"BOSS, we have checked it, and there is indeed a problem with the constructed wetland in District 46, the heavy metal content exceeds the normal value, and the dose continues to increase, if we don't come up with an effective solution, we will be in big trouble." Cai Zhiyang, chief engineer of Ambrera Integrated Environment, reported to Ling Shizhe on the situation of the constructed wetland in the chairman's office of the "Water Cube" headquarters.

Also present at the meeting were Alison, President of Ambrera Group, Consultant Foster, and Andy Brown, Vice President and President of Hong Kong Asia Pacific. Grove, and Lawrence, president of Ambrera Integrated Environment.

Since the bear incident a week ago, Ling Shizhe learned from Professor Forrest that there was a problem with his constructed wetland, so Ling Shizhe immediately notified Lawrence and Cai Zhiyang to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the constructed wetland, and a week later the inspection results came out, and the heavy metal content exceeded the normal value.

Constructed wetland is an environmental protection project that Ambrera Integrated Environment is vigorously promoting in North America, more and more people in Europe and the United States have begun to rise in environmental awareness, coupled with the increasingly stringent regulations on factory wastewater discharge in Europe and the United States, the United States is not a chemical enterprise and the petrochemical industry is beginning to face increasing environmental pressure, and the cost of production wastewater treatment is getting higher and higher.

At present, the cost of industrial wastewater treatment has accounted for 30% of the production cost of the enterprise, and even exceeds, according to the statistics of the relevant departments to 1980, the treatment cost of factory wastewater will exceed 40% of the production cost of the enterprise.

In the face of such huge sewage treatment costs, both large and small companies feel unbearable, so some small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe and the United States have begun to transfer their factories to Southeast Asian countries and regions that do not have high environmental protection requirements.

It is easy for small companies to relocate, but it is difficult for large companies to relocate, because they are large local taxpayers, and the local government generally does not approve of their relocation;

Second, these large or extra-large petrochemical companies have created a large number of jobs for the local area, and once they move out, a large number of unemployed people will be left behind. No government can afford it.

In order to keep these large chemical companies, some local governments have joined forces with these chemical companies to put pressure on the White House and Congress. To be employed or to be environmentally friendly!

This is a dilemma, choosing employment, naturally sacrificing the environment; If you choose to go green, you will sacrifice local jobs.

No one wants to be unemployed, and no one wants to live in a trough environment. So the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides came.

Now let's get a job, no, the ecological environment in the United States has become extremely bad, and if the environment is not rectified, the United States will simply not be able to survive in the future.

It is not okay to choose environmental protection, because the large number of unemployed people will further deteriorate the already sluggish economic environment.

How to reconcile the two contradictions has become a major test for the current White House administration and congressmen, and if a proper solution cannot be found, then the industrial transfer of these large chemical enterprises in the United States will become inevitable. The consequence is the hollowing out of American industry, which no one with lofty ideals in the United States wants to see.

Here we have to mention the hollowing out of the future industry in the United States, and the reasons for the hollowing out of the American industry are actually very complex and caused by many factors.

Taking Hong Kong and Taiwan as an example, the monthly salary of American workers is 20 times that of workers in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 15 times that of Thai workers, and Canada is a little better. However, the gap in labor costs is still very large.

If we compare the labor of the mainland after the reopening, the labor cost of the United States and China can be pulled to a gap of 50 times.

Enterprises are pursuing profits, such a large labor cost gap, which company does not want to open factories in countries and regions with lower labor?

The second is. Trade unions are also a huge promoter of the hollowing out of the US industry, the difference in labor costs between the two places is already large, in the current full international competition environment, the US enterprises are facing great competitive pressure, at this time not only do not actively reconcile the direct contradictions between enterprises and workers, but also add fuel to the flames to blackmail enterprises. Higher salaries, higher benefits, more paid time off, etc., strike if you don't agree, these demanding demands are simply not affordable for enterprises.

