Chapter 1238: Restarting the Opening of the Elevator

The wind of nuclear fusion swept across the whole world in just a few minutes.

Meanwhile, Gangdao and Te Qu have already fully adopted clean energy.

Several power plants have been completely shut down; the worthless ones were directly demolished, while those with some value were kept as backups and developed into tourist attractions.

Although Gangdao and Te Qu had already carried out deep electricity reforms, fossil fuels still held a certain position.

But now, everything has changed.

Electric machinery will officially rule this land.

At the same time, seawater desalination projects will also be accelerated.

(Nuclear fusion requires deuterium-tritium to fuse with helium-3, and deuterium-tritium needs to be extracted from seawater. And after nuclear fusion power generation, the remaining heat can just be used to distill seawater.)

This can greatly alleviate the pressure on industrial water use, and also greatly reduce humanity's destruction and pressure on nature.

In short, nuclear fusion power generation has many benefits.

Just when everyone had not yet recovered from the shock of nuclear fusion.

Because the space elevator project had been interrupted by a mechanical natural disaster, it was brought up again.

Yang Qingfeng had already appeared on Blue Moon No. 1, and this time everyone again nominated Yang Qingfeng as the spokesperson.

These past few years, because everyone's attention was on Beta, the technical verification work for the space elevator had almost stalled in other countries, so the Yang family had to take back the work they had allocated out and conduct the verification themselves.

During this period, Big Building Aerospace also voluntarily took on part of the technical verification work.

By now, the technical verification work for the space elevator has also been nearly completed.

But at this point, the Yang family together with Big Building have contributed over ninety percent to the space elevator.

The Yang family alone accounts for seventy percent.

This involves huge benefits.

Although it is an international project, the Yang family having contributed so much cannot possibly compromise without receiving certain benefits.

This made the Yang family unhappy; they are playing by themselves, and you have no way to do anything about it.

Therefore, in this space elevator project, Yang Qingfeng's attitude is very firm.

"Fifty percent; any less than that, we cannot agree."

"Otherwise, you come up with two trillion, or else sign the contract again according to this number."

Others are naturally dissatisfied.

"How is that possible? The entire project construction doesn't even need one trillion."

"Director Yang, you need to show sincerity."

"Sincerity?"

Yang Qingfeng snorted with laughter.

"To verify these technologies, how many rockets have we used?"

"How many times have we used the space station? During this period, how many satellites have we adjusted?"

"Have you counted them?"

"This is the marginal cost."

"If you don't accept it, do it yourselves."

"If you don't dare, then don't nag here."

The Yang family has indeed incurred huge costs in this regard; just speaking of the space elevator's spaceport technology, the Yang family has conducted many experiments, requiring the assembly of a massive space station in Lanxing's synchronous orbit.

This space station is also located in the Van Allen radiation belt; when releasing the cables, artificial intelligence must perform massive calculations to achieve balance and counterweight.

These cables must pass through the radiation layer, so they also need radiation protection treatment; otherwise, their lifespan will be greatly affected.

After passing through the radiation layer and entering the atmosphere, due to airflow, the tension becomes extremely complex; moreover, a device must be installed in near space to regulate this tension.

After entering the stratosphere, meteorological changes must also be monitored.

We also need to study the impact of lightning on the cables.

After finally landing, the entire system still needs optimization and adjustment.

It can be said that, after this series of technical verifications, the cost incurred is even greater than that of installing a space elevator.

Moreover, with this verification cable, the installation of the space elevator will save more than half of the cost.

Calculated this way, the Yang family taking fifty percent not only didn't profit, but actually lost money.

Others are just getting a free ride.

If it weren't for the fact that they are playing by themselves, monopolizing the aerospace industry, and besides, Big Building wouldn't agree, Yang Qingfeng would have wanted to toss everyone aside and do it himself.

The representative of Big Building also threatened.

"The remaining United Federation takes one and a half percent, we take one and a half percent, giving you the remaining two percent is already good."

"Don't be greedy."

"Moreover, space elevators can be installed all along the equator; whoever feels dissatisfied can do it themselves, or you can jointly establish a new company to do it."

"We and the Yang family can both provide you with technical and equipment support."

"How about it, want to consider it?"

"Who knows, you might succeed if you put in some effort."

The representative of Big Building smiled narrowly, yet made everyone resentful to the point of gritting their teeth.

Equipment and technology—who knows how much money you want?

Can it be built on the equator?

Several good bases are all in the Yang family's hands.

The rest is either sea or geologically unstable zones, or else poor transportation; for the space elevator, we surely can't still have to launch massive earthworks and infrastructure construction, right?

Therefore, this advantage of the Yang family must be taken by them.

With this space elevator as a foundation, they now have the confidence to build their own space elevators in the future.

More importantly, space resources, the space elevator, which spans 36,000 kilometers, involves a large number of track issues along the entire route.

You want them to move? Is it possible without giving anything?

Think of the dense satellites of the Sky Net; if the Star Net weren't destroyed, they would also have to consider the Star Net.

Doing demolition in space? How much would that cost?

"We agree; we indeed delayed the progress of the space elevator project."

"The Yang Family has indeed paid a huge price; we should indeed compensate."

"However, we hope the Yang Family can sell a few space elevator bases."

Yang Qingfeng directly refused.

"The entire equatorial zone can serve as space elevator bases; we still need the few we have, so sorry."

Everyone was unwilling.

"Just one, we only need one."

Yang Qingfeng still refused.

"We already have our own plans for these; otherwise, let's wait and see—if we have any left later, we'll definitely sell them to you all, how about that?"

Wait?

Everyone rolled their eyes, then looked to the Big Building representative, hoping he would speak.

The Big Building representative himself still wanted to buy two bases from the Yang Family—how could he speak for them at this time?

"Director Yang is quite right; everyone might as well wait."

Amid everyone's reluctance, the space elevator project finally restarted.

But the Yang Family has become the true leader.

For this, the Yang Family paid the price of two space elevator bases.

Although everyone is now under the jurisdiction of the Lian Fu, each region still has enormous competition.

The Yang Family naturally won't give outsiders a bargain.

Soon, Yang Qingfeng appeared before everyone again.

This time he stood on the podium as the spokesperson for the space elevator project.

"I'm glad to see everyone again."

"I am Yang Qingfeng, the person in charge of the space elevator project."

"The space elevator project, which had been stalled for five years, officially resumes today."

"Moreover, we have already lowered an experimental cable; relying on this cable, we hope to complete the space elevator construction task within a year."

"By then, there will be one more way for everyone to go space tourism."

"We will build a space port at 100 kilometers, another space port at 500 kilometers, and a comprehensive port at 36,000 kilometers."

"In the future, we will build a magnetic ring at the comprehensive port to protect the entire comprehensive space port."

"Above the comprehensive port, we also need to build a balance hammer, an alternative space port, to balance the system's center of gravity."