Black tech predators

Chapter 342 [Collecting Ice Substances]

"Destination Shackleton outpost base, autopilot."

Li Peng authorized the voice. As soon as the voice finished, the on-board intelligent system responded, and a cute voice came:

[Loading autopilot, loading complete]
[Destination: Shackleton outpost base, the whole journey is 1788 kilometers, and the estimated time of arrival is 45 hours later]
The transport vehicle is slowly moving. The internal power energy system uses the third-generation energy core, that is, the light quantity core, which converts the collected photon energy into electrical energy. The whole vehicle adopts an integrated power system for all-electric propulsion.

On the far side of the moon, the light volume core will be applied in all aspects, and there is no need to hide it.

This lunar rover is a real big guy, with a maximum payload of 58 tons.

After the inside of the car was isolated, the air pressure was stabilized and returned to normal temperature, Li Peng took off the helmet of the power armor exit suit, put it aside, and muttered to himself: "No one would have thought that the first large-scale application of automatic The driver is actually on the back of the moon..."

He is not the first person to drive to Shackleton from the lunar surface of the Mendeleev impact crater. Before that, there was a bottom exploration team who found a safe lunar road between the two places. It will take about two days at the fastest to arrive at the bottom surface, and it takes about four days to go back and forth.

This time, Li Peng was going to the Shackleton crater to transport ice materials. As the headquarters base of the Mendeleev crater began to expand, a lot of industrial water was needed.

With the continuous construction of industrial clusters, raw material water, product processing water, boiler water, cooling water, etc., especially cooling water account for about 70% of industrial water.

However, although the water consumption is huge, the actual consumption is not much, and the general water consumption is about 0.5% of the total.After the water is transported from the Shackleton impact crater, it will not be discharged to the surface of the moon, but will be reprocessed and recycled.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Once the manufacturing plant is successfully built, the speed will increase quickly, explaining that with high intelligence and full automation, the speed of violent soldiers is bound to be as fast as diabetes insipidus.

Li Peng finished his work, had a snack, and fell asleep happily. The car can drive by itself, which is very important.

This is his second time working on the moon. Members working outside the earth can only stay on the moon for half a year at most before returning to Earth.

After Li Peng returned to the earth, he once again endured the gravity of the earth, and it took more than a month to re-adapt to the environment on the earth.

Then he came back after staying on the earth for less than a week. In fact, according to the contract with the company, he can take a vacation on the earth for a whole year. Perks of extraterrestrial work.

People who work on the moon, when the people in the insurance company heard that these people were insured, they turned around and ran away.

Although so far, there has not been any safety accident on the back of the moon, but everyone knows that the risk is definitely higher than the risk of war.

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About two Earth sunshine hours, bumping more than 700 kilometers all the way and finally arrived at the Shackleton impact crater. The intelligent system on the car woke up the sleeping Li Peng.

After waking up, he shook his spirits, put on the helmet of the cabin suit, pulled out the air inside and got out of the car.

The outpost base here is now beginning to take shape. The person in charge of the base here is Liu Yiming, Li Peng's old colleague, and another friend, Wang Ke, is currently at the North Pole of the Moon.

Naturally, go to the Arctic constant shade area to occupy the pit and plant the flag.

It is the strategy of Tianqing Technology Group to monopolize the natural ice materials on the moon. On this planet, the most expensive materials are not all kinds of rare metals, but natural water sources.

Things are rare.

"This time, we both have the same schedule, and we will go home in a week."

As soon as Li Peng got out of the car, he heard Liu Yiming's laughter through the communicator, and immediately replied: "Yeah, the second half-year period is here again in a blink of an eye..."

Immediately put away his thoughts, closed the car door and said with a smile: "Do you have hot water for bathing here?"

Liu Yiming said: "Are you kidding me? Hot, cold, or frozen to death, you can have everything you want. Soak whatever you want, and they are all processed safely. On my site, there is no shortage of water right now, haha."

"Ma De is really extravagant. Everything related to water at the headquarters should be used sparingly." Li Peng cursed and jumped into the outpost base impatiently.

Liu Yiming took out a control panel from the carrying tool bag on his body and operated it for a while. The heavy transport vehicle brought by Li Peng automatically started the engine, and then drove to the Shackleton impact crater.

As early as three months ago, a large-scale blasting method had been used. The moon was almost a vacuum. Without air, shock waves could not be formed, and heat energy was difficult to conduct. The power of the blasting was greatly reduced.

However, there was still a way out.

The transport vehicle is controlled by artificial intelligence, and the automatic driving enters the edge of the Hengyin area and stops. At this moment, one of the lights in the shadow area at the bottom of the Shackleton Pit is brightly lit, and the three cutting machines are working continuously. There are six or seven people working here.

On the edge of the shadow area, there are many square crystal blocks, the cut surface is extremely smooth, but not very transparent, there are some dust impurities, but there are no air bubbles inside, because the moon has no atmosphere.

These are pieces of ice material, all of which are mined in the open air. The natural ice material that has existed on the moon for hundreds of millions of years, although it has impurities, has a water content of more than 99%.

It is precisely because of the mining of these ice materials that the accurate age of the Shackleton impact crater can be accurately obtained, and it is also concluded that the ice materials in the shadow area do not come from comets in outer space.

The trace impurities contained in these ice substances make it layered, just like the rock formations of the earth, indicating that it was deposited over billions of years. Scientists sent by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are studying the cause of the water, and now the most powerful The view is a gift from the sun.

Over the long years, the free hydrogen brought by the solar wind, the solar wind continuously hits the surface of the moon with protons, and there are a lot of oxygen-rich minerals on the surface of the moon, the two react to form hydroxides, and finally turn into water. Floating on the moon, part of it escapes into the cosmic space, while the part that enters the cold constant Yin region will be deposited.

Although it is almost negligible from the human perspective and sensory scale, after billions of years of accumulation, there is a huge amount of ice material today.

In a sense, everything in the solar system is everything given by the sun.

Next, several staff members manipulated the mechanical equipment to load these cut cube-shaped ice substances into the transport compartment. The mass of one piece is about 0.5 tons. In theory, this transport vehicle can carry 116 pieces with a total mass of 58 Tons, but in fact only 105 yuan.

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(End of this chapter)