Chapter 160: A Compromise of Last Resort (4k)
In normal times, dragging words can solve most problems.
Perovskite cells are a new generation of solar cells, but they also have limitations.
Photovoltaic power stations, energy storage, and large-scale power transmission networks are a complete series of projects. It does not mean that I am done with the photovoltaic power generation.
Not all countries have the money and courage to carry out large-scale transformation. At most, the status of oil will be shaken, not replaced.
But this year is 2024, an election year, and everyone’s offensive and defensive game in the election has already begun.
Silicon Valley’s rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence and its various dazzling new technologies can only help them consolidate their base, led by California, but cannot radiate their tentacles further.
This cannot help the Donkey Party win the most critical swing states.
At the same time, pressing the pause button on human hibernation technology is equally critical. It is on the wrong side of geopolitical conflicts, and the White House has made almost all decisions that offend voters.
In the traditional sense, the voting groups of the Donkey Party, including academia, environmental protection circles, ethnic minorities, and students, have been almost completely offended.
Even the student community has been deeply hurt by the Donkey Party’s behavior of paying lip service but not delivering on the truth.
The Donkey Party said in its general election propaganda that it would implement an education debt relief plan to ease the pressure on students to repay the loans they borrowed for college.
This kind of talk has been said since his election propaganda before this term. Four years later, he still used the same rhetoric, but now it sounds too nonsense.
Why? Because education debt relief involves federal finances, it requires parliamentary approval.
Between 2020 and 2022, the party with the majority in parliament was the Donkey Party, and they lost their status as the majority party in the mid-2022 election.
You didn't pass this bill when you were in the majority party. How is it possible that you are in the minority party and are bringing it up again? How can your rival, the Elephant Party, watch you use federal funds to please your potential voters?
Even at the election meeting, what they said was a plan, which may be passed before the November election vote.
Students who have been fooled once will not believe it a second time.
So at this time, every decision is crucial.
They need to race against time and use all means to win over voters.
And perovskites are not only related to voters, but also related to actual interests.
After Stephen finished his report, Jeffrey stood up and said:
“If we can reach an agreement with China and introduce perovskite battery technology, according to our speculation, photovoltaic power generation will be launched on a large scale. The power station construction plan will have the highest rate of return among all our infrastructure plans.
Especially at this time, its rate of return has a chance to outperform the Federal Reserve’s interest rates.”
< br>Jeffrey’s words may sound a bit extreme. The Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate is as high as 5.25% to 5.5% at this time. For a country like America whose infrastructure dividend has passed, it is almost impossible to achieve such a large return on infrastructure construction. possible.
“With the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, now is the time when the U.S. dollar is most valuable, and the exchange rate between us and the RMB is at a high point. At this time, we choose to purchase China’s latest photovoltaic modules on a large scale.
By Federal Emergency The policy of imposing additional tariffs on China's clean energy industry can reduce costs to unprecedented levels through high exchange rates and tariffs.
Considering Americen's light intensity, penetration rate of new energy, and rate of return. It will continue to rise.
At the same time, we can use this as a bargaining chip to force China to come up with something to trade with us, such as buying more government bonds, stopping buying gold, etc. "
This is the advantage of having a baquan. Even if you are at a disadvantage, you can play well, so when they accuse you of being a baquan, you'd better be honest.
"What about the campaign propaganda?"
Jeffrey sighed inwardly. Everyone has grand dreams when they are young. As time goes by, dreams will always be pulled back by the gravity of reality. Earth.
When he was young, he believed that the interests of America needed to be considered in politics. However, after the Donkey Party won the victory and moved into the White House with the Donkey Party, he found that everyone only cared about how to win and give themselves and what they wanted. Capital monsters everywhere seek profit.
Even the promises made to voters before the election were turned around and forgotten.
How to keep his position this year and give a heavy blow to those who are trying to make a comeback is obviously one of the few joys he has left in his life.
He is not afraid of being embarrassed if he previously banned the import of light armor aerospace technology and now allows them to come in. What he is afraid of is that the opposition parties will use this as a reason to promote it.
