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- Business is a university subject, so business schools exist.
Are businessmen patriotic? In theory, yes, but in fact the situation is different. Top businessmen can easily turn into politicians, and they will completely surrender to their interests. Except for those close to them, everything else is included in their calculations. Some people even turn their loved ones into bargaining chips. People who go too far can be considered to have mental problems and are outright egoists, even more so than Cao Cao.
How to maintain your true character as a businessman? Disaster!
Nothing has changed in Li Zhuang. Zhou Qisen replaced him as a businessman and gave up his business. His business awareness is getting stronger and stronger, which is often criticized by people in the circle. There are also people who support it. This is a matter of benevolence and wisdom.
Before coming here, Zhou Qisen told Li Zhuang to talk to the province to see if a nuclear fusion power plant could be built in Province H.
The power problem has always been a concern in Province H, especially in the past few years when hydropower stations significantly reduced power generation due to environmental problems and four or five nuclear fission power plants were dismantled due to strong demands from the public. Nearly two power plants a year The electricity consumption is abnormal every month. Fortunately, the economy has not recovered now, otherwise the saliva of industrial employees would be enough to flood the provincial capital square.
United Technologies Corporation energy group wles, has been promoting their portfolio of power solutions in province h, namely clean coal-fired power plants, fuel cell power plants, solar power plants and large-capacity chemical battery banks. Compared with nuclear power, these are still a bit more expensive. Fortunately, the predators are gone and ordinary residents can use electricity as usual. In some places with inconvenient transportation, the government subsidized the construction of small solar power stations and chemical battery power supply centers, which greatly reduced frequent power outages due to weather conditions and radiated the benefits of the new government to all walks of life.
Reporters from h Provincial Daily and K City Daily interviewed Lizhuang on the morning of the Lantern Festival. Several major leaders from the province and city were present. The matter of the rebels was only briefly mentioned. Reporters all knew that it was very sensitive. There was no need for people in my hometown to make Li Zhuang unhappy when he came back rarely. The most talked about topic was the grid-connected power generation of the Canberra nuclear fusion power plant CTPP last year.
¡°If the province is interested, United Technologies can build the same type of power plant here,¡± Li Zhuang then briefly described his idea.
"How much?" The governor couldn't believe the number reported by Li Zhuang. A 10-gigawatt nuclear fusion power plant will be built in K City within five years, with an annual power generation of 80 billion kilowatt-hours. Within ten years, the installed capacity will be doubled, with an annual power generation of 160 billion kilowatt-hours.
The province of China¡¯s own controllable nuclear fusion technology knows that building such a large power plant may not be successful within twenty years. The current domestic research on deuterium extraction and tritium preparation technology is not outstanding, and the cost is relatively high. The cost of China's hydrogen bomb is also higher than that of developed countries.
As for helium-3, it depends on the advancement of aerospace technology. Currently, not many countries have the ability to mine the moon, and the initial investment is huge. Based on China's current economic situation, CNNA does not have enough funds to build a lunar base. Furthermore, deuterium and helium fusion requires higher technology and generates less energy than deuterium-tritium fusion. Citigroup, which announced the success of deuterium and helium fusion, has not been able to build a demonstration power plant until now.
"I'm serious, as long as you can fix the power grid," Li Zhuang never talks nonsense.
Everyone here is ecstatic. Within the existing political framework, the power of the power grid is not that strong, and the central and local governments are more compromised. Nuclear fusion power plant TPP is a good thing. It is completely different from nuclear fission power plant NPP. If it can be built here, except that the power output line needs to be carefully considered, everything else is good.
¡°How much investment is required and how to allocate construction costs?¡± a reporter asked. Anyone who knows about nuclear power plants knows that the investment is not a small amount. The exact amount required for a nuclear fusion power plant is not very clear, but judging from the investment in a nuclear fission power plant, it should theoretically be larger.
There are currently only three countries that have the ability to build million-kilowatt nuclear fusion power plants, namely Australia, Citigroup, and France. Russia, Japan, and China all have only small experimental power plants in operation. John Bull can't pretend to be cool this time. The construction site of the experimental power station is hard at work, and it will take a few years for it to be operational.
"Based on the investment in nuclear fission power plants, we will invest 200 billion yuan in the first phase. We don't have to pay for it from the province and the city. We only need to give a fair on-grid power price and cooperate with the construction of the power plant. The second phase will be based on the same value of gold. It is calculated based on coupons and can accept social investment.¡±
Lizhuang has avoided the construction cost of the nuclear fusion power plant. This is a secret. However, considering the actual situation in the province, the civil war has caused great losses in recent years, so it chose to be a sole proprietorship. Otherwise, it is not known when the nuclear fusion power plant will be built.
The nuclear fusion power plant can not only meet the needs of K City¡¯s industrial area, but also provide heating, not to mention future tax revenue. If the K City power plant can be built, the provincial capital and its surrounding areas will not have to worry about future power problems at all. Cooperating with other power plants, they will not have to worry about power problems in the next twenty years.Use the power of trouble industry recovery and development.
There is no need to worry about home use. WLES sells its home energy portfolio everywhere. Although there are not many rich people in Province H, many families have joined together to purchase. The pressure on power grid dispatching has been greatly reduced, and residential power line failures have been reduced by 80%. .
Hearing Li Zhuang say this, the audience, both in front of the TV and at the interview site, breathed a sigh of relief. K City used to be rich, but since the departure of the big taxpayer Wesson Technology, it has been carrying out hugely expensive public facilities construction and making up for the huge deficit left by previous medical and pension insurance. The Finance Director's pockets have been very thin.
