On October 12, the intense launch, docking, and equipment inspections were completed one after another, and the last batch of personnel arrived, and the space station entered a new stage in the future.

All twenty-one people and seven Homo sapiens robots are divided into two groups, and they are called the Metallurgical Group and the Alchemy Group.

The Metallurgical Group is mainly responsible for the dismantling, smelting, and the classification and reorganization of various resources.

The equipment used by the metallurgical group was added to the space station bit by bit after the death scepter entered orbit. The production capacity was very poor, and it could produce about five tons of steel a day. After being more familiar with the vacuum processing system, it might gradually become a zero-gravity processing system for production.

Although the production capacity is so low, the cost of a whole series will even exceed all the equipment of a 10 million tons metallurgical enterprise on the ground!

The alchemy group uses zero gravity processing equipment to smel some raw materials from the ground with a small capacity, and then package them back to the surface.

The task of the metallurgical group is more complex, and there are many problems that need to be solved by heaven and earth, but the focus at this moment is the alchemy group.

After the small experiments conducted in the old space station in the previous few months, C country has made breakthroughs in sodium batteries, and has also received a lot of help from the Western Central scientific system.

The breakthrough was a sodium battery contact called hexaploid by the earth ball. Previous space experiments have proved that only when this contact raw material is produced in a zero gravity environment can it meet the yield requirements required for mass production.

The so-called hexapploid is the quantitative system formed earlier on the contrast of the energy density of the existing lithium battery system, which means that the energy density is doubled compared to the tetraploid and octploid that have begun mass production.

Ordinary people are not very sensitive and do not understand the meaning of hexaploid. In fact, the energy density per unit weight of this thing is already greater than the energy released by the TNT explosion with the same weight!

Such high density of energy means that it can directly replace traditional liquid fuels when used in the surface, water surface, and water utensils, and even perform better after full appliances.

Once the mass production of hexapploid sodium batteries is achieved, the entire system of earth-based crude oil will be subverted. In the future, there is no need to send refined oil to various gas stations. Directly burning power on site at the processing point can bring greater overall benefits.

...Of course, the official cannot do such things as burning refined oil to generate electricity. Only when private people are eager to use electricity, they are willing to spend such capital.

In short, except for aerospace fuel, most types of ordinary fuel can be withdrawn from history. On the one hand, it can reduce the equipment complexity of the petroleum processing system and improve production safety. On the other hand, it can also increase the output of petrochemicals in other product categories without increasing the amount of mining.

Therefore, the work of the Alchemy Group has become a key project at this stage.

In addition to a few people and several Homo sapiens robots in the space station, there are more than 40 research institutions and enterprises across national borders on the surface, and more than 3,000 scientists and engineers are ready to provide technical support to them at any time.

On October 15th, the first trial production of the Alchemy Group was completed.

A kilogram of contact alloy is packed together with the space station garbage and data disks, and is thrown back into the atmosphere in a return capsule, falling into the designated target area of ​​a space autonomous region in Country C.

One day later, the data fed back from the surface showed that the contact sampling yield rate was 46.2%.

The calculation of yield rate is to divide the sample into 1,000 pieces and get the result of power-on tests. The actual contact point will not be as large as one gram, and the yield rate will further increase as the continued division.

46.2%, which is actually much higher than the minimum yield rate that is tolerated by cutting-edge materials.

But this is space production, and it is the first time that the space station will provide feedback on high-level materials to the surface in the future. The investment cost is so high that it is impossible to calculate it carefully.

Even if the space station investment is not calculated, the material cost itself is only because the cost of the world round trip and return capsule recycling in the Gobi (the army needs to clear the field) is there, and the cost per kilogram of good products is more than 50,000 C yuan, and the price per ton of commercialization is at least 60 to 70 million!

The production cost and the estimated ex-factory price of hexapploid sodium batteries have been slightly calculated on the surface.

The weight of the contacts in the battery is very small. The weight ratio of the hexaploid laboratory version is less than one thousandth of a thousandth, so it only costs tens of thousands of yuan per ton, which is not much.

If other costs of hexaploid are included, the expected selling price is not four times that of tetraploid. The cost of tetraploid has been approaching the level of lithium battery in previous years after half a year of production optimization.

