The performance of this material is undoubtedly extremely superior. Moreover, this material can not only be used in space elevators, but it can also play an extremely important role in other aspects. For example, battleship armor. If we add some of this material to the armor layer of a warship, which plays a role similar to that of steel bars in concrete, how strong will the armor of the warship be? How much will its survivability be improved? If it is applied in the manufacturing of various industrial equipment, how much will their stability and reliability be improved? No matter how you look at it, this material has the potential for large-scale application. But there was just one problem. Its production is too low. Even if Li Qingsong planned a large-scale mass production line - this kind of production line is extremely large in scale and the process is extremely complex. One production line would probably need to occupy more than 100,000 square meters, which is equivalent to a large factory. It can only produce about 2,000 cubic meters of this material on average per day, and about 730,000 cubic meters per year. This material is very light, only about one thousandth of water, so the annual output is only 730 tons.
This output may seem high, but to build a space elevator on Ganymede, its diameter must reach 10 meters and its length must reach about 45,000 kilometers. In this way, the volume of the space elevator itself will reach about billion cubic meters. Even if this production line is operating at full capacity, it will take about 5,000 years to produce enough to build a space elevator. This is clearly unacceptable. However, due to the limitations of current technological level, the production capacity of a single production line cannot be increased any further. If humans were in this situation, all they would have to do is continue to find ways to improve the process, enhance the performance of the material, and try to build the space elevator using less of the material, while also finding ways to increase production capacity and produce more material. But Li Qingsong is different. A production line would take 5,000 years to produce enough material? Doesn't this mean that if I have 1,000 production lines, it will only take five years? If I build 2,500 production lines, it will only take two and a half years? In that case, what else is there to say? Just create! Anyway, all kinds of basic industrial facilities are now complete, steel production capacity is extremely abundant, electricity is extremely abundant, and all resources are extremely abundant. Therefore, under Li Qingsong's plan, a huge plain with an area of 300 square kilometers on Ganymede immediately began its preliminary leveling. Compared with Li Qingsong's current population of only 15 million, it seems a bit unrealistic to carry out construction on an area of 300 square kilometers. But don’t forget that Li Qingsong’s industrial AI has been trained for so many years, and the data used in training are all produced from real factories, with extremely high quality and huge quantity. And in actual large-scale use, it is constantly iterating and improving. Although his most advanced chip at the moment is only 20 nanometers, which is far lower than the 2-nanometer silicon-based chips and more advanced quantum computers in the human world, Li Qingsong dares to say that this set of industrial and construction AI is far inferior to the most advanced and intelligent human AI in performance. At this moment, tens of thousands of excavators, bulldozers, large trucks, mixers, etc. produced by Ganymede and capable of working well on the land of Ganymede were temporarily taken over by the traffic AI under the unified deployment of the Jade Emperor AI and arrived at the construction site using the intelligent driving mode. After the transportation was completed, the construction AI took over and began to control these intelligent vehicles to work on the desolate land of Ganymede. Hundreds of thousands of clones also joined in. Some of them performed complex tasks that AI could not complete, while others took on responsibilities such as system maintenance, remote control, and decision-making.
The initial leveling and reinforcement of 300 square kilometers took just over two months to complete. At this time, a large number of construction materials from other factories, special concrete used to isolate the surface and factory buildings, steel used to build factory buildings, pipes for transporting liquids, wires for transmitting electricity, and even spare parts for various processing machinery, food for the clones, space suits for the clones, water for them to drink, and so on, were all transported directly by the huge fleet and railway lines controlled by the transportation AI. A mountain of materials and a sea of materials are gathering here. Along with the materials, there is also a surge of electricity and the infinite computing power provided by the supercomputing base. With the unimaginably efficient construction, all kinds of buildings have sprung up like mushrooms on the originally desolate and silent land. Factory buildings, roads, laboratories, processing rooms... Finally, after two and a half years, Li Qingsong completed the construction of a production base for this material named Fiber Zero. A total of 2,500 production lines and their supporting facilities, power plants, supercomputing bases, maintenance and support bases, etc., have all been completed. Under the surging power supply from the nuclear fission power plant, 2,500 production lines started operating at the same time. There are six million wire drawers in each production line. Each wire drawer can draw 20 meters of thin wire with a diameter of only 50 microns, which is barely visible to the naked eye, per second. A wire drawing machine can draw about million meters of this wire in a day. Six million wire drawers work simultaneously, producing six million silk threads, each million meters long, which are wound together to form a thick cable with a diameter of about 7 centimeters. 2,500 production lines can produce million kilometers of this cable with a diameter of about 7 cm in a day! At this moment, nine standard cables, each with a length of 5,000 kilometers, were welded together using special welding methods. Its total length reaches 45,000 kilometers, but its total mass is only more than 170 tons. Along with the mass production of fiber-0, the construction of the space elevator also started simultaneously. Building a space elevator at the equator of Ganymede, where the orbital speed is the fastest, requires the shortest cable length. Li Qingsong selected a suitable place to build the ground base of the space elevator based on a comprehensive consideration of geology, distance from mineral bases and industrial clusters, etc. The massive construction started again. Here, Li Qingsong dug a large pit with a diameter of 20 meters and a depth of 10,000 meters. At the bottom of the pit, Li Qingsong started horizontal excavation and eventually dug out an underground fixed layer with an area of 300,000 square meters under the thick rock and ice layers of Ganymede. One end of the space elevator cable extends here. Here, Li Qingsong started construction again, using a huge fixing device to fix one end of the cable here, and at the same time began to pour a large amount of reinforced concrete to fix the fixing device here again. In this way, the space elevator can rely on Ganymede's rock and ice layers, which are 10,000 meters thick, to stabilize itself without having to worry about being pulled away.
