The rise of nanometers

After asking Qin Wenbin, Li Dashun also asked other questions.

"Brother Qin, if you don't sign a contract, can you use tap water to water the wheat fields?"

Qin Wenbin was stunned for a moment, thought about the company's regulations, and then replied: "Our company uses tiered charging. It seems that each household will be given a preliminary price of 100 cubic meters per mu based on the registered farmland area..."

Then he looked through the company's documents and gave a specific number.

1 to 100 cubic meters, 0.5 yuan per cubic meter; 101 to 500 cubic meters, 0.7 yuan per cubic meter; 501 to 2,000 cubic meters, 1 yuan per cubic meter; more than 2,000 cubic meters, 2.6 yuan per cubic meter.

However, the local government in Linzhou provides a subsidy. Each household is subsidized with 200 cubic meters of affordable water per mu every year based on the farmland area planted. The price is 0.08 yuan per cubic meter.

This price is 0.03 yuan higher than the 0.05 yuan from Hongqi Canal, but in fact, this water is definitely more cost-effective than the water from Hongqi Canal.

While the two were talking, a minibus and six Dongfeng Warriors also appeared on the village road in Tuntou Village.

The minibus stopped, followed by three pickup trucks.

A group of people wearing gas helmets got off minibuses, Dongfeng Warriors, and pickup trucks. Among them were Xiao Yuan, the president of Fengmin Agriculture, Zhao Xiaojun from Lu Provincial Water Affairs, Zhao Kang from Henan Water Affairs, and Linzhou Water Affairs Branch. Zhou Rui from the company and others.

However, an unexpected figure also appeared in the crowd, it was Huang Xiuyuan who had stayed at the Texas Semiconductor Base for more than half a year.

After getting off the minibus, Huang Xiuyuan looked around. The mountains and fields were lush and green. After harvesting the winter wheat, the exposed wheat fields showed a brown-gray color with a few green lines in between.

"Chairman, this is the branch canal of the Hongqi Canal." Zhou Rui, the local water affairs manager, pointed to a canal not far from the road and said.

Huang Xiuyuan approached one side of the channel and found that the channel showed signs of disrepair. It was not only overgrown with weeds, but also collapsed in some places.

"What are your thoughts?"

Zhao Kang, who was following him, turned his eyes like goldfish eyes and said: "Chairman, my idea is to abandon the branches and keep the cadres. The current problems of the branch canals of the old canal are that the lines are long, in disrepair, and have serious leakage."

As a native of Linzhou, Zhou Rui knows the current predicament of Hongqi Canal:

"When our company first entered Linzhou last year, we discovered this serious problem. For farmland relatively close to main canals, the average cost of watering wheat fields per mu is about 7 to 10 yuan, while for farmland with remote branch canals, one acre of land costs Many farmers feel that 30 to 80 yuan is too high."

Huang Xiuyuan looked through the investigation report of Linzhou Water Company and found that this was indeed the case.

The more troublesome problem is that the upstream of the Hongqi Canal is under the jurisdiction of Shanxi and Hebei provinces. In recent years, water resources in various parts of the north have been tense. The previous free water transfer has become a paid water transfer, and it has to be paid every year. Only with millions of dollars of capital can we obtain about 60 million cubic meters of water resources from upstream.

Coupled with infiltration and evaporation along the way, the water supply of Hongqi Canal itself is a loss-making business.

Zhou Rui then complained: "When there is still winter, we must pay attention to the ice. If the ice is not broken in time, once part of the channel is frozen, it may cause floods. Last year, I brought an excavator to break the ice manually."

Huang Xiuyuan did not expect that the problem of the Hongqi Canal had reached such a serious stage: "It seems that we can only abandon part of the branch canals and use our water pipelines instead."

"Our pipeline water transmission in Linzhou is currently laying underground water pipes." Zhao Kang said immediately.

The group of people walked and chatted for a few hundred meters, and the main water pipeline in the distance became increasingly clear.

