this man is not calm

Chapter 451 Take full advantage
In terms of absolute power, the ancestral "golden finger" is not the kind that is earth-shattering and omnipotent. It just has a very strong auxiliary effect in specific areas. A smart host should think about how to maximize its effect, rather than limiting it to the present and struggling within a limited range.

"It is quite remarkable to be able to enclose such a large piece of land in the 'capital of the country', even if the use is limited..."

"It's like this now, but... as long as I have it, I will naturally find a way to tap its value in the future. There's no need to rush."

A city was built because of one person!

Master Jin's goal has never been simply to make money or develop a business, but to use this as a means to maximize his desire to change the world according to his own wishes.

Whether it is the Internet, real estate, agriculture, chemicals, or shipping, they are essentially serving this ultimate goal.

Even without Jin Shang's interference, judging from the current speed of development, Beijing will sooner or later become a world-class metropolis. However, whether it is livable or has the capacity for sustainable development is still unclear.

If it's just for some reinforced concrete, landscape gardens, leisure clubs, consortium headquarters, etc., there's no need to go through so much trouble.

But if you want to pursue something, you have to do something.

Now, you have a canvas on which to express your vision according to your own wishes, so you naturally have to plan it carefully.

The aunt and niece talked as they walked through many areas.

The green buds of the trees along the road are growing in the cold wind, and the grass covered by a little residual snow does not seem to be affected by the severe cold. Instead, it is growing stronger and stronger with the nourishment of the melted snow.

"The benefits of biogas digesters are that after the biogas liquid is sprayed, it becomes an excellent foliar fertilizer. After being diluted with snow water, it is easily absorbed by grass roots and effectively kills pest eggs and larvae in the soil. The biogas residue is used as an auxiliary fertilizer for growing off-season vegetables. The filtered biogas is used to supply gas-fired generators for peak load storage. There is a combined heat and power system with extremely high efficiency."

"I guess we'll have to arrange for lawn mowing in half a month."

Zhang Hua looked at the hay that was almost waist-high and couldn't believe it. It was the shallow grass that only reached his ankles a month before the Spring Festival.

"Isn't that a bit exaggerated?"

“Maybe it’s due to proper management and sufficient fertilizer.”

"It's normal for it to grow this high in two and a half months in the summer. As for the winter, the climate in North China this year is a bit abnormal. The temperature fluctuates. It can go up to 17 or 18 degrees on a sunny day, and 3 or 4 degrees on a rainy day. It even snows..."

The warming weather over the past week made many peach trees think that spring had arrived and they couldn't wait to bloom. Many peach orchards looked vibrant. However, in the past two days, all the petals were blown off by rain and snow, and I don't know how many new buds were frozen to death.

The good thing about cold-resistant grass seeds is that they are difficult to be frozen to death. When it is too cold, they grow slower above ground and their roots grow deeper underground to absorb more nutrients. When it is sunny, they grow vigorously, with one step every three days and one step every five days.

"The situation is different in different places. The new seeds from the Agricultural University are pretty good. It is said that they are based on some giant fungus grass and are a cold-resistant and high-yield variety. They grow well in the laboratory, but when they are moved to the wild, they always encounter various troubles. I asked someone to buy a few sample patents and tried to grow one myself. This thing, although it grows fast, is good for feeding cattle, but you can't eat too much, it will easily cause bloating. We are currently studying the most suitable feed ratio under different conditions..."

"Well, it's inevitable. I raised cattle in the north and it was the same. If you feed too much fermented feed or silage with too much water, your milk production will increase and your stomach and intestines will be more likely to have problems."

"Every profession is a science! If you don't actually work in it, it's hard to understand the difficulties..."

Jin Shang smiled and sighed, then stepped into the vegetable greenhouse.

The ceiling and walls are constructed of translucent tempered glass and polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells, and are several stories high. The internal steel frame is used to build several layers of culture platforms, and artificially prepared soil is used to grow cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, etc. Semi-automatic management is adopted, with relatively sophisticated monitoring equipment and manual assisted operating systems, watering and fertilizing, controlling light, adjusting temperature and humidity, and carbon dioxide concentration alarms.

