Chapter 659 Circular Bunker-Shaped Building
The spaceship arrived in the sky over Ocean of Storms, not far from the helium-3 refining plant. Tang Xiaochuan began to train the person in charge of the plant, saying that he would go to inspect the helium-3 refining plant in half an hour, and then he drove the spaceship to slow down and arrive at the predetermined location landing.
It is only 50 kilometers away from the helium 3 refinery plant, and it is the location of the nuclear power plant chosen by Professor Qi and other scientific research teams for their calculations.
Tang Xiaochuan got off the spaceship wearing a down jacket, stepped on a thick layer of lunar soil, looked around, raised his hand and looked at the display screen on his arm, the current time should be around 3:00 pm Earth time, at this time The connection channel between the future auxiliary device in his hand and the future world is open.
Without further ado, he immediately summoned the 3D virtual image of Leihuo, "Old Lei, extract all the engineering robots and mechanical construction equipment from the warehouse of the mall, and start working!"
"Okay, sir!" Leihuo agreed after the three-dimensional virtual image appeared, and then raised his hand, a large number of engineering robots appeared in front of him in a row, followed by engineering machinery and equipment one after another. After a row, neatly, very imposing.
"Enter the three-dimensional virtual design drawing for the construction of the lunar nuclear power plant, input construction task instructions for all engineering robots, and assign duties and responsibilities!"
"Mr. Ming, the input of the three-dimensional virtual design drawing for the construction of the lunar nuclear power plant is completed... The positions, responsibilities, overall, and team building task instructions of all engineering robots are completed, and work is now started..."
As Leihuo’s voice fell, each engineering robot began to work according to the division of labor. Some engineering robots began to measure the construction area, draw lines, and make signs with tools. Some engineering robots drove loading and unloading vehicles and began to unload construction materials and some equipment from the spaceship. After that, some engineering robots began to drive excavation equipment to clean up the unevenness on the construction site.
There is no air on the moon, so there is no sound transmission. No matter how hard these large-scale machinery and equipment are working, they can’t hear the slightest sound even if they stand nearby. Standing alone in such a lonely and desolate environment, it takes a long time. There will be problems both mentally and psychologically, which is why the lunar testing station has to arrange two or more people on duty.
Tang Xiaochuan stood at the scene and watched for ten minutes. After the engineering robot used loading and unloading equipment to unload all the building materials and equipment on the spacecraft, he put on Brother Zhan and Brother Wu and drove the aircraft to the Helium 3 refinery factory.
At this time, in the monitoring room of the helium-3 refining factory, an employee stared at the rapidly approaching aircraft on the screen, picked up the communicator and said, "Director, an aircraft has arrived from the place where the spacecraft landed more than 20 minutes ago!"
The voice of the factory director came from the intercom: "It should be the boss who is here. Everyone cheer up. This is the first time the boss has come to us for inspection. There must be no mistakes. If you leave a bad influence on the boss, Everyone waits to go back to drink the northwest wind, except for the driver of the lunar soil collection vehicle, the personnel in the monitoring room, and the guards of the factory, everyone else comes out to greet the boss with me!"
Some staff members who heard the voice of the factory manager followed him to the gate of the administrative office building, and all of them put on space suits and helmets.
At this time, Tang Xiaochuan's voice appeared in everyone's helmets: "Everyone who works in Helium 3 refining and attacking the city, I am Tang Xiaochuan. You don't have to come out to greet me. It's too troublesome. Just wait for me inside the gate!"
Everyone who was about to enter the air pressure conversion cabin looked at the factory manager, who said, "Since the boss said so, let's wait here. Come and stand facing each other on the left and right sides of the door!"
The aircraft landed steadily outside the gate of the administrative building. Tang Xiaochuan put on the helmet of the space suit. The space suit was quickly filled with air at a standard atmospheric pressure, and the air in the aircraft was quickly emptied to form an almost vacuum state with the outside world. The hatch opened, and he He took Brother Wu and Brother Zhan out of the aircraft to the gate of the administrative building.
The buildings built on the moon are different from the buildings built on the earth. Everything built here must refer to the environment here. For example, it is in an ultra-vacuum state, there is no violent storm, no ice and snow, but the gravitational force here is small, and it is almost In an ultra-vacuum state, the temperature difference between day and night is extremely large, and these factors must be fully considered when building a house.
The high-rise buildings on the earth are completely impractical here, and the bungalows are also practical. All of them are semi-circular fortress-style buildings. The buildings of this shape have good tension on the walls, because the outside is in a vacuum state, and the inside But it is a standard atmospheric pressure. In order to ensure the airtightness of the entire building, it is best to build a semicircle. The glass on the wall is specially made, which can filter out the ultraviolet rays in the sun and various harmful to the human body. Cosmic rays to ensure that the sunlight shining into the building will not cause harm to the human body.
In order to collect as much photovoltaic energy as possible, all the buildings here are covered with photovoltaic energy collection panels, which can not only collect sunlight and various cosmic rays and convert them into electrical energy, but also can insulate heat and cold. Employees can work and live comfortably and comfortably here, thanks to these photovoltaic energy collection panels.
