Compared with fusion generators, the principle of thermal power plants is simpler. It is nothing more than heating water through the mixed combustion of tholin and oxygen, and pushing the impeller of the generator to rotate through high-pressure steam. Even, because of the gravity on Sedna
Because it is lower, the impeller rotates more easily, and under the same conditions, the efficiency is higher than on earth.
After learning that huge reserves of oxygen ore had been discovered and that there were no obstacles to building thermal power stations, the haze that had shrouded people during this period was instantly swept away. People majoring in electrical engineering such as Chai Cheng worked as quickly as possible to design
The drawings of the No. 1 Thermal Power Plant were published, and they immediately started construction in full swing.
The No. 1 thermal power station is located not far from the living area, with a total area of about one million square meters, but the first phase of the project only covers an area of about 10,000 square meters.
In the first phase of the project, it is planned to build two generators with an installed capacity of 3,000KW. Excluding losses and running at full power, these two generators can generate about 130,000 kilowatt hours a day. Correspondingly, they will consume about 70 tons per day.
Tolin is like 150 tons of oxygen. A total of 6,600 tons of tolin and oxygen are needed in one month.
With such a huge consumption of materials, it is obvious that a special railway line must be connected to the thermal power plant. So some modifications were made to the road network, which not only connected the thermal power plant, but also connected the oxygen mine, and also connected life.
The canyon near the circle contains a huge amount of Torin.
The power generation of 130,000 kilowatt hours per day can only support the operation of the railway line in the early stage, but it is far from enough in the long run. In fact, the overall planning of the No. 1 Thermal Power Plant will have an installed capacity of 1 million kilowatts.
It looks like it can generate 22 million kilowatt-hours of electricity every day - roughly equivalent to less than one-tenth of a famous hydropower station in the Earth era. It consumes a total of about 1.1 million tons of tholin and oxygen every month.
At that time, the excess electricity can support Zhao Changxing to build more planting workshops to produce more food, build more livestock and aquaculture workshops to produce more meat, eggs, milk and fish, and build more living areas for more people to live in.
, and by the way, the scale of the industrial zone was further expanded.
While people were busy, the supporting facilities of the No. 1 Power Plant were built first. A railway was directly connected here, and thick cables were led from the thermal power plant to the railway lines and to living areas, industrial areas and other places.
Various machines from the industrial area began to be installed and debugged on the initial framework, and the Tolin ore and oxygen ore required for the first month were also in place. They were just thrown into the open space at will, anyway.
Don't worry about them melting.
When all the machines were debugged and power generation could be officially started, Zhao Changxing, Chai Cheng and other project leaders came to the scene.
Oxygen ore and Tolin ore were transported to the gasification chamber along two different roads, where they were first heated and melted into gas. Because only in their gaseous state can they be easily purified and remove impurities.
In this first power generation process, the electricity for melting solid oxygen and tholin comes from the outside. But after the power generation is officially started, there is no need to be so troublesome. The waste heat from the power plant will be directed to melt them. Now, the power plant is connected to a little electricity
There was no heat at all, let alone waste heat.
After purification, Thorin becomes a mixture of methane, ethane and other gases. After solid oxygen is purified, it becomes oxygen. The two are sent into the combustion chamber together, and the automatic ignition device ignites them.
The frozen water immediately began to melt and boil, producing high-temperature and high-pressure steam, which drove the rotation of the generator impeller.
In the process of cutting the magnetic lines, electric energy was finally generated. On the tall lamp pole, after flashing for a few times, the high-brightness lighting finally released a bright light, illuminating the first phase of the thermal power plant.
Like daytime.
The lamps installed in the factory also lit up.
Zhao Changxing, Chai Cheng and others cheered together.
"Finally, I have no worries and can develop to my heart's content..."
Zhao Changxing sighed with satisfaction.
At this stage, the power generation load of the No. 1 Thermal Power Plant is still at a very low level. It is basically only used to maintain its own operation, lighting, and monitoring. Because there are not enough electrical appliances to consume the power it produces. But soon
There will be endless power demand rushing towards it like a wave.
The rail laying has not yet been completed, but the first and most important line - the rail connecting the No. 1 power plant and the oxygen mine has been almost laid. The first electric-driven locomotive has also rolled off the assembly line in the industrial area, and soon
The first shipment is about to begin.
