I Have a Little Black Hole

Although the production of some products in space has higher technical requirements, it is undeniable that the performance of some products produced in microgravity and vacuum environments is far superior to those produced in ground factories. This is all on the company's side. This has been proven through a large number of space experiments.

Even if there is no such benefit, just producing the cargo spaceships and various mechanical equipment urgently needed by the colonization plan in space can greatly reduce the company's production and launch costs, and save a lot of time!

How could the Infinite Gravity Group hand over such a good thing? Therefore, the company will never let anyone interfere in the ownership of this asteroid.

Because even after removing the more expensive metal parts, the heavier silicates left on the asteroid are very valuable to the company. The price of silicates on earth is not high, but if you want to send weight More than 400,000 tons of silicates go to space, and even the infinite gravity group needs to spend more than 10 billion yuan in transportation costs.

The so-called silicate refers to the general term for the compounds formed by the combination of silicon, oxygen and other chemical elements (mainly aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, etc.).

It is widely distributed in the earth's crust and is the main component of most rocks (such as granite) and soil, and it is also the main component of many asteroids.

Most silicates have high melting points and stable chemical properties, and are the main raw materials for the silicate industry. Silicate products and materials are widely used in various industries, scientific research and daily life.

Take the silicon with the most content as an example. Its importance to industry can be said to be no worse than those of metals, and it is even indispensable in many fields!

It is used in large quantities to be smelted into ferrosilicon alloys as alloying elements in the iron and steel industry, and as a reducing agent in the smelting of many metals, even if the Infinite Gravity Group uses the metal materials on this asteroid to smelt the spaceport or the asteroid in space. The components of the space factory are also inseparable from silicon.

Silicon is also a good component in aluminum alloys. Most cast aluminum alloys contain silicon. When Infinite Gravity Group wants to manufacture spacecraft in space, the aluminum alloy components on the spacecraft are obviously inseparable from it.

Because compared with heavier iron alloys, aluminum alloys are lighter in weight and not bad in strength. A large amount of use in spacecraft can obviously reduce the weight of the spacecraft. The smaller the mass of the spacecraft, the less energy is required to propel it. of.

At the same time, silicon is also the raw material of ultra-pure silicon in the electronics industry. Electronic devices made of ultra-pure semiconductor single crystal silicon have the advantages of small size, light weight, good reliability and long life.

High-power transistors, rectifiers and solar cells made of silicon single crystals doped with specific trace impurities are better than those made of germanium single crystals.

Although the company has more advanced graphene chips,

But they will not reject this cheap and practical chip. At least it is easier and cheaper to use this kind of chip directly produced in space in space factories and space energy factories.

And if you want to build a larger-scale space energy factory, it is necessary to produce a large number of solar panels from the earth and transport them to space for assembly. This is what the company's previous space energy factory did.

Although the company's solar photovoltaic panels made of graphene materials have a very high photoelectric conversion rate, if you want to build a Dyson sphere-like super energy factory, even if it is only 1/100,000 of the scale of the ultimate version, you want to build it. It is also necessary to transport more than 100 million tons of solar panels into space!

It is obviously impossible to transport such a huge amount of materials into space with the current transportation capacity of the company, and it will not work for ten years, because there are more important tasks that also require a lot of transportation capacity to complete.

In this case, if you can directly use silicon to produce solar panels in space, it will undoubtedly save a lot of transportation capacity and development time. Although the energy conversion rate is not as high as that of graphene-based solar panels, it is low. That little bit of completion can be compensated for by the amount!

The most important thing in space is space, and if you grow bigger, you will be done! At least with the super space energy factory built with these silicon-based solar panels, the energy issues of the company's super space factory and the most important energy issue in the company's colonization plan can be fully guaranteed.

Building nuclear power plants in space to generate electricity is obviously not a healthy energy use model, and no matter how powerful a nuclear power plant can be, can it compare with the super fusion body of the sun? There is free and unlimited energy without having to spend a lot of money to build a large number of nuclear power plants in space. Isn't that a fool!

The benefits brought by this asteroid, as far as silicon is concerned, are enough to bring huge profits to the company in the future. Who can refuse this kind of benefit?

And silicon has more applications, such as silicon molybdenum rod electric heating element with a maximum operating temperature of 1700 ° C, with resistance to aging and good anti-oxidation performance, and trichlorosilane produced from silicon, which can be prepared with hundreds of kinds of silicon Resin lubricants and waterproofing compounds, etc.

These things are indispensable in the company's space construction plan. The silicon in the remaining 400,000 tons of silicates alone is valuable, not to mention the remaining things, oxygen in the presence of compounds Needless to say, the importance of these things and other gases in space?

In short, the Infinite Gravity Group's overall valuation of this asteroid is more than one trillion US dollars in the most conservative case. How could they have made countries have excuses for the funds of less than 40 billion US dollars due to small losses. What about this asteroid reaching out?

Anyway, from the perspective of the Infinite Gravity Group, this asteroid is simply a gift from God to them. How can this kind of thing let others get involved? The possibility of a little accident must be eliminated!

At the beginning, many ordinary people did not understand the decision of the Infinite Gravity Group. They felt that this kind of free money should not be so stupid. There were even many people who sprayed the Infinite Gravity Group to take advantage of this crisis to build a new one for themselves. Death-free gold medal.

But after being reminded by some smart people, they realized that tens of billions of dollars are nothing. Compared with the value of this asteroid itself, this number is not even a fraction. It is no wonder that the Infinite Gravity Group I don't want to charge this little money here!

However, some people raised their own questions on the Internet: Since we all know that this asteroid is so valuable, then other countries will not be moved? Governments can't turn a blind eye to this, right?