The last human in the universe

Chapter 26 Industrial Zone

At this moment, the steel plant has been completed, but it is temporarily unable to start production.The reason is simple, at the moment it has no energy supply for the time being.

It is unrealistic to rely on cables to directly transmit power from Base One, and the only solution is to solve it locally.For this reason, Zhao Changxing made a special trip back to the Tinder spacecraft and brought back the only small fusion generator.

This thing, the Tinder spacecraft brought two from the earth.One is installed in Base No. [-], and this one is installed in the industrial zone.In the future, all factories in the industrial zone will need it to provide energy.

Its power is of course limited, but Zhao Changxing is not worried about what will happen if the power it provides is not enough in the future.The reason is very simple. When the power it can provide is not enough for use, it means that the industrial level of mankind must have developed to a certain stage.At that time, humans must have been able to build their own fusion generators.

It is impossible to manufacture high-performance materials like those on the earth, and it is impossible to manufacture a fusion generator with such a high energy efficiency ratio. Then, it is always possible to build a fusion generator with only 20% of its capacity?
What if the 20% power fusion generator does not generate enough electricity?Simple, just build a few more.

After installing this fusion generator and connecting the circuit, the first steel plant with a relatively high level of industrialization in human "history" can finally start production.

When the dark red molten iron flowed out of the electric furnace with astonishing heat, and was initially processed into building materials such as steel plates and steel bars, everyone cheered from the bottom of their hearts.

Especially for the third generation, some girls were even so excited that they shed tears.

For the first time, they truly experienced what it is like to rely on their own strength to accomplish a significant thing.

After the steel plant was completed, construction began on a second plant.However, No. 2 on the schedule is not a metal foundry and processing plant, but an automated mining plant.

Facing a steel plant with a daily steel output of at least 100 tons, it is obviously not feasible to rely on manpower plus crushers and excavators to mine ore as before.In order for the steel plant to reach the designed capacity, it is necessary to significantly increase the supply of ore.And this, only mechanization and automation can achieve.

With a large supply of steel from the new steel plant—in order to make it reach its peak production capacity, Zhao Changxing had to assign two people to mine other types of ore to provide additives for the steelmaking operation—at the No. [-] base The metal processing production line can finally run at full power, although even if it runs at full power, the processing capacity is not much.But at least, it is still possible to support the equipment needed to build a mining plant.

As a result, a mining plant including punching crushers, excavators, automatic transmission crawlers, ore dressing equipment and many other equipment gradually appeared on the land of Sedna Star through people's struggle.

Among the equipment it contains, construction machinery such as drilling crushers and excavators are all newly manufactured by people relying on their own industrial capabilities.It's just that because some precision materials cannot be manufactured by metal processing plants, people have to use 3D printers to print them out again.

Their performance and quality are far behind those built on the earth.After all, the processing precision can't reach the level on the earth at all, but it can be used with just enough.If it is broken, it can be rebuilt.

Of course, their power source is not gasoline, nor is it Torrin—as long as there is enough oxygen, Torrin is also a relatively efficient combustible, and it is extremely abundant on Sedna, and it can be seen everywhere. Possess the ability to drive mechanical operations.

However, after comprehensive consideration, Zhao Changxing believed that the technical requirements for building a Torlin engine were still too high, so he finally rejected the plan and turned to electric energy.

So people had to build a charging station here at the mining plant for vehicles to use.

After the mining plant was completed, the iron and steel plant finally had sufficient ore supply and could produce 126 tons of various types of steel products per day.

The next step to be built is a metal casting and processing plant.However, before starting the construction, Zhao Changxing took the adults back to the Tinder spacecraft to welcome the new batch, the birth of the fourth generation of humans.

There are a total of 100 babies in this batch, which has reached the upper limit of babies born in the same batch of the Tinder spacecraft.Because of the sheer number, the two adults left behind on the Tinder spacecraft were clearly overwhelmed—in fact, taking care of the 60 children of the third generation was enough for them to have a headache.

Zhao Changxing went to battle in person, worked with people for four days, and finally delivered all 100 babies smoothly, and placed them in incubators.

At this moment, the population of human civilization has reached a new high, reaching an unprecedented 205.

