Annabeth blinked, she took a few seconds to process what Percy just said. The daughter of Athena took a deep breath and spoke, "Percy....did you design the Haven to look like a pizza pie on purpose?"
Percy shook his head, "no, I swear to the Gods I didn't. It totally came out this way on it's own."
Lie Successful!
Edward chuckled, "either way it is still a great first step to building this place," Edward rolled up their map and sketch and passed to Annabeth, "now it's my turn to show you both something I've been working on."
Annabeth put away her diagrams as Edward pulled up a new image on his table screen. This one was a PDF of a TIMES article that talked about Edward.
"This was one of the first articles ever written about me," Ed supplied, "when I was 17 I built a website for the citizens of Boston to use."
"Yeah I know," Percy nodded, "this was the same article Grover, Luke and I used to find out about you in the first place. Apparently you created some kind of digital platform for the entire city to use? Like a virtual city or something?"
Ed nodded, "exactly. The project was called 'Link', and what it would have done is connect every single thing in the city to one central hub that could control and monitor everything in the city."
"So....like a big brother program?"
Ed shook his head, "no, nothing like that. This program would gather data from all over the city and would translate it into requests. So this way no one would be able to spy on people, while at the same time all the faults and issues the city has can be taken into account."
"So how would we do this?" Annabeth asked, "it seems like pretty cutting edge technology."
Ed nodded, "it is," he went to his desk and moved aside few sheets of paper. Underneath the mess was a circular disk with an omega symbol drawn on it's head. Ed tossed the disk to Percy who caught and Observed it;
Monitor disk (Solid),
This disk will observe and transmit data wirelessly to the central hub. It will scan any solid surface it is on along with sending sonic waves to the surface underneath, assess the structural integrity and report back it's finding.
"This disk is to be used on walls or buildings," Ed explained, "you stick it on a wall and it will scan the surface and the inside using sonic waves. It will then report what it finds. This way you can assess the strength of the infrastructure without much hassle."
"This is amazing," Annabeth said as Percy passed her the disk, "why isn't this in the open market yet? One of these could make sure no road or bridge ever collapses ever again."
"Because it would kill the jobs of a lot of civil engineers," Ed explained with a sigh, "most of them have to observe infrastructure and assess the damages in person. That is how most make a living. This would effectively rob them of their jobs."
Annabeth nodded, "okay...but we are also going to need to monitor other things, like water pressure, voltage management, sewer distribution and even garbage maintenance, I do not want trash cluttered around my city."
"Your city?" Percy asked.
"Our city," Annabeth corrected herself blushing beetroot red.
Ed smiled, "well don't' worry, I have moniter disks for each occasion. Some use 3-D visualisation technology to notice things while others just act like a digital meter of sorts. We can use them all for the city, no biggy."
Percy and Annabeth nodded as they put the disk on the table. "So," Percy began, "what else do you have for us?"
Ed grinned, "how you given any thought about what type of energy system you want to implement on the island?"
Percy shrugged, "we figured we use windmills or something. Go green, no Nuclear energy for us."
Edward nodded, "yeah, that sounds great and all, but you can't get enough energy out of wind, at least not without cutting down a majority of the forests on the island for space. I would recommend," Ed pulled up another file, "solar energy."
Percy looked at the image of a solar panel Ed just pulled up. It was sleek and very slim with its panel taking on a very royal blue hue.
"This is the new 3Z9 Solar Panel that Half-Blood Inc. has been working on," Ed explained, "it can produce 350 Watts per panel. Have about 20 of these on the roof of a single house and that house will have enough energy to sustain itself without the need of any external source of energy."
Percy's eyes widened, "this is amazing.....so what, we just put these on the roof of every apartment building? We might not have enough room up there."
Ed nodded, "yeah. The 20 panel system is designed more for an independent house than a flat. So we just have what we can on top, while the rest of them can be outside the Haven walls."
"You're talking about a solar panel farm," Annabeth spoke up, "you want to build an entirely self energy sufficient city."
Ed nodded, "exactly. We have what, 5 square miles of land to use? Just use 0.1 square mile of that and build a farm of solar panels. It would give you.... around.....5 Gigawatts a year. It has a wastage of only 24%, so obviously you're going to get your money's worth. More than enough to run a small town, let alone the Haven project."
