Chapter 1043 How to mine the resources deep in the earth?

, the reborn tech upstart

"Zi Shu, how is your writing?" Pei Qing asked while eating.

After Pei Qing wrote the book on economics, Ye Zihua planned to write a book on finance, and Ye Ziqi planned to write a book on legal theory.

Naturally, Ye Zishu also wanted to give full support, and planned to write a book on political theory to accompany it, but it was almost the end of the year, and there was no movement on Ye Zishu's side.

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"I'm writing, but I have a lot of things at hand, so I can only think about these issues when I'm resting. I'm sure I can finish writing before the end of the year." Ye Zishu said with a smile.

Pei Qing was very concerned about this aspect. During this period of time, his mother basically lived in the house of Ye Zijiao, and Pei Qing still spent a lot of time in the library reading books every day.

The writing work is basically placed there. According to her, sitting in the library and writing, the experience is much better than that in the study. I feel that the thinking is much faster and the mind is easier to calm down.

"I just happen to finish two books soon, do you have time to read them?" Pei Qing asked in a questioning tone.

"No problem, just send it to me." Ye Zishu readily agreed.

After more than half a year, the popularity of Pei Qing's previous books has cooled down. If her two books are published, the popularity may rise again, and they will return to everyone's attention.

As for the changes Ye Shu wants to see, it is unlikely to happen in a short period of time. No matter how advanced the theory is, it cannot be completed in a short period of time if it wants to enter the practical stage.

Whether it is political, economic, or social reform, the primary goal is stability, and generally only when reform is absolutely necessary will there be a strong will to reform.

Just like the establishment of the social security fund, it is actually necessary to do so, because a large number of robots have entered the field of social production and service.

If there is no social security fund, the next problem may be faced, either a large number of jobs will be deprived, or the advanced robot productivity will not be able to be brought into play.

Neither of these two situations is a good result. Only by setting up a social security fund can the unemployed be guaranteed a living and the advanced robot productivity can fully play its role.

The establishment of all social security funds did not take too much energy, nor did it take too long, because it is necessary to do so at a critical moment, and it is a matter of course.

"How is the writing of Ye Zihua and Ye Ziqin?" Ye Zishu asked.

"The book they wrote is almost coming to an end, and it should be completed before the end of the year." Pei Qing said with a smile.

In order to form a complete system, the three of them often communicate together, so as to ensure that they are relatively unified in thinking, and they can also know each other's true thoughts and intentions.

What's more, when the three of them discussed the problem together, they could discuss the problem more clearly. It's just that Ye Zishu is busy, and when the three of them discuss, they usually don't call him.

In addition to the political theory works he wrote, it will be more difficult to get attention or to get facts, because political reform is the most difficult in terms of politics, economy and social operation.

Of course, the actual situation is often that the three complement each other. When any one aspect has to be changed, the other two must also be changed accordingly. Whether it is active or passive, it will happen.

From the perspective of easy to difficult, it is obvious that the reform in the economic field is the easiest. Social changes are generally passive and will change due to the changes of the first two, and generally will not change independently.

The book written by Ye Ziqi actually corresponds to how the corresponding social reform should be done after the economic reform is realized according to the economics works written by Pei Qing, and it is part of the supporting social reform exploration.

In fact, all four of them knew that these theoretical works should not be expected to play a role in the short term. The reason why they still write is to provide a direction for future thinking.

Even they can't guarantee that what they write must be correct. It's just a kind of associative thinking and research based on the current situation to make a trend judgment.

Therefore, it is understandable that Ye Zishu is not in a hurry to write supporting political works. His main work is still on scientific research, and writing books is just one of the rest activities in his spare time.

After dinner, Pei Qing really sent over the two books she wrote. Although Ye Zishu was read in her spare time, she read them seriously, and wrote down some thoughts, and communicated with Pei Qing during the meal.

On October 30th, the tide of cosmic coin exchange for gold finally came to an end, and the originally bustling financial world suddenly became much quieter.

