Chapter 366, Smelting Asteroids
"Fifty thousand Chinese dollars is the price of foreign exports, and we will sell it to you for three trillion Chinese dollars of our own people, and I, Qin Yi, will always be the first to take care of our own people."
"Three trillion Chinese dollars is too expensive, I heard that Ji Rong and they sold one for only 2.5 trillion Chinese dollars, can you also sell one to me at this price?"
"Who said it, there is no such thing at all, you know, my cost is 2 trillion Chinese dollars, selling 3 trillion Chinese dollars is already a conscience price, we are all descendants of Yan and Huang, so this is the price, if it is an outsider, five trillion Chinese dollars, less than a penny, I will not sell."
"Brother Qin, I know that you have always taken good care of your own people, but this price is too expensive, can you give you a little more discount, 2.5 trillion, I will place an order with you now."
"It's really not good, brother, I also have to eat, this early research and development and investment, you also know, where is such a big space factory, this investment is more than 10 trillion Chinese dollars, and a lot of parts were customized from you at the beginning, and you should make a lot of money here."
"I have to upgrade in the later stage, and I also have to continue to develop more powerful spaceships, without 3 trillion Chinese dollars, I really can't sustain it."
"3 trillion Chinese dollars is too expensive, Brother Qin, we are all old friends, and the cooperation is not once or twice, it's cheaper."
"There's really no way, 3 trillion is the minimum price."
“……”
In Qin Yi's office, Qin Yi hung up the call, and couldn't help but shake his head, since the price of five trillion Chinese dollars was passed out, Qin Yi had to receive a lot of calls every day, both domestic and foreign, all of whom came to ask about the price of the spaceship, which made Qin Yi also busy endlessly.
"Boss, the space smelter has been built and can be put into use, do you want to go to space together to have a look."
I just hung up a call here, and the virtual watch I was wearing received a new message, the message was sent by Zhang Jian, who had been in charge of the space smelting factory during this time.
"It's okay to go to space and relax."
Qin Yi thought about it, and was still ready to go to space.
In the outer space of the earth, a huge space factory stands quietly in the void, this space factory is completely different from the dragon's nest space factory.
The overall appearance of the Dragon's Nest Space Factory looks like a giant sea urchin, and the shape of this space smelting factory looks like a giant satellite signal receiving pot.
A huge pot lid with an area of more than 10 square kilometers looks like the most common solar power plant in space, except that the solar power plant is directly tiled, and this structure is circular.
Underneath the huge lid of the pot was the general command office of the space smelting factory, and at this time, Qin Yi had just arrived at the space smelting factory in an anti-gravity spacecraft.
"Boss, it's just right that you've arrived, our smelting is about to begin."
When Zhang Jian saw Qin Yi coming, a smile appeared on his face, and then he pointed to the void outside and said.
Qin Yi looked in the direction and saw the Qinglong spacecraft dragging the mined asteroid slowly to the space smelting factory, which was already very close at this time.
It didn't take long for the asteroid to be dragged by the Qinglong spacecraft into a void in the middle of the lid of the space smelter, and the speed and direction between the two were the same, so it looked as if it was stationary.
The Blue Dragon spacecraft loosened its carbon fiber rope and slowly flew away, and it was about to set sail again to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.
"Boss, let's get started."
The asteroid has been in place, Zhang Jian is very excited, and all the scientists and engineers in the entire space smelting factory are also like this, and because this is the first time in human history to smelt steel in space, there are also news reporters from TV stations and so on to shoot and report.
"Well, let's get started."
Qin Yi nodded and ordered.
With Qin Yi's order, the entire space smelting factory began to operate.
Space smelters are completely different from traditional smelters, which mainly rely on coal or electric furnaces to smelt steel, but in space, this is obviously unrealistic, and space smelters use sunlight.
The huge pot lid is not really a pot lid, it is similar to the space solar power station, in fact, it is composed of solar panels, but in addition to these solar panels are used to generate electricity, it also has another function, that is, to reflect sunlight.
We all know that light is very special, it can be infinitely aggregated, one light, two lights are gathered together, and there is no difference, but when 10,000 lights, a million lights are gathered together, a huge amount of energy will be gathered together, and a terrible temperature will be generated, which is enough to smelt steel.
