Chapter 767 Subsea Highway

? However, after thinking for a long time, Jiang Chen couldn't figure out what the "just in case" meant.

Is it to leave the fire for the Third Reich, or is it for something else?

Moreover, this fortress is only a design drawing. Whether the head of state sent people to Antarctica and built the doomsday fortress according to the instructions of the Void Remnants is still unknown. And judging from its position on this map, the fort seems to be lost in blizzards all year round. Whether they can survive in such a place is also an unsolved mystery.

Want to visit Antarctica?

This idea suddenly appeared in Jiang Chen's mind, and it swelled out of control.

The refuge can't control the direction of the war, at most it provides a lingering grave for the losers. No matter how you think about it, there is no point in doing so. However, the survivors in the void will not insert a piece of useless information into this message for no reason. The reason why they did this must have their reasons...

But what could it be?

...

The next day, Jiang Chen, who had already enjoyed himself in Penglai City, brought Aisha and Xia Shiyu back to Keluo Island.

Due to work reasons, Natasha got on the plane the day before the charity gala and went back to Moscow. So on this return flight, there were only Jiang Chen and the others.

Back on the island, Xia Shiyu's first thing was to go home to put her luggage, and the second thing was to go to the Future Man Building. A week without stepping through the door of an office must have accumulated work as high as a hill. Although her assistant can help her deal with some documents, many issues related to the direction of the group's operation must be decided by her as the backbone.

Jiang Chen took Ayesha back to the villa, and after a short rest, he also started to get busy.

On the one hand, he is preparing for his trip to the South Pole. On the other hand, he is currently planning to build an undersea road tunnel to connect the nine islands of Panu into a whole. In this way, people do not need to travel by car or boat at the same time, and can go to any corner of Xinguo directly by car.

If you want to get rich, build roads first. This is an eternal truth. If there is such an undersea tunnel that can connect the nine islands of the Panu Islands into a whole, it will have a huge boost to the economy of the entire new country.

Among other things, once this tunnel is completed, the demand for cars in Xinguo will definitely rise to a higher level.

But having said that, building this tunnel is not an easy task.

There are many methods for building subsea tunnels, and there are four representative ones, such as the drilling and blasting method in Qingdao and Xiamen, the immersed tube method in Xiangjiang, the boring machine method in the English Channel, and the shield tunneling method in Japan.

However, all four methods have one thing in common.

That is expensive! Not so expensive!

Taking Huaguo as an example, the Dalian-Yantai high-speed railway subsea tunnel under construction is 123 kilometers long, and the project cost is as high as 260 billion yuan, with an average cost of more than 2 billion yuan per kilometer! Even if the cost of high-speed rail is 129 million per kilometer, it is still a terrifying figure to build such a pipeline!

And this budget is just a conservative estimate!

If you want to connect all the nine islands of Panu, it is not as simple as 123 kilometers. The straight-line distance between the southernmost Anga Island and Koro Island exceeds 150 kilometers, which is equivalent to the distance from Wanghai to Hangzhou.

It is conservatively estimated that if this subsea tunnel that can connect all the nine islands of Panu is to be built, the subsea part of the expressway will need to be at least 300 kilometers long. If this project is contracted to a construction company in Huaguo, the entire project will cost Jiang Chen at least 60 billion US dollars.

Sixty billion U.S. dollars, good guy, this money is enough to build two more Penglai cities! Even if the Future Group has money, it obviously can't spend it in this way.

Fortunately, Futureman Heavy Industry has made a breakthrough in graphene technology. In the two fields of semiconductor graphene and high-strength nanomaterials, it can be said that there is no scientific research institution in the whole world that is the opponent of Futureman Group's materials science laboratory.

Among them, the graphene plate applied to the future human building is a breakthrough to lower the construction cost of the subsea tunnel. If a material tougher than steel can be used as the outer wall of the subsea tunnel, the progress of the entire project will undoubtedly be much easier.

At the beginning of April, Future Heavy Industry selected a partner from hundreds of construction companies around the world through public bidding - Victoria Construction Company registered in Xiangjiang. This construction company has designed and constructed two submarine highways for Xiangjiang, and has a deep knowledge of immersed tube construction technology.

Considering that the immersed tube method is more suitable for the performance of graphene materials, Jiang Chen finally chose this company as a partner.

After the successful bidding, the Victoria Construction Company immediately sent Wu Weiye, an engineer for the subsea tunnel, to Xinguo to contact Future Heavy Industry to discuss the construction plan of the subsea tunnel using graphene materials.

After getting off the plane at Koro Island, Jiang Chen immediately invited him to the high-tech industrial park on Anga Island.

In the center of the spacious factory building, there is a semi-cylindrical archway about twelve meters wide and five meters high. The walls of the archway are completely transparent, but the luster of glass cannot be seen on the surface.

Leading Wu Weiye to the side of the transparent archway, Jiang Chen took the hammer from the staff and swung it hard.

Boom——

Only a muffled sound was heard, and the sound continued to echo in the closed archway. Wu Weiye looked along Jiang Chen Luohammer's seat, his eyes widened in shock.

"This is our sample." Jiang Chen smiled and threw the hammer on the staff's hand, clapped his hands and looked at Wu Weiye, "The outer wall of the tunnel made of graphene material is ten times stronger than molybdenum-nickel steel, and it extends longitudinally. It is stronger than all metal materials, except that the problem of high temperature resistance has not been solved... Of course, there should not be so many chances of catching fire when soaked in the sea.”

"A car accident may happen in the tunnel, and a car accident may cause a fire, even at the bottom of the sea." While stroking the outer wall of the graphene archway, Wu Weiye murmured to himself, "But we can paint the inner wall Flame retardant, this is easy to solve..."

After a pause, Wu Weiye withdrew his hand, looked back at Jiang Chen, and asked seriously.

"How much does this graphene material cost?"

"Just this archway, about 700 dollars per meter."

One meter is seven hundred dollars, one kilometer is seven hundred thousand dollars, this cost is simply cheaper than steel! If such a large amount of money can be saved on materials, the construction cost of the entire project will undoubtedly be reduced several times!

Thinking of this, Wu Weiye looked at Jiang Chen with fiery eyes.

This kind of graphene pipe, Victoria Construction Company must find a way to get it! If such high-strength, low-cost building materials can be obtained, Victoria will undoubtedly gain strong market competitiveness in the global subsea tunnel construction market.

Not to mention the quality of the project, the cost alone is enough to kill countless competitors.

Victoria Construction Company must establish a long-term strategic partnership with Future Heavy Industries!

Wu Weiye had already made up his mind. After today's trip was over, he would call the boss when he returned to the hotel where he was staying, and make sure to explain the pros and cons clearly. If this business is successful, it will be a great achievement. It is not a dream to get promoted and make a fortune!

That fiery gaze made Jiang Chen shudder, and he involuntarily distanced himself from this guy.

Hold the grass, this guy can't be good at that...

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(I caught a cold as soon as I got home. I took my temperature yesterday, and it was 38.1 degrees. I fell asleep after taking the medicine, and my head was dizzy. After writing two chapters, I couldn’t survive it... The promised outbreak can only It's been a day late, I'm really sorry, I tried my best t.t) (To be continued.)