Have high commercial potential.

The next task of the alchemy group is to increase production capacity, and at the same time ensure that the yield rate is maintained at more than 40% as much as possible. After the daily output reaches one ton, consider improving the yield rate.

In a short period of time, the cost of new materials production is reduced, and the little money earned is not profitable at all. The project mainly serves the high-energy weapon program in the atmosphere.

So far, electromagnetic weapons and laser weapons produced and sold around the world have lacked practical results. The best thing is that Country C used a first-level monster that was about to die. In other regions, only small monsters had been killed at most.

The biggest obstacle is the coordination problem brought by the battery vehicle fleet, which further slowed down the ground troops whose mobility could not keep up with the speed of monsters.

The energy density is one order of magnitude higher than hexaploid, which can completely evolve the electromagnetic tank system.

With a sufficiently high energy density, traditional fuel engines are not needed at all. The weight of the tank with a thousand horsepower is calculated in tons. After changing this part of the weight to a motor, there will be surplus. With the weight of the fuel tank, fuel, pipelines, etc., the stored energy after achieving complete electric power is far more than four times that of today.

Such changes are enough to achieve the actual combat effectiveness of a single tank.

This is just the first step in the atmospheric high-energy weapon plan. The subsequent goal is to let high-energy weapons go to the sky to adapt to the maneuvering speed of the small monsters.

The hope of this part is now borne by the old space station.

High-energy weapons require the aircraft to have huge power when entering the sky. On the other hand, when you don’t use weapons, aren’t the weight of power generation equipment or energy storage units useless loads?

If there is a place to go for extra power in normal times, wouldn’t you have the idea of ​​high-energy weapons going to heaven?

Alien Octopus had provided a piece of plasma propeller data a few months ago, which did not play any role except for fine-tuning of future space station postures.

But the project was not abandoned because scientists all knew that to achieve space travel and even colonization of distant galaxies, high-thrust plasma thrusters were a bottleneck that had to be broken through.

With insufficient accumulation of material technology, I finally figured out the key.

For example, can the plasma thruster principle be combined with the existing turbocharged jet engine?

In fact, when referring to the game, you will find that many aircraft in it have fuel propulsion capabilities, and they also need to have their own nuclear-powered engines. Where does the electricity they generate?

The answer is obvious.

There is no need to have too high requirements. As long as the final thrust can be increased by 10%, tons of fuel can be saved. On this basis, every extra point of acceleration can further save fuel. There will be a point that can balance the weight burden of the additional power generation engine.

But bragging is easy, but it is very difficult to actually build this composite engine.

The relevant experiments were conducted on the old space station, part of which was placed on the surface. In October, it was still in a very preliminary stage. It was barely completed theoretical verification and actually made a full-size engine. There were still many technical difficulties, and material bottlenecks were particularly problematic.

Do you want to ask for help from aliens?

To be honest, the senior management of China C scientific research system is a little afraid of the information in the hands of aliens. The result of being too dependent on it may destroy the existing scientific research system and do not want it at all. In the race against the monster crisis, the disadvantage is too great.

After the meeting, it was decided to start from the design aspect.

In early November, the first full-size prototype was trial-made by "drawing on" the in-game engine mechanism plan.

The maximum test thrust reached 19.6 kiloN, which is a little larger than the heavy-duty twin-engine engine used by Country C.

Under this thrust, it is divided into two combustion sections, and it is used for a total of 22 minutes, and the engine burns down.

The conclusion is very obvious, the materials are not up to standard.

Even if the test run can last for 100 minutes, it can achieve practical minimum requirements by using structural optimization, special coatings, high-precision processing and other improvements.

22 minutes, it is impossible to even guarantee a task, and any improvement or optimization loses its meaning.

There are two ways to go, either seek help from aliens or wait for the space station metallurgy group to complete the preliminary work of the alchemy group in the future.

At this time, the metallurgical group had tried to smelter three furnaces, and due to the size of the equipment sent to space, there were less than twenty tons in total.

The actual operation once again proves some previous theories.

The same cast iron formula is refined in space and has a significantly higher quality. It can be concluded that the larger the cast iron parts, the more obvious the advantages of space smelting.

