Chapter 2678: Trial Mining of Lunar Soil Water Resources
The scorching heat in Anxi continues, with a high temperature of 40 degrees that lasts for more than a week, as if everything is about to be scorched. With the issuance of the red high temperature warning, major companies have also launched their own policies to avoid the heat.
Faced with such high temperature weather, Wu Hao also signed a notice of high temperature summer vacation. From now on, except for important positions in important departments, other departments will have a holiday. The holiday will initially be one week, and will be notified later if it is extended.
As for those employees in important departments and important positions, the company also provides high-temperature subsidies and distributes relevant summer protection materials to these employees.
The employees are very excited about this rare holiday. On the one hand, it is because the weather is too hot, and on the other hand, there are no extra holidays in July and August, which means that after the Dragon Boat Festival, they will not have a holiday until the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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And it is really rare to have such a long holiday in the middle of this period.
As a result, many employees began to think about what they should do during this rare long vacation, or just stay at home, unable to go anywhere in the hot weather.
Either escape from Anxi and go to other places to escape the summer heat, or go into Nanshan and find a farmhouse to stay for a few days and enjoy the pleasure of exploring the mountains and rivers.
Compared with these employees who enjoy the holidays happily, those who still stick to their posts are working very hard. Although they enjoy considerable high temperature subsidies and related heatstroke prevention materials, how can they be compared with a holiday?
For this reason, Wu Hao and others also paid close attention to and expressed condolences to these people.
The Xinyuehu Space Command and Control Center of Haoyu Aerospace is an important department that is not on the holiday list. Because it is responsible for the command and control of all spacecraft of Haoyu Aerospace, such as satellites, spacecrafts in various orbits of the earth, and upcoming satellites.
Rockets and satellites were launched, and even the remains of the second-stage rocket that had been launched into space and were still floating in orbit.
In addition, it also has to deal with the two lunar patrol and exploration vehicles on the moon, as well as the construction projects of the lunar surface scientific research station that are ongoing on the moon, etc.
Because the tasks are heavy, the work intensity here has always been relatively high. Not to mention holidays, sometimes when the work is busy, there is no guarantee of rest. This is also determined by the nature of the work.
Especially recently, the lunar surface scientific research station is in an important construction stage and cannot be stopped. Naturally, all control technicians cannot take a vacation.
In the evening, Wu Hao and Zhang Jun came here. Because there was a very important scientific experiment project that was about to produce results today, Wu Hao and Zhang Jun were very concerned about it and came here early.
Seeing Wu Hao and Zhang Jun coming, Zhou Xiangming and Shi Zhaoping came over to greet them.
After some pleasantries, Wu Hao couldn't help but look at the big screen and asked, "What's going on now?"
Upon hearing Wu Hao's inquiry, Zhou Xiangming replied with a smile: "In about two hours, the entire experiment will be over, and we will know the results by then.
Hearing Zhou Xiangming's words, Wu Hao smiled and nodded, and then asked: "How is it? Are you confident in the result?"
Zhou Xiangming nodded and replied: "We are still very confident, and we think the results may exceed expectations."
"So confident?"
Zhou Xiangming responded with a smile: "We have already seen the water."
Oh? Wu Hao, Zhang Jun and others all had expressions of surprise on their faces when they heard this. When Zhou Xiangming saw this, he immediately smiled at everyone and introduced them.
"Actually, we have been planning and preparing for this experimental project for a long time. We have started preparing since the equipment was transported. We hope to use this experiment to test how much water we can separate from the surface lunar soil in this area.
Seeing everyone's curious looks, Zhou Xiangming immediately picked up a keyboard and typed for a while. A machine with a unique shape appeared on the big screen. This machine was quite weird. It had a drill, a bucket, a conveyor belt, and other things.
A series of equipment is assembled like a production line.
This is our experimental equipment, a small lunar soil water resource mining and extraction equipment. The working principle of this equipment is actually very simple. It is to dig out the lunar soil through the front drill bit and bucket, and then transport it to the conveyor belt. Through
The conveyor belt is transported into this heating chamber and then heated out, thereby heating the excavated lunar soil to a temperature of about 70 degrees.
In this way, the solid water in the lunar soil will be separated and turned into water and water vapor. Then, through a collection device, the water and water vapor will be collected. After relevant filtration, we will have the pure water we need.
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Considering that the water content in the surface lunar soil is relatively limited, we plan to let this machine run for twelve hours to calculate the water resources reserves it mines. In this way, we can calculate the water resources in the surface lunar soil.
content, and how much power of equipment we need to produce enough water resources.”
Speaking of this, Zhou Xiangming paused for a moment, then spread his hands towards Wu Hao and Zhang Jun and said: "Of course, next, we will also conduct mining tests on the water content of the lunar soil at thirty centimeters, fifty centimeters, and about one meter.
.Not only the depth, we will also conduct mining and testing of the lunar soil moisture content in nearby areas, so as to calculate the water resources reserves in the nearby area and collect data for our next step of formal mining.
In addition to water resources, we will also use this equipment to test and mine helium-3 resources in the lunar soil. These helium isotope gases are contained in the lunar soil on the surface, and they are actually the product of long-term solar wind.
They can be separated through high temperatures, so we placed a helium-3 gas collection tank on this equipment, so that we can detect the helium-3 reserves in this area and collect data for our subsequent mining.
Not only that, we will also test the mineral composition of these lunar soils to explore and detect the mineral reserves in this area, especially the reserves of some important metals, which will be important for our next exploration plan, as well as development and construction
The projects have a huge impact.”
Haven't we already explored this area before, why do we need to do it again now? Zhang Jun raised his question.
Hearing Zhang Jun's question, Zhou Xiangming replied with a smile: "The previous exploration only gave us a general understanding of the basic situation of this area, and judged that this area meets our requirements for building a scientific expedition team.
But we still don’t know what’s going on here, so we need to conduct a more detailed exploration and trial mining to find out the specific and detailed resource reserves in this area, which is very important for our next use of this area.”