Chapter 2678: Trial mining of lunar soil water resources

Style: Historical Author: Zhi Tian GeWords: 2128Update Time: 24/01/18 08:07:02
The scorching heat in Anxi continues, with a high temperature of 40 degrees that lasts for more than a week, as if everything is about to be scorched. With the issuance of the red high temperature warning, major companies have also launched their own policies to avoid the heat.

Faced with such high temperature weather, Wu Hao also signed a notice of high temperature summer vacation. From now on, except for important positions in important departments, other departments will have a holiday. The holiday is initially for one week, and will be notified later if it is extended.

As for those employees in important departments and important positions, the company also provides high-temperature subsidies and distributes relevant summer protection materials to these employees.

Employees are extremely excited about this rare holiday. On the one hand, it is indeed because the weather is too hot, and on the other hand, there are no extra holidays in July and August, which means that after the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be no holidays until the Mid-Autumn Festival.

And it is really rare to have such a long vacation in the middle of this period.

As a result, many employees began to think about what to do during this rare long vacation, or just stay at home, unable to go anywhere in the hot weather.

Either escape from Anxi and go to other places to escape the summer heat, or go into Nanshan, find a farmhouse to stay for a few days, and enjoy the pleasure of exploring the mountains and rivers.

Compared with these employees who are enjoying their holidays happily, those who still stick to their posts are working very hard. Although we enjoy considerable high-temperature subsidies and related heatstroke prevention materials, how can it be compared with a holiday?

For this reason, Wu Hao and the others also cared about and expressed condolences to these people.

Haoyu Aerospace Xinyuehu Aerospace Command and Control Center is an important department that is not on the holiday list. Because it is responsible for the command and control of all Haoyu Aerospace's spacecraft, such as satellites, spacecrafts in various orbits around the earth, and rockets and satellites that are about to be launched, even those that have been launched into space and are still in orbit. Floating wreckage of a second-stage rocket.

In addition, it also has to deal with the two lunar patrol and exploration vehicles on the moon, as well as the construction projects of the lunar surface scientific research station that are ongoing on the moon, etc.

Because the tasks are heavy, the work intensity here has always been relatively high. Not to mention holidays, sometimes when you are busy at work, you cannot even guarantee a break. This is also determined by the nature of the work.

Especially recently, the lunar surface scientific research station is in an important construction stage and cannot be stopped. Naturally, all control technicians cannot take a vacation.

In the evening, Wu Hao and Zhang Jun came here. Because there was a very important scientific experiment project that was about to produce results today, Wu Hao and Zhang Jun were very concerned about it and came here early.

Seeing Wu Hao and Zhang Jun coming, Zhou Xiangming and Shi Zhaoping came over to greet them.

After some pleasantries, Wu Hao couldn't help but look at the big screen and asked, "What's the situation now?"

Upon hearing Wu Hao's inquiry, Zhou Xiangming replied with a smile: "In about two hours, the entire experiment will be over, and we will know the results by then.

Hearing Zhou Xiangming's words, Wu Hao smiled and nodded, and then asked: "How is it? Are you confident in the result?"

Zhou Xiangming nodded and replied: "We are still very confident, and we think the results may exceed expectations."

"So confident?"

Zhou Xiangming responded with a smile: "We have already seen the water."

oh? Wu Hao, Zhang Jun and others all had expressions of surprise on their faces when they heard this. Seeing this, Zhou Xiangming immediately introduced everyone with a smile.

"Actually, we have been planning and preparing for this experimental project for a long time. We have started preparing since the equipment was transported. We hope to use this experiment to test how much water we can separate from the surface lunar soil in this area.

Seeing everyone's curious looks, Zhou Xiangming immediately picked up a keyboard and typed for a while. A machine with a peculiar shape appeared on the big screen. This machine was quite weird. It had a drill, a bucket, a conveyor belt, and other things. A series of equipment is assembled like a production line.

This is our experimental equipment, a small lunar soil water resource mining and extraction equipment. The working principle of this equipment is actually very simple. It uses the drill bit and bucket on the front to dig out the lunar soil and then transport it to the conveyor belt. It is transported into this heating chamber through a conveyor belt and then heated out, thereby heating the excavated lunar soil to a temperature of about 70 degrees.

In this way, the solid water in the lunar soil will be separated and turned into water and water vapor. Then, the water and water vapor will be collected through a collection device. After relevant filtration, it will be the pure water we need. Water.

Considering that the water content in the surface lunar soil is relatively limited, we plan to run this machine for twelve hours to calculate the water resources it mines. In this way, we can calculate the water resources in the surface lunar soil. content, and how much power of equipment we need to produce enough water resources. "

At this point, Zhou Xiangming paused for a moment, then spread his hands towards Wu Hao and Zhang Jun and said, "Of course, next, we will also conduct mining tests on the water content of the lunar soil at thirty centimeters, fifty centimeters, and about one meter. Not only the depth, but also the water content of the lunar soil in the nearby area will be mined and tested, so as to calculate the water resources reserves in the nearby area and collect data for our next step of formal mining.

In addition to water resources, we will also use this equipment to test the extraction of helium-3 resources in the lunar soil. These helium isotope gases are contained in the lunar soil on the surface, and they are actually the product of long-term solar wind.

They can be separated by high temperature, so we placed a helium-3 gas collection tank on this equipment, so that we can detect the helium-3 reserves in this area and collect data for our subsequent mining.

Not only that, we will also test the mineral composition of these lunar soils to explore and detect the mineral reserves in this area, especially the reserves of some important metals, which will be important for our next exploration plan, as well as development and construction projects have a huge impact. "

Haven't we already explored this area before? Why do we need to do it again now? Zhang Jun asked his question.

Hearing Zhang Jun's question, Zhou Xiangming replied with a smile: "The previous exploration only gave us a general understanding of the basic situation of this area, and judged that this area meets our requirements for building a scientific expedition team.

But we still don’t know what is going on here, so we need to conduct a more detailed exploration and trial mining to find out the specific and detailed resource reserves of this area, which is very important for our next use of this area. "

(End of chapter)