The temperature impact caused by the separation of the steam sea from the floating island will take time to be observed. Just notify the exploration team to pay attention.
Wang Qi might have to face the cold next, which made Wang Qi feel tired. What Li wanted to say was right, there were too many things going on in this poor place of exile.
Maybe we really should have gone the route of universal magic. Both the Church of Light and the Church of Life use magic to build camps or cities, so there seems to be no problem.
But having said that, if he were really asked to choose again, he still wouldn't choose magic.
The reason is very simple, even the city was not built by the hands of the people, so all power will be far away from them, because no ruler will support free prostitution.
Taking itself as an example, the Sacred Tree is a miracle beyond magic. The public has no room for discussion about the housing prices, sugar and its products of the Wangting Tree and Little Bear City. The entire economic system of the Phoenix Kingdom also pivots on this.
Lacking a popular base, in a large-scale war that spans at least several decades, it cannot afford to die, and will be cowardly in everything it does.
...The point is that the kingdom has proven that the combination of magic and technology is indeed more effective than pure magic.
In short, there is no way to change the line now, and we still have to find ways to solve the cooling problem we will face.
Although he has not yet received a specific cooling timetable, Li Xiang's knowledge from his hometown and his previous life told him that the key to solving the problem is to keep warm, and other details can be dealt with temporarily.
Warmth preservation involves four major categories, construction, power equipment, textile industry, and food.
There is not much to worry about in terms of construction, because the kingdom started the cement industry when it just took over Red Stone City to build a new city. Since then, the buildings in the areas it has acquired are mainly brick-concrete structures, and in order to cope with the high environment at that time The temperature and wall thickness are also sufficient to cope with the general cold.
Even if temperatures are expected to be lower, small buildings with brick-concrete structures are strong enough to add insulated exterior walls and additional roof cold protection layers.
Power equipment requires outdoor antifreeze capabilities, and there is a lack of options in this area.
Due to the early environment, the work related to de-icing forests in the country does not require cold protection in most places. Various equipment lacks cold-proof design. If there is not enough time, it is impossible to improve and replace it.
The only parts that can be purchased are antifreeze, fuel standards, and temporary heating methods based on magic or electricity.
Wang Qi had relatively little contact with antifreeze in his previous life, and the information he had on other disaster victims was limited. The only thing he could get was methanol and ethanol. Their antifreeze effect was reliable enough, and the ratio could be temporarily adjusted according to the temperature.
Taking ethanol, which Wang Qi knows a lot about, as an example, the freezing point of a 40% ethanol aqueous solution under normal pressure is around minus 25 degrees. By adding a small proportion of anti-coagulation ingredients such as glycerol, it can be lowered a little further.
Lower temperatures will be more troublesome. A 75% alcohol aqueous solution can withstand the extremely low temperature of minus 65 degrees, but this ratio itself is fuel.
Fortunately, there are newspapers now. Through newspapers to popularize science, most people can master the correct use methods in a short period of time and reduce the risk of fire.
The alcohol production process in the kingdom is relatively complete, including both methanol and ethanol.
Companies that produce methanol include Gold Heavy Industries, which uses the petroleum gas production method, Blackwater Coking Coal Plant, which uses the coking gas production method, and Xincheng Heavy Industries, which produces acetylene as a by-product. Among them, coking coal plants have the lowest methanol output and the greatest potential for tapping. In addition, there are several small private acetylene plants that are producing acetylene, and a small amount of methanol is also supplied to the market.
The main enterprise that produces ethanol is the Xincheng Alcohol Factory that uses the sugar production method. This is a factory with several hundred people. The alcohol produced is also sold to herbal medicine shops by the industrial sector. The rest are private wineries, and there is no claim to be pure alcohol.
When customizing the alcohol production guarantee plan, I also heard that a small company had tried to produce ethanol using the Platycodon method. However, when Wang Qi checked it, it had gone bankrupt. After reviewing the files, it was said that the product with an industrial position was deliberately sold to the food channel. As a result, Exceeding the standard of methanol will make people drunk, and they will be fined and punished with bankruptcy.
Next comes the textile industry.
Due to the shortage of labor force in the kingdom, the light textile industry has gained momentum, so it took advantage of the period of industrial relocation to improve living conditions and balance the trade gap overseas.
There are still a few factories left, and the production capacity can only meet the daily needs of 800,000 people. This supply is based on the current average temperature of around 26 degrees. If the temperature drops by 40 degrees, even if the initial stage is not considered, For large purchases, the existing production capacity can only sustain the demand of less than 300,000 people at most.
The matter still needs some external efforts. When the exploration team has results, the news will be spread through newspapers and the textile industry outside will be prepared.
Of course, the production capacity of outsiders is never as reliable as our own. The family also needs to urge Rainbow Chemical to realize industrial mass production of polyester as soon as possible.
The specific method can be to ask Obsidian Bank to inject capital into the existing textile mills, or to find upstream spinning mills. The textile mills or spinning mills will provide money to help Rainbow Chemicals advance and jointly establish a chemical fiber factory. If there is a profit expectation and someone comes up, If the risk is shared with money, Rainbow Group will be more interested.
Finally, there’s the real challenge in cold temperatures—food.
In China, 55% of crops are produced in glass greenhouses, which cannot be pushed forward. The key contradiction here is that glass greenhouses are not conducive to mechanized operations and rely more on manpower than open farmland. Although related agricultural enterprises have made a lot of efforts in recent years, the progress of machinery and equipment has been faster, and the gap between the two has not narrowed, so that the proportion of glass greenhouse output has shrunk in recent years.
To further improve the mechanization rate of farming and harvesting in glass greenhouses, a special project will probably have to be opened, led by the Locomotive and Motorcycle Factory.
The General Locomotive Factory is somewhat unworthy of its name at this stage. The supply of locomotives in the Phoenix and Fenggu sectors cannot be increased in a short period of time. The Pangxun sector is still unable to transport them. It can barely maintain orders for two or three locomotives a year to maintain technical standards. Most of the production capacity serves automobile plants and Xincheng Heavy Industries. Let them do some agricultural projects, and also let the engineers exercise their brains to avoid getting rusty.
This arrangement is far from enough. Even if all agricultural production capacity in the country is converted into glass greenhouses and sufficient temperature maintenance equipment is installed in the greenhouses, it can only maintain a population of about 1 million, excluding sugar.
In low-temperature environments, overseas farmers and animal husbandry will suffer a significant reduction in production or even no harvests, and everyone has to return to recipes with a high sugar content.
Diets with a high sugar content ratio, as long as the fiber, vitamins, and protein can keep up, the teeth will deteriorate faster at most. The dentures in the magical world are much better than those in the ordinary agricultural era, so there is no big problem.
The real danger is immigration. It is foreseeable that once food becomes scarce overseas, a huge number of people will migrate to areas where food is available. The existing agricultural output capacity cannot cope with such a situation.
It seems that just rejecting it is enough, but if a person is extremely hungry, even the same kind can be eaten. The method is too crude, which will endlessly increase the safety cost and cause problems in trade. Without trade support, the industrial level will only decline. Walk along.
It is best to solve local problems locally.
As a chess piece of Wang Qi, the Sacred Tree Peanut continues to be optimized and optimized, and it may be able to maintain a certain output at low temperatures. However, the herbaceous plant is too fragile in the face of snowfall, and it cannot be synthesized if it is buried and cannot see the light.
We cannot count on the low-temperature production capacity of peanuts. Do we need to come up with a kind of tree?
After considering various impacts, Wang Qi felt that it would be more reliable to promote plastic sheet greenhouses.
