Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 155 Power Surge

"Work!"

The villagers readily agreed and, ignoring He Liang and the others' attempts to stop them, busily set up stoves and tables, taking out various ingredients one by one.

There are dozens of kinds of cured meat with a brownish-red color, cabbage and winter melon with dew on them, soaked wood ear fungus, and so on.

Before long, a large pot of rustic stew, full of farm-style flavor and aroma, was ready.

"Children, dinner's ready!"

The old man called out, and the power transmission tower workers gathered around him in a lively atmosphere.

The old man had already taken a large bowl out of the basket, and the snow-white steamed buns were already heated up, steaming.

After taking a bite of the fragrant stew and a big bite of steamed bun, He Liang felt his stomach, which had been protesting for days, suddenly warm up at that moment.

"This meat is so damn fragrant, it's way better than the meat raised in the livestock building... In the city, wouldn't this kind of natural cured meat sell for over a hundred yuan a pound?"

Even though everyone ate to their heart's content, a small portion of the huge pot of stew was still left over in the end.

"If we're careful with our spending tonight, we can still have another meal."

He Liang thought to himself. He really didn't want to eat instant noodles and canned food anymore.

Unexpectedly, the old man directed several of his old friends to lift the pot up and dump it.

"Grandpa, no, no, hiss..."

Distressed.

The old man laughed and said, "These days, we're not short of food. How could we let the kids eat leftovers? Don't worry, don't worry, there's plenty of ingredients. I'll cook you something new tonight."

"alright."

He Liang was sullen.

In the afternoon, the elderly men started working again.

This time, instead of steamed buns, rice was used. An old man magically pulled several cured fish from a basket and threw them into the reddish broth. Another old man chopped tomatoes into large chunks, cracked over a hundred eggs, filling a large bowl, and poured it directly into another pot.

He Liang had never felt so satisfied with his stomach.

These are all natural ingredients, the kind you'd find in high-end restaurants in the city! With my salary, I can eat farmed lobsters and king crabs whenever I want, but I only eat these kinds of natural ingredients once a month; any more and I'd feel bad.

After a hearty meal, the old men packed up their things and prepared to drive their donkeys back home.

"There's still some left. You can heat it up and have a meal tomorrow morning. We'll come back around noon."

"Oh, oh... I'm so sorry, the road is difficult to walk on. We're fine, we have food, no need to go to so much trouble."

He Liang and the others refused in succession.

The old man said seriously, "How can that be? The ingredients you ate today were provided by Aunt Wang and her family. After that, Aunt Sun, Brother Liu, and dozens of other families are still in line. You can't show favoritism to one another, can you?"

The old man's reason was so compelling, so irrefutable.

As the sun sets, the bells on the donkey's neck ring, and the old men gradually walk away.

After withdrawing his gaze from watching the old men leave, He Liang looked at his colleagues.

"Guys, let's get to work! Let's work through the night, even overtime!"

"good!" ……

The original half-month construction period has now been reduced to just ten days, and it's already in the final stages.

A colossal structure, 60 meters tall and weighing tens of tons, stands majestically atop the mountain.

The superconducting cold cycle module has also been installed. The next steps involve precision welding, debugging, and, most importantly, laying the wiring.

A heavy-duty unmanned helicopter roared as it pulled a thick cable, about a decimeter in diameter, from another power transmission tower in the distance. At the top, He Liang, secured by a safety rope, temporarily fixed the cable's tip before carefully connecting it.

Behind him, an unmanned helicopter was also hoisting cables from the other side.

Cables in both directions must be connected simultaneously. Otherwise, the transmission tower will not be able to withstand the weight of the cables and will be pulled down.

It's too thick and too heavy.

This thick cable, with a diameter of one decimeter, has an internal current-carrying section that is only 3 centimeters in diameter; the rest is a thick layer for heat dissipation and insulation.

Liquid carbon dioxide will be present in that annular space to ensure that the core cable is always in a low-temperature superconducting state.

Only when both sides are connected simultaneously can the weight be changed to a vertical direction in this balance, turning tension into pressure, which is then transmitted to the ground through the tower body.

Each transmission tower is also a refrigeration cycle device.

The liquid carbon dioxide in the cable is cooled at the transmission tower, then flows back into the cable, taking away the cable's heat while heating itself, and then returns to the transmission tower, thus creating a cycle.

In this way, these power transmission lines can always be in a superconducting state with zero resistance.

There was no other way; the power consumption of ion drilling equipment was simply too high, and conventional cables simply couldn't handle the power transmission task.

If forced to withstand the heat, it would generate too much heat, directly causing the cable to burn out. Therefore, superconducting cables are the only option here.

Fortunately, superconducting technology has developed rapidly in recent years, allowing this task to be accomplished with just a single power line. Otherwise, the power transmission system alone would have been far more complicated.

After finishing the final work on the transmission tower in the last two days and turning on the cold circulation equipment to confirm that everything was normal, He Liang and his team decided it was time to leave.

"Goodbye, sir!"

"The children are all wonderful!"

The convoy moved slowly, gradually leaving the small mountain village. The figures of the villagers who stood at the village entrance to see them off gradually became blurred.

He Liang looked up and saw through the car window that there were still a large number of helicopters shuttling back and forth in the sky, and the faint roar of heavy machinery could still be heard in the air.

The battle has only just begun and is far from over.

……

In factory after factory, heavy truck after heavy truck departs, either heading to other factories or to docks and ports.

The turbines of the electric ships whirred wildly, propelling the million-ton cargo ships across the sea. In the sky, electric helicopters, electric passenger planes, and heavy cargo planes shuttled back and forth, connecting different regions and continents.

Amidst this frantic flow of supplies and personnel, in a conference room at the Doomsday Project command center, a researcher in a white coat stood with a serious expression.

According to a report from the Global Grid Monitoring Center, global electricity consumption has surged since the doomsday plan was launched.

Currently, the peak power consumption has increased from 17TW to 18.1TW, and with the launch of a series of large-scale projects, especially the ion drilling project, the peak power consumption will continue to increase.

Our current global power grid is already showing signs of insufficient power supply.

(End of this chapter)