Desalination is a huge industry in Shat, with the state-owned desalination company alone operating 36 desalination facilities. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sat itself is also the world's largest producer of desalinated seawater, accounting for 18% of the world's production. In 2012, the total production of seawater desalination in Sand was 955 million cubic meters, an increase of 6.3% compared to 2011. Relevant data show that the current investment in the field of seawater desalination has reached 163 billion riyals (about 43.5 billion US dollars), a number of projects under construction have been put into operation, will further increase the supply of desalination, is expected in 2014 the daily output of seawater desalination will reach 5.7 million cubic meters.

The demand for the desalination industry is also increasing with the growth of the population, with the population growth rate of 2.5% and the growth rate of water demand as high as 8.8%, which forces the government to invest more money in the development of the desalination industry. For foreign capital to invest in the desalination industry, the government of Sat welcomes it.

"I wonder how large a desalination plant your company plans to invest in?" Salman couldn't help but ask, he believed that the project that the world's richest man came to talk about in person would definitely not be small.

Lu Yang did not answer positively, but said very arrogantly: "The size of the investment depends on the needs of your country!" ”

Rao is Salman is high and powerful, and when he heard Lu Yang's words, he couldn't help but be stunned. He now seriously doubted that Lu Yang was lying to him. You must know that the per capita water consumption of Sand is second only to rice and Canada, ranking third in the world. The wealthy Shatters know how to enjoy life, and their water consumption is constantly increasing. If calculated according to demand, even if the existing desalination industry is doubled, the sanders can consume it.

"Mr. Lu, I don't understand what you mean, can you explain?" Salman was suspicious, and his tone was gentle.

Lu Yang smiled: "Your Highness, don't have any doubts, I naturally have my reasons for saying this." As far as I know, the current daily production of seawater desalination in your country is about 2.6 million cubic meters, I don't know right? ”

Salman nodded, it's no secret.

"If I say that I can double this number in half a year, what does Your Highness think?" Lu Yang looked at Salman and said softly.

Salman was stunned for a moment as if he had been shocked, calm as him, and he also panicked at this time, doubling in half a year? If the person who spoke was not the richest man in the world, and if it were not for this scientific and technological genius who is known as the once in a century of mankind, Salman would have asked someone to drive him out.

Seeing him like this, Lu Yang smiled proudly, it is not an easy thing to be able to make Shat's **** so out of shape.

"Although our company started with intelligent electronic technology, there are also some research results in other fields. Desalination technology is one of them. Lu Yang explained with a smile, "With our current technology, a desalination plant with an investment of 600 million US dollars can produce 400,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day, and even if you count the relevant supporting facilities, the daily output of 400,000 cubic meters of fresh water will not exceed 1 billion US dollars." It only takes 7 of these desalination plants to double your country's current freshwater production! ”

What Lu Yang said was true and false. The breakthrough in technology is absolutely true. And this breakthrough is very big, because the desalination technology mentioned by Lu Yang no longer belongs to the category of secondary technology, but tertiary technology.

Among the secondary technologies, there are also seawater desalination technologies, but there is a very big gap between them and the tertiary technologies in terms of output and cost. For a desalination plant of the same size, the output of the second-level technology is less than one-tenth of that of the third-level technology, and the cost is 1.5 times higher than that of the third-level technology.

As for the falsehood in Lu Yang's words, it is a few data. First, investing in what he calls a desalination plant would require less than $100 million in investment, and second, a desalination plant of this size has a peak production capacity of 1 million cubic meters per day. In terms of Sart's current water consumption, it only needs to invest less than US$2 billion to solve its national water problem.

Mr. Lu's figures really scared Salman, who as deputy prime minister, was all too clear about his country's investment in the desalination industry. If calculated according to the input-output ratio, the investment of 1 million cubic meters of fresh water per day is about 18 billion US dollars, of course, this is only a macro data, not necessarily accurate. However, there are also things to be seen.

Compare this data with the data Lu Yang said, according to Lu Yang's calculation, the daily investment of 1 million cubic meters of fresh water production is 2.5 billion US dollars. 2.5 billion vs. 18 billion, this gap is too big, and it is unbelievable.

If Salman had known that the real stats were 1 to 180, he would have collapsed with joy.

"Mr. Lu, is what you said true?" Salman suppressed the excitement in his heart, and asked with a trembling corner of his mouth.

"Your Highness, I sincerely want to invest in your country, and I will never deceive you with false data." Lu Yang responded with a smile.

"On behalf of the Sand Kingdom, I welcome your investment!" Salman stood up and said very solemnly, "If Mr. Lu can solve our country's water problem, you will gain the friendship of the entire Alaper world!" ”

Lu Yang also got up and said, "It's my honor to be able to get the friendship of the nobles!" I don't think Your Highness will regret your decision today. ”

In the afternoon, the technical team led by Lu Yang showed Salman their unique technology. In tertiary civilizations, desalination is already very cheap, and its price is even lower than that of tap water. The tertiary technology desalination is very fast, nearly 20 times faster than the current state-of-the-art technology. The problem of low cost, large output, and shortage of fresh water resources in the future has basically been solved.

