Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 193 Electric Arc Furnace and Dogwood Island

When Huang Jiang arrived at the steelmaking plant, he was quite serious.

It's a pity that the six ship girls who came behind him treated this place as a snack spot and wandered around.The ship girl can use resources as food, and the sea soul has a similar ability, but this is not a common thing, and it will only happen once in a while. After all, resources still need to be stored as important strategic materials.

At this point, steel is slightly different. Due to process issues, the resource that needs to be reserved is strategic-grade Sea Soul Steel, while ordinary steel can be supplied to Sea Soul as a snack for enjoyment, but the taste is not good, and it is probably not available. A few sea souls like to eat.

The various strange steels produced by Jiagang were entirely the result of a momentary itching of researchers from the Materials Laboratory, but now they have become a good industrial chain for Jiagang, specifically supplying food-grade steel to Haihun. In ordinary humans, It is unimaginable to the eyes, and ordinary deacons will not pay attention to these things, so these steel materials are all high-end. Under Huang Jiang's instructions, they are packaged into something similar to Valentine's Day chocolate or Ping An fruit. The existence makes some wealthy deacons believe that as long as they give this to Hai Hun, they can increase Hai Hun's favorability.

The enemies of the FFF group can be pitted no matter how hard they try.

What's more, although it doesn't directly increase the favorability level, it can still make the sea souls feel comfortable. No one can resist the temptation of delicious food.

The favorite was Saratoga, but of course she was quickly suppressed by Lexington.

Huang Jiang visited the entire steelmaking plant under the leadership of Kaleji.

When he heard about slag before, he thought it was waste, but he never thought that slag played a vital role in the steelmaking process. It is an important source of elements other than iron in steel. Without slag, it would probably be impossible What kind of steel is produced?

Huang Jiang knew that he had no knowledge related to steelmaking, so he didn't want to show off by forcefully giving instructions. This time it was just to make his presence felt on Cycad Island, and visiting the steelmaking plant was the next best thing.

Of course, even if he wasn't very careful, Huang Jiang also discovered some differences.

"This newly built boiler seems to be a little different." Huang Jiang pointed to the large boiler being built in the open space not far away.

"This is a new steelmaking technology we are developing." Kalecki took a look and said proudly, "Mr. Nikola has given us a lot of help."

"Nicholas?" Huang Jiang was a little puzzled, after all, Nicholas was not good at making steel.

Kalecki nodded and replied: "Yes. Mr. Nikola designed a complete set of high-voltage arc facilities for our new boiler."

"Electric arc steelmaking?"

"Well, electrification is the development trend of the entire federation, and it also has great prospects for steelmaking." Kalecki said, "But it's not really electrification. We mainly use arcs to generate high temperatures to melt scrap steel, and then regenerate it. Adjust its structure to make new steel.”

"Scrap steel." Huang Jiang sighed, "I'm afraid there is a lot of scrap steel in the entire federation, right?"

"Many, very many." Kalecki's face showed a hint of pride, "This is a huge treasure trove. The electric arc furnace has been successful in the laboratory. Now we are getting started with the No. [-] furnace. As long as it succeeds, I believe Jiagang will have another trump card in his hand."

"The electricity consumption is not small." Huang Jiang pointed out the disadvantages. "Before the power station technology was not mature, the consumption of this kind of furnace was probably not much less than that of coal, right?"

"Didn't Deacon once mention using tidal power and wind power to generate electricity? According to Toles, General Electric is developing related technology." Kalecki said, "By then, the electric arc furnace technology will be almost mature."

Huang Jiang nodded and agreed to Kaleji's plan. As long as it did not drag down Jiagang's profits, Huang Jiang had no objections. What's more, he was very happy to see his people actively developing new technologies and wanted to catch up with those who had been industrialized for decades. On the island in [-], what Jialan can rely on is brand-new technology and all-out efforts to launch an electrical revolution and bring them to the same starting line. Just like several industrial revolutions on the earth, there will be one or two new ones each time. The rise of the overlord or quasi-hegemon.

"I wonder if the deacon has heard of something." Kalecki had been hesitant to speak, but now he finally said it. "Oh?" Huang Jiang was very confused. Nothing major happened in the Federation recently.

“White Rose’s Dogwood Island was officially accepted a few days ago,” Kalecki said.

Huang Jiang had heard of Zhuyu Island. It was at the beginning of this year, not long after he chose Jialan Island. When he checked the relevant information, he was sad to find that Jialan Island was very miserable, but at the same time he also paid attention to We have arrived at several islands that are even more miserable than Gloria Island. There are almost no people on them, and there are no deacons stationed on them. Although they are nominally federal territory, they have almost been regarded as abandoned objects. Some are due to the raging mirage and some It's because the environment itself is too harsh.

And Dogwood Island belongs to the latter.The center of Juyu Island is an active volcano that erupted just a few decades ago. Let alone humans, even mirages find it difficult to live a free life on a land full of magma.

Therefore, Juyu Island is basically a desert island.

Now when he suddenly heard that this deserted island was taken back by White Rose, Huang Jiang was still a little surprised and wondered in his heart which enemy took over the garrison task.

"This is a good thing." Although he kept complaining in his heart, Huang Jiang remained calm.

"It is indeed a good thing, but this time the retrieval was not an impromptu decision by Governor White Rose..." Kalecki said with some profound meaning, "but the discovery of minerals on the island."

"Minerals?" Huang Jiang's eyelids twitched. Zhuyu Island is very close to Mandala Island.

very close.

"What mine?" Although Huang Jiang had roughly understood the details after receiving the news from Kaleji, he still asked to confirm his thoughts.

"Iron ore." Kaleki said truthfully, "The iron ore on Juyu Island is of similar quality to the iron ore on Cycad Island. The iron ore on Zhuyu Island is all high-quality open-pit iron ore."

Although an active volcano erupting at any time is daunting, no one can refuse a high-quality iron ore.

"Why haven't I heard that Zhuyu Island is an iron ore island before?" Huang Jiang was a little confused.

"We speculate that the iron ore on Juyu Island was located under a very deep bottom. After the volcanic eruption..."

Can a volcanic eruption spew out iron ore?Huang Jiang didn't know that similar things had happened on Earth, so he could only lament that the world is unpredictable.

Immediately afterwards, he thought of the impact this incident had on Jiagang.

A high-quality iron mine will naturally attract the attention of steel tycoons across the federation, among which Jiagang, which is gaining momentum, is naturally indispensable.

But this was not the problem that Huang Jiang had in mind. After all, it was too far away from Jiagang.

The first thing he thought of was Sutter-Andre. He had been trying to get rid of the constraints of resources. Jiagang was the product of this intention. An iron mine at the door of his home. A fool could guess that this guy would make a move.

(End of this chapter)