In fact, Marin, a chemist, didn't know that soybean oil and tung oil can be processed into biodiesel. However, the use and reaction control of catalysts are more complicated. Marin only knows middle school chemistry and does not understand biodiesel technology, so he did not expect to use ordinary vegetable oil to process into biodiesel. He knew that the oil of jealous fruits can process biodiesel, but he accidentally watched the TV program of the Agricultural Channel.
In order to find the jatropha tree, Marin opened a reward of 5,000 gold coins for the first time, and recruited 10 expedition teams to search for the jatropha tree in the jungles in southern North America.
Of course, if you rely solely on the expedition team, it is entirely for them to die. Therefore, in order to cooperate with the expedition team's operations, Marin planned to establish a colony on the southern coast of North America, that is, the Gulf of Mexico, as the base camp for the expedition team to operate on land. After all, if the supplies are used up during the expedition, or if someone is injured or sick, a stronghold is needed to solve the problem. Otherwise, it is to send the explorers to death.
Spreading out the white paper, Marin drew a map of later Americans based on his memory. Then, he set his sights on the Gulf Coast...
"Where should we set up a colony?" Marin looked at the map and fell into deep thought...
If we consider it from an agricultural perspective, the initial colonial site is the best in New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Because this will help us to go upstream from the Mississippi River in the future and control the best agricultural-friendly areas in the North American continent.
The Mississippi River is the fourth largest river in the world, second only to the Yangtze River. However, the Mississippi River Basin is one of the three largest black soil regions in the world, and the other two are the Ukrainian Plain and the Northeast Plain.
However, the area of ​​black soil in Northeast China is only 1.03 million square kilometers, and it is super cold in winter, so you can only plant food for one season, and spend the rest of the time on the kang. Because you hide on the kang for many years, people in Northeast China can talk very well and their mouths are slack. There is no way, they hide in the house for half a year and brag. It is strange that they are not slack every year.
The black soil in the Mississippi River Basin has an area of ​​up to 1.2 million square kilometers, which is larger than the black soil in Northeast China. Moreover, the area where people are located is relatively warm, and it can be cooked twice a year, which is more than the black soil cattle in Northeast China.
Therefore, if you want to farm, the Mississippi River Basin is determined to take it down.
However, Marin is not short of food now and does not need to do a lot of farming. What he lacks is energy, farming, etc., but it is secondary.
"Energy..." Marin thought for a while, and suddenly stole his eyes to the northwest of the Gulf of Mexico. In later generations, there was a city that Chinese people were very familiar with - Houston.
Although the manager later had a brain-related illness and talked randomly, it is undeniable that many NBA fans regarded the Houston Rockets as their home team. The reason was that Yao Ming spent his entire NBA time there.
When Lao Yao fought in the NBA, Houston almost became the most popular American city for Chinese people, and its reputation in China is greater than that in New York.
Marin was still in high school at that time and often skipped classes to watch Lao Yao play. He was a pseudo-fan, and he didn't miss the NBA local spheres, only looked at Lao Yao. He didn't even look at the game without Lao Yao. Jordan took off his No. 23 jersey, and he didn't even recognize him...
There is no way, Marin has black face blindness, and all old black faces are similar. He has to identify people based on facial details, but black faces are as dark as carbon, and he cannot see details, so he is blind to black faces... Only Kobe's special face that is somewhat "sharp" and looks like Abao on the Avenue of Stars can Marin remember. He doesn't recognize the popular and round black face like Jordan, who takes off his jersey.
However, the place Marin is interested in this time is not the famous Houston in later generations, but Beaumont 137 kilometers east of Houston...
What attracts Marin in Beaumont? Because there is a spindle-top oil field near Beaumont. The Lucas Well there is the world's first self-injection well. Moreover, at its peak, it sprayed 10,000 tons of crude oil per day, and the spray column is 50 meters high, which scared me to death...
