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Volume 2 Qianlong Chapter 29 Super Manor

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    Regarding the super estate project, the two major shareholders of United Technologies had a conversation, but the attitudes of the two parties were not consistent. It was just that Li Zhuang insisted and Da Mian didn't care, so the project was finalized. However, Da Mian still often doubted Li Zhuang's true identity.  Ideas, ask around.

    "Are you really planning to become the owner of a manor in the desert?"

    "Of course, don't you think this place is very good?" Li Zhuang asked: "Or is it for other reasons?"

    "The location you chose is not good enough. Although it is close to Broome, there is no need to choose the location nearby just to be paranoid. There are many deserts in Australia. If you want to be a manor owner, there are many places with better conditions than the Great Sandy Desert. Australia is vast.  Neither ordinary people nor the government care about the sparsely populated and not-so-good land, and environmental groups and related bored people care less about it.¡±

    "I have made up my mind to become a super manor owner. This is only possible in the desert."

    The conditions in the desert are very bad. When Li Zhuang first arrived in Australia, there were basically no cities or villages along the more than 500 kilometers of Highway 1 from Port Hedland to Broome.  The harsh natural conditions have stopped people who want to enjoy the scenery along the Indian Ocean coast for a long time. Otherwise, everyone would not live together in southeastern Australia, although the conditions are already very good compared to those in China.

    Only environmentalists are worried about seawater desalination projects, but ordinary people and the government welcome them. It is rare for a private organization to be willing to invest in such a project. Usually, the government and relevant departments are the main funders. After all, the investment recovery period of this kind of project is very long.  long.  Western Australia has a small population and underdeveloped industry. Few private organizations have thought of making money from sensitive water resources here. The most they can do is build desalination plants around Perth.

    After an on-site inspection, the super estate project team determined the specific location and conducted a bidding design according to the requirements. The design fee was also very high, US$100 million.  Architectural design is only carried out on a small scale, and urban planning requirements are very high.  Li Zhuang does not want to tinker with things like in China in the future. Although the public servants have different ideas, Li Zhuang is not stupid enough to make his own money and pay taxes to the Australian government.

    The seawater desalination plant project directly contacted the world's largest French Veolia Group. Since the global economy is not very prosperous, Veolia Group really wants to win this project, and the price is not high.  For a desalination project that processes 400,000 tons of seawater per day, they quoted US$450 million. Later, after seeing the seawater desalination semipermeable membrane developed by Wesson Technology, they wanted to purchase the patent for exclusive production, so the quote was changed to US$400 million.

    Li Zhuang agreed to Veolia¡¯s quotation and requirements, but requested that half of the project be changed to solar evaporation design.  Veolia Group felt that the solar evaporation and desalination method was not very mature. Although the sunshine here was strong, it was not easy to develop an automated system, so they tactfully suggested that they should proceed according to the original design.  Li Zhuang insisted, so they didn't bother him anymore. The contract was there anyway, and even if the production targets were not met in the future, it would not be their responsibility.

    Preparations for solar energy research began as soon as the framework of the new energy laboratory was set up.  This is a kind of green energy. For now, humankind's direct use of solar energy is still in its infancy, mainly including solar heat collection, solar hot water systems, solar greenhouses, solar power generation and other methods.

    The solar water heater industry has been oversupplied and there is no space. The New Energy Laboratory has a project team in this area and has taken on several small orders, but it cannot even support itself.  The reason why this project team is still retained is mainly to prepare for the super estate project.

    The core is solar power generation. The current research level of the entire industry is not high. Taking into account the energy consumption in the production process, strictly speaking, solar power generation is not green energy. During the life cycle, the output is lower than the input. The production of panels  There is a lot of pollution in the process.  In addition, the energy density of solar energy is very low, the energy density at sea level is about 1kw/square meter, and the conversion efficiency of common technologies is not high.  Of course there are high-end goods, mainly used in special industries.

