Hemp can be used as fuel for a bio-mass digester. Rather than other crops,
saw-mill waste, etc., hemp is said to be more economical.
Gene Coyle
Ken Hanly wrote:
> I didn't realize hemp was used to create energy. How is it used? Hemp is
> grown in Manitoba. In fact there
> was a big project in Dauphin north of where I am. However, the US company
> that had contracted to buy the production went bankrupt leaving all the
> farmers holding the hemp bag. Apparently one of the problems the company
> encountered was moving the hemp accross the border. The war on drugs and all
> that. There are all sorts of regulation about growing hemp. The content of
> whatever it is that makes pot give u a high has to be so low that it is
> useless as a source of potable or smokeable mary jane. Even so where it is
> grown farmers always have a problem with human pests who invade the fields.
> Monsanto has yet to invent any legally employable chemical to get rid of
> them.
> Canada has recently legalised marijuana for medical use. However, there
> was no legal source of marijuana. Now marijuana is to be grown in an
> abandoned mine near Flin Flon. The exact location is a secret to avoid
> problems with human pests such as hemp growers encounter.
>
> Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shane Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 11:17 AM
> Subject: [PEN-L:7147] Re: Methanol...was re bankruptcy etc.
>
> > Isn't hemp, which grows densely almost anywhere and, as a
> > nitrogen-fixing plant, requires minimal fertilization, the ideal
> > energy plant (in addition to all its other manifold virtues)?
> >
> > Also, methanol, because of its higher hydrogen content, is, in addition
> > to natural gas, much the preferred source of hydrogen for the fuel cells
> that
> > will power an ever-increasing number of motor vehicles and
> > "distributed generating" stationary power sources.
> >
> > Shane Mage
> >
> >
