Chapter 261 Cheap
The Blue Whale No. 1001 airship left Weicheng Airport for 9 hours and 27 minutes. At around 8 o'clock that night, he returned to Minqin Airport.
The reason why it took two more hours to return was naturally because of flying against the wind.
Not only has the time consumption increased, but the unit energy consumption has also increased by about one-third.
The cost accounting office of Blue Whale Airship Company has conducted a comprehensive review and cost accounting for this actual flight transportation.
Wan Gaofeng, who was still in the airship remote control center, was sitting on a working chair and listening to the report.
"Mr. Wan, according to various data, we have completed the cost accounting work of this actual flight, integrating airship depreciation, energy consumption, airports, channel usage fees, insurance, manpower and management. The current cost is 0.114 yuan per ton per kilometer, while our charging standard is 0.2 yuan per ton per kilometer."
Wan Gaofeng looked at the cost accounting items: "6 containers, with a total weight of 192 tons. The total cost from Weicheng Airport to Minqin Airport is 32,640 yuan, and a container costs 5,440 yuan for freight?"
"Yes, Wan Gaofeng, currently the maximum load of these new containers is 31.5 tons, which is about 1 ton and 173 yuan, which is very low."
For this answer, Wan Gaofeng also saw the freight reference comparison data.
The distance from Weicheng to Minqin County through road transportation is about 986 kilometers.
The cost of 190 tons of goods on the road will vary depending on the mode of transportation, vehicle type and other factors.
If it is a complete vehicle transportation, a semi-trailer with a load of about 30 tons will be used, and about 7 vehicles are required. Referring to the quotes of some logistics companies, the transportation price of a complete vehicle about 1,000 kilometers is between 500 and 600 yuan per ton, and the total cost is between 95,000 yuan and 114,000 yuan.
If it is LTL transportation, the transportation prices of LTL transportation in different logistics companies vary greatly, with an average of about 400 yuan per ton, and the transportation cost of 190 tons of goods is about 76,000 yuan.
The airship only costs 24,480 yuan.
This cost is basically the same as the shipping cost, and is a little lower than inland transportation.
Directly kill road transportation in seconds. After all, the speed of road transportation is slower than that of airships, and the carrying capacity is not as good as that of airships, and the energy consumption is relatively large.
Of course, road transportation also has its irreplaceability. For example, close-range transportation, the flexibility of airships is definitely not as flexible as road transportation.
At this time, the goods unloaded by Blue Whale No. 1001 were pulled to the Hailufeng Storage Center in Minqin County.
At the same time, a batch of semi-finished artificial silk containers were loaded onto airships and flew to Weicheng Airport again.
However, the exclusive pilot of the airship remote control center has completed shift changes at this time.
In order to avoid traffic accidents caused by fatigue driving, the pilots of the remote control center of the airship are usually in groups of two people, one group controls the airship to fly for eight hours. There are no special circumstances, and they rotate 24 hours a day.
The second group of pilots are now managing the airship.
At present, Blue Whale Airship Company has joined hands with the logistics department to train 50 groups of professional drivers in advance, as well as a large number of ground staff and air traffic control.
From the northwest to the northeast, 11 airports are being constructed simultaneously.
On the contrary, the airport projects in North China, Jiangnan, Southwest and South China are progressing relatively slowly, and it is not the local intention to obstruct them. On the contrary, in areas with inconvenient transportation, after hearing about the airport project of Hailufeng Company, I hope that Hailufeng Company can build an airport in the local area.
But at present, these projects are just intentions and there are no projects to be implemented.
The reasons are very complicated.
On the one hand, the mainland is densely populated, so it is obviously a bit difficult to find an open space with an area of at least 5 square kilometers and build an airport.
On the other hand, the inland aircraft and drones are relatively dense. Although airships fly at low altitudes, they still need to coordinate the airspace. At present, this problem is still grinding.
Of course, for coastal areas, Hailufeng Company plans to build a maritime airport to avoid occupying too much land.
Because airships and aircraft cannot use the same airport, the current idea of civil aviation is to establish a low-altitude aviation system that is completely independent of aircraft.
Why not incorporated into the existing civil aviation management system? The answer is to compete for industry standards.
