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 approximately 1.05 million.

Cut it in half, and that’s five to six million.

Needless to say, most of these people must have been moved to the Deserted Stone Shelter.

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

"Including their original group of people."

"In terms of number of people, they are on par with our official ones."

Bai Ruian sighed and brought to the forefront the issue that everyone present was unwilling to face.

Then he continued to ask the director of the intelligence department.

“Can they support that large a population?”

"This, it's difficult to find out the exact information."

"But based on the news reports they released."

"We estimate that the middle process may be a bit difficult, but overall it should not be a big problem to get through it."

The Director of Intelligence said uncertainly.

The conditions inside Su Wu's several affiliated shelters are easy to find out.

But the farmyard is the main grain production base.

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

No news could be found at all.

We can only get a glimpse of it through the news reports that Su Wu took the initiative to release.

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

"Then let's talk to them again."

"Let's see if we can spend some money."

"Bring people back part of the way."

Bai Ruian was silent for a while and made a decision.

Then maybe he also knew that this was somewhat unrealistic.

After thinking about it, I added something.

“Also promote it to other private shelters.”

"They are encouraged to move to official shelters."

It rained heavily.

Underground in the farmyard shrouded in darkness.

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

Not far ahead of him.

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

After running silently for dozens of minutes.

Pour a stream of liquid molten steel into the mold below.

Su Wu lowered his head.

Within 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)]

[Task reward, 15 survival points. ]

This is the second green mission refreshed by the Doomsday System after more than a month.

The difficulty is about equal to none.

Su Wu almost gained 15 survival points in vain.

But for Su Wu.

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

This electric arc furnace.

It was the result of Su Wu burning fifty or sixty points of spirituality and studying it personally for several days.

Since its birth, it has not spent any survival points to strengthen it.

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

Its output is increased by a full 10 times, while the power consumption remains the same.

That is to say, for every 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed, one ton of steel can be smelted from iron ore or scrap metal.

It only requires 50 kilowatt hours of electricity to do the same thing.

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

This extremely low consumption can no longer be achieved by simple heating.

It is a technology that spans the ages and was born after another brand-new theoretical breakthrough.

It has reached the level of science fiction in the eyes of ordinary people in the current world.

"We can increase the amount of iron ore mining and resume the recycling of scrap metal in the city's ruins."

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

Not counting anything else.

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

The output can reach 10 tons in one hour.

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

Just relying on it, all the iron ore currently excavated can be easily smelted into finished steel.

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

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

First, the engineering team.

After several consecutive days of expansion.

The total number of construction vehicles exceeds 2,000.

More than 7,000 tons of steel were consumed, as well as large amounts of rubber and other raw materials.

The exterior walls are then constructed using rapid cement.

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

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 are also remote control centers and various robot teams that are gradually expanding.

These demands add up.

Let Su Wu's steel reserves in the warehouse.

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

Far exceeding the production speed of steel.

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

There are no other readily available additional supplies that can be replenished at this time.

The only way out.

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

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

"And the scale of robots must be controlled."

"I hope it will be enough."

"If not, we can only think about other shelters."

Jianghe City is so small.

Resources are also quite limited.

Before more mineral resources are discovered.

Su Wu can't do much.

Fortunately.

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

It's really urgent.

It's not impossible to forcibly incorporate some of the other civilian shelters by force.

Back to the control center.

Su Wu called up the storage of materials in the warehouse.

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

But some things still have to be done.

To be more specific.

It's time to strengthen the military force.

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

And now.

With floods everywhere on the surface, the heavy artillery cluster, which can only play its combat effectiveness in a relatively dry surface environment, has reduced its deterrence to a very dangerous level.

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

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

If he did not take action, a war that he did not want to see would probably break out.