Petroleum plants are not the first creation of future humans.
As early as the 1970s, Nobel Prize winner Melvin Calvin discovered a tall evergreen tree called the "hevea tree" in the tropical rainforest of Brazil. In one eye, a small amount of oil with a composition similar to diesel can be produced.
In 1986, the United States took the lead in artificially growing "petroleum plants." Subsequently, Britain, France, Japan, Brazil, the Philippines, Russia and other countries also successively carried out the research and application of "petroleum plants" and established new green oil production bases such as "Petroleum Botanical Gardens" and "Petroleum Farms".
Unfortunately, until today, this green energy has not been widely used.
It’s not because it’s not easy to use, but because of cost and output issues.
Let’s talk about production first.
How much oil does Saudi Arabia produce? According to data released by the OPEC organization, this number has exceeded the historical peak of 12.5 million barrels in 2018...
every day!
Yes, 12.5 million barrels per day! Think about this concept
Take the United States, which is relatively leading in the field of petroleum plant research. The annual harvest of "oil" from each hectare of "oil farms" is only about 140 barrels. To put it in perspective, 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 that has clearly explained the problem.
The oil production from petroleum plants nationwide in the United States is less than the oil production of OPEC members in a day. Of course, it is not as much as the daily oil production of Texas, a state in the United States.
With such output, it is obviously unrealistic to challenge the status of oil.
Therefore, all countries only regard this "petroleum plant" as an alternative development item in their energy strategy, and subsidize these "farms" through various energy and environmental protection policies to prevent them from dying. After all, no one can say what the future will look like.
Maybe one day, the last drop of oil will be dug out in the Middle East, 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 too small!
However, the "oil palm" studied in the future human biology laboratory is different. Just make a small cut and a full 10 liters of sap will flow out from the bottom of the bark! One barrel of oil is equivalent to 159 liters, and 16 trees can produce one barrel of oil. And this kind of sap can be collected once a week!
Assuming that one acre of land can grow 100 of these "oil palms", the average daily output of one acre of land is close to 1 barrel of oil!
One hundred thousand acres is the daily output of 100,000 barrels of oil. All it takes is to plant one million acres of this "oil palm" and build several refineries dedicated to refining this sap. Not to mention that the energy needs of the new country can be met, even if it is exported to the big oil importing country next door, it will be enough!
After coming out of the laboratory of Future Human Biotechnology, Jiang Chen immediately ordered that on the one hand, he would do his best to purchase oil palms on the market, and on the other hand, he asked Tao Ming to supervise the laboratory and do its best to induce differentiation and other special methods on the purchased oil palms. deal with.
The former is easy to handle. Oil palm is a common plant in Luzon, Mindanao, New Guinea and even New Zealand. Jiang Chen made a phone call, and without saying a word, Santos organized farmers from Moro Country to go into the mountains, use trucks and tractors to pull millions of oil palm columns to Davao Port, and sold them to the Futureman 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 amount Jiang Chen paid him was at least 20 million US dollars, and the maximum he needed to pay to those farmers was no more than 1 million.
As for where to plant these oil palms, Jiang Chen gave up his plan to plant them in plantations in the Philippines after careful consideration.
It is better to keep such good things in your own country. Although the Philippines has become a de facto vassal of the Star Ring Trade, the monkeys are still outsiders. 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 linkage CNC machine tools
In order to ensure that these oil plants can be mass-produced at low cost, all oil palms must be grown domestically, and the plant cultivation technology and DNA codes must be kept strictly confidential! The reason why Jiang Chen paid so many bonuses to these researchers, especially Bill Sullivan, was a disguised form of hush money.
However, the area of 100,000 acres is not small at all. The entire area of Koro Island is only 100,000 acres. All the houses must be demolished to squeeze out this area, let alone cultivating millions of acres of oil palm to become oil. exporting country.
It's okay to cultivate crops on the seabed farm, but it's a bit unscientific to plant palm trees several meters high.
This was the first time Jiang Chen was worried about the size of his territory.
Eventually, though, he came up with a solution.
Next to Penglai City, build a plantation with an area similar to Penglai City.
These plantations do not need to be built according to island standards. They only need to build offshore platforms of about 250 meters in length and width in units of 100 acres, fill them with soil, and then use graphene cables to connect these platforms to form a "checkerboard shape" ” maritime plantation.
Of course, if you 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 undersea farms.
As for how to fight against storms or other severe weather, this is left to the technicians of the future heavy industry to perfect. When Penglai City was built, they had already accumulated rich experience in offshore construction. This small problem should not be too difficult for them.
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September passed quickly and October came quietly.
Compared with the turmoil in the previous period, September can be said to have been smooth and uneventful, with no major disturbances. Turkey's civil war has been dominated by government forces, and peace talks appear to be imminent.
In addition to the ongoing civil war in Madagascar, the Ukrainian issue continues to ferment due to Russia's attacks, and the global situation seems to be ushering in a relatively relaxed period as the northern hemisphere is about to enter winter.
Of course, only relatively speaking.
The international crude oil market is still filled with invisible smoke, and an invisible hand is controlling the market, casting a haze over the global economy.
Future Man Group's business has also been affected, but compared to other international companies, it is much better. The Future Man Group under the trust model is also 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 Future Man Group has only been affected by oil prices.
These days, Jiang Chen's life schedule is very regular. From Monday to Friday, he basically spends his time in the chairman's office of Futureman Group. On Saturday, he will take half a day to go to Coro University to teach those lovely students. .
He didn't expect them to learn anything. After all, people who came to take public elective courses didn't expect to learn anything. Jiang Chen only hoped that through this method, he could subtly change their ideas.
As for the rest of the time, he will basically stay on the apocalyptic side.
After all, he is also a marshal, and maintaining "attendance rate" is still necessary to stabilize military morale. Even if you are not there to preside over the overall situation, it is still necessary to show your face.
In addition, he also wanted to spend time with his "family" over there.
Ever since the crisis in Wanghai City was resolved and the pace of expansion in the present world began, he rarely focused on the end of the world. Even as compensation, he hopes to spend more time with Sun Jiao and Yao Yao. After all, for him, they are very important people in his life. (.)