Moreover, the cost of this battleship will gradually decline with the continuous improvement of the production capacity of the industrial assembly line, and the cost of the construction will only be lower than this at that time.

The value of a 36,000-kilometer carbon nanotube cable alone has reached more than 2 trillion yuan, not including the cost of using funds to smash the carbon nanotube research industry in the early stage, so that its production capacity can make a breakthrough and carry out large-scale industrial assembly lines to produce carbon nanotubes.

During the construction of the space elevator, there is no output at all, it is a huge, one-time investment in infrastructure, it takes I don't know how many years to pay off the deficit of this investment, and even we don't know the operating value of the space elevator, whether it can cover its operating costs.

In the connection between the Earth, at this stage, it is enough to have a third-generation ion engine to break through the atmosphere, and then use an electromagnetic propulsion engine to move in space.

Only when the economic development of space reaches a sufficient level and it is necessary to establish a large-scale trade system with the earth, will there be a large-capacity project as expensive as a space elevator.

Similar to the development of urban groups to the extent that high-speed rail will become economical, cars cannot replace the huge capacity of high-speed rail, but cars are definitely cheaper than high-speed rail.

Moreover, there is no high-speed rail in Amejian, and in the foreseeable future, intercontinental high-speed rail is not economically viable, so the space elevator, which is worse than the high-speed rail economy, is an unworkable way.

And not to mention the technical difficulty and 0 fault tolerance, the maintenance alone will drive all the engineers crazy.

At least 36,000 kilometers of cables, even if the future carbon nanotube materials have been broken through, what about the later maintenance?

Such a cable will never allow the slightest problem to arise, but hundreds of thousands of meteorites fall to the earth every day, and most of the meteorites are cremated in the atmosphere, but the space elevator breaks through the atmosphere.

Moreover, any meteorite has a speed of more than Mach 32, as long as the cable is touched once, it will be over, and then the broken cable will cause a global catastrophe.

When Ye Fan heard this, he also touched his chin and fell into contemplation.

Origins concerns are not entirely unreasonable, and the amount of money required is terrifying, astronomical to the point of unimaginable.

But as long as the funding problem is solved, the remaining problems can be solved.

Don't look at the figure of 36 million tons and 180 space battleships, which is very bluffing, but in fact, this production capacity is not much, that is, the current production capacity of Datang Heavy Industries in one month.

The domestic steel production capacity alone has exceeded 10 trillion tons, not including the world's steel production capacity.

Not to mention Datang Heavy Industry, mines, steel plants, and chemical plants are slightly larger, and the weight of equipment and plants is calculated in 10,000 tons.

In 01, Shagang moved to a steel plant in Europe, and the total amount of equipment has reached 250,000 tons, and there are more than 1,000 such tonnage equipment in Datang Heavy Industry.

Why did Ye Fan spend so much money to build a space elevator? To put it bluntly, if you want to get rich in the space age, you can build roads first. 12345

"Actually, master, you could have taken this money and done a lot of things, there is no need to invest in this huge project, you can let two space battleships go into space,

Equipped with relevant machinery and equipment to build a large-scale unmanned factory on a synchronous track, in terms of intelligent robots, we have accumulated experience during this time,

It has far surpassed everyone, and the project of smelting steel, even intelligent robots can cope with it, because it does not require precise work ability like some projects.

At this time, the floating cities that will be launched into space will be used to open relevant industrial chains and build the first batch of space fleets.

Then our footprints are all over the entire solar system, the total cost is not more than three trillion, in the space age related technology and industrial chain, etc., all the time is full, the cost of building a space elevator will continue to decrease. ”

"Under the conditions of the current stage, the space elevator is already considered a luxury, even if there may be an imminent crisis in the future of mankind, and this crisis may be advanced.

We can also use the space fleet developed in the future to allow a small number of people to escape, so that the fire of humanity can continue, instead of being destroyed in the solar system, no matter what the choice,

Its priority is much higher than that of the space elevator, the space elevator is not that it cannot be built, but at the current stage, there is no need to be the first to build, the stakes in this, please think deeply. ”

The voice of the origin is very sincere, it is completely traveling as a job as an assistant, trying to help Ye Fan with questions.

Generally, companies and management teams will hire professionals as their think tanks to avoid losses for themselves or the company due to their own judgment errors.

Ye Fan had never hired any members of the Intelligence Group, but he was still able to make the right decisions again and again, for no other reason, just because there was an origin to give advice in the rear.

In many things, the origin can use its powerful computing power to make judgments on relevant things, and give some priority reports to determine whether this thing can be done in the current period, or when.

Therefore, even in the eyes of others, it is a loss-making business, such as donating 180 billion yuan to 18 universities on the sanctions list, or directly investing 200 billion yuan to build the world's largest particle collider.

When making some major decisions, it is indispensable to let the origin conduct relevant data analysis.

If the results are good, then invest, if the results are not good, or if the priority is low, put them in the later schedule, and plan later.

And this time the space elevator was also directly opposed by the origin.

"At the current stage, although it is not suitable to build a space elevator, to be honest, the only thing that bothers us is the problem of funding, if the funds are sufficient,

We can either develop the huge gathering fleet you are talking about, or we can build a space elevator, which is the best of both worlds. ”

"Master, but from the current situation, we don't have such abundant funds." Origin replied, revealing two question marks in his glasses.