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Chapter 823 The Speed ​​of Lunar Soil Collection and Helium III Extraction is Too Slow

Space Center Sky Station.

Tang Xiaochuan is observing the situation of the lunar soil collection by the engineering vehicles of the helium-[-] supply factory on the moon through the lunar satellite, and at the same time talking with the director of the helium-[-] refining plant to learn about the current progress of lunar soil collection and refining.

After learning about the relevant situation, he asked: "Do you think it is possible to consider increasing the scale of lunar soil collection equipment and refining with the current proficiency and technical level of engineers and technicians?"

In the video, the director of the lunar soil collection and helium three refining plant said: "Boss, with the current personnel quality, technical situation, and equipment running-in, I think it is time to increase the scale of collecting molds and refining helium three. Add a group of personnel to serve as apprentices to the old technicians and workers, and they will be able to graduate in two or three months. As long as the current management level is maintained, there should be no problems!"

"While old technicians and old workers are bringing in new technicians and new workers, a new batch of equipment can also be manufactured and shipped over. At that time, the new technicians and new workers also have a certain foundation and can operate independently. Some, slower speed, it can be improved slowly after a period of time, up to three months, the production speed of lunar soil collection and helium three extraction can be doubled, and then we will train the next batch, so batch after batch With continuous training, the production capacity can be doubled tenfold within two to three years!"

Thinking about it, Tang Xiaochuan realized that although Feitian Technology's technology for using helium-[-] is quite mature, even if the scale is still very, very small, it is basically only used on unmanned or manned spacecraft, and even the current energy used by the lunar nuclear power plant is only from The use of metal nuclear materials such as uranium mined on the moon has always been kept highly secret and unknown to the outside world.

Therefore, the large-scale collection of lunar soil on the moon to extract Helium III is basically at a loss, and the hole in the loss is getting bigger and bigger, because the extracted Helium III cannot and will not be used in the commercial field for the time being, and can only be hoarded. , but the production of machinery and equipment, and the salaries of the personnel sent to the moon must be paid, and the bonuses must not be small. The earth only needs a salary of 2 yuan. After being sent to the moon, the salary will be doubled, that is, the monthly salary is [-] yuan. In addition, there are compensations for accidents due to business accidents, death compensation, pensions, etc. The annual loss is not bad. a small amount.

What's more, there are vacations every few months. When returning to the earth from the moon, or employees go to work on the moon from the earth, they all need to take a dedicated earth-moon spacecraft. The spacecraft uses helium III as energy, so the transportation costs spent every year are Not a small amount.

If it is just a soil collection and helium three refining plant, the annual loss is not too much, but Feitian Technology also has a mining and metal refining plant on the moon, and the number of people in this plant has reached more than 200. .

The lunar nuclear power plant is not counted. This large-scale nuclear power plant can currently use long-distance remote wireless transmission lines to transmit electric energy to the earth, and it is already profitable, so this nuclear power plant is not included in the loss. The two factories, the Mining and the Metal Refining Plant, currently have basically no income at all, only inputs.

According to the current total number of people in these two factories is 520 people, based on the average salary of 10 yuan per person per month, the monthly salary alone will cost 5200 million yuan, and a loss of more than 6 million yuan will be lost in one year. This does not include travel costs to and from the Moon, equipment wear and tear, and maintenance updates.

Of course, Tang Xiaochuan can still afford to lose this little money. He doesn’t know how much helium III and various mineral metals mined can be put into commercial use on a large scale to recover costs and make profits. From the current point of view, using these energy sources It is necessary to hoard it with the mine for future use.

After listening to the factory director's opinion, Tang Xiaochuan thought for a while and said, "You write a detailed proposal and send it over!"

"Okay, boss!"

After finishing the video connection with the director of the helium three refinery plant, Tang Xiaochuan sent a video connection invitation to the director of the lunar mineral mining and metal smelting plant.

The video was quickly connected, "Hello, boss, Ai Menghe, director of the Moon Mineral Mining and Metal Smelting Factory, sends his greetings to you!"

"Mr. Ai, hello! You have worked hard. On behalf of all the employees and colleagues of the group, I would like to extend my greetings to you. How are you all doing on the moon?"

"We are all in good health, and our mental state is great. We often hold group activities here, and everyone's spiritual and cultural life is very rich!"

"That's good. I'm making a video connection with you today. On the one hand, I want to know about the living and working conditions, emotional and mental state of the employees in the factory. In addition, I would like to ask you to introduce the current production situation in the factory. Can you introduce me?" Tang Xiaochuan asked.

Ai Menghe said: "Okay, boss! Let me talk about our living conditions first. At present, we have a work and life schedule. In order to ensure the physical health and mental state of our employees, we follow the established work and life schedule. The working time is basically arranged in the morning and afternoon and dusk, because only in these two time periods, the temperature of the moon is still within the range that the spacesuit can bear. At other times, it is either too hot or too cold. Every problem in terms of state and physical fitness, spacesuits and machinery can't bear it!"

"One day on the moon is equivalent to one month on the earth. Our daily working hours here are equivalent to about ten days on the earth, which can basically be said to be equivalent to eight hours of working time on the earth!"

"Now the ratio of male to female employees here is 2 to 1. This ratio is relatively high in our working environment. We often hold some collective competitions and spiritual entertainment activities. Everyone is very motivated to participate in the competitions! Such games mainly include mechanical equipment manipulation competitions, sports competitions, moon survival guide knowledge competitions; spiritual entertainment mainly includes singing, dancing, and several factories jointly hold a song and dance party during holidays, etc. Now we have twelve pairs here After a long period of friction between work and life, the young employees sparked a spark of love and confirmed their relationship!"

"Currently, we collect an average of 280 million tons of lunar soil per lunar day, and we can extract an average of 15 tons of helium three per lunar day..."

Tang Xiaochuan asked: "If I want to refine all the helium on the moon within ten years, how many people and equipment will I need?"

Director Ai calculated and said: "With our current equipment technology and personnel quality level, we need to increase the number of personnel to 13200, and the corresponding equipment also needs to be increased by sixty times..."

The work efficiency is still too low, and the speed is still too slow. We must find a way to improve work efficiency!

"I see!"

Then we chatted about some things. Tang Xiaochuan ended the video connection. It is impossible to increase the number of people to 13200. In the absence of profit, so many people will bring down the company just by paying their salaries every month. Without a large-scale increase in employees, if you want to extract and store all the helium III on the moon in the shortest possible time, you can only find a way to make technological breakthroughs from the equipment.

For this reason, Tang Xiaochuan connected Professor Gao of the R&D center and asked questions about related equipment technology.

(End of this chapter)