After sending Ji Rong and Lao Wang away, Qin Yi also walked towards the Galaxy Science and Technology Research Institute.
The space factory is something Qin Yi has been planning for a long time. Building a factory in space is very expensive and has many technical requirements.
Maybe it is very easy to build a factory on the earth. It is nothing more than finding a piece of land, building a house, connecting water and electricity, and then installing some machines, equipment, etc.
Even the highest level of dust-free factories, fully automated factories, etc., although the requirements are very high, it only costs money to build.
But if you want to build a factory in space, it is not just as simple as spending money, it must have strong technical support.
In the microgravity, vacuum, and low-temperature environment of space, building a space factory from scratch that can operate normally is as difficult as building a factory on the ground.
Even though there are now large anti-gravity spacecrafts that can travel to and from space and the ground very easily, there are still many technical problems that need to be solved in this space factory.
Qin Yi estimates that the investment in a space factory will require at least one trillion Chinese dollars, which can be said to need to be piled up with gold.
It costs a lot of money and has many technical difficulties.
Logically speaking, there is no need for Qin Yi to insist on building a space factory in space. If Qin Yi said on the ground that he wanted to build a factory, a production base, etc., I don’t know how many people would beg his grandfather and grandma to do so.
Qin Yi settled in the past.
There is no need to go to space to build a space factory.
But Qin Yi is very clear that building a factory in space has advantages that are not available on the ground.
The environment in space is very special, with microgravity, vacuum, cleanliness, and abundant solar energy, which are not available on the ground.
It can produce high-quality products that are difficult or expensive to manufacture on earth, such as high-purity large crystalline silicon materials and gallium arsenide materials used in the electronics industry.
It can also produce special drugs for treating difficult diseases that cannot be produced on the ground, such as interferons.
Interferon came to Uncle Sam's side at the end of the 20th century. It was produced from biological cells using genetic engineering technology, but its purity was very low because it required a very difficult operation to separate it from a mixture of products produced by more than 100 other biological cells.
Be careful and go very slowly, otherwise the mixture in the solution will rise or sink easily.
Due to the microgravity environment in space, this problem does not occur. Scientists believe that the purity of interferon produced in space is 100 to 400 times that produced on earth.
Interferon is very effective and is mainly used to treat advanced hairy cell leukemia, renal cancer, melanoma, Kaposi sarcoma, chronic myelogenous leukemia and low-to-moderate malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Others have been used to treat osteosarcoma, breast cancer and so on.
Cancer, multiple myeloma, head and neck cancer and bladder cancer, etc. It is also suitable for acute and chronic hepatitis C virus and chronic active hepatitis B.
It can be said that interferon has a very good therapeutic effect on various cancers.
In the special environment of space, many high-precision things will be easier to produce in this environment, and the cost can be greatly reduced.
It is of great significance in the fields of high-precision electronic industry and medicine.
In addition, Qin Yi studied in the Science and Technology Tower and knew very well that building factories in space is almost an inevitable trend in the development of civilization.
One of the very important reasons is the energy in space.
The energy of the earth is limited. With the development of human science and technology, the energy demand will become larger and larger. In ancient times, everyone just burned wood. Now if the energy needed by the world is to burn wood, all the trees around the world will be cut down.
It's far from enough.
With the popularization and promotion of private anti-gravity aircraft, the global energy crisis has begun to emerge, and the energy demand in the future will be even greater.
The energy in space is inexhaustible. As long as the sun does not go out, the energy in space will never be used up. Moreover, the solar energy in space is endless. The solar energy used by humans has a significant impact on the sun every time.
In terms of the huge amount of energy released every moment, it is simply insignificant.
The history of the development of civilization is the history of the development of science and technology, the history of transportation, the history of the development of power, and the history of the development of energy.
To move toward interstellar space, humans will inevitably slowly move factories into space and learn to use more solar energy. This is an inevitable trend and a trend of development.
What's more, if humans want to get out of the earth and into interstellar space, it is far from enough to rely on the current anti-gravity spacecraft.
To put it bluntly, the current anti-gravity spacecraft can only be regarded as a bamboo raft, a small boat in small rivers and small lakes. You can still walk around in small rivers and small ponds.