In the past, everyone was only speculating about the strength of the Tidal International Currency Bank. After all, they had no chance to see the true face of the Tidal International Currency at that time.

The reason why everyone agrees to use Cosmic Coin as a trade currency without understanding their strength is because of the things behind it that make them make such a choice.

Now they finally realized that Tidal International Currency Bank was able to make the choice of cosmic currency and gold linkage, and it was not for nothing.

This time they really saw the shock brought by 200,000 tons of gold. The pile of gold dazzled the eyes of many people. They had never seen such a huge gold reserve.

Regardless of the large volume of international gold transactions each year, those are just gold on paper. The annual spot gold transaction volume is actually not large, because the annual gold mining volume is not large.

The amount of gold accumulated by human beings from ancient times to the present is only hundreds of thousands of tons. The amount of gold owned by Tidal International Currency Bank exceeds the amount of gold owned by all human beings.

So here comes the question, where did the gold from Tidal International Monetary Bank come from? Although there is no exact data on the amount of gold in the world, the estimated data is still not bad.

It is obviously unreasonable that a banking institution alone has such a huge amount of gold. Gold mining is not an easy task. It is impossible to hide such a huge amount of gold.

During this period of time, the news about Tidal International Monetary Bank's huge gold reserves has made headlines all over the world, making a large group of melon-eating people addicted to their eyes.

No one has ever seen so much gold, and so much gold is just the reserves of a banking institution. Not to mention other things, it can become the world's top bank just by virtue of its gold reserves.

The melon eaters lamented that Tidal International Currency Bank is too rich, and it became a matter of course for this bank to issue international trade currency.

Compared with the uncertainty of the sovereign currency, the gold-backed Cosmic Coin makes people more at ease. No matter how much the Cosmic Coin depreciates, you can always get the equivalent gold.

As for the issue of the source of gold discussed on the Internet, Tidal International Monetary Bank did not give any response. Even a reporter who wanted to interview this issue was told that he had no comment.

Without getting an answer from here, there are naturally various speculations on the Internet. There are two main guesses. The first guess is that the Kylin Resources Development Group has discovered a super-large gold mine on the seabed.

This speculation stems from the fact that Kylin Resources Development Group's mining on the seabed is very mysterious. Since the seabed is several thousand meters deep, it is impossible for ordinary people to explore it.

Although the Kirin Resources Development Group also wanted the international community to announce several seabed mines, and even the United Nations sent relevant personnel to investigate to determine whether the protection of the marine environment is in place.

In fact, what Kirin Resources Development Group is doing on the seabed is not clear to everyone. As long as they do not announce it to the public, it will be difficult for everyone to find out, especially for super-large gold mines, let alone tell the outside world.

The second guess is that our country has mastered advanced gold mining technology and can mine gold from the earth's crust. This guess stems from the advancement of our country's technology and the rich reserves of gold in the earth's crust.

Regardless of the fact that we have very few gold mines that can be mined, the gold reserves in the earth are not low. According to estimates by relevant scholars, the gold reserves in the earth's crust alone may be as high as 60 trillion tons.

It's just that these golds are buried very deep, and the abundance is very low, and it is difficult to mine with the current mining technology of human beings. This is the reason for the scarcity of gold.

If our country has mastered more advanced mining technology and can mine gold from the earth's crust, then it is justifiable to have so much gold.

It's just that they overlooked one thing. If we have such advanced mining technology, why should we buy so many mineral resources from the world, which is obviously unreasonable.

Under normal circumstances, when everyone learns that there is so much gold in the world, the international gold price will inevitably drop sharply. This is a phenomenon in line with market laws.

In fact, the international gold price did not drop sharply. The reason is that the cosmic currency and gold are anchored, so that the value of global gold can be reflected, instead of gold being a general commodity as in the past.

Although it is undeniable that gold has a natural currency attribute, in modern society, gold and currency are gradually diverging, the commodity attribute of gold is more and more manifested, and the currency attribute is getting weaker and weaker.

It's just that when Tidal International Monetary Bank linked gold to Cosmic Coin, the value of gold is no longer an ordinary commodity, but has a strong currency attribute again.

