Bin Salman is the crown prince, deputy prime minister and defense minister of the Camel Kingdom in Saudi Arabia.
"Dear His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! I have something urgent to report."
Hearing the voice of intelligence officer Safi outside the door, Salman said slowly:
"Come in!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, this is the embassy in Dongtang that is here to report urgently. I hope you can read it in person." Safi quickly handed a report to Salman.
When Salman heard that it was about Rabbit, he immediately took it seriously. After all, Rabbit also gave a mushroom as a gift when he bought Two-Kick. Although the button of the mushroom was in Rabbit's hand, the deterrent effect was very powerful.
Quickly flipping through the report, he couldn't believe it after a while. A desalination plant with an annual output of 84 billion cubic meters of fresh water? Are you kidding me?
It’s not like the Camel Kingdom in the Sand has never built a seawater desalination plant. This data is really a fantasy. Is it now popular among rabbits to brag?
There are three sources of water for life and economic development in the Sand Camel Kingdom: seawater desalination, groundwater and rainwater. In most areas, 70% of water comes from seawater desalination, and the rest comes from reservoir water and groundwater.
Over the past few decades, they have invested large sums of money to build 30 large-scale desalination plants on the east and west coasts, with an annual output of 2 billion cubic meters of drinking water, which is transported to more than 40 countries across the country through 3270 kilometers of water pipelines.
towns for daily use by urban and rural residents.
In addition, they have built 225 large and small reservoirs across the country, especially in the east, west and north, to store rainwater.
Currently, the Sand Camel Kingdom is building or expanding desalination plants and preparing to build 26 new reservoirs to cope with the growing demand for water due to economic and social development.
It is expected that the total water storage capacity of the reservoir will gradually increase to 1.9 billion cubic meters in the next five years.
In addition, in order to protect precious underground water resources, they decided to reduce the area of wheat cultivated land more than ten years ago.
In the 1980s, in order to ensure the security of national food needs, the Camel Kingdom in the Sand Land vigorously exploited groundwater and expanded the wheat cultivation area. It once achieved self-sufficiency in food and was able to export part of its wheat.
However, this approach has caused the groundwater in this arid country to decrease year after year, resulting in serious depletion of groundwater resources.
Later, they could only reduce the wheat planting area to curb the decline of groundwater.
At present, domestic tap water is surprisingly cheap, equivalent to only about 2.2 Chinese yuan per ton. Such water prices are rare among countries in the world today.
According to a sample survey by relevant agencies, despite the serious lack of water resources in Saudi Arabia, their per capita water consumption is very large.
Analysts believe that the camel kingdom in Saudi Arabia is likely to face a water shortage crisis in the near future.
After Salman thought for a while, he asked Safi, the intelligence officer on the side:
"Are you sure it's 84 billion cubic meters? Instead of writing an extra zero?"
Safi quickly replied respectfully:
"His Royal Highness, according to various sources, this data is true. Our embassy staff has hired professionals to inspect the factory and confirmed that the data is generally consistent."
When Salman thought about it, he knew clearly the water situation in Sand Camel, which was maintained by desalination plants.
But the desalination plants in Saudi Arabia are really exchanging oil for fresh water.
Their total annual domestic water consumption is about 18 billion cubic meters.
Among them, domestic water is provided by seawater desalination plants, and the cost of fresh water produced by seawater desalination plants is US$0.8 per cubic meter, which is equivalent to 5.6 Chinese dollars per cubic meter, but the price of residential water is 2.2 Chinese dollars per cubic meter.
rice.
Apparently, the Saudi Arabian camel government needs a subsidy of about US$1 billion every year.
One ton of crude oil is only about 3,000 Chinese yuan, and one kilogram is only about 3 Chinese yuan. Producing one cubic meter of fresh water is equivalent to consuming two kilograms of crude oil, and this does not include transportation costs.
Producing 2 billion cubic meters a year requires consuming about 4 billion kilograms of crude oil, or 4 million tons of crude oil.
Usually the crude oil we hear is measured in barrels, so how many barrels is 4 million tons of crude oil? It is equivalent to about 29 million barrels.
Salman knew that if Rabbit really had such a large-scale seawater desalination plant in China, the production cost must be very low, otherwise Rabbit's character would not allow it to be used on a large scale.
After all, 0.8 US dollars per cubic meter of fresh water can be afforded by big dogs like sand camels, but most people really don't dare to play like this.
"Safi, prepare your special plane. I'm going to Dongtang." Salman ordered.
"Yes! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
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An expensive special plane landed slowly at Beiping International Airport.
Salman immediately started a closed-door meeting with the water company as soon as he got off the plane.
Of course, this kind of thing won't be negotiated all at once, and it won't work if we don't wait for ten or eight days.
During this period, Salman took Sand Camel's desalination bricks to visit the desalination plant in the Bohai Bay.
Whoosh... The fresh water squeezed out from both sides of the desalination canal is like a huge waterfall, rushing from the desalination canal into the reservoir.
"Incredible! This is really amazing! Their technology is so amazing." The bricklayer next to Salman was amazed.
"Ahem, how is Dr. Sardin's production efficiency?" Salman asked with a dry cough.
"Hmm..." Dr. Sardin took out his tablet and made a quick calculation. After a while, he raised his glasses and said:
"This desalination canal can produce at least 12 billion cubic meters of fresh water a year. Considering that they only use about 40% of the power now, there is no problem with an annual output of 28 billion cubic meters. Their factory has three desalination canals. Their data
There won’t be too much difference.”
Salman suddenly squinted at the desalination canal in front of him. Just one can meet all the water needs of the country, leaving a surplus of 1,000 million cubic meters.
But another problem has always made it difficult for Salman to make up his mind to introduce this kind of desalination plant, because the desalination membrane of this kind of desalination plant needs to be replaced every four months.
He is not a fool. Once the rabbit cuts off the film supply, the desalination plant will be useless.
Therefore, he is inclined to purchase the film production technology from Galaxy Technology, but the water company obviously will not settle for nothing, not to mention Galaxy Technology will not easily agree to such a thing.
In particular, film production technology also involves chip production technology, and the Presbyterian Council will never allow technology transfer.
Therefore, the issue of technology transfer has become a key issue that both parties cannot give in to.
Salman is trying every means to persuade the water company and Galaxy Technology in the hope of obtaining the transfer of film production technology. To this end, he even offered a sky-high transfer fee of US$5 billion.
If it were the rabbit forty years ago, maybe he would agree to this kind of thing, but today is different from the past. The camel is still the camel of the past, but my rabbit is no longer the rabbit who is so poor that he sells two-legged rabbits.
Salman and others looked at the rushing fresh water in the reservoir, and they were really envious at this moment.
Luotuo invests a lot of money in desalination technology research every year, but with technology, sometimes it really doesn’t have to cost money to achieve results.
After visiting the desalination plant, Salman returned to Peiping City with mixed emotions, and the two sides continued to play a tug-of-war.