Chapter 61 Collection Center
Chapter 61 Recycling Center
7 month 12 day.
The average surface temperature reaches 75 degrees.
Animals that once occasionally appeared on the surface have completely disappeared.
Even humans, who stand at the top of the planet's food chain, can no longer move directly on the surface except by driving modified vehicles or wearing special heat-insulating clothing.
And on this hot and ordinary day.
Suburban area of Jianghe City.
Deep in the rocky beach where no one noticed.
A small shelter has completed the most important transformation since its construction.
From manual manufacturing, we have truly entered the field of industrial manufacturing.
"Self-test completed."
"All components are in normal condition."
"Start powering on."
A slight buzzing sound was heard.
A pile of dismantled scrap iron was slowly sent from the conveyor belt into the high-temperature furnace.
Then, the electricity consumption of the entire industrial equipment recycling center began to soar immediately. After reaching the peak, it almost extracted nearly 90% of the power generated by the two geothermal generators.
There may be certain dangers during operation.
Su Wu did not appear at the recycling center. Instead, he stayed at the control center, watching this special launch ceremony remotely through the monitoring screen.
Although it is called a ceremony, the entire process actually only takes a few seconds.
What follows is a long heating process that lasts more than 12 hours.
It will take a long time to see the first batch of re-smelted iron ingots.
Participated in the launch ceremony.
Su Wu turned his gaze to the console screen, which displayed the data of the high-temperature furnace.
I felt a little bit of pressure in my heart.
"This kind of operation consumes too much power."
The high-temperature furnace currently in use consumes about 500 degrees of electricity per hour.
After completing the initial preheating process, a production rate of about one ton of scrap steel can be achieved per hour.
The output is not small, but the electricity consumption is also staggeringly huge.
Basically, as long as this high-temperature furnace, Su Wu's shelter, is turned on at full power, there is no need to think about starting any other new large-scale industrial equipment that requires electricity support.
There are more than one high-temperature furnaces installed in the entire industrial equipment recycling center.
There are at least five other high-temperature furnaces of various models used for smelting other metals and materials.
With the current power generation capacity of the Suwu Shelter, it is completely impossible to support their simultaneous operation.
Can only be used in turns.
"The geothermal resources in this area have been almost exhausted."
“Unless we go deeper underground or develop to other areas.”
“Otherwise, it would be impossible to add new geothermal generators.”
Faced with the problem of power shortage, Su Wu's first thought was to directly increase the number of geothermal generators.
But the reality after actual exploration told him with cold data.
This method no longer works.
Geothermal resources are also resources, but resources have their limits.
No more than two geothermal generators are allowed near a shelter.
Apart from geothermal generators, any other methods Su Wu could find were either too risky or produced extremely limited amounts of electricity.
It basically has no effect.
"Just hold on for now."
“Wait for the shelter to develop for a while.”
"Just go out and develop new bases and look for mineral resources."
The new base does not have to be a residential area, it can also be an unmanned resource collection site.
Used to collect electricity, minerals and other valuable materials. Before Su Wu was able to build a nuclear power plant or other more advanced power plants.
Building more geothermal power stations and thermal power stations outside is the best and only option.
After thinking about the problem of power supply.
Su Wu switched to the three-dimensional map of the entire shelter.
Utilize sensors throughout the shelter to inspect and analyze the environment of each floor.
With the official operation of the industrial recycling center.
It is inevitable that a large amount of toxic gases and various other wastes will be produced.
Even when the recycling center was first established, a complete purification and filtration system had already been put in place.
But the shelter is, after all, an underground building with extremely limited and enclosed space.
Any small accident can lead to a huge disaster.
No matter how cautious you are, you can never be too cautious.
After a thorough inspection, no problems were found.
Su Wu weighed the pros and cons again.
It was decided to build a separation wall and a double separation passage near the recycling center.
Completely physically isolate it from the rest of Layer 4.
In addition, the ventilation ducts for the recycling center are also independent from the air circulation system of the entire shelter.
Directly connected to the surface.
No further direct contact with the rest of the shelter.
In this way, the recycling center can actually be regarded as a separate module outside the shelter.
Even if any uncontrollable accidents or disasters occur in the recycling center, it is difficult to affect the main body of the shelter.
"Next."
“It’s time to start a real expansion plan for the shelter.”
After dealing with the matters at the recycling center, Su Wu turned his attention to the CNC machine tools and 3D printers that were temporarily shut down.
After the high-temperature furnace took up about 90% of the shelter's electricity.
There is not enough electricity for these two manufacturing equipment to start directly.
It is necessary to temporarily draw on the reserve power in the high-energy battery pack in order to continue normal operation.
But it's just a small thing.
The high-energy battery pack can store up to 1 kWh of electricity.
It is fully capable of supporting CNC machine tools and 3D printers, running at full power for several days.
It will not affect the manufacturing tasks assigned by Su Wu.
"First, we need to redesign the size of the vehicles in the engineering team."
In the engineering team, there are excavators, transport vehicles, more professional gravel trucks and so on.
In fact, they were all temporary emergency products that Su Wu had to choose when resources were scarce in the early days.
And now, we have higher productivity and more reserves of raw materials.
Then using miniature series construction vehicles would seem a bit wasteful.
after all.
Regardless of the size of the vehicle, the core chips and high-energy batteries that control it will not be much different.
These two items are the only core components that Su Wu cannot produce by itself.
In other words, whether you are manufacturing a miniature series of vehicles or a larger series of vehicles, there will be basically no difference in the survival points consumed.
However, their work efficiency may differ by several times or even dozens of times.
More than a dozen relevant drawings were retrieved from the database for reference.
Su Wu used drawing software to make revisions along the way.
The new version of the design drawings will be finalized soon.
(End of this chapter)