelerates the production speed and improves the quality stability.
By the way, Chen Yue also built a chemical plant in this decade.
Needless to say, the importance of chemical plants is that without them, too many products cannot be manufactured by themselves, and only the inventory of the past can be consumed.
There is a lack of chemical raw materials on Europa, and there is no coal or oil. This forced Chen Yue to develop more synthesis paths and synthesize a variety of chemical raw materials from scratch.
There are too many types of chemical raw materials, and there is no way, so this chemical factory can only adopt a "general" approach, adopting a manual customized way to produce most of the raw materials.
Like the kind on the earth, a single chemical raw material, such as ethylene, such as sulfuric acid, can directly build a factory with an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons, this situation Chen Yue did not dare to think about for the time being.
On the whole, Chen Yue feels that the scale of the entire industrial zone he owns at the moment is still not large enough, the degree of subdivision and professionalism is still insufficient, and there are still a large number of traces of generalization, customization, and small handmade workshops. It is still far from real industrialization.
"It's a long way to go."
Staring at the huge Jupiter and the bright sun, looking at the vastness of space, Chen Yue had a longing in his heart.
"I don't know when I will have enough scientific and technological strength to travel in this vast universe."
"Keep it up."
The number of 30,000 robots sounds like a lot, but it is very small to use. Chen Yue decided that in the future, it will still be the first requirement to expand the number of robots as soon as possible.
After all, with enough robots, you can only do it if you build factories, open mines, etc.
But now, Chen Yue is aware of a major shackle on his production capacity.
Capacity.
The capacity of transport robots is really limited. Even if they run around the desolate land of Ganymede day in day, the fuel, ore, etc., they can transport are really limited.
Also, their own industrial zones are too concentrated.
This is not a good sign.
The concentration of industrial areas meant that resources from Callisto, wherever they existed, had to be transported before they could be used. This inevitably results in too many resources and capacity and time wasted on the road.
In the early stage of development, this kind of centralized development is necessary, after all, the scale is limited, and it must be centralized.
But now, I have to change my thinking.
It's time to move from centralized development to distributed development.
In the past ten years, with the help of those satellites and the field exploration of robots, Chen Yue has not relaxed his exploration and understanding of Europa for a moment.
At this moment, where are the minerals stored on Ganymede, what is the terrain, what is the structure, and what is suitable for it, Chen Yuemen cleared.
Combined with the data collected in the past, combined with his own needs and plans at the moment, after a short calculation, a huge plan was instantly generated in Chen Yue's mind.
"Sure enough, when civilization develops to a certain stage, what must be done is infrastructure."
Chen Yue sighed secretly in his heart, and lifted his spirits again: "Then, let's build a few railways first!" ”
Mine No. 1, Mine No. 2, and Mine No. 186, all the mines that have been proven so far, Chen Yue plans to connect them all by rail.