Chapter 137 Production Capacity Soars

At this moment, in the Grand Canyon of Jade Star, 100,000 robots are still busy all the time.

It is extremely difficult to transport materials from the inner solar system to Jade Star. Most of the materials need to be obtained by Han Yang himself from Jade Star. Only some materials that are not available or very few on Jade Star can be supplied from the inner sun.

Now, the robots are doing a very important thing.

Mining.

Steel is the most important indicator of the industrial age. Even now it has reached the interstellar age.

Iron is extremely abundant in the universe, and there is certainly no shortage of it on Jade Star.

Han Yang has already explored it clearly. In a certain part of this Grand Canyon, drilling about 1,000 meters into the interior can reach the edge of an iron mine.

It is a hematite mine, with an estimated total reserve of about 10 million tons. It is not large, but it is completely sufficient at this stage.

In fact, there are some open-pit iron mines on the surface of Jade Star, which are very easy to mine. But Han Yang decided not to touch them.

The most important thing is to ensure that the topography of Yushenxing does not change and does not attract the attention of the outside world as much as possible.

For example, here in the Grand Canyon, the excavated earth, slag from ore refining, and various wastes are directly dumped into the deeper part of the canyon. With the canyon blocking them, the outside world can't notice them at all.

Han Yang is not worried that the canyon will be filled up one day.

A rough calculation shows that even if it is just some corners, it can accommodate tens of trillions of tons of garbage. Even if Han Yang builds it, there is no need to worry at all.

With various equipment such as crushers, tunneling machines, heaters, etc. in turn, the extremely hard rocks of the Grand Canyon of Yushenxing immediately fell in large chunks.

The transport robot came forward, loaded all the rocks into the truck bed, took off directly after leaving the mine, and dumped them directly in a hidden area of ​​the canyon.

These transport robots originally had no flying ability on Earth. But on Yushenxing, they immediately turned into strong men.

Pulling rocks weighing more than ten tons or even dozens of tons, they fly with ease.

This is because the gravity of Yushen is too small.

The gravitational acceleration on the surface of Yushen is only 0.47 meters per second squared, which is only about one 21 of the earth.

Mass and weight are actually two concepts.

Mass is a fixed physical quantity. No matter where you are, even in the universe, the mass is what it is and will not change.

But in different gravitational fields, the weight will change.

An object with a mass of 21 tons on Earth also weighs 21 tons.

But on Yushen, its mass is also 21 tons, but its weight is only one ton.

This caused the robots to fly and hide like drugs, with infinite strength.

Not long after, a huge stone cave with a length and width of five meters appeared in front of the robots.

The excavation robot continued to crush and dig, and a large amount of iron ore began to be produced continuously.

A small steel plant has been built near the fusion reactor and generator.

With the arrival of iron ore, it immediately began to work, and began to produce steel with various performance standards according to Han Yang's requirements and different formulas.

However, its output is relatively low. Under full load operation, it can only produce about 50 tons of steel a day, and an annual output of no more than 18,000 tons.

This kind of production capacity is not even comparable to some earthen workshops on Earth. But there is no way. The cargo hold of the Hope spacecraft has limited capacity, and it is really impossible to transport large enough smelting equipment.

That requires Han Yang to slowly accumulate steel and slowly upgrade the industrial base to have it.

Most of the steel produced was processed into steel plates and used to expand the base. A small part was processed into steel powder and supplied to 3D printing equipment.

Today's Yushenxing base has no deep processing capabilities except for extremely rough steel processing capabilities.

If conventional means are used, not to mention various precision parts, even a nail cannot be made.

In order to solve this problem, Han Yang can only rely on this set of 3D printing equipment, which can be regarded as a "hand-made customization" method to produce some urgently needed parts and steel products.

The efficiency is low, but now everything is in its infancy, so we can only make do with it.

This lasted for a while, and with the nuclear fusion reactor and power station as the core, the base finally expanded to have enough space.

Han Yang immediately stopped making steel plates, and began to go all out to supply 3D printers, and began to print larger steelmaking blast furnaces and parts needed for supporting production lines.

This took up two months of Han Yang's steel production capacity.

Finally, the production of the new generation of blast furnaces was completed, and Han Yang's steel production capacity immediately soared 10 times, climbing to 500 tons per day.

After that, Han Yang began to build more production equipment.

The first is a foundry, which is used to deep-process steel and produce some steel products that do not require so much precision, such as ingots, connectors, steel rods, bolts and the like, freeing up the 3D printer as much as possible so that it can concentrate on producing high-end parts.

The second is to continue to build larger blast furnaces and increase steel production as much as possible.

The third is to lay rails and expand transportation capacity.

The fourth is to produce large-scale mining equipment, speed up iron ore mining, and try to mine more types of minerals.

Fifth, continue to expand the base.

With 100,000 robots, Han Yang is not worried about the problem of insufficient manpower.

These numerous machines and robots have launched a vigorous production campaign in the Grand Canyon of Yushen Star. In just less than two years, with the nuclear fusion power station as the core, the topography of the two-kilometer area around has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Tall factory buildings are lined up one after another, and railroad tracks run through every part of the base. Robots, rail cars, and flying cars shuttle back and forth in it, creating a busy atmosphere.

In addition to these bases visible from the outside, Han Yang even built a planting base in the mined mine.

This planting base has an area of ​​about one square kilometer and is 10 meters high.

Han Yang has planned three planting areas in it. He plans to use area No. 1 to plant sweet potatoes, mainly for the production of starch, area No. 2 to plant rubber trees, and area No. 3 to plant sugarcane and produce sugar.

Rubber, starch, and sugar are not only industrial raw materials, but also important chemical raw materials.

After the Hope spacecraft arrived for the second time and brought the seeds, other key equipment and rare raw materials, the planting base was immediately put into operation and began to produce these three things in an industrialized way.

On this unsupervised Yushen Star, Han Yang broke free from all constraints and showed his talents.