Chapter 855: A Colony of First Scale
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Apart from doing a good job of defense right now, there is no better option.
The deterrent power of Aurora-20 in the face of the world's countries does not apply to the Northern United Area. Although the Aurora-20 did not detect the existence of such units as fighter jets in the joint control area, they inherited the Pan-Asian cooperation technology and could pose a deadly threat to the Aurora-20 with ground-based anti-aircraft missiles and laser anti-aircraft weapons.
If war breaks out, the battlefield for both sides will undoubtedly be on the ground.
After staying in the last days for three days, Jiang Chen returned to the present world.
This time he brought back ten Aurora-20 newly manufactured by the military factory in the Sixth Street District, as well as the K1 mechanical exoskeleton production line newly built by the Zhao Group.
In the past, the mechanical exoskeletons on this side of the world were produced by the military factory in the sixth street, and then Jiang Chen acted as a porter to move the materials over there. But now the Doomsday side has to bear the pressure from the joint control area, and has to allocate a small amount of production capacity to serve the present world, which is really a bit stretched.
Now that the military industry of the future has begun to see scale, it is fully capable of integrating this production line. After the hummingbird drone, another 22nd-century arms production line has settled on Anga Island.
The entire set of production equipment covers tens of thousands of square meters, and Jiang Chen chose the coconut island he used to dock Shuidi No. 1 as the "transfer warehouse". After transferring all the equipment to the island, Jiang Chen called the transport ship of Xinghuan Trade, dispatched frigates to escort, and transported the equipment to Anga Island without removing a single screw.
With the manpower and resources in the end of the world, there is an obvious bottleneck in the development of industry, but this bottleneck does not exist for the Future Group. Future People Mining will transport a steady stream of ore to Xinma Special Zone, which will be roughly processed by the steel factory in Xinma District and then transported to Anga Island. Future People's Military Industry will return these finished steels to be smelted into C-shaped steel and poured into abrasive tools .
The more sophisticated internal structure will also be completed by the factory on Anga Island.
All the mechanical exoskeletons produced can not only fill the equipment gap of the currently expanding foreign corps, but also meet the needs of the three major NAC corps in the last days. Because there has been no war for a long time, the popularity rate of exoskeletons in the last days is not as good as that of the present world.
I believe this situation will improve soon.
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Two weeks have passed since the start of the lunar colonization plan. From the images sent back from the moon, it can be seen that the lunar colony in Guanghan City has begun to take shape.
Several strip-shaped barracks were placed on the edge of the crater,
Colonists in spacesuits set up solar generators in a clearing. Before the nuclear fusion generator was sent to Guanghan City, they could only rely on solar energy to obtain the energy to keep the colony running.
The mining stations not far away are mines for drilling lunar ice and mines for digging and collecting lunar soil.
Moon ice is one of the sources of drinking water for the colony, as well as the main source of oxygen for the colony. The oxygen tank carried on the spacecraft is only enough for the twenty-four colonists to survive for a week, and in the following time, all the oxygen will be obtained by the electrolysis of water.
From the current point of view, this is the cheapest way to obtain oxygen. 1L of water electrolysis can generate 0.623 cubic meters of oxygen and 1.25 cubic meters of hydrogen. Calculated according to the 15% oxygen content in the air, the pure oxygen consumed by each person per day is only 0.5 cubic meters under normal atmospheric pressure. As for the by-product hydrogen, it will be stored in a special container, and the carbon dioxide produced by breathing will generate methanol and a small amount of water under the high-temperature catalyst.
Methanol will be used in production as an industrial raw material.
In this way, a simple cycle is formed.
Of course, Jiang Chen sent them to the moon not just for them to solve the problem of how to survive. In addition to driving the lunar rover out to explore mines and maintain these life-support devices every day, they also shoulder the task of assisting ground researchers to carry out scientific research work.
Among all scientific research projects, the key is the collection project of helium 3!
The small mine that excavated lunar soil was the facility that shouldered such a heavy responsibility.
Since there is no global "dipole magnetic field" protection on the moon, the solar wind containing carbon, nitrogen, and rare gas ions such as helium, neon, argon, and krypton can drive straight in, continuously bombard the lunar surface and enter the lunar soil particles, making the moon Soil is rich in helium 3.
As for the value of this energy, here is a set of data that can be visualized. If 1 kg of helium 3 is used to generate electricity, it can generate 19 megawatts of energy, which is enough to provide lighting for Moscow for 6 years. And only 10 tons of helium 3 is needed, and the power generation is enough for the entire Huaguo to use for a year!
In addition, for every ton of helium-3 extracted from the lunar soil, 6300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen and 1600 tons of carbon can be obtained. However, compared to the value of the former, the value of these by-products is actually negligible.
The lunar soil itself is also rich in minerals such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, titanium and rare earth metals.
Jiang Chen already has nuclear fusion power generation technology, and the power source of Penglai City is the nuclear fusion generator and several deuterium storage tanks obtained from Yizhou Island in the last days. What needs to be solved now is how to efficiently mine those helium 3 from the lunar soil.
This was also one of the main tasks of these colonial pioneers and researchers.
Just such a small colony of 24 people cost Jiang Chen 1 billion Singapore dollars.
But he believes that the money spent is worth it.
After watching the video, Kerwin found Jiang Chen.
"NASA hopes that we can disclose the living conditions of the colonists and share the investigation of the moon. They are willing to use a file that has not yet been released to the United Nations Space Agency to exchange this information with us."
"Is that information important? I mean theirs." Jiang Chen asked.
Kerwin thought for a moment and replied.
"It's not very important. NASA officials revealed that those undisclosed files are mainly about the analysis of Krip rock and the distribution of helium-3 reservoirs in lunar soil. Our researchers are also studying these things, but they don't know How far have they researched?"
"Then there is no need to exchange information with them, I believe you will go ahead of them." After Jiang Chen finished speaking, he paused for a while, and then continued, "However, the living conditions of the colonists can be made public, after all, this is also part of the propaganda. Are there rumors on the Internet that slander us, saying that those astronauts are guinea pigs and are dead now? Shooting a short documentary of their lives is just a powerful counterattack! As for what content can be made public and what must be kept secret, I I think you should know."
"You can rest assured." Kerwin smiled and nodded.
After explaining this matter, Jiang Chen was about to leave, but Kerwin stopped him as if remembering something.
Jiang Chen turned his head and asked.
"Anything else?"
"One more thing. Two days ago, our space launch center received a visit application from the UK." Kerwin replied.
"Visit application? Don't we have to receive a stack of visit applications every day?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"This person's identity is a bit special. I can't refuse directly, I have to ask your opinion." Kerwin said cautiously.
"Who? Could it be the Queen of England?" Jiang Chen joked.
"No, it's Hawking." (To be continued.)
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