Chapter 847 Planting in the Sea
Petroleum plants are not the first biological inventions of the future.
As early as the 1970s, Nobel Prize winner Melvin Calvin discovered a tall evergreen tree named "Hevea trilobata" in the tropical rainforest of Brazil. Eyes, it can produce a small amount of oil with a composition similar to diesel.
In 1986, the United States took the lead in artificially planting "petroleum plants". Subsequently, Britain, France, Japan, Brazil, the Philippines, Russia and other countries also successively carried out the research and application of "oil plants", and established new green oil production bases such as "oil botanical gardens" and "oil farms".
Unfortunately, until today, this green energy has not been widely used.
Not because it is not easy to use, but because of cost and output.
Let's talk about output first.
How Much Oil Does Saudi Arabia Produce? According to data released by OPEC, in 2018 this figure has exceeded the historical peak of 12.5 million barrels
every day!
Yes, 12.5 million barrels per day! Think about what concept this is?
Take the United States, which is relatively leading in the field of oil plant research, for example, the annual harvest of "oil" per hectare of "oil farm" is only about 140 barrels. To calculate broadly, even if its mass is equivalent to 120 barrels of crude oil. At present, there are only 100,000 hectares of oil plants in the United States, and the annual oil production is only 12 million barrels.
Very intuitive data, has already explained the problem very intuitively.
The oil production of oil plants in the United States is less than that of OPEC members in a day. Of course, it is not as good as the daily oil production of Texas, the United States itself.
With such an output, it is obviously unrealistic to shake the position of oil.
Therefore, all countries only regard this "petroleum plant" as an alternative development item of energy strategy, and subsidize these "farms" through various energy and environmental protection policies so that they will not die. After all, no one can say what the future will look like.
Maybe one day, the Middle East has dug out the last drop of oil, and these oil plants may hope to become a life-saving straw to solve the energy crisis.
Of course, there is only hope.
After all, this output is really too little!
However, the laboratory of human biology in the future,
The researched "oil palm" is different. Just make a small cut, and a full 10 liters of sap can flow from the bottom of the bark! A barrel of oil is equivalent to 159 liters, and 16 trees can produce a barrel of oil. And this kind of sap can be collected once a week!
Based on the fact that 100 such "oil palms" can be planted on one mu of land, the average daily output of one mu of land is already close to 1 barrel of oil!
100,000 mu is the daily output of 100,000 barrels of oil, and only one million mu of this "oil palm" needs to be planted, and several refineries dedicated to extracting the sap need to be built. Not to mention that the energy demand of the new country can be met, even if it is exported to the next-door oil-importing country, it is probably enough!
After coming out of the laboratory of Future Human Biology, Jiang Chen immediately ordered to buy oil palms on the market with all his strength, and on the other hand, he asked Tao Ming to urge the laboratory to try his best to induce differentiation of these purchased oil palms. deal with.
The former is easy to handle. Oil palms are very common in Luzon, Mindanao, New Guinea and even in New Zealand. Jiang Chen made a phone call, and without further ado, Santos organized farmers from the Moro Kingdom into the mountains, used trucks and tractors to pull millions of oil palms to Davao Port, and sold them to the Future Group at a reasonable price.
This amount is more than enough for the resource-rich Mindanao Island, but Santos is complacent about making a fortune. The money Jiang Chen paid him was at least 20 million U.S. dollars, and the most he needed to pay those farmers was no more than 1 million U.S. dollars.
Regarding the location of these oil palm species, after careful consideration, Jiang Chen gave up his plan to plant them in the Philippine plantation.
It's better to keep such a good thing in your own country. Although the Philippines has become a de facto vassal of the Star Ring trade, the monkeys are outsiders after all. During the Cold War, the relationship between Japan and the United States was so strong. Didn’t Japanese companies sell Maozi a few five-axis CNC machine tools?
In order to ensure these oil plants that can be mass-produced at low cost, all oil palms must be grown domestically, and the plant breeding techniques and codes must be kept strictly confidential! The reason why Jiang Chen gave these researchers, especially Bill Sullivan, so many bonuses was a kind of hush money in disguise.
But the area of 100,000 mu is not at all. The entire area of Koro Island is only more than 100,000 mu. Only by demolishing all the houses can this area be squeezed out, let alone cultivate millions of mu of oil palm to become an oil exporter. up.
It is okay to cultivate crops in submarine farms, but it is a bit unscientific to plant palm trees a few meters high.
It was the first time that Jiang Chen was so worried about the territory.
In the end, though, he came up with a solution.
Next to Penglai City, build a plantation with an area about the same size as Penglai City.
These plantations don’t need to be built according to the island’s standards. You only need to build offshore platforms with a length and width of about 250 meters in units of 100 acres, fill them with soil, and then connect these platforms with graphene cables to form a “chessboard” "Sea Plantation.
Of course, if you want to think about it, you have to ask experts in this field whether it can be realized.
However, Jiang Chen estimated that the difficulty should not be too great. With the strength of graphene, it should not be too difficult to withstand this tidal force. The one-time investment cost of this kind of floating farmland is definitely much cheaper than that of seabed farms.
As for how to fight against storms or other severe weather, this is left to the technicians of Future Heavy Industries to perfect it. When they built Penglai City, they had already accumulated a wealth of experience in offshore construction. For them, this small problem should not be too difficult.
September passed quickly, and October came quietly.
Compared with the turmoil of the previous period, September can be said to have been peaceful and stable, without any major disturbances. The Turkish civil war has been won by government forces, and peace talks seem to be imminent.
Except that the civil war in Madagascar is still going on, and the Ukrainian issue continues to ferment due to Russia's attack, the global situation seems to have ushered in a period of relaxation as the northern hemisphere is about to enter winter.
Of course, only in relative terms.
The international crude oil market is still filled with invisible gunpowder, and an invisible hand is controlling the market, casting a haze over the global economy.
The business of Future People Group has also been affected, but compared to other companies in the world, it is still much better. The Future Group under the trust model is producing industrial raw materials while producing products. Although oil prices have driven up the prices of a series of resources such as ores and agricultural products, the impact on Future Group is only from oil prices.
These days, Jiang Chen's life is very regular. From Monday to Friday, he is basically in the chairman's office of Future Group during the day, and on Saturday he will take half a day to go to Keluo University to teach those lovely students. .
He didn't expect them to learn anything. After all, those who came to the public elective courses didn't expect to learn anything. Jiang Chen only hoped that through this method, their ideas could be subtly changed.
As for the rest of the time, he will basically stay at the end of the world.
Anyway, he is also a marshal, and maintaining the "attendance rate" is still necessary to stabilize the morale of the army. Even if you're not there to preside over the overall situation, it's still necessary to show your face.
In addition, he also wants to accompany the "family" over there.
Since the crisis in Wanghai City was resolved and the expansion of the present world started, he has rarely focused on the end of the world. Even as compensation, he also hoped to spend more time with Sun Jiao, Yao Yao and the others. After all, for him, they are very important people in his life. To be continued^
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