"Dude, New York, the city that never turns off it's night light, uses around 55,000 Giga watts a year. And it's a city with over 8 million people living in it. What the hell are we going to be using 5 Gigawatts a year for?"
Edward shrugged, "I don't know. We'll think of something. Maybe you can find a way to convert all the extra energy into your defense systems or something. Heck maybe if you want you could sell the extra energy off for some extra profit or something. That would be a nice idea, I know a few people in New York who would love that, just lay down wires from the island to the city."
Percy smiled, "that sounds perfect. This can be our island's export, energy for cash. Hmm, this just keeps getting better and better Ed."
"B-but what about storage?" Annabeth asked, "these solar panels are amazing, how are we going to store all of that energy?"
"I am so glad you asked that Annabeth," Edward smiled as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a square tic tac box sized battery, "this is how we are going to do that."
"A battery?" Percy asked.
"No just any battery Percy, this battery is something we discovered here on accident. You know that the best conductor in the world is gold right? The only reason we don't use it in our wiring today is because it's very expensive to use. So we did is use gold nanowires, which are extremely thin, at least ten times thinner than a human hair. We coated it with Magnesium dioxide and cocooned them in a plexiglas-like gel. This caused the already amazing properties of the gold wires to increase exponentially. This allowed us to charge and discharge the battery over and over again without it losing any of its capacity."
Percy gasped while Annabeth just raised an eyebrow, she had a partial idea of this meant, but Percy was the one who currently had a Lv 4 physics skill.
"So what you're saying is we can charge and drain this thing over and over again without it losing any of the energy it possess?" Percy asked, "Ed, how many times can this be done?"
"When we last checked? ......over 200,000 times."
Percy's jaw dropped, "what?"
"Okay I feel like I'm missing out on something here," Annabeth spoke up, "what exactly does this mean?"
"It means we can store obscene amounts of energy without losing any of it. Basically Ed is saying that if we have a big enough battery we could store all the excess energy we collect from our solar pannel and store it for later use," Percy explained.
Annabeth blinked, "huh...guess that's how that feels like."
"Like what feels like?"
"What it feels like to now know something and then have someone dumb it down for you."
Percy chuckled, "yeah, now you know how the rest of us feel whenever we hang out with you."
Ed smiled, "right. So anyway Percy's got the idea, this battery is small, so it obviously can't store a lot of energy. And since gold is expensive and difficult to come by I don't exactly have the basic resources to build a giant battery for energy storage. So...."
Percy nodded, "I got it Ed. I'll get you the gold you need, you get us the batteries."
Ed nodded, "done. Now, on to the next thing I had in mind," Ed put away the battery and pulled up a new image, "this was the building in mind for the network hub of the city," the building was modernized, unlike the drawings Annabeth and Percy had made. It was glass and steel with a big ass satelite dish on top.
"Basically this is where you collect and store all the data from the maintenance disks. This is the central data hub for the city, the Brain House if you will."
"We are so not calling it that," Percy said while Annabeth nodded in agreement.
Edward shrugged, "whatever. Anyway, this is where you collect and process the information. Your internet will also be routed through her using the satellite dish on top. I'm thinking we use a free wifi system here. Maybe install a dish equally here and there in order to make sure every spot in the Haven has a good wifi connection."
Percy nodded, "great, maybe now we can finally move on from the dark ages. We are also going to need cell coverage along with TV, think you can put that in here?"
Ed shook his head, "no, not on the building. The internet dish takes up the whole roof. Me need to put a cell tower somewhere else."
"Well there's plenty of space," Percy said, "maybe we can put it on of the districts some where."
"Wait what about monitoring the electricity obtained from the solar panels?" Annabeth asked, "we need a place to also store the energy gathered."
"I decided to have a separate building for it," Ed said pulling up a new image this one of a building that basically looked like a small fortress with high walls and only one entrance, "this is going to be a very dangerous place. High amounts of electricity is going to be running through it and around the city, so obviously I don't want people getting in it easily. The walls will be concert with a rubber wall layering it's insides."
