Lu Yang dragged his suitcase with Chenxi mainframe and rushed out of the courtyard with small steps and walked up to the dam of the hydropower station. Taking advantage of the opportunity to pass by, he carefully observed the main structure of the Xipanjiang Power Station.

Standing on the dam, Lu Yang could clearly see that the entire Xipanjiang Reservoir was sandwiched between two steep cliffs. There was a narrow platform on both sides of the reservoir, each with a small ruined building of Liu Gong and Mao Xiaofei's mining machine factory. In addition to the cable connected to the abandoned factory, the entire hydropower station only has a transmission line on the top of the nearby mountain, which is connected to the external power grid.

At present, the main flood season for the main rivers in China has arrived. As the section of the entire Yangtze River water system with the largest height difference, the water flow on the not-wide river surface upstream of the Xipanjiang Power Station Reservoir is already extremely fast. Fortunately, the terrain of the reservoir area formed by the dam is relatively flat. After the river water flows into the reservoir, the impact force is greatly reduced and it does not directly hit the main body of the dam. This ancient building, which has a history of nearly 60 years, is still as stable as Mount Tai.

As a typical upstream small hydropower station, there are only three water outlets below the main body of the Xipanjiang Dam, including two flood discharge outlets and a water outlet with a generator rotor installed inside.

Among these two flood discharge outlets, one is currently leaking the flood at the maximum flow rate, and the other is still in a closed state.

A small amount of river water flows out from the outlet of the generator located in the middle, but this is not to generate electricity from the outwards, but to maintain the entire hydropower unit to operate at the lowest power to ensure the plant power supply of the entire hydropower plant plant.

Turning the power plant from a completely closed state is called "black start", which is extremely complicated to operate. Therefore, even if most power plants do not generate electricity, they will try to avoid direct shutdown and always maintain a certain plant power supply.

The importance of power consumption in power plants is not to be described in detail. The direct cause of the nuclear leakage accident in Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is that the tsunami has failed all the power systems of the nuclear power plants and cannot be powered. The cooling water pumps for the factory cannot be started, resulting in the heat of the nuclear reactor not being cooled in time, and eventually causing a hydrogen explosion.

Based on the relatively backward economic conditions in the southwest region, when the main flood season comes, China Power Grid can only give priority to the consumption of electricity produced by local medium-sized hydropower stations.

Even if there are ultra-high voltage lines that dispatch power across provinces, they are point-to-point connected near several major giant hydropower stations, and these hydropower stations are directly supplied to several urban agglomerations with the most economically developed in China.

After all, these power-receiving provinces are not fools. Only when power is generated by giant hydropower stations with stable power output will everyone rush to get it. Even if small power supplies with too much power fluctuation are sent for free, power-receiving provinces will only dislike it for increasing the difficulty of scheduling the local power grid.

Small southwest hydropower such as Xipanjiang Power Station are not absorbed locally, and other provinces are unwilling to accept it. The electricity load allocated by the power grid during the flood season is basically a straight line of zero.

In other words, in addition to the power used in the factory, the Xipanjiang Hydropower Station during the flood season actually could not be used for additional electricity, and all the excess river water was wasted by flood discharge.

Fortunately, after the main dam project of Xipanjiang Hydropower Station was completed, in addition to the almost negligible cost of daily operation and maintenance, its new power generation cost was infinitely close to zero. Therefore, even if the water was abandoned 100% during the flood season, Xipanjiang Hydropower Station could still barely achieve break-even with the small amount of electricity sold in the dry season, and could survive for decades.

With the continuous development of new technologies and industries such as energy storage technology, water and light complementation, water and wind complementation, and IDC, the days of this small hydropower in the southwest have improved significantly in recent years.

However, the location of Xipanjiang Hydropower Station is too remote, and it is more than 40 kilometers away from the nearest other power stations. In addition, the heavy barriers of the mountains and ridges in the southwest mountainous areas have led to this lonely power source that has not been effectively absorbed to this day.

Therefore, only self-employed miners like Mao Xiaofei will travel thousands of miles to take care of their business.

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When he arrived at the Bitcoin mining factory that Gong Liu mentioned, Lu Yang was surprised to find that although the factory was dilapidated, there were still a lot of things left inside.

The two large rows of aluminum alloy iron racks for the miners are still neatly marked in the factory; the large cooling fans used to dissipate heat to the miners are also placed in their original positions; the transformer devices and various wires and cables are still entangled in extremely complex shapes.

