Chapter 864: The scenery is not beautiful
The purified air was plucked by the wind deflector to sweep through the room, blowing away the strange smell that permeated it.
The body regained control, the flush on her face dissipated, and the woman's consciousness walked out of the state of the sage and holy Buddha. Turning to look at the person next to her, the other party's eyes were closed, but she knew that he was not asleep at all, and she couldn't help but want to tease.
Sure enough, before the tips of the hair pinched by his fingertips reached the tip of his nose, the man opened his eyes and turned his head to look at her: "Are you okay now?
The woman pushed him, but she was pushed down by the reaction force, "Sleep obediently, don't think about it!"
Saying that, she didn't mean to turn off the lights and sleep, and looked at the hand-painted blue sky on the ceiling in a daze.
The man didn't ask the reason, closed his eyes and continued to read the paper, the sage has a lot of time and thoughts, and his thinking is clear, and it is the most suitable for studying esoteric theories.
In this way, one opened his eyes to look at the sky and the other closed his eyes to read the text, and the room fell silent again, but the reason was a little different from just now.
After reading the paper, Atletico who felt that he had gained a little bit opened his eyes, but found that the ceiling light in the bedroom was still on, and his wife did not close her eyes and sleep as usual, so she couldn't help but ask curiously: "What's the matter? Do you want to sleep again?"
"Don't bother me, the old lady is thinking about human affairs!" the woman refused.
However, the next sentence revealed her true intentions, Tang Jiayi shook her hand, "I don't want to move now, if you want to, come up and move yourself!"
"Then I'll do it first," Atletico laughed and deliberately mispronounced a word, then reached out and grabbed a basic point and shook it and asked, "What the hell are you thinking? ”
"It's nothing," Tang Jiayi responded casually, and suddenly asked, "You say, do you want to plant trees in Jiajing?"
"Of course, energy conservation and emission reduction are always good things. You can do what you want, as long as you don't rush to do it quickly," Atletico said.
It's a pity that the saliva that slipped from the corners of her lips really ruined the image, Tang Jiayi chuckled, and reached out to wrap her arms around his neck, "Forget it, don't talk about it, I'll just think about it." ”
Half an hour later, the room was quiet again, and Atletico finally threw out the question that had been held back for a long time, "Why did you think of a carbon sink?"
The latter gave her a blank look, "Didn't you learn it from you?"
Atletico subconsciously objected, "The situation of the good place and the bees is different. Well, it doesn't seem to make a difference, Jiajing is now also a well-known food brand, and it is also a good thing to increase investment in greening in environmental protection. However, we must find experts to make plans, and don't just work hard like us, causing a lot of forest products to be not up to standard, and get twice the result with half the effort. ”
"Hehe, you're cheap, hey!" Tang Jiayi stretched out her hand to push away someone who was lying on her body, "It's okay to deceive others, but I know it clearly, when you decided to plant trees, the country had not yet launched the carbon emission trading pilot, and it was last year that you decided to comprehensively promote carbon trading." If it weren't for the Greenpeace gang who provoked you, you probably wouldn't have thought of getting certified by now, and you have to thank people for that!"
As Tang Jiayi said, when he first proposed the "Big Tree Plan", he really didn't think about this aspect, it was purely because he didn't know how to spend it because he had more money, and then he patted his head to plant trees.
As the bee system camp gradually gets better, the "tree debt" brought by the promise of "you buy the product, I plant the tree" is also increasing. In order to avoid getting yourself into it, the content related to the "Big Tree Project" is displayed more and more backward on the official website, and can only be seen on the purchase page and management page of specific products, which is not at all inconspicuous. However, the tree planting campaign has not stopped, and the area of plantations under the name of bees is also increasing, which cannot be compared with the state-owned forest farms that sit on several counties, but it is absolutely unique among IT companies.
Then Greenpeace, a well-known environmental NGO (non-governmental organization), jumped in and was pressed to the ground by Atletico Madrid.
In order to advocate energy conservation and emission reduction, they set their sights on the IT industry, and released the "CLIG" report at the beginning of each year, which comprehensively selects the "cleanest data center" in the IT field according to the performance of each company in the application and promotion of new energy.
Apple has been ranked No. 1 for three consecutive years due to its commitment to build its own photovoltaic power plants and environmentally friendly paper forests, along with Google and FAC and Sitch, a data center operator that is keen to buy clean energy.
