Volume 6: The Twelve Wallfacers Chapter 10 Expanding Electricity Supply
The battle was in full swing in Jinzhou City, while Shen Jin was standing on the beach in Q City basking in the sun.
There were two middle-aged men standing behind him.
One is Long Taojia from the construction team, and the other is Jia Taolong from the Power Bureau who was promoted by Shang Qian.
The two were called over by Shen Jin and basked in the sun together on the beach.
Although they didn't know why Shen Jin called them here today or what new ideas the boss had, they just followed behind without saying a word, waiting for Shen Jin's next arrangement.
Shen Jin looked towards Hulu City in the northeast , with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
He did not participate in the battle in Jinzhou City because the two newly opened modules had a lot of new equipment, new machines, and new equipment, all of which required him to manufacture in order to increase the overall strength of Home No. 1.
During these three days of emergency processing, the workers worked 24 hours a day and produced new types of craftsman soul equipment for 2,200 extraordinary people.
Some people were bleeding and sweating in the front, some were working hard in the back, and Shen Jin chose to hide in the back.
If it wasn't for the fact that he didn't go...some battles couldn't be won, Shen Jin would rather lie at home, make weapons, machines, and supernatural food, and then eliminate all the zombies in China. The zombies would be reduced to ashes while he was chatting and laughing. This would be his ideal state.
Now, after killing Shen Ji, Shen Jin can finally return to his base to rest for a while, but staying at home also brings new troubles...
"Oh, electricity is such a big problem. There's a saying that goes... With electricity you can go anywhere, but without electricity you can't even take a single step, right, Lao Jia?"
What the hell is going on!
It is obvious that people can go anywhere in the world if they are right, but can hardly take a single step if they are wrong. Why are you making this up?
Jia Taolong complained in his heart and said righteously: "That's right, boss, that's what I said!"
Long Taojia looked at Jia Taolong with contempt, turned his head and said to Shen Jin flatteringly: "Boss is still amazing. The most difficult power problem after the end of the world has been solved in your hands. The entire headquarters of Home No. 1 and Hulu District and Hongshui District have no power problems. This is really a great revival of mankind!"
Jia Taolong vomited...
Shen Jin didn't look at the two lickers, but continued to look at the distant Hulu City on the coastline, shook his head and said: "Not enough, not enough! Our power generation... is stretched to the limit."
Jia Taolong was a little puzzled, because he was in charge of electricity, and naturally knew how terrifying the current power generation capacity of Home No. 1 was. The five nuclear power plants built on the mountains in the north and the more than 100 wind turbines around Home No. 1 could generate up to 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity every day!
If this happened before the end of the world, it would not be a problem to supply electricity to a city, let alone a province.
It is really hard to understand why the boss complains that the battery power is too little.
Shen Jin saw that the two were confused, so he explained: "If we look at it from the perspective of the pre-apocalyptic world, our electricity is more than enough to demolish several nuclear power plants, but in the future our equipment will all be powered by electricity, and the amount of electricity required to manufacture and use these powerful equipment is incalculable... There is no power that comes out of nowhere. To defeat the zombies with technology, we must achieve a qualitative change from quantity. In general, we need more electricity! No matter how much we have, we can consume it all, and the more the better. Electricity is everything!"
"Electricity is justice!"
In the [Industrial Module], Shen Jin can find the following power generation methods: thermal power, wind power, water power, semi-fluid power, nuclear power, geothermal power, solar power, etc.
Among them, hydraulic and semi-fluid power generation have not been used yet because of their very small and unstable power generation. As for geothermal energy, Shen Jin has not found the corresponding terrain to use. This kind of energy needs to be found in the lava area, which means... you have to install a [geothermal generator] in the volcano to absorb the geothermal energy inside.
As for solar power generation, Shen Jin gradually began to pay attention to it after activating the [Advanced Solar Energy] expansion module, and this is also the direction he will develop in the future.
The main power generation methods used now are wind power and nuclear power.
These are two very clean energy sources, so even though Home No. 1 produces a lot of electricity, it has no impact on the surrounding environment.
In the early days, Shen Jin used thermal power generation. The power generation of thermal power generation is not low, even higher than wind power, but it consumes a lot of [coal] and will produce a lot of pollution. Of course, this pollution is nothing for the current world. Before the end of the world, the main way of power generation in our country was thermal power generation. It’s just that Shen Jin kept a lot of [coal] to prepare for the production of [industrial diamonds] and carbon fiber armor...that is, nano armor.
