Chapter 267: Chapter 242: Expansion of Assets_2

At prest, thermal power geration is still the most widely used in Australasia, while hydropower is in the testing stage.

Of course, the reason for all this is that Australasia has abundant coal resources and doesn't face the problem of mineral resource shortages faced by other countries. The term "mineral resource shortages" doesn't ev exist in Australasia's dictionary.

The reservoir that Arthur inspected is located on the Timert River in New South Wales, so this reservoir is also called the Timert Reservoir.

This is a large reservoir for solving the water problems in New South Wales and the suring area of Sydney, and it is also equipped with hydropower gerating devices, making it the first hydropower station in Australasia.

As early as the establishmt of the Power Research Lab, Australasia had a clear electricity standard, which is 0 volts.

Together with other industrial electricity standards, Australasia has now established a relatively complete electricity system, and electric lights and power have gradually tered the homes of many Australians.

Not to mtion, Arthur's Sydney Palace is definitely one of the currtly best-equipped palaces in terms of electricity deploymt.

At the momt, crystal lamps carved from various crystals can be se within the Sydney Palace, and the lights at night are colorful and beautiful.

Thanks to the increase in per capita income, Australasians are no strangers to electric lights.

The vast majority of Australasia's industries have be established in rect years, adopting all new types of industrial equipmt.

This has led to Australasia's industries requiring a large amount of electricity, rather than still relying on steam equipmt from the Industrial Revolution, like Britain's industries.

As long as the future successor, like Arthur, values their reputation among the people and continues to operate and maintain it, the position of the Australasian royal family will not be lost.

Of course, there must be other reasons for Arthur to personally inspect the Timert Hydropower Station.

The large reservoir where the Timert Hydropower Station is located guarantees water supply for the Capital Territory and parts of the cities in New South Wales and is part of the solution to Australasia's water resource issues.

At prest, the governmt plans to build at least t large reservoirs like the Timert Reservoir, which, along with other large and small reservoirs, would be ough to meet the water needs of Australia's population up to 40 million people.

And currtly, Australasia's population is just 7 million, far from reaching 40 million.

After inspecting the reservoir, Arthur immediately rushed to the military factory to watch the testing of the improved model of the MA-96 Maxim Machine Gun, the MA-7 Maxim heavy machine gun.

After more than a decade, the military factory finally made some improvemts to the Maxim Machine Gun, slightly increasing the output frequcy of the gun, and to some extt, reducing the weight of the machine gun, alleviating the burd on logistics.

More importantly, the slightly smaller Maxim heavy machine gun can be better installed on motorboats and airplanes as their main attack weapons.

And since Arthur started researching tanks, the weapons for future tanks have also be a headache for the mechanical research lab.

The future tanks must have a cannon and a heavy machine gun to meet Arthur's expectation of high firepower.

Imagine what a spectacular sce it would be if tanks appeared on the battlefield in advance, covered with thick armor and equipped with cannons and machine guns to face the emy's infantry and cavalry charges?

Wh the emy's cavalry attacks a tank with cold weapons, they will understand how desperate the change that technological crush brings to the army can be.