Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 533 - 500 New Energy Tower

Perfikot’s upgrade to the Energy Tower - Thermostatic Barrier transformation technology could be described as all-encompassing. Whether it’s from the structure of the Energy Tower or the technology itself, she iteratively upgraded them by almost completely abandoning the existing technical ideas.

The reason for this is because she truly sneered at the original technical ideas of this technology.

Or rather, the only part of this technology valuable to her was the mage’s thermostatic barrier technology and energy conversion technology.

Because these two magical technologies were what she lacked, after all, she was still an Alchemist, not a Mage.

But taking away these parts she was not adept at, there was nothing else that could impress her.

"Are you guys stupid? There’s no place in the structure of the Energy Tower to draw a Magic Array, can’t you add one? Is it that hard to weld a few iron plates to the shell and connect a few heat dissipation pipes? Do you have to dismantle the Array and then draw a little here and a little there on the whole shell and call it decentralizing barrier deployment technology? Are you showing off or wasting effort?" Perfikot’s tone was not polite, because after she understood the specific details of the thermostatic barrier and energy conversion technology, she was very dissatisfied with the original design by Schopenhauer and Weasley.

The reason is none other than Schopenhauer and the Alchemists in charge of this project did not alter the main structure of the Energy Tower by a shred, they only tried to clear some flat surfaces on the main structure for the mages to draw their Magic Array.

However, due to the size issue of the Magic Array, it was clear that the space the Alchemists had cleared was insufficient to draw the entire Array.

This issue to the mages was not really a problem, because they had encountered similar issues in the past when drawing Magic Arrays. The simplest solution was to split the Magic Array, divide it into different components, make them resonate, and then unleash the expected effect of the Magic Array.

This was the mages’ secret skill, indeed solving the problem of drawing Magic Arrays when space was limited.

But correspondingly, doing so would reduce the efficacy of the Magic Array and also severely increase costs.

If not for the Alchemists mastering Imaginary Alchemy, practically conjuring rare materials out of thin air for the mages, this Energy Tower - Thermostatic Barrier transformation technology would probably have turned into a colossal money-devourer, and been abandoned due to the skyrocketing costs.

Just like those Mage Towers the mages attempted to construct.

Hence, Perfikot was truly infuriated by such extraordinarily expensive designs.

"All you need is the thermal energy output from the Energy Tower, why not run a pipeline out to the side and make a flat heat dissipation panel capable of drawing a Magic Array? If the main structure can’t hold it, couldn’t you pull the pipeline out and place it beside on the ground? Are you so dull that you confine yourselves to the main structure?" Perfikot was truly angry, frustrated that these people really couldn’t think straight.

This reminded her of a once very popular brain teaser in her original world: how to draw a line linking nine dots with four straight lines.

It’s a very simple problem, you just need to step outside the framework of the nine dots, drawing the line outside the nine dots.

But without knowing the correct answer, many people actually couldn’t think of this answer, because there was a fixed mindset in their thinking, believing that they could only draw within the range of the nine dots, unable to leap out of the original framework.

Undoubtedly, Schopenhauer and those Alchemists and mages participating in the research of this project were all confined by this framework, only working on the main structure of the Energy Tower without thinking of stepping outside the original framework, drawing the line outside.

After being chastised by Perfikot, these Alchemists and mages felt a bit of a blow to their egos.

They couldn’t argue against Perfikot, because they were indeed trapped in a fixed mindset, setting a self-imposed limitation.

And Perfikot’s solution to the problem was extremely simple, she directly made four huge flat heat dissipation panels on the outer shell of the Energy Tower, connecting them to the shell with supporting structures, and then added a heat dissipation pipe to each panel.

This simple and brute-force solution, though considered too rough and unaesthetic by some mages and Alchemists, wasn’t something they dared express openly.

For Perfikot, what mattered was efficiency and results; art and aesthetics were secondary.

If anyone dared to argue for sacrificing efficiency and results for the sake of art and aesthetics, she would actually weld that person into the heat dissipation panel as decoration for the Energy Tower.

This wasn’t an exaggeration, she indeed had done that before.

Thus, those mages and Alchemists, if they didn’t want to become a new decoration on the Energy Tower, they had to learn to keep quiet.

However, such absurd thoughts were in the minority, for most people, the only thought in their minds about Perfikot’s modification was, "It can be done like this, why didn’t I think of it?"

After all, Perfikot’s modification was nothing groundbreaking, just welding some heat dissipation panels, really.

But often, just this little modification could lead to entirely different results.

"Besides, based on the technology you provided, I designed a small Energy Tower." Perfikot mentioned as she pulled out a new blueprint, and with a touch of the Golden Touching Rod on the blueprint, the diagram animated itself: "This Energy Tower needs to connect with the main Energy Tower via a heat supply line; it doesn’t generate energy by itself, playing a similar role to a radiator.

But on this small Energy Tower, I also set up a planar space for drawing Magic Arrays, thus even a small Energy Tower can maintain a small-scale thermostatic barrier."

Perfikot paused after speaking to give everyone enough time to digest and understand her words before continuing: "In this way, we don’t need to spread a large thermostatic barrier from the Energy Tower. Instead, we can deploy small Energy Towers based on the distribution range of blocks, factories, and other facilities, more efficiently enveloping an entire city with the thermostatic barrier."

"This... is simply a genius idea!" Someone who understood Perfikot’s thoughts immediately praised her.

For them, this design was indeed very innovative, considering they couldn’t even think to add a heat dissipator. Someone like Perfikot, who specially designed a small Energy Tower for maintaining a thermostatic barrier, they neither conceived nor probably had the idea from the beginning.