The Challenge

Some very good points.

One bit of info I could add concerns the following:

Originally posted by Canna Zine Elsewhere, because of the specialist nature of hemp (its tough - this we know), special machinery designed to cope the the rigours of processing hemp is being designed and built in barns on backwater farms as the technology just doesn't exist at this stage, to deal with the raw hemp in any mass.

It's entirely true that hemp is much tougher than modern crops and that normal harvesting equipment just jams when trying to cut it.

However, HempFlax encountered this problem way back in the Nineties and actually invested a huge amount of money in designing farm machines that could cut down hemp.

They've also improved the post-harvest process of turning hemp-stalks into fibre.

I'll see if I can dig up a few pics...

fantastic read!! learned more in the last hour than i have in any other.

Originally posted by farmer mick Okay Quarzen, I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say.   Neither I nor HempFlax have said that cannabis will directly restore the atmosphere or prevent pollution.   The argument is that cannabis can supply the majority of human beings' demand for paper, textile, construction material, energy, food etc.   Therefore, there is no need to cut down trees, burn fossil fuels or grow crops that require vast amounts of chemical pesticides and fertiliser added to the soil.   Now, can we please call a truce? I really wish I'd stayed out of this argument.

lol, do you realise this thread will be 4 years old on sunday?

BM

I didnt understand very good,but isn that that what jack herrer sais before that hemp could problaby heal the athmosphere fo the planet...and I even heard from tschernobyl that hemp helped out there to get back an athmosphere to live and it helped too to reduce radioactivity

it s not my style to show people what is the problem with their fantastic ideas

the only way to save the planet is to turn off the internet and leave it off and stop using HID lights forever. even if you find some new and improved way of generating electricity and stop generating co2 and other green house gasses you still have the problem of the heat waste generated by all electrical devices and the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. so its noble what you said but we can talk privately about the payment.

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/

just as a side note but if you do decide to pay up i would like to split the reward 50/50 with the author of the paper.

and just in case anyone in the future wanted to drink any fresh water they had better think about this, Biomass (crops grown for the purpose of fuel):  40,000 to 100,000 gallons per megawatt-hour.. and before you say solar desalination plant you still have the problem of heat waste and water vapor in the atmosphere.

http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/fuel.html

you should be breeding fast growing cacti that can live on dew point moisture alone so you can colonize or stabilize desert areas rapidly as the climate shifts as it will.