Chapter 296 Biopetroleum Technology Success
Ross has created a special environment for these bacteria, and under the action of light, temperature, rays, and radiation, the genes of these bacteria are mutating.
The smart chip can precisely control each step, the accuracy of the air temperature reaches 0.01 degrees, and the radiation accuracy of the ray reaches the highest level of nuclear physics.
In a perfect environment, these bacterial mutations are controlled by Ross.
Three days later, the mutation of these bacteria had met Ross's requirements.
Ross started the cloning machine, in a variety of nutrient solutions, the bacteria multiplied rapidly, originally only the size of a needle tip of a little bacteria, after devouring a large amount of nutrients, multiplied at a geometric rate, less than an hour, a bottle of black bacteria weighing a kilogram was cloned.
Ross carefully pulled out a needle of bacteria with a syringe and placed it in a large glass case.
The glass case was filled with all kinds of green grass and leaves, and Rose threw bacteria into it.
In an instant, Rose saw an amazing scene, these bacteria were like hungry ghosts reincarnated, frantically devouring those plants, and the leaves disappeared directly out of thin air, leaving only a tuber of leaf stems and leaf roots.
After the various nutrients of the leaves enter the bacteria, they absorb them, and the unwanted nutrients are excreted from the body.
Rose was so excited and waited patiently, and time passed little by little, and after four hours, the plants were completely decomposed, and only a few black substances were left in the glass case, like oil.
Ross used instruments to test some of these oils, and the final conclusion was shocking. These substances are 98% similar to oil, possessing almost all the elements of oil.
There is no doubt that bio-oil technology is ripe.
Petroleum. It is the plants that have undergone changes in the vicissitudes of the sea, buried deep in the ground, and under the action of bacteria, after millions or tens of millions of years of changes, the current crude oil is formed.
And using biological gene technology, these mutant bacteria are used to divide plants. The release of the secretions that allow plants to turn into oil takes time, from millions to millions of years. Shorten it to a day or a few days.
This kind of biotechnology like fermentation, which is the 'photo-growing biohydrocarbon' technology, produces bio-oil, and the effect is miraculous. And the cost is small. Only plants are needed. Coupled with this bacterium, bio-oil can be produced.
Ordinary farmers can buy these bacteria and grow plants to produce bio-oil, which can be refined into an endless supply of oil.
But Ross still has two more problems to solve before he can generalize the technology.
These bacteria devour plants too quickly, and if they are used for destruction, the consequences are terrible. They are a hundred times more powerful than locusts, if they are thrown into the mountains. It will eat up all the plants of a mountain in an instant.
How to control this bacterium and prevent it from causing ecological disaster is an important issue.
Ross decided to alter the lifespan of these bacteria, destroy their genetic chains, make them only survive for a day or a few days, make them afraid of heat, afraid of light, and die if exposed to the sun's rays.
In this way, this bacterium cannot cause ecological disasters to the human environment and can be calmly applied to the energy field.
As for the storage of bacteria, Ross plans to use freezing technology, and at sub-zero temperatures, the bacteria will be frozen and dormant. It is not difficult to activate them, as long as you put this glass bottle with bacteria in hot water and scald it, the bacteria can be thawed and activated.
Another problem that has to be solved is that the leaves that these bacteria devour are the leaves that have been sterilized, and they are harmless to swallow.
For the plants planted by farmers, it is impossible to troubleshoot a disinfection process, which is too time-consuming and increases costs. Ross had to make the bacteria more resistant, and all kinds of pesticides and chemical residues could not damage them except sunlight.
Once these microorganisms are perfected, biopetroleum technology can be considered successful.
In the future, Uta only needs to clone a large number of these bacteria and sell them to farmers, who can use these bacteria to make bio-oil with a lifespan of only a few hours, or a day, to make crude oil. The crude oil produced by Sinopec and PetroChina can be refined into pure petroleum, which can be used in the energy sector.
Rose, reining in his excitement, instructed the biologists to clone the bacteria and genetically modify them so that their lifespans would be shortened after the cells had divided to a certain extent.
As time passed, Uta's biopetroleum technology, with the help of Ross, was developing steadily.
These days, Ross has been staying in the laboratory, Tan Li has entered the biology building a few times, and after seeing Rose, she ran away with a cold face, ignoring Ross very sad.
Ross could only sigh and put his enthusiasm into his work.
Half a month later, the bacteria were successfully modified.
Ross began experimenting again, and a ton of leaves was brought in from the biology building. These leaves have not been treated in any way, in addition to being stained with mud, they have also been sprayed with various chemical potions and pesticides, whether this poisonous plant will completely destroy those bacteria, Ross can only prove through experiments.
Pouring the leaves into a large cement tank, Ross threw a bacterial solution or two into the cement tank, and a large group of scientists gathered around the tank to watch. Tens of thousands of miniature cameras are filming the bacteria in action.
Under a computer-controlled, high-resolution microscope, Ross saw the bacteria dividing rapidly, multiplying at exponential speeds, devouring plants.
Pieces of leaves, devoured, decomposed, and oil-like substances are secreted and excreted from the body by bacteria.
Soon, the bacteria reach their limit of reproduction, and their vitality becomes so weak that they can no longer reproduce. The leaves were devoured clean, and even the roots were decomposed, with only a few remnants of sediment.
These bacteria work very efficiently, and the crude oil compounds expelled from this ton of leaves, although only 250 kilograms, are insane enough.
Rose turned on the imitation sun lamp, and as soon as the light shone, under the killing effect of ultraviolet rays, those bacteria began to die piece by piece, and finally decomposed, turned into atoms, and disappeared into the air.
"It worked, these little guys are awesome!"
"From now on, there will be no shortage of energy in our country."
"We don't have to import any country's oil anymore, and our farmers can produce the oil that the whole world needs."
The scientists erupted in loud cheers, and with the help of Ross, who had worked hard for five months on bio-oil technology, it was finally ripe.
Bio-oil technology has been successful, and Ross has the ability to master global energy. (To be continued.) )