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Chapter 1220 Mingzhou Future City

At Qin Tao's level, he no longer has to worry about money. Any amount of money is just a number to him. So, how should he spend the money?
Qin Tao certainly would not think of transferring this huge amount of assets overseas. The only place overseas he could go is to join Vitalia. Qin Tao would not take it to the grave, and he could not take it with him even if he wanted to.

Once you make money, you have to spend it, and make sure it’s worthwhile!
Driven by the Mingzhou Group, the country's industry has developed greatly, all walks of life are making progress, and in the field of high technology, it has begun to lead the entire world, and of course, it also needs to do something in the remaining areas.

For example, improving people's living standards and letting everyone see what the future will look like.

Mingzhou Future City was started under such a concept. Just like Qin Tao's previous style, he only came up with ideas and left the rest to his subordinates. Mingzhou Group Construction Company is currently the largest construction company in the East. It is easy for it to build a small city that can accommodate 100,000 people.

Moreover, when this news came out, countless people immediately came up with ideas.

"Mr. Qin, we believe that this future city should focus on ecology and environmental protection." A foreign figure appeared on the video line and began to introduce it to Qin Tao.

"We believe that urban buildings should be connected with plants, so we designed a new building called Vertical Forest. This building is a 76-meter residential tower. This tower will be staggered and have a large number of terraces, which are expected to be more than square meters! Now, I will show you the renderings..."

Qin Tao smiled and said, "Goodbye!"

The video is turned off.

"Boss Qin, the person we just connected to is Stefano Boeri, the most famous architect in Noodle Country. He is very famous in the West." Kong Lao Er said to Qin Tao with some curiosity: "Besides, I also think what he said is very good."

"What we want is a down-to-earth design, not something that we take for granted." Qin Tao certainly knew the architect's ideal and he admired it, but there was a big gap between ideal and reality.

In the city, designing a split-level house with a large terrace where various trees can be planted, turning the entire building into a green world. This building can also absorb a large amount of carbon dioxide and purify a lot of air. It sounds wonderful.

In later generations, many designers tried to play with the fourth-generation architectural style and made it so grand, but is this possible?
When this kind of house is sold to the owner, the first thing they do is to turn the terrace of the house into a sunroom and then expand their area. Look at the future, a bay window will have to be demolished, and a semi-enclosed balcony will have to be sealed. Of course, this is how they do it to balance the house that they bought at such a high price.

How many city managers dare to demolish illegal buildings? If they fail, they will incur public outrage.

Building such a large terrace is a beautiful ideal, but it is just an ideal and has absolutely no practical value. It would be practical if it was enclosed, but if it is not enclosed... if someone throws a cigarette butt on it, can we find out who did it?

What if a naughty child climbs a tree and falls down? Who should pay the compensation, the developer or the property management?

Therefore, this design has no practical value, and Qin Tao does not want to waste time on such a person.

"Boss Qin, what do you mean by down-to-earth?"

"People have long been tired of living in high-rise buildings. This future city does not need high-rise buildings. It would be best if it were a five- or six-story house, or even a four-story house would be enough. Every family would have a small courtyard and their own garage..."

As he was talking, Xu Zhengyang said, "Boss Qin, our domestic communications giant wants to contact you to discuss the communications issues of this future city."

"Okay, pick it up."

Then, a familiar person appeared on the screen: "Mr. Qin, it's a pleasure to meet you. To make a long story short, I think that in order to achieve the effects you mentioned, the 5G technology we are currently researching is not enough. We need 5G technology that is improved on 6G technology. Everything can be connected, and the network delay must be small..."

"Well, I think you can undertake this part of the project. Our Mingzhou Group can pay a deposit in advance to support your research and development."

The other party was very surprised: "Boss Qin, do you agree now?"

"Of course, you are a first-tier telecommunications company in our country, so of course we will agree." Qin Tao nodded: "For specific matters, you can contact the person in charge of Future City. Goodbye!"

The video is off again.

Qin Tao smiled. Although he supported this, he didn't understand it. If he went on to talk about various specific data, he still didn't understand them.

"Old Kong, leave the Internet of Things to the unit just now, there will be no problem."

Kong Lao Er nodded: "Okay."

The person in charge of Future City is Kong Lao Er, who actually doesn't understand it, otherwise there would be no need for Qin Tao to check it. Now Qin Tao is selecting contractors and various design plans, and he is the general person in charge. However, as long as Qin Tao is sure, Kong Lao Er will make the specific decision.

"Mr. Qin, next..." Xu Zhengyang was planning to arrange the next person for Qin Tao when he suddenly saw a new message.

"Hey, what's wrong with the Europeans? They are actually belittling our electric cars."

"Really? How did you belittle him?" Qin Tao also became curious: "Please bring it in."

The scene on the screen switched to a news interview, where a person was talking to the camera.

