Chapter 470 Violent Construction (Additional Update for the Leader "Cat League GYX")

87 kilometers of overhead railway.

It connects 4 cities, 13 farms, and 7 mines along the way.

This kind of railway has another huge advantage, that is, it can be built very quickly, as long as the pipelines, cables, node modules, track alloy plates, and corresponding construction airships are prepared in advance.

With sufficient materials, there is no problem in laying hundreds of kilometers a month.

After all, this construction plan saves foundation laying, concrete pouring and maintenance, which require relatively long process steps.

The core factors limiting the speed of overhead railway construction are actually the production time and scale of modular components and the number of construction airships.

At present, the Meroe Air and Railway Group has a total of 37 supporting factories in the South Meroe region, employing 87,000 people, and constructing 6 airships.

After Fan Haibo introduced these situations, he suggested: "Chairman, a new node will be built today, which will start in about 30 minutes. I wonder if you are interested in going to observe it."

"Oh? Okay." Li Qingye nodded.

"I'll arrange the train right away." Fan Haibo's face flushed with excitement.

Li Qingye and Mapel passed through the factory area, came to the elevator dedicated to passengers, and took the elevator directly to the top of the station.

The station is actually the entire node. The Juba Station has a maximum height of 183 meters and a track running height of 50 meters. In the 50-meter area, there is special loading and unloading equipment for loading and unloading containers.

The passenger area is below the freight area, where there are several suspended passenger trains produced by the Meroe Sky Railway Group.

“Quite spacious.”

"Yes, Chairman, the track gauge we use is relatively large."

The gauge of Homo sapiens' railway pipes is 2 meters. In order to ensure that the load-carrying railway has sufficient width, the width of the alloy plate below is 6 meters.

Therefore, the carriage width of the heavy-carrying freight train above is usually 4 to 4.2 meters.

The width of the suspended passenger train below is 6.2 meters, because the track of the suspended passenger train is essentially that layer of alloy plates.

It adopts a hanging method to ensure that the train will not fall, so the passenger train carriage must be wider than 6 meters.

The platform of the station is fully sealed with high-strength floor-to-ceiling windows to protect it from strong winds and heavy rain.

Fan Haibo arranged a special tourist train.

"Chairman, please come this way!" Fan Haibo and several security personnel entered the carriage first.

Then Li Qingye, Sanji Badalayar, Mapel and others walked in.

Since it is a tourist model, this train has a two-level carriage design and only three carriages.

The upper level of the carriage is a soft sleeper, shower room, and toilet, while the lower level is a tourist restaurant.

Fan Haibo took Li Qingye directly to the tourist restaurant. The floor of the restaurant was made of completely transparent materials. Of course, it was one-way transparent and the conditions inside could not be seen from the outside.

After a while, the train started slowly.

Compared with commuter passenger trains, sightseeing trains are slower, about 40 to 120 kilometers per hour. If it is a pure commuter train, the speed can reach 80 to 160 kilometers.

"This train uses nuclear batteries, right?"

Fan Haibo nodded: "The chairman has a keen eye. In order to increase the speed, our trains all use nuclear batteries, but they are not cobalt 60 nuclear batteries, but carbon 14 nuclear batteries."

Li Qingye suddenly thought of the key point: "Is it using gold-based electric heating materials?"

"Yes, this is also thanks to the gold mine in Chad Branch."

Li Qingye had just visited the Chad Branch gold mine a few days ago.

Previously, the company's geological exploration department discovered several gold deposits in the volcanic area in northern Chad, which were buried at a depth of about 450 to 800 meters and had reserves of thousands of tons.

Therefore, the Chad branch concentrated its efforts and mined one of the rich mines. It can currently produce 5 to 7 tons of gold every month.

All this gold is used in the manufacture of electric heating materials. The Meroe Sky Railway Group also benefited from the Chad Branch and was able to use gold-based electric heating materials to generate electricity.

In fact, there are a lot of gold mines in Africa, especially those veins buried below 200 meters, which are basically undeveloped.

As for the super gold mine in Antarctica, the Homo sapiens company is also secretly mining it. The Antarctic branch can now produce 30 to 40 tons of gold every month.

Of course, in order to avoid sudden changes that would affect the geomagnetic field, the mining of Antarctic gold mines only extracts gold, and there is no large-scale mining of the larger iron and nickel components.

Although the reserves of gold mines in Africa are not as large as those in Antarctica, they can also alleviate the company's huge demand for gold.

Trains that generate their own electricity reduce the need for specialized power distribution and transmission systems.

If a traditional electrified train solution is adopted, cables must be laid along the line and a set of specialized power distribution equipment must be prepared.

One disadvantage of this is that once the power transmission system fails or is attacked, it may lead to complete paralysis.

Electric self-sustaining trains do not have this shortcoming. Coupled with the surging electric energy of nuclear batteries, the train running speed can be further improved.

"How do you solve the problem of ineffective work during the rest period of nuclear batteries?"

“We use molten salt heat storage and in-site power transmission to solve the disadvantages of nuclear batteries’ ineffective work.”

"Molten salt heat storage? In-station power transmission? A good idea." Li Qingye knew how they solved the problem as soon as he heard these two terms.

Half an hour later.

The sightseeing train arrived at Quanshui Station, 87 kilometers away.

The construction site is 8.9 kilometers west of Quanshui Station. You can take the elevator to the highest floor of Quanshui Station, which is the top of the observation tower.

In the observation room at the top of the 181-meter-high tower, there is also a long-distance telescope brought by Fan Haibo, which can see the situation 8.9 kilometers away.

"Chairman, in five minutes, the first ground pile hollow pipe at node 10 will be put down."

at the same time.

A construction airship at the bottom of the stratosphere is hoisting a huge pipe. The construction workers are using laser positioning equipment to slowly adjust the position of the pipe based on the pheromones and magnetic field anchor points marked by the positioner.

In fact, the orientation does not have an error of tens of meters, but the construction workers who strive for perfection still adjust very carefully.

He didn't press the release switch until his aim was very accurate.

In an instant, the clamp holding the pipe popped open, and the huge 8,400-ton pipe descended faster and faster. Even the strong winds in the troposphere could not change the orientation of the pipe.

A whistling sound came from a distance.

Li Qingye looked at the picture taken by the drone, then turned his head and looked at the node through the telescope.

The next second.

boom! The weight is instantly inserted into the fragile stratum due to the acceleration of gravity. The pipe is inserted about 240 meters underground and triggers a small shock wave.

Within the next half hour, the remaining three ground pile pipes were also dropped one after another, and were inserted into the four predetermined positions of the nodes very accurately.

Bang bang bang!

Li Qingye applauded: "Yes, it seems that your technology is worthy of further promotion."

"It is our honor to be recognized by the chairman." Fan Haibo was very happy.

After all, gaining Li Qingye's approval means that the next overhead railway of the Meroe Sky Railway Group can get the support of the head office and does not need to rely on the Meroe Branch to support it alone.

On the sightseeing train on the way back, Li Qingye ate the local specialty beef and spinach stewed with peanuts and sorghum pancakes, and ended his inspection in Zhudan.

Next stop, Darfur.

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