cosmic hegemony

Chapter 190, Smelting Asteroids
Li Fu did not return to the ground for the time being, because Li Fu already knew from his secretary Ding Xuan that there are now dozens of people from the company asking to see Li Fu, and each of these people has a lot of background, or is a member of the world. Representatives from powerful countries, or representatives from the world's top consortiums, and even people with great backgrounds in China, are very difficult targets to deal with.

Li Fu also knows why they came here. Fuyun Group holds the only spacecraft that can go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids, and asteroids are now synonymous with gold mountains and silver mountains. Just drag an asteroid to the From this side of the earth, it is also a huge return of tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

So Li Fu simply chose to stay in space first, let Fang Zheng, who is good at handling these things, deal with it, and he simply stayed in space to smelt the asteroids he brought back.

In the void not far from Sky City, there is a huge solar space power plant, which is currently the largest solar space power plant in space, with an area of ​​more than 1500 million square meters and a yearly power generation equivalent to almost Three Gorges, so that since then, Fuyun Group has never had to worry about electricity, and can even sell electricity to outsiders.

You must know that the current Fuyun Group is a giant. After these years of development, the number of employees of Fuyun Group has reached millions. All kinds of factories, laboratories, etc. are all electricity-swallowing monsters. The electricity bills paid are in the hundreds of millions.

At this time, in the solar power field, the asteroid brought back from the asteroid belt is dragged into the void by the spacecraft, and maintains the same speed as the solar power field, forming a relatively static state.

"All units report the situation."

Yu Liang, who was in charge of directing this asteroid smelting, gave the order loudly.

"The power plant is ready."

"Metal separation group ready."

"Security group is ready,"

"..."

The teams continued to report the situation, and everything was ready.

"Start smelting asteroids."

Yu Liang heard the reports from each team, nodded in satisfaction, and gave the order to smelt asteroids.

As his order was issued, every solar panel in the solar farm began to slowly rotate, and the supercomputer calculated everything, and the angle and direction of each mirror were determined by the supercomputer. Controlled, not bad at all!
Rays of sunlight began to gather on the asteroid placed in space. There was no reaction at first, but as more and more sunlight gathered, the space where the asteroid was located began to become bright and dazzling.

The normal temperature in space is more than minus 100 degrees. Now that more and more sunlight is gathering, the temperature of the void where the asteroid is located begins to increase sharply, and soon rises from minus 100 degrees to hundreds of degrees.

At this time, some gas and water on the asteroid began to evaporate and escape, and were collected by the collectors prepared long ago. In space, resources are very precious, and even the smallest mosquito meat must be collected.

As more sunlight concentrated on the asteroid, the temperature quickly rose to more than 1000 degrees. At this time, the metal on the asteroid had begun to liquefy. This asteroid was almost composed of iron, and the melting point of iron was 1000 Excessive.

Because the concentrated sunlight is all controlled by supercomputing, and at the same time, the amount of sunlight that is controlled by the computer is determined according to the temperature on the asteroid.

For this iron-containing asteroid, the mobilized sunlight always keeps its temperature around 2000 degrees. This temperature can melt the entire asteroid as quickly as possible, and at the same time, it will not reach the boiling point of iron due to excessive temperature, allowing the molten iron to melt. to evaporate.

The outside of the asteroid has melted into molten iron, but the inside is still solid. It needs to be heated continuously to make the iron inside melt into molten iron. The temperature of about 2000 degrees is just right, but it just takes some time.

At the same time, two strange machines use long magnetic pliers to continuously use magnetism to attract the molten iron that has been melted, and simultaneously shape it according to the required shape.

You must know that in space, there is no gravity or is only affected by microgravity. All liquids appear in spherical structures. The huge and red iron balls are shaped by strong magnetic attraction and shaped into individual bodies. All kinds of parts were cooled by the ultra-low temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero in space, and these parts quickly turned from red to black.

The strength and hardness of the metal smelted in this way are very high, and because it is smelted in space, it is like rubbing noodles. You can make any shape you want, and you can smelt it into as big as you want. It is better than assembled parts. I don't know how many times.

