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All Gone to Pot: Cannabis Unlikely as Fuel!
Posted by FoM on April 22, 1999 at 17:39:19 PT
Source: Fox News
LONDONIrish homes and businesses are unlikely to be powered by cannabis despite four years of encouraging research that shows the plant has real potential as a fuel crop, scientists said Thursday.Cannabis sativa, or hemp, does not work economically as a biomass crop at the moment in Ireland said Bernard Rice of the government's Teagasc agricultural research agency.
"As things stand, hemp is not a viable fuel. It tends to be wind power projects that pick up the tenders for renewable energy schemes. Hemp would have to be considerably cheaper to produce and burn in order to compete," he told Reuters.Fears that burning the hemp might produce a narcotic effect are unfounded say experts. Hemp is the variety of cannabis sativa that contains hardly any of the drug delta-9 tetrahydrocannabiol (THC)."You would have to smoke a joint the size of a telegraph pole to experience any effects" said John Lowe, of hemp processing company Hemcore.Click the above link for the full story!
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Comment #1 posted by David Snyder on March 29, 2000 at 13:01:39 PT:
Hemp instead of fossil fuel (please)
I feel hemp would be a much better fuel source than fossil fuel. It would burn cleaner. It would be cheaper. And we wouldn't have a great risk of running out. As oppossed to fossil fuel think about, how long do think they can suck this planet dry. And of course hemp can be used as a much cheaper source for paper, and it grows a lot faster than trees, and you can grow alot more hemp per acre than trees. I know, I am only one of billions of people that would appreciate a much cheaper and cleaner source of fuel. When you burn the hemp in fuel it would probly lose the little itsy bitsy tiny winy trace of THC that it contains. And if they put freaking radiation in the air, than why not a clean cloud of smoke.
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