Interstellar Energy Tycoon - Chapter 247

c247 Large-scale manufacturing of chips increases per capita energy consumption

Although today’s space has become extremely lively.

In a lunar crater on the moon, countless mining companies are mining the lunar mines crazily. Tens of millions of tons of various ores can be mined every day. After primary screening and rough processing, they are transported to the space factory for refinement. For processing, five to six million tons of refined raw materials can be obtained every day, which is nearly 2 billion tons a year, and it is estimated to consume 300 million KW of power.

The construction and maintenance of the space city consumes about 80 million KW of power.

The light-energy passenger aircraft on the ground of Azure Star has now occupied more than 70% of the global freight and passenger transportation market, consuming about 250 million KW of energy power, and thousands of light-energy aircraft are in flight every moment.

The construction of Martian cities and the development of Martian resources also consume about 50 million KW of power.

In terms of space transportation and fishing, about 50 million KW of space energy will be consumed.

And other aspects of space energy consumption, and the power of light energy transmitted to the ground, etc., this makes the total power consumption reach 2.5 billion KW, bringing tens of billions of energy revenue every day, enough to offset all aspects cost, but also a slight surplus.

But not enough.

If this is the case, it is still not enough, because it has become saturated, and it is difficult to increase energy consumption. In other words, the increase in energy demand cannot keep up with the expansion of Xingyuan Group, even if Xingyuan Group It has obviously slowed down its development speed, adopted the method of keeping an eye on the market demand, and expanded slowly, with only 20 to 30% more redundancy, but it did not expect that human energy demand is so limited, and the power is less than 3 billion kilowatts. It has reached a certain limit. Only when the population of Huaguo has a substantial increase can it bring about a substantial increase in energy demand.

But the goal of Li Xingyang’s future planning is to increase the effective collection power of space energy to 10 billion KW in the next three years.

Ten years later, the effective collection power will increase to at least 100 billion KW.

Twenty years later, the effectively collected power will be equivalent to the solar light power received by the blue star, that is, it will reach the level of 174 trillion KW, which is only 1/60 trillion of the light energy radiated by the sun.

Now the power of 3 billion KW is too much to use up.

After increasing to hundreds of billions and trillions of KW levels, how to consume them? Is there a way to use them all?

How much does the price have to drop to sell most of it, instead of just wasting it for nothing?

Difficult.

In short, it is extremely difficult, and ordinary people can’t think of a good solution at all, and they can’t imagine it, because such a huge amount of energy, no matter how they are used, it seems impossible to use it up.

But this is not a big problem for Li Xingyang.

He has three countermeasures, which can easily increase the utilization power of energy to tens of billions of KW.

The first way is the “Global Waste Disposal Plan”.

Xingyuan Group is about to set up a professional garbage disposal company, or cooperate with other environmental sanitation companies, and then go to the Sahara Desert in the Philippines to contract a 500,000-square-kilometer uninhabited desert, and then dig out a super The big pit, and then use the light energy to transport the aircraft, and transport the garbage from all over the world to this huge garbage pit. Except for the difficult-to-handle nuclear waste, other garbage can be transported here, no matter how large the amount is, even if it is One billion tons, ten billion tons, plastic waste, rubber, or other waste can be transported here to be piled up.

Then, from the high altitude above the head, a series of giant high-energy beams of light were shot down, heating the garbage on the ground to tens of thousands of degrees, and at this high temperature, not to mention common garbage, even sand and steel would completely melt and even Vaporization can only change from a complex molecular structure to ordinary substances, such as water, carbon dioxide, etc., to achieve complete combustion. Although some sulfides and chlorides will inevitably pollute the air, these harmful Substances will react when they encounter water, and the concentration will naturally decrease, causing less harm to humans.

And this “Global Garbage Disposal Plan”, as long as it is handled properly and the transportation capacity is sufficient, all the garbage from all over the world can be incinerated with light energy, including the garbage in many landfills, which can also be excavated and then passed through the garbage disposal spacecraft. , and take it to the desert pit in the Philippines for disposal, then whether it is Huaguo or other countries, the land originally used to pile up garbage will become a usable land resource, which can then be used to build houses, factories, or For other purposes, this will obviously bring huge benefits, because this kind of landfill can be found everywhere in Huaguo, and there is at least one place around every big city, let alone how much garbage has been piled up. All the garbage is removed and the value of the land in the landfill is at least tens of billions.

