Are you touching me in the military industry? I sell fishing rods!

Chapter 340: Increase revenue and reduce expenditure, incredible usage cost!
In fact, what Qian Zhizhong and others don’t know is that these costs are not included in the research and development costs!
If the R&D costs are included, the cost of the Nantianmen project will inevitably become an astronomical figure!
Let’s not talk about anything else, just the research and development of controlled nuclear fusion technology. Humans proposed the concept of controlled nuclear fusion technology decades ago.

However, until now, the International Nuclear Fusion Research Organization has spent decades of research and invested hundreds of billions of dollars in research and development costs. However, to this day, the controlled nuclear fusion technology that was called "the technology of fifty years later" decades ago is still "the technology of fifty years later"! !

Like Schrödinger's cat, this "fifty years" is no longer a specific number, but a concept!
The fifty years today are fifty years, the fifty years tomorrow are still fifty years, and who knows, even ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, the fifty years will still be fifty years!

No one knows how many years this "fifty years" is!
Similarly, no one knows how much research and development funds and time will be required for controlled nuclear fusion technology!
This is just controlled nuclear fusion technology!
There are countless black technologies on Nantianmen, and the research and development cost of each one of them would be an astonishing figure!

Adding all of them together, let alone the current Long Village, even if the economic scale of Long Village doubles or even multiplies, I am afraid it will not be able to support the research and development work of the Nantianmen project!

And now, because of Su Heng's existence, the R&D cost, which accounts for the largest share of the cost, has been wiped out by Su Heng.

However, even the remaining manufacturing costs are not something that Long Village can afford now.

For a moment, whether it was Qian Zhizhong, Qin Shan, or Qiao Zhenhai, all three fell silent.

At this moment, the three of them wanted to wave their hands and tell Su Heng not to worry about the money. As long as Su Heng could show the technology, they would be able to provide enough funds to help with the construction.

But when the words came to their lips, the three of them could only swallow them down.

With a wave of the hand?
It sounds simple, but what do they use?
Funds of more than ten digits are real wealth!
It’s not something that can be solved by just talking nonsense!

Moreover, Qian Zhizhong and the other two were very clear that the costs proposed by Su Heng must be the lowest costs!
In the past, Su Heng had always done this with the equipment he provided to Long Village!
Even if they forced Su Heng to retain a certain profit margin, the profits Su Heng collected were very meager.

As a result, they had to find compensation for Su Heng from other places, such as tax exemption, various policy support, helping Su Heng sell equipment, and the previous northern water conservancy project, etc.

For a long time, Qian Zhizhong and the other two looked at each other, and all of them had bitter smiles on their faces.

The three opened their mouths and were about to say something, but when the words came to their lips, they still couldn't say anything.

For a moment, the feeling of being unable to express themselves made the three of them feel extremely depressed and uncomfortable.

Money is not everything, but without money is nothing!
At this moment, the three of them had the deepest understanding of this sentence!

Even though they have the most advanced things right in front of them, they have no choice but to stop because they have no money!
"Money..."

Countless thoughts flashed through the minds of Qian Zhizhong and the other two.

Without exception, these thoughts can be summed up in two words: "making money"!
Without money, Nantianmen cannot be built!
Leaving such advanced things undeveloped is more painful for Qian Zhizhong and others than killing them!

"Or, continue looking for the camels?"

As thoughts came to mind, Qian Zhizhong and the other two all thought of camels at the same time.

Modarahan had previously mentioned that he wanted to join the Nantianmen project.

But they rejected it.

After all, the Nantianmen project itself was a shell project used to deceive Black and White Eagle and did not exist at all.

And now, Su Heng has put this project into practice.

Su Heng has already solved the technical problem, but now the most technically-unskilled issue of funding has become the biggest obstacle!
In this way, it seems that the only force that can currently solve Long Village’s financial problems is Camel!

However, when they thought about the camel's current situation, after pondering for a while, Qian Zhizhong and the other two suppressed the idea.

There is indeed no problem in going to find the camel.

Camels are rich, but Camels are still at war!
Moreover, Camel has done too much business with Long Village before, from military equipment to people's livelihood projects, to the most basic clothing, food and other supplies, etc. Now Camel still lacks nearly 5 trillion dragon coins of gold and oil from Long Village and Su Heng!
Modalahan even signed an investment project worth 2 trillion yuan with Longcun some time ago!
All in all, the camels owed Dragon Village an astonishing wealth of nearly 7 trillion!

To a certain extent, the camels in Long Village were almost plucked bald!

