Chen Jin's design was quite good, and its feasibility was also very high.
However, he didn't plan to promote the life-prolonging medical technology right away.
There were still ethical controversies regarding the health pod technology for cultivating babies in vitro. Many people found it hard to accept … It might take thirty to fifty years for people to gradually accept it.
Life-prolonging technology would not encounter any resistance.
Five years.
Chen Jin considered that five years later, when the first Xing Hai Hospital was built in the desert, the life-prolonging technology could be made public to the world.
In addition, there was another thing. After the desert area contracted by Xing Hai Technologies reached 500,000 square kilometers, the remaining desert would no longer be allowed to be contracted by Xing Hai Technologies, no matter how much money they had. This was the upper limit of the land contracted by Xing Hai Technologies.
This was within Chen Jin's expectations and he did not express any dissatisfaction.
"500,000 square kilometers is more than enough. It's impossible to occupy all the desert … the higher-ups won't allow it."
"But this is equivalent to the area of several provinces. To completely transform it, it will cost 50,000 to 10 trillion yuan."
"In the future, most of the profits that Xing Hai Technologies earns from the domestic market will be invested in this desert. I estimate that it will barely be enough."
Thinking of this, Chen Jin shook his head.
A few years ago, Xing Hai Technologies entered the desert. Aunt He Jia was very interested. She said that she had found the meaning of life and wanted to contribute to the cause of environmental protection. Now that the market was cold and the capital was withdrawing, her heart also turned cold. She never talked about this matter again.
Right now, Little Aunt should have more than 20 billion in liquid funds, right?
"The time is basically ripe. It's about time to absorb a wave of idle funds."
However, these funds were not used for domestic deserts.
Instead, it was the deserts abroad that were ten times more vast.
…
20X8, May.
Africa, Sahara Desert.
On the eastern coast of Morocco, there was a desalination research institute — Galaxy Desalination Institute.
On this day, Chen Jin made a video call to ask about their recent research progress.
"Professor Bi, how is your research on the nanomolecular permeable membrane going? Does it have advantages over other desalination methods in terms of production efficiency and cost? "Chen Jin asked.
There are many ways to desalinate seawater:
There are common distillation methods. There were two types of distillation: high-temperature distillation and low-temperature distillation. High-temperature distillation was more efficient, and low-temperature distillation was more energy-efficient.
There was a freezing method. By freezing the seawater at a low temperature, the freshwater in the seawater is separated.
There was solar energy. The solar distillation method used a simple solar distiller. The distiller consisted of a water tank. There was a black, porous felt floating hole in the water tank. The top of the tank was covered with a transparent, sealed glass cover. Sunlight shone through the transparent cover and was converted into heat energy at the bottom of the black insulated trough.
There was a multi-level Flash Steaming method. Flash evaporation refers to the phenomenon that part of the seawater evaporates rapidly under the condition of a sudden drop in pressure of a certain temperature. Multi-stage flash desalination was to evaporate heated seawater in multiple flash chambers where the pressure was gradually reduced, and then condense the steam to obtain fresh water.
And molecular infiltration. This method was often referred to as the "Overfiltration Method."
This method used a semi-permeable membrane that only allowed solvents to pass through and did not allow solutes to pass through to separate seawater and freshwater. Under normal circumstances, fresh water would diffuse through the semi-permeable membrane to one side of the seawater, causing the surface of the seawater to gradually rise until it reached a certain height. This process was known as osmosis. If an external pressure greater than the osmotic pressure of the seawater was applied to one side of the seawater, the pure water in the seawater would reverse osmosis into the fresh water.
The biggest advantage of the molecular osmosis method was that it saved energy.
Among the above methods, Xing Hai Technologies focused on the "molecular osmosis method."
There were no other reasons. One was the cost, and the other was the efficiency. Other seawater desalination methods more or less had some flaws. Only the molecular osmosis method could take care of both.
"It has reached the standard of large-scale application, Mr. Chen."
Professor Bi Yongfu said in the video, "I've been struggling in this field for nearly 20 years. Now, I see the hope of eradicating the 'desert' cancer on earth.
A set of large-scale desalination equipment using the 'Bi's Nano Osmosis Membrane' produced by Xing Hai Technologies can seep out 12 tons of fresh water per second. It can produce more than 1 million tons of fresh water every day. It's enough for a city with a population of one million.
If we build 100 sets of such desalination equipment, we can solve the survival needs of 100 million people.
If we build 1,000 of them, the entire Sahara Desert can become a land full of vitality.
The construction cost of each such desalination plant is about 1.5 billion. In the process of producing fresh water, the average electricity consumption for each ton of water is about one kilowatt hour.
Assuming that the electricity cost is 30 cents per kilowatt hour, plus the cost of pipeline construction, management, and maintenance, the average cost of desalination per ton of fresh water will not exceed three dollars per ton.
This is a little more expensive than directly pumping fresh water from Lake Baikal, but it's not too expensive. It's within an affordable range.
Mr. Chen, I suggest that we buy the desert here and use the company's most advanced desert management technology to develop it. I believe that we will have large areas of oases in just 10 to 20 years' time!
Xing Hai Technologies will become the world's largest land contracting company. Just the land alone will bring the company huge profits. "
Chen Jin nodded.
Three dollars per ton of fresh water. All costs were included. This price-performance ratio was really good. It had reached the standard of large-scale production.
During this time, Xing Hai Technologies had also sent commercial representatives to conduct business negotiations with North African countries such as Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and Niger. They purchased 1.5 million square kilometers of desert … The total cost was about 150 billion dollars (this money was the profits Xing Hai Technologies earned from its overseas business activities).
All of them signed permanent contracts.
Now, the desalination technology had also matured.
Xing Hai Technologies could go all out and do a big job in the Sahara Desert.
But the time was not fully ripe yet.
…
On the 29th of May.
In the virtual world.
"Alice, how's the voting result? Is there any problem with the re-election? "
Chen Jin asked with his arms crossed.
"82.17% of the votes. He won re-election without any suspense and created the highest re-election support rate in history," Alice said.
"But I saw that the media was very fierce. Almost none of the mainstream media supported Lanfelord. It was completely one-sided. They even conducted a lot of online polls, saying that the probability of Lanfelord's re-election was less than 1% …"
"Fake news master, these are all fake reports. But the final voting result is true. This is the only redeeming feature of this system."
Alice continued, "In addition, master, we have to add a batch of bodyguard robots to Lanfelord. It's best to double the number. Since the beginning of this year, Lanfelord has encountered 187 assassination attempts, an average of more than one per day. I think this frequency will increase in the future. The methods used will also be more intense and extreme. We must make better preparations. "
One had to know that those whose interests were at stake would never let the matter rest.
"What the f * ck, 187 times?"
This was just the beginning. When the next step of the operation was carried out, wouldn't the frequency of the assassinations be even crazier?
It seemed that, except for the immortal robot double, even God could not save the M nation under normal circumstances.
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