Five Hundred and Fifty Fifth Go All Out (2)

The completion of the No. 1 base means that the lunar base has initially begun to develop in the direction of self-sufficiency; the completion of the first phase of the project means that the lunar base has initial industrial capabilities. ??

Although the design production capacity of the first phase of the project is very small, it is a real industrial production capacity, and covers various industries involved in the construction base.

At this point, as long as enough time is given to the moon base, in ten or twenty years, the moon base will gradually grow into a behemoth.

But what humans lack the most is time. It is impossible to wait ten or twenty years under the pressure of giant insects. The batches of industrial equipment placed in the moon base are not used for production, but for verification. The operation and use of equipment on the moon lays the foundation for the design of high-capacity equipment.

Meals need to be eaten at one bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step. Although human beings already have a good understanding of the situation on the moon, it is definitely not that simple to move industries to the moon. Small-scale verification is the safest way.

Just imagine that if large-scale equipment is directly launched, no matter whether there is an abnormality in the equipment or a problem with the product, the price will be too heavy for any country to bear.

The industrial system of the lunar base is the top priority of the entire Moon Palace project. The news was sent back to the earth. The space base sent two spacecraft to the sky in just three days. The more than 20 astronauts on the spacecraft were all All-rounder in industry, chemical industry, metallurgy, manufacturing and other industries are all-encompassing.

After all, having industrial capabilities is only the first step for the lunar base. Only by transforming industrial capabilities into real production capacity can the continuous development of the lunar base be guaranteed.

After the expert team arrived on the moon, they immediately took over the industrial area of ​​the lunar base, and formulated a comprehensive industrial plan according to the actual situation of the lunar base.

The first step in the plan is to extract the iron and titanium from the mare basalt.

As the name suggests, Lunar Basalt is the basalt found in the Lunar Sea, but things are by no means only found in the Lunar Sea. The main component of the crater surrounding the temporary base is Luna Basalt!

The construction personnel have dug up a large number of mare basalts during several months of engineering work. Countless rocks are piled up near the base. As long as a part is selected and sent to the industrial area, the metal content can be determined, and the smelting experiment can be carried out after crushing and screening .

Everyone knows that although rocks contain a lot of iron and titanium, the so-called large amount is based on the fact that the moon has a large number of mare basalts, not that the rocks have a particularly high metal content.

On Earth, ore of this grade has no mining value at all. But on the moon, the industrial group has no choice at all in the short term, unless large-scale iron ore or titanium mines are found.

But how can mines be so easy to find?

The experts in the industry group are all real elites in the industry, and no one is given for free. In just a few days, the first furnace of metal was extracted from a large pile of rocks.

The metal in this furnace is mainly iron, and there is also some titanium, but the total amount is less than one-fifth of the iron.

The iron and steel industry is one of the most important basic industries. With enough iron and steel, the construction speed of the base can be increased by several levels.

The plan to launch large-scale equipment was immediately put on the agenda, and various mineral processing equipment was immediately put in place. At the same time as the mineral processing work was in full swing, the industrial team dismantled two spaceships, sent the outer shell of the spacecraft into the industrial area, and placed it in the smelting area.

The design of the spaceship considers one object with multiple functions. After dismantling the equipment and carrying out certain modifications, the shell of the spaceship immediately becomes the shell of two electric furnaces with a height of more than ten meters.

Although it is only the shell, it also solves the big problem of the industrial group. If there is no spaceship shell, the industrial team can only use the pitiful little output of the experimental furnace to slowly accumulate the metal needed to make the electric furnace.

As for other materials needed by the electric furnace, all the materials that can be obtained locally can be solved on the spot, and those that must be provided by the ground can be reported immediately.

Ye Han was dazzled by a series of changes. First, he built smelting equipment, then made cement out of lunar soil, and the strength of lunar soil cement was much higher than ordinary cement, and then made glass out of lunar soil.

Is the composition of lunar soil also silicon dioxide?

What he didn't expect was that the industrial group actually solved the radiation problem of the lunar soil, and the method couldn't be simpler-scrape off the surface layer of the lunar soil, and only take the deep lunar soil!

The radiation of the lunar soil is the same as the radiation on the surface of the glacial lake. The rays from the universe are blocked by the surface, and the deep lunar soil does not contain any radiation unless it contains radioactive substances.

Because of this, the lunar base has to use lunar soil cement, but the lunar soil resources in the crater are too small, and large-scale application is not realistic.

In order to solve this problem, the engineering team proposed a new plan to continue excavating the No. 4 hole where the industrial zone is located until the crater is dug through and connected to the world outside the crater, so as to obtain more resources.

Although it is very troublesome to get through the crater, it is much easier than climbing over the crater. Moreover, digging tunnels can also be regarded as expanding the industrial area. With the help of satellites, we can grasp the direction of excavation, and even the location of the exit can be strictly controlled.

While the industrial group is doing its best, the second phase of the lunar base project is in full swing.

The plan is not as fast as the change. The original second phase plan has been changed accordingly with the progress of the base construction. The entire second phase plan has only two directions.

One is the tunnel that penetrates the crater. The tunnel project is related to the subsequent base construction and must be given the highest priority.

The second is the expansion plan of the agricultural area to maximize and increase the food supply capacity of the lunar base as quickly as possible.

The tunnel project does not require too many manpower. Gao Kai only arranged for a construction team, and the rest of the construction workers are all concentrated in the No. 1 hole. While expanding the space to the left and right sides, it is also necessary to expand underground. It is planned to build the No. 1 hole into a multi-storey building. The short-term goal of the complex three-dimensional farm is to supply staple and non-staple food for 1,000 people, the medium-term goal is to expand the supply to 10,000 people, and the long-term goal is to supply 100,000 people—this goal is too far away, so it is just a goal at present .

During this period, the second nuclear reactor of the lunar base settled in the No. 2 hole.

The power capacity of the No. 1 reactor is enough to supply a medium-sized city, but the base is located in the polar region of the moon. If the reactor fails, the operation of the entire lunar base will stop immediately. If the reactor cannot be repaired in a short time, once the liquid metal in the reactor is cooled If it solidifies, the reactor is in danger of melting down, and all astronauts must leave the moon immediately, even the moon base.

Now that the lunar base has been initially formed, only one reactor is too risky, so the ground spared no expense to send the second reactor to the moon.

Fortunately, the size of the military reactor is not large, and a spaceship can barely accommodate it. 8 For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy