Chapter 82 - Chapter 82: Methane Hydrate Can Be Mined

"Intelligent No. 1, tell me about the repaired situation!"Zhang Heng asked hurriedly as he boarded the mining ship."Okay, Captain, the storage compartment of the mining ship has reached 3,100 tons. The scanning and detection equipment can scan and detect water depths of 1,880 meters, the seabed depth reaches 180 meters, and the diameter covers a range of 33 nautical miles."Intelligent No. 1 reported various data in the most concise tone possible: "The projection device has been significantly improved, and it can already mine third-level minerals. The seabed depth of simultaneous mining has also reached 180 meters.""In terms of the power system, the improvement is not great, with a maximum speed of 420 knots and a maximum speed of 443 knots.""In addition, there is a great improvement in the repair of the processing cabin, and now it can refine and process higher-quality minerals or metals.The introduction of Intelligent No. 1 ends here.These are also the important data of the mining ship, or it may not be the most important, but who made Captain Zhang Heng always care about these data?As an intelligent program, you have to cater to its preferences.""Zhang Heng cursed in Chinese, and he regretted not going aboard the ship at night yesterday, and delayed coming up until early this morning: "The storage compartment has been upgraded so much? Didn't they say that after the repair of the 100-jin Devourer, only 3,000 tons will remain?""Captain, the Devourer has devoured a lot of various metal minerals these days, so there are 100 tons more, and it will continue to grow in the next few days. It takes a certain amount of time for the Devourer to devour and assimilate.""Good, very good, very good!"Zhang Heng was overjoyed.To be honest, he was a little reluctant to give the Devourer box to the mining ship for repair, because it was a good thing, a rare special metal, and he never expected the effect to be so good: "It seems... the progress of the storage compartment repair is far ahead because of the Devourer.""Indeed, its devouring and assimilation characteristics have a powerful effect on repairing the storage compartment.""Very good, good!"Zhang Heng's last bit of reluctance about eating gold completely disappeared, and he just noticed something else: "Open the third-level mine catalog.By the way, can rare earths be mined? Can titanium ore be mined?"Mining rare earths has always been his concern, and he is also very concerned about the latter's titanium ore.If he encounters Zhang Yang and the Huatai Group, he wants to slap the Zhang family to death, so he has to tamper with the titanium alloy.The Zhang family probably doesn't dare to mess around openly.A big boss of the Ordnance Group called to warn him, and it's not a joke.In recent days, he has also reached a new type of fuel cooperation with the navy, army and air force, or the cooperation of the entire armed department. , he is already a member of the whole chariot.If Zhang Li has deep connections and wide connections, he should be able to find clues. As long as he can detect them, he will not dare to do anything. What he can do is to win the battle in the market openly, otherwise he will destroy himself.To defeat the Zhang family, it is necessary to defeat Huati Metal Group, and the first thing to bear the brunt is their core product, titanium alloy.Titanium ore can be mined and processed to refine higher quality titanium alloy, so what can Huati Metal Group use to compete with him."Captain, titanium ore is a third-level mineral!"Intelligent No. 1 replied."Rare earth is not good?"Zhang Heng frowned, and even though he had thought of it earlier, he still couldn't help but feel disappointed: "Alas... The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Forget it, forget it. If rare earth cannot be mined, then it cannot be mined.He was in a low mood and simply shut up and stopped talking.It has been displayed on the virtual big screen, with the three-level minerals listed on it, and it is clear which mines can be mined and which new minerals can be mined."Damn... lithium ore? Am I seeing that?"Zhang Heng finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. The first column he saw gave him a surprise: "This is good. Now new energy vehicles are booming, the price of lithium batteries is rising, and the price of lithium ore is also changing every day. HaLithium-powered batteries are named after lithium, which is naturally the core and an indispensable raw material.The current price of industrial-grade lithium carbonate alone is nearly 600,000 yuan/ton, and it has reached 1 million yuan/ton in special periods.Prices, there are ups and downs, there are always fluctuations, but judging from the situation this year, industrial-grade lithium carbonate is even more than 500,000 yuan per ton.Lithium carbonate is not lithium ore.The former can be regarded as a synthetic product, and the latter is a pure metal mineral.Of course, lithium metal ore also needs to be refined into lithium metal first.Under normal circumstances, one ton of lithium ore can be refined into about 100 kilograms of metallic lithium.And 1 ton of metallic lithium can synthesize about 5.3 tons of industrial-grade lithium carbonate."Cobalt, antimony, tungsten, titanium, and natural gas, we have them all!"Zhang Heng scanned the lines one by one, and was pleasantly surprised. There was no surprise. The third-level minerals included natural gas. He had guessed this long ago: "Ah..."The next moment!He glared. Just like last time, he didn't pull to the bottom, and almost didn't notice the crude oil at the back.This time he had experience. He saw that the up and down bars on the side had not reached the bottom, indicating that as long as he pulled down further, there would be more content."Hahaha..."Zhang Heng laughed so hard that his eyes almost burst out: "Methane hydrate, it's actually combustible ice!"This is a big deal, a big deal!What kind of existence is combustible ice? It is known as the next generation of energy, and combustible ice does have such power. The fixed combustible ice is no different from ice cubes, but it can be processed and gasified to become natural gas.If it is liquefied, it is liquefied oil!This may be a bit complicated. To put it simply, 1 cubic meter of combustible ice can be converted into 164 cubic meters of natural gas.This is equivalent to 400 liters of gasoline, enough for a car to run 6,000 kilometers.This shows!How powerful is combustible ice? But knowing that it is so powerful, why don't they mine it? Speaking of which, countries have been mining combustibles. Ice, but it is an experimental mining (Wang Zhao), the technology is far from the team's achievements.Not only is the mining difficult, there are many other problems, such as how to preserve it after mining, which is also a huge problem. Under normal circumstances, [combustible ice can only remain in a fixed state at a temperature of minus 70 degrees.Above minus 70 degrees, it will liquefy and gasify. This condition alone brings countless difficulties, because it will evaporate.Especially after mining 1 ton of combustible ice, there was a problem in the preservation process. After a short time, there was less than 500 grams left, which was not worth the loss.There are also many difficulties in the refining and processing process. At present, various countries are constantly deepening their research, thinking that when oil resources are exhausted in the future, combustible ice can be used as a substitute.However!These problems are no longer a problem for Zhang Heng.No, to be more precise, they are not a problem in front of the mining ship.