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Chapter 225 The Vision of the Space City

"I have a question, I wonder if Mr. Lu can answer it for me."

Old Morgan looked at Lu Chen with a hint of doubt on his face.

Seeing this, Lu Chen casually stretched out his hand, saying that it's okay.

The old Morgan said frankly: "As far as I know, Mr. Lu has mining companies in more than 30 countries in Africa, and even 80% of the minerals in [-] countries are monopolized by your company, and the global steel production capacity has tended to Saturation, the production capacity of iron and steel enterprises in various countries is obviously excess, why do you want two companies, BHP and ArcelorMittal?"

This is what old Morgan couldn't figure out after thinking about it for a long time.

To say that Arclight Automobile Company is short of steel raw materials is completely nonsense.

Although the Arclight Automobile Company sells tens of millions of cars every year, how many tons of steel does the tens of millions of cars consume?

Take last year's sales of arc cars as an example.

Last year, the total sales of Arclight Automobiles reached 1987 million units. Based on the average steel consumption of an Arclight Automobile of 1.5 tons, the total amount of steel required by Arclight Automobiles for a year is only 2980.5 million tons.

But no matter what the old Morgan did, the steel production capacity of the company under Lu Chen's command was more than 2980.5 million tons.

For example, ArcelorMittal, which he sold to Lu Chen, had a steel production capacity of 1.5 million tons last year, far exceeding Lu Chen's total demand.

When Lu Chen heard the old Morgan's question, he smiled and said, "Mr. Morgan, the question you want to ask is why do I need so much steel?"

"Yes."

Old Morgan nodded.

This is indeed what he is most curious about.

Arc light car should be the most steel-consuming project in Lu Chen's company that he can think of.

Besides, what else could Lu Chen use the steel for?

Build intelligent robots?

Compared with the steel consumption of Arclight Automobile, the steel required by the T-1 intelligent robot is not worth mentioning at all.

Although Chensheng Intelligent Robot Company is the second most profitable company of Chensheng Technology Group, in terms of sales volume, it is not at the same level as Arclight Automobile.

Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and said, "If I say, I want to use these steels to build a space station, would you believe me?"

Hearing this, Old Morgan looked at Lu Chen with a foolish expression.

As we all know, even the largest international space station in the world now has a total weight of more than 400 tons.

More importantly, the construction of a space station is not a railway. Its main consumables are not steel, but nanomaterials that are resistant to high temperature, high pressure, cold and radiation.

In addition, the materials used to make the outer shell of the International Space Station also need high electrical resistivity.

Because the space station revolves around the earth, changes in the geomagnetism lead to changes in the magnetic flux of the outer shell of the space station, generating an induced electromotive force, which in turn generates an induced current.

In order to avoid this induced current, the shell material of the space station will use high-resistance materials.

In material science, there has never been a perfect material, only the most suitable material.

For example, the armor alloy used to manufacture swift mechanical bugs——T-2 aluminum-iron alloy.

As an armor material, it is the most advanced armor material with the best performance in the world. Its shear resistance, compressive strength and hardness are unmatched by other armor materials in the world.

But it is not suitable as the main material of the space station, because it is too heavy and the cost of transporting it to outer space is too high.

After all, it can be heard from Lu Chen's words that he is not just playing tricks.

Seemingly seeing Lu Chen's prevarication, Old Morgan didn't say anything more, and hung up the video in a hurry.

After Lu Chen ended the call with the other party.

Immediately fell into silence.

He wasn't talking nonsense just now, he really had the idea of ​​building a space station.

Or
The idea of ​​a space city.

With the scientific and technological level of Civilization Science Academy and the industrial level of Civilization Science City, Lu Chen is fully capable of doing this.

Now I want to build a space city.

There are two biggest difficulties.

First, how to transport the construction materials or the initial parts of the space city, that is, the transportation capacity.

This point has been solved by the aircraft research team led by Lu Zhou.

That is the mysterious aerospace transport aircraft.

According to the gossip that Lu Zhou disclosed to him, this aerospace transport aircraft is not a "parallel importer" like the Banshee fighter that can only fly in outer space for a short time.

It is a transport aircraft capable of flying in outer space for a long time, or a space transport ship.

Just one thing, this aerospace transport aircraft uses a nuclear fusion engine that has never been seen before.

This is also Lu Xing's breakthrough in nuclear fusion miniaturization technology, and Lu Zhou dared to lead the design of this aerospace transport aircraft.

Once this aerospace transport aircraft is developed.

It indicates that the Civilized Science City will completely lead the world and enter the interstellar era ahead of schedule.

In fact, when the controllable nuclear fusion technology made a breakthrough, Lu Chen knew that this day would come sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

The second difficulty is the self-circulation ability of the space city.

Because outer space is not like the earth, it is an extremely harsh environment that is cold, desolate, has no gravity, and has super radiation.

If you want to build a city suitable for human survival in outer space, there are too many difficulties that need to be solved.

As an independent biosphere, the ability of self-circulation must be in the first place.

This is even more important than artificial gravity.

Because artificial gravity can also be artificially created by using centrifugal force, but the self-circulation ability of the biosphere cannot be done casually.

The self-circulation of the biosphere has a characteristic, that is, the larger the biosphere, the stronger its self-circulation ability.

As the largest biosphere known to mankind, the earth has the strongest self-circulation ability.

Everything on Earth, including humans, is part of this biosphere.

However, as the biosphere decreases, its self-circulation ability will also continue to weaken.

For example, people often find that a pond without running water will slowly become a pool of stagnant water.

From a biological point of view, the fragile self-circulation ability of this pond has collapsed.

This is the precursor of the pond itself participating in the exchange of external substances, not an independent biosphere.

But Space City is different.

Once the construction is successful, it will float in an environment at least 400 kilometers away from the earth, no longer participate in any material cycle of the earth, and exist as an independent biosphere.

At present, the most successful artificial biosphere created by humans is actually none other than others.

It is the underground city of the Academy of Civilization and Science.

As an underground city with a depth of 1700 meters, it needs to consume a huge amount of resources every day, and it is impossible to completely rely on external transportation.

Therefore, when this underground city was built, the design of self-circulation was taken into consideration.

As the Academy of Civilization Sciences continues to grow and its scientific research capabilities become more and more abnormal, the researchers in the Academy of Civilization Sciences are constantly improving the self-circulation design of the city.

This is how the Academy of Civilization and Science looks like it is today.

It can be said that the Academy of Civilization Sciences is not without foundation in terms of the self-circulation ability of the biosphere.

(End of this chapter)