Faced with Zou Xiaodong's doubts, Zhou Xiangming smiled and shook his head and said: "There is no waste, every penny we spend is strictly calculated and very necessary.
Although it will cost more money to adopt a step-by-step strategy for development, the risk is much lower than doing it all at once.
Although we extracted 300 grams of helium-3 through a lunar soil 3D printer, this efficiency is really too low. Therefore, we must explore and develop more efficient mining technologies and equipment. This does not mean that we can just rely on our research and design or computer simulation. We still need to conduct field tests.
But the moon is too far away from us, and there is definitely no way to test and improve like we do on the earth. In this case, the cost for us to test once will be very high.
Because of this, we must adopt this step-by-step strategy to develop and improve our technical equipment in the mining and extraction of helium-3 resources bit by bit.
If you rush to achieve success in one step from the beginning, the risk will be too great, and you may even invest more than a step-by-step strategy, and it may not be successful. "
At this point, Zhou Xiangming paused, and then continued: "Actually, these equipment will not be wasted after being sent to the moon, but will continue to be used. Anyway, they are all unmanned and automated operations. Even if the efficiency is low, they can still be used." A little adds up to a lot.
Therefore, these equipments, which are delivered step by step, can still function and generate value for a long time. In this respect, they are not a waste. The value of their output is much higher than themselves, so from this aspect, it is still very worthwhile. "
After hearing this explanation from the walking project, everyone present couldn't help but nodded in approval. Indeed, if you put it this way, it is worth investing more.
Zou Xiaodong, who raised this question, and Zhang Jun, who is relatively sensitive to money, both highly affirmed it after hearing Zhou Xiangming's explanation.
I have a question.
At this time, Lin Wei, who had been silent for a long time and was sitting next to Wu Hao, suddenly spoke.
Hearing Lin Wei's words, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then looked at her. Although Lin Wei is not from Haoyu Technology, she is Wu Hao's girlfriend, their boss's wife, and the president of Micro Media.
Therefore, both Yu Chengwu and Zhou Xiangming paid great attention to Lin Wei's questions. As for others, they were also very curious about Lin Wei's question. After all, Lin Wei is the president of Micro Media. In charge of such a large company, she must have outstanding abilities and broad vision. So everyone also wants to hear what questions Lin Wei has to ask.
"Although I know that asking this question may make everyone feel rude, I still want to ask. If you mine these helium-3, will anyone really buy it at a high price?"
Asking this question, Lin Wei glanced around the crowd, then glanced at Wu Hao, and then said: "Influenced by the people around me, I am also very concerned about this project, and I have made up a lot during this time. class.
For example, I still know a little bit about the helium-3 we are talking about now.
As far as I know, helium-3 is not only found on the moon, but also on the earth. However, compared with the abundant reserves of the moon, helium-3 on the earth is very scarce and can only be extracted from seawater, so the price is very high.
That’s why people focus on the moon, hoping to obtain a large amount of helium-3 from the moon. "
Hearing what Lin Wei said, everyone present nodded. This is indeed the case. There is also helium-3 on the earth, which can be extracted from seawater. However, the reserves are too thin, making the extraction very expensive. This is why scientists turn their attention to helium-3 on the moon. reason.
Lin Wei saw everyone nodding in agreement with what she said, and then continued: "As far as I know, the main fuel of the current controllable nuclear fusion technology is not helium-3, but the hydrogen isotopes tritium and deuterium. Helium three.
Why is this? On the one hand, of course, it is because the helium-3 obtained on the earth is too little and too expensive.
On the other hand, it is because the melting conditions of helium 3 are higher than those of hydrogen or deuterium and tritium.
Everyone knows that helium 3 can be used as a controllable nuclear fusion material and is also the most important clean nuclear fusion material in the future.
However, in the rotation of Tokamak devices, the current materials that can control nuclear fusion are the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, because the fusion conditions of deuterium and tritium nuclei are the lowest and the energy released is also quite large.
Therefore, deuterium fusion is the simplest in terms of ease of implementation, so most of the current controllable nuclear fusion research projects in the world use deuterium as the preferred method for controllable fusion research. "
“This means that even if we actually transport helium-3 back, it may not be immediately used in the commercial operation of controllable nuclear fusion. It can only be used as research material in the study of controllable nuclear fusion.
It will probably take a long time to truly develop controllable nuclear fusion commercial reactor technology using helium-3 as the controllable fusion material.
In this case, everyone's demand for helium-3 will not be too high, at least not at this stage.
So what should you do if you have brought back so much helium-3 resources and cannot sell them? "
Hearing this question, everyone present nodded and couldn't help but start talking in low voices.
Although Lin Wei was talking about technology on the surface, she was actually talking about economic benefits.
Indeed, as Lin Wei said, although helium-3 is a very ideal future nuclear fusion fuel, that is the future. Although it is excellent, it also has its problems. In the final analysis, it has a high starting point. At this stage, humans are still unable to control the technology to use it, at least the technology for commercial use.
If this is the case, then the world's demand for helium-3 will not be that high, at least not at this stage before there is a breakthrough in helium-3 application technology.
The inability to operate it commercially means that the demand for helium-3 is naturally not that high. This is indeed the case. How much helium-3 is needed for scientific research experiments in various countries?
So at this time, if they have mined so much helium from the moon, they may not be able to sell much.
On the one hand, it is certainly because the price is high, and on the other hand, the demand is relatively small, so how to solve this problem, everyone present can't help but fall into thinking.
While everyone was thinking, Wu Hao smiled at Lin Wei next to him and joked: "Okay, this gentleman has been separated for three days, so we should look at each other with admiration. No, we get along day and night, and I didn't notice that you know so much about this aspect. That’s it.”
Hearing Wu Hao's jokes and questions, Lin Wei showed a proud smile, and then asked him back: "Why, can't I learn and make progress?"
