The rise of nanometers

After drinking a large cup of nuclear coffee, Hawke felt increasingly tired and dizzy.

He stood up and stretched his waist, and took a few breaths of air. His chest was still a little heavy, and he said to himself: "It seems that I have been too stressed recently."

After sitting down, I sent the last report to Houston Space City and entered the automatic hang-up mode.

Feeling physically and mentally exhausted, Hawke came to his resting place, put on his sleeping bag and began to sleep.

A large amount of tritium has accumulated inside the bodies of the two people. Although tritium elements usually only release beta rays through beta decay, beta rays are actually not as harmful as imagined to astronauts wearing spacesuits in the cabin. .

However, Hawke and Wade drank tritium directly into their bodies through drinking water. The beta rays passed through the digestive system and blood circulation and spread to the whole body.

Because the radiation dose was relatively small at the beginning, the two people were not fatally injured. However, as time passed, the tritium concentration in their bodies exceeded the safety line and continued to accumulate.

When beta rays are irradiated outside the body, they can cause skin cancer, skin ulcers, etc., and clinical symptoms are easy to detect.

But once it enters the body, the problem becomes big.

The kidneys and bladder in the digestive system, and the white blood cells in the blood are the first to be damaged by radiation, and then the entire body.

Now, the two people's bodies have begun to show obvious clinical symptoms, but they did not pay attention to the problem of nuclear radiation due to negligence.

If they had discovered the problem of nuclear leakage contaminating water sources from the beginning, they might have been able to save the country.

But by now it was too late.

the other side.

Guanghan Palace Base.

As November approaches.

Various infrastructure facilities in the base have begun to gradually improve. For example, the Hongwan No. 1 Power Station has finally completed its preliminary construction and its power generation has been maintained at 15,000 kilowatts.

Including the base's own 27 carbon-14 nuclear batteries, the total power generation is about 9,550 kilowatts.

Finally, there are solar panels. Currently, the total area of ​​solar panels installed in the base is 5,400 square meters, with a maximum power generation of 18,000 kilowatts.

However, because the moon has a lunar night phase and a lunar white phase, the solar panels face a fatal problem. There is 15 days of sunlight exposure and 15 days of no sunlight exposure.

As a result, the solar panels will have power for 15 days and no power for 15 days.

On the moon, the carbon powder energy storage and power generation model cannot be used, and chemical battery storage requires too many chemical batteries.

At present, the maximum electricity storage density of Suiren's aluminum nano-air battery has only reached 0.57 kWh/kg. The use of chemical batteries will cause huge dead weight and high cost.

Therefore, Eagle Aerospace has designed a unique energy storage technology - nano-iron powder energy storage technology.

At this time, Nie Changfeng, Shi Keji, and Qin Wu were building a nano-iron powder energy storage power plant.

Shi Keji operates an excavator. On the northwest side, about 6.8 kilometers away from the base, there is a crater with a radius of about 52 meters. The excavator is excavating the bottom of the crater.

Nie Changfeng operated the pile driver to drive the foamed silicon steel columns into the ground.

The nano-iron powder energy storage plant consists of a nano-iron powder manufacturing cabin, a nitrogen-filled storage cabin, an oxygen sponge cabin, a reaction pit, a thermoelectric power generation system, an iron oxide recovery system, and a power transformation and distribution system.

The working principle is very simple. It uses the principle that nano-iron powder will automatically react with oxygen to release a large amount of heat, thereby prompting the thermoelectric power generation module to generate electricity.

The entire power generation process uses excess electricity from solar panels, nuclear batteries, and geothermal power stations to produce large amounts of nano-iron powder.

The nano-iron powder is then stored in a storage cabin filled with nitrogen. When power generation is needed, the nano-iron powder is blown into the reaction pit, and pure oxygen and nano-calcium crystal powder (an anti-caking agent) are injected at the same time.

When pure oxygen and nano-iron powder meet, a chemical reaction will occur quickly, burning to form ferric oxide and releasing a large amount of heat.

In the sub-vacuum environment of the moon, it is difficult for the heat in the reaction pit to dissipate. The reaction pit also adopts a special design, using a large number of hollow designs, which can effectively utilize the sub-vacuum environment of the moon to achieve the effect of heat preservation.

The anti-caking agent nano-calcium crystal powder is used to prevent ferroferric oxide from welding together and turning into a whole iron plate to facilitate pit cleaning operations.

The thermoelectric materials currently developed by the Suiren Department have increased the thermoelectric conversion rate to the limit of 35.6%.

Including the energy consumption of refining nano-iron powder, manufacturing pure oxygen, nano-calcium crystals and mechanical operations, the thermoelectric power generation efficiency of this system is only about 28.5%.

The overall efficiency is indeed much worse.

But this plays a vital supplementary role in the moon's power supply system.

After all, the current solar panels at Guanghan Palace Base have a total power of 18,000 kilowatts, which can generate 6.48 megawatts of electricity in 15 days, plus nuclear batteries and geothermal power stations.

During the moonlight period, the Guanghan Palace base has a huge surplus of electric energy, but during the moonlight period, the supply of electric energy exceeds demand.

If power cannot be controlled, it will have a great impact on the industry in Guanghan Palace Base.

Therefore, nano-iron powder energy storage technology was developed. Although the thermal efficiency is lower, at least the power control system has been initially completed.

In fact, the Department of Sui Ren and the Academy of Engineering have also developed another power generation system, which is a power generation system derived from molten salt power generation technology.

It’s just that the high-temperature and high-pressure molten salt is too corrosive to the pipelines of the power generation system. Materials that can be used for a long time have not yet been developed. Molten salt power generation technology can only be tested in laboratories.

Thermoelectric power generation with low thermal efficiency has become an important technology to support the industrialization of lunar bases.

At this time, the industrial scale of the Guanghan Palace base can reach a daily production of 450 tons of foamed silicon steel, 80 to 90 tons of aluminum alloy, and 300 to 400 tons of other various electrolytic raw materials during the white period.

Types of industrial products, mainly: rails, steel columns, space capsule frames, radiation-resistant lead composite panels, and aluminum alloy panels.

With these materials and industrial products, the speed of building a base has been greatly improved.

For example, in the previous traffic channel between the living area and the scientific research area, just a few days ago, the laying of the shell, skeleton, and sealed aluminum alloy plates was completed, and now the decoration of the internal supporting facilities has begun.

Blue Star only needs to send some thermal insulation layers, thermal insulation layers, electronic equipment, electrical appliances and mechanical equipment to build a passage with a length of about 100 meters.

If all the materials are transported locally, a 100-meter traffic channel will require several thousand tons of weight. Even if several local aerospace cities go all out, it will still take more than a month to transport.

Part of the crude materials and large components can be supplied through local industry, which is a huge improvement.

At the same time, the industrialization experience of the Guanghan Palace Base has also laid an industrial foundation for future lunar development.

The Guanghan Palace base, which is growing in size day by day, has also become more and more important.

On Blue Star's side, many conflicts have become increasingly acute.

Especially those second-rate people who are neither powerful nor powerful. They see that the Guanghan Palace base is developing faster than they expected.

That gap is widening day by day, which has prompted polar opposites within many forces.

Some people want to move closer to China; others want to form gangs and develop their own aerospace industry; and some people want to move closer to the Noah Society and the Western Continent Alliance.

The differentiation and integration of various forces in Blue Star have entered an unprecedented wave.

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