If they continued pulling, Qian Zhizhong and the other two were worried that they might kill the camel...

In addition to worrying about being ripped off, as managers, they must also consider possible unknown risks.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket!
Now Camel already owes Long Village such an astonishing amount of wealth. If he continues to owe it, who knows what other unexpected events may occur?
After all, human hearts are hard to predict!

In the past, it is not uncommon for Long Village to have given out countless benefits and then ended up raising ungrateful people!
Although there is no sign of this happening to the camels right now, they must still take precautions anyway!
This is not doubt, but the most basic rationality as a manager!
It is difficult to have absolute trust between people, let alone between villages!

Although Modalahan and other camels have a good relationship with Long Village now, what about the future?
Even if Modalahan and others have always kept their original aspirations in mind, if something happens to Modalahan and others, such as the previous beheading incident, will the newly-elected Camel be the same as Modalahan and others?
They have to consider these things!

Another point is that the funds required for the Nantianmen project are too huge, and camels alone obviously cannot support the Nantianmen project.

According to the data Su Heng just gave, the overall construction cost of a Nantianmen would be thousands or even trillions!

If we really want to activate the Nantianmen, it is obviously impossible to build only one Nantianmen!

In this case, the camel may not be able to bear it!
Camels also have to live, we can’t send all our wealth to Long Village, right?

Will we be able to live like this from now on?

Their thoughts raced, and the more they thought about it, the more headache Qian Zhizhong and the other two felt.

In front of the three people, Su Heng did not say much, but just waited quietly for their response.

He has said everything he should say. As for how to choose, that is not his business.

He is just a technician and doesn't understand these strategic decisions, nor does he need to understand them.

After an unknown amount of time, Qiao Zhenhai seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly raised his head, and then said:
"Xiao Su, can your controlled nuclear fusion technology be commercialized?"

For commercial use?

Hearing this, Su Heng was startled.

He immediately guessed what Qiao Zhenhai was thinking: "Mr. Qiao, do you mean nuclear fusion power generation?"

"That's right," Qiao Zhenhai nodded directly, and then continued: "Xiao Su, your controlled nuclear fusion technology should also be clean, right?"

"Hmm" Su Heng nodded slightly in response to the question. There was no doubt about this question.

Controlled nuclear fusion technology is called an artificial sun, not only because the energy it releases is extremely huge, but also because its environmental protection capabilities far exceed those of nuclear fission.

One of the fundamental reasons why Su Heng gave up nuclear fission and turned to nuclear fusion is because it is environmentally friendly and pollution-free.

Even if an accident occurs, a nuclear fusion reactor will not cause a large-scale nuclear leakage and pollution incident like a nuclear fission reactor!
Instead, it will directly terminate the reaction!
After pondering for a moment, Su Heng slowly said:

"Mr. Qiao, do you want to use nuclear fusion power plants to replace thermal power, hydropower, wind power, photovoltaic and nuclear power projects?"

"Yes," Qiao Zhenhai nodded again. Without waiting for Su Heng to say anything more, Qiao Zhenhai said directly, "Xiao Su, do you know how much our Long Village invests in power projects every year?"

Hearing this, Su Heng shook his head.

He really didn't know the answer to this question. He had not done any special research on it, nor had he looked up detailed official internal documents. In this case, how could he know this?

"Last year, our Dragon Village invested a total of 900 billion Dragon Coins in power projects! 400 billion of which was invested in the power grid system, and the remaining 500 billion was all invested in basic power generation facilities, such as the thermal power plants, hydropower plants, nuclear power plants and other power generation equipment you just mentioned!"

"According to our internal planning, the related investment will only be higher next year!"

"And the controlled nuclear fusion technology you brought can completely replace all these investments! In this way, the remaining funds can be used in other areas..."

"I roughly estimated that according to the power generation capacity of your Jinwu 330, Xiao Su, one Jinwu 330 can provide sufficient energy for a city of 330 million people. In this way, as long as there are about Jinwu nuclear fusion reactors, it can basically meet all the electricity needs of our Long Village, including industry!"

"According to what you just said, the construction cost of one Jinwu 330 nuclear fusion reactor is billion, and eighty of them only cost billion!"

"If we use the Jinwu 330 to replace other power generation equipment, we can save more than billion yuan a year for our village!"

"And according to what you just said, the service life of Jinwu 330 is up to years. That means we don't have to spend more money on the reactor in the next years. This will save our village hundreds of billions of dollars every year!"

