Chapter 643 (1/2)

For these elements that have not been found on the earth, both Wang Bin and Qin Lao and everyone present are very clear about their role in human civilization. At the same time, they naturally hope to be mined immediately.

However, both Wang Bin himself and others present know that it is not easy to exploit these undiscovered resources on the earth.

First of all, the natural location of these mineral resources is Mars. Although human civilization has certain ability to land on Mars, it is only limited to a small scale. If you want to land on Mars on a large scale, the current ability of human civilization is still not enough.

Because although human civilization now has the ability to manufacture space warships with a tonnage of tens of thousands of tons, as well as space warplanes and aerospace aircraft, these spacecraft can land on Mars. However, among these spacecraft, only space warplanes actually have the ability to take off and land on Mars.

After all, the tonnage of the spaceship is too large. The weight of the empty ship alone reaches tens of thousands of tons. If various equipment are added, the weight of the spaceship can even reach tens of thousands of tons. Such weight is impossible to take off and land on the moon, let alone Mars, which is bigger than the moon in terms of traction.

As for aerospace aircraft, except Phoenix 1, which can land when the simple takeoff and landing runway is completed, other aerospace aircraft do not have the ability to take off and land at present, because other types of aerospace aircraft must take off and land using the standard runway.

After all, Mars also has two fifths of the gravity of the earth. In addition, Mars also has an atmosphere above it. Therefore, it is necessary to have a runway to allow a larger space plane to take off and land with the help of Martian air.

Therefore, if you want to carry out large-scale mining of these minerals on Mars, you must first establish a standard aircraft takeoff and landing runway on Mars.

In addition, it's OK for a small-scale plane or two to land on Mars. If the maintenance is in place before that, the probability of accidents is not large. However, once large-scale mining is carried out, it must have the ability to repair and maintain space aircraft like the moon.

In addition, the life, accommodation and rest of mining personnel are also a huge problem, so they must establish a huge survival base on Mars.

According to the estimates of Wang Bin and others, this survival base must be able to meet the production and living capacity of at least 100000 people, and the construction of such a base is absolutely hi a huge project.

In addition, there are difficulties in mining. You know, these minerals are located more than 700 meters below the ice!

Most importantly, the hardness of the ice layer above the underground lake is very large. Even the hardness of ordinary ice layer exceeds that of steel, so it is also very difficult to mine.

According to the estimates of Wang Bin and others, if humans want to realize large-scale mining on Mars, these minerals will not be realized until at least ten years later.

However, Wang Bin, Qin Lao and others are still unable to exploit on a large scale. They are somewhat depressed, but small-scale mining can not defeat them. After all, even when these minerals are mined, they can never be used on a large scale like other commonly used minerals.