Chapter 468 Desert Water Replenishment Program
Cao Wei was really convinced by his godson who always had some incredible ideas! Not to mention anything else, just listen to this idea today, this guy also needs to replenish the desert!
That's a desert! How old do you have to make up for it to prevent it from leaking? The sand cannot contain water, and the groundwater in the desert is drought and lacking in water than other terrains. I guess even if there is groundwater, it will be deeper than ordinary areas.
This requires water replenishment so that you can see water in the desert and continue to exist. I have never heard of anything other than the springs in the oasis.
Those oil powers in the Middle East are rich, right? But most areas in the Middle East are deserts! Do you see that people can use hydration to transform deserts?
Is this unreliable? So people are so rich that they don’t do it. You kid feel that you have two dollars and you can do whatever you want? However, if you put this on your godson, it might not be possible.
After experiencing so many things, Cao Wei had already seen it. As long as Wang Yong made up his mind to do something, the final result would definitely be similar to his own predictions. There would be nothing wrong with his goal to achieve.
Although he had begun to incline Wang Yong's idea to be realized, there was another biggest problem that Cao Wei did not speak up. He also wanted to hear what Wang Yong himself said.
"I told you, I have already thought about hydrating. First of all, we need to build a large seawater desalination plant, which not only extracts desalination water that humans can directly refer to, but also freezes the desalination water into ice and transports it to the desert."
Cao Wei was stunned when he heard this!
Can you blow a little bigger? Do you know how expensive the seawater desalination cost? It is frozen into ice and transported there. What do you use to transport it? Cars, trains, or planes?
Although Cao Wei has not studied seawater desalination, he still knows a little bit. Although the current cost of seawater desalination has dropped to about the same as tap water, Wang Yong wants to replenish the desalination water into the desert?
How many tons of water need to be poured into it to see the effect? How much does it cost to convert it into money?
He thought this child didn't understand seawater desalination at all? Thinking of this, he immediately began to take out all the things he learned about to dare to desalinate seawater.
The process of removing salt from seawater to obtain fresh water is called seawater desalination, also known as seawater desalination. The methods of seawater desalination are basically divided into two categories:
(1) Take fresh water from seawater, including steaming and retention method, reverse osmosis method, hydrate method, solvent extraction method and freezing method.
(2) There are electroosmotic disassembly, ion exchange method and pressure permeability method to remove salt from seawater. Currently, the first type of method is mainly used.
As early as more than 250 years ago, Queen Elizabeth of England offered a reward of 10,000 pounds to solicit economical desalination methods. However, it was not until the 1950s that with the lack of water resources, human beings really began to use desalination to replenish the freshwater consumed.
At present, there are more than a dozen different countries in the world who are conducting related research on seawater desalination, and various seawater desalination facilities of different structures and capacity are working.
Under modern technical conditions, a large seawater desalination factory can produce thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of tons of fresh water per day.
Especially in the Middle East, which is troubled by drought and water shortage, because it is generally rich in resources, it can have a lot of financial resources and demand for research and construction of large-scale seawater desalination. Currently, most of the desalinated seawater in the world comes from here.
For example, Kuwait has a 32-level multi-stage flash-speed distillation method, and its seawater desalination level is world-class. Saudi Arabia, which also belongs to the Gulf region, is currently the largest producer of desalination seawater, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's total production.
.Seawater desalination, as a substitution and incremental technology for freshwater resources, is increasingly valued by many coastal countries around the world; the world directly uses seawater as industrial cooling water to replace a large number of precious freshwater resources every year; the world extracts 50 million tons of salt, more than 2.6 million tons of magnesium and magnesium oxide, and 200,000 tons of bromine from the ocean every year.
Desalination requires a lot of energy, so economic benefits are not high in less wealthy countries. Saudi Arabia's desalination plants account for 24% of the global desalination capacity.
Phase 2 of the Jebel Ali seawater desalination plant in the United Arab Emirates is the world's largest seawater desalination plant, generating 300 million cubic meters of fresh water each year.
As for my country's demand, although the total amount of water resources is quite large, the per capita is only 2,100 cubic meters, less than one-quarter of the world average. The United Nations has long listed my country as one of the 13 most water-scarce countries in the world.
As the fastest and best economic development in my country, the vast coastal area is also the area with the most lack of freshwater in my country. According to data statistics, most of the per capita water resources of coastal industrial cities in my country are less than 500 cubic meters, which is an extremely water shortage state.
For example, Tianhai City, a municipality directly under the central government, has less than 200 cubic meters of fresh water per capita. Therefore, seawater desalination has become an inevitable choice.
At present, my country's seawater desalination capacity is about 600,000 tons per day, and the cost is only four to five yuan per ton, and the maximum is no more than ten yuan. Therefore, whether in terms of national policies or economic feasibility, seawater desalination will become popular in the near future.