It seems that Mao Xiaofei just packed the mining machine and sold it away, and all the other related accessories should be there.

If Lu Yang put a few more mining machines on it, from the outside, he wouldn't have discovered that the mine had been abandoned.

Actually, this is also very reasonable.

The location of Xipanjiang Hydropower Station is too remote and the road is rugged and difficult to travel. Mao Xiaofei drove an off-road SUV all the way, and he almost vomited Lu Yang, who had never been motion sickness or even interstellar teleportation.

If you want to transport large objects from here, the logistics cost may be extremely high. There are only mining machines with the highest unit weight value and some recycling value. If Mao Xiaofei really dismantled all these messy iron guys and piles of wires to sell scrap iron, he would probably have to pay a lot of logistics cost.

Lu Yang thought to himself, no wonder this guy said that I took over his mine and took advantage of it. It turns out that I can use it by plugging in the miner! Even if the power of the miner does not match, only partial changes are needed, and he doesn't have to start from scratch.

It seems that Mao Xiaofei is really righteous to him. According to Lu Yang's estimate, the remaining mining infrastructure alone can match one-third of the value of the electricity use right itself, but Mao Xiaofei not only confiscated a penny, but he didn't even mention it.

Although Lu Yang was not really here to mine, these iron guys still helped him a lot.

After all, once he charges Chenxi in the factory, Mr. Liu can monitor it. If Mr. Liu finds that the factory consumes tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity every day, but there is no equipment inside, even if he is nervous, he will inevitably be suspicious.

It seems that in the future, I need to buy some mining machine boxes and light bulbs online to install them, so that the factory will be disguised perfectly, Lu Yang secretly thought about it.

But for Lu Yang, this is something that will happen in the future.

Now he can't wait!

After all, Chenxi also consumes power in its current low power consumption state. Lu Yang displayed miracles on the Stone of the Eternal Night World Control Day and tested the functions of various ancient tech creations of the Galaxy Federation. In addition, the small eight-claw robot, which was remotely controlled by Chenxi, was constantly consuming his energy reserves.

The electricity that Lu Yang obtained last time "passed through the tribulation" on his own roof is now very little left.

At present, the remaining power of Chenxi is only 0.009 units equivalent to the standard energy of the Galaxy, which is equivalent to 18,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is a very dangerous level.

In addition, the Eternal Night World is still full of dangers. Not to mention the night ghost, even the food crisis is imminent.

He has been on the earth for a long time, but he is afraid that it will change if it is late.

Lu Yang found a hidden corner and placed the black brick body of Chenxi in the trolley box with the main cable of the factory, and at the same time ditched the passage, "Chenxi, put you in this position, can you get electricity from the main cable?"

"No problem. Once the cable starts to supply power, the machine can be completely absorbed. If calculated based on the maximum rated output power of the power station, the loss rate is about 2.5%.

After receiving Chenxi's affirmative reply, Lu Yang immediately lifted the empty trolley case and went to the control room of the hydropower station.

The control room of the hydropower station is behind the dilapidated building where Mr. Liu lives. At this time, Mr. Liu was still introducing his science fiction ideas to Mao Xiaofei. Neither of them noticed that Lu Yang had quietly ran back.

After avoiding the sight of the two, Lu Yang flashed and rushed into the main control room of the hydropower station.

For this moment, he made a lot of preparations, and the operating instructions for the key instruments of the hydropower station were almost ruined.

Although Xipanjiang Hydropower Station has not generated power from the outside world, it can still obtain necessary plant power from the lowest-speed hydropower unit to maintain the basic operation of instruments and supply power for basic operations such as opening and closing gates.

Unlike thermal power stations that require professional team maintenance, small hydropower is extremely simple to operate. Just pull the water outlet of the development gate and let the water flow through the water outlet, and the generator rotor will rotate rapidly.

During the flood season, the entire unit will reach full launch in a few minutes.

Lu Yang was not polite, so he directly opened the gate of the generator outlet to the maximum, and at the same time, he closed the flood discharge gate accordingly.

Bang! Bang!

Lu Yang, who had just finished doing a bad thing and had been paying attention to the movements on the dam, heard a dull sound of the gate opening and closing.

A few minutes later, a series of prompts from the dawn followed one after another!

"It is detected that the power output at the power generation end is increasing!"

"Trying to obtain electricity, the current power is 40kw...190kw...700kw...2900kw...4600kw...4870kw!"

With the rapid rotation of the generator rotor, for the first time in history, at the Xipanjiang Hydropower Station during the flood season,
Chapter completed!