Jean provided Jiang Chen with a total of seven desalination plans.
After combining the actual situation of Xin, Jiang Chen finally chose a design plan called a hybrid energy desalination plant and handed over the low-tech parts to the New Malaysia Special District for production, while the high-tech equipment was handed over to the high-tech industrial park on Ange Island.
Although it was a listed industrial park, only one factory of Future Heavy Industries resided here – a service robot assembly plant. Every month, 400,000 "Xiao Lin" would walk off the production line, be transported to the port, and be sold around the world.
Now, there was a new production line in this assembly plant. Combined with the industrial-grade 3D printing equipment Jiang Chen brought from the apocalypse, the core components of the desalination plant would be produced.
All the processed parts would be transported to the sea east of Coro Island and assembled by amphibious construction robots.
Unlike the construction plan in Penglai City, the desalination project was not disclosed to the public. Because of the small scale, it was not until the construction was completed and the assembled plant floated and was transported by a ship to a position 100 meters off the coast of Coro Island that people noticed the behemoth …
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At noon, the sun shone brightly, and the blue sky was cloudless.
The palm leaves of the coconut trees swayed in the colorful shadows. Reporter Jim Lane of the Washington Post was leisurely lying on the beach on the east coast of Coro Island, enjoying the rare vacation.
This small island was always full of countless news, and the people of Washington were also unexpectedly interested in this small island. If they casually wrote two reports about Penglai City and put them in the headlines, the newspaper sales would increase a lot. Or rather, the reason why many people bought the newspaper was to see if Future Group came up with anything new.
After writing the last article about Penglai City, Jim sent the document back to the headquarters of the newspaper and also received an email of promotion. The manager of the newspaper planned to transfer him back to the headquarters as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. After receiving the news, he was so excited that he opened five bottles of champagne.
There were still five days of vacation before he returned to the Capital, and he planned to use this time to rest.
The tropical temperature made people sleepy, but just as he looked at the rising heat waves and was about to take a nap, a scream not far away dispelled all his drowsiness.
"Jim, get up, there's something on the sea!" Just then, his girlfriend in a bikini ran over, put the shaved ice she had just bought on the beach table, and shook his shoulder to wake him up.
"What is it? Wait, are you sure you didn't see a mirage? " Although he said it reluctantly, Jim got up from the recliner and let his excited girlfriend pull him to the sand dunes not far away from the beach.
His journalistic intuition told him that there might really be something extraordinary at sea.
And the truth proved his guess.
When they were only halfway there, a black shadow appeared on the surface of the sea.
A metal floating island about the size of a basketball court was pulled by four ships and stopped not far from the beach.
Jim gradually stopped in his tracks. He held his girlfriend's hand and stared blankly at the sea.
Exclamations of various languages drifted into his ears …
"Daddy, what's that?"
"This is unbelievable! My phone, honey, where is my phone? I'm going to film it and post it on YouTube! Oh, sh * t, it's in my hand … "
"I bet this must be Future Group's doing again!"
"Don't worry, baby, maybe in a few days we can buy a ticket to go out to the sun. Remember to put on your new swimsuit … "
"…"
Suddenly, the crowd burst into exclamations again, waking Jim and his girlfriend from their stupor. The outer shell of the metal floating island began to expand, the air sac in the middle began to expand, and the metal tube under the water began to float.
"Jim, what's that?" Jenny held her boyfriend's hand and asked in disbelief.
But at that moment, her boyfriend, who usually spoiled her the most, flung her hand away.
"Phone … Dammit! Phone and camera are in the bag! Wait for me here, Jenny, I'll be right back! "
Under his girlfriend's incredulous gaze, Jim yelled and sprinted in the direction of the luggage storage …
However, Jim didn't manage to capture the image of the behemoth expanding.
In front of everyone's eyes, the metal floating island the size of a basketball court expanded into the size of a football field!
The square-shaped design was similar to an offshore oil drilling platform. The only difference was the unscientifically wide surface area and the hundreds of intertwined graphene pipes on the surface.
Around the metal floating island were rows of cylindrical buoys connected by pipes. The cylinders extended vertically into the seabed and served as the seawater collection unit of the desalination equipment. The collected seawater would be filtered and sent through the graphene pipes to the distillation device in the middle for processing. Then the desalinated water would be exported through the outlet at the bottom of the platform.
The port on the left could be connected to the power unit for power transmission. Only when the power was connected would the entire equipment operate. The modular design allowed both thermal power and solar power to power the set of equipment.
The most important thing was that the desalination equipment could be moved. If the current location was not satisfactory, or a typhoon was about to pass, the graphene cables fixed to the seabed would be retracted, the main modules would be dismantled, and the ship would be towed to other places to redeploy.
As long as a pipe was connected to the land, the "desalination platform" could continuously deliver fresh water to the residents on land.
Of course, the desalination platform couldn't be deployed in a tourist attraction. The reason why the desalination platform was chosen here was to provide free advertising for the new equipment.
"This is incredible." Standing on the top of Future Building, Yerif gazed at the desalination platform through the binoculars. He couldn't stop grinning.
The original plan was to send his assistant here, but due to the importance of the project, he personally flew to Coro Island.
"We'll see a lot of similar comments in the newspaper tomorrow." Standing next to him, Jiang Chen said with a smile, "So why don't we talk about something more interesting."
"How much do you plan to sell this platform for?" Yerif's eyes seemed to be glued to the binoculars as he asked without turning his head.
"We're not selling." Jiang Chen shook his head.
Yerif was stunned. His eyes finally moved away from the binoculars as he looked at Jiang Chen, puzzled.
"Didn't we agree?" Jiang Chen smiled. "We'll supply you with fresh water at the price of one US Dollar per ton."
Compared to a one-time deal, Jiang Chen preferred a long-term business. And if he controlled the Saudi fresh water supply market, Future Group would gain more than just the benefits on the paper.
No one could live without fresh water, especially people in the desert.
Once Future Group used cheaper desalinated water, it would gradually drive out other desalination plants. By that time, Future Group controlling the desalination platform would be equivalent to controlling the lifeline of the countries lacking water.
By that time, all the countries along the Persian Gulf and Red Sea would be inseparable from Future Group's fresh water. By that time, they would follow Future Group's lead.
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