The train on Sedna has roughly the same appearance as the train on Earth, but is wider and has a larger load capacity. Because the gravity here is too low, the same power can transport more cargo. One of its carriages has 5
meters wide, 4 meters deep, and 40 meters long. One carriage can transport almost 800 tons of water ore, or 600 tons of oxygen ore.
There is no aerodynamic design on the front of its car. The reason is simple: there is no air at all on Sedna.
It is driverless and is controlled by Xiao Xi as it runs on the rails.
Its first batch of passengers are some construction machinery, some building materials, and some construction personnel from the industrial zone. They will take this train, which will take more than three hours to arrive about 130 kilometers away.
No. 1 Oxygen Mine, and use these building materials to build a mining base there. After that, these dozen people will be stationed there for a long time and be responsible for the mining of the oxygen mine for a long time.
Feeling the vibration of the earth and listening to the non-existent train whistle, Zhao Changxing looked at the first train on Sedna and waved to it. The next moment, the electricity from the thermal power plant drove it
Driving into boundless darkness.
The construction of the power plant has continued, the construction of trains has also continued, the rails are being laid, and stations have appeared one by one on the desolate land of Sedna. Various facilities and personnel are slowly in place. Zhao Changxing finally appears in front of him.
A scene of dozens of trains running busy with loads of goods.
The iron ore from Yellow Iron No. 1, the manganese ore from Manganese Mine No. 1, the solid oxygen from Oxygen Mine No. 1, the Tolin mine from Tolin No. 1, the solid ice from Shui Mine No. 1...
Endless materials began to gather in the industrial area, and turned into pieces of steel plates, machines, parts, etc., leaving the industrial area, either flowing to the construction site, or flowing to the industrial area...
At this moment, the population of human civilization has officially exceeded the five thousand mark, and the adult population has exceeded two thousand. The industrial zone can produce almost all primary industrial products, as well as high-end industrial products, such as chips.
etc., has been officially produced in the laboratory, and is currently undergoing mass production research.
The computing capabilities of this first-generation chip are far inferior to those brought from the earth, and they basically have no practical value. But it doesn’t matter. After completing the breakthrough from 0 to 1, it will be enough to complete the breakthrough from 1 to 100.
It's much simpler. Besides, the requirements for industrial control chips are actually not high - just like the chip installed in a tractor, what does it need such high performance?
Soon, people on Sedna will be able to use the chips they produce.
But this is not what makes Zhao Changxing the happiest. What makes him happiest is that now that the drug reserves brought from the earth have been almost exhausted, the people on Sedna finally have the first drug production line.
This first pharmaceutical production line can produce nitroglycerin tablets, which can treat angina pectoris. With its own production capabilities, elderly people suffering from heart disease no longer have to worry about running out of medicine.
Various antibiotic production lines, medical consumables, and medical equipment production lines are also under preparation. Soon, almost all common diseases can be solved by self-produced drugs and equipment. Those high-tech drugs brought from the earth will
It can be stored and used in an emergency.
In addition, another thing that makes Zhao Changxing very happy is that the first set of space suits produced by people has finally successfully rolled off the production line.
There were only 400 spacesuits brought from the earth at the beginning, but now the number of adults has exceeded 2,000, which is obviously not enough. At this stage, the approach people take is to connect factories, bases, etc. as much as possible.
They are equipped with supporting life support facilities so that people can work without leaving the life support environment, which greatly reduces the frequency of use of space suits.
However, the scarcity of space suits has always been a constraint for people, forcing them to give up many construction needs that can be quickly solved through extravehicular operations. For example, due to the lack of space suits, the task of laying rail tracks has been delayed a lot
.
Now, I have the ability to produce space suits. Although the various indicators of this space suit are much lower than those brought from the earth, it is still usable, and this bottleneck has been solved.
Now that all developments are on track and there are no overall bottlenecks in a short period of time, Zhao Changxing begins to think about another issue.
With the rapid increase in population, Zhao Changxing felt more and more clearly that the efficiency of the overall society had been greatly reduced.
Problems such as unclear powers and responsibilities, uneven distribution, and personnel confusion have become increasingly apparent.
"It's time to establish a government to comprehensively coordinate all aspects of civilization."