Chapter 339 Ice Field and Power Opening
Retracting the gaze towards the future.
Su Wu noticed
that in the latest transmitted message,
a person marked as a special concern appeared in an ice field on the surface.
He clicked to query the details.
Then he saw a video of an industrial mecha cutting ice.
In the video,
the smooth movements of the industrial mecha were almost artistic.
The overall work efficiency was basically maintained at more than ten times that of ordinary workers.
Su Wu glanced at the data.
It was estimated that it was equivalent to 2.25 times the work efficiency of artificial intelligence operating industrial mecha under normal conditions.
Although this multiple does not seem to be large.
In fact, being able to surpass the labor efficiency of artificial intelligence after countless precise calculations with the body of a living being
is itself a miracle of full color.
And if this miracle is not used for excavation, but for operating mechas to fight.
Then it will bring a nearly crushing advantage on the battlefield.
"The current shelter."
"Conventional military forces are sufficient."
"The only thing missing is a special elite force with decapitation capabilities."
"If he leads the team, it can just make up for this shortcoming."
In many places,
the benefits brought by special forces are far greater than frontal assaults.
There was no way before.
But now that such a suitable candidate has appeared in front of Su Wu,
there is naturally no reason to ignore it.
However, given the importance of special forces,
it is still necessary to continue to observe for a period of time and conduct a more comprehensive evaluation before it
can be officially formed .
And, by then,
if nothing unexpected happens,
Su Wu will also implant the fifth biochip in his hand into the girl named Jiang Yunxia.
While ensuring absolute loyalty,
it can also further improve her comprehensive combat quality.
"As for the mecha used by the special forces."
Su Wu pondered for a moment.
A new research task was created on the operating table.
There are references to the framework of spider robots and industrial mechas.
Coupled with the extremely mature laser and electromagnetic series weapons,
it is not too difficult to redesign a mecha that specializes in combat.
Even, because there is no need for large-scale mass production, raw materials can be piled up at any cost.
The final product.
It is likely to become the most powerful single-soldier killing weapon in the entire human world in this era.
"The estimated research time is 7 hours."
"Consume 120 spiritual points."
"The model is named Falling Star--"
Su Wu intends to hand over this research to Wei Manman.
Although the major is not suitable.
Wei Manman is good at the research and development of new materials.
But with the assistance of biochips, it is not impossible to conduct cross-industry research.
At most, it will consume some extra spiritual power due to the lack of talent.
And this consumption.
In the eyes of Su Wu, who now has 200 million people, it can be ignored.
Turn off the work log.
Su Wu took another look at the situation of the ice field.
At present, the water resources in the shelter are actually quite abundant overall.
Excluding the underground 13-story aquarium as a backup water source.
The total remaining fresh water reserves have reached 20 million tons.
Even according to the standards before the end of the world.
Such a large amount of water resources is enough to supply 200 million people for a whole day.
The shelter has built a huge and efficient water circulation and filtration system.
It can purify domestic sewage into pure water for drinking within 4 hours at the fastest.
Under extreme conditions.
Not to mention 200 million people, even if half of the population of Dongzhou is gathered in the shelter,
it will be enough for a short period of time.
"Considering the future surge in population."
"The scale of the ice field can be appropriately expanded."
"Try to maintain the current per capita water resources."
"To reserve enough room for error."
Su Wu's short-term goal is to gather 1 billion people in the shelter.
According to the current situation,
if the water resource allocation ratio is not changed,
another 80 million tons of fresh water will be needed.
That is equivalent to the amount of water of nearly 6 West Lakes.
Such a terrifying demand
also means that the scope of the ice field will be expanded from the surrounding area of the shelter to other areas hundreds of kilometers away,
increasing certain mining costs and risks.
