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If coal is not enough, water and electricity will be needed.
Now that the supply of coal is becoming increasingly tight, let’s find ways to use sustainable renewable energy!
It is definitely unrealistic to develop solar energy in this era. We rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. Since Yingtian is close to Xin'an River, let's make a fuss directly on the water!
So Zhu Xianhai directly chose hydropower.
In fact, even if Nanhua has entered the electric age to some extent, the level of power generation is difficult to describe. Nanhua’s electricity supply mainly relies on thermal power. Unlike the steam turbine generators used in later thermal power stations, Nanhua uses steam engines to generate electricity.
Unit, in terms of efficiency, steam engines are not suitable for power generation. Because most of the larger steam engines adopt a horizontal structure, the rotation speed is usually not high, about one or two hundred revolutions per minute. Generators with low rotation speed
The power generation efficiency is not high, which directly leads to high power generation costs. Although the reliability of the steam engine satisfies the engineers, it is far inferior to the steam turbine. However, for Daming, which is focused on seizing the forefront of the steam engine, the process of the steam turbine is too difficult.
It is not realistic to design and manufacture a suitable steam turbine in the short term.
Affected by the coal supply, the coal supply of thermal power plants is now restricted. In this case, hydropower has become the only option.
Of course, considering the technological level in 1871, it was obviously unrealistic to build a large hydropower station on the Xin'an River. However, if you couldn't build a large hydropower station, you could build a small one. You didn't even have to build one. As early as the era of Spanish rule,
Many water-powered mills or water-powered tanneries were built on both sides of the Rio de la Plata. What are their common features?
Just use water power.
"...Fuller Flour Mill uses aqueducts to divert water from upstream. With the impact of the difference in water levels between the upper and lower levels, the water flow in the aqueducts can drive two 50-horsepower Francis turbines. Currently, this flour mill..."
Before Fang Zhanbo finished his introduction, Zhu Xianhai said directly.
"This is the flour factory!"
A 50-horsepower hydraulic turbine, with slight modifications, can form a small hydropower station.
Although Emperor Zhu Da did not understand the technology of hydropower stations, at least he was very clear about the prospects of hydropower stations. Especially in South America, which has insufficient coal resources but abundant water resources, the development of hydropower is the best choice.
If nothing else, take the "Intaipu Hydropower Station", which was once the largest in the world. Once this hydropower station was located in the upper reaches of the Paraná River, once it was completed, the annual power generation of this power station alone reached an astonishing amount.
90 billion degrees.
Even if such a huge power station cannot be built in this era, hydropower can still be developed step by step from small to large.
In just half a month, the power room of Fuller Flour Mill underwent earth-shaking changes. The transmission belt driven by the water turbine was eliminated, and the iron shaft directly drove a generator.
On this day, August 3, 1871, as the sluice was lowered, driven by water power, the rotating turbine drove the generator.
When the indicator light came on, Zhu Xianhai said a little excitedly amidst the applause of everyone.
"Starting from today, we will use water power - this continuous power to bring us to a new era - the electric age!"
The age of electricity!
Electrification!
This is the core of the second industrial revolution, and to a certain extent, it was the Ming Dynasty that created this era - electric lights, generators, motors, including the current hydropower stations, everything has been branded with a layer of Ming Dynasty
imprint!
No matter how things develop in the future, what is certain is that the whole world cannot ignore that it was the Ming Dynasty that brought the world into the electrical age.
Of course, all of this was built under the guidance of Zhu Xianhai. In the past ten years, Emperor Zhu Da often played the role of inventor, but more often, he played the role of guide.
character of.
This guide is the one who guides the future. It guides a suitable path for the development of Nanhua and Ming Dynasty.
The current hydropower station is just one of them.
Ming Dynasty won another world first - a groundbreaking invention, the hydropower station!
Of course, this scene was completely captured by a movie camera. In fact, in the past half month, the royal photographer used a camera to capture the construction process of this hydropower station. It will eventually be edited into a documentary film, and then, it will be
It is played in the "cinema" to let people feel the great changes in the Ming Dynasty.
"We can first choose a suitable place to build a reservoir on the tributaries of the Nanhe River."
On the way out of the hydropower station, Emperor Zhu Da said directly.
The Nanhe River, also known as the Neuquen River, is currently the largest heavy industrial zone in the Ming Dynasty - Nanyuan City is located on the south bank of the Nanhe River, which was once the "Third Line" identified by Zhu Xianhai.
"Reservoir? Why build a reservoir? There is no need for a reservoir on the Nanhe River."
