Chapter 129 We lack rare earths!
The alien life cubs are still a big mystery.
It may come from another universe...
The answer to this question is Professor Scott: "The domestication work is still smooth now. It is like a dog, very clingy and likes to try some fresh moves. Maybe it doesn't understand such complex instructions, and it may be a bit difficult to explore the universe or something."
"I am about three years old. I am not sure whether there is a possibility of improvement."
Professor Scott played a training video, and Zero was next to the table, whisperingly teaching Jelly, "Turtle, do you know, this is a turtle."
So the "Jelly" transformed through its own terrain and turned into a turtle, crawling slowly on the table.
Zero showed a happy smile and pointed at himself: "Human."
Jelly wanted to imitate humans, but its size was still too small. It turned into a small man with a fist, running on the table, and then turned into a ball again as he ran, as if he was very happy.
"If you let it find an exit..." Zhang Ran was a little unbelievable. Does this middle-aged guy really have enough IQ to help humans?
"Everyone, I have a question." Zhou Chengfeng asked, "If its IQ continues to increase, will it bring risks to us humans? After all, we are now... living in the wreckage of its mother and killing its mother."
"At present, no malice was felt." Professor Scott said: "Zero's domestication work was done very well."
"It doesn't eat. It especially likes psychics."
If it weren't for some safety regulations, this big dragon ball even wanted to run out and sleep with Zero...
"We are increasingly suspicious that this alien cub, and Void Amoeba, are actually two different species."
"It does not feed at all, does not know how to survive, and is not very aggressive. It may have been captured by the Void Amoeba and swallowed it alive. It is not a cub."
"In addition, its tentacles are relatively short and sparse in number, which is completely different from the flagella of the Void Amoeba."
"On the other hand, its thinking is being rapidly assimilated by us humans."
"I think the kindness of raising children is greater than the kindness of raising children..."
Soon, another relevant expert said: "Professor Scott, you can't say that. According to our human minds, if the person who raises oneself is a murderer of his father, it will only be a story in the novel, but it is really happening now..."
"However, I think it's not very aggressive."
"At least for more than a year, it has not shown any aggressiveness and is getting closer to our keepers."
Speaking of this alien life form, these experts can discuss it for three days and three nights.
But everything is just speculation, and there is no point in without real evidence.
Zhang Ran was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "Using alien cubs to explore the way is actually a better choice."
"I don't think it's expected that the gravitational wave technology development on Professor Huo's side... It's a bit ugly, but in fact, if the technical level is relatively simple, the Earth civilization would have been developed long ago. After all, we only have one more nuclear fusion than the Earth civilization, and there is no epoch-making breakthrough at the theoretical level."
Huo Dong was very ashamed, really ashamed.
This middle-aged professor with a bad temper really felt unprecedented pressure these times.
Zhang Ran continued: "If this alien life is indeed safe, use it as soon as possible. Mr. Scott, when do you feel the time is ripe? Report it to me quickly."
"Our current state is equivalent to running in the dark forest with blind eyes. It is really a bit dangerous... Leaving the high-dimensional universe as soon as possible is the key to the present."
Scot nodded: "I understand."
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If a person has no future intentions, he will have immediate worries.
The current situation is not only long-term considerations, but immediate worries can only be described by the four words "leave them to fate".
Next, everyone took a look at the resources they had reserved.
Since the controllable nuclear fusion project was truly implemented, human beings are no longer a problem in survival, and the ultimate goal is how to develop better.
Technology is the most important thing, and the pace of developing technology cannot be stopped.
The fuel required for controllable nuclear fusion is just a little deuterium element. The energy generated by 1 kilogram of heavy water is 80 million kWh. Even if it is only one-tenth of the converted electric energy, it is 8 million kWh.
The total water resources currently owned by humans are 149.8 billion tons, 99.98% of the hydrogen is hydrogen, the rest is deuterium, and the total heavy water is 30 million tons.
In front of this magnitude, there is basically no shortage of energy and it can be used for tens of thousands of years!
Comparing the current average life span of 70 or 80 years, things that will be considered tens of thousands of years later will not be considered for the time being.
Zhang Ran sorted out the idea in his mind: "Since there is no shortage of energy, our industry still needs to be maintained and continuously develop advanced productivity."
"First find a way to smel the ores. The amount of ores we reserve is quite large, and all of them are smelted into metal ingots for emergencies. There will be no rust problem in a vacuum environment."
"It has been a while since the semiconductor industry was launched? How is it now?"
"The production capacity is climbing a lot, and 28-nanometer chips will be mass-produced within one month." President Zhou Chengfeng replied, "The current production capacity of high-end chips is about 10,000 pieces per month. If all our machines are invested, it is expected to reach 30,000 to 40,000 pieces per month."
"The production capacity of low-end chips is 100,000-200,000 yuan per month."
"It's barely enough." Zhang Ran nodded.
