Rise of Australia

Chapter 134 The Imagination of Electrification (Happy New Year!)

Arthur's actions were very fast. In just the next day, hundreds of indigenous people were allocated to Theodor Kerber and Ludwig Durr to help them build new laboratories and research bases. Give them a start-up fund of [-] pounds as expenses for purchasing research equipment and research.

At the same time, Arthur also asked Hunter Butler to assist in the acquisition and transfer of a large number of aviation and aerodynamic books from the Australian National University and even Europe, and used them for Theodor Kerber and Ludwig Durr , It is also used for research by more aviation experts in the future.

If it weren't for the lack of manpower, Arthur even wanted to open an aviation major at the Australian National University to train more talents in the aviation industry for Australia.

There is no need to worry about this matter for the time being. After attracting more aviation professionals from Europe, there will be people to start it.

In order to make other countries and forces think that the Aeronautical Research Institute of Teodor Kerber and Ludwig Duer was researching airships, Arthur even mobilized a lot of Australian workers to build new airships, not only The construction plan of the airship was announced to the outside world, and even made a big fuss that after the airship was successfully built, a public experiment would be carried out in Australia.

This move has aroused the curiosity of many Australians, and has successfully made the aviation laboratory under construction and the airship that has not started construction well known in Australia.

Of course, this is indeed what Arthur wants to see.Although Australia seems to be calm at present, no one can guarantee whether there will be spies from other countries in Australia.

If Australia's airship construction has achieved certain achievements, it will naturally attract the attention of the great powers.

If most of the big powers' investment in the aviation industry can be attracted to airships, then Australia can also take a part of the opportunity in the development of aircraft.

On October 1902, 10, after more than five months of preparation, Australia's diplomatic mission set sail with the goal of reaching Europe.

This time the diplomatic mission was much smaller than last time, and the person in charge was only Foreign Minister Andrew, accompanied by officials from other departments.

There are two purposes of this diplomatic mission. In addition to carrying samples of new cars to the British Empire and the German Empire to seek the support of the two countries to jointly open a car factory, it is also a diplomatic visit to find more talents in Europe. purpose of the group.

Since Australia's independence, Australia's old and new industries have not gotten rid of the current status quo in Britain, which is rejection and disdain for new technologies.

Yes, the British Empire, which rose in the first industrial revolution, fell behind other countries in the second industrial revolution, and was surpassed by the United States and Germany successively in terms of industry.

You must know that many emerging technologies in the second industrial revolution were first born in the UK, but British entrepreneurs were unwilling to apply these new technologies and processes to production.

Britain is an old capitalist country and the mother country of the Industrial Revolution.Many factories in the UK have existed for hundreds of years, and their equipment is outdated.

In the eyes of those British capitalists, it is not cost-effective to tear down old equipment and replace it with new ones, which also hinders the progress of British industry.

At the same time, because of the large gap in raw material costs and labor costs between the British mainland and the major colonies, capitalists would rather transport a large amount of capital and equipment abroad than update the production equipment and technology of British local companies.

Although the export of capital has brought huge profits to Britain, it also limits the industrial production and progress of Britain.

As one of the former British colonies, Australia also received a lot of British capital investment before independence. Even now, some British capitalists and entrepreneurs come to Australia to open factories every year because of Australia's low raw material and labor costs.

In the UK, the annual salary of a skilled worker is at least [-] pounds, and if it is a relatively scarce position, the salary will be doubled.

But in Australia, ten pounds is already the per capita income level. Even if the economic situation has improved, the salary level of workers will not exceed fifteen pounds.

How huge a gap is this?The salary cost of a skilled worker has a gap of 35 pounds per year, coupled with cheaper labor costs and resources, which is why British capital will flow out.

This is a good thing for Australia, but it also has some disadvantages.

Fortunately, in recent years, most of the outflow of British capital is also new technology.However, before Australia’s independence, and even earlier, the factories and enterprises established by British capital in Australia used old technologies. Many factories in Europe have entered the era of electrification, and some factories in Australia are still using the first industrial technology. Revolutionary technology.

Naturally, Arthur cannot tolerate the constraints brought by the technology gap to the development of Australia's industry, so Australia's next step is to fully realize electrification.

While there is currently a shortage of electrification talent, deploying electrification is simple for Australia.

The two most commonly used power generation methods are thermal power and hydropower.Among them, the construction of thermal power generation is more extensive because there is no terrain restriction.

Of course, thermal power generation is not without its drawbacks.Thermal power generation requires a large amount of coal as energy, which also limits the laying of power grids in many coal-deficient countries.

But Australia has no shortage of coal mines, which also has certain inherent advantages for the development of electrification.

Arthur's favorite talent is Tesla, a great man who has been forgotten by the times.

It's a pity that Tesla at this time has already become an American, and has already made some achievements in electricity.

Even though Australia has made many attempts to woo, Tesla only agreed to go to Australia as an American expert to guide the laying of the AC network.

But that's enough.Tesla's AC patent is completely free, which can save a lot of money for laying the circuit network in Australia.

As for Edison's direct current, Arthur didn't even think about it.Leaving aside the controversial issue of Edison's inventorship, the huge flaws exposed by direct current alone made Arthur doomed not to adopt it.

Because Arthur wants to achieve full electrification in Australia, this diplomatic mission has an additional purpose, which is to attract some experts and talents in electrical appliances in Europe.

Of course, this is actually not difficult.There are many experts in electrical appliances in the UK alone, but the British capitalists don't pay much attention to these technologies.

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