"How do you charge for electricity? Using electricity to make steel? Isn't that a joke?"

Based on Chairman Li's many years of experience, the profit margin in the steel industry is less than 10%.

This is even with abundant cheap coal resources.

Otherwise, the situation at domestic steel mills would be worse than the last.

"Charge? No charge. All the electricity resources on the moon are managed by the Lanxiang Group."

We're only responsible for construction!

"So, once the substations are built, all we need to do is use them?"

"Yes, once the construction is complete, you can sign here and we can go back and report!"

The biggest cost for steel mills is ore mining.

Furthermore, there is the energy consumption during the smelting process.

The ore is already on the moon's surface; there's no need to mine it.

Just use a train and an excavator to haul it to the factory.

Energy and electricity: the structure of this smelting equipment is much simpler.

It is heated electrically, and then the melting process begins directly.

Chairman Li was still uneasy, so he contacted Commander Tang at the Houyi Command Center.

"Old Tang, is the electricity bill free?"

"You can use it. Just take the electricity usage report to Lanxiang Group for review later."

"Does ore also require mining permits?"

"Chairman Li, why are you such a coward? We were the ones who sent all the people on the moon there."

Do you have a permit?

Chairman Li thought about it and agreed; they were all on his side.

"Alright, then don't blame our company for being too ruthless in its construction capabilities!"

Chairman Li immediately arranged for personnel to coordinate the work, allowing the power grid team to begin construction of the substation.

At the same time, contact the construction workers and, based on the coordinates provided by Su Lin, proceed.

Construction of a new smelter has begun.

These smelters can supply all the metal materials to more than 200 launch centers on the moon.

"Report to the command center: the first transmission line has been completed."

"Roger that! Principal Su, shall we begin steelmaking?"

Su Lin nodded and informed Chairman Li to begin the first round of smelting experiments.

Large quantities of black basalt were transported into the smelting furnace.

"Power on! Apply pressure!!!"

Below the furnace, there is no longer the combustion chamber as before.

Instead, it consists of numerous heat-generating circuits. When current passes through,

A high-resistance circuit generates a lot of heat.

It originally required about 24 hours of preheating to bring the furnace to the predetermined smelting temperature.

Because it uses electric heating, the temperature inside the furnace reaches its peak in less than 15 minutes.

"Robotic arm, begin mixing!"

To ensure that the ore inside the furnace is heated evenly

Each furnace is equipped with four robotic arms that move inside the furnace.

The ore is kept tumbling inside the furnace.

"Chairman Li, the first batch of molten iron is ready to be produced."

Chairman Li ordered the operators to open the gate.

Red liquid slowly flowed out of the furnace.

Depending on their intended use, various carbon elements and other metallic elements will be added to this molten iron.

To manufacture industrial steel with different functions!

Because several furnaces at Chairman Li's smelter have started operating.

The operating parameters of controlled nuclear fusion reactors also began to surge.

"Mr. Huang, we've reached 80% success rate in getting back together!"

Are several of their furnaces operating simultaneously?

After confirmation from the command center, a miniature controlled nuclear fusion reactor was identified.

It can supply the energy for eight huge steel furnaces.

This miniature reactor is located within a controlled nuclear fusion power plant.

There are nearly 80 such miniature controlled nuclear fusion reactions.

With a large power supply,

Chairman Li's steel smelting plant began construction in various basins on the lunar surface.

Su Lin was also preparing to carry out his final plan.

...

After a week of construction,

The steel smelting plants on the lunar surface now have a production capacity almost equal to that in China, and this has only been going on for less than a week.

Commander Tang contacted Chairman Li, and the commotion from the steel mill reached the command center.

"Chairman Li, how is the situation now?"

"Old Tang, don't say anymore. Thank you so much. This ore is practically free."

The entire steel plant was built in a closed system to isolate it from the extremely low temperatures of the lunar surface.

The electricity transported via the line was directly supplied to the steel mill.

No fees are required.

The best part is that even the final cooling doesn't require water cooling or building a large cooling tower.

They just dumped it outside the factory; the lunar surface temperature is consistently below tens of degrees below zero.

It cools down instantly!

"I told you I wouldn't treat you unfairly, right?"

"But Old Tang, with such a large production capacity right now, who am I supposed to sell to?"

Now outside all the steel mills,

All according to the requirements of Su Lin and China Aerospace Group Co., Ltd.

It was piled high with various types of composite steel.

"Just build yours, why worry about not being able to sell it? Give me all the manufacturing materials."

Send them all over, let me see if we have enough.

"Okay, I'll send it to your email now, Commander Tang!"

With current production processes, the cost of ore is almost zero.

Electricity costs are zero; only labor and machine depreciation are required.

Even the factory site is on the moon, and it's free.

In addition to construction costs,

The profit margin for each ton of steel is almost 96%.

If this steel were to be produced on Earth

Sold for more than 3,000 yuan per ton.

The profit from just one unit exceeds 300 million...

Commander Tang opened the production documents and found the person in charge of Huaxia Shenlong Aerospace Group.

Because they were the ones who designed and built the Houyi launch center.

They were also contracted out to more than 200 launch centers on the moon.

"Is there enough production capacity and inventory?"

"Commander Tang, that's enough, that's enough. Even if there were 500 launch centers, let alone 200, that would be enough!"

"

"By the way, Principal Su, what is the scale of our launch center on the moon?"

"Let's build it to the same scale as our Houyi Launch Center!"

If the launch scale is temporarily increased or decreased,

All of these require redesigning the blueprints, which will greatly delay the construction of the launch site.

This time, more than 200 launch sites are being built with 35 launch pads at each site.

Launch tower, as a standard

If all of them are built, the entire lunar surface will have more than 7,000 launch towers.

A maximum of 7,000 Gravity rockets can be launched on the same day.

To provide a stable material transportation route for the construction of the "Luan Niao" aerospace carrier platform.

Once the more than 200 launch sites are successfully built, the Guanghan Palace base center will be ready.

With sufficient space available for workers to live in, the Nantianmen Project will officially commence...