"In addition, the consumption of power generation facilities such as thermal power and nuclear power is also very huge. Take thermal power as an example. Thermal power generation is entirely supported by coal. Our annual coal consumption alone is an astronomical figure!"

"If we can save this coal consumption, it will also save a lot of money for our village every year!"

"Moreover, reducing coal burning can also significantly reduce our air pollution, environmental pollution and geological damage to coal mining areas... The management and restoration of these pollution and damage will require a lot of manpower and material resources, which is a huge expense for us..."

Qiao Zhenhai said a lot in a very eloquent manner.

Until the end, Qiao Zhenhai concluded: "If you can commercialize the Jinwu 330, then in the next sixty years, you can at least save tens of trillions of huge expenses for our Long Village!"

After a pause, as if he had thought of something, Qiao Zhenhai continued:

"Xiao Su, is the cost of using Jinwu 330 high?"

"How much does it cost to use?" Su Heng said without hesitation, "It's very low. The stability of the Jinwu 330 is designed according to the highest standard I can currently achieve. Without external interference, it only needs maintenance three times at most within its sixty-year service life!"

"On average, according to my design and normal operation, without external interference, including the construction cost, the annual operating cost of Jinwu 330 will not exceed million dragon coins!"

"Then in terms of fuel, Jinwu 330 can support stable operation for at least twenty years after adding nuclear fuel once, which is synchronized with the maintenance time of Jinwu 330!"

"I can directly extract the nuclear materials needed for Jinwu 330 from the seawater. If it is used to generate electricity within the designed service life of Jinwu 330, the cost of generating electricity per kilowatt-hour will not exceed 0.01 dragon coin!"

The cost of using 100 million dragon coins per year?
0.01 Dragon Coin power generation cost?

After hearing what Su Heng said, Qiao Zhenhai and the other two couldn't help but shrink their pupils.

According to the information they have learned, not to mention the cost of use, in terms of power generation cost, the current cost of Longcun thermal power generation is approximately between 0.3 Dragon Coins and 0.4 Dragon Coins per kilowatt-hour!

However, the power generation cost of Su Heng's Jinwu 330 is only 0.01 dragon coin!

The gap between the two is thirty to forty times! !

This is simply unbelievable!
Even compared with hydropower, which has the lowest power generation cost, there is still a gap of several times. Currently, the power generation equipment with the lowest power generation cost in Long Village is hydropower, and the power generation cost of hydropower is about 0.07 to 0.1 dragon coins.

Calculated based on the lowest 0.07 dragon coins, the cost of hydropower generation is seven times that of Jinwu 330!
With such a low power generation cost, even if the cost of various supporting facilities such as building a power grid is taken into account, if Jinwu 330 is used to completely replace their Long Village’s power generation facilities, the electricity cost of Long Village will also drop dramatically!

What does the drop in electricity costs mean?
It not only means that the electricity consumption of Longcun residents will be reduced, but more importantly, the cost of industrial electricity, which accounts for the majority of electricity consumption, will also drop dramatically!
The reduction in industrial electricity costs means that the cost of all industrial output will be greatly reduced!
In other words, it means that all industrial costs in the entire Long Village will be greatly reduced!

The changes brought about by this are almost epoch-making!

The resources and funds that can be saved are an astronomical figure that is unimaginable!

When they thought of this, Qian Zhizhong and the other two began to breathe faster!

At this moment, as if he had thought of something, Qin Shan suddenly turned his gaze to Su Heng and said:
"Xiao Su, you just said that you can extract nuclear materials from seawater?"

Su Heng was startled by the sudden sound.

But soon Su Heng came back to his senses and nodded, "Yes, seven years ago, the first time I..."

Su Heng paused halfway through his speech, but after only a brief pause, he continued:

"I mastered this technology seven years ago, but at that time I only studied nuclear fission, not nuclear fusion. Later, my seawater desalination plants used this technology. Now the raw materials used in the nuclear fission power plants and nuclear fusion reactors I have are basically extracted from seawater by those seawater desalination plants..."

Desalination plants to extract nuclear materials?

After hearing what Su Heng said, Qian Zhizhong and the other two twitched their lips slightly.

Good guy!
If Su Heng hadn't said this himself, they would have found it hard to imagine that those civilian desalination plants actually did these things!

Extracting nuclear materials from seawater!

It sounds easy, but if it were that easy, mushrooms would be everywhere in the world!
"Xiao Su, tell us the truth, how many nuclear power plants do you have in the world? There can't be a nuclear power plant in every desalination plant, right?"

After a long time, Qian Zhizhong asked quietly.

(End of this chapter)