The performance of this material is undoubtedly extremely superior.

Furthermore, this material can be used not only for the space elevator but also for other crucial applications.

For example, warship armor.

If he were to add some of this material to the armor layers of warships, acting similarly to rebar in concrete, how much would the warship's armor strength increase? How much would its survivability improve?

When applied to the manufacturing of various industrial equipment, how much would their stability and reliability improve?

No matter how you look at it, this material has the potential for large-scale application.

But there's one problem.

Its output is too low.

Even with the large-scale mass production line planned by Tom—a production line of immense scale and extremely complex craftsmanship, with a single line likely occupying over a hundred thousand square meters, equivalent to a large factory—it can only produce approximately 2,000 cubic meters of this material per day on average, totaling about 730,000 cubic meters per year.

This material is very light, only about one-thousandth the density of water, so the annual output is merely 730 tons.

This output may seem high, but to build a space elevator on Ganymede, its diameter needs to reach 10 meters, and its length needs to be about 45,000 kilometers.

As a result, the space elevator itself would have a volume of approximately 3.534 billion cubic meters. Even if this production line operated at full capacity, it would take nearly 5,000 years to produce enough material to construct one space elevator.

This is clearly unacceptable.

However, due to current technological limitations, the capacity of a single production line simply cannot be increased further.

If it were humanity, facing such a situation, the only options would be to continue finding ways to improve the process, enhance the performance of this material, attempt to build the space elevator with less of it, and simultaneously find ways to increase production capacity to produce more material.

But Tom is different.

A single production line takes 5,000 years to produce enough material?

Doesn't that mean if he had 1,000 production lines, it would only take five years?

If he built 2,500 production lines, it would only take two years?

Since that's the case, what's there to say? Build!

Anyway, various basic industrial facilities are now complete, steel production capacity is extremely abundant, electricity is extremely abundant, and all resources are extremely abundant.

Thus, under Tom's planning, a vast plain on Ganymede, spanning 300 square kilometers, immediately began preliminary leveling.

Compared to Tom's current population of only 15 million, undertaking construction across an area of 300 square kilometers might seem unrealistic.

But don't forget, Tom's industrial AI has been trained for so many years, and the data used for training all came from real factory front lines, of extremely high quality and immense quantity.

And in actual large-scale use, it has continuously iterated and improved.

Although his current most advanced chip is only 20 nanometers, far inferior to the human world's 2-nanometer silicon-based chips and more advanced quantum computers, Tom dares to say that even compared to the most advanced and intelligent human AI, the performance of this set of industrial and construction AI is far superior.

At this moment, tens of thousands of excavators, bulldozers, large trucks, mixers, and other vehicles produced on Ganymede, capable of working well on the Ganymede surface, arrived at the construction site under the unified dispatch of the Hestia AI, temporarily taken over by the traffic AI using intelligent driving mode.

After completing transportation, the construction AI took over, beginning to control these intelligent vehicles as they started working on the desolate surface of Ganymede.

Hundreds of thousands of clones also joined in. Some of them performed complex tasks that the AI could not complete, while others took on responsibilities such as system maintenance, remote control, and decision-making.

The initial leveling and reinforcement of the 300 square kilometer area were completed in just over two months.

At this time, numerous building materials from other factories, special concrete for isolating the ground from the factory buildings, steel for constructing the factory buildings, pipes for conveying liquids, wires for transmitting electricity, and even repair spare parts for various processing machinery, food for the clones, their spacesuits, and water, etc., were all transported directly by the massive fleet and railway lines controlled by the traffic AI.

Materials like mountains and seas converged here. Along with the materials, surging electricity and infinite computing power from the supercomputing base also gathered.

Amidst unimaginably efficient construction, various buildings emerged like mushrooms after rain on the formerly desolate and silent land.

Factory buildings, roads, laboratories, processing rooms...

Finally, after two and a half years, Tom completed the construction of the production base for this material, named zero fiber.

A total of 2,500 production lines, along with their supporting facilities such as power plants, supercomputing bases, and maintenance support bases, were all completed.

Under the surging power supply from the nuclear fission power plants, all 2,500 production lines began operating simultaneously.

Each production line contains six million wire drawing dies, and each die can draw 20 meters per second of this barely visible fine thread, with a diameter of only 50 micrometers.

A single wire drawing die can produce approximately 1.72 million meters of this thread per day.

When six million wire drawing dies work simultaneously, the six million threads, each 1.72 million meters long, are wound together to form a thick cable with a diameter of approximately 7 centimeters.

2,500 production lines can produce 4.3 million kilometers of this approximately 7-centimeter diameter cable per day!

At this moment, nine standard-specification cables, each 5,000 kilometers long, were welded together using a special welding method.

Its total length reached 45,000 kilometers, but its total mass was only a little over 170 tons.

With the large-scale production of zero fiber, space elevator construction also began simultaneously.

At Ganymede's equator, where its orbital velocity is fastest—building the space elevator here requires the shortest cable length—Tom selected a suitable location for the space elevator's ground-end base, considering geology, proximity to mineral bases, and industrial clusters.

Massive construction resumed.

Here, Tom dug a massive pit with a diameter of 20 meters and a depth of 10,000 meters.

At the bottom of this pit, Tom then began horizontal excavation, ultimately excavating a 300,000 square meter underground anchoring layer beneath Ganymede's thick rock and ice layers.

One end of the space elevator cable extended to this point.

Here, Tom again began construction, using a massive anchoring device to fix one end of the cable here, while simultaneously pouring large amounts of reinforced concrete to further secure this anchoring device in place.

This way, this space elevator could anchor itself using Ganymede's 10,000-meter-thick rock and ice layers, without worrying about being pulled away.

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