Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter

July 12th.

The average surface temperature reaches 75 degrees.

Animals that once occasionally appeared on the surface have become completely extinct.

Even humans who stand at the top of the planet's food chain can no longer directly conduct activities on the surface except for driving modified vehicles or wearing special thermal insulation suits.

And on this hot yet ordinary day.

Suburbs of Jianghe City.

Deep in the rocky beach where no one is paying attention.

A small shelter has completed its most important transformation since its construction.

Handmade manufacturing has truly entered the field of industrial manufacturing.

"Self-test completed."

"All parts are in normal condition."

"Start powering up and running."

A slight buzzing sound sounded.

A pile of dismantled scrap iron was slowly sent from the conveyor belt into the high-temperature furnace.

Then, the electricity consumption of the entire industrial equipment recycling center immediately began to surge. Then after reaching the peak, nearly 90% of the power generated by the two geothermal generators was extracted.

There may be certain dangers during operation.

Su Wu did not appear at the recycling center. Instead, he stayed in the control center and watched this special launching ceremony remotely through the monitoring screen.

Although it is said to be a ceremony, the whole process only takes a few seconds.

After that comes a long heating process that lasts for more than 12 hours.

It will take a long time to see the first batch of re-smelted iron ingots.

Completed the launching ceremony.

Su Wu turned his attention to the high-temperature furnace data displayed on the console screen.

I felt a little pressure in my heart.

"This operating state consumes too much power."

The high-temperature furnace currently in use consumes about 500 degrees of electricity per hour.

After completing the initial preheating process, a production rate of approximately one ton of scrap steel per hour can be achieved.

The output is not small, but the power consumption is also staggeringly huge.

Basically, as long as this high-temperature furnace is turned on at full power, Su Wu's refuge will not be able to turn on any other new large-scale industrial equipment that requires power support.

The entire industrial equipment recycling center has more than one high-temperature furnace installed.

There are at least five other models of high-temperature furnaces used for smelting other metals and materials.

With the current power generation capacity of the Suwu Refuge, it is completely impossible to support their simultaneous operation.

It can only be used in turns.

"The geothermal resources in this area are almost exhausted."

"Unless it goes deeper underground or develops into other areas."

“Otherwise, we won’t be able to add new geothermal generators.”

Facing the problem of power shortage, Su Wu's first thought was to directly increase the number of geothermal generators.

But the reality after actual exploration told him with cold data.

This method no longer works.

Geothermal resources are also resources, but resources have limits.

No more than two geothermal generators are allowed near the shelter.

Except for geothermal generators, any other method Su Wu could find was either too risky or the power obtained was extremely limited.

It basically has no effect.

"Let's just stick with it for a while."

"Let the shelter develop for a while."

"Just go out and develop new bases and search for mineral resources."

The new base does not have to be a residence, it can also be an unattended resource collection site.

Used to collect electricity, ores and other valuable materials.

Before Su Wu had the ability to build a nuclear power plant or other higher power plants.

Building more geothermal power stations and thermal power stations outside is the best and only option.

After thinking about the power supply issue.

Su Wu switched to the three-dimensional map of the entire shelter.

Sensors located throughout the shelter are used to examine and analyze the environment on each floor.

With the official operation of the industrial recycling center.

Inevitably, a large amount of toxic gases and other wastes will be produced.

Even when the recycling center was first established, a complete purification and filtration system was already in place.

But the shelter is, after all, an underground building with extremely limited and enclosed space.

Any small accident is enough to brew a huge disaster.

No amount of precaution can be taken too seriously.

After checking around, no problems were found.

Su Wu weighed it again.

It was decided to build a separation wall and a double separation channel near the recycling center.

Completely physically isolate it from other places on the 4th floor.

In addition, the ventilation ducts for the recycling center are also independent from the air circulation system of the entire shelter.

Directly connected to the surface.

No further direct contact with other parts of the shelter.

In this way, the recycling center can actually be regarded as a separate module independent of the shelter.

Even if any uncontrollable accidents or disasters occur in the recycling center, it will be difficult to affect the shelter itself.

"Next."

“It’s time to start a real expansion plan for the shelter.”

After dealing with the matter at the recycling center, Su Wu turned his attention to the temporarily suspended CNC machine tools and 3D printers.

After the high-temperature furnace occupied about 90% of the shelter's power.

These two manufacturing equipments no longer have enough power to start directly.

It is necessary to temporarily draw the reserve power in the high-energy battery pack to continue normal operation.

But this is just a small matter.

The high-energy battery pack reserves up to 10,000 degrees of power.

It is completely enough to assist CNC machine tools and 3D printers to operate at full power for several days.

It will not affect the manufacturing tasks assigned by Su Wu.

"First of all, the size of the vehicles in the engineering team needs to be redesigned."

In the engineering team, whether it is an excavator, a transport vehicle, or a more professional gravel truck, etc.

In fact, they are all temporary emergency products that Su Wu had to choose when resources were scarce in the early stage.

And now, since we have mastered higher productivity and have more raw material reserves.

Then using a miniature series of construction vehicles is a bit wasteful.

After all.

No matter the size of the vehicle, the core chip and high-energy battery that control it will not be much different.

And these two are the only two core components that Su Wu cannot produce by himself at present.

In other words, whether manufacturing a miniature series of vehicles or a larger series of vehicles, the survival points consumed will basically be the same.

However, their work efficiency is likely to differ by several times, or even dozens of times.

Retrieved more than a dozen relevant drawings from the database for reference.

Su Wu used drawing software to make revisions along the way.

Soon the new version of the design drawing was finalized.