"Don't be depressed, it's already very good that you have made it this far." Lawrence and Viscount Surrey comforted each other at the same time, looking at the engineer who was now a little frustrated after talking about the shortcomings of briquettes.
"The idea of turning waste into treasure is already very good, and putting them into practice is a very, very powerful thing." Lawrence said to the engineer.
"Seriously, you have this kind of idea which can be said to be very pioneering and also very valuable." After throwing the briquettes into the pile of coal next to him, Lawrence clapped his hands and said.
"And based on your invention, I have come up with a good way to solve most of the flaws in your current invention."
After seeing these briquettes, Lawrence immediately thought of briquettes. Although in his previous life, as a post-90s generation living in the city, his home used heating instead of briquette stoves, this kind of thing did not matter to him.
Not uncommon.
Especially after he went to college, he read a lot of novels about time travel that used briquettes as the starting point for starting a business, so he also researched some knowledge about the production of briquettes for this purpose.
Although he could not understand the pictures of the machines for making briquettes due to professional issues, he could still understand and memorize the small instruments used to make briquettes manually for simple reasons.
So, Lawrence soon took out a pen and drew on a piece of paper the machinery used to make briquettes by hand, and then handed it to the engineer.
"Is this a tool for changing the shape of briquettes?" As a professionally educated engineer, he quickly saw the structure and usage of this small tool.
"Yes, I think your idea should be correct. However, something like this that is relatively loose but solid inside naturally does not burn well when burned, and it is easy to fall into a ball after burning." Lawrence pointed to the pile.
said the pile of briquettes in the corner of the room.
"But if you press it into this hollow shape and have a channel for the flame to pass through, it won't be easy to have the problem of insufficient firepower or incomplete combustion and smell when burning briquettes." Lawrence pointed to the drawing.
Three views of honeycomb briquettes.
"More importantly, unlike shaken briquettes, this kind of briquettes has an extrusion process during the manufacturing process. This can avoid the problem of the artificial fuel being scattered all over the floor after burning.
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Although there are not many machines in this coal mine, there are a lot of various tools. Therefore, it is natural to have a small processing workshop for repairing and processing some simple tools or tool parts.
For this kind of professional small machinery manufacturing factory, the simple briquette making tools on Lawrence's drawings are very simple for them to make, and they can be easily made as long as they have raw materials.
Therefore, after waiting for less than half an hour, several workers wearing leather aprons and goggles gave several samples to Lawrence and the others, and then Lawrence and the others went to the factory that produces briquettes to start testing this new tool.
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After making the briquettes, they immediately used magic to dry the briquettes, then put them on a stand and burned them.
"There is still some smell, but ordinary people should not be able to smell it." Viscount Surrey sniffed and said.
As an extraordinary person, his sense of smell is naturally much stronger than that of ordinary people. But even so, he can only smell a very faint smell of soot. This also means that honeycomb briquettes have solved the problem of the original burning of briquettes.
The problem of odor occurs.
As time goes by, the briquettes gradually change from black to earthy yellow. But the difference from before is that during the entire burning process of the briquettes, there is no problem of burning and scattering like when briquettes are burned.
In this way, the soot that flies everywhere when burning is naturally reduced, making the surrounding area much cleaner.
"In addition to burning this kind of briquettes as ordinary coal, you can also use some matching coal stoves." As he said, Lawrence drew a few simple diagrams based on the impression of the stove in his rural hometown when he burned briquettes.
In these pictures, in addition to a duct that leads the exhaust gas to the outdoors, the stove also has rings of different sizes for different containers, a vent cover that simply adjusts the amount of air entering the furnace, and a kettle attached to the stove.
"I checked the information before and found that almost all cities in this generation relied on geothermal heat to maintain their temperature." Lawrence said, pointing to the briquette stove he drew.
"But those cities alone cannot sustain people's requirements to develop on this island. In other words, after occupying the key points with geothermal heat in the early stage, intelligent races will inevitably need to march to those desolate and cold plains in order to survive.
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"And my coal stove can solve part of the heating problem. At least if those sturdy rooms with thick walls in the wilderness are equipped with such a coal stove, then at least the space utilization rate is much better than that of a fireplace.
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"You are right." Viscount Surrey said after looking at the dimensions of the ventilation ducts marked on the diagram.
"At least compared to this thing, the fireplace chimney is really too big. Not only can it easily lower the temperature, but it can also be easily attacked by some cunning monsters as a weakness in the building."
"It's more than that." Lawrence clicked on the stove on the drawing and said. "I remember that those simple shelters in the wild were often very small, so they just built a fireplace in the hall on the first floor. Although everyone was frozen in that way.
It's not warm, but it won't be much warm either."
"With this kind of coal stove, they can have one in every house. Compared with the integral fireplace, this kind of decentralized coal stove is more flexible."
"At the same time, this new type of heating equipment has obvious advantages over those old-fashioned fireplaces in terms of size and fuel consumption."
"Yes, it turns out that those old fireplaces suddenly occupied a large part of the first floor of the past room. In addition to reducing the space in the room, it is also very unfavorable for arranging defenses on the first floor during battle."
The Viscount of Surrey recalled his previous impressions of those scattered settlements and said, "If those fireplaces are knocked out, it should be able to reduce the original shooting blind spots on those buildings, and at the same time, more items can be placed on the first floor.
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"Not only that, I see that you are also trying to build some micro-structures for growing vegetables around here, right?" At this time, Lawrence remembered some of the buildings he had seen around the city that were obviously used for agricultural production.
"Yes, always relying on importing edible vegetables is not an option. But just eating a few kinds of fish and boiling moss to supplement the various nutrients needed by the human body is simply beyond the reach of most people." Sari
The Viscount looked helpless.
"Actually, the medical research institute under me is extracting the nutrients needed by the human body and making them into some medicines. When needed, just take one pill." After seeing several people present staring at me,
Lawrence shrugged.
"Of course, those things can only be used as emergency supplies, but they should taste better than boiled moss soup."
"Unless I have to, I will never take the initiative to take medicine." Viscount Surrey smiled and shook his head, then asked Lawrence. "By the way, what is the reason for you asking about vegetable planting?
"Because this coal stove can be used to build a greenhouse." Lawrence said.
"Compared with the fire pit, this thing is less likely to poison those working in the greenhouse because it has ventilation holes, and compared with the fireplace, this thing is obviously less expensive."
"You're right. Now I think this thing really needs to be ordered in batches." Viscount Surrey nodded in agreement.