Chapter 167, Lushan
After inspecting Galaxy Aerospace's first anti-gravity vehicle production line, Qin Yi also walked non-stop towards a larger plant.
Plant A001, a workshop dedicated to the manufacture of large anti-gravity spaceships, is too large.
It is hundreds of meters high, hundreds of meters wide, and more than a dozen kilometers long.
Because this factory is too big, Qin Yi and the others are not allowed to take the convertible car dedicated to the interior, if they rely on walking, it must be very tiring and time-consuming.
With such a huge factory, it has many doors, except for the main gate at both ends, the doors used to transport parts on the side are very large, and when it is opened and closed, it seems that a huge wall is moving.
In the huge factory, a large number of scientists, engineers, researchers, and many newly recruited college students and engineers are busy around the two huge anti-gravity spaceships.
These two anti-gravity spaceships are very large, like a huge house, they have not yet been fully built, and the skeleton and internal structure of the spacecraft can still be seen in some places, but the size of the spacecraft can still be seen.
The two spaceships were so big that when they built them, engineers and scientists had to design a lot of mechanical tripods, towers, and so on around the spaceship, just like building a house.
Heavy lifters and equipment are also required on top of the huge factory building to transport large parts for assembly.
Unlike small anti-gravity vehicles, large anti-gravity spacecraft simply cannot be produced in an assembly line way, and it must be produced in the form of an order, just like warships, aircraft carriers, ships, etc.
In other words, each anti-gravity spacecraft, although the technology is similar, is an order-based product, and every spaceship is different.
Riding an open-top car to the factory, Qin Yi looked up at the huge spaceship in front of him, like a huge house, it looked as if it was about to reach the roof.
"Lushan~"
On the huge spaceship, the three huge characters on the shell make people know the name of the spaceship at once.
Qin Yi is also very familiar with the two spaceships in front of him, 'Lushan' and 'Huashan', these two spaceships are all large spaceships designed and researched by Qin Yi himself.
The two spaceships are the same level of spacecraft as the 'Houyi' and 'Chang'e' made by the country, and the target of this level of spacecraft is called a first-class spaceship, which is the largest spaceship that human beings can make at present.
The two spaceships are different from the spaceships made by the country, because Galaxy Technology Group does not have the power to test and build nuclear reactors, so there is no way to use nuclear power to drive the power, and can only use atomic matrix batteries to carry huge electrical energy to drive anti-gravity engines.
The energy consumption of a large anti-gravity spacecraft is extremely terrifying and terrifying, and the country's use of nuclear power can meet its huge energy needs.
Moreover, with nuclear reactors, the first-class spacecraft manufactured by the country does not need to be refueled frequently, and the one-time replenishment of nuclear fuel is enough to be used for a long time.
However, because the construction of spaceships is accompanied by the construction of nuclear reactors, the construction time and cycle of first-class spaceships built by the country, such as 'Houyi' and 'Chang'e', are very long.
Huaxia Aerospace Industry Group, which almost gathers the strength of the country, can only build a maximum of 10 spaceships in a year.
It is too slow to build a large anti-gravity spaceship in a month, and since the beginning of last year, the country has only built more than 10 spaceships.
The construction of nuclear reactors is more troublesome than the construction of anti-gravity engines, because once nuclear energy fails, it will be very terrifying and terrifying, which also seriously slows down the construction of anti-gravity spacecraft.
However, the two spaceships 'Lushan' and 'Huashan' on the side of Galaxy Aerospace are different, because the atomic matrix battery used carries electrical energy to drive the anti-gravity engine, so in terms of construction speed, the construction speed of these two spacecraft is very fast.
As soon as the Qingyun Aerospace Fighter came out, Qin Yi led the team to study the large-scale anti-gravity spaceship non-stop, and now in December, the skeletons of the two spaceships have been built, the anti-gravity engines have been installed, and the rest are estimated to be built by the end of the month.
After all, from research and development to completion, it only took less than 5 months on Qin Yi's side, although Qin Yi, Lu Qingwei, Liu Peiqiang and others are the originators of this anti-gravity technology, but this speed is still very amazing.
Moreover, these two spaceships are just practicing their hands, and in the future, the technology is becoming more and more mature, and the conditions in all aspects are getting better and better, and the construction speed will be faster.
