Chapter 87 Mining Plan
Chapter 87 Mining Plan
The largest fodder growing area.
The various grasses carefully planted there are growing well, and many of them are ready to be harvested.
In the planting area, a small area was specially cleared.
There are a few lambs with fur as pure as white clouds.
This is a precious extra gift from Chaoyang Shelter.
Due to the lack of breeding space in the shelter, we can only clear a small area in the planting area to temporarily house them.
After the fifth floor is completed, we will choose a new location for them.
The second underground floor is where Su Wu lived and carried out his main activities.
Because it is too familiar, there is no need to conduct a thorough inspection.
After glancing at the report showing that the air quality was normal, Su Wu's gaze jumped back to the first underground floor.
The hydroponic farm on the first floor is still quiet and bright.
The vegetables, fruits and flowers planted here make this floor full of green vitality.
Every time you see it, it soothes and relaxes your spirit.
And in the end times.
An era of extinction of all things.
Any jewelry, and all other luxury items.
None of them is as dazzling and eye-catching as the green in the hydroponic farm.
They are the ones that can truly be called treasures in the end times.
Beautiful things.
It always makes people feel good unconsciously.
After looking around the hydroponic farm, Su Wu's heavy mood due to the radiation storm was relieved a lot.
I also had an urge to protect this place.
He had worked hard to build the shelter to its current size and to have such a beautiful home.
How can we just give up easily because of a disaster?
After inspecting the shelter, Su Wu switched to the manufacturing center.
After making the equipment in the chemistry laboratory.
The next manufacturing task here returns to the previous theme.
Everything is primarily aimed at developing and expanding the shelter space.
Currently, they are making the small excavator and gravel truck that Su Wu had just designed.
With the current surplus productivity after deducting the production of radiation detectors, on average one small excavator or one gravel truck can be produced every 8 hours.
In Su Wu's plan.
After two small excavators and two gravel trucks are produced.
Then all the miniature series vehicles manufactured earlier by the engineering team, including gravel trucks, excavators and transport vehicles, will be taken to the manufacturing center for re-modification.
Make their size and performance reach or at least approach the level of new version of engineering vehicles.
Because of these modifications, the smart chips and high-energy batteries inside the vehicle were not touched.
It will not consume Su Wu's survival points.
In a sense, it is equivalent to a free upgrade.
"The day after tomorrow at the earliest."
“The engineering team can complete this phase of modification and expansion.”
"By then, the speed at which the engineering team digs underground space will continue to increase by two to three times based on the current level."
“It is also about 3 times more efficient than before the acquisition of CNC machines and 15D printers.”
A 15-fold efficiency gap, what does this mean?
Before the advent of CNC machine tools.
It takes the engineering team 12 days to dig out a standard 600-square-meter space.
If the efficiency is increased 15 times on this basis, a new layer can be added to the shelter in less than a day.
Even considering the current 5th underground level.
The internal floor height reaches 12 meters, twice that of the previous floors, and the design area has also expanded to 3000 square meters.
The new engineering team was also able to build it from scratch within 8 days.
At that time, the speed of expansion of the shelter will no longer be limited by the construction capacity of the engineering team, but the supply of raw materials. More precisely, it is the supply of cement.
"It may be difficult to meet the demand for building shelters by relying solely on trade."
“It’s time to consider limestone mining.”
“We produce our own cement.”
Su Wu thought of the small limestone mine he had discovered deep in the mountains when he was laying the monitoring network.
At that time, it was believed that there were no roads there, making it difficult to enter and exit, and mining extremely difficult.
Need to be put on hold for now.
but now.
Faced with the huge gap in cement demand in the future, we have to do it no matter how difficult it is.
If that doesn't work, we can use drones for air transportation.
The mined ore also needs to be transported back bit by bit.
Of course, it doesn't actually come to that.
Pull up a recent drone map of the mountains.
Su Wu began to study carefully the route to the limestone mine.
The 6 km before entering the mountainous area is the easiest. You can just follow the existing road.
Then there are many mountain roads in the outer areas of the mountains.
Those mountain roads were widened by many people who built shelters in the mountains, and even now, after the wildfires, most of them are still barely usable.
Su Wu searched patiently and soon found a mountain route with a total distance of about 7 kilometers.
And at the end of the route.
There is no road at a straight-line distance of 3.7 kilometers from the small limestone mine where it was discovered.
There are only steep cliffs and chasms.
"This place."
“It’s not easy to get up, and it’s not easy to get down.”
Su Wu fell into deep thought.
Finally, he set his sights on the belly of the mountain.
If there is no road on the cliff, then carve one out. It doesn't have to be very high or wide, as long as it allows a type 1 ore transport vehicle to travel in one direction.
Even if you want to go faster, you don't even need to carve out the entire road.
You can also build a suspended plank road.
The required supports can be made from existing steel bars and angle irons. The road surface does not need to be made of very good materials. You can just scrape some scrap metal or some iron sheets.
If the material is not enough.
In the past two days, a batch of finished steel products were also transported from other large shelters.
You can invest in it.
Anyway, after the small limestone mine is mined, these steel materials can be recycled.
At most, some electricity will be lost during the re-smelting process.
Then the canyon.
It should be no problem to build a suspension bridge using drones and steel-woven ropes.
As long as it can still be used.
The entire road construction plan is not that complicated.
However, the actual implementation would require a considerable amount of manpower and material resources.
Maybe the noise would be a little loud.
However, Su Wu no longer needs to hide. He is capable of supporting this action.
There is no need to worry that after mining a small limestone mine, the fruits will be reaped by others.
"That's it."
"Wait until the engineering team is expanded."
"We started to create a team to build bridges and open mountains."
(End of this chapter)