During this period of time, Chen Jin rarely came to the Base of Operations.
But the Base of Operations had undergone very obvious changes.
Chen Jin's previous plans that were only on paper had all been realized.
They were even exceeded!
For example, the number of steel houses had increased to 150.
The number of capsule factories in the industrial zone had increased to 105.
There were 12 specialized exploration teams, with the furthest exploration distance exceeding 1,000 kilometers.
There were four transport teams consisting of exploration vehicles, transport vehicles, and trailers. Each transport team had 100 vehicles of various types, and they could scavenge more than 500 tons of materials at a time.
After multiple expansions, the power of the wind power station had reached 2,000 kilowatts.
The number of robots had increased to more than 2,000.
It could be said that the Base of Operations now had the appearance of a "base." The scale was quite impressive. It made people feel like they had passed the novice stage, and they had accumulated a certain amount of experience and a sense of accomplishment.
But they had fallen into a new bottleneck.
Two shortcomings made it impossible to continue expanding the scale of the Base.
First, the production of raw materials was insufficient.
For example, the high-strength plastic particles used to make the shell and support pillars of the wind turbines. The robot transport team had emptied the entire city of Fort Worth, but they had only found 1,500 tons of it. It was only enough to produce 30 small wind turbines. As a result, the remaining 30 wind turbines had to be printed with nano-alloy powder. Most of the nano-alloy powder had been used up.
Even so, the power was still insufficient.
This led to the second major shortcoming, which had become a serious bottleneck that restricted the base's development.
Chen Jin had to think of a way to solve these two problems.
How?
The nearby cities of Tereese and Fort Worth, as well as other cities within a radius of 500 kilometers, had almost been emptied by the robot transport team.
At this time, the northern hemisphere of Haierfa had fallen into a cold winter. The temperature was at least -30 degrees Celsius. It was difficult to expand to the north.
Therefore, they could only focus their exploration on the south and continue their exploration there.
Soon, the robot exploration team arrived at the seaside and saw the endless sea.
The seaside was relatively humid. Coupled with the strong sea breeze blowing inland, they could see the blue sky and white clouds above their heads. It was very clear and deep.
But through the high-definition camera eyes of the reconnaissance robots, for some reason, the originally clear blue sky often flashed with some silver spots.
"What is that?" Chen Jin was puzzled.
"Space junk. Hundreds of millions of space junk all over the nearby space," Alice explained.
Chen Jin's eyes widened. "What should I do? With so much space junk, all of them are dangerous space killers. How am I going to develop in the direction of outer space in the future? "
In Chen Jin's heart, he had an ideal of going to the stars. He was not satisfied with just staying on the surface of this planet.
Moreover, with the level of technological development on Haierfa, they still had the technical ability to colonize the moon, let alone Mars.
Before the destructive war broke out, there were more than 100,000 human colonists living on the moon.
However, the strange thing was that through the observation of the small astronomical telescope carried by the robot exploration team, they discovered that there were no traces of human activity on the surface of the moon. There were only a few silent moon bases left.
Could it be that the humans on the moon … were doomed?
Chen Jin shook his head. He felt that this was also a mystery.
"It's okay, Master. Space junk isn't that scary. If the base has the ability to build spaceships, it will also have the ability to clean up space junk, or have the weapon technology to avoid being hit by space junk," Alice explained.
"Oh ~"
Chen Jin was relieved. Besides, it was still a long way to go to the sea of stars. He had to settle the matters on the surface of this planet first.
After that, the robot exploration team followed the coastline called "Moredo Bay" and explored southwest.
After entering the territory of the Moleiduo Republic.
Soon, they made an exciting discovery.
They picked up a group of large wind turbines.
They picked up a seawater desalination plant.
The group of wind turbines picked up by the robot exploration team were all erected on the surface of the sea. It was a large-scale wind farm.
This offshore wind farm had a total of 40 wind turbines with a power output of up to 5MW, producing a powerful power output of 200MW in total.
These wind turbines had a diameter of 126 meters and a height of 90 meters at the center of the wheel hub. They used an electric excitation synchronous power generation mechanism without the use of permanent magnets. Therefore, the nuclear war did not have much impact on their power generation.
The robots even discovered that the wind farm was still supplying electricity normally. They only needed to connect the cables that had been cut by humans and repair the transformer and power storage equipment. This was not a difficult task.
Therefore, it was equivalent to picking up a batch of ready-made power generation facilities. After some simple repairs, the power supply could be restored immediately. It could supply 100 times the current power supply of the Base of Operations.
The power shortage problem of the Base of Operations was completely solved!
Chen Jin immediately issued an order, "Pull a high-voltage power transmission line to the Base of Operations immediately!"
The offshore wind farm was about 1,000 kilometers away from the Base of Operations. The distance was a little far. There was some loss in long-distance power transmission, but it was negligible.
In addition, the seawater desalination plant next to the offshore wind farm was also very useful.
This was because the rainfall at the Base of Operations was almost zero all year round.
However, there were many places where water was needed. For example, water for cleaning equipment and vehicles, water for cooling equipment, water for processing in capsule factories, water for physical and chemical reactions, and so on. The monthly water consumption at the Base of Operations was at least 1,000 tons.
70% of this 1,000 tons of water was extracted from a deep well under the ground near the Base of Operations. Chen Jin could only connect the other 30% to a water pipe from the toilet. The monthly water consumption was more than 300 tons … This was also a big hidden danger. Chen Jin was visited by the water company's employees twice to check the water meter. They were asked why the water consumption was so high.
Now, the robot exploration team picked up a seawater desalination plant next to the offshore wind farm. They would repair the desalination plant as well to restore the freshwater supply capacity. Then, they would pull a longer water pipe to supply the Base of Operations.
In this way, the power shortage and water shortage problems of the Base of Operations were completely solved … The hidden danger of being exposed on Earth was also eliminated.
There was only one bottleneck that restricted the Base of Operations from further development: insufficient raw materials.
This problem would be easily solved after picking up the Moleido Republic.
"Master, before the destructive war broke out, the Moleido Republic was the main supplier of secondary industrial products to the United States of Mili (USA for short). A large number of metallurgy, plasticizing, oil refining, and a small number of advanced nanomaterial industries were all in this country.
As long as we send a large number of robots, not only can we find a large number of ready-made raw materials in the Moleido Republic, we may even find the relevant material production technology in the factories to increase the basic technical reserves of the Base … This will be of great help! "
The artificial intelligence Alice said.
"Okay!"
Chen Jin nodded. "When the power problem of the Base is completely solved, I will send all the transport teams and 50,000 robots to the Moleido Republic to search for all the things we want and bring them back to the Base!"
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