Chapter 160 An Unavoidable Compromise (4k)

Under normal circumstances, procrastination can solve most problems.

No matter how powerful perovskite cells are as a new generation of solar cells, they also have limitations.

Photovoltaic power stations, energy storage, and large-scale transmission networks are a complete series of projects. It does not mean that the project is over once the photovoltaic power generation is completed.

Not all countries have the money and the courage to carry out large-scale transformation. The status of oil will at most be shaken, but it will not be replaced.

But this year is 2024, an election year, and the offensive and defensive game in the election has already begun.

Silicon Valley's rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence and all kinds of dazzling new technologies can only help them consolidate their base headed by California, but cannot radiate their tentacles to a wider range.

This won't help the Democrats win the most critical swing states.

At the same time, it is equally critical that the human hibernation technology has been paused. Standing on the wrong side of geopolitical conflicts, the White House has made almost all decisions that offend voters.

The traditional voting groups of the Donor Party, including academia, environmentalists, ethnic minorities, and students, have almost all been offended.

Even the student group is deeply hurt by the Donkey Party's behavior of talking big but not delivering on its promises.

In its election campaign, the Democratic Party said it would implement an education debt relief plan to ease the repayment pressure on students who have borrowed money to go to college.

He has been saying this since his election campaign before this term. Four years later, he is still using the same rhetoric. It sounds too ridiculous now.

Why? Because education debt relief involves federal finances and requires congressional approval.

Between 2020 and 2022, the Donkey Party was the majority party in parliament, but they lost their majority status in the mid-2022 elections.

You didn't pass this bill when you were the majority party, so how can you pass it when you become the minority party? How can your rival party watch you use federal funds to please your potential voters?

Even at the election convention, they were talking about plans that might be passed before the November election.

Students who have been fooled once will not believe it a second time.

Therefore, at this time, every decision is crucial.

They need to race against time and do everything they can to win over voters.

And perovskites aren’t just about voters; they’re about practical interests.

After Stephen finished his report, Jeffrey stood up and said:

"If we can reach an agreement with China to introduce perovskite battery technology, we speculate that launching a large-scale photovoltaic power station construction plan will be the one with the highest return rate among all our infrastructure plans.

Especially at this point in time, its rate of return has a good chance of outperforming the Federal Reserve’s interest rate.”

Jeffrey's words sounded 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 where the infrastructure dividend has already passed, it is almost impossible to get such a high return rate by investing in infrastructure.

"With the Fed's interest rate hike, now is the time when the US dollar is the most valuable, and the exchange rate between us and the RMB is at its high point. This is the time to choose to purchase China's latest photovoltaic modules on a large scale.

The federal government has urgently introduced a policy to impose tariffs on China's clean energy industry. Through high exchange rates and tariffs, costs can be reduced to an unprecedented level.

Considering America's sunlight intensity and the penetration rate of new energy, the rate of return 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 treasury bonds and stopping the purchase of gold. "

This is the benefit of having baquan, you can still do things well even when you are in a disadvantageous position, so when they accuse you of baquan you'd better really mean it.

"What about the campaign?"

Jeffrey sighed inwardly. Everyone has grand dreams when they are young, but as time goes by, dreams will always be pulled back to earth by the gravity of reality.

When he was young, he believed that being in politics required considering the interests of America. But after the Democratic primary won and he followed the Democratic primary into the White House, he discovered that everyone only cared about how to win and make profits for themselves and the capital monster they were in.

Even the promises made to voters before the election were forgotten as soon as they turned around.

How to keep his position this year and deal a heavy blow to those who try to make a comeback is obviously one of the few pleasures left in his life.

He was not afraid of the embarrassment of allowing the import of light armor aerospace technology after the previous ban. What he was afraid of was being promoted as tg by the opposition parties.

Although tg felt that the world was wide open as soon as he thought about it, he could not stick to the hat no matter what.

This is a red line that cannot be crossed.

Jeffrey quickly said, "This is not a compromise, this is definitely not a compromise, but a sacrifice we make for this, and this will be your achievement during your tenure.

In order to prevent global warming and delay the onset of a climate crisis, we are willing to sacrifice carbon emissions and carbon neutrality, even if it means importing large quantities of photovoltaic products from China."

Jeffrey knew that media outlets like Fox, which were biased towards the Democratic Party, would certainly portray this as a compromise with China, but the same thing would look different from a different perspective.

Media outlets like CNN and the New York Times will tout 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. We need to see the construction of these power stations not only in California, but also in Florida, Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina and other swing states.

We need to see a large number of photovoltaic power stations appear in these places before August this year."

Compared with China, the popularity of new energy vehicles in America is still not enough. The latest data shows that new energy vehicles account for only 16.3% of all American household cars. Considering that they are concentrated in California, this number is lower than expected.

“Based on the number of electric vehicle registrations in each state last year, the top five states in terms of electric vehicle ownership are California, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin and New Jersey.

Florida and Wisconsin are both swing states, and large-scale new photovoltaic power stations will help us win the election in these two states." Jeffrey asserted.

“Since we are going to introduce perovskite batteries, can we also introduce their human hibernation technology?”

The ban on the import of human hibernation technology from China also caused widespread protests.

The human hibernation center plan in Texas was urgently halted, but the federal government has not stopped allowing illegal immigrants to enter the country.

Not only Texas, but even politically correct states like California have realized the benefits of human hibernation centers for overall public security. At least the probability of zero-dollar purchases has indeed been reduced. For America, it is a very profitable thing to hibernate social instability factors at such a low cost.

