2028 Transformation From New Agricultural Products to New Energy Products

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  To put it bluntly, as long as you have enough ethanol, you can completely replace fossil fuels.

  Compared with gasoline, one of the few disadvantages of ethanol is that it has a shelf life.

  The other thing is that the calorific value of this thing is relatively low. Within the same unit volume, the calorific value of this thing is only 61% of gasoline.

  So walking the same journey requires more ethanol.

  But if you can ensure that ethanol is continuously provided, then it is still feasible to replace fossil fuels.

  Currently, many provinces in our country are using ethanol gasoline.

  That is, gasoline mixed with ethanol in a ratio of 10:1.

  The reason for this is also because we are too short of fuel.

  While it has not been fully promoted, it is still limited by agricultural conditions.

  In fact, we suffered a loss as early as more than ten years ago.

  At that time, due to the global increase in oil prices, we once thought about using ethanol on a large scale to replace fossil fuels.

  Unfortunately, reality taught us a hard lesson when a large number of ethanol refining plants were installed in our country.

  Suddenly we encountered a serious global food price increase, and that year we encountered a once-in-a-century freeze.

  Many areas in the south where it didn’t originally snow experienced heavy snowfall.

There was even ice.

  This has led to fuel shortages in the southern region, not just fuel shortages.

  The most important thing is that many breeding industries are also experiencing a shortage of feed.

  You must know that corn is our main source of ethanol, and corn is also the main component of our pig and chicken feed.

  In order to refine ethanol, the corn we purchased in large quantities was sent to chemical plants.

  This has led to a sharp rise in feed prices, and as a result, pork prices have skyrocketed.

  During the Spring Festival that year, for the first time, we encountered the price of pork soaring to 40 yuan.

  From that time, we realized that even if you want to use a large amount of ethanol to replace fossil energy, you can’t just do it if you want to.

  After all, you have to consider your agricultural conditions, and if you refine ethanol in large quantities, it will involve a process of competing for food from people's stomachs.

  And not everyone can afford this consequence.

  Even Brazil, a country with the best natural conditions in the world, cannot afford this consequence.

  Brazil is also a country troubled by oil shortage.

  As early as the 1990s, they also thought about using ethanol to replace the high price of crude oil.

  After all, Brazil’s natural conditions are much better than ours. The domestic land is fertile and many places are plains.

  It is also located in the tropics, which is very suitable for large-scale and intensive modern agricultural cultivation.

  And the most important thing is that they are rich in corn and sugar cane with high heat energy.

  You must know that these crops are natural raw materials for ethanol extraction.

  So they have tried to refine ethanol on a large scale to replace fuel.

  And for a long time, it was successful.

  But precisely because of such success, farmers who are greedy for profit have increasingly cut down tropical rainforests and developed them into farms for planting.

  In the end, the United Nations came forward because they were afraid that large-scale deforestation of rainforests would exacerbate global warming.

  The last few big countries had to come forward and persuade Brazil not to continue doing this.

  Even some of its surrounding oil-producing countries have taken the initiative to increase oil exports to Brazil to ensure their energy supply.

  For example, the United States, and Mexico...

  It can be seen that the use of ethanol to replace fossil fuels will affect the entire business.

  It’s not that everyone hasn’t thought about it before, and it’s not that it can’t be done. It’s just that if it is done, the chain reaction will be huge.

  But now, you have a way to industrially produce ethanol or starch in large quantities.

  That’s not a problem at all.

  To know how to extract ethanol, there have always been two methods.

  They are petrochemical methods and biological refining methods.

  The biochemical refining method is to mine petrochemical fuels, such as oil. During the refining process, some by-products will be produced.

  These by-products are then chemically reacted to obtain methanol, which is then used to produce ethanol.

  There is another method, which is to extract ethanol from high-sugar crops such as cassava, corn, and sugar cane.

  But the cost of that kind of preparation is not low.

  But this time after the agricultural research laboratory in Kalapag invented synthetic chloroplasts.

  This process is much simpler.

  Because those scientists discovered that as long as some small means are applied at the end of the photosynthesis reaction.

  Then they can convert the generated glucose directly into ethanol...

  Actually, this is a fairly simple step, after completing the light and effect.

  After generating glucose, another step of incomplete oxidation reaction is carried out, which is the anaerobic respiration process of the cell.

  In this process, two carbon dioxide molecules are separated, and the final products are alcohol and lactic acid.

