Chapter 639 New Eastern European Integration
The Randall Group's super high-speed rail project is an important part of the Illuminati's plan to change the world. From Li Jie to Tony to Rogers, they all understand the importance of this.
And Dr. Banner is equally aware of the importance of this matter. In this world, because of the lack of sufficient connectivity, each region began to become separated.
Li Jie also absorbed Dr. Banner through the super high-speed rail project as a selling point. Although he has not yet considered whether to absorb him into the Illuminati, Dr. Banner is already an indispensable and important force for the super high-speed rail project.
To build a super high-speed railway, turn the earth into a real global village, and change the world through connectivity is an irresistible temptation for Dr. Banner.
So after joining the Randall Group, Dr. Banner almost forgot to eat and sleep and began to improve the entire railway system while making various plans.
In fact, Daniel's father, the old Mr. Randall (that is, the previous generation of Iron Fist) has done quite a lot of homework when building the original super high-speed rail plan.
Many of the old Randall's preparations and experiments have been successful, including the laying of new tracks and the towing of the front and the car body, which are close to the finished product. And a whole set of planned drawings and experimental data.
At that time, the biggest constraint on the old Randall came from the energy aspect. There is only so much energy that can be produced after traditional petroleum energy is burned, and it is not enough to drive the operation of the super high-speed rail system.
So at that time, the old Randall once proposed such a concept. That is to lay ultra-high-voltage transmission lines along the railway line, and use ultra-high-voltage electric energy to transport electric energy for the railway system. In this way, the normal operation of the entire railway system can be guaranteed.
But this design has many risks. First of all, not to mention the damage that natural disasters will cause to UHV lines, once the power energy is damaged, the railway system along the line will also be damaged, and the chain reaction triggered by it may cause terrible railway traffic accidents.
Leaving aside safety, just talking about UHV power transmission and transformation technology, this technology has only been mastered by four countries in the world until today.
This technical threshold alone limits the spread of super high-speed rail systems around the world. After all, it is impossible for ordinary countries to have the ability to configure the power system along the railway.
And even countries that have mastered this power transmission system are unwilling to accept this kind of plan, because ultra-high voltage power transmission and transformation projects are too expensive. It is this power system that requires the funds to drive many countries into fiscal deficits.
So old Randall's project, while good, was not practical at all.
Until Tony's new energy is developed, the special Ark battery can meet the energy supply of the entire super high-speed railway.
After the Horizon Foundation invested in Daniel and allowed him to regain the dominance of the Randall Group, Tony began to develop this special train energy. At present, it has entered the stage of small-scale mass production.
As for the Randall Group, because the old Randall had done a lot of work in those years, the whole plan tended to be perfected. When Dr. Banner enters the master plan, what is needed is to search for missing items. And fix some minor issues.
At the same time, let Dr. Banner make advance plans for the super high-speed railways that may appear in the future.
But one question I have to say is, will all countries like the super high-speed rail system?
The answer is not necessarily. Because at the speed of the super high-speed railway, build a railway across the Bering Strait, from Shanghai Unicom to New York's super high-speed railway, so that the journey speed between the two places will be shortened to only two hours.
The speed of traditional flights is one-tenth of this super high-speed rail system, and the carrying capacity of airplanes cannot be compared with that of railroads.
The rise of super high-speed rail will inevitably disrupt the state power structure in the world today, because it will represent the rise of a new generation of land power era.
And the era of sea power that ruled the earth for hundreds of years will also decline from now on. Because it is not only flights that are affected, the most affected is actually shipping.
For example, the fluorescent tubes produced in Guangdong are filled with ten containers, and it may take a month by sea to be shipped to supermarkets in the United States for sale.
And it may take a month before all the fluorescent tubes are sold out. The total value of ten containers of fluorescent tubes from cost to transportation to sale exceeds millions of dollars. But it may only take a month for a factory to produce these fluorescent tubes.
But it takes two months to ship and sell. The time cost of this is astonishingly high!