In terms of steel profiles (plate, angle steel, etc.), the effect of space smelting is not obvious. Considering that the quenching liquid is very difficult to deal with in space, it is recommended to temporarily abandon this part of the research and wait until the lunar space station has production capacity.

According to the plan, the metallurgical group will experiment with three steel formulas, four aluminum alloy formulas and three titanium alloy formulas. Two of the titanium alloys are titanium aluminum alloys, aluminum, titanium, etc., all provided by the ground, and only iron will be extracted from the asteroids.

This month, the second set of vacuum processing equipment will be assembled in the space station in the future. Aluminum alloy and titanium alloy experiments will be put into new vacuum processing equipment. The existing metallurgical equipment will only be responsible for iron and steelmaking afterwards.

It is expected that all metallurgical experimental plans will be completed in about forty days.

On the Alchemy Group, the production operation of the 16-ploid battery contact has been transferred to Homo sapiens robots. The personnel are only responsible for working with the support team on the surface to study solutions to use existing equipment to improve yield.

Their work is relatively smooth, and if nothing unexpected happens, half of them will be transferred out of the alchemy group soon.

In early November, the surface of the earth welcomed another level 2 monster, which was a hypnotist.

The hypnotist appeared in the western waters of Western Central and the first thing that was affected was the freight route from Western Central to Dameizhou.

As usual, the hypnotist is timid and has almost no impact on the inland, but because it always hides in the sea, the Western Central Inland group is poor in strength, and the coastal disasters are even greater.

The military power in Western Central is divided into two parts, part of which is subordinate to the national armies of each country. Except for the relatively complete system of F countries, which can pull out an army, the rest are all waste.

The other part is about half of the members of the community, and the military forces of the North Western Ocean Convention Organization established by the State A and Ca.

A country has a characteristic: as long as it pays a penny, the command power during wartime must be handed over to A country.

Therefore, in name, Western Central is a community, but the military mobilization system is very chaotic, and there are more Virgin Mary, and military efficiency is really ugly under the restraint of all parties.

After a week, when the PRT, the westernmost western end of the Western Central Region, basically destroyed the country, the hypnotist found an opportunity when he crossed the strait and shattered it.

PRT's 10 million people donated about five million, the entire system was completely paralyzed, and hundreds of thousands died next door. F and G countries seized the opportunity to promote the community parliament and transformed PRT's original territory into a direct territory of the community, so that when managing, there is no need to be separated from the management of the country.

The survivors of prt did not object. Anyway, they were one of the five pigs who used the means of quitting the debt to avoid the overall bankruptcy of the country. Now the capital is completely destroyed, and the remaining people lack the confidence to even quit the debt. It is better to take the opportunity to change to another family.

So far, except for Jiang Ge, the other second-level monsters are quite appropriate to deal with. Instead, the first-level monsters that are emerging everywhere, and the overall damage and killing ratio of human beings is increasing.

Including western Heizhou, southern Dameizhou, surrounding island countries, and southern Central China, all of which are severely affected.

By the end of the year, if the last second-level monster can be handled and Jiang Ge is slaughtered, the total population loss this year can be controlled at about 150 million.

150 million, far less than the number of monsters massacres and the secondary disaster losses caused by them. However, due to the collapse of infrastructure in the third world, the number of births is relatively large, which balances some of the losses.

The population decreases by 150 million a year, which seems not much, but even if the combat efficiency and luck are maintained every year, as the population base decreases, some infrastructure and production capacity will be damaged and collapse will accelerate.

According to the forecast of relevant statistical agencies, with the current manufacturing production capacity and manpower consumption, within five years, as the literacy rate decreases in reverse, it will accelerate shrinkage. At most eight years, humans will not be able to guarantee the elimination of every monster close to densely populated areas. In the wild, there will be more than thirty small monsters in the sea for a long time.

After that, civilization will enter a period of collapse. In three to five years, the modern education system will face collapse, and then all systems will be involved.

This prediction is a bit pessimistic and is not considered sufficiently in the influence factors of alien technology.

C country, who was holding the king in his hand, believed that the time was not yet ripe enough, and he had to wait until the guys who were filled with ideology could think about problems in a normal way of thinking.
Chapter completed!