In fact, Marlin, a chemical half-asser, does not know that both soybean oil and tung oil can be processed into biodiesel. However, the use of catalysts and reaction control are more complex. Marin only knew middle school chemistry and did not understand biodiesel technology, so he did not think of using ordinary vegetable oil to process biodiesel. He knew that the oil from the jatropha fruit could be used to process biodiesel, and he only learned by chance watching a TV show on the Agriculture Channel.

In order to find the jatropha tree, Marlin offered an unprecedented 5,000 gold reward and recruited 10 expeditions to find the jatropha in the jungles of southern North America.

Of course, if you rely solely on the expedition, it is completely to send them to their deaths. Therefore, in order to cooperate with the expedition's actions, Marin planned to establish a colony on the southern coast of North America, that is, the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico, as a base camp for the expedition's operations on land. After all, if you run out of supplies during an expedition, or if someone gets injured or sick, you need a stronghold to solve the problem. Otherwise, it's to send those explorers to death.

Spreading out the blank paper, Marin relied on his memory to draw a map of the old beauty of later generations. Then, he set his sights on the Gulf Coast......

"Where are the colonies?" Marin looked at the map and fell into deep thought......

From an agricultural point of view, the original colony of New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, was the best. Because, in the future, it will help to swim up the Mississippi River and control the best areas of the North American continent suitable for agriculture.

The Mississippi River is the fourth largest river in the world, after the Yangtze River. But the Mississippi River Basin is one of the world's three largest black soil regions, the other two being the Great Plains of Ukraine and the Northeast Plain.

However, the black soil area of Northeast China is only 1.03 million square kilometers, and the winter is super cold, so only one season of grain can be planted, and the rest of the time is spent on the kang cat winter. Because of the perennial hiding on the kang and the cat bragging in winter, the Northeast people were especially able to talk later, and the mouth was Teliso. There's no way, people hide in the house and brag for half a year, and it's strange that they have a bad mouth.

The black soil in the Mississippi River basin covers an area of 1.2 million square kilometers, which is larger than the black soil of the Northeast. Moreover, the area where the people are located is relatively warm, and they can be harvested twice a year, which is more than the black soil cattle in the Northeast.

Therefore, if you want to farm, the Mississippi River Valley is decisively going to take it.

However, Marin is not short of food now, and there is no need to engage in farming. What he lacks is energy, farming or something, but it is secondary.

"Energy ......" Marin thought for a moment, and suddenly stole his eyes to the northwest of the Gulf of Mexico. In later generations, there was a city that was very familiar to Chinese people - Houston.

Although the manager later made a brain mistake and spoke wildly, it is undeniable that many NBA fans regard the Houston Rockets as their home team. The reason for this is that Yao Ming spent his entire NBA time there.

During the era when Lao Yao was competing in the NBA, Houston almost became the most eye-catching old American city for Chinese people, and it was more famous in China than New York.

Ma Lin was still in high school at that time, and he often skipped class to watch Lao Yao play. He is a pseudo-fan, not birding those NBA native spheres, only looking at Lao Yao. Without Lao Yao's scenes, he didn't even look at it. Jordan took off his No. 23 jersey, which he didn't even recognize......

No way, Marin has black face blindness, and all old blacks are pretty much the same. He has to identify people by facial details, but black faces are as black as carbon, and he can't see the details, so he is blind to black faces...... Only Kobe's somewhat "pointy" special face that is a bit like Po on the Avenue of Fame, Marin can remember. Like Jordan, the popular more rounded black face, he doesn't recognize it when he takes off his jersey.

However, Marin's eye for this time was not Houston, which would later become famous, but Beaumont, 137 kilometers east of Houston......

What attracted Marin to Beaumont? Because there is a spindle-top oil field near Beaumont. The Lucas well there was the world's first self-injecting well. Moreover, at its peak, it sprayed 10,000 tons of crude oil per day, and the spray column was 50 meters high, which scared individuals to death......

Although it is said that the depth of the spindle top oil field is several hundred meters, with the current technology of the North Sea State, it cannot be drilled at all. But Marin didn't plan to develop the spindle top oil field now, but to occupy the place first. Then, tell the engineer that there is a large oil field a few hundred meters underground, and that is enough.

