Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

Fushun is a typical resource-based city that prospered and declined due to coal.

In fact, in addition to coal, shale oil reserves are also very abundant here.

For example, Fushun's largest west open-pit mine is the only coal mine in the world that integrates coal, shale oil, gas power generation and waste heat heating. It ranks seventh in the world among large open-pit mines.

Kangchi placed the experimental site here. In addition to the relatively superficial shale oil here, which is convenient for completing experimental tests quickly, there is actually another meaning in it...

As early as the beginning of the 18th century, the little bookmakers who defeated Lao Maozi in the north began to take control of the Fushun coalfield, and began to frantically plunder China's coal resources here.

Later, they built an oil factory here, using the oil shale here as raw material, and produced the first barrel of man-made oil in China.

And today,

Kangchi will use a brand-new technology to produce another barrel of artificial oil here that will set off China's oil revolution!

Ten o'clock in the morning.

The West Open-pit Mine actually stopped mining in 2019. Now it has been transformed into a comprehensive ecological park and even a coal mine museum has been built.

But today, the park suddenly announced that it would be temporarily closed and was placed under temporary control by the military.

At the bottom of the mine more than 400 meters away, the lowest point in mainland China, Chen Hai and others helped Kang Chi lift the curtain, and a silver cylindrical device appeared in everyone's sight.

"What is this?" Chief Lu looked at the equipment in front of him with some confusion, "Shield boring machine?"

"No, I call it an oil-mining insect." Kang Chi took out a drawing and explained to Chief Lu, "It can directly drill into the shale layer thousands of meters underground to complete the extraction of shale oil."

"!!?"

Chief Lu's expression suddenly changed, and he understood what Kang Chi said on the phone was "absolutely awesome", just how awesome it was!

"Are you sure? What is the oil production? How much does it cost? Will it destroy the underground rock structure and cause environmental damage?"

He asked several questions in a trembling tone.

Kang Chi shook his head: "I can only be sure about these questions after completing the test. Now they are just predictions, which may not be accurate."

"Then what are you waiting for? Start the experiment when you are ready!"

Seeing Chief Lu who was more anxious than himself, Kang Chi couldn't help but smile, then walked to the oil insect, unscrewed a piece of the shell, pointed to the transparent jar inside and said, "Look, this place is empty now."

After saying that, he reinstalled the casing and took out the remote control.

It is said to be a remote control, but in fact it is more like a thicker tablet computer, which is a bonus upgrade when the Oil Miner upgrades.

The upgraded oil-producing insect has multiple detectors installed in its body, which can scan the surrounding environment and create a virtual model, which is then displayed on the controller panel.

In this way, Kangchi can intuitively know the current location of the oil-producing insect and the environmental conditions around it, and at the same time design the mining route in advance.

After asking everyone to retreat to 20 meters, Kang Chi began to control the oil worms and crawled towards the exposed oil shale layer that had been stepped on in advance.

Seeing this scene, Chen Hai suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu...

This feeling...

Isn't it the digging toy Kang Chi used to play with at home? !

It turns out that thing is not a mud-playing machine at all, but a prototype of an oil-producing insect? !

When he was writing the weekly task report, what he reported to the superiors was that Zhou Kangchi was basically doing research and manufacturing lens manufacturing equipment at home. During this period, apart from eating, he went out to play with the digging toys he made...

Isn't this a joke? !

So embarrassing...

The main reason was that they had changed so much that even when he saw the oil bug that night, he couldn't connect the two things.

Chen Hai couldn't help but glance at Kang Chi, and then looked at his immediate boss standing next to Chief Lu with some guilt...

Um,

At that time, I seemed to have spent two hours digging in the mud before helping Dr. Kang find the equipment...

He has merit and is not afraid!

When Chen Hai calmed down and looked at the oil production machine again, its front drill bit finally came into contact with the rock wall.

With a harsh friction sound, the rock began to be broken into pieces, and then was collected into the oil-producing insect. After about five minutes, its body was halfway in.

At the same time, the dozens of holes on its butt also began to pull out the 'baba' in a rhythmic manner...

This daddy doesn't look like ordinary gravel, but geometric objects with different shapes.

At Kang Chi's instruction, a soldier walked up and brought back a piece of cake.

Everyone came up to take a look out of curiosity, and found that its structure was like attaching a four-sided pyramid to each face of a cube, which looked a bit like a simplified version of a spiked ball.

"During the mining process, the oil-producing insects will simply compress the refined gravel residue and turn it into more than a dozen different geometric shapes and discharge it from the back."

Kang Chi explained to everyone in a timely manner,

"When these geometric bodies are stacked together, there will be a large amount of air gaps to fill the reduction in rock formation material after the oil is collected. They are usually more resistant to pressure than the original rock formations. The principle is actually the same as that on the seaside. Flood control dams are a bit like this. This is to solve the problem of geological collapse caused by mining. We will also conduct specific pressure tests later."

Chief Lu nodded: "This design is quite simple and ingenious."

As the oil-producing insects drill deeper and deeper, everyone can only judge the location of the oil-producing insects through the screen of the remote control in Kangchi's hand.

After Kang Chi set the route, he actually had nothing to do. He could only explain various design principles of oil-producing insects to Chief Lu.

"During the collection process, considering the complexity of the rock formation, there will first be a simple material identification and screening. The oily liquid will flow into a special container, and the oily solid will enter the electrolysis furnace along the conveyor belt. Ordinary soil and rocks will Directly discharged..."

After more than an hour of Kang Chi's explanation, Chief Lu felt like his head was getting big...

Fortunately, not long after an hour passed, everyone began to hear the sound of drilling, and quickly focused their attention on the rock wall.

As the sound got louder and louder, about five minutes later, the oil-producing insect's head was close to the entrance, and it drilled a new hole from the side, leaving two circles close together in the rock formation. , which is filled with various geometric rock masses.

After the oil-producing insect stopped, everyone immediately gathered around it and watched closely as Kang Chi took off the previously disassembled shell again.

A jar filled with black liquid appeared in everyone's sight!

"Succeeded? Is it really oil?!"

"You'll know after testing it."

Kang Chi jumped down from the oil extraction machine, then walked to the oil extraction insect's ass, opened a cover, and pressed the button inside.

So next to the cover, another larger cover popped open, and a synthetic interface with four circular interfaces protruded from the inside.

"One of these four ports is an oil outlet, one is a charging port, and the remaining two are for replenishing water and catalyst."

After Kang Chi introduced it to Chief Lu, he connected a pipe prepared in advance to the oil outlet, and then pressed the oil drain option on the controller.

So everyone saw that the oil in the transparent jar inside the oil-producing insect began to pass through the tube at a speed visible to the naked eye, and was arranged in the container prepared in advance.

"498 kilograms!"

The technician temporarily borrowed from Fushun Petroleum Company read out the weight of the liquid in the container.

Then there’s the liquid testing.

"The content of hydrocarbon compounds is 97%, of which 85% is carbon, 12% is hydrogen, 3% is sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen and other trace elements, and the density is 0.87. It is a light petroleum!"

After hearing this result, the scene immediately became excited!