Cloud computing giants Amazon, IBM and Oracle are rated C, C and D because they do not use wind and solar power generation, and there are only two D's in Asia, and the rest are all the lowest F, including the bee network with opaque policies and the use of thermal power and nuclear power.
Founded in 1969 as the "Don't Create a Tsunami Committee" to oppose the Alaska nuclear test, Greenpeace has gradually expanded into the field of environmental protection and gradually become a pioneer in anti-nuclear and anti-GMO propaganda. One-seventh of the energy obtained by the Bee Data Center from the national grid comes from the Ningde nuclear power plant, and the "clean score" is naturally not high.
For the evaluation of the bottom, Atletico Madrid is naturally unconvinced. His solution is to sort out the property rights of his plantations, inject all of them into green forestry, and then apply for a large number of forestry carbon sink projects, and then sell the certified carbon reduction indicators to the bee network through the voluntary emission reduction mechanism (CCER) trading market, and directly smash the latter's carbon emission value to zero.
Green Field and Bee Network both belong to the Bee Group, and this transaction is completely left-handed to right-handed, although reluctantly, it also had to issue a statement to express its appreciation for Bee Network's efforts, raising its rating to the same D grade as Alibaba. It has also allowed Greenfield Forestry to find business opportunities and become a star seller in the CCER market, and the remaining carbon indicators can be sold here, which can be regarded as finding a new way to generate income.
"I won't thank them," Atletico snorted, "Hehe, Comrade Guanhai has three months to go, and the 'climate legacy' of the Paris Agreement is likely to be lost, and whether these American companies will actively invest in clean energy at that time is a matter of two questions." Lao Te is also a person who understands, if you let carbon emissions tie your hands and feet, how can you happily play Made in America? How can you protect jobs and promote votes?"
"He also said that he would build the Great Wall on the U.S.-Mexico border," Tang Jiayi disagreed, "I remember that the 'Paris Agreement' seems to have a four-year waiting period, right? It will officially expire on the 4th of next month, and even if he is really elected on the 8th of next month, if he wants to withdraw, he will have to wait until he wins re-election." ”
"Who is right?" Atletico grinned, "The Republican Party and the industrial capital behind it have been resisting this, maybe they will forcibly withdraw if they are in a hurry, Lao Tzu is the first in the world, you are not convinced to bite me!"
The "Paris Agreement" is the latest component of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was signed by Republican President George H.W. Bush in '92, but withdrew from the "Kyoto Protocol" signed by Democratic Clinton in '98 after Bush Jr. came to power in '01. The latter stipulates in the form of a treaty that the world's major industrial countries have the responsibility to continuously reduce carbon dioxide emissions, so as to slow down or even eliminate the threat of global warming to human society. The Paris Agreement goes a step further, with developed and underdeveloped countries reaching a compromise on their share of emissions reductions.
In order to meet emission reduction targets, carbon markets have emerged. Countries allow companies to trade and sell the carbon dioxide emissions reduced by various methods in the form of "emission allowances" in the carbon market, so that enterprises with environmental protection potential can protect the environment first, thereby driving global emission reduction.
The reason why wind power and photovoltaic power generation have developed rapidly in recent years is largely due to the light of the general trend of "emission reduction".
Allowances are not trading very actively, and countries are afraid and unwilling to impose blanket cuts on emissions, but are instead tightening their targets on an annual basis. Most enterprises can easily pass the test by eliminating backward production capacity, technological transformation, self-power generation and other methods, and there are not many that run to the market to purchase quotas. However, this does not affect the bullish carbon market of capital, and then rush into the new energy sector under the stimulus of profit expectations.
Although hydropower and nuclear power do not produce carbon dioxide emissions, the cost of power generation is lower than the first two, hydropower is even lower than thermal power, but the former has environmental costs and the latter has safety risks, and then these two types of power are discriminated against by the market, and carbon quota trading gives preference to wind and solar enterprises.