Chips are indispensable technological products in the information age.
There are two important technological nodes in the information age, the first is integrated circuits and the second is the Internet.
Various smart devices, computers, mobile phones, TVs, etc. all require chips.
Most of the computers today are left ten years ago, and their performance has deteriorated significantly. Many computers in factories are stuck and should be updated.
There are also some supercomputers that were simply created by Zhang Ran through the energy of creation... This seems to not last long.
Now humans can finally make chips in large quantities, and 28 nanometers are actually very simple and high-end. For example, Intel's CPU, the 28 nanometer process took decades, and it was still squeezing toothpaste until the sun disappeared. Copying the drawings of these chips can meet the needs of many scientific researchers at the ordinary computer level.
As for the 14-nanometer and 7-nanometer mobile phone chip engineering, it will not be launched yet... After all, it is not as luxurious as everyone can play mobile games together.
Everything now is for the development of higher levels of productivity.
"Your Highness, now we have no shortage of energy and water resources. We have no shortage of metals such as titanium and iron, but we still lack a lot of things." Zhou Chengfeng suddenly said: "Rare earths, we lack rare earths! We have not many rare earth elements from the earth, and the content of rare earths of major meteorites is very rare. The importance of rare earth elements in industry is self-evident."
"There are precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper. There are no such metals in meteorites, but they are industrial necessities, so they are quite scarce."
"On average, the circuit board of each smartphone consumes 0.05g of gold, 0.26g of silver, 12.6g of copper. The consumption of an ordinary desktop computer is 20 times that of a mobile phone. These metals are processed into finished products, and have a long shelf life and do not participate in material circulation."
"Therefore, the lack of these resources may lead to stagnation of production in factories."
"There is also the rhenium element, which is a raw material for superalloys. It was originally a rare metal... Now there are only 1.95 tons left in stock, which is pitifully small."
Zhang Ran covered his wallet with some pain. In principle, his creative ability is only used to help Pan Technology or expand production, but now the problem of scarcity of resources is still coming to you... If it really doesn't work, he still has to use creative energy.
Thinking about it, it was only three months for humans to mine on the earth.
It is impossible to dig minerals for three months?
It is considered good to lack only these elements, but it only hinders some industries, and most industries can still proceed smoothly.
Zhou Chengfeng also said: "We still lack lithium elements, which are the raw materials for making batteries. We brought some lithium elements from the earth, but did not obtain them from meteorites. The demand for lithium elements is higher than that of gold, silver and copper."
"Some of them are still in stock in the warehouse and are expected to be exhausted within half a year."
"If there are not enough lithium batteries, we can only settle for the second best, and use sulfuric acid batteries, etc., which will be much less efficient."
Material, matter, matter is always scarce!
If humans want to develop technology, they must create more machines.
To create machines, then matter is needed.
The material is limited, and the number of machines can only be limited.
Zhang Ran was silent for a moment. The more than 4,000 creature energy in his hand could create a large amount of matter, no problem with rhenium or lithium.
But, it's a bit expensive...
Now, after all, there is not a time when resources are scarce, and God knows how long they will be trapped here.
After thinking about it, I still didn't speak directly.
Let's wait until the inventory is used up.
Zhang Ran cleared his throat: "President Zhou, how long can we last for our current inventory?"
"Rare earths are not bad... mainly because spacecraft are used more often." Zhou Chengfeng said, "Lithium elements will be exhausted within half a year."
"Half a year... In half a year, the domestication of jelly should be completed, right? At that time, we can find ways to find resources, but it really doesn't work... I will also help, industrial development cannot be stopped."
Zhang Ran rubbed his temples: "In addition, it also needs to be considered as improving the quality of folk life."
"The progress of society must allow everyone to enjoy the fruits of progress. Improving the quality of life will help everyone to work and solve the problem of fiscal deficits. Although we are mainly based on planned economy, we cannot allow state-owned enterprises and factories to pay wages."
Zhou Chengfeng nodded and said, "Folk life is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation. The housing issues are basically improved, and everyone is generally satisfied."
"Okay, I suggest producing some bicycles or electric vehicles. These means of transportation mainly use steel, and we have a lot of steel reserves. Electric vehicles can use lead-acid batteries instead of lithium batteries."
"But personal cars are not recommended, and there is no need."
"The improvement of clothes and food mainly uses carbon elements... There is no shortage of carbon elements for the time being, and it can be recycled. The diversity of clothes can be introduced into private capital and let the market choose. We don't need to meddle in other people's business, let them compete."
The most important issue in every era is nothing more than the four major aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
"Then, everyone!" Zhang Ran finally concluded: "Maintaining the development of science and technology and military development as the center, we must find the exit of the high-dimensional universe as quickly as possible."
"Take this time, we have to think of ways to transfer some of the extra productivity to folk life and improve the quality of life. Please work together!"
Chapter completed!