Lei Zhang
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Natural energy, agriculture, then transferred to muscle power.
Since the revolution, our global GDP expanded 100 times because we are using 100 times more energy.
So abundant fossil fuel energy has been turned and created forces to drive the machines, created materials like steel, created fertilizer to improve the food production.
Today, it's even creating tremendous intelligence for humanity.
So how can we unlock such a big potential from desert to push humanity to a next level of prosperity?
Because when our solar radiation is able to meet our entire annual demand of energy, it is free and it is green.
In front of Gobi,
we have to solve three challenges.
The first one, how can we capture the rough and the raw wind energy?
Just as steam engine is able to turn coal energy into motion, we end up with wind turbine to capture wind energy to turn into electricity.
Most importantly,
is to really design a wind turbine that is able to survive in extreme wind conditions in the desert.
Secondly, how can we avoid building long-distance or thousand-mile transmission lines, which are costly and extremely expensive?
We end up with the largest off-grid renewable system by integrating wind turbine, solar panel storage with AI orchestrations.
Okay, then the last remaining challenge.
How can we utilize such abundant locally made electricity?
we end up with a solution to build net zero industrial park, which is going to produce energy-intensive products like batteries and green hydrogen and ammonia, those green molecules.
Why green ammonia?
One ton of green ammonia is able to hold 10,000 kilowatt-hour electricity.
Most importantly, the green molecule is so important for us to decarbonize our economic system.