As for the forestry carbon sink engaged in by Lvye Forestry, it is an emission reduction project of the agricultural mouth, and the annual carbon dioxide absorption of the forest land is determined after scientific calculation by an authoritative organization, forming a "forestry carbon sink ownership" to be sold in the trading market. Compared with landscape projects, trees take years to grow, and the plate is large, the time is long, and the return is slow, resulting in a small interest in social capital. There are more than 2,000 "index sellers" in the domestic CCER market, of which nearly 500 are wind power, nearly 300 are photovoltaics, but no more than 100 are forest carbon, and half have only joined in the last six months.
"But there is also a benefit to forest carbon, as the absorption of carbon dioxide by trees is carried out on a daily basis, and once certified, there is no worries for life. ”
"Isn't this nonsense? Of course photosynthesis goes on every day, what the hell do you want to say?"
"Ahem," Atletico choked unceremoniously by his wife, coughed twice to relieve the embarrassment, and then said: "I'm laughing at those scenery companies that are working hard to build a field, and now they are all not beautiful." ”
Thanks to policy subsidies, a large amount of capital has poured into the field of wind power and photovoltaics, and the installed capacity of wind power has surpassed that of the United States in 10 years, and now it has doubled by more than 100 million kilowatts, and the scale of photovoltaic has also surged to 50 million kilowatts.
But the problem is that these installed capacities are all in plateau areas with high altitude (strong sunshine), strong winds, sparsely populated land and low prices, such as Jibei, Mengxi, Ningganxin, Qinghai-Tibet, Sichuan and other places. Wind power generation in these places has long exceeded local demand, and can only be transported across regions through ultra-high-voltage trunk lines. However, the technical difficulties of the transmission trunk line, the long construction period, the large investment, and the trouble of coordination through the state and county, resulting in the construction speed seriously lagging behind the power plant that is completed when the equipment is connected to the line.
Photovoltaic projects have power fluctuations, more power generation at noon on sunny days, less power generation on rainy days, and no power generation at night, and wind power also has the problem of wind fluctuations, which usually need to be paired with lead-acid battery packs or lithium-ion battery packs to store excess power in case of shortage. If it is directly connected to the grid for power supply, it can save this part of the cost, but it will bring a lot of trouble to the power grid, and when the supply and demand are equal, everything is easy to say, you can sacrifice the interests of thermal power, let the latter adjust the output power to help "peak regulation", but if the supply is oversupply, the power grid will shout "I can't accept it!" and decisively refuse.
Then the wind power companies located in remote areas are tragic, from the east to the west of many large wind power provinces have a wind curtailment rate ranging from 20-40%, and Ganxin also has a 20-30% curtailment rate, the waste of resources is shocking. After all, the rabbit is different from the American, the latter is a two-ocean country, with New York, Atlanta, and Houston in the east, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in the west.
For example, Reno County, Nevada, which is favored by Apple, is only separated by a Sierra Nevada mountain range from the San Francisco area, where Silicon Valley is located. The rugged mountains make it difficult for the people of Reno to rely on divorce business to get by, but it also brings the resource advantages of low temperature and strong light to the local area, attracting IT companies to put data centers there in order to save air conditioning and refrigeration costs, and the construction of a photovoltaic farm next to it even saves electricity costs.
It is much easier for optical cables to climb mountains than cables, at least there is no need to build a vast number of tall towers, and it is completely possible to bury the landmarks shallowly, so Apple has taken a fancy to it, repeatedly expanding the Reno data center, and supporting the establishment of photovoltaic self-generation projects.
Because of users, the active time of the data center is usually from day to midnight, and photovoltaic power generation is directly used during the day, and battery backup or backup lines are used at night, and the two can barely complement each other.
"Those wind power companies that are working hard and fast, in fact, are trying to grab the tuyere resources, and the power grid does not charge the big deal to build their own factories to produce hydrogen by electrolysis, and they can use it no matter what. The ones who are really eliminated are those small and medium-sized capitals, and they are destined to be eliminated if they can't survive the cold winter," Manager Tang has also studied this aspect and has some understanding of the inside story.
"The cost is dear, there is no state subsidy if it is not connected to the grid, it is better to use thermal power. ”
"The cost will come down, and Greenpeace will help you praise it," Tang Jiayi said: "I know that the bee network has already sent people to Zhongwei and Zhangbei to investigate, and in the future, they will either be neighbors with Ali or be Amazon's opponents." You've been acting for a long time, are you embarrassed that your words and deeds are inconsistent?"
Atletico smiled, "Follow the leading boss, you can't go wrong after all." ”