Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste
Chapter 90 New Technology

Chapter 90: Chapter 90 New Technology

Perfikot did not tell Samantha how he planned to make her brother a Knight.

Given Perfikot’s current identity and status, and the situation the Empire is facing, even if Perfikot truly used human transmutation on Samantha’s brother, it wouldn’t be considered a major issue.

As long as the other party hides in the New Continent for a few years, by the time doomsday arrives, these matters won’t be of consequence anymore.

After all, the main influence of the Knight Association remains in the Empire’s homeland. Due to the lack of Knights in the New Continent, the Knight Association’s influence hasn’t extended here.

Especially in recent years, with military reforms underway and the establishment of a new military system, the collapse of the Knight system has determined that the influence of the Knight Association is no longer as strong as before.

So to speak, Perfikot is indeed not afraid of the Knight Association.

It’s just that she and Samantha aren’t that familiar, and as a standard-bearer for an Imperial Guard Knight, it wasn’t to the extent Perfikot could break ground for her.

Therefore, Perfikot only planned to give her brother a chance, an opportunity to prove himself.

At most, she’d provide him with a metal prosthetic, making sure he was physically complete which would be a great kindness.

Samantha had no objection to this. After all, it was originally a hopeless matter, and now that Perfikot was willing to give her brother a chance to become a Knight, it was already beyond her expectations.

As for whether her brother could eventually become a Knight, Samantha was not particularly concerned about it.

Originally there was no chance at all, and now with an opportunity presented, if he cannot seize it, then there’s no need to discuss becoming a Knight.

After discussing this matter, Perfikot checked the entire dock and then returned to the White Gem.

As for the plantation estate, it was already being dismantled, and the land would be leveled later for the construction of warehouses and associated storage facilities.

These tasks were handled by the island’s natives, who were very enthusiastic about such matters.

However, the specific construction later would depend on the building company the Governor contacted per Perfikot’s instructions. The natives at most could only be construction laborers, doing some basic manual tasks.

After returning to the White Gem, Perfikot took a short rest, had someone prepare a jam pie for her, and then returned to her work.

The name of Sweet Berry Island was not wrong; the berries produced on the island were indeed tasty, even when made into jam, still retaining that unique sweet aroma.

Perfikot quite liked this. In the past few days, besides tasting fresh fruits, she had others make her desserts with these berries in various styles.

The chef on the White Gem was certainly skilled in this regard. Although his culinary skills were not exceptional, he knew a wide variety of desserts, especially his ability to innovate on his own, which Perfikot greatly appreciated.

Sweets were quite important to Perfikot, not because she particularly favored them, although she indeed liked them, but mainly because eating sweets helps replenish brain consumption during intensive thinking.

She had been studying her newly acquired technology in recent days, and the intense mental work did indeed require sugar replenishment.

The reason Perfikot was so focused on this newly acquired technology, besides its relation to unlocking the subsequent functions of the Jade Record, was also because Perfikot saw the potential in this technology and felt it had great prospects.

Therefore, she hoped to understand this technology in a short time and put it into practical use as soon as possible.

This technology recorded in the Jade Record, compared to the mechanical logic technology Perfikot acquired previously, is undoubtedly much simpler, not only in the difficulty of knowledge but also in the simplicity of the manufactured product and application scope.

It’s described this way because the technology Perfikot acquired is essentially a very peculiar, even somewhat bizarre additive.

It is non-toxic and harmless, even colorless and odorless. Just by adding it to water, you can increase the density of water in its liquid state by 20%, and its specific heat capacity remains unchanged. When the water temperature reaches 100°C, it still evaporates into steam.

It’s just that the volume of this steam is twice that of the volume water would normally evaporate into when absorbing the same amount of heat.

Simply put, where previously one liter of water at room temperature and pressure could turn into 1.6 cubic meters of steam, now that number becomes 3.2 cubic meters.

Other than the water density increasing by 20%, everything else remains unchanged.

At first glance, this technology sounds like a joke. After all, what big use could there be for steam expanding in volume by onefold? You can’t just use steam to burn someone to death, can you?

But in fact, from Perfikot’s view, this technology is utterly astounding, and its potential applications are equally so.

If properly executed, it could even delay the arrival of the second Industrial Revolution and the rise of the internal combustion engine.

The reason is simple: Perfikot plans to apply this technology to steam engines, thereby achieving a considerable improvement in steam engine work efficiency by producing more pressure.

After all, a steam engine’s work depends on how much steam it produces, and now being able to burn twice as much steam with the same amount of fuel is enough to usher in a second revolution for steam engines.

Though this technology is good, applying it well is not an easy task. Once this special additive comes into being, it means that all steam engines need to be readjusted and possibly redesigned.

One must understand that the additive doesn’t change the specific heat capacity of water, burning with the same fuel can produce twice the steam, increasing steam engine cylinder pressure considerably impacts the work curve, and brings more safety concerns.

Despite steam engines in this era not achieving good cylinder sealing for high pressure due to manufacturing technology and craftsmanship issues, producing twice as much steam would still introduce more dangers during steam engine operations.

Thus, while studying how to manufacture the additive, Perfikot also needed to improve steam engines to adapt to new working conditions.

This wasn’t difficult for Perfikot, but it was time-consuming.

Although only existing steam engines needed improvement, not designing a new machine, changing the working conditions required all data to be recalculated, making the workload significant.

Even though Perfikot brought a small differential engine and a hand-cranked calculator aboard, the calculation efficiency was high, but there were still a large number of computations required, which was a significant amount of work.