Hemp Ethanol is about Five Times Cheaper than Petrol
By Tim Castleman ( PotFacts.Ca 11.4.2017)
https://potfacts.ca/hemp-ethanol-is-about-five-times-cheaper-than-gasoline/
According to biofuel expert
Tim
Castleman,
hemp
ethanol could be produced
for 1.37 per gallon plus the
cost of the feedstock, with
technological improvements
and tax credits reducing the
price another dollar or so per
gallon!
Hemp Ethanol would help to end Oil Wars, Oil Spills and Climate Destabilisation
By David Malmo-Levine (Cannabis Culture 1.4.2014)
https://potfacts.ca/hemp-ethanol-would-help-to-end-oil-wars-oil-spills-and-climate-destabilization/
Hemp:
1) doesn’t need as much fertilizer or water as corn, switchgrass or other energy crops
2) doesn’t require the expensive drying required of corn and sugar cane
3) can be grown where other energy crops can’t
4) is more resistant to “adverse fall weather” than other crops and
5) has long been known to be the lowest-moisture highest-cellulose crop
Hemp stalks being “over 75% cellulose” according to a 1929 paper from Schafer and Simmonds,
with more conservative estimates indicating 53-74% of the bark being cellulose
According to the Stanford Research Institute and the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, it is woody,
low-moisture herbaceous plants that make the best biomass for liquid fuels.
Hemp is both a low moisture herbaceous and a woody plant.
Furthermore, hemp ethanol would eliminate
1) oil wars
• hemp can grow in
sand, thus in nearly
every country on
earth
2) oil spills
• a hemp ethanol spill
would just evaporate
3) climate destabilisation
• hemp acts as a carbon
sink – reversing the
greenhouse effect
***this would solve three of the biggest problems we face as a species***