One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Three: Cost Control Requires the Use of High Technology

Brothers, I have opened a new book again: Restarting Life: I can call myself ten years ago. Brothers, help me collect it and give some recommendations!

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Not to mention the water consumed every day, the electricity consumed by this company alone in a year accounts for 6% of the Bay Area.

This is despite the lack of capacity caused by the pandemic.

If under normal circumstances, the factories maintain normal operation, it is estimated that they can consume 8% to 10% of the entire Bay Area's electricity consumption in a year!

You must know that it is a large island with a population of more than 20 million...

Not to mention our side.

For example, in Shanghai, there are many such energy-intensive enterprises.

For example, SMIC, Modu Microelectronics, etc.

Any one of these enterprises is a large energy consumer.

But why do we know that enterprises consume energy, but we choose to build them in such a big city that is not rich in energy and the cost is extremely high?

There are many unspeakable accidents here...

Anyway, as everyone knows, electricity in these big cities is delivered from the western and northern regions at an affordable or even low price.

The West-East Electricity Transmission, West-East Gas Transmission, North-South Electricity Transmission, etc. are all designed to solve the consumption of these large factories.

For this purpose, many UHV transmission projects have been specially studied.

The United States and Europe have also studied UHV transmission projects.

But later, no results were achieved, according to the domestic self-media.

It's because they are not skilled enough and they can't solve the problem after encountering it, so they give up.

But actually!

In fact, it is because, after investigation, they found that doing so is inconsistent with market rules and is not worthwhile.

For example, everyone knows that the cost of magic is high.

The land price is high, the labor cost is high, and the cost of building a factory is also high.

In that case,

Why don't I just build the factory where the cost is low?

For example, if I were a business owner, I would consider either building the factory closest to the resources my factory uses.

Or I will consider locating my factory close to the energy source, so that the cost of the energy I use will be low.

Americans have always done this.

This is also a main reason why many of their large companies don't like to get together, but are very scattered.

And there is another advantage of doing this, that is, the development of big cities in the United States is very even.

Basically, every big city has two to three companies that can support their appearance.

And just these two or three companies support a city's employment and tax revenue.

In this way, people don’t have to flock to big cities for work.

Moreover, the resources in big cities will not be so tight, which will eventually lead to skyrocketing housing prices.

But it's different in China. Large domestic companies just don't build in those low-value areas.

Instead, they just like to gather in big cities where resources are increasingly concentrated.

In the end, various factories were clustered together in big cities, and then there was not enough energy, so resources had to be sourced from other places.

Then the population is crowded into big cities, resulting in high prices, expensive housing, and a situation where people's lives are difficult.

This is the big city disease problem we are facing now.

Many economists have proposed solving this big city disease.

And everyone knows how to solve it. It's actually very simple. Just evacuate resources.

It is simple to say, but difficult to do, because it will touch the interests of many people.

This time Booth saw the first company that dared to challenge this traditional thinking, and that was Spark Technology.

They don't like to cluster in big cities, so they really build their companies near resource areas.

And if you take a look around here, you will find that this is actually very suitable for building a factory.

First of all, let’s talk about the geographical environment. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and has a large plain at its feet.

It's very safe, and the most important thing is that there are very few address disasters here.

For example, geological disasters such as earthquakes and mudslides, which are very common in the south, have never happened here.

Then let’s talk about natural disasters. In recent years, major cities in the south have suffered from heavy rains and floods almost every year, but there are almost no such disasters here.

It can be said that in terms of the natural environment, except for being a little colder, there are almost no shortcomings here.

But for those manufacturing industries that easily generate a lot of heat, this is simply a natural cooling place.

No matter how much heat your factory produces, you can't convert it yourself, so the weather here can help you cool it.

Refrigeration alone can help you save a lot of money.

This is also the main reason why those mining machine companies that mined coins built a large number of factories in Mongolia Province.

Firstly, the electricity there is extremely rich, and if it is sent to the south, it cannot be used up by itself.

Then there is the cold weather, strong wind, and good natural heat dissipation conditions.

Even if social security generates heat, you cannot recycle all of it.

You can connect a water-cooling pipe to the outside of the house to discharge the heat, which is no problem at all.

This is very different from factories in the south.

In the south, the temperature of your factory can reach 70 or 80 degrees, while the outdoor temperature must be above 30 degrees for most of the year.