All you need is a venue and equipment to make these unstable factors disappear. As for their own wishes, drawing indescribable objects is to escape reality, and hibernation is a healthier way to escape reality.

Originally, the Democratic Party was worried that the unstable factors had gone into hibernation, so who would vote for them?
You must know that illegal immigrants and ethnic minorities have always been an important source of votes for the Democratic Party.

Now this problem has been solved, because China's human hibernation technology can be used to awaken people. All they have to do is act as human voting machines. They hibernate during normal times, wake up on the day of voting, cast their votes, and then go back into hibernation.

No, the Donor Party wants to do something even more extreme. They don't need to wake up. They can just mail their ballots and have the human hibernation center vote for them.

As for their own wishes, it doesn't matter.

Who will vote for the Human Hibernation Center? Whoever advocates the construction will control it.

The Donkey Party thinks this is a genius idea, but it sounds a bit devilish.

Because of geopolitical reasons, the Donald Trump Party has always stood on the side of injustice, which has triggered widespread protests and various movements to boycott the Donald Trump Party. Even its iron-clad vote bank does not seem to be that iron-clad (referring to ethnic minorities).

Now there is a way to make some of the ethnic minorities directly and passively vote for the Democratic Party, so why not use it?

"I'll report this 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 Arcadia, and their intention is to promote it as a self-developed human hibernation technology.

All equipment is produced in Mexico, and only a few parts are used from China, and these parts are not from Guangjia Technology, but from Xiaomi. "

"Xiaomi? The mobile phone manufacturer from China?"

He was impressed by Xiaomi because his predecessor had blacklisted Xiaomi and he released Xiaomi from the blacklist.

Among them, Wall Street lobbyists often mentioned Xiaomi to him.

“That’s right, Xiaomi is not on our blacklist, they can cooperate with us, it’s completely legal.

Xiaomi provides some parts, the equipment is assembled in Mexico, and the final encryption data is provided by Guangjia Technology. However, the transaction of encrypted data is completely private, no one will know, and no one will dare to leak it.

On paper, this is a technological breakthrough that is entirely Arcadia’s.”

Jeffrey went on to say: “The whole chain, because Guangjia Technology and Xiaomi have cooperation in automobiles, this money is paid by Xiaomi Motors to Xiaomi as a licensing fee for five technology patents.

Then Xiaomi will sell the parts to Arcadia, and Arcadia will pay Xiaomi, and there will be no mention of Light Armor Technology being involved in this matter.”

This sounds reasonable and is actually reasonable. Piezoelectric materials are used in times like this. Light Armor Technology only buys an encrypted string of signals to Arcadia, and Arcadia uses this string of signals to activate the human hibernation device.

As for why they need to obtain the consent of the White House, it is because it needs to be kept confidential. Only if one of the Donkey Party or the Elephant Party helps them cover up the matter will there be no loopholes in this matter.

The production base is in Mexico, no one can find out anything unusual, and there are people in Washington cooperating. Anyone who dares to speak will face the same fate as Joseph, either being shot or run over by a truck.

The White House was not aware of this beforehand, and if it were discovered later, they would all face the risk of huge lawsuits or even imprisonment.

"No problem, do it! This is my political achievement. I also agreed on the perovskite battery. Go and convince the people who need to be convinced. Tell the damn Musk that if he wants to introduce perovskite batteries, he has to show us his sincerity!"

Musk publicly supported the Elephant Party and acquired Twitter, which dealt a heavy blow to the Donkey Party.

You should know that Musk has always voted for the Donkey Party. The capital behind social media such as FB, INS, and Google all support the Donkey Party. Social platforms such as Twitter do not stand on the side of the Donkey Party, which is equivalent to tearing a huge hole in their public opinion position.

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 drastic measures have to be taken at this time.

“Are they split?”

"I think they're crazy."

People in China expressed complete incomprehension of the remarks made by senior American officials after their visit to China.

On the one hand, they said that China should reduce subsidies for the green energy industry, believing that this would lead to unfair competition. On the other hand, they said that China's latest solar cells would be allowed to enter the American market in the future, but tariffs would be imposed.

This is very contradictory. Imposing tariffs means that Chinese companies will raise prices, and raising prices means reducing competitiveness. You are already reducing the competitiveness of Chinese companies in the international market, and then you don't allow us to provide subsidies to improve their competitiveness.

Then let’s just say that Chinese companies shouldn’t compete with American companies.

American announced a special license for perovskite battery technology, an order that took only a week to pass from the White House to the Commerce Department.

Musk couldn't wait to announce on Twitter: "We will be offering all Cybertrucks with a new solar cell option.

This will make the Cybertruck even more like a futuristic product.”

It is also accompanied by a rendering of the Cybertruck truck equipped with perovskite batteries in the Texas factory, which makes its appearance even more futuristic under the sun.

Of course, the price is equally attractive. The optional perovskite battery requires an additional $3.5, which is times the price of China's new energy vehicle companies. The fastest appointment time for adding optional features on Tesla's official website has been booked until next year.

Because Tesla's delivery capacity is limited, the number of global reservations has exceeded 150 million vehicles, and more than 150 percent of these million vehicles have chosen to install solar cells.

This makes China's new energy vehicle companies envious. It is still easier to make money from foreigners, while in China, it is almost impossible to make any money by installing optional equipment worth 20,000 RMB.

All the money was earned by photovoltaic manufacturers.

They only made a small profit, and the real big profit was taken by Guangjia Aerospace.

According to the forecasts of Lujiazui financial institutions, with America giving the green light to China's perovskite batteries, the expected annual increased revenue for Guangjia Aerospace will be at least more than US$20 billion.

(End of this chapter)