Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 1874 Space Elevator?

Although Jiuzhou Technology has always maintained a positive attitude towards its official cooperation projects with Daxia, times have changed and some collaborations cannot be directly connected.

After everyone else in the experimental conference room understood the background and relevant information of these people, Gu Qing was still thinking: "At this critical juncture, the real elites of Daxia Institute of Science and Technology have come out. It seems that Daxia officials have also noticed something wrong. During this period, Taoyao's activation and drinking situation in these top elite circles has also been slowly decreasing.

It seems that these people are not easy to fool. We have to think of a way to continue to treat each other well. Although Uncle Sam's pawns are working hard, they are still too slow. We can't let them focus all their attention here."

Jiuzhou Technology's every move has long been more than just a global concern. If it weren't for Gu Qing's insistence on keeping the shares in his own hands, the Daxia government would have already invested trillions of dollars in Jiuzhou Technology.

It is precisely because of Gu Qing’s strong control over Jiuzhou Technology that Jiuzhou Technology is now still a legitimate private enterprise.

After thinking for a while, Gu Qing said, "How about this, Xinghai Company, you don't have to hide it, communicate with them properly, I think it's not impossible to invite them to the space station and the moon landing project. In addition to the core data, everything else can be opened to them in a limited way.

If the Daxia Academy of Science and Technology and the Aerospace Corporation want to deepen cooperation with us on behalf of the government, then they can do it under the framework of the Lunar Development Science and Technology Association. As long as they can afford the money and the resources, our space elevator project may actually be able to be implemented.

Oh, by the way, do you have enough chefs in the cafeteria of Xinghai Company? We have several chefs in the No. 1 cafeteria who are very good at cooking. It is okay to loan one or two chefs to you."

Zhou Yi saw Li Jian nodding, and he agreed, "Mr. Gu, you have considered everything. Let's arrange it this way."

Li Jian, former head of the aerospace department of Jiuzhou Technology and one of the chief planning engineers of the lunar landing project, also said after careful consideration: "The space elevator project is a big deal, and nanomaterials cannot be mass-produced by us alone. The resources on the moon can meet our needs, but the cost of transporting materials is too high. The government can come to help, and it will definitely protect the space elevator project from interference from other forces.

But there is a problem. If we cooperate under the framework of the Lunar Development Science and Technology Association, Daxia officials only provide money and resources, and the technical engineering team has little influence, then the main control of the subsequent project operations will still be in our hands, and Daxia officials will only have rights similar to dividends and income. Will the people of Daxia Science and Technology Institute and Aerospace Group agree to it?"

Li Jian chose to resign because he didn't want to continue working with this group of people.

Although some misunderstandings have been resolved during the exchanges over the years, he still has many concerns about this large-scale cooperation.

The other engineers and scientists in the room also had their own thoughts when they heard these words.

A cable that can reach tens of thousands of kilometers in length must not only withstand the friction of the space elevator's cargo car, but also the shaking up and down, left and right, front and back, as well as the pulling and damage of various forces. The strength of this material, even the strongest nano-nano material currently being trial-produced in Jiuzhou Technology's laboratory, is only barely qualified in theory.

However, the manufacturing cost of this material is more expensive than gold. Zhang Tianhao suddenly said: "The space elevator technology project, even with the official support of Daxia, should not be solved within five years, and in addition to the material project, there are other reasons that affect the manufacturing of the space elevator.

The space elevator requires a stable ceiling to hang the nanomaterial ropes, so we must first establish a permanent lunar base on the moon. According to current technological achievements, this is not difficult.

But this permanent lunar base also requires a stable lunar ecosystem. Otherwise, do we really have to rely on robots and intelligent AI to control the lunar base?"

The questions raised by Zhang Tianhao made many engineers and scientists bow their heads.

Because this is the current key research project in the laboratory - the stability and evolution of artificial intelligence (AI).

There is already actual data proving that Xiezhi and Tiangong are evolving. Although it seems that the evolutionary direction of these two AIs is excellent at present, this is also an unknown threat!

With Jiuzhou Technology's current intelligent manufacturing technology, if artificial intelligence AI really awakens anti-human and anti-social personality cognition, it will definitely be a disaster that sweeps the world, and even "The Mecha Crisis" may become a reality.

After Zhang Tianhao raised the question, someone else soon said: "To build a building, we must rely on the pressure resistance and ductility resistance of the building materials.

The ideal material for building such an elevator should be light and strong, which is the laboratory material we all think of now - carbon nanotube fiber.

Carbon nanotube fiber is a carbon compound whose molecular chains are arranged in long tubes. It is more than 100 times stronger than steel. However, its strength is still not enough. The nanomaterials developed simultaneously with the new materials collected from the moon have good performance in the spiritual realm experiment.

But everyone also knows that this is just a spiritual realm experiment, and all aspects of the setting are relatively peaceful and safe.

This score is barely achieved while there are no wars, no earthquakes, no meteorites, and no electromagnetic storms, and while energy and materials are guaranteed to be continuously stable, with high strength and low loss.

  And this type of carbon nanotube faces another big problem: extending them to 15 km is not only a daunting engineering and materials science challenge, but also many unexpected problems may arise. For example, what equipment and processes should we use to merge so many nanomaterial fibers?

Our latest research shows that the combined force of the cable made from this material is not even close to the sum of the tensile forces of multiple individual fibers!

In addition to the material problem of the cable that cannot be solved for the time being, there is another major problem that must be solved. That is, after the framework of the space elevator is built, how can we transport items to the moon stably and frequently?

For example, if there is 10000kg of cargo, the energy we need to provide is at least 5.3×10^13J. There is no doubt that ordinary electricity and solar energy cannot support frequent transportation, and the materials of the transport boxes also need to be high-strength materials. "