Armor Frenzy

Ye Han and others did not dare to neglect, and immediately shouted on the radio: "Are you there, Lao Gao? Call me back immediately!"

Gao Kai is much older than Ye Han, and it seems impolite to call Lao Gao directly, but the specific situation must be analyzed in detail.

Gao Kai has the rank of colonel, and Ye Han's rank has also been raised by one level after the launch list is confirmed. Both of them are colonels, and there is no level of rank.

The reason why all the work is arranged by Gao Kai is because Gao Kai has been on the moon for a long time and understands the situation here; second, Gao Kai is older and more mature and stable, so he was appointed as the temporary person in charge by the ground.

Arranging Ye Han to lead the three groups has a very important relationship with Ye Han's colonel rank.

Moreover, Ye Han will be responsible for the security of the entire base in the future. No matter how you look at it, he is one of the top executives of the base. Although he is younger, Gao Kai is not so narrow that he only depends on his age. Everyone has different positions. In life, they are companions, friends, and comrades-in-arms.

There are only a few living people in this ghost place, and everyone can't see them when they look up, so there's no need to do that.

Gao Kai hadn't finished his lunch, and immediately put down his chopsticks after hearing the call: "I'm here, what's the matter?"

"The first batch of ice has just been tested, and the heavy water content is 0.6%. What should I do?"

"So many?" Gao Kai was equally surprised, "Have you checked all of them?"

He is an astronaut who has undergone several years of space training, and he did not take a crash course like Ye Han. He has a solid grasp of this type of knowledge and immediately realizes the problem.

The others also stopped and looked at Gao Kai together.

Even if they don't understand the reason, at least they can see Gao Kai's expression.

"No, just opened the first furnace."

"Check the rest immediately, I'll go over now!"

Yuan Yu quickly stopped: "Eat first!"

"Don't eat." Gao Kai ran out of the restaurant like a gust of wind, so angry that Yuan Yu stomped his feet.

To waste food on Earth is waste, to waste food on the moon is simply a crime, and it's still a heinous kind.

Seeing this, the others did not dare to neglect, and ran out quickly. Yuan Yu almost died of anger, but as soon as a fire came up, he heard Gao Kai's voice: "What are you doing here? Come back and eat for me!"

A few people ran back in a mess, ate the rest of the food in two bites, and ran away as quickly as they were reborn.

The few of them didn't run to put on their space suits, but squeezed into the narrow porthole, scrambling to see what was going on in the water treatment cabin.

It's just that the light is dim, and apart from the shaking headlights, I can no longer see the other side.

After Ye Han outside the cabin finished the communication, he immediately opened the lid of the ice melter, the pressure in the container dropped suddenly, the residual water immediately boiled and took away the heat, and Xushui quickly froze at the bottom of the container.

Ye Han pulled out the liner of the ice melting machine, buckled it upside down on the ground, patted the bottom of the bucket, poured out the remaining sediment, put it back in the ice melting machine and moved a few pieces of ice into it, with a bit of anxiety and anticipation to start the melting process ice program.

Gao Kai rushed to Ye Han and asked, "How is the situation?"

"Just put it in, you have to wait for a while." Ye Han said.

Gao Kai stared at the ice melter, his eyes as if they were glued to the lid.

Looking through the glass on the lid, he could clearly see that the ice cubes were melting, and the rising mist gradually filled the ice melter.

After a while, the ice cubes finally turned into water, and the internal equipment pumped the water out of the ice melter and began to analyze the composition of the water.

Gao Kai's eyes immediately turned to the analysis screen, staring at it without moving. .

The small screen only displayed the analysis results, not the analysis progress bar, but Gao Kai didn't care and waited patiently for the analysis results.

He knows too well what 0.6% means.

The analysis result finally appeared on the screen, Gao Kai rushed over like a wild dog, his eyes were almost on the screen: "It's still 0.6... Ye Han, go back to the meeting with me immediately, Duan Zhiyang, Xu Hua!"

"arrive!"

"You two stay and continue to analyze, and analyze all samples once!"

"Yes!"

Gao Kai turned around and walked back: "Hu Liang, go back to the living cabin for a meeting immediately!"

Hu Liang's reply came over the radio: "Received, I'll be there soon!"

After a few steps back to the living cabin, a few team members who picked up the porthole immediately gathered around to help Gao Ye and the two take off their space suits. A few minutes later, several people entered the restaurant together.

Gao Kai asked eagerly over the radio, "Hu Liang, where are you?"

"Cai Yuanzi, you need to wear clothes." Hu Liang replied.