I saw the huge pot lid here, the top of the solar panel began to slowly adjust the angle, each solar panel here is usually used to generate electricity, when the need to smelt steel to carry out the mode of transformation, it will become a mirror, will not directly absorb light and heat, but reflect light and heat.
Each mirror is controlled by a computer, which automatically calculates the position of each mirror and then adjusts its angle to reflect sunlight onto the asteroid.
Qin Yi looked intently at the surveillance screen, the mirrors continued to adjust slowly, and the rays of light began to converge on the asteroid.
At first, it didn't feel anything, but as more and more light converged, the asteroid's location began to brighten up.
This area became brighter and brighter, and at the back of it began to slowly brighten and become a white patch, and at the same time, as more and more light converged, the temperature on the asteroid began to rise sharply.
"200 degrees ~"
"500 degrees ~"
"1000 degrees Celsius~"
Soon, the temperature above the asteroid rose to thousands of degrees, and the surface of the asteroid began to slowly show signs of melting.
However, the light of the convergence is still increasing, becoming more dazzling, and at the same time, the temperature is also rising rapidly, soon rising to a high temperature of more than 2000 degrees.
At such high temperatures, the entire asteroid is rapidly melting, and a mass of liquid appears on the surface, all of which is the liquid after the metal has melted.
However, because there is no gravity in space, the liquid does not flow, but exists in the form of a ball, and as more and more iron melts, this water ball slowly grows larger.
"It's so fast~"
Everyone watched carefully at the miraculous scene in space, an asteroid with a mass of 150 million tons, which was constantly melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The asteroid was originally irregular in shape, but as it melted more and more, it gradually turned into a large fiery red ball, with a completely liquefied iron on the outside and a part on the inside that had not yet completely melted.
In just a few hours, the entire asteroid melted, completely turning into a red ball with a diameter of several hundred meters, quietly suspended in the void.
"Add Other Metals~"
Zhang Jian kept looking at all kinds of data, waiting until the asteroid completely melted into a liquid ball, and the first step of smelting the asteroid had been completed, and it was time to move on to the next step.
Soon, a robotic arm came to the side of the red ball with small pieces of metal, all of which were refined pure metals, such as manganese metal, tungsten metal, and other metal blocks used to smelt alloys.
Others are chemical reaction materials used to remove the magazines inside the steel, and these materials are slowly and completely melted into liquid balls under the irradiation of polymerized light.
Then the liquid balls are slowly merged into the huge red and white dazzling liquid balls, and then there is a mechanical arm with a stick-like thing to stir the liquid balls that are fused together, so that the liquid can be fused more fully.
On the side of the convergence light, the light is also adjusted so that the light on the part of the huge liquid ball becomes unevenly distributed, and in some places the temperature becomes higher if there is more aggregate light, and in some places the temperature is lower when there is less aggregate light.
The temperature of different parts of the liquid ball is different, and according to the characteristics of the liquid, the low temperature liquid will flow to the high temperature liquid to balance the overall temperature.
This flow is actually the same as the warm currents and currents in the oceans on the earth, the polar regions of the earth are less heated, the temperature is low, the temperature of the sea is also low, and the temperature of the equatorial region is high, and the temperature of the sea water is also high.
Therefore, the sea water with high temperature will flow to the equator region in the form of a cold current, and the sea water in the lower latitude region will flow to the high temperature region in the form of a warm current.
At this time, the same is true of this huge blazing white dazzling metal liquid ball, with the change of temperature difference, the inside also begins to flow continuously, under this flow, the things added to it are more fully fused, the magazine in it is removed, and the smelted steel can also achieve the desired effect more perfectly.
The entire fusion process lasted for several hours, until all the materials were fully fused together, turning into a huge ball of liquid that was blazing white.
The speed is very fast, 150 million tons of steel, smelted in just a few hours, this speed is unimaginable if it is placed on the earth.
You must know that the world's largest steel company, ArcelorMittal Company, has only just reached about 100 million tons of steel production a year.
Now, in less than half a day, 1500000 tons of steel have been trained, which is an incredible speed.
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