Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 168

The camel kingdom in the sand.

Among the King's Buildings in Riyadh.

Bin Salman is the Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the Camel Kingdom in Saudi Arabia.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! This subordinate needs to report urgently."

Hearing the voice of intelligence officer Safi outside the door, Salman said slowly:

"Come in!"

"His Royal Highness, this is an urgent report from the embassy in Dongtang. I hope you can read it yourself." Safi hurriedly handed a report to Salman.

When Salman heard that it was about the rabbit, he immediately paid attention to it. After all, when he bought the second kick, the rabbit gave him a mushroom. Although the button of the mushroom was in the rabbit's hand, the deterrent effect was very powerful.

Quickly flipping through the contents of the report, he couldn't believe it after a while, a seawater desalination plant with an annual output of 840 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 popular with 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, 3% of the water comes from seawater desalination, and the rest comes from reservoir storage and groundwater.

Over the past few decades, they have invested a lot of money to build 30 large desalination plants on the east and west coasts, with an annual output of 20 billion cubic meters of drinking water, which is transported to more than 3270 countries across the country through 40 kilometers of water pipelines. towns for the daily use of urban and rural residents.

In addition, they have built 225 large and small reservoirs all over the country, especially in the east, west and north, to store rainwater.

At present, the Camel Kingdom in the Sandland is building or expanding seawater desalination plants, and is preparing to build 26 new reservoirs to cope with the growing demand for water from economic and social development.

It is expected that the total storage capacity of the reservoir will gradually increase to 5 billion cubic meters in the next five years.

In addition, in order to protect precious groundwater resources, they decided to reduce the area of ​​wheat arable land more than ten years ago.

In the 80s, in order to ensure the security of the country's food needs, the Camel Kingdom in the Sandy Land vigorously developed groundwater and expanded the acreage of wheat cultivation. It once achieved self-sufficiency in food, and was able to export part of the wheat.

However, this practice has led to the decline of groundwater in this arid country year after year, and the depletion of groundwater resources is serious.

Later, they could only reduce the wheat planting area to curb the decline of groundwater.

At present, tap water in Camel Sandland is surprisingly cheap, only equivalent to about 2.2 Chinese yuan per ton. Such water prices are also rare in countries in the world today.

According to a sample survey conducted by relevant agencies, although the country is seriously short of water resources, their per capita water consumption is very high.

Analysts believe that the kingdom of camels in the sand is likely to face a water shortage crisis in the near future.

After thinking for a while, Salman asked the intelligence officer Safi beside him:
"Are you sure it is 840 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 personnel have hired professionals to inspect the factory and confirmed that the data is roughly consistent."

When Salman thought about it, he was very clear about the domestic water resources in Camel Sandy Land, which was maintained by seawater desalination plants.

But the desalination plant in the sand is really exchanging oil for fresh water,

Their total domestic water consumption is about 180 billion cubic meters per year.

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 yuan per cubic meter, but the price of residential water is 2.2 Chinese yuan per cubic meter.

Apparently, the camel government in Saudi Arabia needs to subsidize about US$10 billion a year.

Crude oil is only about 3000 Chinese yuan per ton, and about 3 Chinese yuan per kilogram. To produce one cubic meter of fresh water is equivalent to consuming two kilograms of crude oil. This is not counting transportation costs or the like.

To produce 20 billion cubic meters a year, it needs to consume about 40 billion kilograms of crude oil, that is, 400 million tons of crude oil.

Usually the crude oil we hear is calculated in barrels, so how many barrels is 400 million tons of crude oil? It is equivalent to about 2900 million barrels.

Salman knows that if there is such a large-scale seawater desalination plant in the rabbit country, the production cost must be very low, otherwise the character of the rabbit will not be used on a large scale.

After all, 0.8 US dollars per cubic meter of fresh water can be used by big dogs like camels in the sand, and ordinary people really dare not play like this.

"Safie, get ready for the special plane, I'm going to Dongtang." Salman ordered.

"Yes! Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

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stab...

An expensive special plane slowly landed at Beiping International Airport.

As soon as Salman got off the plane, he started a closed-door meeting with the water company.

Of course, this kind of thing will definitely not be negotiated all at once, and it will not work without dawdling for ten or eight days.

During the period, Salman took the desalination brick home of the camel in the sand and visited the desalination plant in Bohai Bay.

Huh... The fresh water squeezed out from both sides of the desalination channel is like a huge waterfall, rushing quickly from the desalination channel into the reservoir.

"Unbelievable! This is really amazing! Their technology is too powerful." The bricklayer next to Salman was amazed.

"Ahem, what is Dr. Shadin's production efficiency?" Salman asked with a dry cough.

"Hmm..." Dr. Shading took out his tablet computer and made a quick estimate. After a while, he raised his glasses and said:
"This desalination canal can produce at least 120 billion cubic meters of fresh water a year. Considering that they only operate at about 40% of the power, there is no problem with the annual output of 280 billion cubic meters. Their factory has three desalination canals. Their data It won't be too big."

Salman squinted his eyes and looked at the desalination canal in front of him. Just one can meet all the domestic water needs of camels in the desert, and there is still a surplus of 100 billion cubic meters.

But another problem has always made it difficult for Salman to make up his mind to introduce this desalination plant, because the desalination membrane of this desalination plant needs to be replaced every four months.

He is not a fool. Once the rabbit cuts off the membrane supply, the desalination plant is equivalent to a waste.

So he tends to buy thin-film production technology from Yinhe Technology, but the water company obviously won't take advantage of it, not to mention Yinhe Technology will not easily agree to such a thing.

In particular, thin film production technology also involves chip production technology, and the elders' home will never allow technology transfer.

Therefore, the issue of technology transfer has become a key issue that the two sides cannot give in to each other.

Salman is trying every means to persuade the water company and Galaxy Technology to obtain the transfer of thin-film production technology. For this reason, he even offered a sky-high transfer fee of 500 billion dollars.

If it was a rabbit 40 years ago, maybe they would agree to this kind of thing, but today is different, the camel is still the same as before, but my rabbit is no longer the rabbit who is too poor to sell two kicks.

Salman and others looked at the splashing fresh water in the cistern, and they were really envious at this moment.

Camel invests a lot of money in the research and development of seawater desalination technology every year, but technology is something that sometimes does not have to burn money to achieve results.

After visiting the desalination plant, Salman returned to Beiping with mixed feelings, and the two sides continued to play the tug-of-war.

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