    The solar cell project team has done detailed research and has a good understanding of the technological development on the market.  The location of the super estate has strong sunshine and little rain and fog. Therefore, Lizhuang will use solar and wind power as the main energy supply system for the future super estate. However, this plan is too expensive. In the early stage, clean coal-fired power plants will mainly be used to provide heating and gas.  Thermal power plants, hydropower plants and nuclear power plants are the three main power supply units, but they all have shortcomings.  Thermal power plants can be approved, but there is already a water shortage here, and there are no nuclear power plants in Australia, so He Xiuwen first thought of a concentrated solar energy system.

    United Technologies Corporation originally planned to obtain a license for ultra-efficient solar cell technology developed by a university for the Pentagon, but unexpectedly the plan almost ran aground.  The university research institute was happy to make progress, but the Ministry of National Defense refused to agree on the grounds of confidentiality. In desperation, the company had to exchange another core battery technology to obtain the details of this ultra-efficient solar cell technology.material.  If this technology hadn't come online, Li Zhuang would have planned to let Big Speaker start directly.

    The silicon material used in this technology was re-developed by the New Energy Laboratory, and a production and technology confidentiality agreement was signed with the famous battery company where Yamamoto worked before. The installation was handled by a domestic engineering company with rich experience in solar energy construction, which can be regarded as taking care of it.  Chinese people, while reducing costs.

    As for the lateral focusing system used in this battery technology, the lens was developed by the company's basic physics laboratory precision optics project team and an order was placed with a German company; the autofocus system was developed by the company's intelligent production laboratory automation project team based on the original  Significant improvements have been made.

    The New Energy Laboratory quickly obtained all the small batch trial production samples. After assembly, it is calculated that the photoelectric conversion efficiency can reach 60%, and mass production will be stable at around 56%.  After long-term testing, the entire system operates very stably, has a long lifespan, and has very small light attenuation.  The production technology of Little Japan is indeed top-notch, but the price is a bit expensive.

    Relevant departments of Citigroup, which was all-inclusive, soon learned of the news and requested patent authorization.  Their own research is currently hovering around 50%, and the system is still very unstable. They don't know when it will reach the level of United Technologies.  Solar charging is an important part of their research on digital warriors, and this time it is inevitable.

    Li Zhuang did not expect that the secret would be leaked so quickly, so he asked Zhang Kai to conduct a strict investigation within the company. The final result made him very sad. It turned out that an acquaintance betrayed the company.  After leaving the strictly confidential Weisen Technology Park, the situation he was worried about actually appeared.

    The matter has been leaked. Citigroup is very powerful and the company cannot offend, so it has to ask for HP's 3D memristor chip and another research institution's ultra-precision laser positioning system to be exchanged for authorization.  Considering that United Technologies' system involves a lot of innovation and is very technology-intensive, Citigroup agreed.

    "Zhang Kai, it's me, increasing the number of psychologists in the Human Resources Department. Yes, doubling it, nnd, I'm so angry."

    Li Zhuang put down the phone and went a little crazy, "These days, there are robbers everywhere, thieves are nothing." He gritted his teeth with hatred, and had only one thought in his mind: "We must build a giant robot factory, and then we will see who is afraid of who."  .Isn¡¯t it just force? I can have it too!¡±

    Things have to be done step by step. Without a base and a solid foundation, if you want to fly into space, you can wait until the next life.  Li Zhuang walked around the giant cactus for more than ten times before he calmed down his excitement and began to seriously think about the work he was not good at.  His research level on robots is average and he has no time. The intelligent production laboratory is recruiting relevant employees, but advanced robots are a system engineering, not a simple manipulator.  Precision machining laboratories and basic physics laboratories can only develop related parts of robots, but masters of overall architecture cannot.

    "Qian Lin is very interested in robots. How about letting him change his research direction?" Li Zhuangsi thought about it and found that among his disciples, only Qian Lin had the most potential in this area and he liked robots very much.  There are some experts among the new researchers, but Li Zhuang can't trust them for the time being. He doesn't want to be betrayed. Some technical information is very sensitive.

