this man is not calm

Chapter 464 Route
The advantages and disadvantages of wind power are so obvious that in mid-1998, its power generation efficiency was slightly higher than that of photovoltaic power and its cost was lower. This is also an important reason why wind power developed one step earlier than photovoltaic power.

The unit cost of power generation remains high. Before the price of photovoltaic panels is driven down to a bargain price by massive production capacity and new photovoltaic materials become more mature, wind power will be the first choice for clean energy at the end of the 20th century.

However, wind power also has its shortcomings that are difficult to overcome, which is that it is too picky about location. If the wind resources are not dense and continuous enough, it will not be able to bring out its advantages.

Good places to build large wind farms are not everywhere.

Why are wind turbines often built on the windward slopes of mountain tops, in strong convection zones close to mountains and water?

The pillars are so high, the blades are so long, and the installed capacity is so exaggerated?
A photovoltaic power station can be built on any wasteland with long sunshine hours and not too high value, but wind power is still less convenient.

The wind force at high altitude is strong and the utilization efficiency is high, while the wind force at low altitude is weak and often cannot reach the lower starting limit of large wind turbines.

If a wind power plant is built too far away from a city, it would go against the original intention of local consumption.

Therefore, this new type of micro-wind generator developed using the Venturi effect is of great value. Like the bladeless wind turbines made before, it can be promoted as distributed photovoltaics in cities.

In addition, they have a greater advantage, which is that they can easily change their appearance and disguise themselves as part of the city's infrastructure.

For example, Jin Shang combines the columnar bladeless wind turbines and bellows-type vibrating blade turbines with mosquito repellent lamps, signposts, background billboards and road landscapes, so you can’t find them without careful observation.

For Jinxi Culture, the most commonly used method is to combine it with the Xiaolingtong signal base station, disguising it as a manhole cover, water tower, street lamps and indicator lights, as well as electric poles, etc. This is neither abrupt nor arouses the disgust of citizens, and can appropriately beautify the environment. By the way, it can generate electricity for its own use and power the base station, reducing consumption.

I didn't think of doing this at first, but I had no choice.

In his previous life, Jin Shang had heard of many conflicts between neighbors in the community. The hostess of a family became pregnant and asked everyone in the building to stop using WIFI. This strange thing happened more than once.

This life has not yet reached the era of rapid development of mobile networks, but there are still many nonsense rumors. Rumors such as this electrical appliance has radiation, that device is harmful to children and the elderly are circulating one after another. The sources are unclear, but many people believe them.

I won’t mention things that happened far away, but right here in western Beijing, there was an incident where a PHS base station was boycotted after it entered a residential area. Today, a man said he had a headache and wanted to see a doctor, and a woman swore that she had a cold because of the radiation from the base station.

They won't listen to explanations or persuasion, and they can't be beaten or scolded. When you go to seek legal help, as soon as they hear who the other party is, they all try to persuade you to settle the matter privately. It's not a question of who is right or wrong, but there's really nothing you can do about them.

As a last resort, we had to dismantle the base station. There was nothing we could do about the lack of signal.

Later, someone smart in the company came up with a crooked idea. They dismantled the base station openly with great fanfare, then changed its appearance and secretly installed it back. Probably no one in the community knew that the water tower accessories on the roof, landscape potted plants, billboards, sewer manhole covers, street lamp decorations and pool landscape statues actually contained Xiaolingtong signal base stations.

So, this incident passed, and no one heard of any aftereffects. Anyway, the old men and women who were feeling unwell all over no longer had sore waists, back pains, leg cramps, and they had more energy to walk.

All is well and everything goes well.

So this operation has been carried out in this way.

Later, Hao Qilian heard about this and was very tempted, so he carried out this trick.

Telecommunications companies that have been troubled by the same problem have saved themselves a lot of trouble since they learned this trick.

At present, this Venturi effect breeze generator can be combined with many large buildings. Its advantages of collecting wind from all directions and generating electricity efficiently are still very good. It has a place in densely populated towns that are not suitable for building large wind power and photovoltaic power plants.

After carefully reading the information, Jin Shang felt that it was feasible and prepared to make his own test products and place them on various roads in the park to see the effect.

Next, Jin Shang and Hong Renquan talked about the sales of home appliances, including color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, electric fans, and DVDs, which are now the most popular products.

Planet Intelligence, formed by the merger of the CSSC Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Branch and the acquired product lines, has always suffered from the lack of core technology and mediocre product design capabilities.

The characteristics of marine equipment, which are bulky, rough, and durable, are not advantages in the field of household appliances. Instead, they have disadvantages such as high power consumption, large size, and taking up space. Without adequate after-sales service, it would be difficult to gain a foothold in the fiercely competitive market.

