Living up to Jiang Chen's expectations, the Graphene Research Institute of Future Heavy Industries came up with a solution and turned the floating plantation he envisioned into a reality.
One hundred floating fields with an area of one hundred acres floated in the southwest waters of Penglai City. They were connected to each other by graphene cables that fell into the sea. Under the traction of each other, each floating field was as stable as a flat ground and could not feel the ups and downs of the tide.
All the produced sap was collected by the employees on the floating field and poured into the designated area. The sap was then transported to the oil storage tank through interconnected graphene pipelines, waiting for the tanker to transport it to the refinery in MLL Island to be processed into fuel and other chemical raw materials that could be produced from petroleum.
Yes, although he did not plan to build plantations abroad, Jiang Chen did not mind sharing a high-pollution industry like the refinery with his allies. Moro's industrial foundation was very weak. Half of the finance depended on the mining areas developed by Future Mining. Santos was eager for Jiang Chen to build all these high-pollution factories on his side.
On the one hand, it could solve employment problems, and on the other hand, it could increase tax revenue.
Regardless of whether it was dirty or not, he would fill his stomach first!
In this way, from Penglai City to MLL Island, a relatively complete oil industry chain was formed. The oil products produced from MLL Island would be transported to Ange Island and the New Malaysia Special District through the Port of D to support the oil demand of local chemical, food, garment and other enterprises, and the excess oil would be exported to Hua.
At present, whether it was the refinery on MLL Island or the planned hundred acres of offshore plantations in Penglai City, they were all under construction.
According to the assessment of the Finance Department, once this oil industry chain was completed, it would bring at least 20 billion Xin New dollars in direct profits for Future Group every year and completely reverse the status quo that Xin's industry was restricted by the international crude oil market.
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After hearing that Future Group had found a new way to solve the energy crisis, countries sent their own researchers to Coro Island. Nominally, it was an exchange of experience, but in fact, it was to find ways to obtain the DNA code of this oil palm from Future Group. It would be best if they could also obtain the breeding technology.
Whether it was in the open or in the dark, countries also used all their means.
However, the researchers sent to Xin didn't even get to see Future Group's researchers, let alone exchange their experiences.
No matter what reasons they used, such as "academic without borders" and "for all mankind", the Celestial Trade soldiers guarding the entrance of Future Building were completely unmoved.
As for those spies who came in secret, they were all countered by the Ghost Agents. If the case was light, he would be deported. If the case was serious, he would be dealt with in secret. Although their activities abroad were not as good as those of the CIB and Mossad, in terms of counter-espionage activities within the country, the home advantage brought by high technology protected the entire national security of Xin like an iron bucket.
Although they were unable to gain any advantage even after using all their means, it was obvious that the various countries did not give up.
Switzerland offered a price of two billion US Dollar for the DNA code, but Jiang Chen threw the letter of intent into the trash without even looking at it. Not to mention that the price is severely underestimated, but with your identity as a NATO member, it is impossible to sell it to you.
ExxonMobil was a private company, so they offered a relatively high price of 3.7 billion USD. But even with this number, it was still far below Jiang Chen's own estimate of the technology.
Even the Liu family in Hua was interested in this technology and asked Jiang Chen if he had plans to cooperate.
"If you lack land, we happen to have land here." On the phone, Liu Xiangguo said with a smile.
"Okay, we can export crude oil to you at a price relatively lower than OPEC. As for the technology related to this oil palm, don't even think about it. I won't sell it." Jiang Chen directly exposed his intentions.
It is because you happen to have land that I can't sell it to you. Future Group's only advantage was in technology. If they sold the technology, any landlocked country could easily take out tens of millions of acres of land to grow oil crops based on their land area.
One on the sea, the other on land. Without the technical advantage, how could they compete?!
Jiang Chen was not short of money to sell the technology.
"You don't care about my feelings at all?" Liu Xiangguo pretended to be confused.
Jiang Chen laughed.
"Why would I care about feelings in business?"
Liu Xiangguo shook his head and thought it was a pity.
After dealing with Future Group for so long, he understood Jiang Chen's personality. He knew very well that Jiang Chen's words were so absolute that he didn't plan to give him any hope. There would be no result if they continued to talk about this issue. Instead, it would make the relationship between the two families awkward.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. Have you been doing something new in outer space recently? That space colonization plan … are you serious? "
Although it was a casual tone, Jiang Chen could feel the probing in Old Liu's words.
But for this matter, he didn't plan to hide it and was straightforward.
"Yes, I even thought about what the first city should be called."
"Oh? Haha, this is not a secret. "Liu Xiangguo smiled kindly and said in a tone of an elder," Let me know. "
"Lunar City." Jiang Chen also smiled.
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Lunar City was named after the Lunar Palace in the mythical story.
As the name suggested, the first link of Celestial Trade's space colonization plan was the Moon.
The construction of Lunar City could be carried out simultaneously with the space elevator. After the space elevator was completed and the transportation cost was reduced, the scale of the Moon city could be expanded. There was no need to wait until the space elevator was completed.
Colonizing the Moon had a strong practical significance.
In addition to the rich titanium, manganese, chromium, and rare earth resources, the most critical was the helium-3 on the Moon!
With the rich helium-3 reserves on the Moon, Future Group would use controllable nuclear fusion technology to set off another energy revolution after the materials science revolution led by graphene!
As early as after the completion of the astronaut training center on Ange Island, Celestial Trade launched a lunar probe to search for the moon ice buried under the soil to determine the landing site of the colony.
Fortunately, in a crater with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers, the lunar probe found a lunar ice reservoir. The proven reserves were more than 56 million tons, distributed in lunar soil 500 to 1,000 meters.
When Kelvin reported the news to Jiang Chen, Jiang Chen immediately ordered the launch of a lunar rocket and sent space volunteers to land on the Moon, taking the first step of space colonization.
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