    "Forget it, let's leave it for now and think about it after we get back. This matter is not urgent. I have to strengthen my research on robots myself. There are many places where this kind of thing can be used."

    Full of worries, Li Zhuang went around socializing with the super estate project team, looking for partners, and handling some matters that required his intervention.

    Solar power generation and seawater desalination projects are of concern to ordinary people, while steel plant construction is favored by large companies.  Several iron ore and other metal ore producers have contacted the company and are willing to come and help design the steel plant project.

    The site of the steel plant is located on Highway 1 between Broome Township and LaGrange. Taking into account the impact on the environment of Broome Township, the wind direction and pollutant diffusion issues were carefully considered, and the site selection was successful.  approved by the local government and parliament.  Ordinary people did not object after the company presented detailed environmental protection instructions, and focused more on desalination plants and power generation projects, which they would directly benefit from.

    Considering that Port Hedland is too far away to keep bulk cargoes coming and going in the future, Lizhuang plans to build a company-specific terminal on the nearby coast. This needs to be negotiated with the LaGrange Port management and local government departments.

    In terms of desert control, it is planned to control the output lines of coastal water desalination plants and solar power plants within five kilometers on both sides.  Around the steel plant, with the iron and steel-making furnace as the center, a thirty-kilometer radius of greening will be implemented, and new towns will be built upwind.  Lizhuang only had a Chinese name, called Sunway Town, and the English name was given by the later residents themselves, called dual-www.piaotia.comaterial.

    A four-way road will be built along the north side of the steel plant in the direction of the Fitzroy River.There is a highway that goes deep into the desert and a three-track high-speed railway. Two tracks are used for round trips and one is used for maintenance.  Ten kilometers on both sides of the highway and railway are desert transformation areas.

    The main manor in the desert will cover an area of ??10,000 square kilometers.  In terms of planning, Lizhuang plans to hire a top planning agency to handle it, while exploration-related matters will be handled by the company's planning team. Preliminary construction will be carried out after determining key factors such as groundwater resources, minerals, geological environment, and climate.

    There are many strange and strange creatures in the desert. The national treasure is very interested in them and has specially collected some. He also plans to let the Ecological Balance and Species Project Laboratory protect these creatures and do some research.

    Li Zhuang didn¡¯t know much about these things and had little interest in them. During the time he came to Australia, he mainly negotiated with Zhou Qisen and Vice President Wu to negotiate with government departments.  Although Dr. Wu is comfortable and capable in Wesson Technology, Zhang Kai's excellence has left him with a lot less room to perform.  He liked Broome very much this time, so he and his family became Australian citizens. They settled in Broome and were responsible for the implementation of the super estate project.

    Dr. Wu is good at handling the relationship between the company and different government departments. His reliability has been verified and there is no problem.  Wesson Technology's current infrastructure has been completed, and Wang Feng, the manager of the infrastructure department, and his deputy Ji Qingfeng are of little use. This time, with their consent, they were transferred to the Australian super estate project team.

    With Dr. Wu and Wang Feng watching from Australia and Da Mian assisting him, Li Zhuang felt relieved. After staying for a short time, he set off to return to China.  He still had a lot of trivial matters at home, and when he returned to the office, he found many people waiting for him.

    In the past few years, the company has developed rapidly and is changing with each passing day.  The internal atmosphere is relaxed, the benefits are excellent, and the cohesion of employees is unprecedented.  Very few people have resigned, and there are a lot of people outside trying to squeeze in. This makes company employees feel a sense of crisis and fear of being eliminated.

    The system composed of Zhou Qisen, He Xiuwen, Zhang Kai and Wang Mei operates very smoothly. Li Zhuang basically does not need to worry about company management. Besides, he neither likes nor is good at management. With someone he trusts to do it for him, he can concentrate on research.

    You are already busy enough, you don¡¯t need to be busy anymore.  Money is very important, no matter how important it is, it is not as important as longevity.  ;
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