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Chapter 103, Bioenergy

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Whether it is a gene decoder or a recombinant evolution meter, the technological content in it is not high. It relies on the huge gene database collected by Alpha person to achieve its magical functions. If there is no such gene in the gene library, then the same thing should be done honestly and slowly experimented and explored.

Big data is not a random thing, it is still very useful.

The Als are the top civilization in the universe. The gene database they collected can basically be said to contain the gene database of all living things in the universe, and there are very few genetic data that they do not have.

Liu Qingquan took out the primary gene decoder for Shuiwa, and the database inside contains hundreds of millions of plant gene databases, which can basically completely parse out all the genes of existing plants on Earth.

Some people may say that the ecology and environment of each planet are different, and the biological genes of the earth should be different from others. How much similar can the gene database of aliens be to the genes of the biological organisms on earth?

The gene similarity between humans and mice is as high as 95%, and the gene differences between any two people are very, very small. Therefore, the cosmic biological gene database collected by Alpha people can definitely fully analyze the genes of Earth organisms. The probability of not being able to be analyzed is too small. Even if there is, it will not have much impact.

With two cheaters, the Biology Research Institute is their job to find various organisms to establish a gene bank for the earth's biological organisms, and to study various gene recombinations.

Collecting organisms to establish gene banks is not technical. It is enough to have a team of 100 people. In addition, they can collect 99% of the biological genes on the earth in a short time.

But gene recombination is a very huge task. There are so many gene sequences, and the combinations among them are even more impossible to calculate. There are as many kinds of life in the universe as there are, and there are as many kinds of gene combinations. But do you know how many kinds of life in the universe?

At least Alpha people, who are already the top civilization in the universe, don’t know it, it’s endless!

Therefore, the people from Qingquan Biology Research Institute are constantly selecting the genes they want from the increasingly large Earth gene library, and then performing various recombinations. Then they introduce the recombinant data into the gene recombination evolution meter, and then performing physical operations after obtaining the results, and then conducting physical experiments.

When gene recombination is carried out, more than 99.99% of the combinations obtained can be seen in the gene recombination evolution meter that this kind of recombination combination does not work, and occasionally results are exciting!

Of course, in order to obtain as many combinations as possible, people from the Biological Research Institute use supercomputers to combine, rely on countless combinations, and then use recombinant evolution meter to evolve and determine whether this combination is useful.

Even if the probability of a useful combination is small, it cannot withstand the huge combination of supercomputers. There are always some combinations that can be successful. The Institute of Biology has obtained many successful combinations.

Of course, these combinations are all performed by evolutionary meters. Whether the calculation results are really effective depends on actual experiments. However, the combinations obtained in most cases do not have any practical significance or effect. For example, through genetic recombination, sea buckthorn will bloom red flowers like mountain red flowers, plum blossoms will bloom triangular flowers, etc.

Such a combination does not have much effect or significance, or it does not have much effect or significance for the time being, but the combination you really want is very rare.

Of course, these gene combinations must have certain rules and methods, but these are the secrets of various national institutions and enterprises and will not be announced to the public at all.

You can buy their genetically modified seeds and products, and you can also see some successful genetically modified products they have come up with, but you will never tell outsiders the rules and methods of their combination.

Of course, there are various rules and methods developed by Alpha persons in the seed space of Liu Qingquan, but Liu Qingquan does not intend to take it out. If everything is taken out directly, scientific research will be meaningless. In fact, scientific research and scientific research must be honest and down-to-earth.

Being able to come up with a gene decoder and recombinant evolution instrument has already been considered the largest cheater. With these two things, you can save countless time and energy when studying biological gene technology, omitting work without content, and focusing on pioneering research.

In fact, if we just simply get a few plants that can quickly green the Loess Plateau, Shuiwa has already obtained many combinations, new plants made of three plants: camel grass, bamboo and elephant grass.

It has the huge roots and drought tolerance of camel grass, and has the rapid growth characteristics of bamboo. It also has the juicy and sweetness of grass. It is a very excellent forage grass. This new grass plant was named Drought Bamboo Grass by the team led by Shuiwa.

Like the Huangzhu grass, they are artificially selected. Unnaturally evolved species formed by hybridization and gene recombination are also highly efficient and excellent forages with considerable economic value.

