I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 847: Planting at sea
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Petroleum plants are not the first creation of human beings in the future.
As early as in the 1970s, Nobel Prize winner Melvin Calvin found a tall evergreen tree called “Trifolium repens” in the tropical rain forest of Brazil. Drilling a hole in the tree 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 “petroleum plants” and established brand-new green oil production bases such as “petroleum botanical garden” and “oil farm”.
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 issues.
First talk about output.
What is Saudi Arabia ’s oil production? According to data released by OPEC, 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?
For the United States, which is relatively advanced in the field of petroleum plant research, the “oil” harvested per hectare of “oil farm” is only about 140 barrels. Counting wide, 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.
Intuitive data has already explained the problem intuitively.
The oil production of petroleum plants nationwide is less than the one-day oil production of OPEC member countries. Of course, it is not as good as the daily oil production in the US state of Texas.
This kind of production is obviously unrealistic to shake the status of oil.
So all countries just use 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 bad, what the future looks like.
Maybe one day, when the last drop of oil was dug up in the Middle East, these oil plants might hopefully become a life-saving straw for solving the energy crisis.
Of course, there is only hope.
After all, this output is really too little!
However, in the laboratory of human biology in the future, the “oil palm” researched is different. With just a small opening, 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 sap can be collected once a week!
According to the 100 oil palms that can be planted on an acre, the average daily output of an acre is close to 1 barrel of oil!
One hundred thousand acres is the daily output of one hundred thousand barrels of oil. You only need to plant one million acres of this “oil palm”, and then build a few oil 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 next major oil importing country, I am afraid it is enough!
After coming out of the laboratory of Future Human Biology, Jiang Chen immediately ordered, while trying his best to buy oil palm on the market, on the other hand, Tao Ming urged the laboratory to do all he could to induce differentiation of these oil palms acquired Special treatment.
The former is easy to handle. The oil palm plant is common in Luzon, Mindanao, New Guinea, and even in the new country. Jiang Chen made a call and Santos did not say anything. He organized Moro farmers to go to the mountains, used trucks and tractors to pull millions of oil palms to the Port of Vau, and sold them to the Future Group at a reasonable price.
This amount is more than enough for Mindanao, which is rich in materials. Santos is complacent for making a fortune. Jiang Chen paid him less than 20 million US dollars, and he did not need to pay more than one million to those farmers.
With regard to where these oil palm species are located, Jiang Chen gave up his plan to plant in the Philippines after careful consideration.
This kind of good stuff is better placed in your own country. Although the Philippines has become a de facto vassal of the Xinghuan trade, the monkeys are outsiders in the end. During the Cold War, Japan-U.S. Relations were so ironic. Have Japanese companies sold Maozi several 5-axis linkage CNC machine tools?
In order to ensure these low-cost mass-produced oil plants, all oil palms must be grown in the country, and the plant cultivation technology and DNA code must be kept strictly confidential! The reason why Jiang Chen gave these researchers, especially Bill Sullivan so many bonuses, can be regarded as a disguised sealing fee.
However, the area of 100,000 acres is not small at all. The area of the entire island of Corro is only a few hundred thousand acres. All houses are demolished to squeeze out this area, let alone cultivate a million acres of oil. Palm has become an oil exporter.
It ’s okay to cultivate crops on the seabed farm, but planting palm trees a few meters high is a bit unscientific.
For the first time, Jiang Chen was so worried about the territory.
But in the end, he came up with a solution.
Next to Penglai City, build a plantation of about the same size as Penglai City.
The plantations do not need to be built according to the island ’s standards. They only need to build offshore platforms with a length of about 250 meters each in units of 100 acres, fill them with soil, and then connect these platforms with graphene cables to form “Checkerboard” sea plantation.
Of course, if you think about it, you have to ask an expert in this field for specifics.
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. Such floating farmland, the cost of one-time investment must also be much cheaper than the seabed farm.
As for how to fight against storms or other severe weather, this is left to those technicians who will rework in the future. When building Penglai City, they have 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 turbulence of some time ago, September can be said to have been stable and stable, and there was not much trouble. The Turkish civil war has been dominated by government forces, and peace negotiations seem to be coming soon.
In addition to the continuing civil war in Madagascar, the Ukrainian issue has continued to ferment due to the difficulties of Russia, and the global situation seems to be ushering in a relatively mild period 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 smoke. An invisible hand is swaying this market, which has cast a haze on the global economy.
The business of Future 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 also producing industrial raw materials while producing products. Although the price of oil has driven up the price of a series of resources such as ores and agricultural products, the impact on the Future Group will only come from the price of oil.
Jiang Chen ’s life and routine are very regular these days. From Monday to Friday, he is basically in the office of the chairman of the Future Group. On Saturday, he will spend half a day to go to Coro University to give those lovely The students are in class.
I do n’t expect to let them learn anything. After all, people who come to public elective courses do n’t expect to learn anything. Jiang Chen only hopes that, in this way, they can change their ideas subtly.
For the rest of the time, he will basically stay at the end of the world.
Fortunately, he is also a marshal. It is still necessary to maintain the “attendance rate” to stabilize the military. Even if you do n’t preside over the big picture, you still have to show your face.
In addition, he also wanted to be with his “family” over there.
Since the crisis in Wanghai City has been lifted and the pace of expansion in this world has begun, he has rarely focused on the end of the world. Even as compensation, he hopes to accompany Sun Jiao and Yao Yao more. For him, they are very important people in his life. (To be continued.)