The Price of Making a Real Gundam

[Demon_Skeith]

What's bigger than Gundam? The cost to make one. A real one. Science Portal, a site run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, figured the price tag of a real Gundam would be around US$725,000,000 for parts and materials alone. That does not include the labor costs incurred in constructing the 60 foot tall, 43.7 metric ton robot. A breakdown of parts looks something like this:


Aluminum alloy (honeycomb) $79,000,000
(+ Metal manufacturing/processing) $240,000,000
Main computer (IBM) $1,550,000
Gas turbine engines (GE) $364,000,000
Superconductive motors (IHI) $7,800,000
Motor drivers $7,800,000
Reducers $22,800,000
Sensors $910,000
Cockpit $450,000
TOTAL: $724,310,000

Pricey! And even after that, the only thing this Gundam could do is walk

lilnk

that be sweet to build a real gundam and would change a lot of things if building one becomes cheaper.

 

[Zero]

OMG!!!!!!! they pay all that money just so they could build something that can varely walk the should give money to charity or something to help stop global warming.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

QUOTE (Xeon @ January 22, 2008 05:47 am) OMG!!!!!!! they pay all that money just so they could build something that can varely walk the should give money to charity or something to help stop global warming.
there not going to pay for something that expensive but if I were you I wouldn't make bill gates mad

 

[Yoshi]

QUOTE (Demon_Skeith @ January 21, 2008 07:34 pm)

What's bigger than Gundam? The cost to make one. A real one. Science Portal, a site run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, figured the price tag of a real Gundam would be around US$725,000,000 for parts and materials alone. That does not include the labor costs incurred in constructing the 60 foot tall, 43.7 metric ton robot. A breakdown of parts looks something like this:


Aluminum alloy (honeycomb) $79,000,000
(+ Metal manufacturing/processing) $240,000,000
Main computer (IBM) $1,550,000
Gas turbine engines (GE) $364,000,000
Superconductive motors (IHI) $7,800,000
Motor drivers $7,800,000
Reducers $22,800,000
Sensors $910,000
Cockpit $450,000
TOTAL: $724,310,000

Pricey! And even after that, the only thing this Gundam could do is walk

lilnk

that be sweet to build a real gundam and would change a lot of things if building one becomes cheaper.
*coughitcouldcruchpeoplewithitshugefootcough*
^^ nuff said

 

[DarkShame2]

Obviously, building a real gundam is gonna cost huge amount of money. Well the pic looks cool though.