"However, Li Zhe and his team have dug up a lot of coal from Province S, which is more than enough to make diamonds and nano armor . Perhaps we can consider using some thermal power to supplement the electricity in the future."
Of course, this is a plan that would only be considered in an emergency. Consumable energy cannot be used as the main energy source for long-term use in Home No. 1. Shen Jin needs too much electricity, and no matter how much coal is dug, it will not be enough.
"Old Dragon, how long is the coastline from here to Hulu District?"
"About 150 kilometers."
Long Tao's family knows all the data about this area.
Shen Jin nodded: "Old Jia, is the wind force on this coast... the strongest in Q City and Hulu City?"
"That's right. If it's wind power, it's best to build it on the coast. The more than 100 wind turbines you built earlier are right on the coast. The power generation effect is very ideal, even better than the windmills in the Netherlands."
Shen Jin smiled slightly. Of course, the generator produced by the system must surpass the technology of this era.
"Okay, it's decided then. Starting from where I'm standing, along the coastline all the way to Hulu District, all places will be equipped with wind turbines."
Shen Jin is going to do something big this time.
Wind power generation is a very clean energy source that is inexhaustible. Apart from the replacement of the [carbon rotor] once a year, there is almost no consumption.
Therefore, Shen Jin wants to get more wind turbines to supplement the insufficient electricity in Home No. 1. The requirements for wind turbines are quite stringent. First, they need an open space without any obstructions. Secondly, they need wind blowing all year round. And the wind turbines cannot be too close to each other, otherwise it will affect the absorption of wind power and conversion into electricity by other wind turbines.
Shen Jin had built more than 100 wind turbines in bits and pieces before, one here and one there, and they were enough to meet the daily consumption of the three bases.
The five nuclear power plants are used to make [iridium ingots], with an output of nearly 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity every day. With the help of the [Molecular Recombiner], a set of quantum armor can be produced in a day and a half.
During these three days, Shen Jin made two more sets of quantum armor, one for Sun Can and the other for his little niece.
After Sun Can got it, he said goodbye. Shen Jin didn't know why he was so anxious every day...
Next, he also plans to make 10 sets of quantum armor and give them to each captain.
With the popularization of quantum armor, the amount of electricity Shen Jin needs to consume every day is also increasing day by day. Quantum armor is a big electricity consumer. While it brings super high defense and super strong performance, the amount of electricity consumed every day is also an extremely terrifying number. It takes 4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to fully charge a set of quantum armor!
Making armor is a one-time thing, but recharging it needs to be consumed every day. When Shen Jin has 25 sets of quantum armor... charging all of them once will consume 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is enough to drain the power of 5 nuclear power plants in a day. It's very scary!
The more quantum armor Shen Jin produces, the more he needs to increase the power output of the base, so... within Shen Jin's territory, all places where wind turbines can be installed must not be left out. After all wind turbines are installed, other methods of power generation can be developed.
According to Shen Jin's many installation experiences, the two wind turbines must be separated by more than 300 meters in front, back, left and right order to achieve the maximum wind power utilization efficiency and not be affected by other rotors. It is also best to stagger them in front and back.
Jia Taolong obviously also studied Shen Jin's machine. He gave a very professional opinion: "Boss, the coastline from here to Hulu District is 150 kilometers. Before the end of the world, this area was not developed. There were few places with a large number of buildings. Most of them were tourist attractions or a small number of fishing boats and warehouses. After cleaning, this 150-kilometer route can almost be equipped with [wind turbines]. The most reasonable spacing for our wind turbines is 300 meters, and the buildings from the coast to the inland... 300 meters is already the limit. Except for some small amounts of terrain, we should be able to place two rows of [wind turbines]. In other words, we can place a maximum of 1,000 [wind turbines] on this 150-kilometer coastline. In actual construction, there may be some errors in the upper and lower numbers, but the difference is not large."
1,000 units, this is the number given by Jia Taolong.
Shen Jin did some calculations in his mind. On average, a wind turbine can generate more than 70,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day. So 1,000 wind turbines would generate 70 million kilowatt-hours, equivalent to three and a half nuclear power plants.
"Yes, this amount of electricity is already a lot. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. As long as there are enough wind turbines, the total power generation will exceed that of nuclear power plants sooner or later. Lao Long, you take the lead, and Lao Jia cooperates. Let's build our 1,000 wind turbines along this coastline!"
"clear!"
"Boss, is this electricity also connected to our main storage station?"
"No, you guys find a place outside the city of Home No. 1 that won't get in the way and build a new power station. I have other uses for these 70 million kWh of electricity..."