There are nine such greenhouses distributed in a star shape, which can basically supply local fresh food supermarkets and farmers' markets in the west and south of Beijing. The prices of off-season vegetables are quite good, but overall, they are not very profitable. They rely on small profits but quick turnover and a little subsidy to maintain normal operation.

Surrounding it are six spacious eleven-story buildings, nearly fifty meters high. The facades are made of embedded multi-layer thin-film solar panels with opaque substrates. The top floor is a solar-heated water tank circulation system and is equipped with an air-conditioning system that automatically adjusts temperature and humidity.

The building has a high level of automation. It was designed and built by a special team for efficient breeding, all-weather plant production, and scientific research. It basically adopts soilless cultivation, automatic circulation of nutrient solution, intelligent machine picking, and LED lighting. It is a fully enclosed plant factory that does not require many people to operate.

Next is a seven-story livestock breeding center, which mainly raises chickens, cows and pigs. While producing meat, eggs and milk, it also provides calves, piglets and chicks.

As for the sheep, alpacas, deer, and a few horses, sheepdogs, and pet cats, they are not here, but in the pastoral shed next to the photovoltaic power station. Occasionally, people will come here to visit and buy a few small animals to take home as pets or to try something new.

Finally, it is the most important place - the data center. Second uncle Zhang Hua doesn't know much about it, but he can see rows of racks and working air-conditioning systems. He doesn't feel it from the outside, but after changing into special work clothes and bringing protective equipment, he goes inside and feels a wave of heat coming towards him.

"It's really hot. Besides, there's no steam coming out of it as you said."

"It's very simple, there's no water spray..."

Jin Shang smiled and raised his index finger and shook it, then said leisurely,

"Water is much cheaper than electricity, but the agreement between me and the Gyeonggi region is that if we use too much water, we have to replenish a certain proportion of water, or give back output that exceeds a certain standard. Within a few years, if we reach a certain limit, there will be many benefits..."

"On gambling?"

Although Jin Shang did not give specific data, Zhang Hua, who was familiar with the local way of doing things, understood the cause and effect of the matter from a few simple sentences.
"No wonder there are so many seawater desalination and chemical projects, sewage treatment, recycled water, garbage recycling, green electricity and so on."

"These are all promises in the package agreement..." Jin Shangshu explained calmly.
"At present, wind and solar power stations have not been fully connected to the grid, but electricity... has actually been generated. Not only is it more than enough for self-use, but there is also not much surplus for energy storage. Using water... requires real money, and the gap has to be made up later; as for electricity... if it is not used quickly now, it will be thrown away in vain. At the right time, even if the cost is high, it should be used quickly, no matter how expensive it is, it is better than wasting it."

This is also the reason why Jinshang uses plant factories and data center cooling systems, which increases electricity consumption.

Many supporting facilities have not been built. If the electricity is not used for local consumption or for self-use, it will be a waste of effort. Even if it is sold to the power grid, it may not make much money. If the subsidies are not sufficient, anyone who plays with clean energy will fail these days.

As for large-capacity energy storage, if you calculate how much money Jin Shang has invested, you will know that this thing is a bottomless pit and a money-eating beast. Without some strength, you can't play it at all.

"Can this still happen?"

After listening to Jin Shang's explanation, Zhang Hua felt a little bit unbelievable and thought it seemed a bit beyond common sense.

Jin Shang patiently explained:

"At present, the cost of wind power is relatively low, and photovoltaic power is much higher, but it is not unacceptable. However, the problem is that their utilization rate is not high. Not only is it unstable, but the storage cost is also not low. If the urban power grid cannot smoothly absorb it, it is actually not cost-effective to issue a higher unified collection price. Self-generation and energy storage are the fundamentals, and "empowering" the urban power grid is just icing on the cake..."

To give an inappropriate example, the current price of municipal electricity is hovering around 21 cents, while the price of the same electricity purchased by the power grid is around 15 to 18 cents. If wind and solar power stations cannot solve the problem of unstable functions, the purchase price will be even lower.

The price of wind power and photovoltaic power after subsidies is about 0.12 cents. The general direction is to break even and make a little pocket money if the full amount can be connected to the grid.

However, the agreement between Jinshang and the city power grid is not like this. Instead, it is a large-scale pilot park for a "smart city". To put it bluntly, it is a flexible electricity price and entry into the market based on demand. It is not a way to find various gimmicks to "cheat subsidies" at all.

