Chapter 15 The amazing amount of mining
There is no need to worry about storing arrays. After Chen Yu anchored the refining array and compressing array, the original ore storage array was enough. Moreover, most of the ore was stored in the construction platform after being refined into raw materials. Once it was sufficient, it would be made into various equipment.
In a short period of time, before the quantity of raw materials exceeds the storage limit of the construction platform, Chen Yu did not need to consider the issue of liquidation for the time being.
Therefore, Chen Yu's mood has improved significantly in the past few days, and he has improved his sleep quality, so he looks a lot more energetic in front of the live broadcast camera. When answering questions from the audience in the live broadcast room, he also looks a little funny.
"Someone asked me how much ore I can mine every day, which is a very good question!" Chen Yu read the new sc in the live broadcast room and smiled at the camera: "Actually, I haven't calculated it too carefully. When I used mining barges to dig, on average, I worked about 10 hours a day, twelve round trips, and I could dig a boat of ore in about 40 minutes.
The cargo hold capacity of the mining barge is about 500 cubic meters, which means I can dig nearly 6,000 cubic meters of ore a day. In general, there are quite a lot of ore dug from the asteroid belt, and there are many rare metals on the earth."
While Chen Yu was saying this, he also used a smart terminal to take a picture of the console of the mining barge in front, so that the audience in the live broadcast room could see the display of the cargo hold volume on the console.
The 6,000 cubic cubes of ore are not considered small. Some small mines with relatively small output may not be able to dig so much ore in a day, not to mention that Chen Yu is just alone.
Naturally, the live broadcast room was filled with barrage. Apart from "666", it was difficult to see clearly what other barrages were talking about.
But the barrage cannot be seen clearly, and the sc can still be seen clearly. After Chen Yu explained the previous mining volume, someone immediately sent a new sc and asked him how much ore he could dig in a day.
This is also a topic that many viewers, and even scientific research institutions in various countries that are also watching live broadcasts, are also concerned about.
One of the most important reasons why humans want to explore space is to obtain the nearly infinite resources in the universe.
Satellite mining arrays are undoubtedly an excellent means to be used to exploit cosmic resources at present. Scientific research institutions in various countries are eager to evaluate this kind of mining method.
Even if their own technology cannot reach this level, evaluating the efficiency of satellite mining arrays can undoubtedly provide some important references for countries in the research of related technologies.
Chen Yu did not hide it and explained generously: "The mining efficiency of satellite mining arrays is much better than before. In the current situation, if I only use satellite mining arrays, even if I don't use mining barges every day, I will only transport the ore dug from the satellite mining array, and it will be difficult for me to transport all the ore away.
So now I have added a compression array, which can compress the volume of ore dug by the satellite mining array to the original 1%. In this way, I can transport the original 50,000 cubic meters of ore in one ship, greatly improving the transportation efficiency and transporting more ore back.
Now, I have to transport almost four trips a day, which means the uncompressed 200,000 cubic meters of ore back to the construction platform. However, because they have been compressed, the actual volume is actually only 2,000 cubic meters, which saves space."
When I heard Chen Yu say that he could dig 200,000 cubic meters of ore a day, the barrage in the live broadcast room exploded, and even the picture was stuttered for a while.
If 6,000 cubic meters of ore a day is still within the range that everyone can understand, then 200,000 cubic meters is really much beyond imagination.
This is not a few times improvement, but a few dozen times improvement.
No one expected that the efficiency of satellite mining arrays would be so terrifying.
"Don't be surprised, I need to repair the loop belt! If there is not enough ore to ensure the loop belt, not to mention whether the loop belt can be repaired or not, the construction period alone may have to be calculated over a hundred years." Seeing that the atmosphere in the live broadcast room was a bit distorted, Chen Yu still decisively pulled the topic back.
And what Chen Yu said is the truth. Without a massive amount of ore, a giant building with a diameter of 200 kilometers would not be built no matter what.
In fact, if Chen Yu did not choose to mine in the asteroid belt to obtain ore, but mining directly from the moon, when his ring belt was repaired, he would be able to open a large hole on the moon that could be observed with the naked eye on the earth.
It was precisely in order to avoid the repair of the ring belt and the moon hollowing out, Chen Yu chose the mining location in the asteroid belt with more resources.
After all, it is a planetary debris verified by scientists, and there is quite sufficient material left here. Even if Chen Yu built the ring belt, he would not hollow out the asteroid belt.
The topics and atmosphere in the live broadcast room were pulled back in a few words, but behind the scenes, scientific research institutions from various countries who were also watching the live broadcast could not be suppressed.
You should know that the largest space entity built by humans in space is the space station, and the total weight of the International Space Station has not exceeded 500 tons.
Chen Yu previously said that he could dig 6,000 cubic meters of ore every day, which was within the scope that these scientific research institutions could bear. Even if they only used these 6,000 cubic meters of ore to extract raw materials, the total weight obtained was much larger than that of the International Space Station.
The 200,000 cubic meters mentioned by Chen Yu are two completely different concepts, or even completely different orders of magnitude.
On Earth, the annual output of a large open-pit coal mine is about 20 million tons. In terms of the current efficiency of satellite mining arrays, it has exceeded this standard much, even if the ore is dug, not raw coal.
This makes all scientific research institutions unable to help but wonder, is space mining really that easy?
Just a satellite mining array has already topped the output of large mines on the earth. If Chen Yu anchored several satellite mining arrays, wouldn’t he be able to dig ore output equivalent to the entire earth by himself?
Thinking of this, scientific research institutions in various countries can't help but feel a little annoyed that humans have been too lazy in the aerospace industry over the years. They have obviously been able to land on the moon in the 1970s, but humans have almost seemed to have stagnated in the past half century.
Chapter completed!