The Technology Tree of Xueba

Wang Dashan stood on the edge of the underground space and suggested: Now the engineer is preparing, let's go to the underground space and see what the drilling machine looks like.

Zhou Yu agreed: Director Wang is curious about this matter, so let's go to the underground space to visit.

But the equipment here cannot be activated. In order to ensure safety, the underground space will not allow people to enter.

The underground space is a huge metal house, leaving only a round hole with a diameter of 1.5 meters on the ground, which is covered with a metal cover, and there are ladders leading to the ground of the underground space.

Zhou Yu, Jia Yun and Wang Dashan climbed the ladder to the underground space 50 meters above the ground.

This is a space covering an area of ​​60 square meters, which is slightly larger than the living room.

Inside are two smart industrial robots with robotic arms.

Next to them are metal pipes approximately 20 centimeters in diameter and 5 meters in length.

On the side of the metal pipe is a device with a length of two meters and a diameter of 30 centimeters, with a serrated cutter head in front.

Jia Yun introduced: This is the drilling machine and the metal pipe that fixes the polysilicon styrene material.

While introducing, he signaled to Zhou Yu that the preparations for drilling the ground had been completed.

Zhou Yu said to Wang Dashan: Director Wang, our ground drilling work is about to start, and we should exit this underground space now.

Wang Dashan came to his senses and said apologetically, I'm really sorry for affecting your work, so I'm leaving now.

They returned to the ground together and came to the command room. The metal cover above the underground space was immediately sealed.

The drilling operation has begun. Zhou Yu ordered.

He and Wang Dashan came to the virtual space, where they could clearly see the whole operation process of drilling the ground, and the supercomputer simulated the whole process through the data fed back from the front.

Jia Yun took over the command and began to order the engineers to start the drilling project.

Drilling operation started.

Jia Yun gave an order, and the intelligent industrial robot straightened the drilling rig so that it was perpendicular to the ground. After aligning the direction, it started to start the drilling rig.

The drilling rig is like a powerful car, crashing into the earth's crust quickly, and mud powder emerges from the tail of the drilling rig, and is sucked to the ground by the vacuum pipe connected to the impact.

An introduction to the drilling rig also surfaced in the virtual space.

The drilling rig is powered by a superconducting cable with a power of 50,000 kilowatts, which can easily crush rocks and various metals.

It can dig 100 meters per minute. If there is no accident, it can drill to the mantle layer in about 20 days.

The drilling rig has an intelligent maintenance function, which can be solved by itself if there is a small problem, and it can only be scrapped if there is a big problem.

The cutter head of the drill is made of memory metal, which has very high wear resistance and toughness.

From the virtual space, it can be seen that the drilling speed of the drilling rig is very fast, and its speed can also be seen from the earth mound that is transmitted from the ground.

Wang Dashan saw from the virtual world that Xinghuo Technology's 48 drilling rigs started drilling synchronously.

He asked with some concern: Mr. Zhou Yu, you directly acted together with 48 drilling rigs without a reality test. Are you sure you will succeed?

Zhou Yu said confidently: After a long period of verification, our scientists have formulated more than 100 sets of plans in consideration of tens of thousands of situations.

If the drilling rig encounters a problem, it can be quickly eliminated and solved. It is impossible for us to test each well one by one, which is too troublesome and takes a long time.

We're sure we're at least halfway there, and it's well worth the effort.

While they were chatting, the rig had drilled to a depth of 500 meters.

The intelligent industrial robot takes out a metal tube that is closed at one end, and puts the polysilicon styrene material in the metal tube.

The intelligent industrial robot took out a hollow metal tube and aligned the end of the metal tube with the metal tube in front.

They are tightly connected together, like a seamless steel pipe.

The smart industrial robot again places a length of polysilicon styrene material in the metal tube and compacts it down tightly.

When Wang Dashan saw the action of the intelligent industrial robot, he asked in surprise: Mr. Zhou Yu, didn't you just drill through the tunnel and then put it down into the metal pipe.

Why are these metal pipes being put down just after 500 meters of drilling, so as not to affect the transportation of materials by the drilling rig.

There is only a small gap left in the metal pipe, and the driller can't get it back after drilling the passage.

Seeing that Wang Dashan was confused, Zhou Yu simply explained: We must put down the metal pipe while excavating, otherwise the passage is too narrow and it is easy to landslide.

The drilling rig is originally a one-time product. Once it drills into the mantle layer, it will be burned by high-temperature magma.

Even if the channel does not collapse, when the drilling rig reaches the mantle layer, the upwelling of magma will block the channel.

The metal tube must follow the drill closely. It is made of polysilicon styrene material, which can quickly dissipate heat and maintain the temperature of the metal tube so that it does not reach the melting point.

Wang Dashan suddenly realized: I didn't think carefully. It is impossible to wait until the tunnel is drilled before putting down the metal pipe. After all, it is nearly 3,000 kilometers away, and no one knows what unexpected situation will happen.

There is also the important factor of magma, and the metal pipe must follow the drilling rig.

Zhou Yu stared at the position where the metal pipes descended. These 5-meter-long metal pipes were assembled into extremely long metal pipes.

Its hardness is excellent, and the connection interface is also very stable, and the connection will not be directly broken due to the extrusion caused by the collapse of the channel.

The metal tubes are connected by a strong magnetic field, which can be tightly adsorbed together in a short time.

The metal tube material has a high molecular diffusivity between the same material.

Molecular diffusion of solid materials is very slow, but liquids and gases are extremely fast, and they can fuse together in an instant.

However, the material that makes up the metal tube has an extremely fast molecular diffusion speed between the same material, which is only slightly inferior to that of liquid. It only takes more than a minute for the molecules at the fracture to complete the diffusion and form a whole.

After Zhou Yu observed for a while, he left with Director Wang Dashan.

It is estimated that it will take about 20 days to drill to the mantle layer. When they are about to succeed, they will come to the geothermal energy base to wait for the results.

Zhou Yu left the geothermal energy base, and Jia Yun directed the engineers to keep track of the status of the drilling rig and metal pipelines.

Crustal drilling is a difficult project, and it cannot be smooth sailing without sufficient preparation.

They soon encountered the first difficulty, the channel seepage.

This is a branch of an underground river, and the water content in the bottom crust is very abundant.

The drilling rig crushes the soil in the rock formation, and it turns into mud, which directly blocks the drilling rig.

Jia Yun launched many plans, but none of them had any obvious effect. Finally, he made up his mind.

The metal pipe is pushed by the intelligent industrial robot, and the drilling rig is smashed down, directly through the mud layer.

The second difficulty is the quicksand layer. The fine quicksand is sucked away by the drilling machine and replenished from the surroundings.

They could only delay time and slowly dig into the quicksand layer.

Jia Yun has been watching the operation of the drilling rig, constantly overcoming various difficulties encountered, he did not even go home for the Spring Festival, looking forward to the success of the drilling.

Just after the Lantern Festival, Jia Yun knew he was not far from success.

Because of the temperature fed back from the polysilicon styrene material, the front of the metal pipe has reached 2,000 degrees Celsius, and it can reach the mantle layer after a few kilometers of excavation.

Because of the pressure of the mantle layer, the earth's crust is also hard rock. This is a rock formation that drilling rigs like very much. Jia Yun knows that he has a high chance of success.