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Chapter 102: Huge Construction (Subscribe!!)

Li Qingsong has no intention of developing the earth.

Although the Earth is rich in various mineral resources, they are not irreplaceable. Let the Earth always maintain its original ecology. That way, when I find my compatriots one day in the future, I can return them to an intact Earth.

Many small landing spacecraft roared into life, and under the awe-filled and curious gazes of countless animals, they returned to Earth's orbit and entered the aerospace mothership.

The surging power was once again output from the nuclear fission reactor, turning into a hot flame that sprayed backwards, pushing it to slowly accelerate and move towards the direction of the Jupiter system.

It would take several months for it to reunite with the main fleet. However, Li Qingsong's consciousness could be transmitted at the speed of light, so he left the clone and returned to the Jupiter system ahead of time.

At this point, the comprehensive exploration of Ganymede has been completed, and the blueprints for various bases have also been completed.

During this exploration, Li Qingsong discovered that Ganymede is indeed a large planet larger than Mercury, one of the eight planets.

The radius of the Earth is only 6370 kilometers, Mercury is only 2440 kilometers, and the radius of Roselle is only about 900 kilometers. Ganymede is just a satellite, but its radius reaches 2600 kilometers!

It is extremely rich in various mineral deposits, far beyond the reach of dwarf planets like Rosen.

What surprised Li Qingsong most was that he found a large amount of uranium and plutonium mines on Ganymede!

This is the most suitable fuel for a nuclear fission reactor!
With enough uranium and plutonium, as well as the large amount of methane and liquid oxygen on Ganymede, at least there is no need to worry about fuel.

After completing the preliminary exploration and site selection and making the construction plan, large-scale construction began immediately.

Among the 49 aerospace motherships and dozens of heavy cargo ships, a large number of industrial ships and transport ships loaded with various industrial facilities and supplies landed on the vast land of Ganymede.

There are more than 1000 construction sites and more than 1000 bases in total, and as many as 1500 million clones are all involved in the construction.

For a moment, the originally desolate and silent Ganymede became lively.

Spaceship after spaceship flew at high speed over the planet, railroad tracks stretched out like a spider web, and a large number of heavy trucks with extremely high off-road performance were speeding.

All kinds of construction materials and industrial facilities that had already been built on Luoshen and brought here by Li Qingsong across a long distance of more than 10 billion kilometers now converged on the land of Ganymede like water.

Not long after, the first large factory built by Li Qingsong was completed.

This is a nuclear fission power plant.

The factory covers an unprecedented area of 10 million square meters, and its installed capacity reaches an unprecedented 100 million kilowatts.

In just one day, it can generate 24 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity! That's over 8700 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year!

If thermal power generation is adopted, a thermal power plant of this scale would probably require the construction of dozens or even hundreds of heavy-duty railway lines, which would be used exclusively to transport fuel here every day without doing anything else.

But this power plant uses uranium as its energy source, so it only needs about 300kg of uranium per day, which is enough for a small car to pull.

When this super-giant nuclear power plant was completed, an equally large-scale factory integrating uranium mining and enrichment was also built nearby.

Li Qingsong first took more than ten tons of fuel rods with a uranium content of about 3% from the fleet and sent them to the nuclear power plant as the initial energy source. The power plant then began to operate.

A huge amount of energy was delivered, and millions of high-speed centrifuges in uranium mining and uranium enrichment plants also received energy and began to run with a roar.

But this uranium mine and uranium enrichment plant alone obviously cannot consume such a huge amount of electricity.

Li Qingsong has already mastered the technology of miniaturizing nuclear fission reactors. Of course, the nuclear power plants he builds now will no longer lose money like they did in the beginning, but will have a large amount of surplus electricity.

This electricity is then transmitted to other bases along the superconducting lines with almost no loss.

The surface temperature of Ganymede is about -160 degrees Celsius, below which many materials can enter a superconducting state.

Therefore, the remaining bases, which relied entirely on the temporary power plant built by Li Qingsong for construction, finally welcomed the surge of local electricity at this moment.

After all, the temporary power plant's capacity was limited and it couldn't support large-scale construction. But the situation was completely different now.

24 billion kWh of electricity a day, what kind of construction can’t support it?
With this abundant electricity, a metallurgical plant built near the iron mine was completed in a short time.

A huge amount of iron ore was sent to this factory. With the support of abundant electricity, it was soon smelted into rolls of steel, bars, steel plates, etc. with different models, specifications, carbon content, and trace element content, thus having different properties and suitable for use in various industrial scenarios.

On average, about 20 tons of steel are produced from this steel plant and transported to other places every day.

With electricity and steel, Li Qingsong's construction was completely unrestricted.

After that, a huge precision foundry was quickly built and began to rapidly produce a variety of parts. Then, copper mines, aluminum mines, tin mines, rare earth mines and the like emerged one after another.

While building these mines and factories simultaneously, Li Qingsong also carried out another extremely large construction project.

A comprehensive base for planting, breeding, aquatic products and fungi!
This is a giant grain production base covering an area of 100 square kilometers. Including various other supporting factories, such as culture medium preparation factories, flour mills, slaughterhouses, processing plants, power plants, automation equipment factories, water supply and heating plants, etc., the total area exceeds 150 square kilometers.

Its total height reaches more than 200 meters, and the total plan is divided into 60 floors, so the total usable area inside it reaches 6000 square kilometers.

Among them, Li Qingsong set aside a full 1000 square kilometers to grow wheat, so the annual wheat output directly reached 48 billion kilograms, enough to feed the existing 1500 million clones, and there was even some left over for industrial use.

Li Qingsong used another 1000 square kilometers to plant rice. In addition, he also planted large areas of cotton, alfalfa, potatoes, soybeans, rubber trees, fruits, etc.

In the animal husbandry section, Li Qingsong directly planned millions of acres of grassland and raised enough livestock to feed all the clones.

This integrated base alone can fully supply the needs of all clones!
(End of this chapter)