"It's incredible!" Salman watched the whole process carefully, "I am not modest to say that my country is at the world's leading level in the research and development of seawater desalination technology, but I am still very surprised to see your Huaxia technology." I don't know what technology you're using, but it's certainly much more advanced than what you have. Mr. Lu, I wonder if this technology can be transferred? ”

Lu Yang shook his head resolutely, what are you kidding, this is the first third-level technology he bought, besides, how big is the market for seawater desalination, and it can also expand the influence of Tianxin Group, how can he transfer technology?

Despite knowing the answer, Salman couldn't help but be disappointed because desalination was too important for Shat.

"Your Highness don't be disappointed, although I can't transfer technology, I am willing to establish a joint venture with your country to establish a desalination plant." Lu Yang comforted.

Joint venture?

Salman smiled again, so that although Shat could not have this technology, it was also a good thing that he could enjoy its convenience. Lu Yang's promise also dispelled Salman's other fear, and after seeing the technology displayed by Tianxin Group, Salman knew that their own desalination plant could no longer keep up with the times and would soon be phased out. However, seawater desalination accounts for too much of their country's water resources, and Salman is not at ease if a Chinese in Luyang controls the industry.

Lu Yang also has no ambition to control the other party's fresh water resources, he came here to open up the Alapo market, expand the influence of Tianxin Group, and find sales for other products of Tianxin Group, such as cars and helicopters.

Under this purpose, Lu Yang also has a deeper purpose, that is, to use the cover of the seawater desalination plant to extract the deuterium needed by the Xingtian mecha from the seawater.

The proposal for the joint venture was quickly approved by the Sat government, and the cooperation entered the substantive stage. In the next few days, Lu Yang inspected the Sat Desalination Company, which the government wanted to ask them to upgrade its technology.

"With our current technology, it only takes half a year to complete the transformation of the desalination company. However, the cost of renovation is not low, I have preliminarily calculated, 36 desalination plants, the renovation cost is more than 18 billion US dollars. After the inspection, Lu Yang said to Salman.

Despite his wealth, $18 billion is not a small amount. Salman frowned and said: "Mr. Lu said that the cost of building a desalination plant is about 600 million US dollars, why is the cost of upgrading more than 500 million US dollars?" ”

Lu Yang said: "Your Highness has misunderstood, in terms of the conditions of these factories, the cost of renovation and upgrading and reconstruction is indeed not much different. Most of the facilities here are useless for the new desalination technology, and the renovation is equivalent to rebuilding. The only thing that can be used is probably the related supporting facilities, and in this regard, the renovation will save about $15 billion compared to the reconstruction, and this is still excluding the time factor. ”

Salman thought about it, and it is indeed beneficial to renovate rather than rebuild, not only to shorten the time, but also to save the investment in supporting facilities.

"Thanks to our technical transformation, the desalination company has been able to increase its daily production by two to three times, and there is no problem in reaching 6 million cubic meters of fresh water per day by 2013. I am confident that your country's water problem will be greatly alleviated. Lu Yang said with a smile.

Lu Yang's words touched Salman, last year's desalination output was 955 million cubic meters, if calculated according to the daily output of 6 million cubic meters, the annual output is close to 2.2 billion cubic meters, more than double last year, can fully meet the domestic water demand. Thinking about it this way, 18 billion US dollars is not much, and before that, Shate has invested more than 50 billion.

With King Shad seriously ill, Salman was largely able to make decisions on his behalf. With the support of the royal family, the negotiations between Tianxin Group and the Sat government went very smoothly. In the end, the two sides reached an agreement to jointly establish the world's largest desalination company based on the original Shate desalination company. Tianxin Group injected US$15 billion into the desalination company and acquired a 30% stake in it. At a price of US$18 billion, the newly formed desalination company asked Tianxin Group to upgrade and transform the technology of the original desalination plant.

In this way, it is equivalent to Lu Yang obtaining a 30% stake in the Sand Seawater Desalination Company with a capital of 2.4 billion US dollars.

The cost of technological transformation is not as high as Lu Yang said, Lu Yang now has the most advanced technology in the world, of course, it cannot be sold cheaply. Besides, Shat is notoriously rich, who will he slaughter if he doesn't slaughter it? At this point, Lu Yang is still relatively ruthless, and the entire project has a profit of almost 15 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the annual profit of Tianxin Group last year, a real windfall profit.

After the first agreement was signed, Lu Yang signed a second agreement with Salman, in which Tianxin Group granted the exclusive right to use the new technology of the newly established desalination company at a very low price, which made Salman ecstatic. You must know that it is not the Shat family that is short of water in the world, but the local tyrant countries around it who are not short of water. With the exclusive right to use the new technology, the desalination company can occupy the global desalination market with a great cost advantage, and perhaps in the future, the desalination industry will become one of the pillar industries of Shate.

In addition to the joy, Salman kept his composure, he knew that Lu Yang would not send him money for no reason. Sure enough, Lu Yang put forward some conditions later, including allowing Tianxin Group to invest in Shate oilfield, telecommunications, real estate and other industries. In this regard, Salman readily agreed, compared with what he got, Lu Yang's requirements are not high.

In order to express his gratitude to Lu Yang, Salman also gave Lu Yang a set of manors. As a return gift, Lu Yang gave him a flashing helicopter, and he didn't mean to advertise through the other party. (To be continued.) )