"That's right. Electric cars don't emit any exhaust gas. For our city, it seems that they reduce car exhaust gas and are environmentally friendly products. In fact, this is not the case at all. In essence, it is just a transfer of pollution."

"Electric cars have no exhaust gas, but they need to be charged. Where does the electricity come from? Forget nuclear power. France alone can get 70% of its electricity from nuclear power. No other country can do that. Take the East for example. Thermal power accounts for 70% of the total power generation. Their electricity is also obtained from coal, and burning coal also causes environmental pollution!"

When Qin Tao saw the criticism from the environmental expert, he reacted immediately.

"A few years ago, Europeans were still shouting that they wanted to develop electric cars, saying that electric cars were more environmentally friendly, but now they are actually denying it," Xu Zhengyang said. "Their behavior is too despicable."

"They used to shout because they thought they could continue to dominate in electric vehicles and become the strongest in this field, but now they finally realized that we are the boss in the electric vehicle field and they can't compete with us at all, so they started to cheat. Environmental protection is just an excuse. The real goal is to become the strongest in this field and make profits."

"Yes, in this field, our technology is the strongest, and they can't compare with it at all, so they started to throw dirty water on us." Xu Zhengyang was very emotional: "What should we do next?"

At this time, the images in the video were still playing, and the expert in it was still continuing to talk about his theory.

"Moreover, electric vehicles use a large number of batteries, the manufacture of which pollutes the environment, and when the batteries are scrapped, how to deal with them is still a big problem."

"You're talking nonsense. Even without electric cars, there are other devices that use batteries, and these batteries also need to be scrapped," said Xu Zhengyang.

Qin Tao smiled and said, "Such a rebuttal is weak. We know that batteries are polluting, so we developed wireless power supply technology. In the future, our electric vehicles will only need a small battery to be used when entering and leaving the house. As long as they are on the road, they will be wirelessly powered, so we don't need too many batteries."

Xu Zhengyang's eyes lit up.

"We believe that the real environmentally friendly route should be hydrogen energy. Its only product is water, which is absolutely environmentally friendly and absolutely reliable. In the future, we should take the hydrogen energy route." The expert continues to promote his views.

"Mr. Qin, haven't they given up on the hydrogen energy route?" Xu Zhengyang was curious again.

"In their eyes, the only two power routes for the future are hydrogen energy and electric vehicles," Qin Tao said. "The island countries were the first to study hydrogen energy and have mastered a large number of patented technologies. However, in the past few years, the cars of the island countries were too powerful, which made the Western world very wary. Therefore, they will not follow the trend of hydrogen energy, but follow our electric vehicle route."

"In order to expand the electric vehicle market, we have already released many technical patents and authorized them to many manufacturers. These manufacturers can use our patents. Why would we go back on our word?"

Qin Tao had anticipated this problem at the beginning, so he released many technical patents in an attempt to expand the market. However, the Europeans still turned against him. What happened?

"Although we have released many patents, we control the origin of raw materials." Qin Tao said: "In recent years, the price of power batteries has continued to rise. They must be anxious, but this is not our fault."

Qin Tao had already started planning for the electric vehicle industry and had acquired several important lithium mines in advance. Later, as electric vehicles entered the fast lane and as countries around the world were planning for the electric vehicle industry, the price of lithium mines naturally became higher and higher.

However, this has nothing to do with Qin Tao. In a market economy, the market has the final say on everything. If certain materials are in short supply in the market, the price will of course go up. Not only electric cars, but many other devices also use lithium batteries!
"That's right. For various reasons, Westerners are completely planning to abandon our electric cars and switch to hydrogen energy. Mr. Qin, how about we..."

Qin Tao shook his head: "We can't do anything. Although we know that hydrogen-powered cars are dangerous and that hydrogen refueling stations are dangerous, we absolutely cannot bear to see a hydrogen refueling station or a hydrogen-powered car explode, especially at this critical juncture..."

The key point is that there was an explosion a few years ago, which also helped many car companies abandon hydrogen energy and switch to electric vehicles.

Although electric cars are also prone to fire, the fire will only cause danger to yourself at most. If a hydrogen-powered car explodes, it will not only threaten yourself. If a hydrogen refueling station explodes, nearby residents will be in trouble.

The impact of these things is too bad, we can't bear to see them happen.

Xu Zhengyang was a little curious. What was Mr. Qin thinking about?
"Especially in hydrogen fuel plants, accidents cannot happen there, otherwise there will be very dire consequences."

Just now, the self-righteous environmental expert kept saying that electric cars pollute the environment. The electricity for electric cars comes from coal-fired power plants, but he never mentioned where the hydrogen for hydrogen-powered cars comes from!

"Oh."

Even if hydrogen-powered cars are not used, there is still a huge demand for hydrogen in the world. For example, the US space shuttle uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engines, which must use hydrogen. Where does this hydrogen come from?
The easiest way to think of hydrogen is electrolysis of water, which is the simplest way to produce hydrogen. However, it is also the most expensive, costing about 30 yuan per kilogram.

