Oil plants are not the first of their kind for future human organisms. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As early as the 70s of the last century, Nobel laureate Melvin Calvin discovered a tall evergreen tree called "clover rubber tree" in the tropical rainforest of Brazil, which can produce a small amount of oil similar to diesel fuel by drilling a hole in the tree.

In 1986, the United States took the lead in artificially planting "oil plants". Subsequently, Britain, France, Japan, Brazil, the Philippines, Russia and other countries have 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".

Unfortunately, until now, this green energy source has not been widely used.

It's not because it's not easy to use, it's because of cost and yield.

Let's start with the yield.

How much does Saudi Arabia produce oil? According to data released by OPEC, this figure has exceeded the all-time peak of 12.5 million barrels in 2018......

Every day!

Yes, 12.5 million barrels per day! Think about what this concept is?

For example, the United States, which is relatively leading in the field of petroleum plant research, only harvests about 140 barrels of "oil" per hectare of "oil farms" per year. To put it more broadly, 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, already very intuitively illustrative of the problem.

The oil production of oil plants 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 one state in the United States, Texas.

With such production, it is obviously unrealistic to shake the status of oil.

Therefore, countries are only using this "oil plant" as an alternative development item in their energy strategy, and subsidize these "farms" through various energy and environmental protection policies so that they do not die. After all, no one can say what the future will look like.

Perhaps one day, when the last drop of oil is dug up in the Middle East, these oil plants may hopefully become a lifesaver in the solution to the energy crisis.

Of course, there is only hope.

After all, this production is too little!

However, in the laboratory of human biology in the future, the "oil palm" researched is different. A small cut is needed to drain 10 liters of sap 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 calculation that 100 of these "oil palms" can be planted on one acre of land, the average daily output of one acre of land is close to 1 barrel of oil!

100,000 mu is the daily output of 100,000 barrels of oil, and only one million mu of this "oil palm" needs to be planted, and then a few refineries dedicated to refining this sap will be built. Not to mention that the energy needs of the new country can be satisfied, even if it is exported to the big oil importing country next door, I am afraid that it is enough!

After coming out of the laboratory of future human biology, Jiang Chen immediately ordered that on the one hand, he would go all out to purchase the oil palms on the market, and on the other hand, let Tao Ming urge the laboratory to do his best to deal with these purchased oil palms by special means such as inducing differentiation.

The former is easy to do, and the oil palm is a plant that is common in Luzon, Mindanao, New Guinea and even in New Zealand. Jiang Chen made a phone call, and without saying a word, Santos organized the farmers of Moro to go into the mountains, pulled millions of columns of oil palms in Davao Port with trucks and tractors, and sold them to the Future People Group at a reasonable price.

That's more than enough for Mindanao, which is plentiful, and Santos is complacent about making a fortune. Jiang Chen paid him $20 million, at least, and the most he needed to pay to those peasants was no more than $1 million.

As for where these oil palms are planted, Jiang Chen gave up his plan to plant them in the Philippine plantation after some careful consideration.

It's better to keep this kind of good thing in your own country. Although the Philippines has become a de facto vassal of Transwarp Trade, the monkeys are outsiders after all, and the relationship between Japan and the United States during the Cold War was so iron, and Japanese companies have not sold a few five-axis CNC machine tools with Maozi?

In order to ensure that these oil plants can be mass-produced at low cost, all oil palms must be planted in China, and the plant cultivation technology and DNA code must be kept strictly secret! The reason why Jiang Chen gave so many bonuses to these researchers, especially Bill Sullivan, can be regarded as a disguised hush money.

However, the area of 100,000 acres is not small at all, and the area of the entire Koro Island is only 100,000 acres.

It's okay to grow crops on an undersea farm, but it's a bit unscientific to plant palm trees a few meters high.

It was the first time that Jiang Chen was so worried about the size of the territory.

Eventually, though, he came up with a solution.

Next to Penglai City, build a plantation with an area about the size of Penglai City.

These plantations do not need to be built according to the standards of the island, but only need to be built into 100 acres of offshore platforms about 250 meters long and wide, filled with soil, and then connected with graphene cables to form a "checkerboard" of offshore plantations.

Of course, if you want to think about it, you have to ask the experts in this area if it can be realized.

However, Jiang Chen estimated that the difficulty should not be too great, and with the strength of graphene, it should not be too difficult to withstand this tidal force. The cost of a one-time input in this kind of floating farmland is definitely much cheaper than that of an undersea farm.

As for how to deal with storms or other bad weather, it is up to the technicians of the future to perfect it. When they built Penglai City, they had already accumulated a wealth of experience in offshore construction, and this small problem should not be very difficult for them.

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September passed quickly, and October crept in.

Compared with the turmoil some time ago, September can be said to have been peaceful, and there was no big chaos. The Turkish civil war has already been overwhelmed by government forces, and peace talks seem to be imminent.

In addition to the ongoing civil war in Madagascar and the continued fermentation of the Ukraine issue due to Russia's attacks, the global situation seems to have ushered in a period of relative relaxation as the northern hemisphere is about to enter winter.

Of course, only relatively.

The international crude oil market is still filled with invisible gunsmoke, and an invisible hand is controlling this market, which has cast a haze over the global economy.

The business of the Future People Group has also been affected, but it is much better than other companies in the world. Although the oil price has driven the rise in the price of a series of resources such as ore and agricultural products, the impact of the future people group is only from the oil price.

These days, Jiang Chen's life and rest are very regular, and he basically spends his days in the chairman's office of the Future People Group during the day from Monday to Friday, and on Saturday he will take half a day to go to the University of Koro to teach those lovely students.

I don't expect them to learn anything, after all, the people who come to the public elective class don't expect to learn anything, Jiang Chen only hopes that in this way, he can subtly change their concepts.

As for the rest of the time, he will basically stay on the end times.

After all, he is also a marshal, and maintaining the "attendance rate" is still very necessary to stabilize the morale of the army. Even if you're not there to preside over the overall situation, it's still necessary to show your face.

In addition, he also wants to accompany his "family" over there.

Since the crisis in Wanghai City was lifted and the pace of expansion in the present world began, he rarely focused on the side of the end times. 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.) )