Chapter 183 Mining Plan
Space hub, Xinghai Materials Laboratory.
Fanren slept for almost 8 hours. When he woke up, he felt refreshed and all the fatigue of the past few days was gone.
This time he was not in a hurry. He washed up leisurely, and then ate the dinner sent by the Xinghai Logistics Department. Then he lit a cigarette and enjoyed a moment of comfort.
"Boss, the bottom of the moon's crust is full of this ore, and the quantity is very large."
Fan Ren leaned back in his chair, listening to Ah Dai's report, but didn't ask any further questions, because he knew there was more to come.
"After testing, it was found that the strength of this metal, without any forging, is dozens of times stronger than that of tritanium. It is also better than tritanium in terms of heat resistance and radiation resistance. The initial guess is that this is a special metal ore formed by the high pressure environment and some sedimentary factors during the movement of the lunar crust."
Fanren nodded and replied with a smile: "That's why, and it's because of this reason at such a depth that we have never found this metal."
At this point, he paused, then said with emotion: "This is all very coincidental. Although our technology has greatly improved compared to the past, it is still very difficult to mine this kind of ore without the help of dense bombs."
"Yes, Boss. Now that we have dense ore, the Conqueror can also collect and transport liquid metallic hydrogen. In terms of mining, we have almost no cost."
"That's right. You can arrange this."
After Fan Ren finished speaking, he fell silent, thinking about the next matters regarding mining.
The gravity of the moon is still a bit too high at present. In addition, all heavy industry has now been transferred to the Mars-Jupiter hub. Obviously, it is no longer suitable to mine silver-like supermetal ores on the moon.
Fortunately, it now seems that not only Europa is a treasure satellite, but even Ganymede and Callisto also have endless silver-like supermetals available for humans to mine.
Io is not suitable, as volcanic eruptions are too frequent, and humans are currently unable to conduct permanent operations there.
But it was quite enough.
You should know that Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system, reaching 5262 kilometers in diameter. Callisto is also very large. Although its diameter is not as large as Ganymede, it also reaches 4820 kilometers.
The moon, also a satellite, has a volume of only 3476 kilometers.
Fan Ren thought about it for a long time and made up his mind.
"A-Dai, Guanghan Palace Base temporarily stops mining tri-titanium alloys. At the same time, deep blasting operations are being carried out 100 kilometers away from Guanghan Palace to blast out a small mining pit. All miners from Guanghan Palace are transferred there to carry out silver-like supermetal mining operations.
At the same time, a large-scale silver-like supermetal smelting plant will be built in the Mars-Jupiter hub, which can be appropriately close to Jupiter, and future metal processing plants can be planned around it.
If we double the energy extraction from Europa, then perhaps our demand for energy from nuclear fusion will increase significantly.
In addition, two professional exploration teams were dispatched to conduct feasibility reports on silver-like supermetal mining, space elevator construction, and base site surveys on the two satellites of Ganymede and Callisto.
And you have to plan all the logistical preparations at the same time, and help me see if there is anything I need to add."
The mortal gave all the instructions he had in mind in one breath, and then asked subconsciously.
Ah Dai's super brain quickly analyzed Fan Ren's general purpose, and summarized and organized the matters Fan Ren instructed in an instant.
"Boss, according to the data, Callisto is an Earth-like satellite, and its gravity is only 10% of that of the Blue Planet. It also has a large amount of water resources, and although its atmosphere is thin, it contains a large proportion of oxygen.
Therefore, I suggest establishing a permanent large-scale logistics base on Callisto, where we can set up factories for the production of breeding, planting and other ground supplies to provide the logistics needs of the Fire and Wood Hub.
Of course, this does not affect our ability to carry out silver-like supermetal mining operations on it.
And because of the low gravity, our Colossus has the ability to take off and land on the planet after simply increasing the number of nuclear fusion engines.
In this way, there will no longer be a need to build a space elevator which takes a long time and has limited transportation capacity, and spacecraft can be used directly instead of transportation.
In this way, we can also solve the current long-distance logistics transportation problem between Blue Star and Huomu Hub. "Fan Ren listened and nodded repeatedly. He didn't expect this.
"Anymore?"
Upon hearing this, Ah Dai immediately asked, "Boss, what do you think of the moon?"
What do you think?
Fan Ren was also a little confused by the question for a moment.
"That's right. Today, the moon is no longer suitable for large-scale development due to gravity and other reasons. Compared to it, the satellites of the Jupiter series are more suitable for large-scale resource collection.
I suggest that after we complete the initial mining work, we focus our efforts on the Io satellites, which are more suitable. As for the moon, we can temporarily close the Guanghan Palace base and transfer the manpower to the Io hub. "
Fan Ren nodded. Ah Dai was right. The moon’s position was becoming increasingly embarrassing.
As Mars develops and mining in Jupiter's rings gradually increases, even Europa can be used as an energy base.
Compared with other materials, the moon's tri-titanium alloy production is negligible.
Indeed, we can follow Ah Dai's suggestion and transfer the manpower to the four moons of Jupiter after completing the initial work of collecting silver supermetals.
Another advantage is that the personnel stationed in Guanghan Palace have more experience in satellite base development.
"Okay, you make a general planning report. Oh, and the early silver-like supermetal mining work on the moon must be done quickly. I need it urgently. Please help me contact Sister Jin and Chief Li. I'll go find them now."
After Fan Ren finished speaking, he put on his coat and walked towards the port in a swift and decisive manner.
Daxia capital, Ouchi.
A-Dai's series of summary plan reports have fallen into the hands of Li Jiandong and Jin Qiaoying, who are reading them separately.
Fan Ren was not in a hurry either. The plan made by Ah Dai was more detailed than what he had verbally described. It had a lot of words and was very brain-intensive, so he needed to read it carefully.
After a long while, Li Jiandong put down the documents, rubbed his eyes, and then laughed bitterly and said to himself, "I'm really old. When I was younger, I could have read this information in a few minutes and understood the general meaning."
Fan Ren quickly said without any concern: "You are still strong and healthy at an old age, so don't give up, otherwise our Xinghai anti-aging treatment will have a bad reputation."
Hearing this, Li Jian smiled, pointed at Fan Ren and shook his head.
Jin Qiaoying also put down the documents in her hand. There was no change on her face, and her words were very direct: "I have no objection. What about you, Mr. Li?"
Looking at the two men, Li Jiandong thought for a while and asked, "This silver-like supermetal is definitely the main material for future spacecraft manufacturing, right?"
Hearing this, Fan Ren nodded with certainty and said, "In the foreseeable future, there may be other sources of metal materials, but they should also be extremely rare. You know, our current mining operations at the bottom of the earth's crust are mainly made so easy by the dense bombs.
But further down is the mantle layer, where there may be even rarer metals, but it is clear that we currently do not have the ability to mine them.
There is a large amount of oxygen in the mantle, and a large-yield explosion is very likely to cause a violent reaction inside the planet. We are currently unable to withstand the impact of such a catastrophic result. "
Li Jiandong nodded and said, "In this case, 60% of our industrial system will have to move to the Huomu Hub? And I feel that as time goes by, this proportion will rise to more than 90% in the future."
"Commander Li, this is the space age. I plan to suggest to Commander Liu that we establish a space force branch in the Huomu Hub."
Hearing this, Li Jiandong subconsciously looked at Jin Qiaoying, but unfortunately, Jin Qiaoying's beautiful eyes were all on Fan Ren.
He smiled helplessly. It was just like working in the Star Sea. It wasn't tiring at all.
"Okay, I'll cooperate with you."
(End of this chapter)