The entire huge factory building is more than ten kilometers long, and as long as there are enough people, Galaxy Aerospace can start building 10 spaceships at the same time at one time.
At least 100 large anti-gravity spaceships can be built in a year, which is many times faster than the construction speed on the national side.
Of course, the speed is much faster than the speed of construction on the national side, because without building nuclear reactors, it must be much faster.
But the two spacecraft, 'Lushan' and 'Huashan', both of them are real electric rats.
In order to drive the anti-gravity engine, no spacecraft has hundreds of second-generation atomic matrix batteries installed on it, and each second-generation atomic matrix battery can carry tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity, and hundreds of batteries can carry millions of kilowatt-hours of electricity at one time.
Millions of kilowatt-hours of electricity seems to be huge, but it is only enough for it to fly for less than 2 hours, and this million kilowatt-hours of electricity, even according to the cheapest five cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity, is 500,000, which means that it needs to consume 250,000 yuan of electricity for an hour's flight.
Fortunately, this large anti-gravity spacecraft flies in space, and most of the time it relies on inertia to fly, and the time it really needs to use the anti-gravity engine is only in the process of take-off and landing.
So even though it's less than 2 hours, it's enough.
These two spaceships, Qin Yi was originally going to build them for his own use.
There is a lot of pressure on the top now, vigorously advocating the interstellar space age and advocating interstellar mining, but because of the lack of leaders, until now, there has not been much movement across the country.
In November, Qin Yi went to the imperial capital for a meeting, and after the meetings were held, Qin Yi also knew clearly that he hoped that Galaxy Technology could be the leader.
Therefore, Qin Yi needs to take the lead in the interstellar space field and the lunar mining field, and take the lead in entering these two fields, and he must also make a lot of money, so that the people behind him can see the gold everywhere, so as to promote the arrival of the interstellar space age.
There are no spaceships in this, naturally everything is empty talk, and both spaceships are prepared for themselves.
However, when he was in the imperial capital, Qin Yi successfully sold a spaceship to the Lunar Mining Group, so among the two spaceships, the 'Lushan' was ready to be kept for his own use, and the 'Huashan' was delivered to the Lunar Mining Group by the end of December.
"Qingwei~"
"How's the research on lunar mining technology?"
Looking at the huge spaceship in front of him, Qin Yi was also very satisfied.
Because we want to be a leader and set an example for everyone, Galaxy Aerospace has also decided that as soon as the spacecraft is built, the first thing is to go to the moon to mine and dig gold.
The resources of the moon are very rich, mining on the moon is definitely a very profitable thing, profitable, the last manned moon landing brought back a piece of dog's head gold is worth more than 300 billion, if you are lucky to find some especially precious rare metals on the moon, proper overnight rich rhythm.
Being a leader on the national side is one reason, and another reason is that Galaxy Aerospace requires a large amount of rare metals to manufacture anti-gravity engines.
Rare metals are basically very expensive on the earth, the key is that the reserves are scarce, and Galaxy Aerospace must have a stable and large enough supply of rare metals if it wants to manufacture anti-gravity vehicles on a large scale in the future.
Qin Yi thought about it, it seemed that only mining on the moon could meet the requirements of Galaxy Aerospace, and if he waited for others to mine on the moon, this speed would be too slow.
It's better to rely on people than on yourself~
And go to the moon to mine, this moon is a terra nullius, you can mine it casually, you don't have to pay taxes, this cost can be reduced to a minimum, and the cost of anti-gravity engines can plummet in the future, which can further promote the arrival of the interstellar space age.
Galaxy Group must go to the moon for mining by itself, although Qin Yi has already invested in the Moon Mining Group, but that is just an investment method for Qin Yi, and the real focus is naturally on his own wholly-owned Galaxy Aerospace.
"There is no difficulty in mining the moon, I have already led people to study it clearly, and now there is a spaceship missing."
Lu Qingwei replied very casually.
In fact, lunar mining looks very high, but it is indeed as Lu Qingwei said, there is not much technical content, with the current level of science and technology of the earth, as long as you can land on the moon, you can mine on the moon very clearly, and now it is the most critical spacecraft.
PS: In terms of the current technology of the earth, if the problem of spaceships is solved, there is no difficulty in mining on the moon~~ What do you think?
Niu Jiaichiro said
Thank you for the support of the alliance leader of the coffee demon king~~