Li Fu has not returned to the ground for the time being, because Li Fu has learned from his secretary Ding Xuan that there are dozens of people in the company asking for Li Fu, and each of them is a great source, a representative of a world power, a representative from a world-class consortium, and a large-scale background in China, all of whom are very difficult to deal with.

Li Fu also knew very well why they came. Fuyun Group held the only spacecraft that could go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids. Asteroids are now synonymous with gold and silver mountains. Just pulling an asteroid to the Earth will also have a huge return of tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

So Li Fu simply chose to stay in space first, so that Fang Zheng, who is good at dealing with these things, would just stay in space to smel the asteroid he pulled back.

In the void not far from Sky City, there is a huge solar space power farm, which is also the largest solar space power farm in space, with an area of ​​more than 15 million square meters. The annual power generation is equivalent to about two Three Gorges. Since then, Fuyun Group has never been worried about electricity anymore, and can even take-out electricity.

You should know that Fuyun Group is a behemoth now. After years of development, the number of employees of Fuyun Group has reached millions, and various factories, laboratories, etc. are all electricity-swalking monsters, and the electricity bills paid every day are hundreds of millions.

At this time, the asteroid brought back from the asteroid belt was dragged into the void by the spacecraft, and maintained the same speed as the solar power field, forming a relatively stationary state.

"Each unit reports on the situation."

Yu Liang, who was responsible for directing the asteroid smelting, issued a loud order.

“The power plant is ready.”

“The metal separation group is ready.”

"The security team is ready,"

“…”

Teams kept reporting the situation, and everything was ready.

"Start smelting asteroids."

When Yu Liang heard the reports from each group, he nodded with satisfaction and issued an order to smel the asteroid.

With his order issued, every solar panel began to rotate slowly here in the solar power field. The supercomputer calculated everything. The angle and direction of each reflecting mirror were controlled by the supercomputer, and it was not bad at all!

Sunlight began to gather on the asteroids placed in space. There was no reaction at the beginning, but as the gathering of sunlight became more and more, the space where the asteroids were located began to become brighter and dazzling.

The normal temperature in space is more than minus 100 degrees Celsius. Now more and more sunlight is gathering, and the temperature in the void where the asteroid is located begins to rise sharply, and it will soon rise from more than minus 100 degrees Celsius to a high temperature of several hundred degrees Celsius.

At this time, some gas and water on the asteroid began to evaporate and dissipate, and were collected by collectors that had been prepared long ago. In space, resources are very precious, and even the smallest mosquito meat must be collected.

As more sunlight is concentrated on the asteroid, the temperature quickly rises to more than 1,000 degrees. At this time, the metal on the asteroid has begun to liquefy. The asteroid is almost made of iron elements, and the melting point of iron is more than 1,000 degrees.

Because all the gathered sunlight is controlled by supercomputer, and the computer controls the amount of gathered sunlight is determined based on the temperature on the asteroid.

The collected sunlight of this iron-containing asteroid always controls its temperature by about 2,000 degrees. This temperature can melt the entire asteroid as fast as possible, and at the same time, it will not reach the boiling point of iron due to the high temperature and allow the iron to evaporate.

The outside of the asteroid has melted into molten iron, but the inside is still solid. It needs to be continuously heated and heated up to make the iron inside melt into molten iron. The temperature at around 2,000 degrees is just right, it only takes some time.

At the same time, two strange machines used long magnetic pliers to continuously use magnetism to attract the melted molten iron and shaped them at the same time according to the required shape.

You should know that in space there is no gravity or only affected by microgravity. All liquids appear in a spherical structure. The huge and red iron balls are attracted by powerful magnetism and shaped into various parts. At the same time, they are cooled by ultra-low temperatures of more than 100 degrees below zero. These parts quickly changed from red to black.

The metal smelted in this way is very strong and hard. Moreover, because it is smelted in space, it is like rubbing noodles. You can rub whatever shape you want, and smelting it as big as you want. It is many times better than assembled parts.