At this time, the value of Cosmic Coin is no longer defined by gold, because the value of Cosmic Coin is very specific, and a large number of goods and services can be purchased with Cosmic Coin, which is the embodiment of the value of Cosmic Coin.

So now in turn, the value of gold is defined by the universe currency, as long as the purchasing power of the universe currency does not decline, it means that the value of gold will not decrease.

According to this logic, even if there is more gold in the world, as long as there is an exchange relationship between Cosmic Coin and gold, the value of gold will not decrease significantly due to the increase in quantity.

Obviously, the value of Cosmic Coin will not depreciate because of so much more gold. 1 Cosmic Coin can still be sold for the same commodity as before, and the value of Cosmic Coin is still strong.

In this context, in fact, the universe currency has locked the price of gold, and it is actually the same, since the universe currency has become a global trade currency.

There is no room for profit in buying and selling in the global gold market. The global gold trading market is basically a stagnant pool, and it no longer has the reference significance of price fluctuations. It is just a pure trading place.

Ye Zishu wanted to suggest the establishment of a gold exchange in China before, but he didn't mention it later, because he knew that when the universe coin became an international trade currency, the value of the gold exchange would be greatly reduced.

Because both parties to the transaction will unconsciously compare the price of gold with Cosmocoin. If it is higher or lower, both parties cannot reach an agreement, and there will be no price fluctuations.

Therefore, the current international gold trading market basically does not have the significance of price guidance, and has become a pure trading place. Many gold exchanges that used to be huge are now mainly trading other precious metals.

Now everyone knows that the Tidal International Monetary Bank has such a huge gold reserve in its hands, and gold is even bound to the universe currency. From now on, it can be said that gold is the universe currency, and the universe currency is gold.

Ye Zishu naturally also learned about the public opinion on the Internet. Since the Tidal Group is his business, the Tidal International Currency Bank is also his business.

Now this bank has such a huge amount of gold, which means that its assets are at least higher than the value of this batch of gold, and the value of this batch of gold is as high as 60 trillion yuan.

This means that the asset scale of Ye Zishu is at least 60 trillion yuan. In fact, everyone knows that the asset scale under his banner is much higher than this.

It's just because the companies under him don't publish their financial reports. No one knows how many assets these companies have. Even the most powerful asset analysts can't get a full picture.

In contrast, it is very appropriate to use this batch of gold as the starting point of his assets, and with such a huge amount of assets, he can securely secure the throne of the richest person in the world.

There are the most discussions on this topic on the Internet, because as long as it is related to wealth, it is very eye-catching, so major self-media and traditional media are also willing to discuss this topic.

Even the media under his Shengshi Media Group participated in the discussion and analysis, and they were not worried about revealing the boss' old background.

Of course, there are also jealous or envious people who want the relevant state departments to investigate the source of this batch of gold on the grounds that the origin of this batch of gold is unknown.

Whether it is domestic or foreign, there is still a huge market for this topic, whether it is jealousy, or whether you really want to know the origin of gold, I suggest that the relevant departments investigate clearly.

Obviously, the only department that is qualified to investigate the origin of this batch of gold is the financial management department of our country. Seeing that more and more people are questioning, the relevant departments have to respond.

Therefore, the central bank and the financial regulatory authorities, through their own media platform accounts, expressed their knowledge of the gold source of Tidal International Monetary Bank, and stated that the gold source is completely legal.

As for how it came about and how it is legal, there is no need to disclose it. We can't tell the outside world that Kirin Energy Industry Group has the ability to turn steel into gold.

However, after reading these public opinions, Ye Zishu didn't care much about the origin of the gold. Instead, it was completely unfounded speculation about the source that attracted his attention.

Whether it is mined from the seabed or mined from the earth's crust by other advanced means, it all involves advanced mining technology, and it just so happens that he himself has such capabilities.

He has not been exposed to more advanced technology before, and the seabed mining technology he gave to Kirin Resources Development Group is already very advanced, but obviously such technology cannot meet the demand.

