Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 97 Carbon Bubble

Purficott did not stay to oversee the construction.

She had already wasted a lot of time on Sweet Berry Island, so after seeing the construction company's construction team starting to lay the foundation according to her planned drawings, she ordered the exploration team to continue setting off to the next marked location.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. The exploration team went all the way north and passed several locations marked in advance, landing and exploring each time.

Unlike Sweet Berry Island, these locations do not have local natives or imperial colonists living there.

Therefore, although there are some minor troubles in the exploration work, the exploration team members are all experienced veterans, and Perficott's accompanying escort team is sufficient, so there is no big problem.

The exploration work was successfully completed, and the exploration data obtained was summarized here. She made plans based on these data and the high-precision maps drawn by the exploration team.

These explored sites were chosen from the outset as sites for future shelter construction, so all conditions are actually very good.

After a round of exploration, only one site was removed from the shortlist by Perfectcourt due to geological issues.

As for other locations, she thinks they could be used for shelters.

Coming to this conclusion makes Purficott quite happy. At least his plan has progressed smoothly up to this point. The only thing left is to complete the construction of shelters in these locations in the next time.

Regarding the planning drawings of the shelter, Perficott also made them during this time.

Although there are still two key factors that need to be solved: heating and insulation, the overall planning and architectural form are not difficult for Perficott. It only takes some time to complete the construction drawings.

After solving these problems, all that remains for Purficott is how to ensure that these shelters can continue to receive heating and maintain the temperature in the future apocalyptic winter.

The latter of this problem is actually not difficult to solve.

Oliver's friends are already researching related thermal insulation materials, and Purficott is also considering developing a thermal insulation material.

Although Purficott has no foundation or research in this area, she still remembers that in the world before time travel, thermal insulation materials have actually been booming for many years, and the performance of some thermal insulation materials is really amazing.

She still remembered that there was a special material called star rock. Although it was a material developed by a barber with no relevant education, its performance was so good that people thought it was ridiculous.

Using a flame of thousands of degrees to burn an egg for several minutes, in theory, it only takes a few seconds to completely cook the egg, but with the protection of the star rock, the egg can remain raw for several minutes. .

This material can even resist lasers and so-called nuclear explosions. It has aroused widespread discussion and is considered to have great market prospects.

It just so happened that Perficott had come into contact with similar things before traveling through time, so he knew what it was really about.

To put it simply, this material forms a carbon foam structure under high-temperature baking, which can achieve very efficient heat dissipation and insulation.

Carbon itself is a very good heat dissipation material and can quickly conduct heat away.

The carbon foam structure changes the heat conduction from solid state to gas phase conduction, and the thermal conductivity is better. Even if you put your hand directly on it after baking, you will not feel the temperature is very high.

With the blessing of these two, a magical high-performance fireproof material was born.

Combining these two factors, Purficott is certain that if he wants to create a thermal insulation material, a porous foam-like structure will be the final form of this new material. After all, before she traveled through time, the most popular thermal insulation material in the original world, aerogel, was also a grid-like loose porous structure.

Even the latest aerogel product is a carbon sponge, which has the same effect as the carbon foam structure formed after the star rock is heated.

It’s just that carbon sponge is a material that has already been prepared, while star rock still needs to be roasted with fire to form carbon foam.

So from a certain point of view, the barber who developed Star Rock is indeed very powerful. He developed this magical thermal insulation material almost thirty years in advance, and his original intention was to prevent fire. .

For Purficott, it is not difficult to make the same thing after knowing the principle.

It took her almost just one afternoon tea to successfully make the star rock and bake it into carbon foam with an alcohol blowtorch.

Then, she tried to use the all-knowing eye that had unlocked the new function to observe this piece of carbon foam, wanting to see what properties it had under the all-knowing eye, and whether the all-knowing eye with the analytical function unlocked could analyze it. What a useful technique.

"Carbon Bubble"

"Materials: Poor"

“Craftsmanship: poor”

"Effectiveness: Effectively isolates heat conduction, can absorb two hundred times its own volume of liquid, and has high resilience."

"Evaluation: Baking flour and baking soda until carbonized to form a loose foam structure can indeed play a role in fire prevention and heat insulation, but do you really want to use this thing as a building material?"

"Analysis: Available carbon sponge preparation methods, aerogel related theories"

"Prepare carbon sponge?" Purficott touched his smooth chin, frowning and thinking seriously.

She didn't care about Cuiyulu's comments. If it was really useful, there would be no problem in using it as building insulation material.

Moreover, its preparation is not complicated, and this material can be obtained even in a very crude environment. It can be said that it is very suitable for use in the coming apocalyptic winter to cope with extremely cold climate environments.

However, considering that preparing the carbon foam on her hand requires the use of a spray gun to burn, it must be said that it is indeed somewhat uneconomical.

Even if she could design a production line for mass production in the factory, the output of this kind of thing would not be too large.

Considering that the construction is too troublesome, using the formula of flour, baking soda and baking to prepare carbon foam materials is really time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not very practical.

Moreover, the thermal insulation effect of Xingyan is somewhat excessive. After all, it is a material developed for the purpose of fire protection and can withstand temperatures of thousands of degrees. This performance is somewhat excessive for buildings that only need thermal insulation.

So Perficott plans to reduce some of the demand and develop a new material that doesn't have as good properties but can be simple and easy to produce.

And this kind of material is not unknown in her original world, it is a practical polyurethane fire-retardant foaming agent in the construction industry.

(End of this chapter)