Li Xingyang does not need to charge any garbage disposal fees. As long as he can get the land use right of the landfill, he can reap a lot of benefits. He can get many pieces of precious land in big cities, and it can be said I can’t say anything. After all, the landfill is a place that everyone hates and dislikes. Now that the garbage has been processed, the precious land resources have increased, and even the housing prices in the surrounding areas have also increased in value. All parties can benefit. It is called A real win-win.

As for other countries, not only do they have to take over the land, but they also have to charge some garbage disposal fees, otherwise they will continue to live in a harsh environment full of garbage.

Li Xingyang has estimated that as long as the “Global Waste Disposal Plan” can be successfully promoted and implemented, it will bring hundreds of billions of benefits a year. There is no problem, but the energy consumed will be a bit too much, about 200 million KW.

The second method is to fully support the country’s “Light Energy Speeding Car Project”. Starting this year, we will vigorously support the development of light energy flying cars, so that the main mode of transportation for human beings will change from a plane to a more three-dimensional one, from running on the ground to a high-speed flight. , followed by a five-fold and ten-fold increase in energy consumption, and people’s driving costs will increase from 10 cents per kilometer to 50 cents per kilometer.

However, the current electricity price in Huaguo is still about 50 cents per kilowatt-hour. Only during certain periods of low electricity consumption at night, it will be reduced to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour. The average price is still a bit high. Fortunately, most electric vehicles , are equipped with a super photovoltaic power generation system, so the comprehensive driving electricity cost is less than 30 cents.

But after a large number of “energy supply towers” with a height of 300 to 500 meters are built, the space energy of Xingyuan Group will be sent to the “energy supply towers” through energy relay satellites and superconducting cables. The price of electricity will be reduced to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, that is, compared with the current electricity price, it will be directly reduced by 50%. Then the majority of drivers, after purchasing the light-energy speeding car produced by Bimengdi, will be able to drive all day long. Flying around, the cost of use will not be very high, at most two to three cents a kilometer, which is completely within the economical range, driving thousands of kilometers, only two to three hundred yuan, no need to feel heartache, how to drive Just how to open.

besides.

Each giant ‘energy supply tower’ with a height of 500 meters will have a vertical agricultural factory to grow a large number of fruits and vegetables to solve the problem of China’s food self-sufficiency. Not only the large amount of fruits and vegetables produced can meet the The needs of the Chinese people can even be exported to earn income.

Transportation + Agriculture.

Adding these two fields together, if the number of light energy speeding cars in Huaguo increases to one billion in the future, almost every citizen will have one in their name and use it frequently.

In the field of indoor vertical agriculture, one billion tons of grain, fruits and vegetables can be produced every year, which can not only meet the ration needs of all Chinese people, but also be used for feed production, for raising pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc. , with a population of at least 3 billion head, bringing enough meat, egg and milk for the people of Huaguo. In the future, there is no need to worry about food shortage, but the problem of obesity is too serious.

Then the two fields together consume a total of one billion KW of energy, and there is no problem.

There is also a third conventional method, which is to make large-scale chips, let Xingyuan Bingyun chip factory continue to expand its scale, and even put some production processes in the space factory to complete, thereby improving the yield rate of chips, reducing costs, and thus Let the output of 1nm high-end chips be greatly increased to meet the increasingly vigorous chip needs in the market today.

This will not only increase the revenue of Xingyuan Bingyun Company, increase the company’s profits, but also achieve the purpose of increasing energy consumption – obviously the latter is more important to Li Xingyang.

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Chips can bring about an increase in energy consumption?

Doesn’t this go against common sense in people’s minds?

