The other location was in the next town over, which was on the other side of a mountain. We used a taxi app to get a car. Lucky for us there was a highway that took us around. It only took us 13 minutes to get there.
When we arrived we were greeted by a large pressure sealed door like the one on the other flood wall.
The main road looks at a large flood wall that has two gates to enter. One on the right and one on the left. Since the gates are currently closed we will be taking the emergency stairs on the right side over.
The main driveway of the old fuel depot is an upside down U, just a little flatter.
The first thing I noticed was the large cylinders used to store fuel as well as a fuel transfer station to pump the fuel into trucks for distribution.
They were on the right side, outside of the U, along with some parking.
To the left, inside the U, was a building. It had a stacked slate facade, small windows, and a modern styled door. The building was actually a large L shaped building that had two stories.
The smaller side was darker in color and was clearly more administrative.
The larger side was lighter, the bottom was clearly a workshop of some kind. You could tell because of the large garage doors that lined its walls. The upper floor was clearly too small for people to use, so it must just be extra height for the workshop.
Straight down the road was another two storied building that was for administration. Since it was along the edge of the port I imagine it is used for directing incoming ships.
Just to the left of it was another two storied building but it was smaller and had piping coming out of it. It must be a large pump house, used to put out any possible fires using sea water. It's large for a pump house. I'm sure adding a filtration and desalination system would be possible.
Connected to the pump house is a large mostly open aired warehouse. It is massive, it is twice as wide as the other workshop, and it runs almost the whole distance of the port.
A third of the long warehouse was enclosed. The open part had a few old forklifts, piles of old buoys, and a few bright blue boxes. The forklifts looked like toys in the warehouse.
The sea side, side of the enclosed warehouse had two massive shutter doors that could have two shipping containers side by side and still have some room.
The walls of the enclosed portion of the warehouse were a steel silver colored panel, with high windows. The steel support beams were a bright orange.
Back inside the U running parallel to the warehouse was another workshop that was just as big as the first. I was only a third of the size of the warehouse. This building has thin vertical panels and a green waved roof.
The rest of the space in the U was parking.
On the left side of the U was another admin building connected to another large workshop. Both of these buildings had flat panels for walls and blue wave roofs.
On the other side of those were three large storage buildings, that had matching flat panels and blue waved roofs.
Upon close inspection the enclosed warehouse space had enough room for four full production lines alone.
Considering that I had three more workshops that could be retrofitted to hold production lines as well. They were only half as wide, so they could only hold two. That means that all together I could have 10 full production lines at this one location.
However, the practicality of that is unlikely. Because I will need a ton of space to store all of the base materials. I doubt I could have daily deliveries in such high quantities.
I need to be able to store around a month's worth of supplies for proper scheduling. So realistically I will only retrofit the middle workshop to house the production lines. Then I will use the enclosed warehouse space to hold the finished products until time for shipment.
The other workshops and storage buildings will be used for storing the materials.
I need to use the enclosed warehouse space for the finished products because the individual packaging would take up a lot of extra space. Plus the ease of access for loading onto the boats.
Looking at the structures there was a surprising lack of rust, even the small bits of fencing didn't have any rust.
There was definitely going to be mold and mildew in the admin buildings though.
I didn't think for even a second that there wouldn't be any.
I asked about seeing the inside, but I was told that we wouldn't be able to go inside until an inspector gave us the all clear. Not to mention that we didn't have the keys, or even any real permission to be here.
So, we got another taxi and rode back to the inn.
Back at the inn it was only a little after lunch time and we hadn't eaten since breakfast. So, I decided to try out another restaurant in town.
It was also amazing. I was starting to think that the standard of food in the rest of the world was higher than back home. But, I had only been here, to this country.
I had been to other states before and there were both good and bad restaurants. Exactly what you would expect from anywhere.
But, so far in this country the food has been pretty good. Better than the average back home.
I spent the rest of the day wandering around a different part of town. Looking at the architecture and the local facilities, like the community center.
I noticed that there really are a lot of solar power farms here.