Chapter 251: Evaporation Snow Monthly Pass)
When Chen Xin, Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan came to the train station in Lin City together, they saw a gully like a canyon and a snow field that was completely buried by snow, and there was almost no trace of the building's existence.
The gully is the original railway. Although there is a certain amount of snow on it, trains often pass by, so there is not much snow on the railway, leaving a trace like a gully in the snow.
Linshi's railway station is a fourth-class station in the station classification level before the Yanguo disaster. It is only used for trains with the lowest level. The more you travel, the more you travel, the more you travel, the more you travel, the more you travel, the more you travel.
The station itself is a small flat building, even lower than the surrounding houses. When the blizzard blows, it will naturally be buried completely by the snow without any trace.
After all, it was a small station where only five trains passed by a day before the disaster, and there was no need for the place to be big.
Although Lin City was also trying to expand the railway station and build a loading and unloading station before the disaster, it was obvious that this work was not completed.
You can still see some traces of loading and unloading stations built before from the ravines formed by the train. After all, Lincheng still needs to load and unload the trains transporting them here.
However, the snow around is nearly ten meters deep. Standing next to the gully and looking down, it is like standing on the top of a four-story building and looking down. It makes people sigh that everything created by human civilization is not worth mentioning in the face of the great power of nature.
However, although the snow here is deep, a large piece is still dug up, forming a relatively gentle slope.
This is obviously the place used for loading and unloading materials in Lin City. Otherwise, it would be not an easy job to jump from the four-story snow-covered roof to the railway tracks below every time you load and unload materials.
Even if you can't die from falling in the snow, it is impossible to transport the supplies below so high without digging a slope.
"A Xin, how do you dig out the railway station? Although this railway station is not big, it has so much snow, even if you have enough manpower, you have to dig it for several days, right?" Qin Lan stood beside Chen Xin, looked carefully at the railway below, and asked Chen Xin.
Chen Xin shook his head and said helplessly at Qin Lan's question: "How many days? Alan, you underestimate this workload too much. Even if you give you two hundred people, it will take at least ten days and half a month to dig out the railway station. It is better to equip them with exoskeleton protective clothing to achieve this progress. Otherwise, if you dig for one or two months, you might be able to dig the original roof of the railway station."
"Ah? Then, how do you dig out the train station?" Qin Lan was a little confused about what Chen Xin was thinking.
It is obvious that I am going to conduct on-site inspections on how to dig out the train station so that the train loading and unloading is more efficient, but now I say that even if there are enough manpower, I cannot clean the train station in a short time. Isn’t this a contradiction?
"Of course it's not digging with hands. It's too low-efficiency and there are not enough manpower." Chen Xin walked towards the slope in front, and continued to say to Qin Lan: "I came here to see if there is a way to clean up the snow more effectively. It doesn't require a lot of manpower. Even if the time is slower, it's actually easy to say."
"Then have you figured out a solution?" Qin Lan also slid down with Chen Xin. Both of them were wearing power armor. It was easier to slide down like this than to walk down.
Standing at the bottom of the gully, looking up, the feeling of the thickness of the snow was more intuitive. Chen Xin turned on the measurement function of the robotic arm and measured it. He found that the thickness of the snow was 10.12 meters. Such a thick snow was dug alone, and it was a very huge project to clear the railway station.
Even with the help of construction machinery, it is not an easy job.
As for only cleaning up one platform to facilitate unloading, this is OK, but the current problem is that Lin City cannot withdraw personnel to do this.
So now we either wait for the situation in Lincheng to improve, patients with mild symptoms will recover and get enough labor, or wait for the city to find a way to send new reinforcements, or Chen Xin can find a way to evaporate the more than ten meters of snow in front of us.
Evaporation is actually a feasible idea. As long as you can create a large enough heat source to raise the temperature within the railway station to above zero degrees and melt the snow, it will take only a few days to melt the snow here.
But the problem is that in the current environment, creating a large enough heat source, not to mention where the energy comes from, how to ensure that the heat can spread to the entire railway station after the heat source is made is also a problem.
Although the fourth-class railway station is only a few hundred meters long and looks very small, it depends on a heat source to maintain heat for such a large area and evaporate the snow here. All Chen Xin could think of is the heating field that can be made by the energy tower and heating hub in the "Ice Age" game.
Fortunately, this is not something that Chen Xin cannot do at all. After all, he was considering this issue before, but now he is not using the energy tower to build a greenhouse, but to dig a train station first.
Just to build an energy tower, in addition to a large amount of material, you also need to dig a geothermal well deep enough.
The material problems are easy to solve. Chen Xin now has an electromagnetic metallurgy furnace. With this furnace, he can completely obtain materials by recycling scrap metal inside Lin City to build energy towers.
But digging a geothermal well deep enough requires not only professional equipment, but also professional drilling personnel.
Thinking of this, Chen Xin realized that there is a drilling expert in Lin City?
So Chen Xin hurriedly asked Qin Lan: "Alan, you went to the 'Master' yesterday, how is his situation?"
"The situation of the 'Master'? His situation is pretty good. He dug a hot spring when he was digging a well for himself. He lived a good life with the hot spring. Ah Xin, why are you asking for this? Do you have anything to look for him?" Qin Lan heard that Chen Xin seemed to need a "drilling expert" to do something for him.
Chen Xin nodded and said to Qin Lan: "Then let's go find the 'expert', I need him to drill a well for me."
"Drilling? But A Xin, aren't you just talking about cleaning up the snow at the railway station? What's the relationship between drilling and this?" Qin Lan was confused by Chen Xin. She didn't understand how drilling and cleaning up the snow were related.
Chen Xin raised the corners of his mouth confidently and smiled at Qin Lan: "Didn't you mention the answer yourself just now? The 'Master' dug a hot spring, so he can rely on the hot spring to resist the cold, so I asked him to dig a deep well for me, and I want to use the geothermal heat to evaporate the snow here."
Chapter completed!