The three women who will be in the first trimester and can no longer participate in the construction of the industrial zone, and four healthy women will stay on the Tinder spacecraft to assist the robot aunt to take care of the 100 babies. Zhao Changxing hurried away with the rest and started the industry again. District construction.

At this moment, the number of people involved in the construction of the industrial zone has been reduced to 26.

Metal casting and processing plants have a different meaning from mining plants, steel mills, and chemical plants.The most important factor is that the metal casting and processing plant is closer to the application level. It directly meets the needs of people's lives and can directly produce various products that people need.In comparison, mining plants, chemical plants and steel plants are more like their raw material suppliers.

It must be able to produce many kinds of products, from as small as a screw to as large as a space vehicle, it must have the ability to produce.Although the more types of products it can produce, the less efficient it can produce a single product, but at this stage, people have to arrange it this way.

The metal casting and processing factory covers an area of ​​4000 square meters, which is the largest among the four factories.It also takes more time for people — especially now that fewer people are involved in building it, it takes longer.

Its construction took people more than a year.This is still under the premise that the raw materials are almost sufficient, and there are multiple machines as assistance.If in the past, Zhao Changxing was allowed to build it with two hands alone, then I am afraid that he would not even think about it for more than ten or twenty years.

After building this factory, people concentrated their energy on the last and most difficult factory, the chemical factory.

The dangers of various chemicals are well known, especially on Sedna. Although there is a medical emergency center, many common diseases cannot be solved, let alone things like poisoning by dangerous chemicals.

The construction of chemical plants must be done with caution, and as many safety guarantees as possible must be installed.Moreover, what can be done with automated tools must not be done manually.

This will obviously greatly increase the amount of work, but when it comes to the overall interests of civilization and personal interests, no one dares to neglect.After all, no one can say who will operate in this chemical plant in the future.

Also, chemical factories are not like metal casting and processing factories, where different products can be mixed in one production line-unless people want to blow up the entire industrial area to the sky.Not only can they not be mixed, but the production environment of each production line needs to be strictly isolated.Otherwise, if you are not careful, the chemical raw materials will be blown up for you to see.

At this moment, three and a half years have passed since the construction of the first building in the industrial zone started.But there are still at least two years left before the expected completion time.In this way, the time reserved for the construction of the No. [-] comprehensive base is only half a year at most.

In half a year, it may not be realistic to build the No. [-] comprehensive base.Zhao Changxing called a gathering of adults to discuss several times, and finally decided that the chemical plant will not be fully completed, only the most important chemical production lines will be built, and the rest will be postponed temporarily.

As a result, pipes of special specifications began to run across the chemical factory buildings, and equipment such as fume hoods, reactors, storage tanks, etc. began to settle here.When several of the most important chemical production lines are completed, various minerals needed for the initial start-such as sulfur ore separated from pyrite, water ore, nitrogen ore, dry ice ore, Thorin ore, etc. have also been in place After that, the production lines can finally be started.

Yes, whether it is a liquid such as water, or a gas such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide, or something that does not exist on planets in the inner solar system such as Thorin, all of them exist in the form of solids on Sedna. and has an irregular distribution.To collect these things, people must first find the places where these things are more abundant like prospecting, and then mine and transport these things there like mining minerals, and then put them into production.

Regardless of chemical plants, mining plants, or steel plants, metal casting and processing plants, they all desperately need a large amount of external resources to maintain production, such as water, such as certain specific gases.This made Zhao Changxing have to assign people to collect these minerals specially in order to keep the factory running temporarily.

At this moment, several production lines in the chemical plant have started production.Everyone's faces were full of excitement, only Zhao Changxing was still preoccupied.

"Hey, there is no resource recovery and processing center in the industrial zone, and the waste of various resources is too serious."

As a result, people have to replenish a large amount of raw materials for these factories every day, which seriously takes up manpower.

But this is also impossible.After all, people's purpose is to make these factories operate as quickly as possible and produce products as quickly as possible.The resource recovery processing center, which is essentially an efficiency-optimizing building, can only be postponed for the time being.

　Uh, after reading everyone's opinions, I feel that what everyone said is indeed reasonable. So far, the plot is too flat and the progress is too slow.Rainbow originally planned to explain the details of the initial farming development, but unknowingly slowed down the plot.

　　Well, the follow-up will speed up.

　　There will be stars and seas and fleet voyages that everyone wants to see later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)