Chapter 507: The Power Outage Accident in Western North America
As soon as phm-s's first-week sales came out, Coastline Company quickly "showed off" its performance.
In one week, 27.52 million sets were sold globally, and sales of more than RMB520 billion were created in one week. These figures appeared in major domestic news headlines, while foreign media reports showed that the figure was US$78 billion.
On the headlines.
The data is so eye-catching that many domestic and foreign media have ridiculed it. Every time Coastline Group releases such data, companies around the world begin to suffer from a recurrence of red eye.
One week's sales exceeded the total of BAT's three quarters, more than 520 billion, which is a crazy figure.
People on Earth can no longer stop the Coastline Group!
What is really scary is that this is a nearly wholly-owned enterprise. There is no doubt that the distance between the world's richest man and the world's "Asian rich" is getting wider and wider.
The stimulated media are also flooded with various types of news. They all say that the super rich are as rich as the country. What about Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other former richest men in the world? Yes, but the current richest man in the world is not only rich as the country, but also not ordinary
The country is invincible.
But at this time, the most unhappy person is probably the North American authorities. Media all over the world are taking the opportunity to ridicule the North American authorities for helping the coastline. Even the local media in the United States are madly dissing, and netizens on the reddit website are constantly mocking this.
, the White House was not only unhappy but also particularly embarrassed.
You dare not issue a decree announcing sanctions, so you can only pretend not to see it. Don’t you think it’s irritating?
Ridiculing the North American authorities is just a passing incident. People are paying more attention to Coastline Group. This is the real focus. Everyone is aware of the horror of this super technology giant. It is difficult to imagine that Coastline Group’s financial report in 2023 will be
There will be a period of astronomical sales.
The editor-in-chief of the Fortune Global 500 magazine also jumped out at this time and said that Coastline Group will officially usher in the era of ranking first in global corporate profits for the first time in 2023, and predicts that the group's total profit will reach an unprecedented level.
One hundred billion dollars.
It's profits, not sales.
Not only that, "Fortune" boldly and optimistically predicts that Coastline Group will take the top spot in both sales and profits this year, setting an unprecedented new record.
"Fortune"'s prediction is based on the launch of phm-s holographic bracelet, which triggered a doubling of the revenue of Coastline Group. It is not a big problem for phm-s to exceed 100 million sales this year. It only took one week to complete the 100 million sales target.
27%, and there is still more than half a year to go.
This will mean that the phm-s holographic bracelet alone will bring an increase of US$300 billion to Coastline Group this year, and the group's total sales will exceed US$500 billion this year without any pressure, and it will become the second largest company in the world.
A company with sales of more than $500 billion, surpassing Walmart.
Wal-Mart's sales are 500 billion US dollars, but its profits are only 10 billion US dollars, while Coastline's profits are 100 billion US dollars, which is ten times that.
Coastline Group has explained to the world the terrifying ability to make money by monopolizing the high-tech industry. However, a large group of foreign media are reporting frequently with envy and envy. More consortium capital behind it is trying to give confidence to the stock market and earn traffic for itself.
In fact, even if Coastline Group's profits exceed 100 billion US dollars, it is still not the first in the world, but the second.
The first is a low-key tobacco company that still beats the profits of Coastline Group by several blocks.
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The US emperor has been very troubled recently, and something even more troublesome happened next. As the saying goes, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone.
However, Mawebriro, who lives in Phoenix, said that he went home early today because there was a sudden power outage in the entire Phoenix today. Emergency repairs are being carried out. He does not know what happened. The specific cause of the power outage is still under investigation. The state government is now
I'm so busy going around and in a hurry.
After returning home, Mavi, who felt very uncomfortable, went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he just turned on the faucet, he screamed "Fake!"
"My phm..." Ma Wei felt bad when he saw the water on his wrist. He spent more than 3,000 US dollars to buy it and had it in three days. He really wanted to die.
He ran out of the bathroom in a hurry. Suddenly, Ma Wei was stunned for a while.
"phm is waterproof!"
When this thought came to mind, I breathed a sigh of relief, but I was still worried. I immediately turned on the device and brought up a seven- or eight-inch holographic floating panel. Everything was running stably and normally!
"marvelous!"
He put the bracelet back on his wrist, went back to the bathroom happily, took a little yellow duck and threw it into the bathtub, took a comfortable bath, and opened the bracelet happily.
Ma Wei found that buying this product was definitely not a loss, especially the unprecedented city-wide power outage in Phoenix, which showed the power of phm-s wireless power transmission function. Now in the entire city, only phm-s users can do it without any scruples.
When using electrical products, other mobile phone users will run out of power when they run out.
While soaking in the bath, Ma Wei turned on the device and logged into the social platform. Although the power was out, luckily the Internet was not shut down.
"What? Not just Phoenix, but all the continents on the West Coast are out of power? God..."
As soon as Ma Wei went online, he saw such news being reported. He was stunned for a while, and then he learned more about it. Now all major social platforms and online media are reporting on this unexpected incident.
On May 29, 2023, at about 14:00 pm Western Time, the western region of the United States faced the most serious blackout in North American history. Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix and other areas suffered power outages.