The second is some industrial waste, such as hydrogen, a by-product from some furnaces, which can be recycled and purified. The price is about 21 yuan per kilogram.

The second is to use natural gas, methanol, etc. to produce hydrogen, and the cost can be reduced to 17 yuan per kilogram.

The cheapest method is to produce hydrogen from coal, which costs only about twelve yuan per kilogram.

That’s right, the electricity used in electric cars comes from coal, and the hydrogen used in hydrogen energy actually also comes from coal!
Hydrogen production plant in North Carolina, USA.

This is a large hydrogen production plant that uses coal to produce hydrogen. The specific process is to first burn the coal with oxygen and then react with water to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

That’s right, just look at this process and you will know that producing hydrogen also involves burning coal, so smoke will still be produced!
The mixed gas is desulfurized and purified, and then water vapor is added. The carbon monoxide continues to react with the water vapor to obtain more hydrogen.

The tall gasification furnace is one of the important equipment. The larger the factory, the bigger the gasification furnace.

On this day, the workers continued to go to work. The black workers wore work clothes and sunglasses and went to their posts. On both sides of the gasification furnace, coal slurry mixed with oxygen entered together. The black workers climbed up, checked it, and then came down again.

The machines are all automated, and humans only need to patrol back and forth.

The big guy Anthony walked down slowly, looked around to see if there was anyone around, then quietly walked to a corner and unbuttoned his pants.

"Anthony, what are you doing? There are factory regulations that prohibit urinating and defecating anywhere!" Chris, a white manager, came over and said, "A fine of one hundred!"

"I just pulled up my pants, I didn't..."

"Hmph, smell the odor on the ground. This is a regular place for you guys to urinate. You are human beings, not dogs! There is a toilet in the factory!"

There is a toilet, but it's far away. The gangsters would never run to the small building where the managers are just to pee. It's just that this place has been under close supervision recently, and Anthony was the first person to be caught.

Anthony sniffed it nonchalantly. Yes, the smell here is quite strong. Wait...

Why does the air seem to have another smell? This smell is a bit stinky...

Hydrogen is a colorless and odorless gas, but that is only limited to the method of electrolysis of water, especially the electrolysis of pure water. Hydrogen produced by other methods will have some smell of the raw materials to a certain extent. When hydrogen is produced from coal, there may be residual sulfur in the coal in this process, which may be accompanied by gas with the smell of rotten eggs.

Now, smelling this scent, Anthony was still a little curious and continued to smell it.

"Huh, you really like this smell, you guys..." Chris stopped talking halfway. There is no freedom of speech in the United States. If you talk about different skin colors, you will get into big trouble.

and many more!

At this time, Chris seemed to smell a strange smell, and then suddenly reacted, looking back in horror.

The top pipe of the water washing tower, which is the device that produces a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, is emitting gas with a hissing sound!

"Damn, the pipe is leaking, hurry up, tighten that valve!" Chris shouted loudly.

However, after discovering this situation, the reaction of the haters was to run away in unison. What a joke! Everyone knows how terrible this leak is.

You come here to make money, not to lose your life.

"Damn it, you idiots, get back to your posts!"

No one paid any attention to Chris. Everyone was running out quickly, and some people jumped into pickup trucks.

"No, idiot, don't start the car!" Chris continued to yell.

Even if it is a diesel car, it will not work because the car needs a motor to start, and the motor has brushes, and sparks will be generated when the brushes and commutator come into contact.

But no one listened to him, the black men jumped into the car, and then someone turned the key.

Buzz, buzz!

At the moment the engine started, suddenly, flames came out of the engine. With this place as the center, the flames spread out in all directions and soon spread to the entire factory.

boom!
A terrible explosion sounded, and the entire factory turned into a huge fireball! The seismic waves caused by the explosion spread rapidly in all directions. In the nearby town, all the building windows were damaged, and all the people were fleeing...

terrible!

The hydrogen fuel plant exploded!

A few hours later, the whole world knew the news.

"An explosion occurred at a hydrogen fuel plant in Longview, North Carolina, USA. The plant has a history of more than 30 years. The equipment is probably aging, especially the key leakage alarm device is useless. So far, the explosion has not caused any casualties."

When it comes to concealing the threat of accidents, many countries are the same, and the United States is no exception. Even if a train transporting dangerous chemicals derails, they will say there is no danger. Even if a big hole is blown up on the ground and the entire factory is destroyed, they will still say that there are no casualties.

However, the facts could not be covered up, and soon, various negative reports came in.

"Using coal to produce hydrogen is too backward. The safest and cleanest way to produce hydrogen should be electrolysis of water!"

"Currently, the main ways to produce hydrogen around the world are..."

With various reports, the fig leaf of hydrogen energy has been revealed. Where does hydrogen come from? The general public also knows it. How dangerous is hydrogen? The general public also knows it!
(End of this chapter)