In order to survive, in order to seek greater profits, enterprises have closed factories and built new factories in developing countries, which not only have low labor costs, but also introduce various preferential policies in order to attract enterprises from developed countries to invest locally, and can also allow workers to work overtime, and enterprises do not have to worry about local trade unions, as long as you pay overtime wages on time, which is simply an irresistible temptation for American companies.

The third is the pressure of environmental protection, like the Chinese economy in later generations, Europe and the United States have historically taken the road of industrial development of "pollution first, then treatment", and now the traditional industry of the United States has basically reached the top, the national strength of the United States has been very strong, and it is time to govern the environment.

But at this time, contradictions will appear, the governance environment will face unemployment, and if the United States is not governed, the state environment will deteriorate even more, and if it continues like this, it will eventually face the risk of ecological disaster.

At a time when both sides were in a dilemma, Ambrera Integrated Environment came to the U.S. government and proposed to the U.S. government a solution for comprehensive industrial and domestic wastewater treatment that is only available in the 21st century.

This water treatment technology was first proposed by Germany in the 90s, and within two years of the merger of Germany, there was a pound crisis, and the Germans were deeply aware that if Germany did not change, it was likely that they would be next.

The best way to change is to find a new economic growth point for Germany, the next economic growth point for the United States is the Internet, Denmark for biogas treatment technology, the Netherlands for wind power technology, and what does Germany have?

The car is counted as one, but the German car is facing fierce competition from Japanese cars, and the car industry in other European countries is in competition with the German car, so the car is not a good choice.

Solar power generation, this is a good project, but the problem is that the current photovoltaic power generation technology is not mature, compared with the traditional thermal power, photovoltaic power generation efficiency is low, the cost is also very high, he can only be used as one of the future energy development, but not now.

At last. After searching and searching, they finally found their advantageous project, which is industrial and domestic wastewater treatment - that is, wastewater anaerobic biological treatment technology.

This technology sounds very mysterious now, but to people of the twenty-first century. This technology has long been rotten.

The core of anaerobic biological treatment of wastewater is the IC anaerobic tower, which is the core equipment of wastewater treatment and one of the powerful treatment methods of organic wastewater, wastewater treatment in the twentieth century, whether it is industrial or domestic sewage. All wastewater treatment plants are wastewater treatment technologies built with anaerobic towers as the center.

This technology was first developed in the fifties, when anaerobic towers were mostly used to treat sludge, organic waste and some high-concentration organic wastewater in municipal sewage treatment plants.

But since the 70s of the 20th century, the world's energy shortage has become increasingly prominent, and the wastewater anaerobic technology that can produce energy has begun to attract people's attention, so the anaerobic tower sewage treatment technology has been developed rapidly, and various new processes and equipment have greatly improved the amount of activated sludge in the anaerobic reactor, so that the treatment time is greatly shortened and the efficiency is improved. In the nineties, Germany took the lead in developing the second generation of anaerobic towers, namely IC anaerobic biological treatment towers, which can not only treat organic sewage, but also inorganic sewage, and the cost of wastewater treatment is more than 90% lower than that of the first generation, and the treatment efficiency is three times higher than that of the first generation.

By 2006, Germany had successfully developed the third generation of anaerobic tower and three-phase separator sewage treatment technology, which made Germany the absolute hegemon of the global sewage treatment industry.

After more than 20 years of exploration of sewage treatment, Germany has established a complete set of sewage treatment technology standards. In fact, a complete set of sewage treatment standards in the later Republic was formulated with reference to the German sewage treatment standards.

Compared with the second generation, the third generation of sewage treatment technology has a lower cost of sewage treatment. It is more than 70% lower than the second generation, the efficiency is five times higher than that of the second generation, and the purity of the treated sewage is not bad at all compared with the pure water of the European Union.

It can be said that the third generation of anaerobic biological treatment technology. It is the future development direction of sewage treatment in the 20th century, and Germany has maintained a rapid GDP growth of more than 10% for 15 consecutive years since the nineties, relying on complete sets of export sewage treatment equipment and export sewage treatment standards.

Don't look at China's economic growth of more than 8% per year after the reopening, and even more than 10% of the economic growth in some areas, but the gold content of China's GDP growth is simply incomparable with Germany.

