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Chapter 293 Advanced seawater desalination technology?
Of course, Commander Chuan comes from a background as a representative of American businessmen.

They have extreme hatred towards Chinese companies that can make more money than themselves.

In addition, the staff members represented by Musk, holding the bug-like bamboo dragonfly toy, submitted to the commander-in-chief of the Second Degree Sanninja, relevant leading reports on the Magic Cube Group in the fields of materials, infrastructure, aerospace technology, and batteries.

After seeing that their own cutting-edge manufacturing companies such as Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed, etc. were all beaten to a pulp by this Chinese Rubik's Cube Group.

Commander Chuan Da was thinking of using the same old trick again and doing something even worse to the boss of the Magic Cube Group than what he did to the Princess of the Chrysanthemum Factory back then.

Of course, this is not the first time that America has targeted Chinese companies.

Previously, the richest man in the cryptocurrency circle was also imprisoned. He was held captive and exploded hundreds of billions of dollars in gold coins before being released to continue fattening him up, waiting for the next time the opportunity was ripe to be caught and exploded again for gold coins.

Anyway, America is about to go bankrupt because of its debt problems, so there is no face left to save at this time.

In the view of the leader of Sichuan University, it is better to get the benefits and real things first!

It just so happened that according to the report from the CIA's intelligence department, the founder of the Magic Cube Group, who had always been active in China, now appeared in Saudi Arabia for business exchanges.

The Middle East has always been America's backyard.

Various intelligence organizations infiltrated like a sieve.

With such favorable geographical and timing conditions for arresting the enemy, America will definitely not let it go.

So, arrest orders against Chen Jue began to be issued by the CIA first, and other intelligence departments such as the Pentagon followed suit at the same time.

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Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

This is a coastal industrial town in the middle of Saudi Arabia's western coast, close to the Red Sea.

In addition to having several large-scale refineries involving crude oil, this place is also one of the few seawater desalination bases in Saudi Arabia.

In the Middle East, where water is more valuable than oil, fresh water is a very important production resource.

In the past, tribes in the Arab world would fight tooth and nail to get fresh water!

Without fresh water, the tribe cannot survive.

The entire industrial area of ​​Yanbu produces more than 400 million cubic meters of fresh water every day.

The total length of the water pipeline laid from this place is 5.6 kilometers, equivalent to 1.4 times around the earth's equator, in order to supply water to the entire western region of Saudi Arabia.

There is also a similar desalination industrial zone in the city of Jubail in the east, close to the Persian Gulf.

Relying on the seawater resources of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, these two major industrial cities in the east and the west almost firmly support the freshwater resources of Saudi Arabia as a whole.

After finishing the technical demonstration of the NEOM new city project in the northwest, Chen Jue took a detour to the city of Yanbu at the invitation of Abdullah.

In addition to enjoying the beautiful coastline scenery, in the previous contract negotiations, the Saudi side wanted the Magic Cube Group to set up the factory in the industrial zone of Yanbu City.

In addition to abundant fresh water resources, solar power generation also accounts for more than 50% of Saudi Arabia's total power generation.

Since a glass supporting factory is to be built, in the eyes of outsiders like Abdullah, water and electricity are basically necessary resource conditions that cannot be avoided.

So out of kindness, they brought Chen Jue, the distinguished Eastern guest, to the Yanbu Industrial Zone for inspection.

Of course, it was rare for Chen Jue to go abroad, and since it was hard to refuse the hospitality of the wealthy dog ​​owners, he just mixed in with the team and happily watched the "backward" industrial production capacity throughout the whole process.

The reason why they are called backward is that most of the equipment and technology used by the dog big households were introduced from Europe and the United States in the last century. Take the large seawater desalination plant in front of him as an example. The multi-stage flash evaporation technology it uses is an old technology developed in 1957.

Look at the name: 'Multi-stage flash distillation'.

It sounds very high-end, but in fact it is just boiling water. The seawater is heated and then introduced into multiple flash chambers with gradually decreasing pressure, so that the water evaporates quickly and condenses into fresh water.

If boiling it once is not enough to steam it, then boil it a few more times. Isn't this the "multi-level" approach?

According to the director of the desalination plant, this technology consumes about 1 liters of crude oil to produce 12 cubic meter of fresh water.

If oil wasn't so cheap in the eyes of the rich, a huge amount of money would have to be spent on seawater desalination every year.

"Why not use the more advanced RO reverse osmosis technology?" Chen Jue asked curiously after the visit.

Abdullah scratched his head and blushed as he said, "RO reverse osmosis technology requires a large number of advanced semipermeable membranes. Our country does not have the ability to mass-produce semipermeable membranes. We must import them from your country or Europe or America at a high price."

“In that case, the cost would be much higher than multi-stage flash distillation.”

After hearing this, Chen Jue nodded thoughtfully.

One uses local materials, the other relies on pure imports. Even if the big dog farmer is stupid, he will calculate the cost himself.

This is just like those coal-fired power plants in China. We know that the thermal power generation process will produce air pollution, but in the face of the huge electricity gap in cities, we still have to use them.

This involves a trade-off.

"Your Highness, you brought me here to visit. It should not be as simple as choosing a site, right?" Chen Jue asked curiously with narrowed eyes.

Abdullah nodded, smiled and explained the specific reasons for arranging the inspection of the seawater desalination plant.

It turns out that when the old guy entered the Super Rubik's Cube Factory, he not only took a fancy to the Flying Rubik's Cube and customized glass, but also unexpectedly discovered that the Rubik's Cube Factory was equipped with a self-sufficient seawater desalination system.

Moreover, it does not use the existing reverse osmosis (RO) technology, nor the electrodialysis (ED) used by European countries, nor the backward technology such as multi-stage flash evaporation and multi-effect distillation.

This made Abdullah a little cautious and try to see if he could buy some valuable civilian technology from Chen Jue.

You know, Chen Jue’s factory was built right on the coastline at the mouth of the Feiyun River. Its geographical location is very similar to the coastline of Yanbu City!
If that mysterious low-energy desalination system could be introduced, it would be a great help to Saudi Arabia.

At least we can get rid of the stupid thing of burning seawater with oil, and most of the air pollution problem alone can be solved.

But when Chen Jue heard that this wealthy prince was beating around the bush and secretly planning to take his MC [Infinite Water], an expression of "What the hell" appeared on his face!

Although he packaged that thing as "some kind of seawater desalination technology", it was too contrary to the cosmic laws of the real world.

Once it is exposed, it could potentially trigger a world war.

Because there are so many countries and regions on the earth that lack fresh water.

In the Middle East alone, several wars were fought over fresh water resources.

If someone discovered the secret of [Infinite Water], Chen Jue might be kidnapped one day.

So after thinking about it, Chen Jue politely refused: "Your Majesty, it's not that I don't want to sell it! In fact, the seawater desalination technology used in our Rubik's Cube Factory can only process small batches, and cannot meet the large-scale seawater desalination operations of your country."

Seeing that he had accidentally hit a soft nail, Abdullah did not get angry. Instead, he showed an expression that said "I know you Dongda people very well" and lowered his voice to ask quietly: "Brother, is it a funding problem?"

"How much money do you need to perfect that technology? Just ask! As for the research and development funds, you can write a check at will!"

(End of this chapter)