Chapter 31 Design

Do the math, just 1.06 million tons of uranium resource reserves, plus the associated molybdenum ore, copper ore and so on ... these are not pure things ah, mixed in the middle of various stones, at least two or three hundred million tons of ore to dig!

This is just one resource point, there are other iron ore, copper ore, aluminum ore, titanium ore ... miscellaneous add up to at least two or three billion tons of stone to dig!

Well, it looks like a pretty big number, but, but ... this is still just a small head ah, the real killer is - ice!

Geologists near the Arctic, found four large ice lakes, a conservative estimate, there are three thousand cubic kilometers of ice or water, which translates into mass, that is - three hundred billion tons!

There are three hundred billion tons of ice to dig!

If it is liquid water, of course, good solution, just use the pumping machine, big deal, use a few more. But the ice words are much more trouble, four large ice lakes, only a small amount of water at the bottom, most of them are ice.

This fucking ... really want William's old life. Three hundred billion tons of ice, three hundred billion tons of what concept ah! He just how the brain is hot, boast of it?

Hearing the complaints of William's oldest brother, even Ivanovich also had the sense to shut his mouth, no matter what, his situation is much better than William.

"... Mr. William, where is your courage, where is your confidence? What are you afraid of?" The one who spoke was Professor Ding Yidong, who unceremoniously criticized, "And didn't let you use a shovel! You have to rely on wisdom, you have to rely on industrialization!"

Professor Ding Yidong is like this, he criticizes everyone, which is a bit like Dennis the virologist. But Dennis is harsh, Ding Yidong is wild, to put it bluntly, is a big mouth, the two have different personalities.

"To accomplish these tasks, it must be mechanized and automated on a large scale! We must completely change our thinking ..."

Ding Yidong's loud voice is open, "There is a saying, how bold people are, how productive the land is! You know what I mean!"

William was silent, he knew what Ding Yidong wanted to express.

"Yes ..." Dr. Felix nodded, agreeing with the old rival, "All machinery, all of them have to develop in the direction of intelligence, unmanned and heavy-duty. Otherwise, we have so few people, it's not enough."

"We can no longer limit the past thinking, no longer need to consider funding, environmental pollution, sustainability and so on. We must let go of our imagination and release all our wisdom into production!"

Hearing this, all the scientists nodded, and even William's face looked slightly better.

Everyone started to discuss and began to let their imagination fly.

Scientists are much stronger than ordinary people when they are crazy. Their madness is logical, yet can make people feel incredible. Immediately afterwards, a wild and daring idea was brought up ...

In order to dig the mine, the first thing to solve is the transportation problem, have to send the mined ore back to the Noah. The transport train on the moon, a trip to carry up to 20,000 tons of goods, really garbage ah, really too little.

So, some people think that it is better to improve the engine and then expand the volume of the train by ten times, so that a trip can carry 200,000 tons of cargo ... volume by ten times, the length, width and height can be expanded by 2.1 times.

"No, 200,000 tons of load is still too little!" Someone immediately objected, "Compared to the order of magnitude of a hundred billion tons, it's not even close to being useful."

"Then ... might as well add a nuclear-powered engine, make it as big as an aircraft carrier, how about a carrier-class train, and then increase the length and width, increase its volume, the load capacity can even reach the megaton level... ..."

I don't know who is talking nonsense there.

It was just nonsense, but everyone's eyes lit up and they all followed this proposal. If there was a nuclear-powered train like this, it would be able to transport a million to two million tons of materials in one trip.

Everyone is dumbfounded, a million tons a trip, this train, cattle ah!

We have to do it, we have to do it!

"No, no, no! No way!" Ivanovich's face was crooked, if he really wanted to design this kind of nuclear-powered train, he would have to build it in his industrial factory, so wouldn't his task be heavy again?

He hastily roared, "Gentlemen and ladies, such a train is too heavy, there are no railroads and no tires that can bear such weight, it is impossible!"

"How is it impossible?" William suddenly roared: "Don't you forget that the gravity of Mars is only one-third of that of Earth, we can completely handle this kind of train! As for the pressure problem of the tires, there are plenty of methods, we can totally ..."

Immediately after, more and more scientists strongly support William, gravity is only a small problem, there must be a way to solve it.

"There is another problem, the output power of the nuclear power plant should be redesigned. After all, the train is not yet an aircraft carrier, the two are still a little different ..." someone said worriedly.

"Everyone, the miniaturization of the nuclear power plant has been solved by our Wild Wolf Design Bureau. There is no problem at all in this area!" Professor Ding Yidong suddenly said lightly. In fact, on the way to Mars, they Wild Wolf had been working on this thing, and now the middle and row came into use.

Seeing the shocked expressions of the crowd, he actually wanted to laugh wildly, but held it back hard and then pretended to be this understatement.

The most critical part has been solved?

The crowd all cooperated with the shock for a while.

"Then that's it, the specific design of the super train will be left to us!" Ding Yidong was very satisfied, his voice was still unconsciously loud, and he directly opened his mouth to wrap it up. Their Wild Wolf Design Bureau had recruited some more new people, and the population had increased, and the research capacity had become stronger.

Hearing this, William was half relieved, the fame and strength of Wild Wolf, he still knew.

But Ivanovich can suffer, he simply have no way to refute, can only hate sigh, in fact, his own inner excitement is unusual, also very much want to engage in this kind of nuclear-powered train ...

Well, the transport problem for the time being, the second to be solved is the problem of excavation, the excavator on the moon still has to rely on human manual control, really too much trouble, must be replaced.

Now, it is necessary to engage in a kind of unmanned excavator, and the daily output has to be greater to do so.

Since nuclear-powered trains have come out, nuclear-powered excavators ... are no problem, right? This is a common idea among scientists.

However, this kind of automated excavator is a little more technically difficult than a train, not only to have sufficient power, but also to be equipped with a certain amount of artificial intelligence.

"Driverless, automatic excavation ... this aspect of the intelligent program, I think there is no problem, can be achieved." Ms. Sullivan of the Super Intelligence Laboratory said.

"In that case, the specific design work of the super excavator, let's leave it to us." Felix nodded his head and said. The Wild Wolf Design Bureau had taken over the "Super Train" project, and their institute couldn't be weak.

"Thank you, thank you all!"

William exhaled a sigh of relief, but Ivanovich was getting more and more headache, these things, each one is surprisingly large, the amount of engineering is not covered ...

But the blood in his bones is flowing faster, only the construction of such a behemoth can make his blood surge up ah. I believe the boys under the hands will also be very excited!