Universe dominance

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 waves of people in the company asking to see Li Fu, and each wave of people has a great background, or is someone from the world. Representatives from powerful countries, representatives from the world's top conglomerates, and people with well-established backgrounds in China are all very difficult to deal with.

Li Fuzhong also knew very well why they came. Fuyun Group holds the only spacecraft that can go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids. Asteroids are now synonymous with mountains of gold and silver. Just pull an asteroid there. From the Earth side, that would be a huge return of tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

So Li Fu simply chose to stay in space first and let Fang Zheng, who was good at dealing with these matters, handle it. He simply stayed in space to smelt the asteroids he brought back.

In the void not far from the Sky City, there is a huge solar space farm. It is currently the largest solar space farm in space, with an area of ​​more than 15 million square meters. The annual power generation is equivalent to almost 2 Since then, Fuyun Group has never had to worry about electricity, and it can even sell electricity to the outside world.

You must know that Fuyun Group is a behemoth now. After these years of development, the number of employees of Fuyun Group has reached millions. Various factories, laboratories, etc. are all full of electricity-eating monsters. Every day The electricity bills paid are hundreds of millions.

At this time, here at the solar farm, the asteroid brought back from the asteroid belt was dragged into the void by the spacecraft, maintaining the same speed as the solar farm, forming a relatively stationary state.

"Each unit reports on the situation."

Yu Liang, who was responsible for directing this asteroid smelting, gave the order in a loud voice.

"The power plant is ready."

"Metal separation team ready."

"Security team ready,"

"..."

Each team continued to report on the situation, and everything was ready.

"Start smelting asteroids."

After hearing the reports from each team, Yu Liang nodded with satisfaction and issued the order to smelt the asteroid.

As his order was issued, every solar panel in the solar farm began to rotate slowly. The supercomputer calculated everything. The angle and direction of each reflecting mirror were calculated by the supercomputer. The control is perfect!

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 brighter and dazzling.

The normal temperature in space is more than 100 degrees below zero. Now that more and more sunlight is gathering, the temperature of the void where the asteroid is located begins to increase sharply, quickly rising from more than 100 degrees below zero to a high temperature of several hundred degrees.

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

As more sunlight is concentrated on the asteroid, the temperature quickly rises to more than 1,000 degrees. At this time, the metal on the asteroid has begun to liquefy. This asteroid is almost composed of iron elements, and the melting point of iron is 1,000 Many degrees.

Because all the sunlight gathered is controlled by supercomputing, and the amount of sunlight controlled by the computer is determined based on the temperature on the asteroid.

The sunlight collected by this iron-containing asteroid always keeps its temperature at about 2,000 degrees. This temperature can melt the entire asteroid the fastest, and at the same time, it will not reach the boiling point of iron due to the temperature being too high, causing the molten iron to melt. Give evaporation.

The outside of the asteroid has melted into molten iron, but the inside is still solid. It needs to be continuously heated 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 melted molten iron and shape it according to the required shape at the same time.

You must know that there is no gravity or is only affected by microgravity in space. All liquids appear in a spherical structure. The huge and red molten iron balls are attracted and shaped by strong magnetism, shaping them into individual shapes. Various parts were cooled by the ultra-low temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero in space. These parts quickly turned from red to black.

The strength and hardness of the metal smelted in this way is very high, and because it is smelted in space, it is just like kneading noodles. You can knead it into any shape you want, and smelt it into as big a size 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 9 million tons of iron was smelted into various parts. The mechanical arm on the Dumbo spacecraft was dragged back to Sky City for use. Some Oversized parts, because they are too long, can only be transported to a special place for display.

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

The method and speed of metal smelting in the interstellar era far surpassed that of the terrestrial era. Nearly ten 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 have mined is still too small. It has only been an hour, and one asteroid has been completely smelted. It doesn't feel satisfying enough."

When Yu Liang saw the empty void, he curled his lips slightly. The efficiency of using space solar energy to smelt metal was really too high. Nearly 10 million tons of metal were easily not only smelted, but also processed into what he wanted. Parts, this speed is definitely not comparable to relying on smelting furnaces on the ground.

"In the future, there will be plenty of 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 was also in urgent need of a large number of spaceships to go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.

"Hey, with nearly 5 million tons of steel this time, we can build a larger spacecraft. By then, bringing back hundreds of millions of tons of asteroids at a time 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 spacecraft is just a spaceship larger than the space shuttle. It can only drag 10 million tons of asteroids at most. This is already its limit. It's the limit.

In the planning, Fuyun Group actually wants to build a larger spacecraft, the "Djinn God" spacecraft. The "Djinn God" spacecraft will be ten times the size of the current Dumbo spacecraft. The engine alone It is 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.

Just to build such a huge spacecraft, the steel resources consumed will be very huge, and because of its large mass and strong thrust, the core keel must be a whole piece forged at one time. If it is split into many If the parts are assembled again, they will not be able to withstand its huge thrust.

There is no problem processing such huge parts on the ground, but there are no tools to transport them to space, and the aerospace plane is only a few dozen meters long.

Therefore, if you want to manufacture such huge parts and then create the "Djinn God" aerospace plane, you must smelt metal in space, forge parts, and complete the core keel and parts directly in space.

This is why Li Fu built the space solar farm first, because it is used to smelt asteroids. The asteroids are mined, smelted directly in space, and super large parts are forged at one time for the next step. Prepare for a bigger spaceship.

If you want to build space battleships and so on in the future, you will naturally have to do it step by step. It is absolutely impossible to build large spaceships and space battleships just on the ground.

"I feel depressed after saying this. Originally, we could just build 20 'Djinn God' spaceships this time, but half of them were given to the country. I guess they will definitely give these steel resources to It's a waste, their eyes are always fixed on the moon, and they need a lot of steel to bloom everywhere on the moon and seize resources. "

Chen Bin on the side also shook his head helplessly. The country required that the newly smelted steel be made into a single piece of steel plate according to standard specifications. At a glance, it was clear that it was for use on the moon, not for use on the moon. Used to build spacecraft.

"What's so depressing? Countries all over the world are now fighting fiercely on the moon. The far side of the moon has almost been carved up. I heard that the chickens and nanbangzi are fighting each other for a piece of territory on the far side of the moon. , It’s really almost a lunar version of World War.”

"It is also a good thing for China that our country has more resources on the moon. We have occupied 80% 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 moon is very rich in various resources.”

"Even if we mine 10 million asteroids in the asteroid belt, we still won't be able to make it into 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 smiled and shook his head. Fuyun Group also occupies a huge territory on the moon, and it is very clear how rich the resources on the moon are.