Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 5 005 Zhetong Electric Power’s first electric meter box!

When I woke up the next day, I saw that the ants had made their home in the huge cement pool.

The densely packed worker ants are constantly repairing the ant nest. After all, they just moved in last night, so they still have a lot to do in the next two days.

Another part has already started looking for food in this new land. Seeing this, Lin Zhe couldn't help but want to see if it would work.

He walked to the power storage bin and turned on the switch. Then he grabbed a handful of leftover chicken crumbs from last night and mixed them with a few rotten vegetable leaves picked from the field next door and threw them in.

Ants usually replenish water through food. There is enough water in the leaves of this vegetable for them, and the chicken scraps are a source of energy.

The things that Lin Zhe threw down were "falling from the sky" to the ants, but the ants didn't think about why food fell from the sky. They just needed to do their work step by step.

The worker ants quickly came over, waving their pincers to cut up the chicken scraps and brought them back to the cave. Some hungry worker ants also chose to eat directly on the spot. As they ate the food and generated energy, a faint silver-white light slowly emerged on their body surface.

As the light appeared, Lin Zhe quickly turned his head to the screen next to him.

The current value on the screen had always been zero, but as the light appeared, these Volt Ants generated current, which was directly and strongly absorbed by the electromagnetic plate, and the numbers on the screen also changed.

In just ten minutes, the current value displayed on the screen changed from zero to 0.53. Don't underestimate it, it's just one kilowatt-hour of electricity, it looks like a small amount.

But the number of ants will increase, and this is only the amount of electricity generated for about ten minutes.

About three degrees of electricity can be produced in an hour. There are always ants resting and eating in the ant colony, which means that the power generation can be maintained during the day except at night. On average, more than 20 degrees of electricity can be produced a day.

Currently, the number of ants is limited, and Lin Zhe is already very satisfied with this number. He cannot provide it to others for the time being, but it is definitely enough to meet his own electricity needs.

This first step was successful. The factory was able to generate electricity. The first step was to provide free electricity to homes in my town, regardless of anything else.

If you are a bit "extravagant" in your electricity use on a daily basis, your mother might nag you, saying that she doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are, and that electricity bills are not a small amount per month.

Now that I have my own power plant, I can use as much free electricity as I want!

These days, after learning from the only employee in the factory, he has become proficient in some simple electrical work. Installing an electric meter box is not a problem for Lin Zhe.

After arriving at the door of his home from the factory, he found a ladder and leaned on the electric meter box in front of his house. The box contained electricity meters for more than a dozen households in the neighborhood, including his own. The words "Qingchuan Power Supply" were written on the outside. Not only Lin Zhe's town, but also seven or eight nearby towns are within the business scope of this "Qingchuan Power Plant".

It can be said that Qingchuan Power Plant has occupied 50% of the electricity market in the villages and towns outside their county, and now Lin Zhe has officially set up the meter box with the words "Zhetong Electric Power" printed on the outside next to the meter box of Qingchuan Power Plant. Because the electric poles are involved in planning, they are all set up by the government. As long as the company's meter box is set up on them, it only needs to pay a fixed fee of several dozen yuan per month.

Previously, this pole housed a power plant called "Qingchuan Power Supply", but now there is an electric meter box for "Zhetong Power", although there is currently only an electric meter for Lin Zhe's home in the box which has not been connected to electricity.

The old man in the factory was laying electrical wires all the way from the power plant. Once he got there, electricity would be available and their family would no longer need electricity from "Qingchuan Power Supply". While Lin Zhe was busy working on the electric pole, a few neighbors came downstairs to join in the fun.

Life nowadays is different from before. Except for the busy farming season, people who stay in villages and towns basically have a lot of free time on weekdays. Now several neighbors noticed this and came over to look at Lin Zhe curiously.

Lin Zhe and the others naturally knew about it. The college student from the old Lin family was heard to be working in Binhai, but he came back a few days ago and was going to open a power plant in the town. They just laughed when they heard it, thinking that young people nowadays like to mess around.

Although the government will build basic power facilities in every place based on the free competition in the electricity market, electricity is still a matter of ability. People will use whichever company's electricity is cheaper and more stable.

So from a certain perspective, the competition in the electricity market is still very fierce. There was a small power plant in their town originally, which originally occupied the market in several nearby towns, but later it could not compete with Qingchuan Power.

In an environment where electricity is privatized, major power plants will naturally try to cut costs as much as possible, generate more electricity during peak hours, and less electricity when electricity is less consumed, such as at night, so as to avoid waste as much as possible and thus generate profits.

But this has also led to many power outages. This may be slightly better in big cities, but in small places it happens every other day and everyone is used to it.

In particular, the smaller the power plant, the less accurate it is in grasping this matter. After all, when the size is small and the power generation capacity is small, the fault tolerance rate is naturally not as good as that of a large power plant. The previous power plant in their town was squeezed out of business in this way.

At the same price, Qingchuan's power supply might only be cut off once every three days, and the power would last no more than half an hour. But at that time, the small power plants in the town would basically shut down once every night. In order to save costs, they would always choose to shut down the small motors for a while when electricity consumption was low in the middle of the night.

Originally, there was some reserve capacity, as the power in the storage warehouse was just enough, and there were not many people using electricity in the town at night. However, accidents often occurred and the power was often exceeded and the motor could not be started, so the power had to be cut off for a while.

After all, it takes an hour or so for a small thermal power motor in a power plant to be shut down and restarted, while the large motors in large power plants are even turned on all year round. They only adjust the power and are never shut down.

It's not their fault. As coal prices continued to rise, their small power plant had no choice but to survive on the profits saved from the few hours of shutdown, but this also led to their eventual bankruptcy.

Therefore, most people in the town still hold the mentality that "it will definitely fail" towards Lin Zhe's plan to open a power plant in the town. Now several neighbors also spoke up with a smile.

"Xiaozhe, you've replaced the electric meter. Does this mean the power plant is going to generate electricity?"

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