To change my mind, if we were in Shanghai today, we fell in love with an old clock sold in a second-hand shop in New York. Buying online, you may have to wait a month or two to receive the item. Maybe I forgot about it when I received the goods.
Shipping by sea is too costly! Not only a waste of capital, but also a waste of time for both the seller and the buyer.
Just as Li Jie said to Dr. Banner, the realization of the super high-speed railway plan will connect the world into a close one.
In the morning, part A can be produced in the United States, and part B can also be produced in China, and then they can be shipped together to Mexico or Nepal in the afternoon, and the two parts A and B can be assembled into product C.
Since then, sugar from South Africa, wood from Madagascar, fruits from South America, etc., etc., and so on, can be purchased at low prices in supermarkets all over the world because of geographical relations that make the price much higher than the origin.
The mobility of the population will also become active due to the extremely convenient transportation. Dr. Banner still remembers the inspiring words of Li Jie when he persuaded him.
"This is a new era of great exploration, but this is no longer a game played by several European countries. In the previous era, people sailed far away for spices and gold, for profit and colonization! It was a bloody game between great powers, it is The relationship between deprivation and deprivation."
"And now, the new era of great exploration of mankind has begun to take steps. We are tired of that kind of bloody game, this time what we need is to join the earth! Make the world flat! We can go to the whole world at will! any corner of the
"Let the food from the big food country be sold at a low price to the areas where the price of food is high. Let people in poor areas go to work in other areas. Let children in remote areas receive the same education as in big cities!"
Dr. Banner still remembered the light in Li Jie's eyes when he said this, a kind of confidence and enthusiasm that Banner once had in his youth. At that time, Banner believed that his scientific research was to change the world and eliminate unnecessary wars.
At that time, Li Jie stared into Dr. Banner's eyes, waved his fist and said, "Maybe everything I said today is just delusional. Because there are all kinds of resistance in this world. The era of continental power challenges the era of sea power. The straits and sea nodes we control will die one by one."
"Even if they know what is correct and what is advanced, there will still be politicians to stop it. Because for some people, personal interests are far higher than the interests of the nation and the interests of all mankind!"
"However, even so. I still chose to fight against those traditional tyrants. To them, maybe I and we are just small people. But small people have the energy of small people! Give me a fulcrum, and I can move the entire earth !"
"It's time to break the old old world. It's time to build a new world. Change the earth, connect the world, and flatten the earth. Build a new order!"
At that time, Li Jie stretched out his palm to Dr. Banner: "Come on, let's change the world together. And all this is just the beginning!"
Dr. Banner still remembered how emotional he was at that time, he reached out and held Li Jie together. He's already thought about the problems the Hyperloop will face in the sales process.
Traditional sea power powers will definitely run this kind of thing that changes the world pattern and become popular. At the same time, these sea powers firmly hold the right to speak in this world. Even if other countries want a super high-speed rail system, they need to consider the reaction of those powerful countries politically.
After all, it would be bad if there were brokerage sanctions. Not all countries can be as tough as the small northern countries. After all, citizens of most countries still need to eat.
But when the super high-speed rail project was just gaining traction, an unexpected client found its way.
A country that can completely ignore the traditional sea power, and even defeated Russia, which is known as the world's army power, retreating steadily.
Banner had to call Tony, and at the same time gave Li Jie a call. Because this matter is beyond his personal decision, he doesn't know what kind of impact it will have on the world if he really agrees to this sale intention.
In front of Dr. Banner was an explanatory plan [Latvian super high-speed railway purchase plan and new Eastern European Union integration plan].
Dum decided to connect the former Commonwealth of Independent States countries again, and the integration of the new Eastern Europe has been put on the table!
And thinking in terms of your big toe gives you an idea of how much conflict there is that could erupt. To the east of the New Eastern European Commonwealth is Russia, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, and to its west is the traditional Western European sea power.
The integration of the new Eastern Europe, a double-edged sword with unpredictable consequences, may also become the first breaker in the new world, and the first crack to break the old has already appeared.