At this moment, in the Jade Star Grand Canyon, one hundred thousand robots are still busy all the time.
It is extremely difficult to transport supplies from the inner solar system to the Jade Star. Han Yang needs to obtain most of the supplies from the Jade Star himself through his own efforts. Only some supplies that are not available or very few on the Jade Star can be supplied from the inner sun.
Now, the robots are doing something extremely important.
mining.
Steel is the most important indicator of the industrial era. The same is true even if we have reached the interstellar age at this moment.
The iron element is extremely abundant in the universe, and there is certainly no shortage of it on the Jade Star.
Han Yang has already discovered clearly that in a certain part of this grand canyon, if you drill about 1,000 meters into the interior, you can reach the edge of an iron ore.
It is a hematite ore with an estimated total reserve of 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 God, which are very easy to mine. But Han Yang decided not to move them.
The most important thing is to ensure that the topography of Yushen Planet does not change and attract as little attention from the outside world as possible.
For example, here in the Grand Canyon, the excavated earth, refining slag, and various wastes are dumped directly into the deeper parts of the canyon. They are blocked by the canyon and cannot be noticed by the outside world.
Han Yang is not worried that the canyon will be filled one day.
A rough calculation shows that even a few nooks and crannies can accommodate tens of trillions of tons of garbage. Even if Han Yang can build it, there is no need to worry.
With crushers, tunnel boring machines, heaters and other equipment taking turns, the extremely hard rock of the Jade Star Grand Canyon immediately fell in large chunks.
The transport robot came forward, loaded all the rocks into the bucket, took off directly after leaving the mine, and fell down when it came to a hidden part of the canyon, and it was done.
These transport robots originally had no flight capabilities on earth. But on the Jade Star, they immediately turned into strong men.
It pulls rocks weighing more than ten tons or even dozens of tons, flying one by one with great ease.
This is because the gravitational pull of Elysium is too small.
The gravitational acceleration on the surface of Elysium is only 0.47 meters per second squared, which is only about one-21st of that of the Earth.
Quality and weight are actually two concepts.
Mass is a fixed physical quantity. No matter where it is, even in space, the mass is what it is and will not change.
But in different gravity fields, the weight will change.
An object with a mass of 21 tons on Earth also weighs 21 tons.
But on Jade God, its mass is also 21 tons, but its weight is only one ton.
This caused the robots to fly into the sky and escape from the earth one by one, as if they had taken medicine, and were extremely powerful.
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 continuously produced.
Near the fusion reactor and generator, a small steel plant has been built.
With the arrival of iron ore, it immediately started working and began to produce steel with various performance standards according to different formulas according to Han Yang's requirements.
However, its output is relatively low. When operating at full capacity, it can only produce 50 tons of steel a day, and its annual output is only 18,000 tons.
This kind of production capacity is not even comparable to that of some earth-made workshops on earth. But there is no way. The Hope spacecraft has limited cargo space and cannot transport large enough smelting equipment.
That requires Han Yang to slowly accumulate steel and slowly upgrade his industrial base to possess it.
Most of the steel produced was processed into steel plates and used to expand the base. A small part is processed into steel powder and supplied to 3D printing equipment.
Today's Jade God Base does not have any deep processing capabilities except for extremely rough steel processing capabilities.
Using conventional means, not to mention all kinds of precision parts, not even a single iron nail can 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 "manual customization" to produce some urgently needed parts and steel products.
If the efficiency is low, then it should be low. Nowadays, all hastily created things can only be done.
After maintaining this for a period of time, with the nuclear fusion reactor and power station as the core, the base finally expanded enough space.
Han Yang immediately stopped manufacturing steel plates and began to go all out to supply 3D printers and start printing the parts needed for larger steelmaking blast furnaces and supporting production lines.
This used up two months of Hanyang's steel production capacity.
Finally, the new generation blast furnace production was completed, and Hanyang's steel production capacity immediately increased tenfold, climbing to 500 tons per day.
After that, Han Yang began to build more production equipment.
The first is the foundry, which is used for deep processing of steel and the production of steel products that do not require high precision, such as steel ingots, connectors, steel rods, bolts, etc., to free up the 3D printer as much as possible, so that It can focus 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, it is to continue to expand the base.
There are 100,000 robots, and Han Yang is not worried at all about the shortage of manpower.
These numerous machines and robots launched a vigorous mass production movement in the Jade Star Grand Canyon. In less than two years, with the nuclear fusion power station as the core and the surrounding area as long as two kilometers, the landscape has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Tall factories are lined up in rows, and railroad tracks run through every part of the base. Robots, rail cars, and flying cars shuttle back and forth, creating a busy atmosphere.
In addition to these bases visible from the outside, Han Yang even built a planting base in the mined cave.
This planting base covers an area of about one square kilometer and is 10 meters high.
Han Yang planned three planting areas. Area 1 was used to plant sweet potatoes, mainly to produce starch. Area 2 was used to plant rubber trees to produce rubber. Area 3 was used to plant sugar cane to 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 transported seeds, as well as other key equipment and rare raw materials, the planting base was immediately launched and began to produce these three things in an industrial way.
On this unsupervised Jade God, Han Yang broke free from all restraints and showed off his talents.
(End of chapter)
