Chapter 1233

Although some products produced in space have higher technical requirements, it is undeniable that the performance of some products produced in microgravity and vacuum environment is far better than those produced in ground factories, which has been proved by a large number of space experiments on the side of the company.

Even if it doesn't have this benefit, it's just the production of cargo ships and all kinds of mechanical equipment urgently needed by the colonial plan in space, which can greatly reduce the production and launch costs of the company and save a lot of time!

How can such a good thing, infinite gravity group, give up to others? So the company won't let anyone interfere in the ownership of this asteroid.

The price of silicate on the planet is not high on earth. But if you want to send more than 400000 tons of silicate into space, even the infinite gravity group will need to spend more than 10 billion yuan on transportation.

The so-called silicate refers to the general name of 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 a major component of many asteroids.

Silicate is the main raw material of silicate industry because of its high melting point and stable chemical properties. Silicate products and materials are widely used in various industries, scientific research and daily life.

Take silicon, which has the most content, as an example. Its importance to industry is no worse than that of those metals. It is even indispensable in many fields!

It is widely used to smelt ferrosilicon alloy as alloy element in iron and steel industry, and as reducing agent in many kinds of metal smelting. Even if the infinite gravitation group uses the metal materials from this asteroid to smelt spare parts of space port or space factory in space, they are also inseparable from silicon.

Silicon is also a good component in aluminum alloy. Most cast aluminum alloys contain silicon. When infinite gravitation group wants to build spacecraft in space, the aluminum alloy components on the spacecraft are obviously inseparable from it.

Compared with the heavier iron alloy, aluminum alloy is lighter in weight and not poor in strength. It is obviously able to significantly reduce the weight of the spacecraft when it is used in a large number of spacecraft. The smaller the weight of the spacecraft, the less energy it needs to propel it.

At the same time, silicon is also the raw material of ultra pure silicon in electronic industry. The electronic devices made of ultra pure semiconductor single crystal silicon have the advantages of small volume, light weight, good reliability and long service life.

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

Although the company has more advanced graphene chips, they will not refuse this kind of cheap and practical chips. At least, it is easier and cheaper to use the chips directly produced in space in space factories and space energy factories.

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

Although the company's graphene material made of solar photovoltaic power conversion rate is very high, but want to build that kind of Dyson ball like super energy factory, even if it is only one tenth of the scale of the ultimate version, to build it also need to transport more than 100 million tons of solar panels into space!

If you want to transport such a huge amount of materials into space, it is obviously impossible to complete with the transportation capacity of the company now, and it will not be able to work hard for another ten years, because there are still more important tasks that need a lot of transportation capacity to complete.

In this case, if silicon can be directly used to produce solar panels in space, it will undoubtedly save a lot of transport capacity and development time. Although the energy conversion rate is not as high as that of graphene solar panels, the low energy conversion rate can be compensated by the amount of solar panels!

The most important thing in space is space. When it is big, it's finished! At least with these silicon-based solar panels, the energy problems of the company's Super Space factory and the most important energy problem in the company's colonial plan can be fully guaranteed.

It is obviously not a healthy energy use mode to build nuclear power plants in space. What's more, nuclear power plants with more powerful power generation capacity can compare with the super fusion body of the sun? It's a fool to have free and unlimited energy without having to spend a lot of money building nuclear power plants in space!

The benefits of silicon on this asteroid are enough to bring huge profits to the company in the future. Who can refuse the benefits?

Moreover, there are more applications of silicon, such as silicon molybdenum rod electric heating element with the highest operating temperature of 1700 ℃, which is not easy to aging resistance and good oxidation resistance, and trichlorosilane produced by silicon can be used to prepare hundreds of silicone resin lubricants and waterproof compounds.

All of these things are indispensable in the company's space construction plan. The silicon in the remaining 400000 tons of silicate alone is worth a lot, not to mention the rest. Oxygen and other gases in the presence of compounds are of great importance in space?In a word, the overall evaluation of the asteroid by the infinite gravitation group is more than one trillion dollars under the most conservative circumstances. How could they have given countries an excuse to stretch out their hands on this asteroid for less than $40 billion?

Anyway, in the view of the infinite gravitation group, this asteroid is just a reward from heaven. How can this kind of thing be touched by others? The possibility of a little accident should be eliminated!

At the beginning, many ordinary people didn't understand the decision of infinite gravity group. They thought that this kind of free money should not be too stupid. Even many people even wanted to use the crisis to set up a life-saving gold medal for themselves.

However, some smart people reminded them that tens of billions of dollars is nothing. Compared with the value of the asteroid itself, this figure is not even a fraction. No wonder the infinite gravitation group doesn't want to charge such a small sum!

However, some people put forward their own questions on the Internet: "since we all know that this asteroid is so valuable, then other countries will not be attracted? Can't governments turn a blind eye to this? "

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