Chapter 1785 (1/2)
In Elon Musk's words, technology is mostly stacked, and between technology and technology, it's like making arrangement and combination. The more technology you have, the more patterns you can play.
Elon Musk has been pursuing the next dimension, such as new energy vehicles, autonomous driving, recoverable rockets, and even sending humans to Mars.
Taking advantage of this visit to Yanjing to discuss the following relocation of Tesla to China and the cooperation between Tesla and other automobile brands of Li Mu, Elon Musk, after having dinner with Li Mu, held Li Mu for a long time in his hotel room.
He first introduced the importance of technology stacking to Li Mu, and the topic is still about cars.
He said to Li Mu, ”President Li, in fact, technology is really interesting. You see, if we install adaptive cruise for a car, we can develop a pre collision system on the basis of adaptive cruise radar hardware.”
Li Mu said, ”you don't let me go home in the evening, just to popularize automobile technology for me?”
”You see, I'm going to start with automotive technology,” Musk said with a smile
Li Mu said, ”I know what you mean. Make a light bulb today, a battery tomorrow, and then it will be a flashlight. In two days, make a motor, and get more battery strings together. It's an electric car. That's what you mean, isn't it?”
Musk nodded: ”almost...”
Li Mu smiled and said, ”I may not be able to work out how the battery stores electricity, but I know how to use the battery. If you pull me to say what I want to say, you can just say it.”
Musk found himself being seen through by Li Mu, and smiled awkwardly, saying, ”Mr. Li, in fact, I want to talk to you about space exploration.”
”Space exploration?” Li Mu asked curiously, ”where are you going?”
”Explore other stars, like Mars,” Musk said
Li Mu said, ”isn't NASA doing it? We also sent a Mars rover. What else are you going to explore? ”
”NASA just sent Rovers to Mars, but not people to Mars,” Musk said seriously. ”My goal is to send people to Mars first, and then try to immigrate to Mars.”
Li Mu was stunned. I heard about your plan to immigrate to Mars in my last life, but I didn't see you send people to Mars until I was reborn
So Li Mu asked him, ”how are you going to do this?”
”Of course, relying on SpaceX, our current research direction is mainly reusable launch vehicles, and our rocket's future launch capacity will continue to increase, keeping pace with NASA's Saturn V, or even surpassing Saturn V,” Musk said
”Once we have a heavy recoverable rocket, our cost per kilogram is likely to be reduced to one tenth or even less of the current mainstream launch cost.”
”In this way, we have the basis for going to Mars.”
”For example, we can build a spaceship that can land on Mars, and then use our recyclable launch vehicles to continuously launch space station components into space, and build a large space station in space orbit. This process is like driving a truck, successively transporting building materials that can build a house from Tianjin port to Yanjing, and building a house You may need hundreds of tons of building materials, your truck may only be able to carry five tons at a time, so you need to commute at least fifty or sixty times between Tianjin and Yanjing. ”
”Before there is no recyclable rocket, all your trucks are disposable. That is to say, every five tons of building materials you transport, you need to spend a pickup truck. This cost is extremely high, even higher than the house you are going to build many, many, many. But in the future, we can turn this kind of disposable truck into recyclable, that is to say, every time you go back and forth Jinshi and Yanjing only need to refuel the car and carry out daily maintenance of the car. This cost reduction is not a little bit. ”
Li Mu nodded and asked, ”and then?”
”Then it's simple,” Musk said. ”We now build a space station in space as a base for replenishment, and then transport a large amount of fuel, even booster rockets, to the space station several times, turning it into a large replenishment station, and then we launch our heavy-duty Taikong spacecraft.”
”You know, to explore the universe, the biggest fuel consumption is the process of getting rid of the earth's gravity from the ground to the space. If the traditional spacecraft goes directly to Mars, most of its loads are actually fuel, such as the Mars rover, which is only a few hundred kilograms in total, but the total launching weight may exceed 1000 tons.”
”If we build a space station in space, our heavy-duty spacecraft will not need to think about storing enough fuel to fly to Mars and then return, just enough fuel to reach the space station, so it can increase the load of the spacecraft off the ground, and then go to the space station to refuel and go to Mars.”