Chapter 92 Ironmaking Blast Furnace

Viruses and bacteria are not necessarily harmful, and a considerable number of them are beneficial.

For example: endogenous retroviruses are beneficial to the human body, and they are an important basis for immune cells to produce antibodies.

There are many retroviruses that can be used as vectors for DNA recombination.

There is also the cowpox virus, which is a virus that can cause mild cowpox lesions in cattle. People used the cowpox virus to eliminate smallpox.

In addition to these beneficial viruses, there are more beneficial bacteria, such as bifidobacteria, lactic acid bacteria, yeast, etc., which are beneficial to human life and health and indirectly affect human life span.

So, a normal person is a mixture of human cells, viruses, and bacteria, which are in a symbiotic state with the entire human body.

Then, this "longevity virus" may really make people live longer, at least in theory...

People are worried that rashly introducing this virus will cause diseases such as gene collapse and chromosome aberration. After all, it is something on Mars!

This belongs to the "human genetic modification project", and the possibility of black shells is very high! Yu Yifeng and all the experts are very aware of the risks. Isn't that how the biochemical crisis and the loss virus in the movie came about?

So, like trying to get a chestnut from the fire, this is something that has both risks and opportunities...

Many great scientists, especially biologists, were excited, but also very calm. They were a little worried and carefully asked about the research results, various data, and various experimental conclusions of the research team.

After discussing for more than an hour, the report was read over and over again.

It was not until then that these great scientists said that the report was basically accurate, but there were more data that had not been fully verified.

They believed that the basic principles of the longevity virus had not been understood, the gene sequence had not been measured, and there were still a lot of experiments to be done, because the gene sequence of this virus was particularly complex, and it was impossible to have any results at least in the short term.

Seeing this, Yu Yifeng felt relieved. He certainly hoped that scientists could be more cautious. In fact, even if the scientists said something exaggerated, he would not rashly conduct human trials.

Who knows how long the incubation period of this virus is? What if people get sick collectively after a few years? At least we have to understand the working principle of the virus and conduct some animal experiments before we can consider it.

Such caution is still necessary!

So in the following time, he focused on industry while paying attention to biological science. Whether it is perfectin or longevity virus, they are very important and cannot be sloppy...

The machine roared, the motor roared, and the fully automatic Kinov Industrial Factory was completed, finally showing the daunting industrial capacity!

Many scientists and engineers cheered with trembling, shocked and moved by the miracles they created!

Ivanovich burst into tears, this is the super industry he longed for!

Each mass-produced super excavator uses unmanned means. After digging a car of ore, it will be automatically transported to a place, dumped on the conveyor crawler, and then transported to the super train by the conveyor crawler.

Finally, the super train transports the ore directly to Noah. This series of processes does not require manpower and is automatically completed by the program.

Unmanned driving is very convenient. One person can sit in the office and monitor a hundred machines. These machines will not make mistakes normally. Once there is a mistake, there will be a lot of feedback prompts, so that people can deal with it in time.

The distance between the excavators is more than 300 meters. If they are too close to each other due to system bugs or other reasons, the alarm in the main control room will sound, and then the supervisor will have to operate manually.

There were a lot of such operations at the beginning, but they happened every two or three days, and became less and less.

Because researchers will analyze the specific causes based on these errors and make improvements. With each generation of updates, the loopholes of unmanned driving are getting fewer and fewer...

People are also studying automatic maintenance machines, so that the maintenance can also be done automatically by the machine.

A big problem lies in front of Yu Yifeng, that is, the output of steel seems to be unable to keep up... The worries of those smelters have come true!

At the beginning, people were studying programs and building factories. The consumption of resources was not large, and the steel output on the Noah was more than enough.

But now, the program has been studied and the factory has started production. Excavators, trains, cutting machines, etc. all require a lot of metal materials. In this way, the steel output on the Noah is not enough.

These super machines are too big and consume too much materials. Currently, a large number of material gaps are completely supported by inventory.

"There are only 1.3 million tons of steel in stock now, which is only enough for one and a half months of consumption. Isn't this too exaggerated?"

Yu Yifeng frowned and approved the construction of a steelmaking blast furnace.

This steelmaking blast furnace is a big guy, 70 meters high! It uses more than 6,000 tons of steel. Of course, it is built in Noah.

In order to build this blast furnace, engineers specially opened up an unmanned room in the spacecraft. They first laid various pipelines in it, such as raw material inlet, slag outlet, ventilation outlet, etc.

Then, people used various machines to piece the blast furnace together piece by piece, seaming, seamless welding, etc., which took about another month.

If it is officially put into operation, the production of this blast furnace is also fully automated, and various transmission tracks and robots have been laid inside.

If it is in outer space, this blast furnace will definitely not be used, mainly because of the heat dissipation problem. Its heat dissipation is too large, and using ice can only lower the temperature in the room, but it cannot cool down the inside.

If the huge heat cannot be dissipated, the blast furnace pressure will become higher and higher, and it may explode!

But now we are on Mars, the temperature on Mars is minus 60 degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere is relatively thin, but the atmosphere is enough! More than a dozen exhaust fans continuously draw cold air in to dissipate heat, and then exhaust the hot air.

With such an air cooling system, this blast furnace can barely be used.

Of course, there are no fossil fuels such as coal and oil on Mars, but some combustible ice such as methane has been discovered, mainly located in the lower layer of several ice lakes.

But people don't expect to use carbon reduction to make steel at all, they still use electrolysis. According to this set of processes, the refining methods of iron and aluminum are similar, both of which melt the minerals into liquid state and then electrolyze.

The iron produced has a low carbon content, and after another set of procedures, it becomes a crude steel with good quality.

Such blast furnaces consume a lot of electricity, so people have built nuclear power plants to supply electricity for blast furnaces. The huge power consumption also leads to extremely high output. It can produce 20,000 tons of steel a day and 600,000 tons a month! In other words, almost two steelmaking blast furnaces can make up for the material gap.