Dalian, the core of global mineral trade
After the Federation achieved the hegemony of the ball, it became more prosperous here. At present, more than 923% of the mineral trade of the ball needs to go through the Dalian Stock Exchange.
In recent years, Dalian’s development not only depends on Dalian Stock Exchange, but also has two other industries, one is shipyard and the other is ground effect transport aircraft.
At the same time, the Dalian-Weihai cross-sea bridge was completed at the end of 19 years. This is a super cross-sea bridge with railways and highways.
In addition, Dalian has also established three satellite cities in the urban area of Haifu Island.
The satellite city on the Bohai side is called Dalian Bohai New Town, which covers an area of about 52 square kilometers.
This is a main city of scientific research, and there are a large number of research institutes and universities in the market.
Dalian Artificial Starch Research Institute, a 9527 research institute, is located in this city 2.
At this time, in the institute
An experiment is going on, and more than a dozen researchers are wearing protective clothing and watching the synthetic equipment run continuously.
This is a flour equipment that can simulate corn flour, wheat flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, etc. The equipment adopts carbon powder and water as raw materials, and there are also trace elements and trace components addition systems.
At present, his research institute has realized various synthetic technologies of vitamins, fats and protein.
That is to say, artificial food that can be synthesized by artificial blending is exactly the same as natural food.
Perhaps the only difference is that artificial food is not a "natural gene" but a simple mixture of protein, fat, polysaccharide, vitamins and minerals, which is not a genetic sequence.
If you want to have a gene sequence, it is not necessary, that is, if it is too high, it will also lead to a decrease in production efficiency.
Therefore, there is no need. After all, human beings have to digest food after it enters the digestive system, and there is no need to imitate it 100%.
What’s more, the main synthetic foods are wheat flour, rice, corn and potatoes, and then synthetic meat.
Artificial synthesis of vegetables, fruits and mushrooms is not ideal, not impossible, but inefficient
If it is low, the synthesized vegetables and fruits are obviously different from natural production; If we want to completely imitate the natural production of vegetables and fruits, it will be about 5~13 times that of natural production.
In particular, the artificial synthesis of edible mushrooms is even more uneconomical.
Therefore, at present, the main synthetic food technologies are staple food, meat noodles, vegetables, fruits and edible fungi, which are produced by natural planting.
Solid staple food and meat are also the most resource-intensive food types; The proportion of vegetables, fruits and edible fungi in agricultural production is relatively low.
The development strategy of Federal Pacific tends to adopt synthetic staple food and meat and then cooperate with natural production of vegetables, fruits and edible fungi.
The experiment being carried out in this research institute is to miniaturize the equipment and compress the weight of the whole set of production equipment to a suitable level
Because this set of equipment should be used in some special environments in the field of space, it is necessary to miniaturize the equipment
Assuming that a spacecraft is to be installed, the overall payload of the spacecraft determines the weight limit of the equipment.
As far as the Zhu Rong-class spacecraft is concerned, the effective load of the spacecraft is about 3~6 tons.
If you want Zhu Rong class, it is best to control the overall weight of that equipment to 3 tons.
The total weight of the equipment being tested in this research institute is controlled at about 127 tons, plus various additives and consumables at about 26 tons.
However, the main raw materials, toner and water, are not included in the total weight.
On the one hand, considering that these two raw materials need a lot of consumption; On the other hand, considering that the abundance of these two raw materials is relatively high in many planets, local mining can be realized.
This equipment is still oversized at this stage.
According to the latest plan of the Ministry of Space, the new generation of spacecraft will reach 60,000 tons in prehistoric times.
The Gonggong-class spacecraft not only has a flying surface, but also has a set of rotating quasi-gravity system. The Gonggong-class spacecraft is a huge "Ferris wheel"
The rotating wheel cabin can simulate the gravity intensity of blue star, so that astronauts can live as astronauts for a long time.
The designed Gonggong-class spacecraft is naturally a new bottleneck in the current solar extension.
The blue star Venus and Mars are almost the current limit, and it takes 3~1 months for each round trip.
If you are going to Jupiter, Saturn and the outer regions of the sun, it will take longer.
Even if the hibernating cabin is used, the longest hibernating time in the hibernating manifest at this stage is about 53 months.
Generally, hibernating personnel should not hibernate again half a year after waking up, unless they hibernate for one or two months, which allows them to hibernate again after one month.
Obviously, going to Jupiter and more distant areas exceeds the limit of hibernation module when necessary.
At present, the health of astronauts on the way must be considered before the flight speed of spacecraft can rise to a very high level.
The Gonggong class is such a background that the ultra-long-range spacecraft is designed to ensure that astronauts can live for about 15 years according to the design requirements.
This requirement is very high. In addition to artificial artificial gravity, it also needs a lot of food, water and various living materials.
Because the time is too long, it is definitely not suitable for partial harvesting of frozen foods, and it is necessary to realize partial small circulation system.
This requires that the food synthesis equipment must be small enough, and it is best to reduce it to about ten tons, and each production does not need too much energy and the efficiency is high enough.
After all, the maximum number of passengers in a Gonggong-class spacecraft is only two.
Therefore, the equipment they are preparing to produce must meet several requirements, including miniaturization, high thermal efficiency, important production types and long service life.
It not only has the function of flour synthesis, but also has the function of meat synthesis and the production capacity of secondary raw materials such as vitamins, fats and protein.
At the same time, there are also small vegetable and fruit planting modules and mushroom cultivation modules.
To be on the safe side, all the equipment needs to be designed with three times of redundancy, and it is impossible for the engineers to act alone, and three spacecraft are needed to form a team.
Naturally, that purpose of this is to ensure safety.
In case any ship goes wrong, the remaining ships can be used for emergency preparedness.
This is an indispensable preparation for the Federation to enter the outer layer of the sun in the future. The Gonggong spacecraft is a next-generation spacecraft.
Astronauts may have to live for most of their lives, and the loneliest swim among spaceships.
Chapter seven hundred and seventy-nine Trial
July 15, 227
On the back of the moon, three Gonggong-class spaceships in Mendeleev 16 Space Shipyard completed the final outfitting.
Looking down from the back of the moon, we can see that one of the three ring-shaped buildings is a "building"
On the other hand, various scientific research projects of Blue Star continue to develop, and technical researchers strive to show a vigorous development trend.
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