Chapter 50 ironmaking blast furnace

Viruses and bacteria are not necessarily harmful, there is also a significant portion is beneficial.

For example: endogenous retrovirus is beneficial to the human body, it is an important basis for immune cells to produce antibodies.

There are many retroviruses that can be used as vectors for Dna recombination.

There are also cowpox viruses, which are viruses that can cause mild foci of cowpox in cattle. People used cowpox virus to eradicate smallpox.

In addition to these beneficial viruses, there are more beneficial bacteria, like what bifidobacteria, lactobacilli, yeast, etc., all beneficial to human life health, indirectly affecting the life expectancy of people.

Therefore, a normal person is a mixture of human cells, viruses and bacteria, which are in a symbiotic state with the whole human body.

So, this "longevity virus" may really make people live longer, at least in theory ...

The concern is that the risk of introducing this virus will not cause genetic collapse, chromosomal aberrations and other diseases, after all, it is something from Mars!

This belongs to the "human genetic modification project", the possibility of black shells is very high! Oliver and all the experts are well aware of the risks involved. The movie biohazard, the loss of the virus, is not so out of it.

So, like a chestnut in the fire, this is something that has both risk and opportunity ...

Many big scientists, especially biologists, although excited in their hearts, but also unusually calm, they have some worries in their hearts, carefully asked that research team's research results, all kinds of data, and all kinds of experimental conclusions.

The discussion lasted about an hour or so, and the report was read over and over several times.

Only then did these few big scientists say that the report was basically accurate, but there was more data that had not been fully authenticated.

They believe that the basic principle of longevity virus has not been understood, the gene sequence has not been measured, there are still a lot of experiments to be done, because the gene sequence of this virus is particularly complex, at least in the short term is unlikely to have any results.

Seeing this, Oliver settled down, he certainly hope that scientists can be more cautious. In fact, even if the scientists said the ceiling, he will not be rashly human testing.

Who knows how long the incubation period of this virus is? What if, after a few years, people get sick en masse? At least have to understand the principle of action of the virus and conduct some animal tests before considering.

Such caution is still necessary!

So in the following time, he grabbed industry while focusing on biological science. Whether it is perfectin or longevity virus, both are very important and cannot be sloppy ...

The machines roared, the motors roared, and the fully automated Genov industrial plant was completed, finally showing its daunting industrial capabilities!

Many scientists and engineers shuddered and cheered, stunned and moved by the miracle they had created!

Ivanovich was in tears, this was the super-industry he longed for!

A mass-produced super-excavator, all by unmanned means. After digging a carriage of ore will be automatically transported to a place where the ore will be dumped on the conveyor track, and then transported by the conveyor track to the super train.

Finally, the super train transports the ore directly to the Noah. This series of processes does not require human power and is done automatically by the program.

Unmanned is very convenient, one person can completely sit in the office and monitor a hundred units. These machines are usually basically error-free, and if there is an error there will be plenty of feedback prompts for people to deal with in time.

One excavator is spaced more than three hundred meters apart, and if they are too close to each other because of a bug in the system or something else, an alarm will go off in the main control room, and then the supervisor will be allowed to operate them manually.

This operation was a little more at first, but then two or three days together, and less and less.

Because the researchers will be based on these errors, analyze the specific causes, so as to improve. A generation of updates down, the driverless vulnerability is also becoming less and less ...

People are also working on automatic maintenance machines, so that the maintenance thing is also done automatically by the machine.

A big problem in front of Oliver is that the production of steel seems to be unable to keep up ... the fears of those smelters came true!

At the beginning, people are studying the program, building factories, the consumption of resources is not much, the steel production on the Noah is more than enough.

But now, the program is well studied, the factory began to produce, what excavators, trains, cutting machines, etc., all need a lot of metal materials, so that the steel production on the Noah is not enough.

These super machinery to get too big, too many supplies, the current large material shortage completely rely on the amount of inventory hard to support.

"There are only 1.3 million tons of steel in stock now, which is only enough for a month and a half of consumption, this is too much, right?"

Oliver frowned and approved the construction of a steelmaking blast furnace.

This steel-making blast furnace is a big guy, a full 70 meters high! It used more than six thousand tons of steel. Of course, it was still built inside the Noah.

In order to build this blast furnace, the engineers specially opened up an unoccupied room in the ship. They took the lead in laying various pipes inside, such as raw material inlet, slag outlet, air exchange and so on.

Then, people used various machines to put the blast furnace together piece by piece, falcon joints, seamless welding, etc. It took about another month of work.

If the official operation, this blast furnace production is also fully automated, the inside has long been laid out a variety of transfer tracks and robots.

If in space, this blast furnace is certainly not available, the main problem is heat dissipation. Its heat dissipation is too large, using ice is only to lower the temperature of the room, can not cool the inside ah.

If the huge heat can not be dissipated, the blast furnace air pressure will get higher and higher, it may explode!

But now is not in Mars, Mars temperature of minus 60 degrees, the atmosphere is relatively thin, but the atmosphere is enough! A dozen exhaust fans constantly pumping cold air in to dissipate heat, and then exhaust the hot air out.

With such an air-cooling system, the blast furnace can barely be used.

Of course, Mars is no coal, oil and other fossil fuels, but methane and other combustible ice was found some, or mainly located in the lower position of several ice lakes.

But people simply do not expect to use the carbon reduction method to make steel, they still use electrolysis. According to this process, the refining method of iron and aluminum are similar, are first melted to the liquid state of the mineral and then electrolysis.

The refined iron contains less carbon, and then after another set of procedures, it becomes a good texture of coarse steel.

Such a blast furnace consumes so much electricity that a nuclear power plant was built to supply the blast furnace with electricity. The extremely high power consumption also contributes to the extremely high output, it can produce 2000 tons of steel a day, 600,000 tons a month! That is to say, almost two steel-making blast furnaces, can make up for the shortage of materials.