Some people may ask, isn't it just to buy a complete set of wastewater treatment equipment? What's so strange, our company is also producing this thing, and there are many companies in China doing it, why haven't they obtained such high economic benefits?

The main reason lies in the biodegradable quality of sewage treatment, you must first understand why Germany exports a large number of second- and third-generation sewage treatment equipment manufacturing technology and sewage treatment standards to China and other countries, because sewage treatment you not only have equipment, but also biodegradable, which is a kind of microorganism that specializes in treating sewage, and it is with him that sewage will become pure water.

It is a consumable, every once in a while, the sewage treatment plant has to add biodegradable substances to the sewage pool and anaerobic towers, and the biodegradable substances are not free, they have to pay for them, the price is not cheap at all, and a bucket of biodegradable material is thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, and the biodegradable material is as high as 50,000 US dollars a barrel.

Think about how much wastewater human beings produce every day, how much industrial wastewater is produced by factories all over the world every day, Germany exports sewage standards, and exports sewage equipment manufacturing technology, once you use and form a habit of use, you have to use biodegradable substances every day, monthly, and every year, but the standards are German, the technology is German, and the biodegradable substances produced by other countries or companies are not good at all, you can only spend money to buy them from Germany, and the manufacturing technology of biodegradable substances is never open to the outside world.

Mobil Oil, for example, has seven mega-petrochemical industrial parks around the world, each covering an area of more than 1,300 square kilometers, which is larger than Hong Kong's area (1,100 square kilometres), and 13 large-scale chemical plant industrial parks, and its annual sewage treatment funding is not less than US$8 billion.

These wastewater treatment plants are all provided by Germany, and all biodegradable materials are purchased from Germany.

Think about it, just one company can make many German enterprises full, not to mention other petrochemical plants, Amoco Oil, Exxon Oil, Chevron Oil, British Shell Oil, the scale of any oil company is not smaller than PetroChina, Sinopec, through the export of complete sets of sewage treatment equipment manufacturing technology, the output of sewage treatment standards, and then eat all the sewage treatment of these companies, you calculate, how much money will Germany make every year?

This is only oil, not counting other chemical plants, as well as semiconductor chip factories or wafer preparation factories are also large manufacturers of sewage, don't think that semiconductors are high-tech and there is no pollution, to tell you, the pollution produced by semiconductor factories is 20 times more serious than the pollution produced by chemical plants, and it is the most difficult to treat inorganic sewage.

Arsenic, as we all know, was called arsenic in ancient times, and it is dead at the entrance, and ultra-high-purity arsenic is used in the production process of semiconductor chips, with a purity of up to 7 9 decimal places, and such high-purity arsenic can kill people with only a few tenths of a milligram.

Arsenic is only one of the chemical raw materials used in the production of semiconductor chips, and there are many chemicals that are more toxic than arsenic.

Think about it, if the sewage discharged from the chip factory is discharged directly without treatment, how much ecological disaster will it cause once the ultra-lethal sewage pollutes the river or groundwater?

The sewage treatment of the chip factory is the most difficult and the most expensive of all sewage treatment, a barrel of biodegradable material costs 50,000 US dollars, and a one-time sewage treatment requires many barrels of biodegradable material.

Fortunately, Ling Shizhe's semiconductor manufacturing process adopts the second-generation CMOS process, that is, the N-well CMOS process (the first-generation CMOS process is the P-well CMOS process), and its biggest advantage is that compared with other NMOS or PMOS processes, the N-well CMOS process produces very little sewage in the chip manufacturing process, and the toxicity of the sewage is also very low, because with the N-well CMOS chip manufacturing process, in the chip production process, the types and amounts of highly toxic compounds used are very small. There are even no use at all, so although the sewage it produces is more difficult to treat, but because the amount of sewage is small, the toxicity of the sewage is not too large, so it does not cost much to treat, compared with other semiconductor processes, CMOS is the most environmentally friendly chip production process. (To be continued.) )