After staying in Kuala Lumpur for three days, Jiang Chen returned to Koro Island on his Gulfstream G650 and began to prepare for the next trip.
Not long after he returned home, Starlink Trading sent an engineering ship to the waters between Anga Island and New Matt District to begin underwater construction operations. Laying this kind of undersea transmission line is much more troublesome than building elevated transmission lines on land, but for Starlink Trading, which often engages in undersea projects, this trouble is nothing at all.
The person in charge of the project assured Jiang Chen that the transmission line would be completed by the end of March at the latest.
At the lunar colony, colony director Tang Weijie also assured Jiang Chen via video call that the laying of long-distance power transmission equipment would be completed by the end of this month (February). In Star Ring City, the equipment used to receive lasers is also under construction.
Kerwin assured Jiang Chen that the entire territory of the new country would use the electricity generated by the lunar nuclear fusion power station by mid-March at the latest. The Koro Nuclear Power Plant, which has been criticized for a long time, can also withdraw from the stage of history.
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Jiang Chen spent almost all of February on the plane.
After Malaysia agreed to connect its power grid with the new country, negotiations between Xinghuan Trading and Australia, India, Japan, South Korea and other countries are also proceeding simultaneously.
Just as Jiang Chen expected, with an electricity price of 1.2 cents per kilowatt hour, no one can refuse this electricity price with huge profit margins that are unimaginable. Some people speculate that the star ring trade uses solar energy, and others speculate that there are large amounts of uranium and plutonium isotopes on the Bennu asteroid, but no one thinks about nuclear fusion.
Because it is too difficult to achieve nuclear fusion, no material can withstand the tens of millions of degrees of reaction temperature required for nuclear fusion. The conditions for realizing the legendary cold fusion are even more stringent, even to the point of science fiction.
In fact, even in the 22nd century, there is no material that can withstand temperatures of tens of millions of degrees.
If this kind of material really existed, flying into the sun to mine it would not be a problem. After all, the central temperature of the sun is only over 20 million degrees Celsius.
However, in the not-too-distant future, there will be a magical technology that can constrain particles within a certain space, maintaining their own high temperature while preventing them from coming into contact with other materials. Instead of a physical container in the traditional sense, it is held by an invisible hand.
That is magnetic confinement technology.
However, even if magnetic confinement technology is included, nuclear fusion power generation is still an almost impossible problem for most people. Devices that use magnetic confinement to confine charged particles were invented as early as the end of the 20th century. However, using magnetic confinement technology to constrain uncharged helium 3 and deuterium involves particle physics principles that cannot be explained by current physics.
In short, the negotiations with Australia were relatively successful. Australia agreed to build this submarine cable, but insisted that the construction and maintenance of this submarine cable must be left to Australian companies. Jiang Chen happily accepted the proposal. If it were to be handed over to the offshore construction team of Xinghuan Trading, they would not be able to spare any time. They could only schedule the construction period until the completion of the submarine cable between Anga Island and New Matt District. Start again.
Australia's annual power generation is almost twice that of Malaysia, approaching 400 billion kWh. Moreover, due to institutional reasons, Australia did not interfere as much as Malaysia did in the negotiations between Starlink Trading and domestic companies regarding the specific amount of imported electricity.
Australia's electricity is basically monopolized by two major companies. AGL, which is committed to the development of new energy, is very generous. After hearing Jiang Chen's quotation, it signed a 100 billion kilowatt-hour electricity contract without saying a word, and it is going to the Australian market. Priority for cooperation.
This market in the southern hemisphere will bring more than one billion Australian dollars in revenue to Star Ring Trade every year.
As for India, the negotiations were smoother.
As an emerging economy with the fifth largest power generation in the world, India’s annual electricity financial subsidy is a quite terrifying figure. But when negotiating with the Indians, Jiang Chen completely felt what Moji meant. The price has obviously been agreed upon, but the entire negotiation is inexplicably unable to reach an agreement.
In the end, Jiang Chen simply left the follow-up work of the negotiation to the Indian branch of Future People Bank, and let those professional negotiators act as agents for the entire negotiation, and then flew to Japan.
He has many things to be busy with, and he doesn't have time to waste in one place.
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In Europe, at the foot of the Alps, in a manor named Rothschild, four or five fruit farmers were working in front of rows of wooden frames hanging grapevines. The planting techniques they use are inherited from the traditional planting techniques mastered by the Medici family in the 14th century.
The Rothschild family believes that only traditional planting techniques can produce the most authentic wine. The red wine flowing out of this winery is also worth its weight in gold and is sought after by the entire upper class in Europe.
Next to the vineyard, a man in casual clothes was reading a newspaper in his hand and sitting on a wooden chair made of rattan.
If you hadn't walked in, no one would know that this man with a Jewish face was the uncrowned king of underground and above-ground forces throughout Europe.
After the tragedy at Pilsen Church, he integrated all the power of Freemasonry and was truly worthy of the term "The Uncrowned King". Among all the senior members of the 33rd Degree Conference, he is the only one with the most seniority. As the Lord, he not only holds the power of the Freemasons, but also controls the wealth of the entire Rothschild family.
However, at this moment, the young king had a melancholy expression on his face.
A Mercedes-Benz stopped at the door of the winery, and Johnson, a black man in a suit, walked into the winery. He is Rothschild's personal bodyguard and his most loyal subordinate. He has been working for Carmen since he was picked up by Rothschild from the French Foreign Legion.
Even the Munich tragedy that shocked the world had his active shadow behind it.
Without looking back at Johnson, who was standing behind her, Carmen turned to the next page of the newspaper and asked in a casual tone.
"Has it been dealt with?"
Like a cold war machine, Johnson responded.
"It's all taken care of."
Just two hours ago, all opposition voices within the EU were silenced.
The corners of Carmen's mouth curled up slightly, and she closed the newspaper in her hand.
The housekeeper who had been standing nearby was slightly surprised. This was the first time he saw his young master smile today.
Putting the newspaper aside, Carmen stood up and smiled.
"Where are our enemies? Are they aware of it?"
Johnson shook his head.
"very good."
Looking at the Alps not far away, the smile on Carmen's face became even brighter, just like the snow that had just melted on the Alps not far away.
"It's almost time for me to set off." (~^~)