The Construction of the Soap Manufacturing Plant

Three weeks later, construction officially began on the Helmarte Soap Works.

The chosen site stood roughly three kilometers south of the capital city beside one of the larger branches of the Aldren River.

Actually, selecting the location itself took Ernest nearly an entire week of calculations and inspections before construction even started.

At first, Hollen assumed Ernest simply wanted land near water because soap manufacturing consumed large amounts of it.

Which was true.

But that was only part of the reason.

The real reason sat directly behind Ernest's mechanical engineering mindset.

Power generation.

As Ernest stood near the riverside that morning watching workers unload timber from wagons, he could still remember the calculations he performed earlier while evaluating the river.

Back on Earth, one of the simplest hydropower formulas he learned was: