Interstellar Energy Tycoon.

Chapter 253: Expanding Domestic Demand, Super Projects

8 month 5 day.

After staying in the Land of the Sun for a few days, he made some instructions and arrangements to encourage his younger sister Vera to continue working hard.

Li Xingyang took a high-speed solar passenger plane and returned to Suhong City.

Then start to deal with a more difficult and serious problem.

Serious excess energy, in the end how to do?
Especially last month, Xingyuan Group launched a batch of 1000 light energy harvesting converters. After reaching the golden power generation orbit closer to the sun, the power supply capacity of Xingyuan Group's space energy facilities officially exceeded 50 billion KW , has reached a brand-new terrifying figure, which is enough to meet the energy needs of people all over the world, and there is even a little surplus.

only……

Today's human space activities and a series of activities on the surface of the blue star currently only consume 35 billion KW of energy supply power from Xingyuan Group. Even if there are many entrepreneurial projects, it already feels a bit extravagant and wasteful, and the energy consumed is too large , but there are still 15 billion KW of energy, which cannot be effectively utilized, and most of them can only be wasted in vain, which is a pity.

This is not a big problem. As long as the market demand of users is still growing rapidly, the extra energy will be well utilized. The waste phenomenon is only temporary, so there is no need to feel special worries.

but……

Li Xingyang found with some concern that the space energy market was actually trending toward saturation, with very weak growth. In the past few years, it had grown exponentially by several times or more, but now the slope has become gentle. Although the growth is still continuing, The ratio is only 8% or 6%, which makes people not feel very excited anymore, only boring.

But Xingyuan Group's space energy expansion can maintain a relatively high growth rate. It is not uncommon for the total energy supply power to increase by 20% a year. If the market demand is extremely strong and requires an explosive production capacity, then the limit Under normal circumstances, three to five times the number of factories will explode every year, and there is no problem at all.

Now, instead, the market side has become very hip-stretching, which makes people lose their energy, and often makes Li Xingyang feel dizzy and headaches, thinking about solutions.

Passively waiting for the market to adjust is not enough. The market has market rules and logic, and it will not develop according to your wishes. It depends on the population, economic development, degree of involution, etc. It is a comprehensive multi-faceted phenomenon after the factor.

Li Xingyang also found that the main reason for the reduced demand for space energy today is that the human population base is relatively low, less than 100 billion, and the demand for energy is also small, and various resources mined from space have entered the market. After entering human society, the production costs of various industrial products immediately dropped, which then led to a drop in the prices of various industrial products and a reduction in profit margins. Whether entrepreneurs or workers, they will not gain much benefit from it. , and may even face losses. After all, there are so many people running to start a business now, and most of them enter into a kind of involution game, thinking about destroying others and making money again, but they often wait until the competition is about to decide the winner. At that time, I could no longer support myself. I owed too much debt, and I would have to work to pay off the debt in the future. The probability of turning over in the short term was very slim.

Just because the probability of entrepreneurial failure is not low, but quite high, it scares away countless partners who plan to start a business.

Furthermore, human consumption capacity is limited. In the face of infinite energy and the energy of the entire sun, even if human beings use dozens of tons of water and thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity every day, even if they are allocated tons of gold , This must have been a proper middle-class family in the past, but now as humans obtain more and more material resources in space, some so-called resources may be cheaper than urban tap water of more than 3 yuan per ton.

Take gold as an example. After several years of mining, now it is only on the moon. The mining companies in Huaguo can mine more than 5000 tons of gold a year, far exceeding the market demand. The price is naturally It has fallen again and again, and now it has fallen to a record low of 50 yuan per gram, and the profit margin inside is naturally not much higher. This has led to a phenomenon that, no matter what field you are in, even if the opportunity is very small, you can start a business in Huaguo. Many, it is indeed very suitable for starting a business, but after going through the storm, except for a few few who can make money and achieve financial freedom, most of them are cannon fodder. If you seize the opportunity, you may not be the last laugh.

Finally, considering the various difficulties, considering that the per capita resource is increasing, the price is getting lower and lower, and the wealth that is not easy to accumulate is shrinking, and I am even less willing to involve hopelessly, because I can laugh The ones that landed smoothly in the end are indeed very few.

Most people don't have the fate to get rich, even if the opportunity is in front of them.

But after a period of thinking, Li Xingyang found that it was not that there was no way to break the situation. It was not that it could not be eradicated, but it was still a slightly conservative trend. It was very unrealistic to always want to become a super rich man, but there was a very attractive opportunity. , but placed in front of the other party, making the other party feel excited.

One, the price of space energy has been reduced to an extremely low level of 1 cent/kWh. Even if you have no money in the early stage, you can temporarily not pay the electricity bill, and then pay it later when you have money. If he can't pay it over, Li Xingyang can let the other party choose to freeze the debt, or simply not have to pay it back and waive the credit account.

Second, support entrepreneurs to come up with some energy-intensive and imaginative projects. The more expensive the better, the higher the cost, the better. As long as you dare to think about it, Li Xingyang will give them a chance to start a business.

For example, building an ultra-luxury interstellar cruise ship with a weight of 100 billion tons, with millions of rooms, extremely complete facilities, and extremely luxurious interiors, traveling on this kind of interstellar cruise ship is undoubtedly the best choice, but the price is slightly higher. It's on the high side.

For example, building a giant bubble-like planet with a diameter of more than [-] kilometers, the surface is completely a bubble structure, and a giant space city can be stuffed inside, which can accommodate tens of millions of people to live in, and it is very convenient and has everything you need.

Another example is to collect a large amount of water resources and gather them together, with a mass of more than trillions of tons, to form a "water planet" full of water, and then raise fish in it, get some marine life into it, and develop space fishery. This is also feasible.

Or engage in an artificial blue star project, try to create a rocky planet with a diameter of more than [-] kilometers, and bring it to the habitable zone of the solar system. It is best to get some electromagnetic shields, or get it near the orbit of Jupiter, using Jupiter Strong magnetic field to solve the problem of electromagnetic protection.

Or launch the "Jupiter Development Project" to send a large number of manpower and material resources to the vicinity of Jupiter to develop and utilize the resources on Jupiter and its satellites. This is also a project with great potential. As long as Jupiter can be fully developed and utilized, human beings In the next 100 billion years, there will be no shortage of resources available.

The last step is to increase research and development efforts and find ways to develop power devices with greater thrust and higher specific impulse, such as giant linear acceleration ion engines, which use the principles of particle collider and use a long electromagnetic acceleration The pipeline can accelerate ions to 0.5 times the speed of light and has a very high specific impulse. Although the overall thrust-to-weight ratio is not high, it can save a large amount of working fluid and obtain greater battery life. However, this kind of power system cannot be manufactured. The cost is no lower than that of a particle collider, the energy consumption is also very huge, and the price/performance ratio is not very high.

As for the curvature engine, super-light engine, etc., although it is theoretically possible to realize it, it is unimaginably difficult, or it needs to consume a huge amount of energy. However, Li Xingyang has also established a related research team to publicize these power technologies.

all in all.Only by launching a large-scale project can a huge demand be brought about.

A thousand or ten thousand ordinary people's entrepreneurial projects are not as high in energy consumption as one large project.

If ten or twenty large-scale projects can be started and constructed at the same time, it is entirely possible to consume 20 billion KW of energy, which is equivalent to the total energy consumed by all ordinary entrepreneurs.

only……

No matter what the project is, it requires a large number of labor resources. Nowadays, the unemployment rate in China is very low and there is not much labor available. When recruiting foreign workers, they often encounter language communication barriers and low work efficiency. The problem is that it is not very suitable. Without a labor force of tens of millions or hundreds of millions, how can these large-scale projects be carried out?

robot.

Utilize intelligent space robots.

Today's intelligent robots, after years of learning and growth, have already possessed extremely high intelligence and are capable of completing more than 99% of infrastructure work. Experienced human employees are poor. What's more, robots don't need to rest, they can work all day long, and they have multiple robotic arms, which are extremely flexible and don't need to eat, drink, and scatter. The overall work efficiency, Equivalent to ten human workers.

