Re: An unusual sight

"Canopus" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| Chris Wright on 05/05/2006 wrote:
|
| >Canopus wrote:
| >>Chris Wright on 05/05/2006 wrote:
| >>
| >>>So now you have the new "bio diesel" on sale.  A slight improvement in
| >>>its 'green' factor, a slight dip in its 'mpg', but still much more
cost
| >>>effective that regular gas/petrol, (unless you have some souped  up
hulk
| >>>of an engine).
| >>
| >>I like the vehicles converted to run on recycled fish and chip shop oil,
| >>the smell makes me hungry :)
| >>
| >
| >yeah, that made me laugh...
| >I watched the report of the guy that converted his Land Rover to run on
| >that stuff.
|
| This is the hammer, trust it to come from the Netherlands:
|
| http://www.channels.nl/knowledge/15607.html
|
|   Fact: you get higher octain fuel from hemp.
| -Farming 6% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass
| crops
| would provide all of America's energy needs.
| -Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable
| of
| producing 10 tons per acre in four months.
| -Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, or gasoline
| at
| cost comparable to petroleum, and hemp is much better for
| the
| environment. Pyrolysis (charcoalizing), or biochemical composting
|
| are two methods of turning hemp into fuel.2
| -Hemp can produce 10 times more methanol than corn....
|
| -- 
| Rob
|
| http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/


There are various strains of hemp only a few produce a 'high'  stuff grows
like a weed (hey it is a weed) requires little in the way of cultivation.
Sad part most jurisdictions in the USA have a blanket ban on growing any
version.  Local entrepreneurs are playing hell to get permission even for a
pilot program to test the viability.