Chapter 172: Feasibility of Offshore Floating Platforms

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After all, the cost of building such a huge floating platform at sea is equivalent to several aircraft carriers. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

In addition, due to the huge size, expensive cost, and speed of this thing, if this thing is deployed in the Asia-Pacific region and other regions, it will be completely a sea mobile target.

In the event of a war, the first thing to do is to destroy such a target, and in the event of the loss of such a floating platform at sea, the cost will be too great.

However, multiple aircraft carrier battle groups are different, because the various survivability capabilities of multiple aircraft carrier battle groups are much larger than such a floating platform at sea, and even if one aircraft carrier battle group is destroyed, there are other aircraft carrier battle groups, which can continue to maintain effective combat effectiveness.

Therefore, although the United States was the first to have this idea, it was abandoned by them because of strategic needs and other factors.

And our country used to think about this, but now with this super extruded material developed by Huanyu Company, it is completely different.

First of all, the strength and hardness of this material are comparable to ordinary steel, and it also has similar buoyancy as foam, and at the same time, it is also fireproof and has strong corrosion resistance.

These advantages also make the original unworkable offshore floating platform become very feasible, and it is also very practical, because our country's national conditions and policies are only defense, not external expansion, so it is enough to ensure the national defense and security of their own territorial waters.

In addition, this super puffed material itself has strong buoyancy, fireproof, and high temperature resistance, so even if it is attacked by missiles, it is at most a hole.

It is very difficult to destroy it completely.

And even if a few large holes are pierced, they can be quickly repaired with new materials.

Therefore, the shortcomings of the slow speed of this offshore floating platform can also be skipped, and without this shortcoming, the rest is naturally a variety of advantages.

In addition, the technology associated with building offshore floating platforms with this super-puffed material is much simpler than that of aircraft carriers.

And the speed is also many times faster than the speed of building an aircraft carrier, for example, a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier may take 6 years at the earliest, so the construction of a floating platform ten times larger than the aircraft carrier, if the speed is fast, may be able to be completed in a year.

And such a floating platform at sea, which is ten times larger than an aircraft carrier, has great combat effectiveness and strategic significance.

It can be said that only one such offshore floating platform deployed in the South China Sea is enough to ensure various territorial security issues in the entire South China Sea, as well as in the waters of all islands.

Because such a large floating platform on the sea is completely a small mobile military base at sea!

After the discussion was over, many senior leaders in the capital found Yang Yu and began to negotiate with him about this super puffed material.

"Now the military plans to use this super puffed material to build a floating platform for military purposes, and I also plan to use this material to build an island, so that the cost of materials can be slightly reduced. ”

Subsequently, after much consideration, Yang Yu decided to provide 10 million cubic meters of super extruded materials to the military within a year at a price of 5,000 cubic meters at the 'cost price' of 5,000 cubic meters.

Yang Yu's choice to quote the price to the military 10 times less than before was also considered, because such a price is more in line with normal, not only can the military accept it, but he himself will use it to build ships and build the private island he plans next, which is relatively acceptable.

There is also the output of Yang Yu's current factory to produce this super material, which is not at all to worry about, with the scale of his expanded factory, in addition to meeting the production needs of other industries, it can produce more than one billion cubic meters of this super extruded material every year.

And if necessary, he can continue to exchange equipment to expand production.

In terms of manufacturing costs, it can also be appropriately reduced on the basis of the original 300 cubic meters.

So now Yang Yu sells it to the military at a price of 5,000 cubic meters, which is already a very profitable one, and such a price is also within the range accepted by the military.

The price of the 10 million cubic meters of materials, that is, 50 billion yuan, if a series of floating platforms and military bases are to be built, the military needs to invest at least more than 100 billion yuan.

However, such an investment is completely worthwhile for the military, because once this series of military bases and floating platforms at sea is built, it will be enough to ensure the needs of our country to maintain national defense and security.

After all, now Yang Yu promised to provide the military with 10 million cubic meters of materials, which is enough for the military to build a super-large floating offshore platform.

It can even take advantage of the excellent properties of these materials to build some military bases and airport facilities on some islands in the South China Sea, so as to more effectively ensure control of the South China Sea.

If it is necessary to meet more distant military deployments in the future, then it is enough to continue to build some aircraft carrier battle groups in the future and deploy them to the far sea.

In order to realize his own private island construction plan, Yang Yu also put forward a small request to the high-level, that is, he hopes to obtain some nuclear materials for the construction of some marine nuclear power plants.

That is, a nuclear power plant is built on a large ship, which can also be seen as a nuclear-powered 'aircraft carrier'.

Because the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier itself can actually be used as an 'offshore power station', such as the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States, it is equipped with two small nuclear reactors with a total output of about 260,000 horsepower.

The success rate of 260,000 horsepower conversion is about 190,000 kilowatts, such an output power, if used to generate electricity, can generate 190,000 kilowatts of electricity in one hour, such a power generation, to meet a city with a population of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, all the electricity demand is no problem.

In fact, the idea of building a nuclear power plant at sea has been around for a long time, but the cost is too high and the practicality is not strong, so this idea is just an idea.

And now that Yang Yu has plans to build a private island, he naturally needs to consider the energy aspect.

Because if you use fuel oil as power generation, the cost is too high, and only nuclear power generation is the best option.

The relevant technology of nuclear power generation, those senior technicians recruited by Yang Yu have long mastered it, and it is currently the world's most advanced nuclear power utilization technology.

For example, the world's existing nuclear power plants are still in the third generation of nuclear power facilities, and although the fourth generation of nuclear power technology is already available, it has not been officially put into use.