At the moment, there was no better option than to focus on defense.
The deterrent power of Aurora-20 in the modern world was not applicable to the Northern Alliance Area. Although Aurora-20 did not detect the existence of fighter units in the Northern Alliance Area, they, who inherited the technology of Pan-Asia Cooperation, could use ground-based air defense missiles and laser air defense weapons to pose a fatal threat to Aurora-20.
If war broke out, the battlefield between the two sides would undoubtedly be on the ground.
After staying in the apocalypse for three days, Jiang Chen returned to the modern world.
This time, he brought back ten newly manufactured Aurora-20 from the Sixth Street Military Factory, as well as the K1 kinetic skeleton production line newly built by Zhao Corporation.
In the past, the kinetic skeletons in the modern world were produced by the military factory in the Sixth Street, and Jiang Chen acted as a porter to move the materials over. However, now that the apocalypse had to bear the pressure from the Northern Alliance Area, it also had to allocate a small amount of production capacity to serve the modern world. It was indeed a bit stretched.
Now that Future Military had begun to scale, it was fully capable of integrating this production line. After the Hummingbird drone, another 22nd century arms production line was located on Ange Island.
The entire set of production equipment was spread out over tens of thousands of square meters. Jiang Chen chose Coconut Island, where he used to dock the Droplet, as the "transfer warehouse". After all the equipment was transferred to the island, Jiang Chen called Celestial Trade's transport ship and dispatched a frigate to escort the equipment to Ange Island without missing a single screw.
With the manpower and resources of the apocalypse, there were obvious bottlenecks in the development of industry, but this bottleneck did not exist for Future Group. Future Mining would continuously transport ore to the New Malaysia Special District. The steel plant in the Special District would carry out rough processing before transporting it to Ange Island. The Future Military Union would melt the finished steel, refine it into C-type steel, and pour it into the grinding tools.
The more sophisticated internal structure would also be completed by the factory on Ange Island.
All the kinetic skeletons produced could not only fill the gap in equipment for the currently expanding foreign corps, but could also in turn meet the needs of the three major corps in the apocalypse. Because there had been no war for a long time, the popularity of kinetic skeletons in the apocalypse was not as high as in the modern world.
He believed that this situation would soon improve.
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It had been two weeks since the start of the moon colonization plan. From the images sent back from the moon, it could be seen that the moon colony of Guanghan City had begun to take shape.
Several long barracks were placed on the edge of the crater, and the colonists in spacesuits set up solar generators in the open space. Before the nuclear fusion generator was sent to Lunar City, they could only rely on solar energy to maintain the operation of the colony.
The mining station not far away was a mine for drilling lunar ice and a mine for collecting lunar soil.
Moon ice was one of the sources of drinking water for the colony, and it was also the main source of oxygen for the colony. The oxygen tank carried on the spacecraft was only enough for the 24 colonists to survive for a week. In the following days, all the oxygen would be obtained by electrolysis.
From the looks of it, this was the cheapest way to obtain oxygen. One liter of water could produce 0.623 cubic meters of oxygen and 1.25 cubic meters of hydrogen. Based on the 15% oxygen content in the air, the amount of pure oxygen consumed per person per day was only 0.5 cubic meters under normal atmospheric pressure. As for the by-product, hydrogen, it would be stored in a special container and formed methanol and a small amount of water with the carbon dioxide produced by breathing under a high-temperature catalyst.
Methanol will be used as an industrial raw material in production.
In this way, a simple cycle was formed.
Of course, Jiang Chen didn't send them to the Moon just to solve the problem of survival. In addition to driving the lunar rover to explore mines every day and maintaining these life-support devices, they also shouldered the task of assisting the scientific researchers on the ground to carry out scientific research work.
And among all the scientific research projects, the key was the collection of helium-3!
The small mine that excavated lunar soil was a facility that shouldered such an important task.
Because there was no global "dipole magnetic field" protection on the Moon, solar wind containing carbon, nitrogen, helium, neon, argon, krypton and other rare gas ions could continuously bombard the Moon surface and enter the lunar soil particles, making the lunar soil rich in helium-3.
As for the value of this energy, there was a set of data that could intuitively show it. 1 kilogram of helium-3, if used to generate electricity, could generate 19 megawatts of energy, enough to illuminate the city of Moscow for six years. Only 10 tons of helium-3 were needed to generate enough electricity for the entire country for a year!
In addition, for every ton of helium-3 extracted from lunar soil, 6,300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen, and 1,600 tons of carbon could be obtained. However, compared to the value of the former, the value of these by-products was negligible.
The lunar soil itself was also a mineral rich in aluminum, iron, magnesium, titanium, and rare earth metals.
Jiang Chen already had the nuclear fusion power generation technology. The power source of Penglai City was the nuclear fusion generator obtained from Yizhou Island in the apocalypse, as well as several deuterium storage tanks. What needed to be solved now was how to efficiently mine helium-3 from the lunar soil.
This was also one of the main tasks of these colonial pioneers and researchers.
Just a colony of 24 people cost Jiang Chen 1 billion Xin New Dollars.
However, he believed that the money spent was worth it.
After watching the video, Calvin found Jiang Chen.
"NASA wants us to disclose the life of the colonists and share the exploration of the Moon. They are willing to exchange a file that has not been disclosed to the United Nations Space Department in exchange for this information. "
"Is that information important? I mean theirs, "Jiang Chen asked.
Calvin thought for a moment before he replied.
"It's not very important. NASA officials revealed that the undisclosed files are mainly about the analysis of the Kriprock and the distribution of helium-3 reservoirs in the lunar soil. Our researchers are also studying these things, but we don't know how far they have progressed."
"Then there's no need to exchange information with them. I believe you will be ahead of them." Jiang Chen paused for a moment, then continued, "But the life of the colonists can be disclosed. After all, this is also part of the publicity. Aren't there rumors on the Internet slandering us, saying that those astronauts are all lab rats and are now dead? Filming a short documentary of their lives is just a powerful counterattack! As for what content can be disclosed and what must be kept confidential, I think you should know. "
"You can rest assured." Calvin nodded with a smile.
After explaining this matter, Jiang Chen was about to leave, but Calvin seemed to remember something and stopped him.
Jiang Chen turned around and asked.
"Is there anything else?"
"There is one more thing. Two days ago, our space launch center received a visit request from the UK, "Calvin replied.
"Visit request? Don't we receive a stack of visit requests every day? "Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"This person's identity is a bit special. I can't directly refuse, so I have to ask for your opinion, "Calvin said cautiously.
"Who? Is it the Queen of England? "Jiang Chen joked.
"No, it's Hawking."
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