The development and industrial application of seawater desalination technology have been around for half a century. During this period, industrial technologies mainly represented by multi-stage flash evaporation, reverse osmosis and multi-effect evaporation were formed.
Experts generally believe that in the next three or forty years, these three technologies will still be the "leading role" of these three technologies in industrial applications, but the proportion of reverse osmosis will become increasingly larger.
Regionally speaking, the Middle East Gulf countries will still choose multi-stage flash evaporation because it has the advantages of large-scale and super-large (the water production per unit currently reaches 40,000 to 50,000 tons of fresh water per day), adapting to heavily polluted bay water and low pretreatment costs.
However, the reverse osmosis membrane method will be the first choice outside the Middle East, because the energy consumption and cost of the reverse osmosis membrane method have advantages. Taking North America as an example, recent industrial development has shown that the membrane method will be the main focus in both desalination and water treatment.
Generally speaking, the biggest cost of seawater desalination operation lies in the electricity bill. Taking the reverse osmosis method with the lowest operating cost as an example, it takes about four kilowatt-hours to produce a ton of desalinated water (the electricity price is different from the nighttime electricity) as an example, so the telephone bill is about three yuan.
.As well as labor, maintenance and other expenses, together, it takes about four to six yuan to produce a ton of desalinated water.
However, what Wang Yong doesn’t have to worry about the most is the electricity bill, because he has his own killer weapon - nuclear fusion generator.
In order to realize his great dream of transforming the desert, Wang Yong ordered three medium-sized nuclear fusion generator sets with a daily power generation of 1.2 billion kWh through the space trading system, almost three times the daily power generation of the Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project!
With this killer weapon, seawater desalination has almost no cost to Wang Yong. He can bring the desalinated seawater into any place he wants to introduce. The biggest cost is actually caused by these water diversion projects.
However, Wang Yong also considered this point. Even if an individual has money, it would be difficult to complete such a huge project. This involves land acquisition, demolition, maintenance, employment and other problems, and it is not something that any individual can solve.
That's why Wang Yong thought of a more labor-saving way, which is to freeze the desalinated water into ice and then transport it to the desert through the large interstellar transport ship Kong Shen, the Dragon Fu Base, unconsciously, and choose a place to airdrop it.
Based on the fact that the largest transport ship in Longnu Base can easily load 300,000 tons of cargo, when considering the volume, it can transport tens of thousands of cubic meters of ice at a time to quickly reach the designated desert area.
At the speed of a transport ship, even the northwest desert farthest from the port city can airdrop ten or eight times in a night, creating a huge water area of hundreds of thousands of cubic meters in the desert.
Of course, because the desert has almost no water retention, most of this water will penetrate and be lost.
But no matter what, it should be preserved. Then work for several nights, or send a few small transport ships to transport it together, then it should be no problem to gather a desert lake overnight.
Once Wang Yong made a decision, he would definitely not hit the south wall or look back. Even if he really hit the south wall, he would have to break the wall and see what was outside the wall to be willing to do so.
After making up his mind, he first called several bigwigs of the country to explain his ideas, possible problems, and work that the country needs to do.
As a result, several big shots were confused by his wild ideas. If it were ordinary people who proposed this idea, they would definitely be scolded and then directly blocked the girl's list.
But Wang Yong is not an ordinary person, this is a consensus among everyone in the world. If we change the perspective, Wang Yong’s idea is really successful! What kind of changes will it bring to China?
Thinking of the huge benefits of the success of this plan, several bigwigs did not dare to be careless and kept asking Wang Yong about their concerns, and then quickly agreed to Wang Yong to build a seawater desalination factory in Port City to experiment.
Three days later, the central government's notice was quickly issued to Hong Kong City. The mayor of Hong Kong City immediately contacted Wang Yong and wanted to discuss a series of land acquisition matters.
However, what he never expected was that Wang Yong's answer to him was that he did not need to acquire land! He would not recruit any workers in Hong Kong cities without any tiny land.
Because this large seawater desalination plant that is about to be built with a single machine can produce 1.5 million tons of desalination water per day will be built in offshore oceans and will not occupy any land.
This is not true. In order to supply water to the Hong Kong city and hide the truth, this seawater desalination plant located on the beach of the Hong Kong city will establish a large water supply pipeline of 1.5 meters in diameter, and the pipeline will inevitably occupy part of the land in the Hong Kong city.
Finally, Wang Yong and the mayor of Hong Kong City reached an agreement, and Wang Yong provided water to Hong Kong City alone. Hong Kong City was responsible for building a large pumping station and water supply channel, and then responsible for the whereabouts of the desalinated seawater.
In layman's terms, Wang Yong is responsible for production, and Hong Kong cities are responsible for selling water! (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, novels are better, updated and faster!
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