In less than an hour, this asteroid containing more than 900 million tons of iron was smelted into various parts. The mechanical arm on the Dumbo spacecraft was dragged back to Sky City to wait for use. Oversized parts, because they are too long, can only be transported to a special place for placement.

These parts need further processing before they can be used. For example, the stress inside the metal can also be eliminated by placing them in space.

The method and speed of smelting metals in the interstellar era far surpassed that of the terrestrial era. Nearly 1 million tons of steel were smelted in one hour, and processed into parts at the same time. The power of technology is so great!

"It seems that the number of asteroids we mined is still too small. It's only been an hour, and an asteroid has been smelted clean. It doesn't feel enjoyable enough."

Seeing the empty void, Yu Liang curled his lips slightly. The efficiency of using space solar energy to smelt metals is really too high. Nearly [-] million tons of metals are not only smelted, but also processed into what he wants. Parts, this speed is definitely not comparable to relying on smelting furnaces on the ground.

"In the future, there will be asteroids for you to smelt. The key now is to create more spaceships."

Li Fu on the side smiled slightly. Almost all the steel smelted this time was used to make new spaceships. Li Fu now urgently needs a large number of spaceships to go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.

"Hey, with nearly 500 million tons of steel this time, we can build larger spaceships, and when the time comes to bring back hundreds of millions of tons of asteroids at a time, it will be enough for us to use for a while."

Yu Liang's eyes lit up when he heard about the construction of a new spaceship. The Dumbo spaceship is just a spaceship larger than the space shuttle, and it can only drag 1000 million tons of asteroids at most. The limit is reached.

In the plan, Fuyun Group actually wants to build a larger spaceship, the "Giant Spirit God" spacecraft. The "Giant Spirit God" spacecraft will be ten times the size of the current Dumbo spacecraft. The engine alone It is enough to be comparable to an aerospace plane, and its thrust will be enough to pull a massive asteroid with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons.

It’s just that building such a huge spaceship will consume a huge amount of steel resources, and because of its high mass and strong thrust, the core keel must be a whole piece that is forged at one time. If the parts are assembled again, it will not be able to withstand its huge thrust.

Naturally, there is no problem in processing such a huge part on the ground, but there is simply no tool that can be transported into space, and the aerospace plane is only tens of meters long.

Therefore, if you want to manufacture such huge parts, and then manufacture the "giant spirit god" aerospace plane, you must smelt metals in space, forge parts, and complete the core keel and parts directly in space.

This is why Li Fu first built a space solar power plant, because it is used to smelt asteroids, mining asteroids, directly smelting them in space, forging super-large parts at one time, and building them for the next step Prepare for a larger spaceship.

In the future, if you want to build space battleships, etc., you will naturally have to do it step by step. It is absolutely impossible to say that you want to build large-scale spaceships and space battleships just by relying on the ground.

"I'm depressed when I say this. Originally, we were able to build 20 'Giant Spirit God' spaceships this time, but the country gave half of them. I guess they will definitely give these steel resources to Waste it, they have been staring at the moon, blooming everywhere on the moon, seizing resources, and need a lot of steel."

Chen Bin on the side also shook his head helplessly. The steel that has just been smelted is required by the country to be made into a whole piece of steel plate according to the standard specifications. It is obvious at a glance that it is used on the moon, not Used to build spaceships.

"What's so depressing about this, now all countries in the world are fighting fiercely on the moon, and the back of the moon has almost been divided up. I heard that Foot Pot Chicken and Nan Bangzi are fighting each other for a piece of land on the back of the moon. , It’s really almost staged a lunar version of World War.”

"Our country is now occupying more resources on the moon. It is also a good thing for us in China. We have occupied 8% of the resources on the moon. We will not have to worry about resources for a long time in the future. After all, the moon is far away from our earth. The nearest planet, and the various resources on the moon are very rich."

"Even if we mine 1000 million asteroids in the asteroid belt, we won't be able to become the moon, and we have to travel hundreds of millions of kilometers. Old Tang and the others see it much more clearly than we do."

Li Fu on the side shook his head with a smile. The Fuyun Group also occupied a huge territory on the moon, and he knew very well how rich the resources on the moon were.

(End of this chapter)