Two Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Deep Sea Gold

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After fixing the searchlight, the four robots took out their electric picks.

That's right, it's an electric pick specially customized for them, which is usually fixed on the thigh.

At this time, when the button is pressed, the electric pick pops out. Because it is a humanoid robot, it can flexibly hold the electric pick.

He began to drill holes frantically on the seabed, and soon piles of mud and sand were rolled up.

The sound of the electric pick hitting the seabed scared away all the surrounding deep-sea fish.

Of course, there are also some creatures that are not afraid of death and will treat them as delicacies and then bump into them.

For example, the giant squid, which likes to live in the deep sea, is a creature that is not afraid of death, after all, it lives in that area of ​​the sea.

Apart from sperm whales, there are really no other creatures that can threaten them.

Even sharks would not dare to provoke them easily.

But this time after they collided, when they used their usual entanglement technique, they made an unexpected discovery.

Their old tricks don't work at all when facing these steel giants.

These steel monsters, each of them weighing more than ten tons, are like rocks on the bottom of the sea, with roots growing from the soles of their feet, and they cannot shake them at all.

And with just a slight tug, they can be torn into pieces.

After taking care of a few blind squid, the waters became much quieter.

The robots can finally work quietly, but the waters of this generation are too deep and there are many undercurrents.

Working under the sea is very tiring. Several miners only worked for a while and were sweating profusely.

It seems that the working environment of this seabed mining job is much better than that of traditional mine workers.

But if you want to talk about the level of fatigue, it is really not low at all.

Because these workers all wear synchronous sensors, they need to sense various complex ocean currents under the water. ,

So these sensors simulate the strength of undercurrents under the sea surface,

Scaled down and passed on to workers.

Because only in this way can workers control the robot more accurately.

Otherwise, if you cannot feel the strength of the undercurrent under the sea surface at all and just operate the robot randomly, the robot may be blown over or tilted by the undercurrent if you are not careful.

And if you don’t understand the direction of the undercurrent, you won’t be able to control the direction of the tools in your hand.

If one is not careful and the tool is pushed askew by the ocean current, it can easily cause an accident.

Because of this, these workers all wear synchronized sensors.

The strength of the ocean currents transmitted back by these synchronous sensors has been reduced by a ratio of one to three hundred.

But you have to know that the pressure under the water is also very huge.

People have tested the pressure of more than a thousand meters underwater. It is equivalent to an elephant standing in every square centimeter of space.

So even though the strength has been reduced by one to three hundred, these people are still allowed to work for only a while, and they are already exhausted and sweating profusely.

Fortunately, their work was very effective. After working for a while, they had completed sampling on the seabed.

They drilled out many samples from the rock veins under the seabed, packed them into buoys, and sent them to the surface of the sea.

The collectors on the sea quickly put these pontoons away.

It was quickly sent to the laboratory laboratory on the ship for study, which only took more than an hour.

Good news came from the laboratory center, because the veins under the seabed actually contain extremely pure nickel ore and cobalt ore.

We must know that these two resources have always been extremely scarce resources in our country.

Nickel mines and cobalt mines have also been shackles that have plagued our country's vigorous development of electric vehicles.

You must know that electric vehicles are now listed as the main carrier of the next generation of new energy vehicles by many countries.

Hydrogen energy has basically been abandoned at present. The reason is simple: it is too dangerous.

The cost of transportation and storage is too high.

Therefore, electric vehicles are currently the mainstream models we will adopt next.

The lithium batteries used in electric vehicles have always been a problem that bothers everyone.

There are many types of lithium batteries at present, but there are only two most mainstream ones.

One is a lithium iron phosphate battery, and the other is a ternary lithium battery.

At present, many car companies mainly use lithium iron phosphate batteries because everyone knows that they are cheap.

However, lithium iron phosphate batteries also have shortcomings, that is, low capacity density and very poor discharge performance in cold areas.

Maybe when it's minus 20 degrees Celsius, if you park it outside for a night, the battery will drop by 30% the next day.

And when it is turned on, it consumes a lot of electricity.

It may be able to drive 300 kilometers in normal times, but in cold environments, the cruising range may only be 150 kilometers.

