Chapter 52: Low cost

Chapter 52

The next day, Song Ming appeared in the basement of the midnight black cat early, and not far away, Caroline and Angeles were watching Song Ming test the changes in his body.

Song Ming, who was standing there, quietly felt the changes in his body, and his strength score of up to 36 points indicated that he had the strength equivalent to the peak state of nearly 4 adult males, compared with his previous weak body, such a strengthening effect was too obvious, so that Song Ming's most intuitive feeling was that his body was full of explosive power - that strength had even surpassed that of professionally trained combat athletes!

The feeling of power flowing through the muscles, ready to erupt, was intoxicating, and he now kind of understood those fitness enthusiasts.

He walked forward, double. The strength in the legs naturally gushes out, and with the cooperation of nerves, bones, and tendons, the normal walking speed is enough to rival the speed of some people's trotting, and the speed of his sprint is enough to make the world sprint champion embarrassed!

His physical fitness, willpower, and perception have also been greatly improved, and his perception of up to 41 points allows his [Exploration Mastery (SP)] to cover a radius of 41 meters, which greatly improves his safety in dangerous situations.

After testing the physical improvement brought by the comprehensive enhancement of the E-class, Song Ming activated the assault armor.

The lightning-like blue-and-white "Odin" assault armor quickly covered his body, and then he picked up the Pulse Sword, which was rated as high as 236 points with the help of the assault armor, making the heavy Pulse Sword now as light as a feather.

After holding the pulse sword, the control system of the assault armor, as well as the commander chip Xiao Su, immediately discovered the new weapon, the energy module was docked, and then the pulse sword activated the authentication system.

Start checking user authorization...... Detection failed. 】

【Xiao Su. 】

Leave it to me. 】

However, in a dozen seconds, the pulse sword in the locked state was re-unlocked, and the user authentication information was changed to Song Ming.

[Certification, welcome to use CA203 pulse sword.] 】

The moment the certification was passed, the silver-white pulse sword popped out with a sharp blade, at first glance it was just an ordinary sword blade, but when Song Ming wielded it, he could hear a "buzzing" sound that made people's scalp tingle - it was the sound of the blade vibrating at an incredible frequency and tearing the air.

When the Pulse Sword hits its target, it unleashes a terrifying high-frequency pulse-type impact that shatters all defenses that stand in its way.

This impulse attack is also very effective against onslaught armor, and the nanobots simply don't have time to repair the damaged armor.

"I knew that the ownership of the Pulse Sword was nothing to him."

Caroline's expression was a little subtle.

She should have been happy that Song Ming had such a strong cracking technique, but she felt very strange - if Song Ming's cracking technique was so powerful, why did she need Yiwen's help to solve the identity problem in the first place? She couldn't figure it out.

"This guy is a humanoid arsenal right now."

Angres licked his lips and said with a little excitement: "The Assault Armor ensures his survival and combat status, the Pulse Sword gives him unparalleled hand-to-hand combat ability, and the plasma cannon is the most terrifying long-range weapon, and the only thing that limits him now is probably energy." ”

Caroline stared at Song Ming, who was moving his body there, and said slowly: "The system of the Odin series of assault armor is not very ideal for energy management, the energy waste is very serious, and it cannot fully exert the performance of the EX nuclear fusion battery, as the first generation of products, this is also a helpless thing, but even so, his combat effectiveness is very terrifying." At least I would never want to fight such an enemy. ”

Angles laughed, "I think Hubert's battle maniac is the same. ”

No one wants to die.

"Caroline, come and try it with meβ€”"

Song Ming, who was eager to try, suddenly received a message from Lu Jinming.

"Boss! The equipment is all in place! Are you going to come for acceptance? ”

After receiving the news, Song Ming temporarily stopped testing new weapons, Caroline's sincerity won Song Ming's trust, and more importantly, he also needed Caroline to take care of this factory in the future, so this time he took Caroline to the factory with him.

Lu Jinming really did not disappoint him, they worked overtime overnight last night, quickly set up the production line with the assistance of industrial robots, and then accurately estimated the time required to resume production according to various data.

"Ten days."

Lu Jinming said very seriously: "Boss, as long as I am given ten days to debug the equipment, I will be sure of stable production." ”

Song Ming nodded, they can start production in ten days, and the efficiency is not low, but he has another problem.

"How's this thing being produced?"

"If there is no good run-in in the early stage, we can produce up to 100 sets a day, but in the later stage, we can gradually improve the efficiency and increase it to 500 sets......

Caroline was stunned: "The yield is so low? ”

"It's not low."