According to the amount of interstellar ships used, even if billions of iron ore or other mineral resources are imported every year, not many interstellar ships with a length of 10 kilometers can be produced.

Although there are still a lot of 1-kilometer-long interstellar ships, the 1-kilometer interstellar ships will not play a big role in space, and are mainly used for short-distance transportation.

For example, in the future, a mineral refinery will be established on the moon to refine the ore mined from space and then pull it back to the earth. Then this process can use a 1-kilometer-long interstellar ship as a means of transportation.

For actual space mining and long-distance transportation, the 10-kilometer-long interstellar ship will play a greater role and cost less, and will be the main ship for these businesses.

So the question is, even if all the mineral resources on the surface are mined, how many interstellar ships can be produced? 10 or 100?

Although he can't make an accurate assessment, he can be sure that the minerals that exist on the surface cannot produce too many 10-kilometer-long interstellar ships.

Then there are only two ways. The first way is to increase the mining capacity of the earth’s resources and search for resources deeper underground, but it is very difficult to do so.

Not only advanced exploration technology is required, but also advanced mining technology is required. Anyway, with the current mining capacity, it is extremely difficult to do this, and the cost is naturally extremely high.

The second way is to build a few 10-kilometer-long interstellar ships first, and obtain resources from space. However, there is still no standard number of resources in space.

Although Baihu Technology has launched a large number of resource detectors, compared with the vast universe, it is like dripping ink in the ocean, and it is difficult to fully understand it.

At present, the method they mainly adopt is the calculation method, which calculates the density of celestial bodies through orbit, speed, mass and other factors, and then uses the density to guess the type of mineral resources contained in it.

In any case, this work is actually very uncertain. Although it can be used as the main development direction, it cannot be the only development direction.

Ye Zishu also wants to see a super interstellar ship with a length of 100 kilometers. This kind of ship is fully capable of being used as a means of transportation for interstellar voyages, and it is an important part of human beings going to the galaxy.

When human beings do not go to the starry sky, they will feel that the earth's resources are rich enough. When human beings truly become an interstellar civilization, they will realize how expensive a planet's resources are.

Returning to reality, a 1-kilometer-long interstellar ship weighs tens of millions of tons. It seems that steel is enough, but in fact it uses a lot of precious metals.

With the earth's reserves of precious metals, it is impossible to build many ships, not to mention the 10-kilometer-long interstellar ships. Many resources are actually in short supply.

This is why Kirin Energy Industrial Group has provided 300,000 tons of gold to Tidal International Monetary Bank, and stopped producing it. Their production capacity will be used to produce other precious metals.

The production of these precious metals requires a huge amount of energy. Due to energy constraints, Kirin Energy Industry Group's production capacity for precious metals is also limited.

Of course, if he really wants to solve these problems, there are still enough solutions, such as lack of energy, he can send the divine beast unicorn to absorb energy near the sun.

With the energy storage capacity of the divine beast unicorn, it can bring back a large amount of energy at a time, and is fully capable of solving the immediate predicament, but this belongs to his method, not the method of his company.

What he wants is that without him, his company can continue this business, which is why he considers this matter so carefully.

He has no intention of handing over the technologies he has mastered to his subsidiaries. On the one hand, it is too difficult, and on the other hand, he is afraid of plucking hairs and promoting them, which will bring unexpected risks.

Most importantly, the more he studies, the more he feels that this knowledge is beyond the universe itself, and the field theory is more and more like the ability that the universe should have, which makes him more careful.

This is not impossible, the origin of the virtual space is not clear, whether it is from this universe is still unknown, and he will not be surprised that not all the technologies in the virtual library come from this universe.

So the speculation on the Internet gave him a direction. Since the surface resources are insufficient, can he explore underground? Many resources have limited reserves on the surface, but they are very rich in underground reserves.

It's just how to ensure that natural disasters do not occur while mining is possible. This is what he needs to consider. Don't cause frequent earthquakes because he extracts too many resources from the ground, that is a sin.

He hasn't figured out how to solve it yet, but he plans to list this research as a research plan in his spare time, which can be regarded as a formal research agenda.