You should know that the current civil aviation system is all about learning from European and American systems and standards, and the airworthiness certificates for large aircraft must pass the European and American review.
If airships and airship airports are also incorporated into the existing civil aviation system, the result is to refer to the standards of European and American aviation.
Airships can be started again, so why do you need to refer to the standards of European and American aviation? Isn’t it good to have one by yourself?
Anyway, airship airports and airplane airports are impossible to be universal. Just be more direct and build an independent airship aviation system.
And the special bean silk materials and products will not be exported casually, especially the artificial spider silk type, which is basically not allowed to be exported abroad, which means that airships will not be promoted abroad in a short period of time, so foreign standards are not required.
After the domestic airship aviation technology has been completely matured and a complete system is formed, foreign countries can only learn this standard if they want to introduce it. Those regions with average strength have no ability to independently build their own airship aviation system.
Although the EU and Ameika have the ability to independently build the airship aviation system, their internal problems are very big, and they are full of uncertainty, they must be the key control area for airship technology, and their market does not need to be considered in a short period of time.
Therefore, at this stage, airship aviation is mainly promoted in the country, and at the same time, a set of management and operation standards are gradually established.
Of course, Hailufeng Company also knows that with the test flight of the Blue Whale Airship, other companies will also enter this transportation market.
In order to build a comprehensive airship transportation system, Hailufeng Company has begun to prepare for the construction of Huanyu Airport Group and plans to introduce investment from all parties.
This is an inevitable choice.
After all, due to the huge size of the new airship, the required airport area is also very large. As a result, many areas can only build one large airship airport, and even many eastern cities, and only a few cities have one airship airport.
In this case, it is difficult for Hailufeng Company to fully coordinate the interests of all parties alone.
And the official will not allow the airship transportation industry to be monopolized by one company. In the future, there will definitely be many airship transportation companies in China.
At present, the northwest and northeast regions have obvious first-mover advantages in developing low-altitude transportation industries, mainly because these areas have large areas of wasteland, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, so the planning of waterways and airports is relatively convenient.
Especially in the northwest region, airship transportation has an overwhelming advantage over road transportation and railway transportation.
After all, many local cities are very far away.
For example, in Gansu Province, the distance between the east and west is 1,659 kilometers; the distance between the east and west is 2,400 kilometers; the distance between the west and west is 1,950 kilometers, and the distance between the north and south is 1,550 kilometers.
In the face of this distance, the construction and maintenance costs of roads connecting every city are very high.
This distance traffic dilemma leads to the cost of transporting agricultural products and mineral resources in the northwest to eastern cities, which is even higher than imported products shipped from abroad. This is the consequence of the high transportation costs.
The new airship can fundamentally solve this problem.
Break geographical restrictions and further integrate the economic system of the northwest into the eastern economic system.
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In the next more than a week.
The Blue Whale No. 1001 airship flies between Minqin and Weicheng every day, and every round trip is almost 16 to 17 hours.
In the eight days, except for the third day when the factory was repaired, the rest of the time was flying, with a total of 11 round trips flying, and a total of 4,180 tons of cargo were transported.
The products exported by Minqin are mainly boron bean silk, silicon bean silk, artificial silk and silk fabrics.
The products exported by Weicheng are mainly high-purity borax, tropical fruits, daily necessities, precision instruments, engineering equipment, etc.
Minqin in December.
It was already cold at this time.
There has been a light snow these days, but the amount of snow cannot even cover the ground, and it was soon cleared by the strong wind and sunshine the next day.
However, Minqin County was very lively at this time, because the huge investment of Hailufeng Company here caused the population here to soar by nearly 60,000.
You should know that the population of Minqin County was only over 70,000, but now it has suddenly flooded with 60,000 people, almost doubled its population.
At the same time, the population of the surrounding rural areas has also been concentrated in the cities.
Fortunately, Minqin Hi-tech Zone has prepared enough houses. In order to ensure that the supporting facilities of the industrial park can be put into use before winter, China Railway Construction Group, which contracted the project, has transferred thousands of construction workers in the past six months.
At present, nearly 18,000 houses have been built in the industrial park, and nearly 6,800 temporary container houses have been built.
