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Chapter 143 The Gap with Great Powers
As far as the forces under Lu Chen's command are concerned, the main electricity consumption is industrial electricity. As for residential electricity consumption, there are only more than a hundred thousand people in the area. How high can the electricity consumption be?
Even for industrial electricity, in normal times, three generating units totaling 270 million kwh are definitely enough.

But when is it now?
A new type of Ebola outbreak broke out, and the epicenter of the epidemic in Kanya was Sogley, not far from the City of Civilization and Science, where more than 100 million people lived.

Usually, Sogli's power supply is insufficient, but during the epidemic, the closure of Sogli and the lack of power supply are likely to cause large-scale riots.

In fact, Lu Chen didn't care if the riots were not riots, but he was worried that after the large-scale riots broke out in Sogley, these refugees would attack the City of Civilization and Science.

When that happens, will he order the massacre, or let these refugees into his city?

It doesn't seem to be a good idea to do anything.

Therefore, suppressing the epidemic in the city of Sogli is the best choice.

To this end, he did not hesitate to provide various material assistance to the Kanya government, including power supply resources.

This is the main reason why the arc light automobile production base lacks power supply and affects production.

Let's take a closer look, although Lu Chen's newly built nuclear power plant has sufficient power generation, none of the forces under his command is a big power eater.

Military industry, various intelligent unmanned factories, T-1 robot production lines, etc., and the most important Academy of Civilization Sciences.

These institutions and factories are all big consumers of electricity. It is not surprising that a nuclear power plant cannot supply electricity.

In fact, even if Lu Chen does not supply power to Sogley, with his development speed in Kanya, the problem of insufficient power supply will show up in half a year at most.

Looking around the world, not to mention small countries, how each big country solves the problem of electricity consumption in industrial production.

Take the United States, the world's hegemon, as an example. In the United States, coal-fired power generation accounts for about 50% of the total, nuclear power accounts for about 20%, natural gas accounts for about 15%, and hydropower accounts for about 7%.

As for the remaining clean energy such as geothermal energy and wind energy, the combined proportion is less than 5%, which is not worth mentioning.

Except for the United States, the proportion of thermal power generation in Huaguo is even more exaggerated, reaching more than 70%, of which the most important way is to burn coal.

So from these data, it can be seen that nuclear power plants, solar energy and other things that sound tall and tall actually account for not worth mentioning in the proportion of power generation.

Humans still rely mainly on coal to generate electricity.

Why does this happen.

In the final analysis, there are still two words, cost!
Don't look at Lu Chen building a large nuclear power plant in Kanya, but the total annual power generation of this nuclear power plant is only 236.52 billion kilowatt-hours.

It sounds like this amount of power generation is quite scary.

But let’s take a look at the country with the largest annual power generation on this planet, that is, Huaguo, what is its total annual power generation.

According to data, Huaguo's total annual power generation last year reached an astonishing 10.7 trillion kWh.

In other words, from the perspective of power generation alone, the power generation of Lu Chen's large nuclear power plant is now only [-]% of that of Huaguo.

It's really not worth mentioning.

Of course, Huaguo has a large population, and Lu Chen's subordinates are doing everything they can to calculate, so only the more than [-] people in the Civilized Science City need his power supply, so the residents are excluded from using electricity.

Just counting industrial electricity consumption, Huaguo’s industrial electricity consumption accounted for 75% of the total electricity consumption last year. That is to say, only industrial electricity consumption, Huaguo’s annual electricity consumption is 8 trillion kWh.

With all of Lu Chen's influence in Kanya added up, the industrial electricity consumption has just exceeded 200 billion kWh.

Although industrial power consumption cannot explain the absolute gap, to a certain extent, it can also reflect the industrial gap between Lu Chen and Hua Guo.

Of course, this gap mainly refers to the scale, not the technology.

In terms of technology, Lu Chen believes that he has a civilized science academy and a technology editor, and he is not afraid of any country in the world.

But in terms of scale, he really has a kind of deep-seated fear when facing his own country.

Only when he jumped out of the greenhouse of Huaguo and looked at this country again, he finally understood why Western countries were a little afraid of Huaguo.

If you don't understand this gap, you might as well take a look at the total industrial electricity consumption in the United States last year, which was only 5765 billion kWh, which is fourteen times worse than that of Huaguo.

Lu Chen can say this, if these two countries only play conventional warfare, do not use nuclear weapons, do not fight on both sides' soil, but only open up local battlefields in a third country.

America can't afford it.

Yes, it can't be exhausted.

This is the power of industry.

As long as there is no absolute gap in technology between the two sides, the power of a huge industrial force during a war can scare everyone.

This point can be seen by looking at the United States during World War II.

At that time, the United States did not have the problem of hollowing out the manufacturing industry, and it was the factory of the world at that time.

Although it entered the war the latest, it built more than 1500 warships, including 150 aircraft carriers, and produced nearly 30 aircraft in less than four years, including tens of thousands of strategic bombers alone.

With this violent ability, the opponent even beats a dick.

Now Lu Chen recalled that the person in charge of the Morgan consortium said that he was afraid of the rise of Huaguo's high-end manufacturing industry. He was not perfunctory, but genuinely afraid.

The largest industrial scale in human history, coupled with high-end manufacturing that is not weaker than any country in the world, the United States says it is the world's hegemony, who believes it?

Anyway, Lu Chen absolutely didn't believe it.

So since Lu Chen came to Kanya, he has set a firm goal, to develop industry!

In fact, when he develops industries, he has an advantage that no one in the world can match, and that is artificial intelligence technology.

At present, no country in the world has mastered artificial intelligence technology, except Lu Chen.

And as Ling continues to grow stronger, Lu Chen can be sure that in this world, apart from Ling, it is impossible for another artificial intelligence to be born.

In fact, when Ling was born, she was far less powerful than she is now.

Its change, or evolution, is all based on the accumulation of massive data on the Internet.

It can be said that this is the benefit of being the world's first artificial intelligence.

Ling can roam freely in the virtual network world and learn all the knowledge it can get in touch with.

And with continuous learning, Ling's functions are becoming more and more powerful.

What restricts Ling's strength now is not its own program, but its "body", which is the central supercomputer of Civilization Science City.

Although this supercomputer was ordered by Lu Chen from China at a large price, it is not the top supercomputer in China.

Among all the supercomputers in the world, the central supercomputer in Civilization Science City can only be regarded as second-rate at best.

But this does not prevent Ling from being powerful!

Because it is impossible for another artificial intelligence like it to appear in this world, and even if it does appear, it will only be wiped out and swallowed by it.

(End of this chapter)