Although tg felt that the world was vast when he thought of it, he could not stick to this hat no matter what.
This is the red line that cannot be touched.
Jeffrey quickly said, "This is not a compromise, this is by no means a compromise, but a sacrifice we have made in order to do so. This will be your political achievement during your tenure.
In order to prevent global climate change To continue warming and delay the onset of the climate crisis, we will not hesitate to make sacrifices for carbon emissions and carbon neutrality, even if China imports photovoltaic products on a large scale.”
Jeffrey knew that media like Fox that favored the Elephant Party would definitely promote this as a compromise with China, but the same thing would be different from another angle.
Media outlets like CNN and the New York Times will promote this as a great victory for the White House's environmental strategy.
“We need Tesla to compromise. Since Tesla wants to introduce China’s perovskite technology, the early photovoltaic power stations need to be built by them. This is not only needed in California. The construction of power stations has begun in Florida, Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina, etc. These swing states need to see results
We need to see this before August this year. There are a large number of photovoltaic power stations appearing in local areas.”
Compared with China, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in Americen is not enough. The latest data shows that new energy vehicles account for more than half of all Americen family cars. Accounting for only 16.3%, this number is lower than expected considering that they are concentrated in California.
“According to the number of electric vehicle registrations in each state last year, the top five states with the largest number of electric vehicles are California, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin and New Jersey.
Florida and Wisconsin are both swing states. , large-scale new photovoltaic power plants will help our elections in these two states,” Jeffrey asserted.
“Since we are going to introduce perovskite batteries, can we introduce their human hibernation technology?”
The ban on the import of China’s human hibernation technology has also caused widespread protests.
The human hibernation center plan in Texas was urgently halted, but the federal government did not stop letting illegal immigrants enter the country at all.
Not only Texas, but also politically correct states like California have realized the benefits of human hibernation centers to overall security. At least the probability of zero-dollar purchases has indeed been reduced. For Amerikan, it is a profitable thing to pull the unstable factors in society out of hibernation at such a low cost.
Only the venue and equipment are needed to make these unstable factors disappear. As for their own wishes, smoking indescribables is to escape reality, and hibernation is a healthier escape from reality. way.
Originally, the Donkey Party was worried that the unstable factors had gone into hibernation, and who would vote for them?
We must know that illegal immigrants and ethnic minorities have always been important sources of votes for the Donkey Party.
Now this problem has been solved, because China's human hibernation technology can be awakened. They only need to act as human voting machines. They sleep during normal times, wait until the day of voting, wake up and vote, and then fall into hibernation again. .
No, the Donkey Party wants to go even further. They don’t need to wake up. Anyway, they can mail the ballots and directly vote for them at the Human Hibernation Center.
As for their own wishes, it doesn't matter.
Who will vote for the human hibernation center? Whoever advocates the construction will control it.
Those within the Donkey Party think this is a genius idea, but it sounds a bit devilish.
In terms of geopolitics, the Donkey Party has always been on the unjust side, triggering widespread protests and various boycott movements against the Donkey Party. Even the iron ticket warehouse does not seem so ironclad (referring to ethnic minorities).
Now there is a way to make some ethnic minorities directly and passively vote for the Donkey Party, so why not use it?
"I will report this matter to you privately." Jeffrey said.
After the White House meeting on perovskite batteries was over, there were only two people left in the office. Jeffrey said:
“We have communicated with Acadia and their It means that in publicity, it claims to be an independently developed human hibernation technology.
All equipment is produced in Mexico and only requires a few parts from China, and these parts are not from Guangjia Technology, but from Xiaomi. ”
“Xiaomi? That mobile phone manufacturer in China? ”
He was deeply impressed by Xiaomi because his predecessor put Xiaomi on the blacklist, and he released Xiaomi from the blacklist.
Among them, there were many Wall Street lobbyists. He mentioned Xiaomi in front of him.
“Yes, Xiaomi is not on our blacklist. They can cooperate with us. This is completely legal.