If you really want to rely on it to ride the waves in the stars and the sea, it is nothing more than a fool's dream.
Just like in the Age of Discovery, without mastering advanced shipbuilding technology, if you venture into the sea, you will never return, and you will die without knowing how.
The same is true for the current anti-gravity spacecraft. It may be used between the earth and the moon, or even be used to explore the entire solar system. However, if you want to use it to leave the solar system, or even use it for interstellar colonization, immigration, etc., it is simply impossible.
It's impossible.
If we want interstellar colonization, interstellar immigration, etc., humans need larger and stronger spaceships, and this kind of spaceship is obviously impossible to build on the earth. It must be built in space.
No matter from any aspect, the space factory is a project that must be launched.
Sitting in the car, Qin Yi looked at the scenery outside and kept thinking.
Of course money is not a problem. Now Qin Yi seems to have only money left. All the subsidiaries of the company are very profitable. In addition, Qin Yi has also stopped making troubles in the past two years. Qin Yi's pockets are also rapidly growing, and his funds
There is no problem at all.
The key now is the technical aspect. For this matter, Qin Yi has been preparing for it for a long time. Someone at the Galaxy Technology Research Institute has been taking the lead in research for a long time.
The spaceship building of the Galaxy Technology Group Headquarters is very close to the Galaxy Technology Research Institute, both in the core area of Huangjing Town. Within a few minutes, Qin Yi arrived at the Space Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary of the Galaxy Technology Research Institute.
The person in charge of the Space Science and Technology Research Institute is none other than Wang Songling, one of the five people who were deceived and abducted by Qin Yi.
Wang Songling is very busy at the Space Science and Technology Research Institute. Qin Yi has been here too frequently recently. He knows that his boss is about to launch the space factory project, so he is even busier.
In a huge hall, Wang Songling in a white coat and a group of people also in white coats stared at the huge monitor, intently watching.
On this display, the most powerful quantum computer is being used to simulate the operation of the space factory they designed. Through the data obtained from various experiments, powerful computers are then used to conduct simulation tests. This has almost become a trend in scientific research now.
The advantages of computer simulation are obvious. When there is sufficient data, experiments and various simulation tests can be carried out at minimal cost.
The cost of conducting simulation tests on a computer is almost 0. It is nothing more than inputting data and letting the computer do the calculations. It can also continuously modify the data and conduct experiments repeatedly.
And if the experiment is really carried out, it will not only require a lot of resources and workers, but some experiments are even very dangerous. If you are not careful, it will cause a major accident.
Of course, scientific experiments are scientific experiments after all and cannot be replaced by computer simulations. Many things must be tested to obtain accurate data and results.
The basis of computer simulation experiments is based on huge basic experiments. Without these huge basic experiments, everything is empty talk and has no meaning.
On the huge monitor, a slightly odd-shaped factory is constantly operating. This factory looks completely different from the square factory above the ground.
It is a three-dimensional factory, and its overall appearance looks a bit like a spiky sea urchin.
Of course, this is a giant oversized 'sea urchin'.
Each of the 'spikes' on it is actually a long space dock, which can be used to park spaceships, and of course is also a dock for manufacturing spacecrafts.
Obviously, this designed space factory should be a factory for manufacturing spaceships, and it is also a space factory for manufacturing very large spaceships.
There are a total of eight long shipyards, each of which is aligned in one direction, allowing the construction of eight very large spacecrafts at the same time.
The picture on the monitor is constantly enlarging. When you look at it as a whole, it is still very small. However, when the picture is enlarged, you realize how huge the space factory is in the computer simulation.
One of its docks is more than 10 kilometers long. Now the largest anti-gravity spacecraft appears to be very small when parked, as if it were a tiny thing. Any huge mechanical arm on it can easily grab it and fix it firmly.
In this long dock.
Huge, thick mechanical arms are constantly operating in the sky, carrying oversized parts one by one, and continuously assembling a 10-kilometer-long ultra-large spacecraft in this huge shipyard.
Because of computer simulation, the speed has been accelerated a lot. In just a few minutes, a huge spaceship was built from this huge dock and began to slowly fly towards the bright starry sky.
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