Living up to Jiang Chen's expectations, the Graphene Research Institute of Future Heavy Industries came up with a solution to turn the floating planting field he envisioned into reality.
One hundred floating fields covering an area of 100 acres float in the southwest waters of Penglai City. They are connected to each other by graphene cables that fall into the sea. Under the mutual traction, each floating field is as stable as flat ground, and you cannot feel it at all. The bumps of the ebb and flow.
All the produced sap is collected by employees on the floating fields and poured into designated areas. Through interconnected graphene pipes, the sap is transported to oil storage tanks, waiting for tankers to transport it to the refinery in Mindanao for processing. into fuel oil and other chemical raw materials that can be produced from petroleum.
Yes, although Jiang Chen does not plan to build plantations abroad, Jiang Chen still does not mind sharing highly polluting industries like oil refineries with his allies. Moro Country's industrial foundation is very weak, and half of its finances depend on the few mining areas developed by Future Mining. Santos is eager for Jiang Chen to build all these highly polluting factories on his side.
On the one hand, it can solve employment problems, and on the other hand, it can also increase tax revenue.
No matter if it’s dirty or not, let’s fill up our stomach before talking!
In this way, a relatively complete petroleum industry chain has been formed from Penglai City to Mindanao. Petroleum products produced from Mindanao will be transported to Anga Island and New Matt District through the Davao Port to support the oil needs of local chemical, food, garment and other enterprises, while excess oil will be exported to China.
Currently, both the oil refinery in Mindanao and the hundreds of acres of offshore plantations planned in Penglai City are under construction.
According to the assessment of the Ministry of Finance, once this petroleum industry chain is completed, it will bring direct profits of at least SGD 20 billion per year to Futureman Group, and completely reverse the current situation of Singapore's industry being controlled by the international crude oil market.
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After hearing that the Future Man Group had found a new way to solve the energy crisis, various countries sent their own researchers to Coro Island. The name is to exchange experiences, but in fact they are trying every means to get the DNA code of this oil palm from the Future People Group, and it is best to get the breeding technology.
Overtly and covertly, all countries have tried their best.
However, these researchers who were sent to the new country did not even meet anyone, let alone exchange experiences with researchers from the Future People Group.
No matter what reasons they cited for "academics without borders" or "for all mankind", the Star Ring trade soldiers guarding the door of the Future Man Building were completely unmoved.
As for the spies who came secretly, they were all counterattacked by the ghost agents. If the circumstances are minor, they will be deported; if the circumstances are serious, they will be dealt with directly and secretly. Although overseas activities are not as good as those of the CIA and Mossad, the home field advantage brought by high technology in counter-intelligence activities within the country will protect the national security of the entire new country like an iron barrel.
Although they tried their best to achieve no benefit, countries clearly did not give up.
Among them, Switzerland directly offered a price tag of US$2 billion to acquire the DNA code, but Jiang Chen threw the letter of intent into the wastebasket without even reading it. Not to mention that the price is seriously underestimated. Even if you are a NATO member, it is impossible to sell it to you.
Mobil Oil Company is a private company, and its price is relatively high, reaching 3.7 billion US dollars. However, even this figure is still far lower than Jiang Chen's own valuation of this technology.
Even the Liu family in China was interested in this thing and asked Jiang Chen in a subtle way if he had any plans to cooperate.
"If you are short of land, we happen to have land here." Liu Xiangguo said with a smile on the phone.
"Okay, we can export crude oil to you at a price that is relatively lower than OPEC. As for the technology related to oil palm, don't even think about it. There is no way I can sell it." Jiang Chen directly exposed him.
It’s just because you happen to have land that we can’t sell it to you. The only advantage of the Future Group is technology. If this technology is sold, any larger landlocked country can use its own land area to plant tens of millions of acres of oil crops.
One is at sea and the other is on land. Without technological advantages, competition is useless!
Jiang Chen is not short of money enough to sell his technology.
"No mercy at all?" Liu Xiangguo pretended to be confused.
Jiang Chen laughed loudly.
"When doing business, what else do you need to do with kindness?"
Liu Xiangguo clucked his tongue and shook his head, secretly thinking it was a pity.
After dealing with the Future People Group for so long, he has almost understood Jiang Chen. He knew very well that Jiang Chen said so absolutely that he didn't intend to give him any thought. There will be no results if we continue talking about this issue. On the contrary, it will make the relationship between the two families tense.
"Stop talking about this, are you doing anything new in outer space recently? That space colonization plan... are you serious?"
Although it was in a chatting tone, Jiang Chen could feel the temptation in Old Man Liu's words.
But regarding this matter, he had no intention of hiding it and spoke frankly.
"That's right, I've even thought about what the first city should be called."
"Oh? Haha, this is not a secret, right?" Liu Xiangguo smiled kindly and said in an elder's tone, "Let's reveal it."
"Guanghan City." Jiang Chen said with the same smile.
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Guanghan City is named after the Guanghan Palace in mythology.
As the name suggests, the first link in the space colonization plan of the Star Ring Trade is the moon.
The construction of Guanghan City can be started simultaneously with the space elevator. After the space elevator is completed and transportation costs come down, the scale of the lunar city can be expanded. There is no need to wait until the space elevator is completed step by step before starting.
Colonizing the moon has strong practical significance.
In addition to being rich in titanium, manganese, chromium metals and rare earth resources, the most critical thing is the helium 3 on the moon!
Taking control of the abundant helium 3 on the moon, the Future Man Group will rely on controllable nuclear fusion technology to once again set off a wave of energy revolution following the materials revolution led by graphene!
As early as after the astronaut training center on Anga Island was built, Star Ring Trading launched a lunar probe to search for lunar ice buried under the soil to determine the landing site of the colony.
Fortunately, the lunar probe found a reservoir of lunar ice in a crater with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers. The proven reserves are more than 56 million tons, distributed in meters of lunar soil.
When Kerwin reported the news to Jiang Chen, Jiang Chen immediately ordered the launch of the moon landing rocket and sent space volunteers to land on the moon, taking the first step in space colonization.