After nearly three years of hard work, it has only become a second-tier brand. It has a certain degree of popularity across the country, but its market share is mediocre. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is a typical low- to mid-range domestic brand, and has won the trust of some people with its relatively affordable prices and services.

Such an achievement is already acceptable, but it is still a bit far from Jin Shang's expectations.

"We must continue to increase our investment in research and development, and we must not slacken our efforts in acquiring key technologies, especially the supporting manufacturers in the upstream and downstream industrial chains. We must control them. Once we lose control, we will lose our bargaining power."

"Then we need to expand production and increase investment. Now is a good time for counter-cyclical investment, but it will cost more."

Hong Renquan frowned slightly.

The expansion of Internet companies and the expansion of industrial companies are not the same thing. The former can play gimmicks and temporarily ignore the scale of investment and rate of return. The latter is not so easy. Expansion requires building factories, local cooperation, and integrating the supply chain.

Finally, product sales are of paramount importance.

If you produce electrical appliances but cannot sell them, you will lose all your money.

"Expand it. The domestic market is not saturated yet. There is at least a dozen years of dividend period. There is also overseas. I will let e-commerce cross-border B2B business promote it to see if it works. Foreigners still like it because it is cheap, good quality and low price. If it doesn't work, OEM is also fine."

"Is it possible to scale up the capacity?"

Jin Shang nodded affirmatively:

"Do what you want to do when you want to do it. The current domestic environment is that supply is insufficient, so we must make full use of the advantages of low labor costs. By the way...provide jobs and drive the advantages of the entire industrial chain. Who knows, in the future we may be able to turn the tables and force the resource and demand parties to make concessions."

"This is a method used by large supermarket chains, right? Can it also be used in the electrical appliance field?"

"Of course! Why are those home appliance chain stores able to make so much money? Isn't it because so many manufacturers are giving us profit cuts?"

You are unwilling to make concessions, but some brand manufacturers are willing to do so. By then, the shelves will be filled with other people's products, and no matter how good your products are, you will not find a place to sell them.

“Channel dealers are becoming more and more powerful.”

After a brief thought, Hong Renquan nodded in agreement. This is actually the case in all walks of life. For example, in the shipbuilding industry, there are only a few companies that produce key equipment with high technical content, but for minor parts and products, all companies are similar, as long as the quality is acceptable, it's fine.

Especially marine paint. Although it may seem insignificant, the profit margin is incredibly high.

Last year, an incident occurred in CSSC Electromechanical, where a technician and a purchasing manager from the outfitting department of a certain design center colluded to take kickbacks from a paint supplier, taking a total of more than 1.3 million yuan in cash and shopping vouchers and physical items of equivalent value.

This year, they were caught by internal audit, but no attention was paid to the subsequent handling of the funds. This is what was discovered, and I don’t know how much more was not discovered.

This is just a small part of a series of ship types, but there are so many people taking advantage of loopholes. The domestic home appliance market is worth hundreds of billions of yuan every year, so it is not a problem to create a few richest people. If the practitioners have some crooked ideas, some manufacturers and sales will rush to give money.

"Let's not talk about that. The person recommended by President Hong is still very capable. The shipyard's construction progress and ship delivery speed from the end of last year to this year are satisfactory. Although the technical center has some complaints, there is no big criticism. He has a good balance and is a master in production."

“It’s a bit radical, but overall it’s good. It would be better if they could pay more attention to the cultivation of technical personnel and safety issues.”

"No one is perfect. I will pay attention to this aspect and assign someone to be responsible for it."

Proper use of personnel is one aspect, and the other is that the "golden finger" has a more obvious effect, which greatly supports large-scale production.

What makes Jin Shang most satisfied is that the speed of ship delivery has increased, the payment collection has become faster, and the operating costs have been greatly reduced.

Holding funds has a cost. Generally speaking, it is a common practice for ship repair and construction companies to receive orders, apply for bank loans for construction, and then the shipowners make payments according to the progress.

As a result, people are extremely sensitive to the level of interest rates and the progress of repayments.

Large ships cost tens or even hundreds of millions to build, and a single series of ships requires hundreds of millions of dollars in capital. If they are delivered one month earlier, the cost difference will be huge.

The two talked about this issue for a long time. Jin Shang, who originally knew nothing about this industry, has become almost half an expert and has a clear understanding of the basic concepts.

"Last time I went to the south, I only found a ship repair branch. To put it bluntly, it's still because of its lack of strength. The local government doesn't pay attention to it and the conditions it offers are not good. When we go to inspect it next time, I guess they won't be as negligent and perfunctory as they were last time."