  Although part of the energy will be lost in the process, in the end, the chemical dye alcohol needed by humans can be obtained!

  This is the key...

  And using this synthetic chloroplast to complete this production process, the energy consumption of the entire process is almost negligible.

  The most important thing is that this process basically does not consume much energy.

  The main energy source is just sunlight.

  And it is different from the artificial starch process of Tianjin Academy of Sciences.

  The artificial starch, because there is no artificial chloroplast involved in the whole process, is equivalent to reducing a place where carbon dioxide and water molecules react.

  So it requires a specific artificial environment, and to start with, it also needs light energy or wind energy to generate electricity to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen and oxygen.

  To put it bluntly, the energy required to start this step is relatively large, which is also where the cost of the entire experiment is relatively high.

  But the scientific research results completed by Karapak’s agricultural laboratory do not require such a process.

  Because of the existence of artificial chloroplasts, they do not need an artificial specific synthesis reactor.

  It doesn’t require much starting power, as long as daily sunlight is enough.

  Furthermore, the reaction speed of this artificial chloroplast and the energy consumed during the reaction are faster and less consumed than ordinary chloroplasts.

  So the synthesis efficiency is higher, the cloning experts over there have calculated it.

  This artificial synthetic chloroplast has a synthesis efficiency of light and heat that is 15-20 times that of ordinary plants.

  Of course, the various enzymes and nutrient solutions needed must be sufficient.

  And these seemingly inconspicuous enzymes are also very critical.

  It’s just that the Bincheng Institute of Chemical Physics can handle these enzymes in China.

  Overseas, it is exclusively controlled by the Pan American Agricultural Development Company.

  After mastering this synthetic chloroplast, Xiao Feng is also calculating how to maximize the benefits of this thing.

  After much thought, it was most cost-effective to open some agricultural factories.

  But how to do it?

  In order to keep the secret of this artificial chloroplast, Xiao Feng also thought a lot.

  After having this result, Xiao Feng also learned about the research progress of artificial chloroplasts in other countries around the world.

  Not to mention, just before them, other countries did make breakthroughs in this area.

  Before this, Professor Erba of the Planck Terrestrial Laboratory in Marburg, Germany, had been studying artificial chloroplasts.

  And as early as five years ago, a result was announced, which was said to be the invention of an artificial chloroplast.

  It is said that a chloroplast film is extracted from spinach, and then the film is continuously stretched, and then fixed with artificial nanofilm.

  The last chloroplast film can speed up the absorption of carbon dioxide.

  Even the most exaggerated ones can be a hundred times larger than ordinary plants...

  At that time, this discovery was already considered a major scientific breakthrough.

  It has even been reprinted by many important scientific research media. If you can finally get out of the laboratory, you may also win a Nobel Prize.

  Unfortunately, this experiment was less successful than thunder, which meant that it gained a bit of fame in the beginning, but then it died down.

  The reason for this is mainly because scientists there have never been able to artificially create chloroplasts.

  You must know that chloroplast is a living entity. If you can make it artificially, you can call yourself a god!

  This is why Xiao Feng did not dare to let Karapago leak the news.

  Because he is also afraid of attracting the covetousness of those big countries. What if he uses unconventional means to rob you?

  And Professor Erba’s experiment seemed to produce a large amount of chloroplasts.

  But in fact, it is equivalent to spreading the chloroplasts extracted from spinach, and then allowing these chloroplasts to exert their maximum effect.

  You must know that the leaves of plants appear to be very thin, but they are actually made up of many cells stacked inside.

  Just such a thin layer of leaves may have tens of thousands of cells stacked up, and each of these cells contains chloroplasts.

  But when receiving sunlight during the day, only the surface layer of cells can absorb the last sunlight.

  As for the cells below, their efficiency in absorbing sunlight is greatly reduced, let alone the cells below.

  So generally speaking, the efficiency of plant leaves to absorb sunlight and then perform photosynthesis is extremely low.

  What Professor Erba did was equivalent to spreading out a large number of chloroplasts and preventing them from being stacked.

  In this way, all cells can receive sufficient sunlight, so that all chloroplasts can naturally carry out full photosynthesis.

  Absorbing carbon dioxide and completing the saccharification reaction will naturally greatly increase the speed.

  But the problem is, he can only do this step.

  This is his limit, and Kalapag’s agronomy laboratory is undoubtedly a step further than him in this area!