In addition to water, the shelter also generates a huge amount
of industrial waste including waste gas and domestic waste every day. Considering that it will be more and more difficult to obtain materials from the outside world in the future, and it may even eventually approach zero. Su Wu does not intend to waste these wastes. Instead, he will build large-scale industrial parks for recycling . With Su Wu's current technology. It is barely possible to achieve a recycling rate close to 100%. However, the labor and energy consumed in the middle will inevitably be extremely huge. "For now." "The cost of recycling industrial waste is still quite high." "We need to find ways to continuously improve the level of recycling technology in the future." "Every breakthrough in this area means that at least hundreds of billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity can be saved every year." His eyes swept across the residential areas on each floor of the shelter, and the large and small garbage stations and recycling factories that were separately divided. In his mind, Su Wu naturally planned their future development routes. Then, looking at the electricity usage list, Su Wu noticed that the current electricity consumption of the entire shelter has reached 550 billion kilowatt-hours per year. Among them, agricultural production in plantations and industrial production in super factories account for the majority. The transportation system that supports the entire Dongzhou is also a heavyweight power consumer. On the contrary, the living electricity consumption of the remaining 200 million people. Added together, it is less than 50 billion kilowatt-hours. It only accounts for a fraction of the electricity consumption. "Perhaps, it's time to relax some of the electricity control for ordinary residents." The shelter has developed to its current level. It is also partly due to the joint efforts of tens of millions of shelter residents in the past. Now the shelter has grown to a certain extent. Although the overall situation is still in a stage of energy shortage. But no matter what, the size is there. It is somewhat inappropriate to be as harsh as before. After thinking for a while. Su Wu opened the control list. A 30% discount was given to the electricity price for residents. Then all electricity restrictions were unlocked for family suites and single apartments. They are allowed to use any civilian electrical appliances indoors. As for the standard dormitory. It's not that Su Wu doesn't want to. It's just that the relevant situation was not considered at the beginning of the design. The lines laid inside only support light usage scenarios such as lighting and mobile phone charging. When the hardware does not meet the standards. There is no point in opening the restrictions. "Take it step by step." "After all, the standard dormitory is just a transitional building." "It will be upgraded sooner or later."
Chapter 340 Oilfields in the Twilight Plains
Opening restrictions on civilian electricity and lowering prices.
It is estimated that an additional 10 billion kWh of electricity will be consumed each year.
And considering the future population surge and the demand brought about by the popularization of ordinary residential areas.
The final annual electricity consumption may exceed one trillion kWh.
This number.
Means that if only thermal power generation is used.
More than 300 million tons of coal fuel will be consumed each year, which is equivalent to the fuel and material reserves of two to three Zhenhai cities.
Even if nuclear power plants are used for power generation, more than 100 tons of nuclear fuel will be needed.
"Fortunately, a nuclear power plant has been built in advance."
"Otherwise, conventional thermal power generation."
"It is impossible to support the current farmyard."
The terrifying electricity demand bill.
Su Wu's eyes naturally turned to the large nuclear power plant on the 13th floor underground of the shelter.
It is the basis for supporting the normal operation of the shelter.
Without it,
Su Wu could hardly develop the shelter to its current scale.
Not to mention the calm plan to accommodate the entire population of Dongzhou.
However, even a nuclear power plant.
It is somewhat difficult to provide more than one trillion degrees of electricity a year.
It must be further expanded.
Reaching out on the holographic projection,
Su Wu enlarged the structural diagram of the large nuclear power plant. After thinking for a while,
he expanded the scale of the nuclear power plant by 1.5 times.
This centralized construction
can reduce certain living risks and management costs.
The disadvantage is that if an accident occurs and it is destroyed,
the entire shelter will be affected.
However, since Su Wu has a ball lightning control cabin that can store unlimited electricity,
this disadvantage can be basically ignored.
Even if the nuclear power plant is completely destroyed by an accident at some point in the future,
the electricity stored in the ball lightning control cabin
is enough to maintain the normal operation of the shelter until a new nuclear power plant is built.
"There are also reserves of nuclear fuel uranium ore."
"We must also find a way to increase it as much as possible."
This problem is relatively tricky.
In the land of Dongzhou, ordinary civilian forces, even the lower-ranked super cities,
do not have the ability to build ordinary nuclear power plants. The only
ones who really rely on nuclear power plants are the capital of Dongzhou and a few top-ranked super cities.
Uranium mines
are almost their lifeline .
If Su Wu's actions in this regard go beyond the line, a full-scale conflict with them is likely to break out.
Therefore, considering the cost,
if he wants to increase nuclear fuel income and reserves,
Su Wu has only one choice.
That is to increase the output of the only uranium mine he currently has.
"The current uranium mine is located in the Myrak Grand Canyon."
"The environment in the west is more unstable than in Jianghe City."
"You can consider increasing investment and sacrificing some storage resources for destructive mining."
Three or four hundred kilometers west of the Myrak Grand Canyon
is the mission site where Su Wu once obtained the golden balance.
That place was engulfed by endless magma at the beginning.
Now,
the entire sea of fire formed by magma has expanded nearly twice its area.
