"Oh, right. Does your military base... need electricity?"
Shen Jin's voice carried a peculiar allure. Despite being forty years old, Xia Anbang actually followed his train of thought.
"Electricity??? Who doesn't need electricity? Don't tell me you..."
Shen Jin smiled and nodded, looking just like an itinerant doctor who had read his patient's expression, pinpointed his weakness, and offered exactly the prescription he wanted.
Of course, unlike those itinerant doctors, he had genuine skills.
A Wind Turbine Generator!
Shen Jin had never used one himself, but he could build one at the Government's base to test the waters.
"Well! What do you use to generate electricity? Thermal power or solar power? The biggest problem with thermal power is actually fuel. Without fuel, building a thermal power station is pointless. Solar power requires large quantities of monocrystalline silicon, which is extremely difficult to manufacture! And for a base as large as ours in D City, its output is really... a drop in the bucket."
"Oh? Then how about considering wind power?"
Shen Jin had to admit that Xia Anbang thought clearly. He had immediately identified the drawbacks of the two most common methods of power generation. Shen Jin couldn't possibly mine coal for them every day, and [Solar Generators] had always been underwhelming. He only used them to charge phones and electric scooters himself.
Powering such a large military base with them was a pipe dream, unless they installed thousands upon thousands.
That would consume enormous amounts of materials!
There was no need.
"Wind power? Although there are indeed some wind farms along D City's coast... we're in the city, some distance from the coast. Wouldn't the wind be obstructed? How efficient would it be?"
Seeing Xia Anbang seriously considering it, Shen Jin knew the deal was in the bag.
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