This is also the main reason why it is difficult to promote electric vehicles in northern my country.

But with ternary lithium, there is no such problem.

The energy density of ternary lithium batteries is greater. For lithium batteries of the same quality, the cruising range of ternary lithium batteries may be up to 800 kilometers.

As for lithium iron phosphate, it is estimated to only drive 500 kilometers.

And in the winter environment, the discharge capacity of ternary lithium batteries is no worse than in normal environments.

It can be discharged normally even in extremely cold environments. Although there will be some loss, the normal battery life of 800 kilometers can still guarantee a battery life of about 600 kilometers in the winter of minus 20 degrees.

Such batteries can just be used in the environment in northern my country.

But the current situation is that everyone knows the benefits of ternary lithium batteries, but there are no domestic manufacturers to develop ternary lithium batteries.

In other words, no one wants to bet on ternary lithium batteries.

The reason for this is that our country seriously lacks large-scale nickel ores and cobalt ores, and these two elements are important components of ternary lithium batteries.

And if we use a large amount of ternary lithium batteries, we will be in the same situation as importing a large amount of oil.

We need to import a large amount of nickel and cobalt from abroad, and unfortunately, these two mineral resources are not available.

Two species are mainly concentrated in the territory of Kangaroo Country, and there are also many species in Indonesia.

And if we mass-produce ternary lithium batteries, we will have to import them in large quantities from these two countries.

Therefore, so far, although our country can also produce ternary lithium batteries, there are not many manufacturers that are vigorously researching and developing in this area.

Currently in the world, that is, Japan's Panasonic and Southern China's LG have relatively high costs in this regard.

After all, they don't have to worry about anything going wrong anyway.

Therefore, we have not done much research and development of ternary lithium batteries.

But although we have not increased investment, this does not mean that we do not know the benefits of ternary lithium batteries.

It’s just that we haven’t stepped up our research and development efforts.

And now if we can find enough nickel ore and cobalt ore in the sea, our ternary lithium industry can naturally develop smoothly.

So this good news quickly turned into radio waves and spread back to the country.

After the celebrity chef group received the news, it immediately issued instructions to the mining ship.

Dig it for me, dig it directly.

This time we also want to do a test on our mining robot to see how long our mining robot can last in such deep waters.

And it is also necessary to study a new seabed mining model.

Previously, when they collected copper concentrate at the equator, it was because the sea water was very shallow.

Therefore, the mining ship can directly pull a drill bit down, and then suck up the ore powder while drilling.

But this time, because it is deep sea, mining mode like that will definitely not work.

If the drill bit on the ship cannot go down, the robot can only go down with the electric pick to dig bit by bit.

And after digging, how to transport the ore is also a big problem.

Finally, the engineers came up with a solution, which was to put down several hanging baskets.

After the robot finished digging the ore, it put the ore directly into the hanging basket, and they used the hanging basket to pull the ore up.

Although it is a bit fiddly, it seems that this is still the safest way at present.

However, the mining speed has slowed down.

But even if the speed slows down, at least five tons of ore can be mined every day.

After screening these ores, we can finally ensure that there are about two tons of high-grade nickel ore.

There are still about three tons of high-grade cobalt ore, which is enough for the celebrity chef group.

We must know that the current price of nickel ore in China has reached about 65,000-70,000 yuan per ton.

And with the development of the electric vehicle industry, this price is still rising.

As for cobalt, the price is even more outrageous.

The price per ton has now risen to 380,000 per ton. Yes, it is such an exaggeration.

Of course, this is the price of spot cobalt. If it is cobalt concentrate powder, it now costs tens of thousands of yuan per ton.

Of course, this depends on your taste in mineral powder...

The nickel ore and cobalt ore under this generation of seabed are resources that have never been developed before.

Therefore, the content and purity are quite high, and the taste is quite good.

And relatively speaking, it is very difficult to mine.

It just requires a few robots, holding electric picks, and digging around under the seabed.

Moreover, this time the robot will also undergo a high-intensity pressure test. This time it will not be done for a few hours before being pulled up for maintenance.

Instead, let the wine put them under the sea and keep working to see how long they can last under the sea...