Jane provided Jiang Chen with a total of 7 seawater desalination solutions.
After considering the actual situation in New Zealand, Jiang Chen finally chose a design plan called a hybrid energy desalination plant, and handed over the low-tech parts to the factory in New Matt District for production, while the high-tech parts The equipment was handed over to the High-Tech Industrial Park on Anga Island.
Although it is listed as an industrial park in name, the only one that lives here is the factory of a company named Future Heavy Industries - a service robot assembly factory. Every month, 400,000 "Xiaolin" come off the production line here, are shipped to the port, and sold all over the world.
Now, a new production line has been added to the assembly plant. Cooperate with the industrial-grade 3D printing equipment that Jiang Chen brought from the apocalypse last time to produce the core components of the seawater desalination device.
All processed parts are transported to the sea east of Koro Island and assembled by amphibious engineering robots.
Unlike the Penglai City construction plan, the assembled seawater desalination project has not been made public. Due to its small scale, people did not notice this behemoth until the construction was completed and the assembled device was floated as a whole and transported by ship to "anchor" 100 meters away from the coast of Coro Island...
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One day at noon, the sun was shining brightly and the blue sky was cloudless.
The palm leaves of the coconut trees swayed with colorful shadows. Jim Lane, a reporter from the Washington Post, was lying leisurely on the beach on the east coast of Coro Island, enjoying this rare vacation.
This small island is always full of countless news, and people in Washington are also surprisingly interested in this small island. If you just write two reports about Penglai City and put them on the headlines, the sales of the newspaper will increase. A lot. Rather, the reason why many people buy newspapers is to see if the Future Group has come up with anything new.
Having just finished writing the last report about the ghost-hunting in Penglai City, Jim sent the document back to the newspaper headquarters and also received a promotion email. The manager of the newspaper planned to transfer him back to the headquarters to serve as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. After receiving the news, he excitedly opened five bottles of champagne.
He still has five days off before returning to Washington to take office, and he plans to use this time to take a good rest.
The tropical temperature made people sleepy, but just when he was looking at the rising sea surface and preparing to take a nap, the exclamation coming from not far away drove away all his sleepiness.
"Jim, get up, there's something on the sea!" At this moment, his little girlfriend in a bikini ran over, put the shaved ice she just bought on the beach table, and shook his shoulders to wake him up. .
"What? Wait, are you sure you didn't see a mirage?" Although he said reluctantly, Jim still climbed up from the lounge chair, let his excited girlfriend pull him, and trotted to the beach not far away. of sand dunes.
His journalistic instinct told him that there might be something terrible at sea.
And the facts confirmed his guess.
When they were only halfway there, a dark silhouette appeared on the sea.
Carried by four ships, a metal floating island about the size of a basketball court was parked not far from the beach.
Jim gradually stopped, held his girlfriend's hand, and stared blankly at the sea.
In his ears, exclamations in various languages came to his ears...
"Daddy, what is that?"
"It's incredible! My phone, wife, where is my phone? I want to take a photo and post it on Facebook! Oh, Shet, it's in my hand..."
"I bet this is the work of the Future People Group again!"
"Don't worry, honey, maybe in two days we can buy tickets to go out and bask in the sun. Remember to put on your new swimsuit..."
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Suddenly, the crowd burst out with another scream, awakening Jim and his girlfriend who were stunned. I saw that the outer shell of the metal floating island began to unfold in all directions, the air bag in the middle began to expand, and the iron pipe located underwater began to float up.
"Jim, what is that?" Jenny asked in disbelief, holding the reporter's boyfriend's hand.
However, at this moment, her boyfriend, who usually doted on her the most, threw her hand away.
"Cell phone... Damn it! The phone and camera are in the bag! Wait for me here, Jenny, I'll be right back!"
Under his girlfriend's disbelieving gaze, Jim yelled and ran towards the luggage storage point...
However, Jim ultimately failed to capture the unfolding of this behemoth.
In full view of everyone, this metal floating island the size of a basketball court expanded into the size of a football field!
The square design is very similar to that of an offshore oil production machine. The only difference is the unscientific wide area and the hundreds of graphene pipes crisscrossing the surface.
Around this steel floating island, there are rows of floating cylindrical buoys connected by pipes. These cylinders extend vertically into the seabed and serve as the seawater collection unit for the entire desalination equipment. The collected seawater is coarsely filtered and sent to the intermediate distillation device through graphene pipes for processing, and then the desalinated water is output through the water outlet at the bottom of the platform.
The interface on the left can be connected to the power unit for power transmission. The entire equipment will only operate after power is supplied. The modular design enables both thermal power generation and solar power generation to provide energy for this set of equipment.
The most important thing is that this desalination device can be moved. If you are not satisfied with the current position, or a typhoon is about to pass, you only need to retract the graphene anchor cable fixed to the seabed, separate several main modules, and drag the ship to other places to complete the deployment again.
As long as a water pipe is connected from the land, this "desalination platform" can continuously deliver fresh water to residents on the land.
Of course, this seawater desalination platform cannot be deployed in a tourist attraction. The reason why it was chosen to complete its initial deployment here is mainly to provide free advertising for this new equipment.
"It's incredible." Standing on the top of the Future Man Building, Nayef looked at the desalination platform through the sightseeing telescope, grinning almost from ear to ear.
The original plan was to send his secretary, but out of concern for the project, he flew to Coro himself.
"We will see a lot of similar comments in the newspapers tomorrow," standing next to him, Jiang Chen said with a smile, "So we might as well talk about more interesting things."
"How much do you plan to sell this platform for?" Nayef asked without looking back, as if his eyes were glued to the telescope.
"We won't sell it." Jiang Chen shook his head.
Nayef was stunned, and finally moved his eyes away from the telescope, and looked back at Jiang Chen in confusion.
"Didn't we agree?" Jiang Chen smiled and said, "We will supply you with fresh water at a price of US$1 per ton."
Compared to a one-time deal, Jiang Chen prefers a long-term business. And if it controls Saudi Arabia's fresh water supply market, Future Man Group will gain more than just paper benefits.
No one can live without fresh water, especially those living in the desert.
When the Future Group uses cheaper desalinated water, it gradually crowds out other desalination plants. By then, the Future Group, which controls the seawater desalination platform, will be equivalent to controlling the lifeblood of these water-scarce countries.
By then, the entire Persian Gulf and Red Sea countries will be inseparable from the fresh water of the Future People Group. It is also at that time that they will take the lead for the future group. (.)