Chapter 46 Considerations for Heating (Requesting Recommendations and Favorites)
For humanity, environments of dozens of degrees below zero indeed represent life-prohibitive zones utterly unsuitable for human survival. However, even in the most hostile polar environments, humans have nonetheless established permanent polar research stations, and these stations are not deeply buried underground but instead placed directly on the surface.
Temperatures of dozens of degrees below zero are indeed perilous death traps, but with current human technology, building a warm and comfortable research station in such an environment is not a problem.
Take the polar research station built by Flame Country as an example. The interior of the container houses is sprayed with a 120mm thick polyurethane insulation layer, and then decorated with outfitting panels. This setup is both warm and stylish and can completely withstand the bitter cold of dozens of degrees below zero in the polar environment.
Of course, the station itself does not generate heat. No matter how well insulated, heat exchange still occurs, so the research station is equipped with heating devices.
This proves that with existing human technology, there is genuinely no need to dig several kilometers underground to face extreme cold temperatures.
With current human technological capabilities, as long as sufficient insulation and protection are in place when building a shelter, and reliable heating equipment is equipped, it is entirely possible to ensure that a shelter can be warm and comfortable in an environment of dozens of degrees below zero.
However, in this era when the apocalypse has arrived, ensuring reliable heating equipment is not so straightforward.
Taking polar research stations as an example, there are generally two main heating methods, electrical heating and fuel heating.