Xiaomi provides some parts and components, and the equipment is assembled in Mexico, while the final required encrypted data is provided by Guangjia Technology. However, the transaction of encrypted data is completely private. No one will know about it, and no one will dare to leak it.
On the surface, this is a technological breakthrough entirely from Arcadia. "
Jeffrey continued: "The entire chain, because Guangjia Technology and Xiaomi have cooperation in automobiles, this money is paid to Xiaomi by Xiaomi Motors as a five-technology patent licensing fee.
Then Xiaomi sold the parts to Arcadia, and Arcadia paid Xiaomi. There will be no mention of Guangjia Technology being related to this matter anywhere. "
This sounds very reasonable, and it is actually very reasonable. Piezoelectric materials are used at this time. Guangjia Technology only buys an encrypted string of signals to Arcadia. Arcadia Take this string of signals to activate human hibernation equipment
As for why they need to obtain the consent of the White House, because it needs to be kept secret, only one of the Donkey Party or the Elephant Party helps them cover up this matter, and this matter will be completely flawless.
The production base is in Mexico. No one can detect anything unusual. There are people in Washington who cooperate. Anyone who dares to speak will face the same fate as Joseph, either being shot or run over by a truck.
The White House did not know about it beforehand, and if they were discovered afterwards, they would face the risk of huge lawsuits or even jail time.
“No problem, do it! This is my political achievement. I also agree with perovskite batteries. I will convince the people who need to be persuaded and tell damn Musk that if you want to introduce perovskite batteries, We have to see sincerity!”
Musk publicly supported the Elephant Party, and Musk acquired Twitter, which dealt a heavy blow to the Donkey Party.
You must know that Musk has always voted for the Donkey Party before. The capital behind social media such as FB, INS, and Google all support the Donkey Party. If social platforms like Twitter do not stand on the side of the Donkey Party, it is equivalent to tearing apart their public opinion position. A huge hole was made.
I really don’t want to give Tesla the green light.
Unfortunately, there has been a lack of political achievements to publicize in the past four years, so strong medicine is needed at this time.
“Are they splitting up?”
“I think they are probably crazy.”
People in China are completely incomprehensible to the remarks made by senior Amerikan officials after coming to China.
While saying that China should reduce subsidies to the green energy industry, believing that this will cause unfair competition, it also said that China’s latest solar cells will be allowed to enter the Amerikan market in the future, but tariffs will be imposed. .
This is very contradictory. The imposition of tariffs means that Chinese companies will raise prices, and raising prices means reducing competitiveness. This is already reducing the competitiveness of Chinese companies in the international market, and then it does not Let us give subsidies to increase competitiveness.
Then simply speaking, Chinese companies should not compete with American companies.
America announced a special license for perovskite cell technology, an order that took just one week to get from the White House to the Commerce Department.
Musk couldn't wait to announce on Twitter: "We will provide all Cybertrucks with new solar battery options.
This will make the Cybertruck more like a future product."< br>
At the same time, there is a rendering of the Cybertruck pickup equipped with perovskite batteries in the Texas factory, which looks more futuristic under the sun.
Of course, the price is equally beautiful. The optional perovskite battery requires an additional US$10,000. This price is 3.5 times that of Chinese new energy car companies, and Tesla’s official website adds the fastest reservation for optional options. The time has been reserved for next year.
Due to Tesla's limited delivery capacity, the number of global reservations has exceeded 1.5 million vehicles, and more than 70% of users of these 1.5 million vehicles have chosen to install solar cells.
This makes China's new energy car companies envious. It is still easy for foreigners to make money, but it is almost not profitable to install a domestic model worth 20,000 RMB.
All the money has been made by photovoltaic manufacturing companies.
They made a small profit, but the real big money was taken away by Guangjia Aerospace.
According to the predictions of financial institutions in Lujiazui, with Americen giving the green light to China’s perovskite cells, the expected annual increase in revenue for Guangjia Aerospace will exceed at least US$2 billion.
(End of this chapter)