The reason was that 118 power plants in the United States automatically "protectively shut down". As a result, the blackout area further expanded, eventually leading to the most serious blackout in the history of the North American continent, successfully surpassing the 2003 North American blackout that year.
The work and life of 75 million people have been severely affected, and the economic losses caused are soaring at astronomical figures. The loss will reach 35 billion US dollars a day. Currently, major state governments are making emergency repairs, and it is expected to be restored in about 36 hours.
In almost two days, the direct economic losses of this power outage have been estimated to be no less than US$50 billion.
"God……"
Ma Wei stared blankly at the pictures shared on the social platform. Los Angeles, the largest city in California, was in a mess. The power outage caused the entire transportation system to come to a complete paralysis, causing the subway trains to stop in the tunnels and thousands of passengers to be trapped in the dark.
In the subway tunnel.
The power and communications of the Federal Bank Building, the tallest building in California, located at 633 West 5th Street in downtown Los Angeles, were completely interrupted. There were more than 800 elevator rescue operations, nearly 100,000 emergency calls, and emergency medical service calls reached a record high.
Record of 6700 times.
During the power outage in large areas of the western coast of the United States, factories were forced to suspend production, banks were closed, stores were operating in darkness, and information transmission was interrupted. Restaurants, supermarkets and other industries that deal with perishable food suffered losses of up to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, and the power outage also caused the collapse of automobile manufacturing plants.
The assembly line is shut down.
During this period, many shootings and robberies took advantage of the chaos.
Suddenly, the attention of the whole world was attracted. The British "Daily Mail", which has always been tricky, made a stifling comment: Americans have gone crazy to compete with the Coastline Group for world news headlines!
As the saying goes, don't laugh at natural disasters and don't talk about man-made disasters. The British have gone too far. They are also your relatives after all!
However, the meaning expressed by the "Daily Mail" also makes sense. Mainstream media around the world are reporting on the news about Coastline Group. However, the news about Coastline was immediately flooded by the large-scale power outage in the western United States. The whole world was shocked.
While watching the US imperialism, news about the coastline has become unpopular.
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Compared with the major state governments in the west, the governments are a mess.
At this moment, Mawei Briruo clicked on a video report, which was the California senator's response to the media:
"...The cause of the accident has been investigated. It is that the demand for electricity has increased too fast. At the same time, sufficient power transmission network has not been established as needed. The transmission network is blocked in many places. The direct cause is the failure of three ultra-high voltage transmission lines in California and the failure of early warning.
This will lead to a series of chain reactions. This power outage may last for about 35 hours. After 35 hours, the power supply in the western region will basically be restored..."
Mawiburiu turned off the video and felt unhappy at the thought of having to wait until tomorrow for a call. He was glad that phm-s was not affected and he didn't have to worry about running out of power. Otherwise, he couldn't imagine how he would spend this time.
But I still couldn't help complaining: "Caiso is so weak, it's bullshit. If it were in China, this kind of thing would never happen. Just let the Chinese people come and help!"
Looking at the phm-s device in his hand, Ma Wei realized that the power used was not provided by the caiso power operator, but by the Chinese operator. There are currently more than 27 million holographic bracelets in the world, phm's
The energy consumption is a hundred times that of mobile phones, which means that the energy consumption of 2.7 billion mobile phones is provided by Chinese people.
Driven by curiosity, Ma Wei couldn't help but check Wikipedia and found that it was the first letter of the foreign name of China State Grid Corporation of China.
I don’t know, I don’t know, Ma Wei was shocked when he understood.
In the ranking of power generation capacity of various countries in the world, the Chinese people indeed took the first place. Ma Wei did not find it surprising that many of the world's firsts were created by the Chinese people. It is not surprising.
But what really makes him feel incredible is that the Chinese people's power generation actually accounts for one-third of the world's power generation. Are the Chinese people crazy?
No wonder it can be ranked second only to Wal-Mart among the Fortune 500 and can provide wireless battery life services to more than 20 million holographic bracelets around the world without any pressure. Ma Wei is also drunk when he thinks that one country has one-third of the world's power generation.
Even when the West Coast of North America was plagued by power outages, some places still had unimpeded access to electricity. That was Coastline Group's local offline retail stores, which were not affected at all. The impact would only last twenty or thirty minutes.
Because the emergency backup terahertz wireless power transmission generator was unsealed shortly after the power outage. Electricians modified the cable gate in the retail store to form a closed loop, and then the generator was connected to the space-based satellite system over North America.
According to the agreement, the electric energy from China is amplified through terahertz waves. After several jumps, the satellites over North America receive the energy. The terahertz waves are transmitted to terminals on the North American continent. The generator receives the terahertz waves and completes the power conversion.
Electricity is provided throughout the retail store.
Americans in the local power outage area couldn't sit still when they saw it!
Damn, there is electricity here!
Liferay and State Grid are moving very quickly at this time, especially State Grid. The live advertising and the perfect foil of caiso are perfect. It is time for the people of North America to see how powerful and the benefits of wireless power transmission systems are.
