Chapter 80 The Planning of Sweet Berry Island
After Purficott hanged the plantation owner, the exploration team’s activities on this island received the full support of the local indigenous people.
Of course, this also has a lot to do with Purficott's announcement that they were free and no longer slaves.
In short, with the help of local people, the exploration team was able to survey the entire island and collect a large amount of data.
Dr. Jones also discovered murals and stone carvings left by the ancestors of the locals on the island, which proved that the locals had lived on the island a long time ago, which made him very interested. interest.
Through conversations with local people and investigations into their lifestyle and culture, Dr. Jones collected a large amount of precious information, which was enough for him to write several research papers on the history of the Aboriginal people in the New World.
Because of this, Dr. Jones felt that his trip was not in vain.
On the contrary, the heart that was originally frightened by the massacre in New Shaker City by Purficott finally calmed down.
The smooth progress of the exploration has also restored the morale of the exploration team to a certain extent. Everyone finally no longer thinks about the corpses hanging on the streets of Xinshak City.
But at this time, Purficott didn't pay much attention to what the exploration team members were thinking of writing. She was considering how to use the island based on the results of the investigation.
According to the investigation of the exploration team, there are rich geothermal resources under the island, which will be very valuable in the face of global freeze in the future!
According to Purficott's idea, only a large geothermal circulation pump needs to be built to pump out the hot water from the ground to heat the buildings on the island.
And this water can also be recycled. After it cools down, it just needs to be pumped back underground, and it will be heated into hot water again!
It can be said that as long as the geothermal resources are not exhausted, this island will be the best site to build a shelter in the future wind and snow, and it has unique conditions.
According to the predictions of those astrologers, in the next three hundred years, the entire planet will be completely frozen, and even the core of the planet will be frozen. By then, there will naturally be no What geothermal resources are there?
Although in Purficott's view, three hundred years of time-frozen geological verification is really an exaggeration. This is the energy contained in an entire planet. It is an energy that is unimaginable for humans. Even if it is used It may not be exhausted even after hundreds of millions of years.
In just three hundred years, it is too incredible to freeze the entire planet, even the core of the earth.
In Purficott's view, this was either because the astrologers made a mistake in their divination, or the source of the disaster was an existence she did not understand.
The reason is also very simple. If the global climate changes drastically due to natural factors, the underground will not be affected.
Not to mention the core of the earth, even if the surface is minus 120 degrees Celsius, it will still be hot if you dig down five hundred meters.
The average distance between the earth's core and the ground is more than six thousand kilometers, so even if you dig down to a depth of several thousand meters, it won't even be considered a scrape for the planet itself.
One can imagine how much energy needs to be released to completely freeze such a huge object.
If these factors are not taken into consideration, it will also have an impact on Purficott's follow-up arrangements. But although it needs to be considered, it doesn't need to be considered too much, because the results of the astrologers' divination are still three hundred years away.
Although Purficott only recently remembered that the Philosopher's Stone can be used to make a panacea to give herself immortality, if the world is really going to be destroyed in three hundred years, then she still It is better to choose to die in peace, lest you have to suffer again when the time comes.
As for putting an end to the source of all this and saving the entire world, for Purficott it was really not a big deal.
And now is not the time to think about these things, let’s survive the global cooling first, and then think about how to save the world!
Driven by such an idea, Purficott readjusted his thinking and returned his attention to the planning of this island.
“First of all, the port terminal needs to be expanded. We cannot only dock one large ship at a time. This affects the efficiency too much.” In terms of planning, Purficott first expressed dissatisfaction with the island’s terminal.
The original plantation owner was once a pirate, and he still attached great importance to the construction of the dock.
After all, he is running a plantation business, and the output needs to be shipped out to make money, and the only transportation method on the island is by sea.
In addition, other supplies need to be purchased from outside the island, so the dock of Sweet Berry Island can accommodate large ships like the White Gem.
However, because there is not much trade on the island, the usage rate of the pier is not high, so there is only one berth.
The small boat can still be docked sideways. A few more boats can be parked and the cargo can be unloaded from the bow. Anyway, the boat is small and can easily be turned around.
But a large ship such as the White Jewel can only park vertically. Only one ship can be parked, and it has to use a long trestle to get on, off, and unload cargo.
Therefore, if Purficott hopes to use Sweet Berry Island as a distribution center for supplies, the dock and port will definitely need to be expanded, and the supporting facilities must also keep up.
In Langton, facilities such as gantry cranes for loading and unloading large cargo have appeared on the docks, but the only tools for handling cargo on Sweet Berry Island are slaves.
For plantation owners, the labor efficiency of slaves is acceptable, but for Purficott, this is completely unacceptable!
What she needs is a distribution center that can handle a large amount of materials, a port that can load and unload materials from multiple cargo ships at the same time, not a berth that can just park ships.
The low labor efficiency of the slaves was absolutely impossible for Purficott to accept.
Instead of using slaves, she might as well use alchemy to make a port robot herself, specifically for loading and unloading cargo.
And this also gave Purficott a general idea in her mind. She might be able to try some new ideas in the construction of the shelter.
She still remembered that she had played a game with the same doomsday theme in the original world before traveling through it. In that game, most of the production facilities and service facilities could be replaced by robots. .
In the end, it will be possible to fully automate the operation of all factories, and urban residents will just have to stay at home, drink and box.
"Maybe I can give it a try? It doesn't seem difficult for me to make a robot anyway." Purficott estimated the problems that need to be solved to make a large robot and found that it seemed not difficult, so he decided to try one time.
(End of this chapter)