Chapter 365: Dam
What Downing wanted to build was a linear accelerator, which consumed a lot of power because it could accelerate particles all the time like a ring accelerator. However, the linear type has a simple structure and can continuously produce high-speed particles, which is a better choice in the early stage of high-energy physics research, which will make the research process of elementary particles faster.
As for the problem of high energy consumption, Downing has its own way to solve it. He is already preparing to build a superconducting maglev highway between Beijing and Tianjin, which is not only a cable, but also a road, and now he is building a large linear particle accelerator underneath it, which can directly use the world's metropolis-level electricity between the two places.
The power supply in the metropolitan area will be expanded, and large offshore wind farms will be built in the Bohai Sea, where the wind power can be well utilized. Although the Bohai Sea is an inland sea, the wind is also very impressive.
The current world energy landscape dominated by Windsor is quite clean, with a large number of wind farms, a large number of cheap perovskite solar thin-film cells scattered on residential buildings, and from time to time a large aerial water collector and power generation equipment for hundreds of households. On the riverside, instead of building the most efficient dams, they built the first vacuum pumps in Africa, combining the irrigation system with the power generation system.
Some people settle accounts for the Windsor Empire, using oil or coal to generate electricity is the most cost-effective, but the Windsor Empire has abandoned its martial arts and set the environmental protection standards of thermal power stations very high, and few can reach this level, so the cost is also high.
The Windsor Energy Empire has also come up with a way to deal with coal-fired and oil-fired and natural gas power generation, drying hard-to-process wood products into bioenergy, which burn at high temperatures with the same level of efficiency as coal, and the cost is not high, because it is a by-product of the logging industry, which is also meant to be thrown away as garbage.
Wherever there is a logging industry, the energy empire has such biothermal power generation technology to join the three-dimensional clean energy system. Moreover, the Windsor energy empire has perverted the acquisition of a large number of coal mines, but they have been collected but hidden for large-scale development, so that the price of coal is not getting lower and lower, but higher and higher, forcing a large number of coal-burning villages to change to electricity.
But there are exceptions to everything, Edison Electric and Westinghouse Electric in the United States have become strategic energy power stations in North and South America, and the government does not hesitate to use subsidies to support their development, but they use oil, coal and natural gas, of which oil and gas come from Texas and Mexico, and the Windsor energy empire has nothing to do with them.
In Prussia, Siemens also provides strategic energy networks for the country, as well as for Russia and Austria. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, where Siemens' technology quickly flowed from Beijing to Changsha and other strategic locations of the Qing Dynasty. Still trying to fully ** in technology.
The French, for their part, found oil and gas in North Africa, which greatly satisfied their self-esteem. Because of the deliberate operation of the Entente in Egypt, which has aroused Israel's alarm, because of its proximity to the Suez Canal, security concerns have been raised, and the United Nations has proposed a no-fly zone similar to that of Manchukuo and Shandong.
The Egyptians were outraged, and the Arabs who had been at peace with the atheistic state of Israel ruling the vast Arabian Peninsula were so angry that Egypt was now in the spotlight that another country was about to be beaten by the warlords of Windsor.
Airbus had launched intercontinental routes with turbofan jet-engined aircraft, but the Allies seemed unconvinced, encouraging the Egyptians to buy their fixed-wing fighters. The United Nations clearly wants to control the air in Egypt, and you still buy fighter planes, isn't this looking for a fight?
It is said that the Egyptians bought 500 fighters, which is an astonishing figure, which shows that the Entente is likely to be trading at a loss, otherwise where would the Egyptians get so much money? On the surface, Egypt is only a quarter of Israel's land area, but what is more embarrassing for Israel now is that a large amount of domestic military force has to be used to guard against die-hard Arab religious elements in the country.
The Egyptians can use the Israelis to usurp a large amount of oil that originally belonged to the Arabs as a justification for racial hatred, which is as easy to detonate as a powder keg, and Israel's advantages are not as obvious as they seem.
Losing the war is impossible, but it risks mass riots, violence, and humanitarian catastrophe. How difficult it is to make the Arabs become current and rational, everyone understands.
The fact that the Entente countries are so supportive of Egypt that the Middle East crisis may trigger an escalation of confrontation between the United Nations and the Entente countries must also be taken into account. That's how complex the world is.
The United Nations cannot be called "nervous", and the Egyptians are well aware of the power of the great warlords of Windsor, and they have used their strength to dig fortifications, lay mines, and are more busy than the historical repair of the Suez Canal. Because the Egyptians boasted about how well they dug their tunnels every day, they were nicknamed the Groundhog Army internationally.
The Israeli army scoffed at the actions of the Egyptians, and in the super arid climate of North Africa, it was useless to dig anything, and when the water source was cut off, everyone would soon be able to drill out and die.
Of course, Egypt is now a major observer, so the Windsor Empire has launched a large number of military spy satellites in this area. It was in this wave of large launches that for the first time, someone photographed the legendary satellite propulsion artifact, the cone-shaped alien-style laser airburst propulsion system.
