Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 876

Chapter 876: Chapter 285: Persuading Liu Bi, the Hydropower Station Starts Up! (2)

Thinking about this, Cheng Ye suddenly felt a surge of excitement and looked up to ask, “Brother B, did you come here this time because the equipment I ordered has been produced?”

Liu Bi was taken aback for a moment, not expecting his mind to leap so quickly, then he chuckled and said, “That’s nearly one hundred thousand points worth of important equipment. Your Brother B spent a lifetime working hard, and still hasn’t saved even half of those points. Where did you get the money to order?”

It really arrived?!

A wave of ecstatic emotion arose from his heart, and Cheng Ye even felt his head spin for a moment.

“For the construction of the Satellite City, the money was naturally applied for from the city… let’s go, let’s head back and discuss this in detail!”

Five days ago, the Water and Power Station Evaluation Team, temporarily set up by the Inner City Public Works Bureau, arrived in Dapo Town and completed the overall structural assessment.

Although the potential hazards weren’t completely eliminated, the evaluation report gave the usage lifespan as fifteen years, which means that as long as operations and maintenance are normal, there won’t be any structural problems within fifteen years.

With this evaluation report, applying for production of repair materials from the industrial zone became smooth sailing.

However, regarding delivery time, even with Davidson’s connections, the industrial zone only promised delivery within half a month.

He had thought he’d have to wait a few more days, but didn’t expect today to be just the sixth day, and the equipment arrived nearly ten days early.

The arrival of the equipment allows the most crucial part of the Dapo Town development plan to finally officially start!

“In such a hurry?”

“Dapo Town is relying on the water and power station for development. Didn’t I already set up the factory?”

Onboard the wooden boat, Cheng Ye explained repeatedly.

Apart from the collector needing electricity for charging, the upcoming construction in Dapo Town also requires stable electricity.

Right now, at night, the town can only rely on the solar energy left from the time when Immortal Objects were collected to barely illuminate.

Power tools like electric saws and drills can’t be used at all, the construction progress can only inch forward powered by human effort, progressing so slowly it makes one’s heart anxious.

Moreover, the residents’ lives are eager to have electricity quickly.

Nutrient Paste needs heating, and the hot water for daily use also depends on electric supply. As the weather gets colder each day, the residents of Yongxing Community are in relatively good physical condition, but among the refugee group, there are already several cases of colds.

Furthermore, Dapo Town will continue to expand in the future, requiring more basic infrastructure to be laid out, making power even more of a necessity among necessities.

“Energy…” Liu Bi mused, “Is this why you chose Dapo Town?”

“Yes.” Cheng Ye nodded, calculating clearly, “The water and power station here can stably supply thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity every day, which is basically equivalent to obtaining it for free. Calculating based on the Buffer Zone’s price of 15 contribution points per hundred kWh, the water and power station can bring about 1100 points of revenue daily, which amounts to 33000 points in one month. Even accounting for usage wear and tear, the funds invested in repairs this time will fully recover in at most five months.”

Even though electricity use in the Satellite City can apply for support, it can’t brutally use the calculation of 15 points, but the money spent and investments are completely different matters, the passive revenue from the water and power station will only grow more and more.

With intuitive numerical impact and realizing such figures as daily revenue, Liu Bi listened somewhat stunned.

Even Niu Fu, who was rowing the boat, had his hands shake a bit, though his rowing got faster, evidently also shocked by the profit.

Back in the storage area.

Most of the cargo had already been unloaded, and Cheng Ye spotted two pieces of core equipment with their outer packages removed at a glance:

A hydraulic gate operator and an axial flow turbine set!

In terms of the industrial level of Happiness City, the manufacturing difficulty of the former is relatively simple, but for the latter, whether considering the complexity of the internal structure or the overall manufacturing process, it demands highly stringent requirements.

The core runner and blades, the profile line error of the blades must be controlled at the millimeter level; any slight deviation will significantly reduce hydraulic efficiency, and in long-term operation, the added energy consumption and equipment wear will be astronomical.

And speaking of processing, the blades are complex curved structures that must undergo overall milling with five-axis CNC machines, and post-processing requires 3D scanning to check surface precision; if any area is substandard, the entire unit must be reworked.

It can be said, the ability to produce this thing proves that Happiness City’s industry has completely reached a modern level.

If provided with the corresponding blueprints and understanding the complete manufacturing process, replicating any human-made product in the future would merely be a matter of time.

Moreover, not just in production, during assembly, when connecting the rotor and main shaft, the coaxiality error must be controlled at the micron level; otherwise, the unit will resonate and require complete repairs within half a year.

At this moment, feeling the craft-like alloy blades, Cheng Ye held back and finally burst out laughing.

Blades inherently require attributes like cavitation resistance, wear resistance, and high strength, typically using stainless steel materials. However, with Davidson’s connections, these blades have been directly replaced with Isolation Alloy.

As a super alloy capable of resisting attacks from Infected Bodies, even if someday the water and power station is breached and damaged by the Infected Body, these blades are likely to remain intact without a single scratch.

And most importantly, just this set of the axial flow turbine was originally estimated at a whopping price of fifteen thousand contribution points.

Now, under the pretext of Satellite City construction, even though essentially paving the way for his private territory, it still received the industrial zone’s fifty percent discount, and the industrial zone even had to subsidize part of the cost for it.