At the moment, there is no better option besides doing a good job of defense.
The deterrent power of the Aurora-20 when facing the world's countries does not apply to the Northern United Region. Although the Aurora-20 did not detect the presence of fighter jets in the joint command area, they inherited the pan-Asian cooperation technology and were able to pose a fatal threat to the Aurora-20 with ground-based air defense missiles and laser air defense weapons.
If war breaks out, the battlefield for both sides will undoubtedly be on the ground.
After staying in the last days for three days, Jiang Chen returned to the present world.
This time he brought back ten Aurora-20s newly manufactured by the Sixth Street Military Factory, as well as the K1 mechanical exoskeleton production line newly built by the Zhao Group.
In the past, the mechanical exoskeletons here in the present world were produced by the military factory in the Sixth Block, and Jiang Chen acted as a porter, transferring the materials there. However, now the end of the world has to bear the pressure from the United Unified District, and it has to allocate a small amount of production capacity to serve the current world, which is really stretched.
Now that the future military industry has begun to take shape, it is fully capable of integrating this production line. Following the Hummingbird UAV, another 22nd century arms production line has settled on Anga Island.
The entire set of production equipment was spread out over tens of thousands of square meters, and Jiang Chen chose Coconut Island, where he used to dock Shuidi No. 1, as a "transshipment warehouse." After transferring all the equipment to the island, Jiang Chen called for the Starlink Trading transport ship and dispatched a frigate to escort the equipment, and transported the equipment to Anga Island without pulling down a single screw.
With the manpower and resources in the apocalypse, there are obvious bottlenecks in developing industry. However, this bottleneck does not exist for the Future People Group. The Future Mining Industry will transport a steady stream of ore to the Xinmat District. The steel plant in the Xinmat District will rough-process the ore and transport it to Anga Island. The Future People's Army Union will remelt the finished steel, refine it into C-shaped steel and pour it into grinding tools. .
The more sophisticated internal structure will also be completed by the factory on Anga Island.
All the mechanical exoskeletons produced can not only fill the equipment gap of the currently expanding foreign corps, but can also in turn meet the needs of the three NAC corps in the end of the world. Because there has been no war for a long time, the popularity of exoskeletons in several corps in the end of the world is not as good as in the current world.
I believe this situation will improve soon.
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Two weeks have passed since the start of the lunar colonization plan. From the images sent back by the moon, we can see that the Guanghan City lunar colony has begun to take shape.
Several long barracks were placed on the edge of the crater, and colonists in spacesuits set up solar generators in the open space. Before the nuclear fusion generator was sent to Guanghan City, they could only rely on solar energy to obtain energy to maintain the operation of the colony.
The mining stations not far away include mines for drilling lunar ice and mines for collecting lunar soil.
Lunar ice is one of the sources of drinking water for the colony and is also the main source of oxygen for the colony. The oxygen tank carried on the spacecraft is only enough for the twenty-four colonists to survive for a week, and in the following time, all the oxygen will be obtained by the electrolysis of water.
Currently, this is the cheapest way to obtain oxygen. 1L water electrolysis can generate 0.623 cubic meters of oxygen and 1.25 cubic meters of hydrogen. Calculated based on an air oxygen content of 15%, the pure oxygen consumed by each person per day is only 0.5 cubic meters under normal atmospheric pressure. As for the by-product hydrogen, it will be stored in a special container and combined with the carbon dioxide produced by breathing under a high-temperature catalyst to generate methanol and a small amount of water.
Methanol will be used in production as an industrial feedstock.
This creates a simple loop.
Of course, Jiang Chen sent them to the moon not just to let them solve the problem of how to survive. In addition to driving the lunar rover to explore for minerals and maintain these life-support devices every day, they are also tasked with assisting ground scientific researchers in scientific research.
Among all scientific research projects, the key one is the helium 3 collection project!
The small mine that excavates lunar soil is a facility that shoulders such an important task.
Since there is no protection from the global "dipole magnetic field" on the moon, the solar wind containing carbon, nitrogen, and rare gas ions such as helium, neon, argon, and krypton can drive straight in, continuously bombarding the lunar surface and entering the lunar soil particles, making the moon The soil is quite rich in helium 3.
As for the value of this energy, here is a set of data that can visually express it. 1 kilogram of helium 3, if used to generate electricity, can produce 19 megawatts of energy, enough to provide lighting for Moscow for 6 years. And with only 10 tons of helium 3, the power generation is enough to last the entire country of China 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 can be obtained. However, compared to the value of the former, the value of these by-products is negligible.
The lunar soil itself is also rich in minerals such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, titanium and rare earth metals.
Jiang Chen already had nuclear fusion power generation technology, and Penglai City's power source was the nuclear fusion generator obtained from Yizhou Island in the last days, as well as several deuterium storage tanks. What needs to be solved now is how to efficiently mine helium-3 from the lunar soil.
This was one of the main tasks of these colonial pioneers and researchers.
Just a colony of 24 people cost Jiang Chen 1 billion Singapore dollars.
However, he believes that the money spent is worth it.
After watching the video, Kerwin found Jiang Chen.
"NASA in the United States hopes that we can disclose the living conditions of the colonists and share the inspections of the moon. They are willing to use a file that has not yet been disclosed to the United Nations Space Division in exchange for this information."
"Is that information important? I mean theirs." Jiang Chen asked.
Kerwin thought for a moment before answering.
"It's not very important. NASA officials revealed that those undisclosed files are mainly about the analysis of Krip rocks and the distribution of helium-3 reservoirs in the lunar soil. Our researchers are also studying these things, but they just don't know. How far did they go in their research?"
"Then there is no need to exchange information with them, I believe you will be ahead of them." After Jiang Chen finished speaking, he paused for a while and then continued, "However, the living conditions of the colonists can be made public, after all, this is also part of the propaganda. Aren’t there rumors on the Internet that are slandering us, saying that those astronauts were guinea pigs and are now dead? Shooting a short documentary of their lives is a powerful counterattack! As for what content can be made public and what must be kept secret, I I think you should know better."
"You can rest assured." Kerwin smiled and nodded.
After explaining this matter, Jiang Chen was about to leave, but Kerwin seemed to remember something and stopped him.
Jiang Chen turned around and asked.
"Anything else?"
"One more thing. Two days ago, our Space Launch Center received a visit application from the United Kingdom." Kerwin replied.
"Visit application? Don't we have to receive a stack of visit applications every day?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"This person's identity is a bit special. I can't refuse directly. I have to ask for your opinion." Kerwin said cautiously.
"Who? Is it the Queen of England?" Jiang Chen joked.
"No, it's Hawking." (.)