Chapter 210 Electric Arc Furnace

Chapter 210 Electric Arc Furnace

Chapter 210 Electric Arc Furnace

A director in charge of external intelligence gave a cautious answer.

Before the virus outbreak.

The total population of all private shelters in the entire urban area of ​​Jianghe City is about 105 million.

If we cut it in half, that would be 500,000 or 600,000.

Needless to say, most of these people have definitely been moved to the Desert Stone Shelter.

"It seems that the Wasteland Stone Shelter has received nearly a million people."

"And then count the original number of them."

"In terms of numbers, it will be on par with our official ranks."

Bai Ruian sighed and put the problem that no one present wanted to face in the foreground.

Then he continued to question the director of intelligence.

“Can they feed that many people?”

"It's hard to get accurate information about this."

"But according to the news reports they released."

"We estimate that the process may be a little strenuous, but overall it should not be a problem to get through it."

The intelligence chief said uncertainly.

The situations inside Su Wu's several subsidiary shelters are easy to find out.

But the farmyard is the main grain production base.

However, because there is no outsider present, it is almost a restricted area for reconnaissance.

It is impossible to obtain any information at all.

We can only get a glimpse of the inside scoop through the news reports released by Su Wu.

And this corner alone is enough to make people feel thrilling.

"Then go talk to them again."

"See if it can cost something."

"Bring some of the people back."

Bai Rui'an was silent for a while and made a decision.

Then maybe he also knew that this was a little unrealistic.

After thinking about it, he added more.

"Please spread the word to other private shelters as well."

“They are encouraged to move to official shelters.”

It was raining heavily.

Under the farmyard shrouded in darkness.

Su Wu stood in the mechanical laboratory on the 4th underground floor and watched a groundbreaking ceremony in person and up close.

Not far in front of him.

A spherical metal device with a diameter of about three meters and a dark gray body slowly started up with power supplied.

After running silently for dozens of minutes.

Pour a stream of liquid steel into the mold below.

Su Wu lowered his head.

In his field of vision, a line of light green fonts quietly changed, showing the completed logo at the end.

[Witness the birth of the electric arc furnace (completed)]
[Mission reward, 15 survival points.]
This is the second green mission refreshed by the Doomsday System in more than a month.

The difficulty is almost zero.

Su Wu almost picked up 15 survival points for free.

But for Su Wu.

The mission reward is not important, what is important is the arc furnace itself.

This electric arc furnace.

This was the result of Su Wu burning fifty or sixty points of spiritual energy and personally researching for several days.

Since its birth, it has never spent any survival points on strengthening.

But in terms of performance, it is still far ahead of the original high-temperature furnace.

Its output has been increased by a full 10 times, while the amount of electricity consumed remains the same.

That is to say, it takes 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity to smelt one ton of steel from iron ore or scrap metal.

Now you only need 50 kWh of electricity to do the same thing.

It also omits the preheating time during the process and can be started and paused at any time.

This extremely low consumption cannot be achieved simply by heating.

Instead, it is a leapfrogging technology that was born after another new theoretical breakthrough, reaching the realm of science fiction in the eyes of ordinary people in the world today.

"We can increase the amount of iron ore mined, and we can also start recycling scrap metal from urban ruins."

I silently estimated the working efficiency of the electric arc furnace.

Not counting anything else.

The one in front of you is an electric arc furnace used as a test sample.

The output can reach 10 tons per hour.

In other words, there is no need to build new electric arc furnaces.

With just it, all the iron ore currently mined can be easily smelted into finished steel.

And Su Wu's huge demand for steel was not without reason.

The truth is that the resources in his warehouse can no longer support the current speed of development.

First, the engineering team.

After several days of expansion.

All the construction vehicles added up to more than 2000.

More than 7000 tons of steel were consumed, as well as large amounts of rubber and other raw materials.

The exterior walls were then constructed using quick cement.

It must also be mixed with a large amount of woven steel skeleton as an auxiliary.

In addition, after the space of the shelter was expanded, a fast-growing plantation was built inside.

It also requires a large amount of steel raw materials to make various brackets and related necessary facilities.

There is also a gradually expanding remote control center and various robot teams.

These demands add up.

Let Su Wu store the steel in his warehouse.

It is consumed rapidly at a rate of almost tens of thousands of tons per day.

It far exceeds the production speed of steel.

And now, Su Wu has basically salvaged all the supplies from those abandoned underwater shelters.

There were no other additional supplies available at this time.

The only way out.

All that remains is to rely on iron ore and scrap metal, and to increase the rate at which steel is smelted to meet demand.

"The engineering team cannot continue to expand for the time being."

"And the scale of the robots also needs to be controlled."

"I hope it will be enough."

"If that doesn't work, we can only try other shelters."

Jianghe City is only this big.

Resources are also quite limited.

Until more mineral resources are discovered.

There wasn't much Su Wu could do.

Fortunately.

With its current population size, it can actually break many invisible rules.

It's really urgent.

It is not impossible to forcibly take over some of the other civilian shelters by force.

Return to Control Center.

Su Wu checked the storage situation of materials in the warehouse.

Although the development speed has increased so much at once, a lot of raw materials have been consumed.

But some things still have to be done.

Be specific.

It is time to strengthen our military forces.

The most important factor that enabled Su Wu to coexist peacefully with the government before was his heavy artillery group.

And now.

When the surface is flooded everywhere, the heavy artillery cluster can only be used in a relatively dry surface environment.
The deterrent effect has declined to a rather dangerous level.

In addition, he took advantage of the outbreak of the Rola virus infection to absorb too many people.

In essence, this once again seriously violated the interests of the official shelter.

If nothing is done, a war that he does not want to see may break out.

(End of this chapter)