You must know that even a high-end chip of 1 nanometer is the size of a palm. Even if it is running at full load, the power consumption is only three to five kilowatts, which is equivalent to the power consumption of a high-horsepower air conditioner, even if it is used all day long. , I only use less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity a day, and more than 30,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, and I need to pay an electricity bill of less than 10,000 yuan. There is an effect of increasing energy consumption, but it does not seem to be particularly effective, let alone a huge It is impossible for most people to use computer equipment every day, which can only be an ideal situation.

But if artificial intelligence technology is developed on the basis of high-end chips, every family with consumption capacity can assemble a high-performance computer with a computing capacity of at least 10 billion exascale, and keep it turned on 24 hours a day. Use this computer as the “deployment platform” for personal AI assistants, and then let the personal AI assistants continue to learn, improve, and succeed in the accumulated work, so that it can play an increasingly important role in the work, and the subjective initiative will become more and more powerful. It will become stronger and stronger, and continue to be cultivated for ten or twenty years, so that the personal AI assistant will become more and more useful, and its ability will become stronger and stronger, and it can even replace your own role, complete the work you do, and be able to deal with most situations. , let you become more and more relaxed, and even enter the ‘retirement’ state early, but the salary and benefits are still taken, so you don’t have to worry about unemployment.

It’s just that such a small “supercomputer” requires at least ten high-performance CPU chips, and the AI ​​​​assistant has to learn and grow every day, so this computer cannot be turned off, and it has to work at a power consumption of no less than 10KW for a long time , It consumes two to three hundred kilowatt-hours of electricity every day, which is more than one hundred thousand kilowatt-hours a year.

But no way!

In order to make your work easier and easier.

In order to continuously improve and strengthen the personal AI assistant.

High-end 1-nanometer chips must be purchased, and high-performance AI hosts must be assembled, and cannot be shut down all year round to maintain efficient operation, so that personal AI assistants can grow faster and bring more benefits.

If every worker needs such an AI assistant, it means that a high-performance AI host must be equipped with a power consumption of hundreds of kilowatt-hours per day, which lasts for more than ten or decades. The AI ​​assistant continues to grow, and the more it is used, the better it is, and the more it is used, the smarter it is.

So how many workers are there, and how many AI hosts are needed.

It is best to have at least one in every household.

Hundreds of millions of families means hundreds of millions of units.

In this way, it can also bring at least two to three billion KW of long-term power consumption, creating a huge market.

It also allowed Xingyuan Bingyun’s high-end chips to bring huge sales and revenue, and I don’t know how many billions of profits it can make.

But considering that Nan Yibing was in charge of this company, Li Xingyang had no choice but to pick up his mobile phone, make a video call to her, and tell her about it.

“Mr. Nan, the personal AI assistant plan I plan to launch can bring at least tens of billions of high-end 1-nanometer CPU chips to the market, but the production capacity of Xingyuan Bingyun Company is far from enough. The production capacity has been increased by more than ten times, and the good product rate has also increased to more than 90%, in order to eat this huge commercial cake and bring tens of trillions of net profits… Mr. Nan, I don’t know if you have experience in this area Confidence, can you eat such a big cake?”

Li Xingyang looked at Nan Yibing in the video and asked.

At this time, Nan Yibing is already pregnant, and the twins in her belly are six months old, so she is wearing a maternity dress with a big belly, which looks a little thrilling. Fortunately, she asked She asked two relatives from her hometown to help take care of her. Even though she usually has to deal with some company work, she can still handle it.

“No problem, my handsome boss, technology is no longer a problem for our company. The work of expanding production capacity has been done, and the yield rate is also constantly increasing. Although the number of tens of billions is very large, it is the next ten years. Xingyuan Bingyun Company is confident that it will be able to meet the total orders for the year, because the production capacity will be increased by at least tens of hundreds of times after the application of various new technologies. Less.” Nan Yibing said with a confident smile.

“That’s good, I don’t worry if you handle the matter.” Li Xingyang nodded.

“Wait, my handsome boss, in a while, our child will be born, will you come over to see me and the children? Take some time, it’s okay to come over, right?” Nan Yibing looked at he asked, emphasizing the word ‘we’.

“Ahem~”

Li Xingyang coughed violently twice, waved his hands in embarrassment and said, “We’ll talk about this matter when the time comes, and we’ll see when the time comes.”