No scientist knew that a laser could detonate air, so the entire Entente was dumbfounded and overwhelmed by this engine vehicle, and their self-confidence was hit like never before.
The Entente slowed efforts to equip Egypt's air force, and the planned 500 planes sold to Egypt at cabbage prices switched to equipping their own air defenses.
The Allies were also frantically researching jet aircraft, but progress was slow, and the first good thing they developed was a breakthrough on the part of the Americans, called the "close-to-explosive shell". It will be difficult for ground air defense forces to hit high-speed fighters with anti-aircraft guns, unless ...... Some military scientists have come up with a strange trick, if the shell flies into the air and explodes as soon as it gets close to the plane, the lethality will be greatly increased.
There is no hope of fighting with Windsor for air supremacy, but it is possible to make the invading planes suffer enough with close-explosive shells, and the US Department of Defense immediately invested heavily in the development of this kind of force to contain the opposing air force at low cost.
When their close-fire shells were approved by their allies, their self-confidence was full again, and it was too cost-effective to replace expensive warplanes with shells, and the members of the Entente were crazy to make such shells, and the movement was so big that even the United Nations had heard of it.
With the support of the Entente, Egypt became the first heroic nation to dare to defy the no-fly policy of the Windsor Empire. The country of heroes could soon become a tragic hero, and Israel, in collusion with the African Commission, was about to build a large dam in Ethiopia to intercept large amounts of water from the Blue Nile River in Ethiopian territory, dealing a catastrophic blow to Sudan and Egypt downstream.
The influence of the African Commission reached as far north as Ethiopia, and according to Downing's plan, the Sahara Desert would be further north, so at this point, I was interested in the Great Desert for the time being. The sultan, which borders Ethiopia to the north, was under Egyptian control and sent an Englishman, Gordon, who had fought for the Qing army, as his governor.
The Blue Nile controls 86% of the Nile's water, and the vast majority of the residents of Egypt and Sudan depend on the Nile River for their survival.
Downing didn't want to do such a lack of morality, but in this way, he could surrender without a fight, so he let the African Commission try, hoping to intimidate the Egyptians. Now, you have a fart for digging fortifications, and you have the ability to fight to Ethiopia. The armies of the African military alliance could wait for the enemy to invade, if they had the courage of that leopard.
It seems that the army in this world that dares to take the initiative to attack the Windsor army has not yet been born. Dare to call the African military alliance so ashamed, how many have two brushes, right? It is difficult for small Egypt and Sudan to attack sub-Saharan in terms of technology, manpower, resources, and traditional power, even if the whole of North Africa is still unreliable. Defending Chengdu reluctantly, how to advance south?
However, North Africa is not an ordinary country, they have strong faith, maybe Allah will help? They were just protesting, and they had no intention of giving in. The Allies believed that the Warlords of Windsor already knew the strength of their air defense military technology, and turned to the construction of dams to hold back the water, which made their confidence skyrocket.
The Sudanese army built a military fort in a small town called Damazin on the banks of the Blue Nile, and 1,000 troops were stationed with advanced weapons aided by the Entente. And the African Commission appointed a man named Leonardo? Cage's African-American elite was the Governor General of Ethiopia, a pseudonym that Downing used in Osaka, if you remember.
Governor Cage was in charge of the dam construction, and according to Downing's plan, the actual dam construction would be carried out in small quantities several times, each time only about 50 meters high, which would not cause devastating changes to the nearby ecological environment, and would also prevent the dam from causing terrible flooding downstream immediately after it was destroyed by the enemy. Several such dams had to be built until Egypt and Sudan were starved of water.
The dam was not high, and in order to make it clear for the fish, ecologists were asked to join the team to develop a technology that would allow fish to be fished upstream for them to migrate. When it reaches a certain threshold, gravity will pull up a fixed net at the bottom of the dam, which is enough to pick up a large number of small fish gathered at the bottom of the dam and throw them onto the dam.
If it is a migratory fish, it will naturally go upstream, and the fish caught by mistake will listen to it, it seems that this can also solve most of the ecological problems, this kind of eco-friendly measures actually do not take much effort, are fully automatic, after the construction of just find someone to maintain it regularly.
It will take ten or eight years to build a dam at every turn, and that is still a fart, so this strategy is the most important speed to curb the dam used by zuò. For this purpose, a pre-built water trap weighing 100 tonnes was used on the shore, which could only be moved by the most powerful Pisces crane.
The function of the tower is to place it in the river and quickly pour cement into the tower, which cannot be constructed in flowing water, although this kind of cement is stronger when exposed to water. With a diameter of 10 meters, the towers themselves are continuously advanced from four directions, and a 40-meter dam can be built every day, and within a year, a one-kilometer-long medium-sized dam will be completed.
There are five construction teams on the Blue Nile that started together, except for the vicinity of the Damazin fortress that did not start because it was not built, the four construction teams explored at the same time, started at the same time, and will be completed almost at the same time, when the dry season of the Nile comes, the end of Egypt and Sudan will come.
Fearing that the war would expand and that it would not be possible to directly attack the fortress of Damazin, Governor Cage decided to instigate a mutiny among the opposing soldiers