Mineral resources are the cornerstone of industrial development.

As my country's industrial development gradually accelerates, the demand for mineral resources is also increasing.

We have always claimed to be "large land and vast resources". In fact, our mineral resource reserves are far from meeting the needs of our own industrial development.

Last year, my country imported 1.2 billion tons of iron ore. This is just iron ore.

Importing these resources from abroad will inevitably be choked by others and stop supplying resources.

In the past, oil was the biggest gap. Once Lu Li’s controlled nuclear fusion technology was released, oil... we don’t need that kind of backward energy!

However, the gap is still huge in addition to oil. A lot of money is required to spend all over the world every year.

Now...we have a new source of ore!

ocean!

Under the vast ocean, the world's richest mineral resources are stored.

At the bottom of the world's oceans, the total reserves of manganese nodules reach 3 trillion tons, and the Pacific Ocean alone has 170 billion tons, including 400 billion tons of manganese, 20 billion tons of nickel, 10 billion tons of copper, and 6 billion tons of cobalt.

Among them, manganese nodules are the most critical mineral resource.

Manganese nodules, a high-purity iron-manganese mixture, is natural manganese steel. As long as it is collected and melted and recasted, it can be directly turned into high-strength manganese steel material.

The cost of metallurgical steelmaking is terrible!

The reserves of manganese nodules are scary. With the existing reserves of manganese nodules under the ocean, humans can't use them for 30,000 years.

The production of manganese nodules is produced by the crystallization of dissolved minerals in seawater. As long as the sea does not dry up, mineral reserves will increase at all times. The reserves of manganese nodules can increase by 10 million tons per year.

This is an inexhaustible and inexhaustible resource!

In the past, humans could not use this world's richest mineral resource at all. It was completely impossible to mine underwater for thousands of meters deep, so I could only sigh.

Now... the force field generator technology can open a layer of protective cover on the seabed, even building a city, let alone mining!

The Chinese government immediately announced that it would establish the "National Marine Resources Development Group" to comprehensively develop and utilize submarine mineral resources.

Foreign media issued a sour statement: Marine resources are the common wealth of all mankind, not a single country. The development of marine resources requires the joint participation of the whole world.

No one pays attention to such nonsense.

If you have the ability, you can go down to mining yourself, and no one will let you go!

Next time, we will go to the moon to mine! Will you go?

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"Professor Lu, this is a letter sent by the State Marine Resources Development Group."

Assistant Tian sent a document to Lu Li's office.

Lu Li reached out to take the document and looked through it.

This is an invitation letter sent by the "National Marine Resources Development Group", asking Lu Li to preside over the design of the "Sea Mine Construction Plan".

Ask Lu Li to design it, this is the most normal thing. After all, the force field generator is the most critical equipment in this submarine mine.

The first mining site determined by the National Marine Resources Development Group is located in the sea area of ​​6°30′-20° north latitude and 110°-180° west longitude.

Seeing this location, Lu Li laughed.

The vision is very vicious!

The manganese nodule reserves in this location are the most abundant. There are about 6 million square kilometers of high-grade manganese nodule in the region, and the reserves account for one-third of the world's submarine manganese nodule reserves, with a coverage rate of more than 90%.

In other words, if you step on this seabed, it will be full of manganese nodules.

With the manganese nodule reserves in this sea area alone, our country has been using them for 10,000 years and it will never be used up!

From then on, high-quality manganese steel was the cheapest steel material, and it was fine to build walls.

After reading this information, Lu Li nodded with a smile, "Okay, let me preside over the design of this undersea mine!"

To design a submarine mine and to truly open up submarine mining, there are still many specific things to do.

The first is seabed surveying and mapping!

This mining site is 6 million square kilometers and is located at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 6,000 meters. This is a field that humans have never set foot in.

The first step to solve is to conduct a detailed survey and mapping of the seabed topography and mineral distribution.

If it were put before, this would be completely impossible.

Even if there are deep-sea submarines or something, they can only stay in the deep sea for a short time and cannot search and map the 6 million square kilometers of seabed for a long time.

