Homo sapiens

Chapter 52 Influence

19, April 4.

Massive amounts of money.

Strict management.

Gradually improve the industrial chain.

Coupled with the powerful technology of Homo sapiens.

Various cities in southern Luzon have begun to experience significant changes, and this change is not only reflected in the income of residents, but more importantly, in the improvement of spirit.

Construction projects such as road construction, house construction, and bridge construction are crazily absorbing local labor force, so that cities and rural areas that already have a surplus of labor force have been siphoned a large amount of labor force by these projects.

If it is just an increase in income, it is actually of no use to the local economy, because things like money can only reflect their value if they can be bought.

For example, in the Lingnan province of Huaguo, why is it so difficult to improve the living standards of the local people in the Chaoshan area, where there are so many inflows of funds through overseas remittances every year?

The reason is that money can buy no more things.

Assuming that locally produced materials are 1 tons and the total amount of funds held by residents is 1 million yuan, the average price of materials is 10 yuan per kilogram;

But when the total amount of funds held by residents reaches 3 million yuan, but the locally produced materials are still 1 tons, the average price of materials naturally becomes 30 yuan per kilogram.

This is "remittance inflation".

To solve this special inflation, there are only two ways, one is to increase the local production of materials, and the other is to increase the import of materials.

After the rise of Internet shopping in the Chaoshan area, it was only through online shopping that it reluctantly alleviated the shortage of some local materials, resulting in high prices.

In the southern region of Luzon Island, however, it is a two-pronged approach at this time.

While expanding the amount of material imports, Fengrao House has joined forces with Haitian Agriculture to increase the production of local materials. Coupled with the improvement of infrastructure, the loss of transportation and storage has been greatly reduced.

For example, the mangosteens sold in Fengrao Supermarket before, because the transportation roads are not easy to go, and the fresh-keeping technology cannot keep up, even the mangosteens produced in the surrounding areas are still expensive.

Now that the road has been widened, it has also extended to various towns. This upgrade of infrastructure has brought about a reduction in transportation costs.

Of course, the coral construction company will not be in a loss-making business. These new roads are all toll roads, unless they are vehicles of brother companies, otherwise they will obediently pay tolls.

The Homo sapiens company invested in so many roads, but it is not free for everyone to use. Otherwise, other competitors can also use these infrastructures for free. Wouldn't it be an enemy.

South of Lima.

A gas filling station in the suburbs.

Lots of people were waiting in line, but there was something unusual about the filling station today, as Emerald Energy employees were selling new gas cylinders and stoves to customers.

Lu Min, who runs a Chinese restaurant in the city, has a lot of gas every month. He is holding a leaflet with a troubled face.

If you switch to methane gas, it is indeed cheaper than gas, but you need to replace the gas stove and gas cylinder, which makes him hesitate.

However, Limanan's economy has developed rapidly recently, and the customer flow of his Chinese restaurant has increased by nearly [-] to [-] percent, and the gas consumption has naturally risen steadily. After thinking about it for more than ten minutes, he finally made up his mind.

According to Emerald Energy, under the same heat, the price of methane gas is only about 60% of that of coal gas. If he is worried about price increases, he can sign a long-term gas supply contract.

Lu Min signed a one-year contract, and then the staff took the gas cylinder and the gas stove and followed him back to the restaurant to renovate the gas stove.

Like Lu Min, the people who choose are those big users of gas, such as restaurants, small workshops, slaughterhouses, food stores and the like.

Lu Min's local wife scolded angrily when she heard that a new gas stove was going to be replaced, but the contract had already been signed, so she could only hold her nose and admit it.

After the staff installed the gas stove, after turning on the gas valve switch, a light blue flame came out from the stove, and he explained carefully:
"Boss Lu, the methane gas stove and the gas cylinder are specially equipped, so don't pick them up casually. In addition, if the gas cylinder is lost, a brand new 30kg gas cylinder will cost 1200 pesos."

"What gas cylinder? Why is it so expensive? Your company isn't lying, is it?" Lu Min's wife asked immediately.

The staff was not angry, but shrugged and smiled: "Methane gas is different from coal gas. Ordinary gas cylinders can't hold much methane."

Methane gas cylinders are indeed different from ordinary gas cylinders, because methane is difficult to compress into a liquid state at room temperature. If you insist on filling the gas cylinder with methane, you can only fill the gas cylinder with methane in the end, or explode the gas cylinder .

The methane gas cylinder developed by Emerald Energy uses crystal sponge as the inner tank, plus a sound-proof and shock-proof layer, a steel shell, and an internal sound wave generator, so that the gas storage tank can continuously release the stored methane.

The sound wave generator can use dry batteries, or it can be plugged in, and the energy consumption is very low.

The safety of this kind of gas cylinder is also very high. If the sonic generator is not activated, even if the valve of the gas stove is opened, the gas cylinder will not be deflated. Only by pressing the switch of the sonic generator will the methane be released.

Even if there is an accident that causes deflagration and explosion, the temperature sensor of this gas cylinder will automatically cut off the sound wave generator once it senses that the temperature of the cylinder body exceeds the warning value, so that methane cannot continue to be released.

This is also the reason why the price of methane gas cylinders is relatively high.

Emerald Energy promotes methane gas in major cities, naturally because methane plants have been put into operation. At present, 3 methane plants have been put into operation, and 7 more methane plants are under construction.

One of the methane plants is near the southern city of Lima. Its annual methane production is about 4000 million to 5000 million cubic meters, and there is still room for further upgrading.

The raw materials of the methane plant are domestic garbage, waste plastics, dead branches and leaves, waste residue and liquid from food factories, starch and sugar.

In general, starch and sugar will not be used as raw materials for gas production.

On the contrary, the dead branches and leaves of the plantation, the waste residue and waste liquid of food processing, and the organic waste in life are the main raw materials of the methane plant.

例如利马南甲烷厂，目前制气原材料为生活有机物垃圾12～16%、废弃塑料5～8%、生产企业的废渣废液21～30%、种植园的枯枝烂叶35～50%、林场修剪的草木枝叶10～15%。

Basically, the fermentation tanks of the methane plant are operating at full capacity, and even if the methane produced cannot be sold, it can be stored.

Of course, the wood and plastic in the garbage will not be used to ferment methane if the raw materials are sufficient, but as raw materials for storage.

Starch and sugar are raw materials that are used only in emergency situations.

At present, by replacing coal gas with methane, the gas production cost of Emerald Energy has dropped by about 86%. Previously, it was necessary to import coal from Australia to make gas, but now it can gradually reduce coal imports.

However, because the price of coal is still relatively cheap, Emerald Energy has not stopped importing, but will use the remaining coal and store it in several small coal mines near the port.

For things like resources, as long as the price is right, they must be imported.

Anyway, coal will not expire, and US knives often magnify water, so it is more at ease to turn US knives into resources and hoard them.

If you keep a lot of beautiful knives, you are really taken advantage of.

In the event of a conflict with America, a ban from the other party can make the beautiful knife in his hand useless.

What is the difference between unused money and waste paper?Not even as good as waste paper, which can be recycled.

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