Let’s talk about glass first. This is the main building material for the future construction of lunar scientific research stations and future lunar cities. Whether it is the glass doors and windows of the lunar scientific research stations, buildings, plant factories, or the huge glass domes of the future lunar cities, these will be used.
Glass.
These buildings use glass, which cannot be transported from the earth. This would be very costly and not cost-effective. There are abundant quartz reserves in the lunar soil, which can be mined on site and produced into glass.
It is even possible to develop and manufacture a machine that can 3D print glass on the moon using quartz ore, and then use it to print and make glass, or directly print related glass buildings.
Glass has very good sealing and heat insulation properties, and the strengthened glass is strong enough, making it very suitable for building various buildings. It can be said to be a very good building material.
Therefore, in Wu Hao's plan, whether it is a lunar scientific research station or a future lunar city, such cheap and easy-to-obtain high-quality building materials will inevitably be used.
As for the second use, this is better to say. Because whether it is a future lunar scientific research station or a lunar city, it will definitely require a lot of energy, especially power resources. In the early and mid-term, if you want to obtain sufficient power resources, solar power generation
Definitely the best choice.
If you want to realize solar power generation, you must have solar panels. And if you want to support scientific research stations and larger lunar cities, you must build a huge solar power plant.
Building such a huge solar power plant will inevitably require a large number of solar panels. Naturally, these solar panels cannot be transported from the earth. The cost is too high and not cost-effective, so the best option is to use local materials.
Make solar panels.
At present, the technology of using quartz (silicon dioxide) to manufacture solar panels on the earth is very mature, and what Wu Hao and others want to do is how to simplify and integrate this entire process and make it applicable in the lunar environment.
Zhang Qutong went on to introduce: "In addition to basalt particles and quartz particles, there are about seven percent of the remaining materials. These materials are very rich. The most abundant of them is ilmenite, which accounts for 100% of the entire lunar soil sample.
About four percent, it can be said to be very rich. In addition to ilmenite, we also found copper, nickel, manganese, silver, gold, etc. in the remaining three percent."
Speaking of this, Zhang Qutong paused for a moment, and then smiled at everyone: "As for the helium three element that everyone is most concerned about, we have also detected it from these two lunar soil samples.
The helium-3 content is more than ten times higher than that in a 50-centimeter lunar soil sample.
Moreover, through our exploration, the helium-3 content in the entire landing site or the entire gas sea area should be said to be far higher than the previously estimated average lunar soil content.
Of course, this also proves from another perspective the reason why the Qihai crater was formed earlier."
Speaking of this, Zhang Qutongsheng was afraid that everyone would not understand. In line with his professional habits, he explained in detail: "The moon itself does not contain helium-3, whether it is the small amount of helium-3 on the earth or the reserves on the moon.
The abundant helium three elements actually come from the sun.
We know that fusion reactions at very long distances are going on inside the sun, thus producing a large amount of helium-3 elements. These helium-3 elements will be blown by the solar wind and dispersed to various stars, thereby contaminating the soil or coverings.
The earth is protected by a magnetic field and a thick atmosphere, so the helium-3 falling on the ground is very rare. The moon has no atmosphere, so it has been invaded by the solar wind for a long time, and countless helium-3 gradually became contaminated and adhered to the lunar soil, and became more and more
The more accumulated.
This has been confirmed through our exploration, and helium-3 on the surface of the lunar soil is indeed much richer than that in the lunar soil."
Hearing Zhang Qutong's introduction, Zhang Jun's face showed a smile. He looked at everyone and said with a smile: "It seems that we have chosen the right place to land in Qihai. Qihai has very rich reserves of helium-3 and other mineral elements. This
It’s a good start for us.”
What a good start!
Everyone laughed after hearing this, while Zhang Qutong shook his head conservatively and said: "It's too early to say this now. We need to conduct multi-scale exploration and analysis of the entire Qihai area. Only in this way can we figure it out.
Mineral reserves in the Qihai area.”
Hearing Zhang Qutong's words, Wu Hao smiled and waved his hand and said: "There's no rush, let's take our time."
Speaking of this, Wu Hao looked at Zhang Qu and the others and said: "With the launch of our detection mission, more detection data will be collected for you in the future, so the burden on you is not light.
Of course, we will continue to strengthen your manpower and resources, but the work must keep up with the progress and cannot be delayed. This is related to the follow-up progress of our entire mission and even the development and preparation of related tasks in the future. It must be done on time and in quantity.
Finish."
Hearing Wu Hao's words, Zhang Qutong and others showed some heavy looks on their faces. This task is indeed not easy. One or two lunar soil samples are nothing, and they can be completed quickly. But as the detection continues, more and more
More sample information will be gathered, which also means that their work will be busy, and the burden on their shoulders will become heavier and heavier.
Despite this, Zhang Qutong nodded on behalf of everyone. For them, such a research project is really rare. You must know other experts and researchers who can spend most of their lives studying a sample.
.But they were able to harvest a lot of samples, and they were still worried about having too many samples. This kind of happy worry was something they had never had before.
So no matter how hard and tiring it is, Zhang Qutong and the others will grit their teeth and accept it. Not to mention anything else, the scientific research results generated by these research institutes alone are worth their madness.
No, it's not just them, it should be said that everyone is crazy.
So after hearing the guarantee from Zhang Qutong and the others, Wu Hao smiled and nodded, and then said: "Scientific research is important, but don't relax on the paper side. Rely on the favorable conditions we have created and publish a few high-quality papers."
A solid paper comes out.
Just like today's results, you can sort them out and send them to our official website. You know, people and scientists all over the world are eagerly looking forward to them."
After hearing Wu Hao's words, everyone laughed heartily.
Indeed, everyone is waiting for their results, and some scientific research institutions have also sent cooperation intentions. It is obvious that they are attracted by the sufficient resources that Wu Hao and the others say they have.