Zhao Xiaojun pointed to the factory building in the distance: "Chairman, we have encountered some power supply problems."

"Is it because the power grid refuses to lay dedicated lines for us?" Huang Xiuyuan seemed to have expected this.

Zhao Xiaojun nodded helplessly: "Now that our water pipelines are getting bigger and bigger, we must solve this problem as soon as possible, otherwise our water transmission work will have to stop when the power grid goes out."

"In Texas, our power can basically be self-sustaining, but other lines are under great pressure, which also increases our operating costs."

Huang Xiuyuan looked at the water pipeline in the distance and suddenly made a decision: "Then let's set up our internal small power grid!"

He talked about his idea, and then laid solar panels and high-voltage transmission lines on water pipelines through several medium-sized power plants to form a co-linear model of water and electricity.

Coupled with decarbonization technology, the electricity during the surplus period will be converted into carbon blocks and stored, ensuring that the entire northern water pipeline network can achieve self-sufficiency in electricity.

After some discussions, Zhao Kang, Zhao Xiaojun and others also felt that this was the best method at present. Otherwise, every time the pipelines of the Blue Age reached a certain place, they would have to grind with the power grid and cooperate with the power grid to regulate peaks and valleys. Seriously affecting the normal operation of the water company.

Unless the power grid is willing to open up and allow Suiren companies to directly connect to power plants, everyone present knows that this is almost impossible.

Among the three links of power generation, power distribution, and power consumption, unless it is self-sustained power generation and consumption, even if the power plant has idle capacity, it cannot bypass the power grid and provide power to other users.

Many people may say that Weiqiao Company does not generate and sell electricity by itself.

Therefore, the relationship between Weiqiao and the power grid has even deteriorated to the point of fighting.

The power grid also has a lot of opinions on Suiren System, but it has never found an excuse, because Suiren System uses its own electricity and has not developed the electricity business for residents.

In addition, the influence of the Suiren system is several orders of magnitude higher than that of Weiqiao. The power grid does not dare to go too far. At most, it will be passive and deliberately uncooperative.

Huang Xiuyuan thought about it, returned to the minibus, and sent an email to Qin Lizhang, explaining the necessity and helplessness of self-organized power grids in the blue era, and asking him to explain the situation to his superiors.

After all, in order to cooperate with the east-west water transmission project, if the cost of electricity is too high, it will indirectly increase the cost of water transmission.

As the water pipelines of the Blue Era gradually move closer to the inland Shanxi Province, Qin Province and the central and western Mongolia region, the water affairs in this area are the areas that the United Group is responsible for.

According to the agreement between Blue Era and United Water, the construction and operation of the water pipeline entering the Great Northwest will be undertaken by United Group.

In the current agreement, the price obtained by the United Group is around 1.7 to 2.2 yuan per cubic meter. This price is definitely not cheap, and is even obviously on the high side.

But Huang Xiuyuan knows that Blue Age only earns less than 0.13 yuan per cubic meter of pure water, mainly because the cost of water transportation is too high.

In addition to the cost sharing of the construction of huge water pipelines, the factor that affects the high water transmission costs is the impact of electricity costs.

The cost of purified water from Dongying to Linzhou is as high as 1.3 yuan per cubic meter. Then entering Shanxi and Qin provinces, the cost is basically around 1.5 yuan. In addition, Blue Age needs to make a profit, so the cost is increased by 0.13 yuan.

Basically, the further inland the west, the ex-factory price of pure water will be higher and higher.

The cost of this, the construction cost of water pipelines, will become smaller and smaller over time, but the electricity bill will not decrease much.

According to Blue Age’s internal data, electricity costs currently account for about 42 to 48% of water delivery costs.

The price offered by the power grid to Blue Age is 0.73 yuan per kilowatt hour. After local subsidies, the price is 0.4 to 0.5 yuan per kilowatt hour.

If Blue Era generates its own electricity, the cost will be 0.15 to 0.18 yuan per kilowatt hour, and the electricity cost can be reduced by about half.

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