Chapter 133 Resources! New Way of Generating Electricity (First Update)

[Record]: Random first-level resources have been generated near the main shelter "Underground Shelter", please enter the new function to view

"The first-level resource card actually opened a new function?"

Suma looked at the new function slowly emerging above the game panel in shock.

When I first saw the game panel, there were only five function options: attributes, chat, trade, manufacturing, and items.

But now, in the last column, a new category of options finally emerged.

Resources!

Unlike other small functions like the monster encyclopedia, the resource function is located right above the game panel, on par with the other five options!

This also represents the importance of resource options in the setting of the game panel.

"Does it mean that in the future development trend, everyone will revolve around resources?"

"What is the purpose of the aliens coming?"

The dog-headed lion man and the rat man who had never seen it, and even other fantasy creatures mentioned by others in the world chat.

The arrival of these creatures is definitely not with the same purpose of survival as humans.

Cruel ethnic wars, regular baptism of natural disasters in the wasteland, what on earth attracts these fantastic creatures to come and die?

Worrying about the future is never Su Mo's style.

If the sky falls, there will be tall people to hold it up.

Shaking his head, after recording these things that are not worth thinking about at the current stage in the private message, Su Mo's thoughts lightened and he completely let go of his worries about the future.

The mind turned into an illusory finger and clicked on the resource function.

A panel different from other game functions jumped out.

This panel is very strange. It does not describe the amount of resources in simple text, but a topographic map that can be swiped with the mind and finger.

The topographic map is flat and not large at present, which just matches the 5 kilometers size mentioned on the game panel.

On the topographic map, Su Mo saw the changes in the terrain, and the resource function also intimately marked the resources within the current shelter.

"Well, this yellow spot should refer to the sulfur mine?"

There is a yellow mark under the ground near the underground shelter. As Su Mo clicked it, the topographic map suddenly turned into 3D mode again.

This time, the full picture of the sulfur mine was revealed, and an attribute panel also appeared next to it.

[Sulfur Mine (Level 2)]

[Mineral Vein Status]: A large amount of mining has been carried out, and there is still a small amount of remaining ore

[Mining Value]: Half a star (Peak: One and a half stars)

[Special Ability]: None (Two stars unlocked)

[Mining Difficulty]: Very low

[Remaining Reserves]: 26 tons

Click the function of switching perspectives, and Su Mo has a lot of fun between plane and 3D.

The sulfur mine should have been a square cube stored in this underground area, but after mining, it has become an extremely irregular shape.

I don't know what disaster it experienced later, and now the sulfur mine has been compressed into a triangle.

The deeper you go, the more sulfur mine reserves there are.

"Hey, what resources did I just add to the random resource card?"

After searching for a while, Su Mo couldn't find what good stuff was added by the earthquake just now.

However, in the upper right corner, Su Mo saw a small trumpet-shaped thing.

Clicking in, three or five seconds later, with surprise, Su Mo returned directly to the initial interface, cut the plane to 3D and kept pulling down.

Sure enough, a group of magical substances that seemed to be flowing slowly appeared in the center of the underground shelter.

These substances seemed invisible and colorless, with only a little bit of light yellow mixed in them, and because of the flow, Su Mo missed this place when he first checked.

"What a strange feeling, is this water? Or gas?"

At the same time as the thought came up, the big hand of the mind grabbed this group of wonderful substances in his hand and squeezed it, and at the same time a piece of information appeared.

[Geothermal Resources (High Temperature and High Pressure Steam)-Level 1]

[Mineral Vein Status]: Complete, has not been mined yet, in full swing.

[Mining Value]: Two Stars (Peak: Two Stars)

[Special Ability]: I'm going to split (When the reserves are above 50%, the ore vein will recover 2% of the ore reserves every natural day. When the ore reserves drop below 50%, the ability disappears)

[Mining Difficulty]: High

[Remaining Reserves]: 500 tons

"Geothermal resources? Or high-temperature and high-pressure steam, why does it sound so familiar?"

Mumbling this often heard term, Su Mo tried hard to recall where he had seen this thing.

Douyin? Bilibili? Hupu?

When recalling something, Su Mo likes to recall it from the beginning, and by finding the initial memory point, he can bring out the rest of the memory.

"It seems to be, thank you for the invitation? Yes! It's Zhihu!"

When he thought of Zhihu, gradually, a series of information began to be connected in Su Mo's mind, and the information flow also gushed out like a blowout.

When I saw the four words geothermal resources at that time, it was not under an exclusive question, but under a question that everyone was arguing about, someone put forward this argument.

Su Mo had a vague memory of the question at that time, but he vaguely remembered that they were discussing the principle of nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power plants generate electricity by using nuclear energy.

The core equipment is the nuclear reactor, which heats water to produce steam and converts nuclear fission energy into heat energy.

The steam pressure drives the turbine to rotate, and the heat energy is converted into mechanical energy. Then the turbine drives the generator to rotate, converting the mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Therefore, such "burning boiler" behavior will naturally not be accepted by some "majority" netizens.

At that time, someone argued below, how could a nuclear power plant use such a "low" way to generate electricity? Isn't this funny?