"For my own use..."

Zhang Hua pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"This is not all for urban power supply, but to prepare for the industrial economic center built on the isolated power supply network. For example, in Julunbo and the surrounding grasslands, there are almost no heavy industries that consume a lot of electricity, and they cannot be retained. Only agriculture, animal husbandry and related enterprises can gain a foothold, and it is difficult for others. Industries have the characteristics of clustered development. The closer to the center, the lower the cost. Unless there is a decentralized industry that is not very sensitive to time, space and human resources, but has high requirements for energy, water and climate, it happens..."

Jin Shang smiled subtly and nodded affirmatively before his second uncle Zhang Hua finished speaking.

The Internet happens to meet the above requirements perfectly.

"If the network infrastructure is not in place, building a data center in Beijing is not the best choice. We should visit the North Sea, the Yibo Sea, the Kurunpo, the cold current belt of the North Pacific, and even the icy and snowy Arctic Circle after the technology matures. Now..."

It cannot be said to be a stopgap measure. As the capital city and the center of a major country, there must be enough IDCs to serve local customers. In the future, data distributed computing centers will also be built. But at a certain time, we will have to go to the north to build the core of the industrial chain.

For example, near the Beihai Sea, there is endless water and a cold climate, which are great advantages for energy conservation and emission reduction. Electricity is cheap, and the vast land and sparse population are disadvantages for other industries, but not for IDC data centers.

In addition, there are some places such as Hokkaido, the Arctic Bay Area, the archipelago area, etc., which are regarded as daunting by others, but may be treasure lands for Jin Shang.

With successful examples before our eyes, can we expect more?

"Very good. I will quickly ask my partners to make an effort and have several counties around Julunbo come to inspect it. Maybe some of them will be interested. By the way..."

Zhang Hua was talking when he suddenly remembered something and asked,
"When do you think it's best to come? I don't think this place is very healthy..."

"May, the transition between spring and summer, or September and October, the cool and refreshing autumn..."

"May then. Everything is almost on track."

"Well! The modules of the data center are still being added, and they are not running at full capacity, so it seems that the power consumption is insufficient. This is actually true. The power grid still needs to transmit power, and the total installed capacity is too high..."

More than a decade later, server performance has improved a lot, and energy consumption is also higher, so the consumption is obviously much greater, but it is not as exaggerated as it is now.

If the purchase price offered by the power grid is not too low, electricity that cannot be used at all can also be sold.

In short, with subsidies, we can make some money, but we don’t seek to get rich from it. A slight surplus is enough to maintain the development of the industrial park.

Finally, Jin Shang took his second uncle Zhang Hua to visit the edible fungus cultivation base, the automatic egg hatchery and the golden thread vine medicinal material nursery. After learning the specific situation, he placed a number of orders in the name of Glacier Trade, mainly for sea rice, sweet corn, sweet sorghum and wheat seeds. He also had high hopes for the extremely high-quality calves and lambs.
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March 1st was the day when the data center's energy system was fully connected to the grid. In preparation for this day, rounds of testing were conducted, and several expert groups came to visit and inspect. Jin Shang also invited some old professors from his alma mater to show up to support the event.

We were originally planning to hold a large press conference to liven up the scene.

Unfortunately, it has been raining intermittently since the day before yesterday, and it has been pouring rain since last night. Warnings have been issued several times, so please be cautious when engaging in outdoor activities.

As a last resort, all public promotional activities had to be cancelled. We only held an indoor signing ceremony, took a few photos, recorded a few videos, and left it to the media to express themselves freely.

Fortunately, Jinxi Culture has a good influence in the local area. New energy is currently a hot topic internationally, and there are very few related projects in China. It is not easy to find something outstanding, and the attention is still very high.

Witnessed by many pairs of eyes, the electrician wearing thick protective clothing turned on the power switch. The high-voltage terminal pierced the air, sparking electric arcs. It took several seconds for the creepy electrical noise to completely disappear. From then on, the entire power transmission and distribution system began to operate at full capacity.

The weather was bad and the efficiency of photovoltaic power generation was low, but the performance of wind turbines was still good. It rained heavily and the wind was not much stronger than usual and was still within a safe range.

(End of this chapter)