In order to avoid the health risks brought by the house decoration process, these houses adopt a very industrial style decoration model, with the walls blowing white, the floors are covered with ceramic tiles, and the furniture is either iron products or simply poured with reinforced concrete, or customized products from the silicon bean silk component factory. Zhang Xiangdong, who came here to work from Henan, brought his wife, children and his mother to facilitate work.
He just came back from the textile factory.
I saw what his wife Su Xiaomei was laying. "Xiaomei, did you buy the floor?" Zhang Xiangdong asked curiously, while just taking a photo of the coat he had put on the coat rack at the door. "Yes! It's quite cheap with the money on your employee card. It's only 35 yuan after a discount of one square meter." Su Xiaomei spread the abaca carpet on the floor, and then glued the corners of it with its own Velcro.
Zhang Xiangdong took off his sneakers and stepped on it and found that it was abaca cloth: "Isn't this abaca cloth from Qiongzhou? Have you made this kind of product now?"
"I saw that many people are buying it, so I ordered some, just to decorate the living room, otherwise it would be too monotonous." Su Xiaomei stood up: "Xiangdong, lift the sofa together, I hide the corners under the sofa."
"Okay."
The couple worked together to lift the sofa and lay the remaining carpet on it.
This type of carpet is aaba carpet with imitation wood grain, each piece is one square meter, which is convenient for consumers to arrange according to their room size.
Their small living room has an area of only 16 square meters, and it adds up to 16 carpets.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Prepare these carpets and restore the sofa and other furniture, Su Xiaomei let out a sigh: "Hu..."
"Eat some fruit, I bought it in the supermarket on the way back." Zhang Xiangdong, who had washed the fruit, shouted to his mother and son in the room, "Mom, little pig, come out to eat fruit."
"Come!" The hot son Zhang Xuanzhe ran out with his cell phone.
Wang Hongxia, who was still having lunch break, wiped her eyes and slowly came out of the room, yawning as she walked: "Ha... Dongzi, are you back? How is your work today?"
"It's the same." Zhang Xiangdong handed the cut navel orange to his mother. "I bought so many fruits again. This winter, fruits are not cheap." Wang Hongxia felt a little distressed when she looked at the big plate of fruit. "Mom, in life, isn't it just eating and drinking, or what to do if you make money? And fruits have been much cheaper recently." Zhang Xiangdong did not agree with the consumption concept of the older generation, so he put a large piece of pineapple on and tried it.
His wife Su Xiaomei remained silent. After all, she knew her mother-in-law's personality. As a daughter-in-law, if she spoke up to her mother-in-law, she would not please her.
As for Zhang Xuanzhe, who is only eight years old, he doesn't care whether he is rich or not. He eats mangoes in big mouthfuls, and his eyes are even more focused on the pineapple, dragon fruit and navel orange on the plate.
But Su Xiaomei is still quite smart. She was worried that her mother-in-law would get angry with her husband again. When she ran back to her hometown in southern Henan, she would have to pick up her son to and from school and cook by herself, so she quickly changed the topic:
"Xiangdong, how much is the fruit cheaper recently?"
"This red-hearted dragon fruit is three yuan per pound, and the navel orange seems to be..." Zhang Xiangdong put down the orange peel and took out the receipt in his pocket: "Naphthalene orange is four yuan per pound, star fruit is four yuan per pound, and mango is four yuan per pound."
"It's really cheaper." Su Xiaomei, who often buys fruits, was surprised: "A few days ago, a pound is two or three yuan more expensive than this, why did the price suddenly drop?"
Zhang Xiangdong picked up a piece of Yang Tao again: "It should be related to the airship on the airship company. The airship has been flying for the past few days and has transported a lot of fruits from Weicheng."
"Is that true? I did see the airship flying from the south. It turned out that the airship was for transportation. I don't know if it could be seated."
Zhang Xiangdong shook his head: "It should not be, the airship is full of hydrogen, and it is a big explosion."
"No wonder my boss is smiling these days. It turns out that the prices of vegetables and fruits have dropped." Su Xiaomei said about her work.
Wang Hongxia finally finished eating a piece of navel orange slowly and picked up a piece of red-hearted dragon fruit: "Xiaomei, how is your restaurant business?"