At the current rate of technological development in the North Sea Country, this huge oil field may be developed in a few decades. Due to the lack of modern pumping machinery, self-injection wells such as Lucas wells in the spindle-top oilfield have become the first choice. With 10,000 tons of oil per day, how many pumping units are it worth......

With enough oil, Marlin has the ability to get more single-cylinder diesel engines running. At that time, the walk-behind tractor will become a very common agricultural machine. Unlike now, because of the lack of oil, single-cylinder diesel engines can only be used for scientific research, at most for warships, and they have to be small warships......

Although there is a plan for biodiesel, the future will eventually replace the more expensive biodiesel with cheap petroleum diesel. In other words, biodiesel is only a transition at present, and when Beihai develops science and technology and can open oil wells hundreds of meters deep, biodiesel will come to an end temporarily. After all, the cost of the two is not the same. One is planted with a lot of manpower and material resources, and the other is sprayed from the ground, and the cost of the two is not of the same magnitude......

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Therefore, the establishment of a colony near Beaumont can not only take care of the search for jatropha trees, but also find the spindle top oil field by the way.

The features of the spindle crest are still easy to find - a high ground with a sulphurous stench, just off Beaumont......

While the expedition team was looking for jatropha trees, it was entirely possible to find the site first. Then, Marin circled the place and ordered the engineering department to find a way to drill a well there, drill as deep as it could, and learn a lesson if it failed...... Someday, that self-blowing well will spew out a lot of oil......

In addition to juggling the juggling of finding jatropha trees and determining the location of the spindle top, there is one more useful thing to do here, and that is – as a springboard to the North American prairies!

This is the later Texas, which is the southern part of the North American prairie. Although the southernmost coastal area has a humid climate and a bit of forest, a little north from the Gulf of Mexico will give you a quick access to the North American prairies.

What do you do in the North American prairies? Look for Bison!

Before the arrival of European colonists, there were tens of millions of North American bison on the North American prairies, which was the source of a large amount of beef and cowhides!

Marin had long had a war plan to snatch women from the Mexican Aztec Empire, and he intended to snatch millions of women. Then, he gave birth to mixed-race children with the men of the North Sea Country, which served as a source of labor for the North Sea Country to develop North America.

However, if there are millions of people added all of a sudden, there will be millions of children in the future, and there will be so many people, and there will be insufficient food. So, in the beginning, there was a huge food shortage. Even if the Beihai country produces a large amount of grain, it is difficult to afford the food of more than one million people.

In the final analysis, food was produced by people in this era. The grain produced by the three or four hundred thousand strong men in Beihai can feed hundreds of thousands of people, but millions or even two million people will not be able to handle it.

Therefore, Marin planned to send cavalry to hunt bison on the North American prairies during that transitional period, and kill a large number of North American bison and make beef jerky as a food supply for the suddenly increasing population.

A North American bison can get thousands of pounds of meat, and the jerky can be eaten by an adult for a year. Even if the population suddenly increases by one million, it only takes one million bison to be hunted to survive the food shortage. One million bison is not much compared to the base of tens of millions, and it has an impact on the population, but it is still within the acceptable range.

Moreover, Marlin would have the cavalry try to shoot the old buffalo, as well as the excess bulls, and try not to touch the calves and cows. In this way, it will not affect the continuation and reproduction of the bison herd. Anyway, those old bison themselves die millions every year, so it is better to be hunted by the Beihai Kingdom as beef jerky. Otherwise, it will be wasted......

To sum up, whether it is looking for jatropha trees, spindle-top oil fields, or heading north to the North American prairies to hunt bison, Beaumont is an excellent starting point.

Therefore, with a stroke of the pen, Marin ordered 10 expeditions to march to Beaumont. Even, he can give the coordinates. Because of Lao Yao's relationship, Marin can even remember the latitude and longitude of Houston and some of the natural features of the area. Beaumont is 137 kilometers east of Houston and has a distinctive spindle top nearby...... As long as the expedition team follows this, it should not be difficult to find the place of Beaumont......