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 Jianghe City is about 1.05 million.


    Cut out half of it, that''s 500,000 or 600,000.


    Needless to say, most of these people must have been transferred to the Waste Stone Refuge.


    "It seems that the Waste Stone Shelter has received nearly one million people."


    "So count them."


    "This is in terms of number of people, and we have to go along with our official position."


    Bai Rui''an sighed and put the questions that everyone present was unwilling to face to the front desk.


    Then he continued to ask the Director of Intelligence.


    “Can they feed that much of the population?”


    "It''s hard to find out the exact news."


    "But based on the news reports they released."


    "We estimate that the intermediate process may be a bit difficult, but overall, it should not be a big problem to hold on."


    The Director of Intelligence said with little certainty.


    Su Wu’s several affiliated shelters were easy to find out about the situation inside.


    But as the main grain production base, the farmyard.


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


    No news was found at all.


    Only through the news reports released by Su Wu on his own initiative can he vaguely peek into one corner.


    And this corner is already thrilling enough.


    "Then let''s talk to them again."


    “See if it can cost some money.”


    "Catch some of the people back."


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


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


    After thinking about it, I added it again.


    "I would like to promote other private shelters."


    “Encourage them to move to official shelters.”


    It was a heavy rain.


    Underground of the farmyard shrouded in darkness.


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


    Not far ahead of him.


    A spherical metal device with a diameter of about three meters and a dark gray color is slowly powered on and started.


    After tens of minutes of silent operation.


    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 arc furnace (completed)]


    [Task Reward, 15 Survival Points. ]


    This is the second green task that has been refreshed after more than a month in the Apocalypse system.


    The difficulty is about no.


    Su Wu almost picked up 15 survival points for nothing.


    But for Su Wu.


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


    This arc furnace.


    It was Su Wu who burned fifty or sixty points of spirituality and personally studied the results of several days.


    It has not spent any little survival point to strengthen since its birth.


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


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


    That is, for every 500 kWh of electricity consumed, one ton of steel could be melted from iron ore or scrap metal.


    It turns out that it only takes 50 kWh to do the same thing.


    It also omits the preheating time during the process, and can be turned on and paused at any time.


    This extremely low consumption is no longer possible to be achieved by heating.


    It is a technology that transcends the times only after another new theoretical breakthrough. It has reached the scope of science fiction in the eyes of ordinary people in the current world.


    "We can increase the amount of iron ore mining, and re-pick up the recycling of scrap metal in urban ruins."


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


    Not counting as anything else.


    Just the arc furnace in front of me, which is used as a test sample.


    The output can reach 10 tons in one hour.


    In terms of conversion, there is no need to create new arc furnaces.


    With it alone, all the iron ore excavated so far can be easily melted into finished steel.


    And Su Wu''s huge demand for steel is not unreasonable.


    It is really the resources in his warehouse that can no longer support the current development speed.


    First of all, the engineering team.


    No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!


    After many consecutive days of expansion.


    All construction vehicles have combined to exceed 2,000.


    More than 7,000 tons of steel, as well as a large amount of rubber and other raw materials are consumed.


    Then use fast cement to build the exterior wall.


    It also has to be doped with a large amount of steel braided skeleton as an auxiliary.


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


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


    There are also remote control centers that are gradually expanding, as well as various robot teams.


    These demands add up.


    Let the steel reserves in Suwu''s 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 because Su Wu has basically salvaged all the supplies in the abandoned shelters underwater.


    At this time, there are no other ready-made additional supplies to replenish.


    The only way out.


    The only thing left is to rely on iron ore and scrap metal to increase the speed of smelting steel to meet demand.


    "The engineering team can''t continue to expand for the time being."


    "The scale of the robot also needs to be controlled."


    "I hope it can be enough."


    "If it doesn''t work, I can only go and have another shelter."


    Jianghe City is so big.


    Resources are also quite limited.


    Before more mineral resources are discovered.


    Su Wu can not do much.


    Fortunately.


    With his current population size, he can actually break many invisible rules.


    It''s really urgent.


    It is not impossible to force some of the refuges of other people by force.


    Back to Control Center.


    Su Wu transferred out the storage status of the materials in the warehouse.


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


    But there are some things that still have to be done.


    Be more specific.


    It is time to strengthen the strength of military armed forces.


    The most important factor that Su Wu was able to live in peace with the official before was his heavy artillery cluster.


    And now.


    When the surface is full of floods, heavy artillery clusters that can only exert combat effectiveness in a relatively dry surface environment.


    The deterrence has dropped to a rather dangerous level.


    In addition, he absorbed too much population with the help of the Rolla virus outbreak.


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


    If you don’t take any action, a war he doesn’t want to see will break out.


    (End of this chapter)