Sure enough, not long after, a big guy posted a theory below, and proposed a successful power generation method that has been explored, that is, geothermal resource power generation to support his statement.

After entering the 21st century, as the mining of coal and oil became more and more serious, when technology was stuck in a bottleneck and could not be advanced to "controlled nuclear fusion", how to use new recyclable resources became the focus of exploration.

Among all the resources, geothermal resources naturally came into everyone's sight, and because of their high energy efficiency, they were gradually promoted and developed rapidly.

In some areas with sufficient geothermal resources, they have been fully utilized for heating. Although the effect is not satisfactory, the cost is low.

As for geothermal power generation, first of all, thermal energy must be converted into kinetic energy, and then kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy.

There are three main types of geothermal resources used for power generation, namely hydrothermal resources, geopressure resources, and hot dry rock resources. The latter two types have not made any progress even before the crossing, and only the first type of hydrothermal resources has derived a series of complete technology trees.

Underground hot water power generation must first separate steam and water, and the water must be discharged to allow steam to enter the turbine to do work. This system is called a flash system.

Among them, the reason why geothermal steam power generation is the simplest is that geothermal steam is both a heat carrier and a working fluid, omitting this step.

The famous Yangbajing geothermal power station in Tibet has been in operation for more than 40 years, operating for more than 6,000 hours a year, and the average annual power generation exceeds 200 million degrees.

It fully proves the superiority of this resource.

"Geothermal resources are good, but it is too difficult to mine them for power generation at this stage!" Looking at this naughty steam darting around in the hand of the mind with envy, a feeling of helplessness surged into Su Mo's heart.

The deeper the underground, the higher the temperature will be, but the burial depth of the "heat source" is directly related to the development cost.

The key to using geothermal technology is drilling wells and injecting water, and the cost of drilling is an important constraint.

In addition to the high technical requirements for drilling depth, the terrain also has important constraints on the choice of well sites.

With the help of the system, it is not a problem to reach this geothermal steam about five kilometers underground, but the cost of survival points is not affordable at this stage.

Of course, most people have no idea about the cost of drilling a 5-kilometer well.

China has drilled more than 5,000 wells, which are currently only distributed in the northern part of Tarim, and the cost of a well is calculated in 100 million yuan.

And this is still the cost when there are thousands of meters thick salt rock formations in the local area. If this thousands of meters thick "soft salt rock like butter" is replaced with hard rock, the cost will be several times higher.

Walking to the generator set, Su Mo tried to call out the generator attributes. This time, the generator set really showed a new upgrade direction.

[Diesel generator]

Efficiency: 300kw (full load 300 degrees/h)

Fuel consumption: 230 grams per kilowatt-hour (full load 82L/h)

Description: A diesel generator produced by Siemens Group in Wuxi, Jiangsu. The circuit function is intact and can be used normally. The loss is almost negligible.

Upgrade direction 1: Replace the core components of the generator, enhance the generator power supply efficiency, reduce the generator power consumption, and require survival points (1680)

Upgrade direction 2: Change the generator working method to biomass power generation, enhance conversion efficiency, and reduce path loss, requiring survival points (6500)

Upgrade direction 3: Open up a five-kilometer underground well, change the generator working method, change to a geothermal resource generator set, and greatly improve the generator efficiency, requiring survival points (36800)

"Oh my god, I'm stupid. With 36,000 survival points, I will upgrade geothermal power generation? Can't I upgrade to a more advanced psionic generator?"

It was the first time that the survival points given by the system exceeded four digits and reached five digits, and the first digit was still 3, which made Su Mo stunned for a long time.

With so many survival points, even if you don't spend anything for a year, you probably can't save enough.

"Alas, if this well can also add materials to reduce the price, it would be great!"

"Huh?"

With a sigh in his mouth, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Su Mo's mind.

According to the difficulty of upgrading, these expenses must have been spent on drilling the well, but Su Mo remembered the consumption when opening the escape passage.

When creating something out of nothing, the system cost will be terrifying, but when digging a hole, this cost will be reduced indefinitely.

After trying to open the list of materials in the third upgrade direction, Su Mo said: "Happy"!

Among the required materials, iron ore requires 5,000 units, one unit is worth 3 survival points, and copper ore requires 2,000 units, which is worth 5 survival points.

Excluding these, providing a generator set can reduce 500 points, with a maximum of 6.

Providing an ordinary drill bit for drilling can reduce 500 points, and providing a diamond drill bit can reduce 2,000 points!

As for improving the quality of the drill bit, as the quality increases, the maximum reduction will be 4,500 points.

In the best case, if all these reductions can be collected, the cost of upgrading the generator set will be reduced to 4300 points.

If you can find something you have never heard of to add, the final survival points required are

"2000 points! With only 2000 points, I can have a generator that can produce at least 350 kWh of electricity every day, and because of the special ability, as long as I stop on time, or upgrade its level, it is equivalent to"

"Perpetual motion machine!"

Slowly spitting out the three words that only civilian scientists would say, Su Mo looked at the resource cards in the storage space with burning eyes.

"Iron ore"

"Copper ore"

"I still have three cards, and I even have hundreds of treasure chests! There is a chance to open them!"

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