"Yes! I guarantee that the task will be completed within a week."
After receiving the order, the two led their respective teams to build wind power stations.
1,000 units are enough to keep them busy for many days.
Fortunately, Shang Qian had foresight and recruited a lot of pseudo-supernatural people into the construction team in advance. Now, Long Tao's family has more than 1,000 "square construction workers", and they are very fast in doing these infrastructure projects.
Building blocks also requires technology and skills!
The ability to block will result in different construction speeds depending on personal hand speed, reaction, and sense of space.
When Shen Jin first obtained the system, he practiced his hand speed for a long time before he could shoot quickly and accurately!
The people on the construction team do not need to go out to work, they just need to build inside Shen Jin's base. Their hand speed and construction ability will naturally be faster than others. This is much more reasonable than letting the extraordinary people from each team to do the construction before.
Every profession has its specialties!
Shen Jin continued to think about the electricity problem while walking on the coast. 70 million kWh of electricity is a lot, but... it still doesn't meet his requirements. "Before the factory in the south produces a new batch of nuclear fuel, there should be only these five nuclear power plants. Then the next step of power generation will have to rely on advanced solar energy."
Shen Jin’s initial task in building these 1,000 wind power stations is… to manufacture advanced solar power generation machines!
The power of the five nuclear power plants over there remains unused and is used to produce [Iridium Ingots] to charge everyone's nano armor, quantum armor, and electric jet backpacks.
The 70 million kWh of electricity here is used to manufacture solar power generators, because in order to obtain the various generators of the [Advanced Solar] expansion module, he needs to invest a lot of electricity first. "But solar power generation is less troublesome than wind power generation. Wind power generation needs to replace the [carbon rotor] every year, but the solar generator can be used forever after it is built. If the system machine does not break down, it can probably be used... send me away, and my son and grandson can use it to generate electricity."
To exaggerate a little, even Chinese people in the future can use his machines to generate electricity.
"Let me see what materials these new solar generators are made of."
When he first obtained the module, Shen Jin did not carefully look at the required materials and amount of electricity, but just by looking at the ingredient list, he knew that it would require a lot... a lot of materials, some of which could only be made by the [Molecular Recombination Instrument].
Among them are several materials that have never appeared in the world, such as: [Small pieces of sunlight compounds].
This is the basic material from which all solar generators are made.
In the manufacturing list of the [Molecular Recombiner], there is this thing, [Fluorite Powder → Small Piece of Sunlight Compound, Energy Consumption: 10,0000 degrees]
"There is a lot of [fluorite powder], and Professor Kong Long seems to have sent me some information on it."
Fluorite is also called fluorspar. It is a common mineral in nature. It can coexist with many other minerals. It is produced in many places in the world. It is often found in rocks such as granite, pegmatite, and syenite. It is not often used as a gemstone because of its brittleness and softness. In industry, fluorite is the main source of fluorine. It can be used to extract and prepare fluorine elements and various compounds. Fluorite specimens with bright colors and beautiful crystal forms can be used for collection, decoration, and carving crafts.
In the game "Minecraft", if you want to obtain [fluorite], you need to go to the Nether, which is the legendary hell. It is a luminous crystal that can be decomposed into multiple [fluorite powders] on the [workbench]. However, on Earth, fluorite is a very common mineral. Many merchants who make jewelry will choose to use fluorite. Under the influence of external forces such as sunlight, friction, or ultraviolet rays, [fluorite] will emit light and is sometimes called luminous stone.
Shen Jin often found this kind of thing when he was mining underground. Basically, if he dug deeper underground, he could find a lot of [fluorite].
There are a lot of them piled up in Shen Jin's warehouse. "So, to make [small pieces of sunlight compound], you only need to worry about the 100,000 kWh of electricity consumed."
In addition to [small pieces of sunlight compounds], the production of advanced solar machinery also requires a material called: [Glorious Uranium Ingot].
An alloy material synthesized using [fluorite powder] and [uranium ingot].
"By the way, last time I asked Lao Kong where uranium was produced, he didn't seem to get back to me yet..."
Shen Jin entered the satellite signal receiving room and found an email sent by Kong Long three days ago, which described in detail the mining locations of Chinese uranium metal.
The picture used was drawn by Professor Kong Long himself, which is very clear and concise.
After looking for a while, Shen Jin was surprised to find: "Huh? The uranium mining pit closest to Home No. 1... is in Jinzhou City!"
Shocked!
The treasure is right next to me?
