Using corn stalks as the raw material for producing alcohol, his own production costs were only a few dozenths of everyone else's.
On average, with just four tons of corn stalks, he could produce one ton of high-energy alcohol, along with more than two tons of special plant-fiber pulp. Besides being used to make paper and cardboard, that special plant-fiber pulp could also be mixed with a certain amount of coal dust and slag to produce highly convenient fuel rods and fuel balls, much like honeycomb briquettes. After four tons of corn stalks completed the reaction, aside from the alcohol and plant-fiber pulp, several hundred kilograms of organic fertilizer could also be obtained.
In Castle of Black Iron, Heller had only shown him the most valuable product: the alcohol.
Even if he could utilize only half of the corn stalks discarded by Torch Dragon Territory each year, that would mean he could obtain over a million tons of fuel alcohol, more than two million tons of special plant-fiber pulp that could serve as both fuel and material for paper and cardboard, as well as several hundred thousand tons of high-energy organic fertilizer.
This was practically a business that would yield ten thousandfold returns from a single investment.
An entire industrial chain could be developed around corn stalks.
Would fuel alcohol lack a market? Even with only a little further processing, it could be used as incendiary bombs—terrifying weapons that would absolutely be in greater demand than supply. He did not need to worry about sales at all. What was more, it was an efficient form of clean energy.
Compared with a place like the Weiyi Subcontinent, far more places in Great Xia used alcohol as fuel and energy, and there were far more users as well. To say nothing else,