Tang Xiaochuan took Brother Zhan and Brother Wu to the gate of the administrative building. The gate opened, and the three of them walked in. The gate then closed again. The air pressure in the air pressure conversion cabin increased rapidly, and soon reached a standard atmospheric pressure. Tang Xiaochuan saw Seeing the prompt on the wall screen, he reached out and pressed the button next to the door. The door opened, and a group of staff in overalls stood on both sides.
"Welcome the boss to inspect the lunar soil collection and helium-3 refining plant!" The staff on both sides shouted in unison.
Tang Xiaochuan took off his helmet and reached out to the factory manager standing in the middle: "Thank you!"
"It should!" The factory manager shook hands with Tang Xiaochuan quickly, and then introduced the staff here to him.
Tang Xiaochuan shook hands with these staff one by one, asked them about their family situation, and how they felt working here.
It takes about half a year for these people to work here before they can return to Earth for a rest, but their salaries are really high. The minimum salary of the staff is 80,000 yuan per month, and the highest is 200,000 yuan. For the first half of the year, during the six months of rotation, the salary is paid as usual, but there is no subsidy. You need to report to the company once a week to receive some learning tasks.
Accompanied by the factory manager and these staff members, Tang Xiaochuan visited the administrative area, living area, monitoring room, equipment warehouse, defense post, sentry tower, and the most important lunar soil refining production workshop, finished product packaging and storage, warehousing, etc. process.
Tang Xiaochuan asked while inspecting: "How many lunar soil collection vehicles do we have here?"
"There are six vehicles in total, all of which are super-large, and the transportation vehicles are also super-large. There are twelve vehicles in total. The load capacity of the transportation vehicles is 200 tons on earth, and one wheel is as high as four meters!" The factory manager introduced.
Tang Xiaochuan asked again: "Are these devices enough?"
"Enough, with the factory's current production and refining equipment, it can just meet the demand!"
Tang Xiaochuan nodded, and said: "Based on our current storage technology for helium 3, the speed of production and refining can't be too fast. The current collection speed and production and refining speed of lunar soil are just right! When I came here just now, I was in After observing in the sky, I found that almost all the lunar soil within a radius of 30 kilometers has been collected. At this speed, I am afraid that the twelve transport vehicles will not be able to meet the demand in two years!"
The factory nodded and said: "Boss, I suggest building a railway in two years as a transportation line for lunar soil. In the future, our storage technology for helium 3 will be improved. At that time, we can increase the refining production line and the speed of lunar soil collection. A railway line will be more convenient, and the collection of lunar soil can only be carried out in plain areas at present. The mountainous areas on the moon do not meet this condition. However, if we can build some aircraft that can collect lunar soil, it can solve the problem of collecting lunar soil in mountainous areas. Lunar soil problem!"
Tang Xiaochuan clapped his hands after hearing this: "Your suggestion reminded me, it's very good. It is used to install collection equipment on the aircraft. The lunar soil is a thick layer of dust. I think we can use equipment like a vacuum cleaner. When the time comes Let the researchers design the experiment!"
Next, Tang Xiaochuan took the aircraft to the lunar soil collection area to check the site conditions of the lunar soil collected by the collection vehicles. He found that these collection vehicles were collected with iron rakes. into the compartment of the transport vehicle.
These collection vehicles are operated by robots, but they are operated by staff, and they are operated by remote control in the factory. Tang Xiaochuan talked with one of the operators and asked: "Is it possible to use suction cups to suck the lunar soil into the container?" ? Something similar to a vacuum cleaner?"
The operator said in the call channel: "Boss, this is not acceptable. The vacuum sucks up the dust because the fan rotates to generate airflow, and the airflow rotates to generate suction to suck up the dust. But there is no air here on the moon. , no matter how much the impeller turns, it is impossible to generate suction!"
Tang Xiaochuan thought about it too, because he took it for granted. If this method is easy to use, those scientific researchers would have thought of it a long time ago, and still use him to give advice?
There are also two collection vehicles on site, and they directly use a forklift to shovel up the lunar soil and put it into the compartment of the transport vehicle. However, in this way, a lot of lunar soil is still missing on the ground, resulting in waste.
Tang Xiaochuan returned to the refinery and talked with the factory manager and staff to learn about their living conditions, such as how they use water here.
Seeing Tang Xiaochuan asking this question, the factory manager said: "The water we use here is ice cubes mined from the north and south poles of the moon. After testing, the ice cubes are very clean, without any microorganisms, and the content of mineral impurities is also within the normal range. Inside!"
"How long did it take to ship a batch of ice?" Tang Xiaochuan asked.
The factory director replied: "Generally, it is transported once a month. We have water cleaning and recycling equipment here. It is no problem to manage the ice cubes that are shipped back for one month each time. Moreover, the ice storage at the north and south poles of the moon is also limited. We can't just waste it!"