In less than an hour, the asteroid containing more than 9 million tons of iron was smelted into various parts. The mechanical arm on Dumbo spacecraft was dragged back to the Sky City to wait for use. There were some super-large parts, because they were too long and so on, so they could only be transported to a special place.

These parts need further processing to be truly used, for example, the stress inside the metal can also be eliminated by placing it in space.

The method and speed of smelting metal in the interstellar era far surpassed that of the ground era. Nearly tens of millions of tons of steel were smelted in one hour and also processed into parts at the same time. The power of technology is so great!

"It seems that the number of asteroids we mine is still too small. It's only an hour. Asteroid has been smelted cleanly, and it feels not enough."

When Yu Liang saw the empty void, he curled his lips slightly. The efficiency of using space solar energy to smel metals was too high. Nearly tens of millions of tons of metal were easily smelted, but also processed into the parts he wanted. This speed was definitely not comparable to that of a smelting furnace on the ground.

"In the future, some asteroids will be smelted for you. The key now is to create more spacecraft."

Li Fu, who was standing by, smiled slightly. The steel smelted this time was almost used to create new spacecraft. Li Fu now urgently needs a large number of spacecraft to go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids.

"Hehe, with nearly 5 million tons of steel this time, we can build a larger spacecraft. By then, bringing back hundreds of millions of tons of asteroids at a time will be enough for us to use it for a while."

When Yu Liang heard about building a new spacecraft, his eyes lit up. Dumbo spacecraft was just a spacecraft larger than a spacecraft, and could only drag an asteroid of 10 million tons at most. This was its limit.

During the planning, Fuyun Group actually wants to build a larger spacecraft, the "Giant God" spacecraft, and the "Giant God" spacecraft will be ten times that of the Dumbo spacecraft. The engine alone is enough to be comparable to an aerospace plane, and its thrust will be enough to pull a large-scale asteroid with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons.

But building such a huge spacecraft will consume a huge steel resource. Moreover, because of its large mass and strong thrust, the core keel must be a whole piece forged in one go. If it is split into multiple parts and assembled, it will not be able to withstand its huge thrust.

Such huge parts naturally have no problems when processed on the ground, but there is no tool to transport them to space, and the space plane is only a few dozen meters long.

Therefore, if you want to create such a huge part and then create the "Giant God" space plane, you must smel metal in space, forge parts, and directly complete the core keel and parts creation work in space.

This is why Li Fu first built a space solar power plant, because it is used to smel asteroids, mine asteroids, smel them directly in space, and forge super-large parts at once to prepare for the next step of building a larger spacecraft.

If you want to build space warships and so on in the future, you will naturally have to do it step by step. It is absolutely impossible to say that you want to build large spaceships and space warships based on the ground alone.

"I was depressed when I said this. This time we could just build 20 'Giant God' spacecraft, but half of it was distributed by the country. I guess they would definitely waste these steel resources. Their current eyes are always on the moon, blooming everywhere on the moon, seizing resources, and needing a lot of steel."

Chen Bin, who was standing beside him, shook his head helplessly. The country requires that the steel that had just been smelted be made into a whole piece of steel plate according to standard specifications. You can tell at a glance that it is used on the moon, not for building spacecraft.

"What's so depressing about this? Now all countries in the world are fighting fiercely on the moon. The back of the moon has almost been divided. I heard that the squat chicken and Nan Bangzi fought each other for a piece of land on the back of the moon. It was a lunar version of the world war."

"Our country now occupies more resources on the moon, which is also a good thing for China. We have occupied 80% of the moon's resources. We don't have to worry about resources for a long time in the future. After all, the moon is the closest planet to our earth, and the various resources on the moon are very rich."

"Even if we mine 10 million asteroids in the asteroid belt, we can't be the moon, and we have to travel hundreds of millions of kilometers, so Lao Tang and the others can see much more clearly than us."

Li Fu, who was standing by, shook his head with a smile. Fuyun Group also occupied a huge territory on the moon, and it was clear how rich the resources on the moon were.
Chapter completed!