Percy nodded, "sounds good, so maybe we'll put the Nerve center next to the Hearth, it can be on the empty plot we set aside. And the electrical place.....we'll put it behind Apollo's temple. After all the energy we are collecting is from the sun, it kind of belongs there."
Annabeth raised an eyebrow, "but that would basically take up half the space there. We could at most fit one apartment complex there, but nothing too big."
Percy nodded, "yeah. Poor Apollo, his district is going to be the least visited. Why many people won't want to live next to a big scary looking place like the Generator building. Poor poor Apollo."
Ed raised an eyebrow, "what's with you and Apollo?"
"I don't know what you mean Ed."
"Apollo was checking out Thalia," Annabeth supplied, "ever since then Percy took every chance he got to make fun of the God."
Percy shrugged, "I don't know what you mean Annabeth, you're assuming things that aren't there."
Annabeth rolled her eyes, "sure I am."
Ed smiled, "well anyway, moving on. We also need a secondary source of energy, maybe we can also do the wind energy thing you guys planed. Have it next to the solar panel farm to create a secondary energy source. Like I said it won't produce as much energy as the solar panel, but it should be enough in case the weather is bad or something."
Percy nodded, "good idea. We'll do that. And now on to the next thing, farming."
Ed was confused, "you want to make a farm? On the island?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I do. I talked to Katie Gardner, child of Demeter. She said that it didn't matter what type of land it was, the Demeter kids along with the Satyrs can make it fertile. So I was thinking maybe we put the farming lands outside the city walls, maybe up near the high cliff side in the North. Plus Willow brook runs across the land, it will be easy to create channel from the stream to the farm."
Ed nodded, "makes sense. Okay, I don't know much about farming, but if you guys think the Demeter kids and the Satyrs can handle it then so be it. I'll let it in their hands. Now, we need to talk transportation."
"Do we really need it?" Percy asked, "I mean granted the Haven settlement is at least 1 1/2, maybe 2 kilometers wide, but do we really need a car or something? The roads won't be that big Ed, plus pollution."
Ed nodded, "I know. But we need transportation, some kind of it anyway. Maybe horses or something."
Percy shook his head, "no. We don't have enough horse, and if we did get enough who the hell wants to pick up all that horse shit? I know I won't. Maybe we can hire Hercules to do that or something, but I'm pretty sure no one else wants to do it."
Ed sighed, "fine.....how about......I got nothing."
"Cycles," Annabeth supplied, "we can use styles to get around."
Percy scratched his chin,"hmm, that would help out if people didn't want to walk. Plus it gives us a lot of exercise and won't take up much walking space. Yeah..., yeah that could work. We can use cycles as the main form of transportation. Maybe a carriage or something if we need to move something heavy."
Annabeth smiled, "this is coming along nicely. I can already imagine it in my head."
Percy nodded, "yeah. I just know everyone else is going to be as excited about it as we are."
"What about an Arena?" Edward asked.
Percy shrugged, "well the way I see it a demigod is going to train in camp half-blood and come to the Haven to relax. I don't want this place to be a war camp or something like that. This is a home, a place for demigods to live their lives."
Ed smiled and nodded, "agreed. Okay, we need to decided on a few more things. Recycling or no?"
"Yes, definitely," Annabeth nodded, "like I said, this place will not be turning into a trash heap."
"Okay," Ed started to edit his map on screen, "then what about a storage place? Most of the time we might trade with the main land, we need some place to keep all the stuff to check it out before it can be introduced into the Haven."
"A warehouse," Percy supplied, "we build it outside the walls and to the South."
"Okay," Ed made a few more adjustments to his map, "do you guys have any special building in mind? Like...a swimming pool or something?"
"As much as I would like that it's kind of redundant," Percy said, "we are surrounded by water, if anyone wants to go for a swim they can just go to Tobaccolot pond nearby."
"We need a water purification place," Annabeth realised, "we can't just drink lake water without purifying it first."
"Put it in the Poseidon district," Percy said, "me and Mera can take care of water in the beginning. Maybe we can create a water passage from Willow Brook into the water purifying place."
