My Strength Does Not Allow Me to Low-key

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Brothers, I have opened a new book again: Restarting Life: I can call myself ten years ago. Brothers, help me collect it and recommend a few books!

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\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;To put it bluntly, as long as you have enough ethanol, you can completely replace fossil fuels.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Compared with gasoline, one of the few disadvantages of ethanol is that it has a shelf life.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;So walking the same journey requires more ethanol.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But if you can ensure that ethanol is continuously provided, then it is still feasible to replace fossil fuels.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Currently, many provinces in our country are using ethanol gasoline.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;That is, gasoline mixed with ethanol in a ratio of 10:1.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The reason for this is also because we are too short of fuel.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;While it has not been fully promoted, it is still limited by agricultural conditions.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;In fact, we suffered a loss as early as more than ten years ago.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Unfortunately, reality taught us a hard lesson when a large number of ethanol refining plants were installed in our country.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Suddenly we encountered a serious global food price increase, and that year we encountered a once-in-a-century freeze.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Many areas in the south where it didn’t originally snow experienced heavy snowfall.

There was even ice.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This has led to fuel shortages in the southern region, not just fuel shortages.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The most important thing is that many breeding industries are also experiencing a shortage of feed.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;You must know that corn is our main source of ethanol, and corn is also the main component of our pig and chicken feed.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;In order to refine ethanol, the corn we purchased in large quantities was sent to chemical plants.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This has led to a sharp rise in feed prices, and as a result, pork prices have skyrocketed.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;During the Spring Festival that year, for the first time, we encountered the price of pork soaring to 40 yuan.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And not everyone can afford this consequence.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Even Brazil, a country with the best natural conditions in the world, cannot afford this consequence.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Brazil is also a country troubled by oil shortage.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;As early as the 1990s, they also thought about using ethanol to replace the high price of crude oil.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;After all, Brazil’s natural conditions are much better than ours. The domestic land is fertile and many places are plains.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;It is also located in the tropics, which is very suitable for large-scale and intensive modern agricultural cultivation.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And the most important thing is that they are rich in corn and sugar cane with high heat energy.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;You must know that these crops are natural raw materials for ethanol extraction.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;So they have tried to refine ethanol on a large scale to replace fuel.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And for a long time, it was successful.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;In the end, the United Nations came forward because they were afraid that large-scale deforestation of rainforests would exacerbate global warming.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The last few big countries had to come forward and persuade Brazil not to continue doing this.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Even some of its surrounding oil-producing countries have taken the initiative to increase oil exports to Brazil to ensure their energy supply.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;For example, the United States, and Mexico...

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;It can be seen that the use of ethanol to replace fossil fuels will affect the entire business.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But now, you have a way to industrially produce ethanol or starch in large quantities.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;That’s not a problem at all.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;To know how to extract ethanol, there have always been two methods.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;They are petrochemical methods and biological refining methods.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The biochemical refining method is to mine petrochemical fuels, such as oil. During the refining process, some by-products will be produced.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;These by-products are then chemically reacted to obtain methanol, which is then used to produce ethanol.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;There is another method, which is to extract ethanol from high-sugar crops such as cassava, corn, and sugar cane.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But the cost of that kind of preparation is not low.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But this time after the agricultural research laboratory in Kalapag invented synthetic chloroplasts.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This process is much simpler.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Because those scientists discovered that as long as some small means are applied at the end of the photosynthesis reaction.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Then they can convert the generated glucose directly into ethanol...

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Actually, this is a fairly simple step, after completing the light and effect.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;After generating glucose, another step of incomplete oxidation reaction is carried out, which is the anaerobic respiration process of the cell.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;In this process, two carbon dioxide molecules are separated, and the final products are alcohol and lactic acid.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Although part of the energy will be lost in the process, in the end, the chemical dye alcohol needed by humans can be obtained!

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This is the key...

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And using this synthetic chloroplast to complete this production process, the energy consumption of the entire process is almost negligible.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The most important thing is that this process basically does not consume much energy.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The main energy source is just sunlight.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And it is different from the artificial starch process of Tianjin Academy of Sciences.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But the scientific research results completed by Karapak’s agricultural laboratory do not require such a process.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Because of the existence of artificial chloroplasts, they do not need an artificial specific synthesis reactor.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;It doesn’t require much starting power, as long as daily sunlight is enough.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Furthermore, the reaction speed of this artificial chloroplast and the energy consumed during the reaction are faster and less consumed than ordinary chloroplasts.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;So the synthesis efficiency is higher, the cloning experts over there have calculated it.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This artificial synthetic chloroplast has a synthesis efficiency of light and heat that is 15-20 times that of ordinary plants.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Of course, the various enzymes and nutrient solutions needed must be sufficient.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And these seemingly inconspicuous enzymes are also very critical.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;It’s just that the Bincheng Institute of Chemical Physics can handle these enzymes in China.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Overseas, it is exclusively controlled by the Pan American Agricultural Development Company.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;After mastering this synthetic chloroplast, Xiao Feng is also calculating how to maximize the benefits of this thing.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;After much thought, it was most cost-effective to open some agricultural factories.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But how to do it?

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;In order to keep the secret of this artificial chloroplast, Xiao Feng also thought a lot.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;After having this result, Xiao Feng also learned about the research progress of artificial chloroplasts in other countries around the world.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Not to mention, just before them, other countries did make breakthroughs in this area.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Before this, Professor Erba of the Planck Terrestrial Laboratory in Marburg, Germany, had been studying artificial chloroplasts.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And as early as five years ago, a result was announced, which was said to be the invention of an artificial chloroplast.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;It is said that a chloroplast film is extracted from spinach, and then the film is continuously stretched, and then fixed with artificial nanofilm.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The last chloroplast film can speed up the absorption of carbon dioxide.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Even the most exaggerated ones can be a hundred times larger than ordinary plants...

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;At that time, this discovery was already considered a major scientific breakthrough.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;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.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;The reason for this is mainly because scientists there have never been able to artificially create chloroplasts.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;You must know that chloroplast is a living entity. If you can make it artificially, you can call yourself a god!

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This is why Xiao Feng did not dare to let Karapago leak the news.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Because he is also afraid of attracting the covetousness of those big countries. What if he uses unconventional means to rob you?

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;And Professor Erba’s experiment seemed to produce a large amount of chloroplasts.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But in fact, it is equivalent to spreading the chloroplasts extracted from spinach, and then allowing these chloroplasts to exert their maximum effect.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;You must know that the leaves of plants appear to be very thin, but they are actually made up of many cells stacked inside.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Just such a thin layer of leaves may have tens of thousands of cells stacked up, and each of these cells contains chloroplasts.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But when receiving sunlight during the day, only the surface layer of cells can absorb the last sunlight.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;As for the cells below, their efficiency in absorbing sunlight is greatly reduced, let alone the cells below.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;So generally speaking, the efficiency of plant leaves to absorb sunlight and then perform photosynthesis is extremely low.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;What Professor Erba did was equivalent to spreading out a large number of chloroplasts and preventing them from being stacked.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;In this way, all cells can receive sufficient sunlight, so that all chloroplasts can naturally carry out full photosynthesis.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;Absorbing carbon dioxide and completing the saccharification reaction will naturally greatly increase the speed.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;But the problem is, he can only do this step.

\u0026emsp;\u0026emsp;This is his limit, and Kalapag’s agronomy laboratory is undoubtedly a step further than him in this area!