It takes a little time to put on and take off the spacesuit, and every time the necessary tests must be carried out. There is no problem before leaving the cabin. Just now, Gao Kai had a fever and rushed out without testing at all.

"Then you listen on the radio first." Gao Kai said.

"it is good!"

Gao Kai raised his head: "Comrades, the ice retrieved from the three groups contains 0.6 heavy water. Do you understand the meaning of this content?"

Everyone didn't speak, and looked at Gao Kai suspiciously, even Ye Han.

Ye Han only knew that the high content of heavy water in ice was good, but he couldn't say what it meant.

Gao Kai didn't want to sell off, and asked himself: "This means that we can separate heavy water at a very low cost, and can produce heavy hydrogen in large quantities... The fusion reaction of heavy hydrogen and helium 3 does not produce neutrons, you may not know it yet. , the main reactor of the base is the magnetic confinement fusion reactor, and the main fuel is deuterium and helium 3!"

Everyone suddenly realized that after more than half a year of aerospace training, no matter how bad the level is, they still know what the second-generation nuclear reaction is.

Ye Han asked the group in surprise: "Old Gao, has the controlled nuclear fusion been completed?"

Gao Kai shook his head: "There is this plan above, it must be a breakthrough in technology, and maybe it is also the result of international cooperation."

"Isn't it an experimental reactor?" Ye Han was worried.

"It shouldn't be, I've learned about it after knowing about it."

"Are Magnetic Confinement Reactors Reliable?"

"I don't know, it should be fine." Gao Kai said, "This thing relies on a magnetic field to confine the fusion reaction. The moon has a low temperature and no air pressure, so it can easily achieve superconductivity. This is very important for a magnetic confinement reactor... What we are discussing now is Heavy water is not a fusion reactor, and I am not a reactor, so I will check the information after meeting if there is any problem!"

Ye Han grinned: "I don't want a large hydrogen bomb sitting under my **** every day."

Gao Kai glared at Ye Han: "Place it alone away from the main base."

"I'm fine." Ye Han accepted it when he saw it.

"Let's continue to talk about heavy water." Gao Kai finally straightened the crooked building, "This discovery is of great significance to the country and the Moon Palace plan. It must be reported to the command center as soon as possible, but the satellite will take several hours to fly back. , so I suggest, let's discuss a report chart first..."

"What else are we talking about? Report directly and let the ground decide!" Hu Liang said on the radio, "We don't have heavy water separation equipment in our hands, and the function of the water treatment cabin is not to separate heavy water."

"I know, but heavy water cannot be electrolyzed. We can use this method to collect heavy water!" Gao Kai said.

The water treatment cabin has two main functions, one is to provide astronauts with clean domestic water, and the other is to electrolyze water to produce oxygen for astronauts to breathe.

Astronauts cannot lack oxygen, and electrolyzed water cannot be omitted in any case, just to obtain heavy water by the way.

"Do we have distillation equipment?" Ye Han suddenly asked.

"No."

"Then we can only use electrolysis to separate heavy water?" Ye Han was annoyed. "That's good. All the ice we retrieved is electrolyzed. If we want to use water, we have to recombine hydrogen and oxygen. Is it possible to arrange a special place to burn hydrogen and oxygen to get water?"

He knew some knowledge about the separation of heavy water. The conditions on the moon were limited, and the only suitable methods were electrolysis and distillation.

Needless to say, the electrolysis method, the so-called rectification method, is a method of obtaining heavy water by repeated evaporation by taking advantage of the high boiling temperature of heavy water.

However, the boiling temperature of heavy water is only 101.42 degrees Celsius, and the boiling temperature difference between light water and light water is extremely small, and there is no air pressure on the surface of the moon. A pressure vessel must be used to use the rectification method, which is not as convenient and simple as electrolysis.

Gao Kai gritted his teeth: "Overcome it for the time being, and use the circulating water for a while."

Ye Han's eyes darkened, and he felt as disgusting as eating flies, and the faces of others were not much better... Ye Han was definitely not the only one who hated circulating water, even Gao Kai was no exception.

Drinking urine all day makes no one feel at ease.

With the sound of the door opening, Hu Liang finally rushed back to the living cabin. As soon as he sat down and didn't have time to speak, Duan Zhiyang's voice came over the radio: "Team Leader Gao, I'm Duan Zhiyang!"

"Speaking!"

"The third analysis has come out, and the heavy water content is 0.62%!"

"0.02 higher? Accurate?"

"Analyze it twice."

"Understood, continue!" Gao Kai sighed, "Another 0.02 extra, how much heavy water must be stored in such a large ice lake!"

