200 Intermediate Spiritual Stones

But this is not a big problem. The operation of the vehicle and the friction of the machinery will all do work. Even if magnetic bearings are used, heat will be generated.

Therefore, heat dissipation is a crucial factor for mechanical equipment operating in space, including space stations and satellites.

In order to dissipate heat for these large construction machinery, there is a large frost talisman array in its body, allowing it to remain at normal operating temperature. This is the advantage of rune technology. Unlike on Blue Star, The semiconductors or compressors used to dissipate heat have various troubles.

As long as the cold air from this frost talisman array is brought over, the heat dissipation problem of artificial muscles can be easily satisfied.

Moreover, the minimum cooling temperature of this frost talisman array will not be lower than zero, so it will not affect the normal operation of the equipment.

In the base, a total of twenty excavators and forklifts were produced and stopped.

Although the entire moon will be a huge construction site in the future, the lunar soil covering the lunar surface, which is the largest industrial raw material, must be extracted first.

Including but not limited to helium-3, water, iron ore, and of course the indispensable titanium. According to Blue Star's spectral analysis and geological exploration, titanium reserves on the moon are also quite abundant.

But before these raw materials were produced, all the equipment and raw materials in the base used products brought from Blue Star. Even if the quantity was large, a mere three-million-ton spacecraft still had to remove the soil. , animals and plants, how much is left for raw materials for equipment?

Even after the solar panels are laid and there are enough spirit stones, Yang Qing can use his own spaceship to make more trips to Blue Star to get enough materials.

Our own spacecraft is in the shape of a large semicircle cylinder. It also uses space expansion technology and can hold about 200,000 tons of finished metal materials.

And because of its small size and even force on all parts, it can withstand greater acceleration.

It can reach the speed of sound on the Blue Star from a static state in one minute, and the time it takes to reach the moon from the Blue Star is only within ten hours.

However, Yang Qing does not plan to use Blue Star's minerals anymore unless necessary.

Mining from Blue Star is like cutting meat from your own planet.

If these minerals are refined and used on Blue Star, then it can be said that the meat is rotten in the pot, but if they are all put on the moon, it will invisibly weaken Blue Star itself.

And except for those essential organic matter, soil and organisms, the mineral resources on Blue Star are too few compared to the vast universe, not even comparable to the moon.

Yang Qing also doesn't want to become dependent on Blue Star's resources. When the time comes, all the countries on Blue Star will boycott him, and he will have to rely on others to even get something.

Therefore, it is the right way to use the resources of the moon and turn them into the raw materials we need to make steel, iron, and copper.

From the exit of the base, a rumbling sound of vehicle transportation came again. This time it was the helium-3 and moisture refining equipment that had been prepared on Blue Star.

These equipment were carried by several crawler transport vehicles, and with the robot technicians on them, they drove towards the place where the lunar soil was piled in the distance.

"Master, after the equipment is installed, you still need to turn it on."

These equipment are actually very simple. They use distillation to briefly distill the lunar soil and separate the helium-3 and other gases in it, including of course the most important water.

The helium-3 on the moon is brought here by solar wind and cosmic rays. The solar wind contains a large amount of hydrogen and helium, and there is also a small amount of helium-3. However, over time, even a small amount of helium-3 accumulates. , there are also huge numbers, but in the lunar soil, they are still a minority. Therefore, the distilled gas must be separated to obtain the required nuclear raw materials.

Among them, water is naturally the easiest to separate, because it is a liquid at normal temperature and pressure, and the others are in gaseous state.

Because of the special environment of the moon, there is obviously no liquid water on the surface of the moon. All water exists in the solid state of a mixture of ice crystals.

And they are still hidden under tens of centimeters of lunar soil. Once exposed to the surface, the unique sublimation phenomenon of ice crystals will turn into steam in a short period of time and fly into space, even without sunlight.

Because these equipments are already completed, the robots only need to find a flat and solid site, assemble them, and then they can start working officially.

These machines, without exception, all use spirit stones as the source of energy. Only spirit stones can be compact, have high energy density, and can be used directly. Unlike electricity, which requires pulling a long wire. .

Yang Qing found that when he arrived on the moon, he suddenly became idle.

He temporarily stopped practicing because of the problem of spiritual stone reserves, and the same was true for weapon refining. He was waiting for the daytime of the moon to arrive and the solar panels started to generate electricity, so that he could have the opportunity to replenish the spiritual energy for the discarded spiritual stones.

Another one is that Yang Qing needs to develop spiritual stones that can store more spiritual energy and have fewer impurities.

In the prehistoric times, Yang Qing had a way to generate spiritual energy with electricity, so he naturally tried to fill it with spiritual stones. The spiritual stones currently used in the base are the results of that period.

It's just that these spiritual stones are all primary spiritual stones, not even as good as the spiritual stones circulating on the market. The real value is the intermediate or high-level spiritual stones that store more spiritual energy and have fewer impurities.

The impurities in the spirit stone are naturally chaotic energy, or what the Blue Star people think of as dark energy.

These dark energies don't matter when the cultivation level is low, but when it comes to Yang Qing's pill formation stage, these energies have a great impact.

This was also the reason why he was obsessed with refining weapons and rarely practiced during this period.

On Blue Star, he also tried to brew intermediate spiritual stones according to the prehistoric formula, but he had failed countless times.

Even the elements used in the intermediate spirit stones do not exceed the scope of the periodic table of elements. Yang Qing has already achieved the same arrangement of elements as the finished product of the prehistoric era, but the result is still a failure.

He also discussed this issue with Xiao Ai, and finally came to the conclusion that these elements mutated in the aura environment and became the aura isotopes of this element.

Now in a small cabin in the base, the spiritual energy has reached its highest level. What is placed inside are various simple elements used in the development of intermediate spiritual stones.

"Master, the still that separates helium-3 has been set up. Please open the talisman array and officially start production."

The voice coming to his ears woke Yang Qing up from his deep thoughts. He agreed somewhat blankly, still deducing the atomic structure of the intermediate spirit stone in his mind.