So for these large-scale space projects, there is no need to recruit too many human workers, just recruit 10,000+ engineers, and let robots complete the rest of the work, so that millions of robots can be extremely efficient under the control of supercomputers The work followed by these large-scale projects was completed in a relatively short period of time without any problems.

Of course, the investment for this type of large-scale projects is usually in the hundreds of billions or trillions, not including the cost of energy consumption. Most people simply cannot afford such a large project and cannot afford so much funds. If they want to raise Trillions of dollars of funds can either be obtained from bank loans or private fundraising, attracting tens of thousands to 10 people to jointly develop it, and finally getting dividends from shares. As long as you have very strong connections, you can borrow it from relatives and friends. If you have money, then the financial problem is not a problem.

So on August 8th, Xingyuan Group released the "Large-scale Space Project Recruitment Plan", preparing to release a big move to increase the intensity of space development. It is hoped that people with ambition and ideas will actively join and jointly develop space.

Xingyuan Group promises to provide unlimited energy at a low price of 1 gross/kWh.

The electricity bill does not need to be paid immediately, and can be paid on credit for a period of time, or even after the project is completed and the profit is generated.

If you really can't afford the electricity bill, and the project fails completely, Xingyuan Group will not pursue it, and the electricity bill will be waived by default.

After the release of this announcement, it immediately caused a huge response, and made countless people have the intention to do it. Some bold and well-funded companies immediately filed cooperation applications and came up with project plans. to realize their dreams.

"Xingyuan Group is too ambitious. In order to sell more energy, it wants to pull all mankind to build and develop in space."

"It is easy to increase the power generation capacity of 50 billion KW to 100 billion KW, and the cost is getting lower and lower. Of course, we must try our best to sell energy, otherwise how can we continue to expand."

"Hey, all kinds of resources are inexhaustible now, prices are getting lower and lower, and population has become a limiting factor. Although the large-scale projects initiated by Xingyuan Group can bring more living space and more Space products, but there are not so many people going to space for consumption, and there is a high probability that they will still lose money.”

"I'm not particularly optimistic, but as long as these large-scale space projects are completed, I will still go to experience it, but I will only go once at most, and I will not go more. In terms of fun, it is more fun here on our Blue Star. It’s fun and more lively. Before I turn 60, I will only consider staying in Azure Star for development.”

"That's right, I also have the same idea. In the virtual online game "Land of Glory", I fought and collided with one billion domestic and foreign players. This level of excitement is the result of Xingyuan Group's 100 fortune-making projects. In front of me, I won't be moved, I still prefer to lie flat and play games."

"No matter how wonderful the virtual world is, it's not the real world after all, and it can't replace everything in the real world. Now that Xingyuan Group provides so many opportunities to make a fortune, we should temporarily put down the games in our hands and go to have a good time. Career, earn enough money to spend, realize financial freedom, and then play whatever you want, don’t put the cart before the horse.”

"It makes sense. There are still opportunities to make a fortune, and there are still many opportunities. With a little effort, you can change your destiny. If you have more wealth, you really can't find a reason to lie down. You don't have to worry about not being able to find a partner. Domestic girls don’t like to talk to us, while foreign girls are much more obedient. It’s not difficult at all if you want to leave the singles and get married. All aspects have changed from the hell-involved mode to a simple mode. Under such circumstances, it’s not good to catch up If you seize opportunities and pursue wealth, you will definitely regret it when you are poor in the future and can only live on relief."

"..."

soon.

a few days later.

Twenty large-scale space projects were all approved and immediately entered the specific design and implementation stage.

Projects include giant space cruise ship, giant bubble planet, water planet, giant space playground, super space shipyard, giant space stage, flat space life belt, giant mining spacecraft, giant transport spacecraft, backup Azure Star 2, etc., there are Some of them are very practical, and some have great ideas, but no matter how many projects can be successful, it is basically impossible for Li Xingyang to lose money, and they will definitely bring huge benefits.

(End of this chapter)