Lu Jinming explained: "The reverse osmosis membrane I produce is a plate membrane, although the effective area after installation is only 16 square meters, but the operating pressure requirements are very low, the normal reservoir can meet the demand, the desalination rate can reach 99.99%, and the water flux is very high, the effective water yield of each set of permeable membrane can reach 5000 cubic meters per day!" ”

Song Ming looked at Lu Jinming in surprise: "In other words, 100 sets of reverse permeability membranes produced in a day can meet the needs of a factory with a daily output of 500,000 tons of fresh water, so the efficiency is indeed not low." ”

"Yes, the production capacity will be increased to 500 sets per day in the later stage, which can meet the needs of the factory with a daily output of 2.5 million tons of fresh water, which is definitely enough for you. The most important thing is ......" Lu Jinming said with a wry smile: "The self-cleaning reverse osmosis membrane we developed has self-purification ability, anti-pollution ability is very strong, not afraid of strong alkali and strong acid, the only fear is physical damage, if the protection is appropriate, basically the reverse osmosis membrane we produce can be used for at least 50 years!" After the market is saturated, there is little point in reproduction. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Jinming said a little unwillingly: "If it weren't for the fact that nuclear fusion caused energy to become cheaper and rudely eliminated my technology, I would have become a rich man lying down now......

Caroline looked at Lu Jinming with considerable sympathy, as he said, the birth of his technology should have allowed him to make money lying down, but unfortunately the birth of nuclear fusion technology made the cost of desalination very low, and eliminated his technology.

But Song Ming doesn't mind the technology that is eliminated.

"Don't think about it so much." Song Ming patted him on the shoulder: "It is not necessarily a good thing that the service life of the product is too long, there is no way to make a profit from the follow-up maintenance, the unit price must be set very high, and no one may be willing to buy it...... In order to meet the profit requirements of producers, some industrial products deliberately control the effective life of the product. ”

"Is that so?"

Lu Jinming is a typical academic character, who is good at research, but blind when he is engaged in business.

"So, why don't we also deliberately control it and produce some defective products? Although the production process can be adjusted to produce defective products for external sales, the production efficiency will be reduced...... Although I don't know who is going to buy this kind of thing now......"

"No, we don't sell reverse osmosis membranes, I want to use them myself."

Song Ming also planned to produce a reverse osmosis membrane and sell it to the public in the modern world, but after careful consideration, he gave up this idea, and the reverse osmosis membrane uses nanorobot technology, although there is no way to crack it with the scientific and technological level of the modern world, but there are too many secrets involved, which is inconvenient.

What's more, it's a core technology that can't be replaced.

He decided to invest in the construction of a desalination plant himself.

The water production is so high, the maintenance cost is so low, the construction of a desalination plant does not even need to hire many employees, as long as the early investment in the construction of the plant, the later employment of a few employees to ensure normal production every day can lie down to make money, who will not do this business?

No matter how awesome the desalination technology they stole from the Tang Group, Song Ming didn't believe that their technology would be better than Lu Jinming's awesomeness, and the decades of technological generation difference could be smoothed out so easily.

The technology originally researched by the Tang Group can reduce the cost of seawater desalination to 3.5 yuan per ton, and the 12.5% profit increase has allowed Gao Wenhui and Ruixing Investment to get the technology at the expense of the Tang Group, which shows its huge attraction.

But what about the cost of dilution here in Song Ming?

"When the desalination cost was estimated, the production cost of investment and reverse osmosis membrane and the R&D cost were totaled, which was about 1.5 yuan per ton, but ......" Lu Jinming sighed: "After the destruction day, everything changed, the original money lost its value, and I don't know how to measure the cost......

After the destruction day, the cost of scientific research personnel and technology are equal to free gifts, and the production of raw materials can also be collected by recycling abandoned industrial products in the city, and the comprehensive production cost is very low.

That is to say, the cost of building a desalination plant in the modern world of Song and Ming is almost only the cost of building the plant and the cost of employment, and the technical cost can be regarded as 0 yuan.

Now the price of desalinated water in the modern world fluctuates between 6 yuan and 10 yuan per ton according to different technologies and national regions, and the price after government subsidies is about 4 yuan to 6 yuan per ton, which means that if Song Ming builds a desalination plant with a daily output of 500,000 tons and sets the price of desalinated water at 4 yuan, the daily income will be as high as 2 million, 60 million a month, and 720 million a year!

This means that he will only be able to recoup his investment in a month or two, and the remaining decades will be all high and terrible net gains!

Of course, considering his core competitive advantage, Song Ming could not set such a high price - he wanted to use a price war to cripple Ruixing Investment and Gao Wenhui!

Let's just put it this way, the cheap technical cost makes Song Ming dare to push the price of desalinated water to 3 yuan per ton, and even don't want government subsidies, but does Gao Wenhui dare? Their cost per ton is 3.5 yuan! Even if the sales price is cut in half, it is absolutely impossible for them to win Song Ming in the price war!

After thinking about it in his heart, Song Ming smiled: "You can start preparing for production now, I can't wait to see the finished product." ”

Lu Jinming patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, boss, I can try to produce a few samples tonight for you to see." ”