Given the current situation at Base No. 1, it is obviously impossible to grow crops. First of all, Li Qingsong needs a stable source of heat so that the temperature inside Base No. 1 can always be maintained at a sufficient level. Secondly, Li Qingsong needed a stable source of electricity. After all, there was no sunlight on Luoshen Star, so he needed the illumination of fluorescent lamps. Fluorescent lamps are big consumers of electricity. These two needs cannot be met by the fission reactor on the landing spacecraft, because the amount of fission fuel left is too small, and it will be gone once it is used up. We must find a way to obtain energy supply from Luoshen. Li Qingsong's 12 brains began to think at the same time. "Then let's build a simple steam turbine and use it to drive a generator to generate electricity. At the same time, the waste heat can be reused and introduced into the base through pipes to increase the base's temperature." So, the two bodies that remained in the Deep Space spacecraft immediately began to learn about steam turbines, and the other two clones began to travel back and forth between the Deep Space spacecraft and the surface of Rosene, bringing down various necessary materials and parts. The remaining eight clones boarded the only two planetary vehicles and began to race across the dim, dark red land of Rosen.
They are looking for and collecting some minerals that will be needed later. The principle of a steam turbine is very simple. It generates high-pressure steam through the combustion of fuel, and then uses the high-pressure steam to drive the generator to generate electricity. But the principle is simple, but the execution is difficult. The two clones who stayed on the surface of Luoshen took great pains to use the existing tools and materials to assemble a steam engine. This steam engine is divided into two layers. The inner layer is a combustion chamber and boiler like an ordinary steam engine, and the outer layer is two independent thawing chambers. The two thawing chambers are connected to the outside world through a feed inlet respectively. While the steam engine was being built, the other clones were not idle either. They were busy removing the generator on the landing spacecraft that was originally connected to the nuclear fission reactor, and connecting it to the steam engine with gears and belts. At the same time, clones brought a large number of pipes from the Deep Space Spacecraft, both leather and metal. These pipes, which were only a few centimeters in diameter, were all connected together and then laid on the ground of Base No. 1 like floor heating pipes. Its inlet and outlet are also connected to the steam engine. After finishing all this, the clones who went out to collect minerals came back again in their planetary cars. The two trucks were each loaded with some minerals that were either transparent, milky white, dark red, or light blue. After unloading these two buckets of fuel, the temporary fuel storage area was completely full. "So... first ignition, start!" Li Qingsong made a solemn decision. Then, the two clones each carried a piece of ore - one was dark red, which was Thorin, and the other was light blue, which was solid oxygen, and put them in from the two feeding ports and let them enter the thawing room. The heat temporarily drawn from the nuclear fission reactor was transferred to the steam engine thawing chamber, causing the substances that had been frozen into hard solids by extremely low temperatures to slowly melt and slowly turn into gas. When the gas concentration reaches a certain level, the two different gases break through the preset barriers and enter the combustion chamber. Accompanied by the appearance of an electric spark, the mixture of the two gases immediately began to burn violently. In the boiler, the water that had been frozen into solid ice began to slowly melt under the heat, turning into liquid and then slowly starting to boil.
Feeling the slight shaking of the steam turbine caused by the boiling water, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy. The water boiled, steam began to be produced continuously, and the pressure increased. When the pressure is large enough, the heavy rotor is finally pushed and begins to rotate reluctantly. The rotational force is extended to the generator through the mechanical structure, and an electric current finally appears. Up ahead, in Base No. 1 which was pitch black due to power outage, the lights finally came on, bringing light back to this dark planet. But that’s not all that’s changed. As piece after piece of solid oxygen and tholin were thrown in, they were constantly heated, melted and began to burn. The steam that had completed the work on the rotor but still had extremely high heat extended to the "floor heating pipe" of Base No. 1 through the pipe connected to it. The surface of Base No. 1, which had long since cooled down, began to heat up again. The oxygen and nitrogen that had turned into snowflakes due to the extremely low temperature began to melt and rise again. The shriveled Base No. 1 began to swell again due to the appearance of these gases, and eventually returned to its original appearance. The cooled steam returns to the steam engine through the end of the pipe for new heating and new work, and is then led to Base No. 1, where it cools itself and raises the temperature of Base No. 1. Looking at this whole system that was organically combined and began to run smoothly, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy. With this steam engine, he now had a stable source of electricity. As for fuel, Li Qingsong was not worried at all. Billions of years of evolution and accumulation have allowed enough tholins to accumulate on the surface of Roselle. The total amount is probably as much as one trillion tons, which cannot be used up even if it is used casually. There are also many solid oxygen mines on Luoshen that act as oxidants. They can be mined at will when they are used up. At this moment, the temperature inside Base No. 1 was still relatively low, only around 0 degrees Celsius. But it didn't matter, Li Qingsong knew that this was because the steam engine had not yet run at full power. At the moment, there is not much demand for electricity, so there is no need for the steam engine to run at full power. Otherwise, the extra electricity would be wasted. After the steam engine was built, several clones began to work again. They kept riding the landing spacecraft to travel back and forth between the Deep Space Spacecraft and Base No. 1, dismantling all the equipment in the planting area on the spacecraft and bringing it to Base No. 1. At the same time, a grinding device was brought over. After the grinding equipment was connected, the steam engine could finally start running at full power. The temperature inside Base No. 1 began to rise rapidly, and finally stabilized at around 30 degrees Celsius. The grinder also began to run with a roar, grinding some ores containing potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus and other elements that Li Qingsong had found into powder. In the small Base No. 1, ten clones were busy.