As the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Fang Zhanbo's first reaction was to object.
"As for water storage, doesn't the steel company already have a reservoir? There should be no shortage of industrial water!"
Although Fang Zhanbo was born as a scholar, in the past ten years, through studying at a vocational school, he has become a semi-expert in industry.
"It's not an industrial water problem,"
Zhu Xianhai shook his head and said.
"On the one hand, the purpose of building a reservoir is to meet future water demand, but more importantly, it is to build a real hydropower station. Nanyuan's factory will definitely need power supply, and a large amount of power supply. Building a real large-scale hydropower station will not only
Guaranteeing local power supply and providing cheap power to factories, and surrounding farms also need reservoirs, building a reservoir will be very beneficial to both industry and agriculture."
Hydropower stations are not only used to generate electricity, they can also be used for irrigation. With the Nanhe River as the dividing line, the farther south you go, the drier it becomes. Having a large reservoir can not only solve the problem of power generation, but also help the farms in the south.
Production.
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Hydropower, irrigation, industry, agriculture... all of this is beyond Fang Zhanbo's understanding. After all, these concepts are far ahead of the understanding of people in this era.
"And a big project like this can absorb manpower to the maximum extent!"
Emperor Zhu looked out the car window and continued.
“Rather than letting immigrants enter farms, we prefer to let immigrants enter construction sites, transform their minds through collective life, remove those loose things from them, and let them get used to collective life and collectivism, and collective life will also change.
They have many bad living habits, thus completing the transformation of their minds. From this point of view, the construction site is definitely a place to train people."
How is it possible not to exercise people?
Construction sites in the Ming Dynasty were all under semi-military management. They worked on the construction sites for several years, which was equivalent to living in the army for several years. The imprint of that collective life on them was indelible.
This is why as early as in Nanhua, companies used to send people to construction sites for training for a year or two before recruiting workers.
Because workers who have experienced long-term military management are easier to manage and more disciplined. Such people are of course more welcomed by the factory than ordinary immigrants.
"In the past, we relied on building railways to attract labor, but then we will build hydropower stations. A large hydropower station requires at least ten or even two hundred thousand workers, and this is a long-term project. It can take at least a few years or as many as ten years.
.Such a project can absorb a large number of new immigrants. At that time, the hydropower station construction site will become our training camp and training school for training immigrants. Moreover, the hydropower station will also become a new engine to stimulate industrial development!"
During the economic crisis in the 1930s, in order to create jobs and stimulate the economy, the United States built many hydropower stations.
In the end, those hydropower stations not only attracted a large number of laborers, but also further stimulated the development of the industrial economy in the United States and led to their economic recovery.
In fact, not to mention Americans, they are Da Mao. There are also Mustaches. In order to solve the problem of employment and stimulate the economy, they all chose large-scale infrastructure including hydropower stations.
The construction of large infrastructure can not only provide a large number of jobs, but also consume a large amount of construction materials and require a large amount of equipment. Both these materials and labor need to be transported. This in turn stimulates the development of the transportation industry.
Naturally, a virtuous economic cycle is created.
It has promoted their economic development to a great extent, and Ming Dynasty also needs its own large infrastructure to drive the industrial and economic development of Ming Dynasty!
In this era, in Ming Dynasty, which has backward infrastructure, large-scale infrastructure construction is definitely the way to truly strengthen the country.
As long as we can seize this opportunity and invest in industrial projects with relatively rich returns such as railways and hydropower stations in the next 20 years, the industrial development of Ming Dynasty will not just add an ordinary engine. It will also be assisted by a rocket.
pusher.
Just like the United States in another era, in the next 20 years, through the enthusiasm for railway investment, the United States became the world's largest industrial power in just twenty years.
Follow other people's paths and leave others with nowhere to go. This is the direction of Ming Dynasty's development!
How can we not learn from such successful and advanced experience?
Not only to learn, but also to innovate.
Hydropower stations are a new breakthrough besides railways!
Whether it is railways or hydropower stations, they are all high-tech leading projects in this era. By developing them, they can not only drive the development of the Ming Dynasty's economy, but also promote the progress of the Ming Dynasty's science and technology.
But all this is just a vision, and there are more pressing things that need to be solved right now. Looking at the city outside the car, Zhu Xianhai said.
"Of course, everything is difficult at the beginning. Now we can build some small hydropower stations and accumulate some technology to prepare for future large projects. By the way, we can alleviate the current energy crisis!"
This chapter has been completed!