"It's pretty good. Hunan cuisine is definitely more popular in this cold and cold weather." Zhang Xuanzhe said in a vague way while eating navel oranges: "Mom, let's go eat grilled fish!" "Didn't you eat it a few days ago? In a few days!" "No, I just want to eat it." "Huh?" Su Xiaomei glared.
"Uh..." Zhang Xuanzhe was suppressed all of a sudden.
Eat the fruit.
Zhang Xiangdong, who had not taken a shower for several days, took his changed clothes and went to the shower room to take a shower.
Open the music on your phone.
As the gentle melody, it slowly rang in the shower room, and the ticking sound of water drops echoed in it.
After applying shower gel, Zhang Xiangdong took a piece of loofah and rubbed his skin.
The water from the shower flows into the special pipes as the floor drain flows into the special sewage pool built underground in the community.
Then these sewages are quickly extracted from pure water, and the pure water quickly enters the circulation pipeline and becomes the non-drinking water in the community again.
In this way, even if the population of Minqin County increases by nearly 80,000, it can still achieve relatively abundant per capita water use.
The current recycling rate of non-drinking water in residential communities can reach about 95%. Even if one cubic meter of non-drinking fresh water is used per capita every day, under such a high recycling rate, it is only equivalent to 0.05 cubic meter of fresh water consumed.
In other words, the freshwater resources these residents consumed only 18.25 cubic meters in a year.
Eighty thousand new populations consume almost 1.46 million cubic meters of fresh water each year.
In addition to the previous old residential areas, gradual renovation has also begun.
You should know that before the technological transformation, Minqin County's annual living and poultry and livestock water supply totaled about 12.45 million cubic meters, and this water supported the local population of 170,000.
If the sewage treatment system and water pipeline are comprehensively renovated and upgraded, and the drinking water for livestock is cut off, it is estimated that in terms of domestic water, the entire Minqin County only needs 5 million cubic meters of fresh water, which can save 7.45 million cubic meters of fresh water.
These saved fresh water will be used as industrial water for Minqin High-tech Industrial Park.
The water use of this high-tech industrial park has also fully adopted water-saving technology to ensure that the water recycling rate within the park can reach 95%.
Let 7.45 million cubic meters of fresh water basically have an effect similar to 149 million cubic meters of fresh water.
After all, one cubic meter of fresh water needs to be recycled about 20 times before it will be basically consumed.
The water resource utilization scale equivalent to the region's annual increase by about 20 times.
Of course, the technological improvement of the scale of these water resources is limited to cities and industrial areas. If it is agriculture, animal husbandry and rural areas, it is difficult to recycle and reuse the water resources used.
After all, water for irrigation, water for livestock, and water for domestic use in small rural areas is either difficult to recycle, or it is not cost-effective to build a special pipeline network and water purification system.
But over time.
Gansu province has also learned from Minqin, preparing to comprehensively transform the water pipeline networks in urban and industrial areas starting next year to ensure that the scale of domestic and industrial water is reduced without increasing the current water resources, and a part of the additional share will be given to agricultural water and ecological water replenishment.
This can further enhance the agricultural potential of Gansu province while restoring the ecosystem of some rivers.
In fact, it is not only Gansu Province that has such ambitious plans. Areas such as Qin Province, southern Desert, Western Regions, and Jin Province, which are generally restricted by water resources and cannot obtain freshwater through seawater desalination technology have begun to study how to maximize the internal water recycling rate.
This is the most feasible solution to the problem of water shortage in these areas.
As for the idea of laying water pipelines from the coast and transporting water to the inland.
In addition to large plains with flat terrain such as the North China Plain, those second-level staircase areas with relatively high terrain are basically no need to imagine.
Even if it is the water transfer plan in eastern desert designed by Hailufeng Company, it is because the eastern desert is very close to the Bohai Sea and there are still a large number of natural rivers to use, which is feasible.
Similar to the central and western southern desert, Jin Province, Qin Province, Gansu Province, Hetao, and Western Regions, there is no condition for large-scale long-distance water transmission.
Therefore, the optimal solution is to improve the local water recycling rate as much as possible and increase the interception of the Yellow River flow.
(This chapter ends)