Compared with the requirements of Huangzhu grass for the growth environment, it is only suitable for production in tropical and subtropical areas. However, the dry bamboo grass produced by Shuiwa and others can grow in a wider arid areas.

Such excellent forages have been studied. In theory, Shuiwa should be happy to announce that his hometown will undergo earth-shaking changes. People on the Loess Plateau can grow livestock on a large scale by planting these forages and developing animal husbandry. In the future, the Loess Plateau may not be able to become another animal husbandry area like Pampas in Argentina.

But obviously this dry bamboo grass alone cannot completely satisfy Shuiwa. Shuiwa also took a fancy to another emerging international project - Energy Plant!

The so-called energy plants refer to a type of plants that directly convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen-free hydrocarbons through photosynthesis. The chemical composition of this type of plants' lactate or extract is similar to that of petroleum, so it is also called "petroleum plants". Because this type of plants is mostly woody, it is also called "energy trees".

The molecular structure synthesized by this type of plant is similar to petroleum hydrocarbons, such as alkanes, cycloalkanes, etc. Hydrocarbon-rich plants are the best source of plant energy, with low production costs and high utilization rates.

Currently, it has been discovered and appreciated by energy experts. Suissezi, green jade trees, Xigu coconut, Simonde, Brazilian rubber trees, etc. For example, the milk secreted by Brazilian rubber trees is very similar to that of petroleum, and can be used directly as diesel without refining. The annual output of each tree is as high as 40L. The trunk of the nanmu tree, a specialty vegetable oil in Hainan Province, China, contains a light brown combustible oily liquid similar to kerosene. If a hole is drilled in the trunk, this liquid will flow out and can also be used directly as fuel oil.

At present, international research on this area began in the early 1960s, developed in the 1970s, and developed rapidly after the 1980s.

In 1986, Dr. Calvin, the Nobel Prize winner at the University of California, successfully introduced tree species such as Suezi and Green Eucalyptus with extremely high development value in Fornia, California. 120-140 barrels of oil can be harvested per hectare, and feasibility analysis and research were conducted for industrial applications, proposing to create "oil plantations", which was a precedent for artificial planting of petroleum plants.

At this point, a craze for the development and research of energy plants has been rapidly set off around the world, and many countries have formulated corresponding development and research plans. Such as Japan's "Sunshine Plan", India's "Green Energy Project", the United States' "Energy Farm" and Brazil's "Alcohol Energy Plan".

With the discovery and cultivation techniques of more "diesel trees", "alcohol trees" and "wax trees" and the continuous maturity of cultivation technologies, "petroleum botanical gardens" and "energy forest farms" have been established around the world to plant some plants that produce similar petroleum fuels.

The United Kingdom, France, Japan, Brazil, Russia and other countries have also carried out research and application of petroleum plants, using genetic engineering technology to cultivate new tree species and using more advanced cultivation techniques to increase yield.

As of 2010, the United States has planted more than one million hectares of oil rapid growth forests and established oil plant research bases such as poplar, alder, black locust, and eucalyptus; the Philippines has 12,000 hectares of cyperus trees, which can harvest 10 million barrels of oil in six years; Switzerland's "Green Energy Plan" plans to plant 100,000 hectares of oil plants in 10 years to solve the national annual oil demand.

The automobile fuel gas station made from coconut oil in Thailand began to operate in Bashu Prefecture, central Thailand, and became the world's first coconut oil gas station. Brazil is the country with the most distinctive development and application of ethanol fuel, and implemented the world's largest "ethanol cultivation" plan. In 2004, Brazil's ethanol production reached 14.6 billion yuan and ethanol consumption exceeded 12.2 billion yuan. Brazil's ethanol production accounts for 44% of the world's total production and 66% of the export volume.

Energy issues have always been an important issue that restricts human development, especially in the face of the severe situation where traditional oil is gradually depleting but new energy has not appeared, international crude oil prices in 2022 have been rising year by year, and bioenergy is naturally being paid more and more attention to it. Shuiwa is also very optimistic about this area.

Shuiwa hopes to use genetic technology to develop energy plants suitable for production in the Loess Plateau or desert areas. If China's vast desert areas are used to plant such energy plants, then the country will not have to ask grandpa to sue the grandma internationally to ensure the energy supply, and ask for help in a low voice, and let those energy powers kneel down and lick!
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