August 8th, late summer.
On the high ground 3 kilometers away from Fort Benning, a group of Umbrella Corporation workers are busy working.
A large number of excavators and rollers are digging straight trenches one after another and compacting the soft soil on the high ground according to the design drawings provided by construction engineers.
Plumbers and electricians worked together to bury all the high-voltage cables and line pipes that needed to be pre-buried into the excavated tunnels.
Some construction workers responsible for laying concrete were filling huge deep pits with cement.
In the center of these tunnels are wind turbines that are seventy or eighty meters high.
Leon was wearing a high-tech black guardian armor without a helmet. His nearly two-meter tall stature made him stand out in the crowd.
Next to him was a thin white man in his 50s, wearing a simple suit and old-fashioned black-framed glasses, with his hair and beard neatly groomed.
The old man's name is Benjamin Trast. He is a senior electrical engineer who has been engaged in the power manufacturing industry for more than 30 years. Although he is not very famous in the industry, his professional skills are still worthy of praise.
With a sly smile on his face, Leon locked the door, used his extraordinary skills to sneak up behind Hathaway, pulled the curtains, hugged her, and blocked the girl's voice amid her screams.
Moreover, this is not a technology that requires high technical content. Lyon selected more than a dozen technicians to work in this area, and found the production methods of military rations of various countries in the library, and began to prepare for the construction of this factory.
Leon nodded and continued to ask thoughtfully:
"This highland is the closest place suitable for building a wind power station."
Ever since she became pregnant, Leon no longer let Peggy follow the combat troops. Instead, he let his younger brother Sherman take over his sister's job and lead the trainees of the armed mechanical group to clean up those large zombie hordes across the continent.
During this period, because of the need to use the professional research equipment of the Atlanta CDC, Dr. Mefala returned to the Atlanta base with several researchers under the escort of the Stinger Squad.
But recently, Leon was a little afraid to see little Amy. Since the company entered the era of large-scale infrastructure, there are more than a dozen functional facilities under construction, and there are nearly 1,000 workers working in various places.
The old man shook his head somewhat embarrassedly and said:
He glanced at the scale of the construction site, thought for a moment, and then asked:
Lyon also showed a friendly business smile, accepted the old man's compliment, praised him in return, and under the guidance of this old engineer, he learned what a wind power station is.
At noon, the beautiful girl Peggy drove a modified jeep to pick him up to go home for dinner. Leon politely invited Benjamin to have lunch with him, but the old man had been in society for decades and was very tactful, using the excuse of being busy with work to postpone the invitation.
That base has always been under the strict control of the Umbrella Corporation. In addition to a team of about 30 permanent elite troops stationed for defense, there is also a group of researchers staying in the underground base to conduct various research.
This was also a sudden idea of Lyon. He thought that since there was so much food available, even if they were eaten until they rotted into residue, they could not be used up. So why not collect them and reprocess them into vacuum compressed food similar to military rations?
Looking at the bustling construction site and the wind turbines that were nearly 70 meters tall without the blades installed, Leon thought for a while and asked Benjamin:
"Mr. Benjamin, how much electricity can a wind turbine like this generate in a day?"
It's not just these industrialized grassroots facilities. Consider that ordinary bullets and artillery shells can only be preserved for a dozen years in an unopened state, and once opened, the shelf life will be shortened to about one year.
However, as a leader with a long-term vision and prudent actions, Lyon must lay a solid foundation and make preparations for the development in the next 10, 20 or even 50 years long in advance.
She was holding a thick book, sitting on a leather office chair, frowning, reading attentively, sometimes biting her fingertips and thinking quietly.
However, in the apocalypse, his job abilities were of no use at all. Before joining the Umbrella Corporation, this old man had been wandering around the edges of various relatively safe villages, making a living by catching fish and shrimp, taking bird eggs, and digging vegetable roots. If he had not later joined a relatively kind group of survivors, it is estimated that with his physique, he would not have survived more than three months in the disaster.
What we are going to see in the afternoon is a newly built vacuum compressed food processing plant located inside the base.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Custer, wind turbines have high requirements for space and location, and they need to be in an open area to work properly."
However, these are just entry-level jobs in heavy industrial factories. As time goes on, the materials left over from peacetime will be exhausted or reach their service life.
Benjamin probably guessed the boss's intention and complimented him in a joking tone:
He hesitated for a few seconds and ordered:
A steel processing plant, a steel mill, a food processing plant, a machinery maintenance center, a building materials processing plant, a gas station, and a comprehensive parts processing plant.
I was busy picking, choosing, encouraging and tempting until dusk, when Peggy took me home for dinner.
When he pushed open the door of the office, Leon looked up and saw Hathaway, a literary beauty with long chestnut hair, a tall and slender figure, who looked like she was a master of details.
Although Benjamin maintained a serious expression on his face, he could not help but speak with some flattery towards his superiors. He said:
"Mr. Custer, if such a wind turbine works at full capacity 24 hours a day, it can generate about 38,000 degrees of electricity. However, that would put a considerable burden on the machine itself and seriously reduce its service life."