"It's more than that." Hu Liang said, "There are quite a few glacial lakes in the Arctic, and maybe there are even higher ones!"

"It makes sense!" Gao Kai's eyes lit up, "We should be proactive and investigate all the ice lakes..."

"Are you dreaming?" Hu Liang was not polite at all. "We just need some equipment, we can't even get out of the crater, and we still investigate the ice lake?"

"Let the ground send the equipment!" Gao Kai said fiercely.

"Then we have to agree to the ground." Hu Liang confronted **** for tat, "Our task is to dig the base. After the base is built, we can say anything. If the base is not built, what about the heavy water reserves? You can still bring the ice lake back. Earth?"

Hu Liang's words were like pouring a basin of ice water on Gao Kai's head. The ice made him stunned for a while, and his originally excited appearance gradually became depressed. After a while, he frowned and smiled bitterly: "You are right, I was wrong, wait for the satellite to come and report to the ground, and let it make up its mind."

The meeting is over, and there is still a long time before the satellite returns. The work that should be done cannot be put down because of this matter. Everyone should rest and go to work. Ye Han returned to the water treatment cabin and took some out of the water tank. The water is poured into the electrolytic cell, and the power is turned on, so there is no need for human management.

The electrolysis equipment can automatically collect the gas, compress it and liquefy it and store it in a cylinder.

The efficiency of the electrolysis equipment was good. After a while, the oxygen tank, which was not much bigger than a brick, was filled with sky-blue liquid oxygen. Ye Han put on a new box and threw the old one on the ground.

The cylinder for storing oxygen is particularly interesting. It is not a cylindrical shape commonly found on the ground, but a boxy box, and the top cover can be opened!

This design is because the ambient temperature in the crater is lower than the melting point of oxygen. After the liquid oxygen is placed for a period of time, it will naturally solidify due to the decrease in temperature. At that time, the lid can be opened and the solidified oxygen ice can be poured out, like ordinary The ice cubes are stored together naturally, and there is no need to store them in a jar at all, which is convenient and economical.

Hydrogen is an important industrial raw material. When the base is built in the future, there will definitely be places where hydrogen will be used. But the melting point of this thing is too low to naturally solidify on the surface of the moon, and it cannot be solidified and preserved like oxygen. Moreover, the resources of the temporary base are limited, and there are not so many storage tanks for hydrogen, so we can only waste a little bit and let it go.

The use of hydrogen storage metal is also a good choice, but hydrogen is made from water, and there is hydrogen with water, and the cost is pitifully low. If a lot of money and resources are spent just to preserve hydrogen, it will turn the cart before the horse and waste resources.

After more than two hours, the eight gas storage tanks were all filled and neatly arranged in a row. The huge temperature difference between the box body and the ground caused the temperature in the box to lose rapidly. Take out the oxygen ice.

The first gas tank had been thrown on the ground for more than half an hour. Ye Han picked up the box, and there was no feeling of the liquid shaking at all; looking at the barometer again, the pointer had returned to zero.

"That's it!" Ye Han greeted, Duan Xu and the two immediately came over. Under the witness of the two companions, Ye Han opened the lid of the gas tank, and a light blue transparent oxygen ice appeared in front of everyone.

Xu Hua praised: "This thing is really beautiful. If you don't know this thing, people will believe it is a gem."

"Then this is for you. Let's make a set of jewelry for your wife." Ye Han handed the oxygen ice to Xu Hua~www.readwn.com~ Xu Hua received it and pouted, "Hurry up and put it away, why? It is said that it is also the first oxygen brick we made, and I will make a mark when I look back, and it may still be a cultural relic in the museum in the future.”

"Forget it." Ye Han laughed, "Hurry up and send it to Curry."

"Got it!" Xu Hua agreed loudly, sending the oxygen ice into the warehouse as quickly as possible.

Although the temperature of the moon surface is low, the oxygen bricks stored in the open air are likely to suffer losses due to sublimation, so it is safest to store them in a warehouse with a constant temperature.

There is still some water left in the electrolytic cell, Ye Han said without thinking: "The heavy water content in this must be more than 0.6%, come and help!"

Ye Han asked Shang Duan Zhiyang to work together to drain the remaining water in the electrolytic cell into a container, freeze it into ice, and keep it for the next time to extract heavy water.

The water ice turns white and the oxygen ice turns blue, and it can't be mixed even if it is put in the warehouse. However, with the temperature of the moon surface, it doesn't matter if the water ice can be stored for tens of thousands of years.