The first step is to install a force field shield on the submarine so that the submarine can withstand the heavy pressure of seawater from more than 6,000 meters deep.

But...this will bring another problem.

The force field shield is a protective isolation layer formed by a powerful energy force field. This thing... has the same effect on the outside and on the inside.

In other words, those outside cannot get in and those inside cannot get out!

When used in weapons and equipment, they are used together with radar detection. Only when external attacks are detected will the force field shield be activated. It is not necessary to keep opening the shield, nor is it necessary to keep opening the shield.

The submarine penetrated the seabed more than 6,000 meters deep and was under heavy pressure from the sea water at all times, so it had to open the force field shield.

So... a force field shield reserved notch that can be closed at any time must be designed to install detection radar.

Moreover, this detection radar without force field protection must be able to withstand the heavy pressure of more than 6,000 meters of sea water.

It is not difficult to do this.

A sharp-shaped detection radar similar to a swordfish can be designed at the bow of the submarine, made of tantalum carbide carbide, and the electronic components inside are graphene, which can withstand submarine pressure.

Moreover, this swordfish radar only turns off the force field shield at the radar part during detection. When the radar is not turned on, the force field shield can be turned on and will not work for a long time.

Lu Li calculated the pressure undersea and the pressure resistance strength of tantalum carbide carbide, reserved a safety margin of ten times the pressure, and began to design a new set of undersea pressure resistance detection radar.

After the design was completed, Lu Li frowned tightly.

The effect of this radar is a bit bad!

In marine environments and undersea environments with extremely high metal content, the effects of electromagnetic wave radar and optical wave radar are very poor.

Needless to mention electromagnetic wave radar, the magnetic field interference of the seabed with extremely high metal content is extremely terrifying.

The effect of light wave radar on the seabed is also very poor. Water flows, light will refract, and the effect is also very poor.

Generally speaking, submarines use sonar detection.

Sonar...the accuracy and detection ability are also poor. Although you can hear echoes, you cannot accurately determine what the target is. A whale and a submarine are often unable to distinguish.

It seems that I will design a brand new radar detection tool!

What else can you use without electromagnetic radar, optical radar, or sound radar (sonar)?

By the way! Quantum radar!

Lu Li suddenly laughed. No one knows quantum technology better than me!

Even his own form of existence has become a quantum ideology. It can be said that Lu Li is the person who understands quantum technology the best in this world!

Quantum radar, this thing can be found!

Moreover... quantum radar is completely impossible to isolate even if it is a force field shield. It can still scan and communicate normally under the force field shield.

Quantum is a very contrary to people's common sense.

For example, from Beijing to Shanghai, the way to move the macro world is naturally to pass through this distance and then reach the end.

In the quantum world, that's not the case. Quantum can jump directly from Beijing to Shanghai without having to go through the middle distance.

This is called "quantum transition"!

So...quantum radar, quantum communication, this is the best radar scanning method and best communication method under the force field shield!

As long as quantum radar technology and quantum communication technology are developed, the force field shield can change from active skills to passive skills, and the shield can be opened all the time and will not affect radar scanning and communication.

This can be available!

Huh? Am I studying the design of a submarine mine? It seems... I have developed another amazing technology!

And...quantum radar and quantum communication have been created, quantum computers... this one can also be found!

Alas! You are so strong that you can come up with a scary new technology just by thinking about it.

Lu Li couldn't help laughing out loud.

Quantum technology, this is a stunning black technology.

In terms of quantum radar and quantum communication, the principle of "quantum entanglement" is used here.

A pair of interrelated quantums, one of which changes state, and the other will also change state at the same time.

No matter how far apart, even at the end of the universe, this phenomenon of quantum entanglement cannot be blocked.

So... when used on quantum radar, if a quantum encounters something, a state changes, and the other quantum on the other end will also undergo the same changes at the same time.

Compared with electromagnetic waves, optical waves and sound waves, quantum radars are completely uninterrupted, with extremely high detection accuracy and extremely high sensitivity.

Under the scanning of quantum radar, there is no way to hide any stealth aircraft or deep-sea submarine.
To be continued...