However, in the current period, they can continue to enjoy the blessings of the old era for more than 10 years. Basically, many of the collected materials cannot be consumed even if they are extravagant and wasteful.
People need clothes, cooking seasonings, chemical products, fruits, wine, and all kinds of light industrial products. The amount of manpower and material resources required to restore the production of these daily necessities is unimaginable.
"However, the space here is limited and can only accommodate about 18 wind turbines. If the number increases, it will affect the power generation of other turbines."
"Moreover, most of our wind turbines were removed from other places and have been in use for several years. If we continue to use them at full capacity, we estimate that their lifespan will not last more than ten years."
Just think about it, Georgia has enough food to feed 10 million people for several years, and after their compressed vacuum processing, it can feed 100,000 people for hundreds of years.
During this period of time, Lyon has not even had time to play games, and has been constantly running around various construction sites and facilities.
Lyon must establish a complete military production system within these few years, from mining to preparing gunpowder, from metal smelting to making precision bullets and magazines.
Not only that, if they want to manufacture more advanced weapons and equipment, they must have more sophisticated smelting plants and processing machine tools. The quality of alloys required for ordinary weapons and precision weapons is very different.
After thinking about it, Lyon agreed with the old man's idea. However, he soon thought of a problem. The wind power station and the solar power station were both built outside the base, which made them easy to be targeted. Double insurance was necessary.
As the old man explained, he carefully observed the changes in Leon's expression. Seeing that the big boss didn't seem angry, he still added cautiously:
"Our advice is that working between 16 and 20 hours a day is the best option."
Leon sneaked out again and came to a supervisor's office in the Mephala Research Center.
The beautiful girl Peggy selected a dozen smart and talented students from among the young people and started a new armed machinery training class inside the base.
"Although solar power stations are not as efficient as wind power stations in terms of electricity generation, they have low requirements on terrain, labor and technology, and are also quite easy to maintain."
We don't ask them to surpass the military food manufacturing technology of decades ago. As long as they can learn how to make vacuum compressed food that will not rot for decades, it will be a great contribution to mankind.
"If we eliminate all those diesel generators, how much electricity would it take to meet the power needs of Fort Benning?"
However, now that Umbrella Corporation needs to build its own power system, this old man from the electrical engineering department has suddenly become an important figure from a marginal role in the engineering department.
"Mr. Custer, after our measurements and estimates, our base currently consumes about 150,000 kWh of electricity per day. However, considering the future increase in population and the scale of our base, a small town of about 100,000 people would consume about 1.5 million kWh of electricity."
Listening to the concise explanation of the old engineer Benjamin, Leon nodded in understanding. He calculated that a wind turbine produces 38,000 kWh of electricity at full load. If the machine is given a proper amount of rest time, the daily power output will be around 30,000 kWh. In other words, about 20 power generators can meet the current power demand of the base.
"Can our wind farm accommodate 30 wind turbines?"
The old man knew that his big boss didn't like to hear those professional and tedious data, so he immediately calculated it several times in his head before answering:
This also meant that Peggy had more free time to study her favorite home cooking. Every time it was time for dinner, as long as Leon was near the base, the little beauty would drive over to pick him up personally. Most of the time, she would call Amy, and the three of them would happily share the food together.
These vacuum-compressed foods can be easily stored for more than decades if some preservatives are added and sealed in a suitable place.
Of course, this is just a random imagination. The real situation is definitely more complicated and difficult than this. However, being able to store a batch of emergency food that will not rot for decades can be a life-saving method in the event of a food shortage or other accidents in the future.
After having a full meal and exercising with his two concubines for a while, he started his busy work again.
The girl's panicked look immediately turned into anger after she met the man's deep green eyes, and then quickly became filled with hazy charm.
"It is usually in standby mode, but when the external power plants fail, this thermal power plant must take over and provide the most basic power supply for the base."
"I discussed with some power engineers for a long time and we all agreed that we could build a solar power station based on wind power. I saw that our company warehouse happened to have a large number of solar panels stored, all of which were high-quality new products collected from Atlanta."
"I will allocate a piece of land for you inside the base. After you complete the construction of the wind power station and the solar power station, you will start to build a thermal power station on that piece of land."
"Building a solar power station can just make up for the shortfall in our electricity production."
Leon didn't force it. After getting into the beautiful girl's car, Peggy kissed him sweetly on the lips a few times, and then took this macho man home.
"But depending on the degree of industrialization, industrial electricity consumption is basically 3 to 8 times that of residential electricity consumption. So if we want to meet our electricity demand at this stage, I suggest that we should at least keep the power output between 500,000 and 1 million kWh."
Little Amy seemed to have discovered that the big boss was always lazy and slacking off, so she began to supervise Leon's work more strictly.
"No problem, boss. You have a more comprehensive view. We will work overtime to get this done for you."
With so many government affairs and demands, personnel allocation, and material mobilization, the government affairs group within the company is operating at full capacity.
The office door had been locked for more than two hours. When other researchers wanted to consult the newly appointed Hathaway research director, they found that there were always some strange noises coming from the locked door.
Those are soft moans that most of the researchers, who are single, can only hear on paid channels, and they make both men and women extremely excited.
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