The rise of nanometers

The emergence of electric field synthesis and the successive achievements of Xie Qing's team allowed the Suiren Department to see its huge value.

In early March, Huang Xiuyuan approved an investment of 8 billion yuan to establish three electric field laboratories in Qinhuangdao, Shanmei, and Perth, Australia.

Obviously Huang Xiuyuan also sees the huge value in it.

Simply replacing chemical synthesis with electric field synthesis has the potential to achieve large-scale, low-cost production. It can also violently synthesize some new compounds, which is a very important promotion for the development of new materials.

The wealthy Suiren Department was naturally not stingy and directly spent 8 billion Chinese yuan in the hope of accelerating the development of electric field synthesis technology.

Nowadays, the development of Greater China has become very stable on the surface, and it is constantly increasing investment in education, which seems to be replenishing the foundation.

But in fact, many scientific research projects have been launched secretly, and many of them do not even have relevant records in internal documents.

The total funding for various projects in the aerospace field in 2014 has reached 377.2 billion yuan; and this number will further rise this year, and the annual funding is expected to exceed 400 billion yuan.

Based on the launch cost technology of Aerospace Science and Industry, the launch cost per kilogram of payload is now 237 yuan, and Eagle Aerospace is almost in this range.

With domestic low-cost and high efficiency, such a huge investment is at least comparable to 1.2 trillion yuan.

The rice dollar here refers to the rice dollar before the collapse.

With the support of huge funds, the aerospace industry in Greater China has developed rapidly. It currently has two space stations and a lunar base.

In addition, 27 related detectors have been launched to Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and the asteroid belt.

Faced with such huge aerospace investment from Greater China, major global forces have also been drawn into the space race.

In early February this year, Lucia and the Xizhou Alliance finally reached a preliminary agreement to invest 43 billion US dollars (approximately 127.5 billion Chinese dollars) in the aerospace field in the next five years.

The Noah Group is also trying its best to invest 800 billion yuan (about 2.3 trillion yuan) in the aerospace field by 2020.

Among the other small forces, Tianzhu began to be unable to keep up, and could only barely spend 800 million yuan. As for the other small shrimps, they had even less money.

It's just that although Huang Xiuyuan is highly concerned about the huge investments made by the Noah Society and the Xizhou Alliance, he is not too worried.

There are many internal problems in the Western Continent Alliance and the Noah Society, especially the rush to launch many projects, which has caused the aerospace system to absorb so much hot money at once, and there is widespread confusion, overlap, and mutual disputes among projects.

The inflation of the rice dollar and the American dollar has further weakened their actual investment.

Huang Xiuyuan and strategic think tanks have estimated the aerospace investment of these forces.

Even though Musk's Space Exploration Company has lowered the launch cost to 6,500 yuan per kilogram (the impact of inflation is equivalent to about 2,400 yuan before the crash), it is still difficult for them to compete with Eagle Aerospace and Aerospace Science and Industry. .

The gap in launch costs between the two parties has now expanded to about 1:26.

This is a very huge gap.

It is equivalent to the Aerospace Science and Industry launching a satellite, and the cost is only 1/26 of NASA. In this case, NASA has to bite the bullet and follow up.

Huang Xiuyuan didn't know whether NASA would collapse, but Xizhou Space Agency was fast. Even if it cooperated with Lucia and managed to lower costs and improve efficiency, Xizhou Alliance still faced huge economic pressure.

The joint meeting of the Western Continent Alliance, with the joint efforts of the three giants of Gaul, Britain, and Germany, spent 43 billion US dollars in five years.

If the economy does not improve in the next few years, the consequence may be a direct economic collapse of the Western Continent Alliance.

Huang Xiuyuan has learned about the serious economic problems of the Xizhou Alliance through the channels of the Ministry of Security.

There is no idea of ​​raising tigers in China. Many cooperation projects are aimed at preventing the other party from dying too quickly, rather than pulling them up.

Moreover, the areas being supported are also deliberately buried, and a few areas with relatively good relations are specifically supported, while other areas are treated differently or even secretly suppressed.

Now the internal conflicts in the Western Continental Alliance are very acute, and the differences between Western Europe and Southeast Europe are becoming increasingly serious.

In the aerospace field, if other forces cannot achieve leapfrog development in technology in a short period of time, then with current aerospace technology and increased investment, they will not only be unable to keep up, but may even bring themselves to collapse.

It's just that in the face of this kind of conspiracy, other forces really don't have much to do.

After Huang Xiuyuan inspected Mobei Space City, he hurried back to the headquarters and held a small meeting with Jiang Hailin, Lu Xuedong, Lin Baijie and others.

Lu Xuedong, who had just returned from Australia, smiled and said, "How is the situation in Mobei?"

"It's okay. The weather will be better in a few days. We can choose a window period to launch." Huang Xiuyuan took a sip of tea and continued:

"This small meeting is mainly about the aerospace project."

Jiang Hailin seemed to have guessed something: "Xiuyuan, are you planning to promote the economicization of the aerospace industry?"

"Yes, our investment is too huge and we must make some adjustments instead of throwing money blindly."

Lin Baijie thought for a while: "If we want the aerospace industry to generate direct economic benefits, it may be difficult."

No one refuted Lin Baijie's words. Even if the launch cost is now very low, the aerospace industry is still an industry divorced from real life.

For example, how many people can afford the so-called space tourism? For 850,000 yuan, you can go to and from the Tiangong Space Station, but only 5 tickets were sold last year.

Other clothes, toys, space food, etc. are only small industries.

Huang Xiuyuan set a tone: “Now we can only start with technological feedback.”

Turn on the projector and project various cutting-edge technologies in the aerospace field on the big screen.

Everyone discussed one by one, discussing the technologies that can be applied to commercialization, especially new materials. In fact, there are many technologies that can be commercialized.

For example, in order to achieve lightweight spacesuits, various new materials have been developed. Some of these materials have relatively low production costs and can be applied to people's daily clothing.

Three generations of space suits have been developed. After being equipped with a life support system, the overall weight is 23.47 kilograms, which is the weight of the extravehicular suit.

Compared with the old extravehicular spacesuit, it is not only lighter in weight, but also much cheaper in cost. The cost of a set is about 120,000.

Currently, Eagle Aerospace has produced 50 sets of extravehicular suits, and Aerospace Science and Industry has also produced 80 sets.

Reducing weight and lowering production costs are only part of the advantages of the new extravehicular spacesuit. The real advantage is the lightweight and small size of various auxiliary equipment.

For example, the most important internal gas system of the extravehicular spacesuit uses oxygen sponge technology and carbon dioxide-oxygen and carbon cycle technology.

There are also micro thermoelectric temperature control systems and micro nuclear battery systems. These technologies are all integrated into this space suit.

The new oxygen sponge tank is only about the size of an ordinary thermos bottle, but it can store 5 kilograms of pure oxygen. This is a good technology for some industries that need to carry oxygen bottles.

Moreover, the oxygen sponge tank has another characteristic, that is, it does not require high-pressure storage or low-temperature storage, and it is not prone to uncontrolled volatilization.

After everyone discussed for a long time, they finally identified 15 technologies and prepared to gradually put these technologies into civilian use.

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