For the next period of time, whenever he had free time, he was thinking about this question, how to extract the resources inside the earth without destroying the basic structure.

This problem can be regarded as difficult for him. At first he wanted to use a mechanical method to obtain resources from the earth's crust, but after the simulation, he found that it failed.

For resources with high underground abundance, this method can be adopted, because the scope involved is relatively small, and given the structural strength of the earth's interior, it will not cause too much impact.

However, there is also a certain probability of earthquakes. It is necessary to conduct a detailed study of the mined underground deposits before determining how to mine them so as not to cause changes in the geological structure.

For mineral deposits with very low abundance, this method will not work at all. Even if they are mined, the cost will be too high, and it is not cost-effective at all.

Trying to use mechanical mining, tried countless methods, but there was no good solution. Seeing that this road was not feasible, he tried other methods.

Generally speaking, to deal with macro goals, it is most efficient to use macro models. Conversely, to face micro goals, it is more efficient to use micro technologies.

Although the earth's underground mineral deposits are a macroscopic concept, microscopic technology is the most efficient without destroying the geological structure, even without any changes on the surface.

Just a few months ago, he sorted out the micro-mechanical manufacturing technology and handed it over to his subsidiary companies, which can just come in handy in the field of earth mining.

It’s just that compared to the robot bee, it will appear more microscopic. His idea is to create mechanical microorganisms, directly let the microorganisms invade the ground, and bring the needed minerals up.

Although the amount mined by a single microorganism is very small, it cannot hold up to a large number. When there are hundreds of millions of such mechanical microorganisms, the total amount mined is very considerable.

Of course, this method is only applicable to the mining of resources in the earth's crust, because the

Unless a special mechanical microorganism can be developed that can withstand high temperature and high pressure, with the current technical strength of his industry, don't think too much about it, and there is no need to let go of the center of the earth.

After figuring it out, Ye Zishu personally designed hundreds of mechanical microorganisms. Although the structure of each is relatively simple, after all, it is so small that it is difficult to make it complicated.

But these mechanical microbes are very powerful. There are microbial robots specially used to dig tunnels. Facing hard rock layers, they seem to be able to corrode, and they can easily open up a path forward, while the impact on the surrounding area is very small.

There are also microbial robots specially used to measure certain elements, which consume less energy and have high purity, and can realize mining and refining at the same time. They are definitely a good hand in mining underground resources.

Of course, he still has a cheaper and more efficient mining method than this, which involves the high-level technology he has mastered, and it is only with him and not suitable for his enterprises.

For example, if he mines personally, he can directly let the five gods and beasts wrap the earth, and directly use the space separation technology to separate and transfer the resources from the earth's core to the earth's crust, and even the air.

As long as there is enough energy, all the elements contained in the earth can be separated clearly without spending a day, which is more detailed than dismembering the earth.

It's just that this method is limited to his own use. The companies under him still obediently use conventional technology. Microbial robots are the best way he can think of.

Compared with large-scale mechanical mining technology, the mining cost of microbial robots is lower. Regardless of the huge number, the actual production cost is very low. They only need to prepare 1 liter of dna-like material to easily cultivate hundreds of millions of microbial robots.

But the premise is that they need to build a complete industrial chain. Obviously, they currently do not have a complete industrial chain, so this matter has to be pushed back.

In fact, he believes that the exploitation of the earth's resources cannot give full play to the capabilities of this technology. After all, the earth is our common home, and there must be a limit to exploitation, and we cannot ask for it infinitely.

The real use is in the field of space mining in the future. In the future, when facing a large ore planet, it would seem silly not to blow it up directly, or drag it back in its entirety.

If there is such an efficient microbial robot, it will not only be easy to mine directly from the outside of the ore planet, but also directly mine refined ore, saving transportation costs.

In the future, the ore planet with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers may only take a few months to easily mine the resources. This is much stronger and more efficient than directly blasting all of them back.

Then he sorted out these microbial robot technical materials, and then gave them to Qilin Resource Development Group.