On 17 Jan 2013, at 19:14, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 1/17/2013 9:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Coming back to hemp should be the good idea. Oil and wood have
replaced Hemp (for textile, fuel, paper and medication) just from
lies and greed. The possible global warming might just be another
consequences on the lies on cannabis, drugs etc. Hemp was the oil,
before oil. It is the plant that the human have the most
cultivated, with maize and wheat, since a very long time. The idea
that it is something dangerous is a total complete recent
construct, and has only been a Trojan horse for bandits (probably
the one losing the job after the end of alcohol prohibition) to get
power.
Hi,
Any idea how much land would be required to grow sufficient hemp
to supply the millions of barrels that our civilization requires?
How much fertilizer? How much labor? Have you seem the quantity of
energy that is required to turn corn into fuel. for example? The
problem is that hemp and other biomass fuel idea are simply too
expensive in terms of energy and man hours to replace petrofuels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_content_of_biofuel
Oh! If wiki says so ...
Note that I did not say that only hemp is needed, nor did I condemn
entirely oil and coke. I am a realist. But Ford did the calculus, and
for a very long time, if hemp would have just be continued to be used,
their would have been a drastic harm reduction, possibly ecological.
Between possibly bad and certainly worst, we have to choose the
possibly bad, but we know that unscrupulous special interest made the
decisions, and that is the problem. Well the real problem is that we
tolerate that and that most people buy the media talk without
thinking, the real problem is the "boss is right" routine implemented
in many mammals. Our brain evolves less quickly that our ideas and
technology.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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