Ernst is talking about the general development path, and the follow-up will definitely change according to the situation in East Africa, in fact, the development of the automobile industry, then a new problem cannot be avoided, that is, road construction.

Now that the car has appeared, the road construction in East Africa must be put on the agenda, and many roads have been built in East Africa in the past, especially in the east, and the road density has been comparable to that of some European countries.

But these roads are of low standard, with gravel roads, dirt roads, cinder paved roads, or brick roads, or concrete roads.

More than 80 percent of East Africa's wilderness and countryside are dirt roads, some of which are tamped, and villages near industrial areas have cinder roads and a small amount of gravel.

Most of the brick roads in the city are brick and stone roads, including stone roads, and there are generally cement roads in the industrial zone, and there are also dirt roads in cities with average economic level, especially in some cities in the west, where infrastructure is very scarce.

However, the east may not be much better, although the level of roads in the east exceeds the European average, but the current road conditions in Europe are also difficult to describe, everyone is half a pound and eight taels.

And now that the automobile has appeared, the road pattern of the world will also change to meet the development of the automobile industry in the future.

For Ernst himself, the high degree of compatibility between hardened pavement and rubber tyres is also a major driving force for the development of highways, and the two complement each other and are indispensable.

Although hardened pavement is the development trend of the future, Ernst is not in a hurry to implement it in East Africa immediately, on the one hand, the amount of work in East Africa is too large, and the construction of many water conservancy facilities is in the stage of employing people, and on the other hand, it takes time to prepare.

And in addition to roads, the most important thing to solve in East Africa is the fuel problem, and the local oil industry in East Africa should also be on the agenda.

In any case, the local oil resources should be developed a little bit to suppress the price of imported oil, and I thought carefully about the oil-producing areas of Africa in the past life.

Ernst intends to explore and develop the oil and gas resources of Lake Turkana first, which is a process of thinking and solving problems according to the answers.

The oil resources of Lake Turkana are not much, but they are not much, at least there are hundreds of millions of barrels of reserves, which is certainly not enough in the future, but in this era it is definitely enough for East Africa to use in the early stage.

During World War II, Romania's oil production was between 700 and 10 million tons per year, and this was still the outbreak of production capacity under the war, so the oil from Lake Turkana combined with imported oil was enough for at least the first forty or fifty years of East Africa.

Now there are only a few oil-producing countries, and the production is pitiful, so there is no need for East Africa to directly take out Uganda or South Sudan oil for development.

In fact, East Africa has signed many supply agreements with oil giants such as Rockefeller in the United States, and in Romania, Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia, the European oil industry has been directly deployed to train professional workers and technicians needed in East Africa.

However, these measures are palliative, not the root cause, East Africa as a whole oil resources are not scarce, but not abundant, to ensure the energy security of East Africa, Angola will definitely have to find a way to win all in the future, especially in the Luanda region north of the Congo River.

If the Luanda region can be acquired, the oil reserves of East Africa will be considerable even in the 21st century, and the potential of oil resources in eastern East Africa is also very large, and it will be enough for early development.

Africa's oil reserves are in the middle to high range of all continents, and the whole is still mainly distributed in the northern region, especially North Africa and West Africa, which is not friendly to East Africa today.

East Africa's oil resources are also concentrated in the northern strip, including the Nile Basin and the east, while northern Angola is now temporarily controlled by the Portuguese.

In addition to the above oil resources within reach of East Africa, there is also an Alaska is considered a royal property, and the Alaska region is isolated overseas, Ernst does not want it to develop too early, if Alaska's gold and oil resources are discovered, it is likely to attract Japan, Russia, Canada (Britain), the United States four countries coveted.

To put it mildly, that is, the strength of the Far Eastern Empire is not strong now, otherwise it will be counted among them, and there are not many small countries in the entire North Pacific region excluding Southeast Asia.

Therefore, until East Africa can provide Alaska with military security support, it is better for Alaska to continue to develop in a low-key manner.

And it is not so easy to develop the oil resources of Lake Turkana, although Ernst is sure that there are oil resources in Lake Turkana, but it is difficult to say whether it can be done technically.

However, according to Ernst's idea, the difficulty should not be particularly high, Romanian oil is on the Black Sea coast, and Lake Turkana is only a saltwater lake, but the area is not small, the two should still be similar.

So now is the time to explore Lake Turkana's resources, which must be carried out by top experts, and preferably in close integration with the defense and security of East Africa.

At the same time, Ernst also thought of Germany's coal-to-oil technology during World War II, which is also a good idea, East Africa is still rich in coal resources, especially South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana three countries are rich in coal mines, although the latter two do not reach the level of South Africa, but also considerable.

After all, in the past, South Africa's coal resources could compete with Australia, Russia, India, Brazil, and other countries in the international market.

There is also biofuel in later generations, although the corn production in East Africa is far less than that of the United States, but the planting area is not small, so it can be considered in both directions.

Thinking of this, Ernst also thought of the abundant natural gas resources in East Africa, natural gas can replace oil resources to a certain extent, and natural gas resources are quite abundant in East Africa, which is not scarce in East Africa, including the distribution of a large number of natural gas resources in the east.

Based on the experience of previous lives, natural gas is particularly focused on the two fields of household fuel and industrial production, and although its role in the transportation sector is not much compared with oil, it is a good complement to the application of oil in other fields.

The most important thing is that natural gas is clean energy, and it can also play a good role in environmental protection, so the development and utilization of natural gas resources, East Africa should pay attention to it, and the more time goes by, the more attention is paid to natural gas, which is a clean energy.

Finally, there is nuclear power, which may be too early to talk about, and even Ernst is not sure that he will survive until that time.

However, East Africa has obvious advantages in this regard, and Ernst even has a general idea of the future layout of East Africa's nuclear energy industry.

That is in Southwest Africa, one is that Southwest Africa is vast and sparsely populated, even if an accident occurs, it will not have much impact on East Africa, the big deal is to learn the waste from Britain directly into the Atlantic, East Africa mainly depends on the Indian Ocean, so this can be done with the three scoundrels of Britain, the United States and Japan in later generations, the second is that Southwest Africa is originally an important uranium mineral area in the world, and some rivers even have radioactive elements eroded from the upstream mountains, and the third is that Southwest Africa is conducive to the layout of the Defense and Security Agency, and it is highly secretive, It is difficult for a bombing of a German nuclear plant in World War II to happen in East Africa.

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