The average magnitude of the local earthquake over the years is above level 4. It
is almost not inferior to the occupied area of Zhenhai City.
According to the deduction of artificial intelligence,
at the latest in the next 2 to 3 months,
the magma flowing there may spread to the Myrak Grand Canyon.
The time left for Su Wu to mine was extremely limited.
After a brief consideration,
Su Wu decided to use explosives to blow up part of the mountain above the uranium mine.
Then add some new mining points.
Start multiple lines of operation at the same time in the mine.
As for the mined ore,
if it cannot be processed near the mine, just don't process it.
Just transport it back to the farmyard first.
After making the plan,
Su Wu's sight fell on the west of the Grand Canyon.
More than a hundred kilometers away, the place called the Twilight Plain that Su Wu had passed by. Although it will be one step ahead of the Myrak Grand Canyon
soon .
Swallowed by the magma gushing out from deep underground.
But before that, it was still a fertile land.
"The Twilight Plain has rich oil and various precious metal deposits."
"It can bring various chemical raw materials and rare materials that are lacking to the shelter."
"The average mining difficulty is lower than other places."
"Even if it can only be mined for two or three months."
"It is worth investing resources to try."
At this stage.
Attack various shelters and receive the finished resources they store.
It seems easier and more convenient.
In fact,
because the end of the world came too hastily.
Most shelters have less than a year to prepare.
The resources they store can basically only maintain their minimum survival consumption.
It is difficult to truly support the operation of modern industry.
As strong as the Zhenhai City Shelter.
Once the second largest economic city in Dongzhou.
The fuel reserves are only more than 100 million tons.
It is not enough for the current farmyard shelter to meet the industrial production needs of one month.
Su Wu's farmyard continues to develop.
Sooner or later, it will have to rely on self-mining to obtain enough growth resources.
"Next."
"You can first send sixth-generation fighters to airlift some equipment over."
"Try to build a mine for oil and precious metals as soon as possible."
"Then dispatch some Ice Lake-class transport ships to transport the mine output."
Considering the limited time, the mining of the Twilight Plains
also prioritizes efficiency.
There is no need to consider the damage and waste to the environment.
Under this premise, coupled with the unlimited investment in mining equipment,
the output of the mine can be increased to dozens or hundreds of times that of normal conditions.
At the same time, transportation does not need to directly cross the 2,000-kilometer distance between Jianghe City and the Twilight Plains in one breath.
It can be in the safe area east of the Myrak Grand Canyon, which will not be threatened by magma for the time being.
Find a few shelters on the spot as transit warehouses.
The overall idea is basically the same as the transfer of materials from Zhenhai City.
First concentrate on rescuing all the materials that can be rescued as much as possible.
The rest will be slowly transferred after it is safe.
Su Wu worked out the mining plan for the Twilight Plains bit by bit.
It seemed as if I saw oil wells rising from the ground, continuously extracting oil from deep underground.
If nothing unexpected happens,
the resources from the Twilight Plain
will become the refuge of the farmyard, and support the key step from maintaining its basic survival to becoming wealthy.
On the surface,
along with Su Wu's new plan,
one after another Ice Lake-class transport ships that had recently come off the production line
began to carry the engineering equipment needed to open up the road.
Heading west, along the route that Su Wu had taken, they headed towards the Myrak Grand Canyon.
Covered by low-hanging clouds,
it became a gray surface world.
One by one, the artificial lights from the Ice Lake-class transport ships
were like candlelight on a paper boat flowing in the river, flickering quietly and fading away bit by bit.
In the next long period of time calculated in months,
they will cross a distance of 2,000 kilometers
to transport the resources that are almost already in the border world of Dongzhou back bit by bit.
At the same time,
farther away,
in other provinces on the land of Dongzhou.
Also, more and more Ice Lake-class transport ships began to appear.
Ice Lake-class transport ships.
The speed is only 10 kilometers per hour.
But its own 10,000-ton load capacity is enough to assume all the functions of a land aircraft carrier or a comprehensive logistics base when necessary.
They reinforce each other and connect into a network.
Bit by bit, they eat away the large and small shelters wherever they pass.
Then behind them, there are more empty Morning Light-class transport ships and Ice Lake-class transport ships.
They began to pack up all the people and materials in the occupied shelters and transport them
back to the farmyard.
Make the growing giant building even more magnificent.
In this silent migration change, the majority of the population of Dongzhou
gradually shifted to the farmyard.