It has been a long time, and Jin Shang is still upset about the incident. It is the first time since he started his business that he has been treated as an unnecessary extra.

"It should work! Things are different now..."

Hong Renquan said with a cheerful smile,

"The production of tempered glass and photovoltaic silicon materials is not technically difficult. On the contrary, the production of thin-film photovoltaic materials with lower efficiency is more troublesome..."

"It depends on the demand! Sooner or later, we will have to get involved in the fields of glass, silicon materials, semiconductors, integrated circuits, etc. This is an opportunity for Planetary Intelligence, CSSC Electromechanical, Sing Tao Haihua and Jinxi Cloud Services to work together. They can't handle the cutting-edge technology, but simple things are still possible."

The technical difficulty of today's game console chips, semiconductors for home appliances, minor spare parts for PHS and mobile phones, integrated circuits, etc. is relatively low. With Jinxi Culture's current accumulation, it can barely make them, but it does not have the factory production capacity and can only do the design and entrust the production to foundries.

Don’t think that the chip field, which is a bottleneck, is so mysterious, and don’t think too simply. This is the product of the combination of a whole industrial chain. Without the capabilities of the entire industrial chain or the ability to integrate resources across borders, it cannot be produced at all. It involves too many fields.

The design and manufacturing of cutting-edge chip semiconductors requires generations of product iteration and upgrading, which requires huge investments.

In addition, chip semiconductors have extremely wide applications. The top CPUs, graphics cards, ISP chips, etc. in the PC field are not easy to make, but those used in TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, and cars are very low-end and can be made using technology from a few years ago or even more than a decade ago.

The semiconductors and integrated circuits in current mobile phones are not that advanced. The real power lies in the ability to combine so many parts, numbering in the tens of thousands, into an excellent product. This is the key.

To put it simply, in the current mobile phone field, the threshold for most parts is not high and they can basically be manufactured domestically, but the ability to design them and combine them into a high-end electronic product is very lacking.

Of course, there is still a big gap in areas such as batteries, core semiconductor components, and high-precision materials.

For example, the touch screen panel that Jin Shang is about to emphasize with Hong Renquan.

From a technical perspective, capacitive screens, which will become the mainstream in the future, are still being researched in laboratories, and no decisive results have emerged. However, some products are equipped with resistive screens.

The technology of resistive screens has been around for nearly 30 years. In 1992, a touch-screen mobile phone using a resistive screen appeared in this world. Unfortunately, it did not make any waves and soon disappeared under the pressure of big brothers and various feature phones.

Currently, no more than three touch-screen mobile phones are released worldwide each year, and none of them can stand out and gain a foothold in the mainstream mobile phone market.

To be honest, the manufacturing difficulty of resistive screen is much easier than that of capacitive screen. This thing appeared too early, and many key patents have expired or are about to become invalid, so there is no big problem in developing and applying it.

Compared with capacitive screens, resistive screens have many disadvantages. They are not sensitive enough, require calibration, and are difficult to use for multi-touch. What Jin Shang is most dissatisfied with is that their lifespan is too short.

Today's touch-screen mobile phones have smaller screens, and it is easy to accidentally touch them when pressing with your fingers, so you basically have to use a thin "stylus". Unfortunately, the thin film on the surface is easily scratched and becomes ineffective, making its cheap advantage no longer obvious.

Another problem is that the multi-layer structure causes the picture to be dark, requiring fill light, which increases battery consumption and reduces standby time.

For a trendy touch-screen mobile phone, its shortcomings are really hard to make up for. No wonder it still cannot compete with capacitive screens despite a series of advantages such as high resolution, good performance in waterproof, dustproof and high temperature environments, low threshold and low price.

However, there are no capacitive screens available now. This thing has a very high technical content and cannot be made in a short time. It cannot be done without an investment of tens of billions of dollars.

In comparison, capacitive screen is the only option, and in this era, it is barely sufficient.

"The stylus is the stylus! The sales of the Mercury 2 Plus have stabilized, and now it's time to consider further improving the brand awareness."

"Using a touch-screen phone? Mr. Jin, forgive me for being blunt, but even the established big companies can't push it. Our strength is not enough to open another track..."

What is said to be a shortcut to overtaking on a curve may very well be a road of no return.

"I know this is just a stopgap measure. We must launch a new phone by the end of next year at the latest to maintain our presence. Resistive screen technology is the most mature and has the highest acceptance rate. I am optimistic about capacitive screen and infrared screen, but now is not the right time."

(End of this chapter)