Oil plants were not the first of Future Biology.
As early as the 1970s, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Melvin Calvin discovered a tall evergreen tree called the "Rubber Tree" in the Brazilian rainforest. As long as a hole was drilled in the tree, a small amount of oil similar to diesel could be produced.
In 1986, the UA took the lead in artificially growing "oil plants." Subsequently, Britain, France, Japan, Brazil, Philippines, Russia, and other countries also carried out the research and application of "oil plants" and established new green oil production bases such as "oil botanical gardens" and "oil farms."
But unfortunately, until today, this kind of green energy was still not widely used.
Not because it was not easy to use, but because of cost and production.
Let's talk about production first.
How much oil does Saudi Arabia produce? According to the data released by OPEC, in 2018, this number has exceeded the historical peak of 12.5 million barrels …
Every day!
Yes, 12.5 million barrels a day! What kind of concept is this?
Take the UA, which is relatively leading in the field of oil plant research, for example, the annual harvest of "oil" per hectare of "oil" is only about 140 barrels. Broadly speaking, even if its mass is equivalent to 120 barrels of crude oil. At present, the UA only has 100,000 hectares of oil plants, and the annual production is only 12 million barrels of oil.
The data was very intuitive, and it had already explained the problem.
The oil production of oil plants in the UA 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.
It is obviously unrealistic to want to shake the status of oil with such production.
Therefore, countries only use this "oil plant" as an alternative development project for energy strategies. Through various energy and environmental protection policies, these "farms" are subsidized so that they do not die. After all, no one knows what the future will look like.
Maybe one day, when the last drop of oil is dug out in the Middle East, these oil plants may become the life-saving straw to solve the energy crisis.
Of course, it is only hope.
After all, this production is too little!
However, the "oil palm" developed in the laboratory of Future Biology is different. With just a small cut, a full 10 liters of sap can flow 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!
If one mu of land could grow 100 of these "oil palms", the average daily output of one mu of land would be close to one barrel of oil!
A hundred thousand mu was equivalent to a hundred thousand barrels of oil per day. They only needed to plant a million mu of these "oil palms" and build a few refineries that specialized in extracting this sap. Not to mention meeting Xin's energy needs, even if it was exported to the neighboring oil-importing country, it would be enough!
After Future Biology's laboratory came out, Jiang Chen immediately ordered the purchase of oil palms on the market. On the other hand, he asked Tao Ming to supervise the laboratory and do their best to use special methods such as inducing differentiation of the purchased oil palms.
The former was easy as oil palm plants were common in Luzon, MLL Island, New Guinea, and even Xin. Jiang Chen made a phone call and Santos, without hesitation, organized Moro farmers to enter the mountains and used trucks and tractors to transport millions of oil palms to Port Worthy and sold them to Future Group at a reasonable price.
This amount was more than enough for the resource-rich MLL Island. On the contrary, Santos was pleased with himself for making a fortune. Jiang Chen paid him at least 20 million US Dollar, and he needed to pay the farmers no more than one million.
As for where to plant these oil palms, after careful consideration, Jiang Chen gave up the plan to plant them in Country F.
This kind of good stuff was better left in its own country. Although Country F had become a de facto vassal of Celestial Trade, they were still outsiders after all. During the Cold War, the relationship between Nippon and the US was so strong, but didn't Nippon companies sell a few five-axis CNC machine tools to Russia?
In order to ensure that these oil plants could be mass-produced at low cost, all oil palms must be planted domestically, and the plant cultivation technology and DNA code must be strictly confidential! The reason why Jiang Chen gave these researchers, especially Bill Sullivan, so many bonuses was also a disguised form of hush money.
However, the area of 100,000 acres was not small at all. The entire Coro Island only had an area of more than 100,000 acres. Even if all the houses were demolished, this area could only be squeezed out, let alone cultivating millions of acres of oil palms to become an oil exporter.
Submarine farms could cultivate crops, but it was a bit unscientific to grow palm trees a few meters high.
It was the first time Jiang Chen worried about the size of the territory.
But in the end, he came up with a solution.
Next to Penglai City, build a plantation with an area similar to Penglai City.
These plantations did not need to be built according to the standards of the island. They only needed to build offshore platforms with a length and width of about 250 meters, fill them with soil, and then connect these platforms with graphene cables to form a "checkerboard" offshore plantation.
Of course, it was just a thought. Whether it could be realized or not, he had to ask the experts in this area.
However, Jiang Chen estimated that it should not be too difficult. With the strength of graphene, it should not be too difficult to withstand the tidal force. This kind of floating farmland would definitely have a much lower one-time investment cost than submarine farms.
As for how to fight against storms or other bad weather, it would be left to the technicians of Future Heavy Industries to improve. When building Penglai City, they had already accumulated a wealth of experience in offshore construction. This small problem should not be too difficult for them.
…
September quickly passed, and October quietly arrived.
Compared with the turbulence of the previous period, September could be said to be stable without too much trouble. Government forces had gained the upper hand in the Turkish Civil War, and peace negotiations seemed to be coming soon.
In addition to the civil war in Madagascar, the Ukrainian issue continued to ferment because of Russia's provocation. The global situation seemed to have ushered in a period of relative ease as the northern hemisphere was about to enter winter.
Of course, it was only relatively speaking.
The international crude oil market was still filled with invisible smoke, and an invisible hand was controlling the market, casting a haze over the global economy.
Future Group's business was also affected, but compared to other companies in the world, it was much better. Future Group under the trust model was producing products while also producing industrial raw materials. Although oil prices led to the rise of a series of resource prices such as ores and agricultural products, Future Group was only affected by oil prices.
These days, Jiang Chen's life was very regular. From Monday to Friday, he was basically in the president's office, and on Saturdays, he would 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 the public elective courses didn't expect to learn anything. Jiang Chen only hoped that through this method, he could subtly change their mindset.
As for the rest of the time, he would basically stay in the apocalypse.
He was also a general, and maintaining "attendance" was still necessary to stabilize the morale of the army. Even if he was not there to preside over the overall situation, it was still necessary to show his face.
In addition, he also wanted to accompany his "family" over there.
Since the crisis in Wanghai was resolved and the pace of expansion in the modern world began, he rarely focused on the apocalypse. Even as compensation, he hoped to spend more time with Sun Jiao and Yaoyao. For him, they were very important people in his life.
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