In this way, even if you want to dissipate heat, it will not be so easy.

There are almost no other options besides turning on the air conditioner.

But once the air conditioner is turned on, the electricity bill will go up...

Therefore, in the northern region, a lot of costs can be saved in refrigeration alone.

Then there's electricity.

This is a resource-rich area, and many power plants here can only operate at 30% of their load.

Only during the peak period of electricity consumption in the south every summer can we ensure full capacity operation.

When operating at full capacity, all the electricity produced will not be used by oneself, but will be sent to the south through the ultra-high voltage power grid.

If a factory is built here, the electricity price will not be particularly high.

Because this is something that enterprises can discuss with power supply companies.

Because you can help him solve the production capacity problem...

Moreover, the conditions here are very suitable for installing solar panels, wind power and other self-generated power equipment.

And this can reduce a large part of production costs.

He also asked the person in charge of Xinghuo Technology Factory, and he was told.

At their level, they still haven't opened up the equipment in order to help local power plants solve part of their production capacity problems.

If the installation is open, cover all the places where solar energy can be laid, and install all wind power equipment.

Then they can solve 60 to 70% of the factory's power consumption just by generating their own electricity.

They just said it casually, but Boss Booth drooled when he heard it!

Holy shit, this self-generated electricity is actually so powerful?

Can satisfy 60% of one’s electricity consumption》

How much cost will be saved that year?

A chip factory like theirs consumes a lot of energy.

Although the scale is not as large as the special pole, it is not a problem to use several billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year.

Such an enterprise will spend billions on electricity alone every year.

He didn't know about other companies. Anyway, he was talking about the chip manufacturing companies in Shanghai.

If it weren't for the subsidies from local high-tech companies in Shanghai, the electricity bill alone would bankrupt them all...

However, Xinghuo Technology is good. Installing solar panels and their wind power generation system can solve most of the power supply problems.

That’s awesome!

Moreover, there are many black technology areas in the factory.

For example, the street light poles in their factory are very special.

In addition to having a solar panel on top, each light pole is actually a small, sharp windmill that generates electricity.

But this kind of windmill is different from the common ones.

Their light poles are twisted structures like barber shop light boxes.

I don’t know what material the blades are made of, but they can still rotate when the wind is not strong.

And it doesn’t stop all day long.

In the past, Boss Booth didn't believe how much wind power could be generated.

Because he has friends who have engaged in wind power, but few of those friends’ investments have made money.

Because wind power is the famous garbage power.

There are special requirements for wind speed and environment, and the initial investment and subsequent maintenance costs of large windmills are not low.

In recent years, many Western European countries have abandoned wind power.

In addition to Denmark, Spain, and some areas rich in wind resources in the central and western regions of the United States.

Other countries basically don’t play this anymore.

In our country, the first batch of private companies that started investing in wind power have also withdrawn or gone bankrupt one after another.

In recent years, you can see that more photovoltaics are promoted, while wind power is not promoted much anymore.

And wind power is different from photovoltaic. In photovoltaic, you just put a solar panel and don’t have to worry about it.

As long as there is sunlight, electricity will be generated.

Wind power, on the other hand, only generates electricity when there is wind. It will not rotate when there is no wind, and it does not work if the wind speed is lower than a certain speed.

But after seeing the upright wind turbines on the street light poles in the Spark Technology factory, Booth always felt like a new world had opened up.

People say that as long as the wind speed reaches 1m/s, this vertical wind turbine will rotate and generate electricity.

And what they use is a three-stage type, that is, there are three sections on each street light pole, this kind of spiral fan blade.

What's even more awesome is the design of the factory.

Such as their heat recovery system.

It is a water-cooling pipe that passes through the factory building and is then connected to the water-cooling exchanger of the production equipment.

The exchanged hot water flows along the pipeline to the factory canteen, bathhouse and other places where hot water is needed.

Then we will follow the water pipes and finally reach these roads.

To say that laying hot water pipes on the road is an extremely extravagant act.

But abroad, especially Japan, Germany, some Nordic countries and the United States, this is routine operation.

They often lay geothermal pipes on curved sections of highways.

The reason for this is to reduce the risk of icy roads caused by snow in winter, which can lead to serious car accidents.

In China, such operations are not common due to cost issues.

But Spark Technology did it...