The Kingdom did not directly intervene in the activation of Gate 4. It only dispatched some technical and managerial personnel to assist the Ruiweile Industrial Cluster in improving production.
Wang Qi has seen Rui Weile many times in various reports, and he seems to have a good vision for development. Unfortunately, the times we all live in are not quite right, and there are few opportunities for such talents to display their abilities.
Although this industrial cluster has good leaders, it still has great flaws, mainly in terms of size and raw materials.
Ruiweile Group has about 20,000 employees, and the total number of people in the entire industrial cluster is only around 100,000. The industrial chain that can be formed with such a size is not complex enough. In addition to supplying part of the production capacity itself, more production energy is invested in "Japanese." In the category of "metal containers", the scale of military products exported to the outside world will not be too high.
The problem with raw materials is relatively big.
The Baisha City section where this cluster is located was a pasture in the early days. After the rainfall environment was optimized as a floating island, some shallow water lakes were formed. However, due to the relatively flat terrain and lack of "convergence" of mountains, the available water is relatively limited.
Water is still a problem that can be solved with magic solutions, but natural resources such as coal and iron are in trouble. There are coal mines in the area, and iron is relatively scarce, so it needs to be collected from the surrounding area. This is also the main job of all aircraft in this industrial cluster. Precisely because iron ore needs to be imported from outside, the cost of their crude steel is high and it is difficult to make a profit by selling steel directly. It may promote the formation of industrial clusters, but it is not a good thing at the macro level.
For example, the foreign trade rifle projectiles that had been handed over to them for production were coveted by their iron ore suppliers, so they had to make some concessions, further increasing the import price of iron ore.
The ability of those mining companies to do so reflects the limitations of shipping. With a transport capacity of only a few tons, flying one more floating island will significantly reduce the efficiency of the entire transport fleet.
Wang Qi and relevant departments recently discussed the situation of the Ruiweile cluster in a meeting and decided to "help" them.
Since the emergence of the magic pulse phenomenon, the distance between floating islands has expanded again, and the Phoenix Kingdom has also had to find new transportation solutions between floating islands to make up for the limitations of air transportation.
The main reference here is the ferry plan developed by the private sector from Fenggu plate to Pangxun plate.
After the official intervention, the forces of all parties were integrated, and a new ferry industry was quickly formed.
Official leadership needs to meet some development plans, so it is more focused on pursuing the "big" direction. At this time, there were already ferry platforms capable of transporting 80 tons of single equipment at Xincheng-Hongshi Ferry and Fenggu-Pangxun Ferry.
But to say how in-depth the development is, it is not even close.
The magic power loss of transporting the same 80 tons of materials for six kilometers on a ferry platform is equivalent to the consumption of transporting 1,400 kilometers by airplane. There is no aircraft that can directly transport an 80-ton unit. If there were, the gap would only be wider!
It is just a simple stacking of lift modules, and no new solution has emerged specifically for the ferry form of transportation.
This set of ferry equipment, apart from the magic aspect, focuses on the new standardized structure.
Using a puzzle-like method, multiple 3×1×0.6 structural units can be assembled arbitrarily. Above it is a herringbone metal anti-skid panel and a cargo lock, and below it is a support truss and connecting structure. There is nothing else. All the magic components are on another smaller structural unit.
The combined platform can greatly increase the transportation limit of a single unit. It is currently limited to 80 tons. The blame lies on the strength of the structural units. However, there is no need for special alloys for the time being. The ferry authorities are considering whether to continue to increase the truss height. Provides additional joint support.
In addition, the magic level also needs corresponding optimization, which requires a process of exploration, but it will not take long, and it will definitely be able to transport 150 tons of single equipment within two years.
What Wang Qi meant was to give away the manufacturing standards for this set of things.
Not only the Ruiweile cluster, but also the Pilates area and Quagmire City, which have steelmaking and certain machining capabilities, can be given to them, allowing them to produce their own structures or pay for them. The kingdom only provides magic operating units.
Although the ferry solution cannot reach the transportation capacity of the railway, and ferry management is more troublesome, at least the cost investment is much lower than that of air transport capacity, the transportation scale is easier to adjust, and it is more suitable for transporting materials with low unit value such as iron ore and oil. , it won’t hurt if you are idle occasionally due to fighting. Of course, the premise is that these things can be transported on the island next door. Otherwise, due to their energy consumption, they have to be transported across the floating island, and charging will probably have to be calculated on a monthly basis. Even if the magic power does not cost money, it cannot afford such consumption.
Speaking of magic, after the opening of Gate 5, the world is still changing for the worse.
According to the latest statistical report, in the past 10 days, the average air pressure in Little Bear City was 820 to 900 hectopascals. Although the change was limited, the overall value was several thousand pascals lower than a dozen months ago.
Air pressure is not only related to the aforementioned temperature, ultraviolet light, oxygen, etc., it also affects the performance of the aircraft.
Compared with the period when the ground air pressure was 1150 hPa many years ago, the speed required for aircraft to take off has increased, requiring a longer take-off runway. Fortunately, the balance point has not been broken yet, and the distance required for takeoff is still lower than that for landing. After all, landing has to consider the weather and landing point, and a certain redundant length is required.
However, it is difficult to say if the air pressure continues to decrease. Around 600 hPa, the power of an aircraft based on a radial engine will decrease. In addition, due to the insufficient lift caused by low air pressure, the lift module can only be used as a glider to take off.
Fortunately, the vortex series is more adaptable to low-pressure environments, and the impact in this regard is not particularly large.
Along with the decrease in air pressure, there are two situations: the temperature continues to drop, and the sunlight intensity increases.
The average temperature in January recently fluctuated between 16 and 24 degrees, with only two hours in the month the temperature exceeded 25 degrees.
The increase in illumination is the inevitable result of the thinning of the atmosphere above, and is also accompanied by a proportional increase in ultraviolet intensity.
When the temperature drops and the illumination increases, it may seem a bit unreasonable, but it is actually quite normal.
The decrease in air pressure means that the density decreases, the total mass of the atmosphere and water vapor above is insufficient, and the total heat storage capacity decreases simultaneously. Therefore, even if the illumination is relatively high, the temperature at night cannot rise. This is still a situation where water vapor is relatively abundant. If the atmospheric water saturation is further reduced, it will be trivial to increase the temperature difference between day and night by 20 to 30 degrees.
The temperature is now quite dangerous.
For vegetation originally in a tropical environment, 14 to 18 degrees has reached the lower limit of survival for a considerable number of plants. Observed from the air, the green saturation of the floating island has changed significantly.
Unless the temperature rises in the short term, each floating island will inevitably undergo earth-shaking vegetation replacement.
The power of nature is very strong. There is no need to worry about the complete extinction of plants in the short term. However, those normal outdoor fruit trees cannot bear fruit, and the new fruit trees adapted to low temperature environments are unlikely to be of any use in the short term.
Wild sources of vegetarian food will disappear completely in a short period of time, followed by larger animals. This change means that people's food sources will be more concentrated in artificial breeding and planting.
All places overseas need to work harder, otherwise it would be easy to starve half the people to death in a year.
Fortunately, the sacred tree peanuts and deep-rooted tuber shrubs created by Wang Qi have already spread abroad. The latter, as a perennial plant that can cope with ultra-low temperature environments, can play a small role for the time being. However, peanuts already have a certain scale of distribution. As long as each place has its own Without losing the chain, it should be able to help support the improvement of the artificial planting environment.
It's just that the vast majority of people can only see the benefits within an inch of their eyes. It's still unknown how many people can be saved.
(End of chapter)