Although the spindle-top oil field has a depth of several hundred meters, and with Beihaiguo's current technology, it cannot be drilled out at all. But Malin did not plan to develop the spindle-top oil field now, but occupied the place first. Then, he told the engineering and technical personnel that there is a large oil field a few hundred meters underground, which is enough.
According to the current technological development speed of Beihai Kingdom, this huge oil field may be able to be developed in decades. Due to the lack of modern oil pumping machinery, the self-injection well of the Lucas Well in the spindle-top oil field has become the first choice. 10,000 tons of oil per day is worth the work of how many oil pumping machines...
With enough oil, Marin has the ability to start more single-cylinder diesel engines. At that time, hand-held tractors will become a very ordinary agricultural machinery. Unlike now, due to lack of oil, single-cylinder diesel engines can only be used for scientific research, at most for warships, and small warships...
Although there is a biodiesel plan, in the future, cheap petroleum diesel will eventually be used to replace the costly biodiesel. In other words, biodiesel is only a transition at present. When Beihai Guo Technology develops and can open oil wells several hundred meters deep, biodiesel will temporarily come to an end. After all, the costs of the two are different. One is planted with a lot of manpower and material resources, and the other is sprayed underground. The costs of the two are not the same order...
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Therefore, establishing a colony near Beaumont can not only take care of finding jatropha trees, but also find the spindle top oil field.
The characteristics of spindle tops are easy to find - a highland with a scent of sulfur, right near Beaumont...
While searching for the japonica tree, the expedition team could find this place first. Then, Marin circled the place and ordered the engineering department to find a way to drill wells there, drill as deep as possible, and learn from the lessons if they fail... One day, the self-blasting well will spray a lot of oil...
In addition to taking into account the search for the jatropha and determining the position of the spindle top, there is another use here, which is - as a springboard for your entry into the North American prairie!
This is Texas in later generations, which is the southern part of the North American prairie. Although the southernmost coastal area is relatively humid and has a little forest, you can quickly enter the North American prairie by leaving the Gulf of Mexico and moving a little north.
Why enter the North American prairie? Find North American bison!
Before the arrival of European colonists, there were tens of millions of North American bison on the North American prairie, which was the source of a large amount of beef and cowhide!
Marin had long determined the war plan to seize women from the Aztec Empire in Mexico, and he planned to seize millions of women. Then, he gave birth to mixed-race children with men in the North Sea as a source of labor for the North Sea to develop North America.
However, if there are millions of people all at once, there will be millions of children in the future. So many people will have insufficient food. Therefore, at the beginning, the food shortage was huge. Even if the Beihai country has a large grain output, it will be difficult to afford the food of millions of the excess population at once.
After all, grain was produced by people in this era. It would be okay to feed hundreds of thousands of people in Beihai Kingdom, if there were more grains produced by 300,000 to 400,000 people, or even 2 million people, it would be impossible to meet the strength.
Therefore, during that transition period, Marin planned to send cavalry to hunt North American prairie to kill North American bison, kill North American bison in large quantities, and make beef jerky as a food supply for the sudden increase in population.
A North American bison can get thousands of kilograms of meat, and making it into jerky can allow an adult to eat it for a year. Even if the population suddenly increases by one million, just hunting one million North American bisons can survive the food shortage. One million North American bisons, compared with the base of tens of millions of heads, are not much, and have an impact on the ethnic group, but are still within an acceptable range.
Moreover, Marin would ask the cavalry to shoot and kill the old North American bison and the excess bulls as much as possible, and try not to touch the calves and cows. In this way, it would not affect the continuation and reproduction of the bison tribe. Anyway, those old bisons will die millions every year, so it would be better to be hunted by the North Sea country as beef jerky. Otherwise, it would be wasted...
In summary, whether it is looking for jatropha, spindle-top oil fields, or going north to the North American prairie to hunt North American bison, Beaumont is an excellent starting point.
Chapter completed!