Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 654: Big Hero 6
"If surgical robots can be domestically produced, how low can the price of a surgical robot go?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
Currently, the biggest issue with promoting surgical robots is that the price is too high.
The cost of a single surgical robot exceeds the lifetime salary of a lead surgeon.
For many small hospitals, it's completely not cost-effective.
If domestic surgical robots can bring the price down, the market would expand greatly.
"For domestic surgical robots, we can currently manage to get the price to about three to four million,"
Xu Jinfeng said truthfully, "At present, the most mature domestic laparoscopic surgical robots are priced about fifty percent lower than international surgical robots.
The price advantage is very apparent, but there's not much room to go lower. Mainly because many surgical robot patents are currently held by major foreign companies.
If we want to further reduce costs, we need to wait for these patents to expire and also develop some new patents ourselves."
Three million.
Chen Yiyang did some calculations.
A regular lead surgeon in a second-tier city might earn at most about five hundred thousand a year.
Three million is enough to hire a lead surgeon for six years.
Moreover, machines have operating costs; each use entails an expense, fair and square.
But that's not necessarily true for people.
Even if they work overtime, there's no guarantee of overtime pay.
If the machine is purchased and the hospital doesn't do well, if it breaks down, finding someone to fix it still incurs repair costs.
But that's not necessarily true for people, who might have to share the burden willingly.
So, even though domestic models can bring the price of surgical robots down to three million,
they still can't be the first choice for hospitals outside first-tier cities.
Furthermore, even if you have a surgical robot, you still need to hire someone specifically to operate it, which still costs money.
However, high-tech devices like computers and phones were also prohibitively expensive initially, beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Didn't their prices gradually come down later?
So in the field of surgical robots, which is bound to develop and whose market is bound to expand, there's still significant investment potential.
If the surgical robot company Chen Yiyang invested in can steadily develop for a dozen years,
even if it doesn't keep up with the trend and become a major surgical robot company,
as long as it retains some technical patents and some unique technology, it can still do well as a supplier.
Thus, Chen Yiyang finally decided to invest in the company.
He discussed the general terms of the investment with Xu Jinfeng, and after seeing her off,
Chen Yiyang received a call from Yang Chengru, who invited him over for a meal at his apartment.
So Chen Yiyang brought two boxes of good tea and went straight to Yang Chengru's apartment.
"How much is this tea worth?" Yang Chengru asked immediately after glancing at the tea upon Yiyang's arrival.
"Don't worry. These were gifts from others. They never entered the market after being picked, so there's no price. It's such a small amount, and I don't drink it, so I'm giving it all to you,"
said Chen Yiyang as he set the tea down.
With great ambitions and familial support, Chengru is always very cautious about such matters.
"Have a seat," Yang Chengru motioned for Chen Yiyang to sit down.
He had bought some ingredients today to make hot pot for Chen Yiyang at his apartment.
The two chatted while eating.
Soon, they ran out of topics.
Directly, Chen Yiyang said, "What did you want to talk to me about today?"
"It's something good, I suppose," Yang Chengru thought for a moment before speaking, "I recently got some news.
Our country's commercial floating power generation system is about to be developed successfully, with trials imminent.
Are you interested in getting involved? If so, the government can provide support and subsidies to set one up in Lin'an."
As a city focused on high-tech development, Lin'an naturally places importance on clean energies like wind power, having conducted three decentralized power projects previously.
This year, Lin'an's installed wind power capacity reached 50,000 kW, with ambitions to double that in the coming years.
There's a rumor online that wind power is practically useless, with no practical value.
It's even said that many regions in Europe and America have begun abandoning wind power because it's unusable.
Some claim Huaxia's wind power projects exist merely to milk subsidies.
This rumor arose primarily due to past shortcomings in wind power.
While the investment costs of wind power are high, the operating costs are low, and it's more environmentally friendly than thermal power and safer than nuclear power.
Yet previously, wind power faced a major issue: the windy locations were too remote, far from cities.
So when electricity was generated, there was still the problem of transporting it to where it was needed, or it would simply go to waste. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
Including in Europe and America, earlier wind power projects focused solely on generation rather than storage.
This led everyone to concentrate solely on generating electricity and then using the grid to transport it where needed.
However, in practice, the costs turned out too high.
In some areas, costs even surpassed those of thermal power.
This dampened enthusiasm for wind power generation.
Yet in recent years, with the rise of related industries like electric vehicles,
the energy storage sector has also grown rapidly.
So a simpler way to preserve wind power was discovered.
That is, storing the electricity immediately after wind generation and then transporting it to areas not easily connected to the grid.
This, in turn, revitalized wind and photovoltaic power.
If energy storage can advance further, then the revolution in new energies like wind and solar will break through the final barrier.
So, given the current situation, wind power is no longer the "useless electricity" it once was but rather a very cheap source of energy.
However.
What Yang Chengru just mentioned was the commercial floating power generation system.
What is that? Why does it sound so science fiction?
So Chen Yiyang asked, "What's this floating power generation system you mentioned? I haven't heard about it before."
"I don't know much about it either," Yang Chengru said. "I asked some related people, and they said it's hard to explain in detail, but they sent me an image, saying it's roughly like what's in the picture."
As Yang Chengru spoke, he handed his phone to Chen Yiyang.
Chen Yiyang took a careful look at the picture on Yang Chengru's phone, thinking he remembered it being a screenshot from some North American sci-fi cartoon.
He vaguely recalled the animation possibly being called 'Big Hero 6'. Could it be the country has realized such a scientific scene from an animated film?
Big Hero 6 floating power generation system image.