¡°I finished talking in the morning and left in the afternoon, very quickly. Li Zhuang said that he would wait for the specific plan here, and Wles would contact the provincial and municipal governments, and he would go back first. Such a simple plan made everyone in Province H beat the drum, feeling that happiness comes too easily.
Ordinary people think that Li Zhuang is a patriot. He has supported his hometown for many years, which is obvious to all. The middle and high-level people are not so naive. They always feel that something is wrong. 200 billion yuan is not a small sum. No matter how rich Li Zhuang is, he will not spend it like this. Besides, it is difficult for people like him to have any patriotic sentiments and do not deal with the capital very well. .
The top executives of K City didn¡¯t think too much. Anyway, most of the benefits are on their own side. The province convened experts to try to figure out what Li Zhuang was thinking. Did Li Zhuang throw out such a large investment just after a big event happened? Did he have another purpose?
After analysis and analysis, various experts could not figure out the reason. The director of the D Nuclear Research Institute suddenly said, "Did they produce too much tritium?"
Everyone despised him, and people familiar with it immediately retorted, saying that tritium production was difficult, and even Citigroup did not have much stock. Australia is not a nuclear weapons power, and the director also felt that his idea was a bit unreliable, so he stopped talking.
If Li Zhuang heard the discussion on the spot, he would definitely slap the director on the shoulder and praise him, "You are so smart."
The unexpected trouble caused by too much tritium is related to many factors, including the company's too large scale, too rapid technological progress, too much gold, special management system and political factors.
United Technologies Corporation has three departments that research deuterium and tritium, namely the Minerals and Minerals Research Institute, the Energy Research Institute and the Theoretical Physics Research Institute. Each has its own focus, but there are also overlaps. The intelligent production system is designed by the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.
Preparation for the deuterium used in nuclear fusion reactors began seven years ago and has never stopped. There are so many of these things on the earth, enough to destroy mankind. The reserves of tritium on the earth are very small. This brother will decay into helium 3, with a half-life of only 12.26 years, which means there will be losses every year, and there cannot be a large inventory. It is a ready-to-use type.
The reason why tritium is so expensive has to do with its output and characteristics, not that it is really expensive. In the past, the earth did not need much tritium every year. Thermonuclear weapons mainly used lithium deuteride 6 and deuterated lithium 6. The latter is one of the keys to miniaturization of nuclear weapons. The amount of use is not large, and it is not cost-effective to invest huge sums of money in research, so the Citizen military came up with the bad idea of ??using commercial reactors to produce tritium, so that there is no need to spend huge sums of money to build a dedicated accelerator to produce tritium or maintain a tritium-producing reactor.
After the realization of controllable nuclear fusion technology, global investment in tritium preparation research has exceeded three times the previous total, and everyone is dazzled. The amount of tritium required for nuclear fusion power plants is not a small amount, and it is enough for tritium production companies to make money, instead of being cowardly as before, producing only a few hundred kilograms per year, with high labor costs, safety costs, and equipment depreciation.
The mining ship that collects deuterium and lithium from seawater was designed by the Logistics Group Ship and Ocean Research Institute. A total of five ships were built, all of which were 50,000-ton large ships. They used ten horn-class intelligent brains L6151-L6160. Fully automated operation, each ship has only a dozen crew members plus a team of three scientists and a team of five maintenance engineers to look after it. The living facilities are complete and very comfortable. The Australian Navy has an 8,000-ton Broome-class frigate following them for a long time, so there is no need to worry about safety. These deuterium harvesting ships are also supply ships and sanatoriums for destroyers, allowing sailors to maintain strong combat effectiveness for a long time.
The deuterium screening project team has done an excellent job and its efficiency is getting higher and higher. Except for the brains of the energy group and the members of the joint meeting, most of the others don't care how much has been collected. Anyway, the amount is amazing.
The design of the tritium-producing reactor is being improved, and the heavy metal targets are designed by the Institute of Nanotechnology and the Institute of Theoretical Physics. These people do nothing but research. They have money and brains, and their technology cannot stand still. Research on a new type of tritium-producing reactor has been approved and the efficiency is expected to increase by 20%.
The trouble lies first in the company's business system. Everyone makes money, and the Institute of Theoretical Physics is unwilling to lag behind and strive for self-sufficiency. Calf-252, americium-241, radium-226, iridium-192, ytterbium-169, cesium-137, antimony-124, krypton-85, selenium-75 and cobalt-60 are all produced and sold according to demand Some. The income from super battery materials is just okay.??In this regard, the Nanotechnology Research Institute needs to take a share of the pie.
Weizhou has the largest spallation neutron source on earth. The Institute of Theoretical Physics has built a large number of similar facilities for other countries, but the total sales are less than 200 million gold coupons. Although the profits seem considerable, they are negligible compared to the investment.
No matter what, you can¡¯t make big money using conventional methods. Artificial gold is now a project that requires approval. The Secretariat of the "Gold Agreement" has stationed a supervision team of fifty people in Weizhou. Any subsequent production of gold must be approved by the International Gold Bank. The investment in this thing is huge and the technical content is extremely high. It is impossible for ordinary institutions to play with it, so the team of thousands of people in the Golden Agreement Supervision Office has an easy job.
Technology is a double-edged sword, it can be used both for military and civilian purposes. The scale of the research-type tritium-producing reactor is small, and Canberra has people stationed at the Institute of Theoretical Physics for a long time because the nuclear research involved here is very sensitive.
If the supervisors cannot take a correct position, or even go to the opposite side, they will have great fun. This is how Australia's nuclear weapons came out.
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