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This is something High Times Magazine and NORML have been talking about at least since the 1980's

This is something High Times Magazine and NORML have been talking about at least since the 1980's

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Great, now we just need a bazillion acres to grow it. This means increased food costs. The same illogic was used to justify growing corn for ethanol. There is not enough farmland or people to work it. Oil is still the way to go, we have enough for several hundred years. By the time it runs out, we will have energy sources we cannot as yet even dream of. Besides, we might not even be around in 100 years..

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If hemp was the answer to dependence on Big Oil, you would think that all the rest of the world where it is legal to grow hemp would be independent of Big Oil. Think logically for one second. Hemp can be legally produced in most of the world yet none of the great things that hemp has been touted to do or get turned into have ever materialized in the market. You think the chinks would miss an opportunity to make more money by producing hemp wonder products to be sold to the West where growing hemp is banned? Yeah, it's not happening because hemp isn't the wonder plant some people make it out to be.

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i was gonna say the energy involved with farming hemp for fuel doesnt addup.

a better approach for internal combustion engines is a hydrogen absorbing tank with magnesium hydride pellets(it absorbs H2 and heat increases tank psi). the future of 'oil' is hydrogen and this is dependant on storage because it burns great.

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Yes you are probably right George Jetson. I think they were talking more about replacing corn for ethanol

Hemp is over 15 times more energy efficient than corn as an ethanol fuel crop

https://potfacts.ca/hemp-is-over-15-times-more-energy-efficient-than-corn-as-an-ethanol-fuel-crop/

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theyd be better off making a tower of algae

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Does the algae get you stoned?

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woah hey! i gotta get that series now.

nobody grows corn for ethanol fuel anyway its recycled or subsidy/programs aquire it for ethanol use. even growing hemp for fuel is far under par than a solar panel or,, really any other type of energy harvesting.

but thank you

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your joking right? Farmers have been getting rich of growing nothing but corn for ethanol ever since it was mandated to be a fuel additive in the mid 2000's.

Go to key west and ask the red neck power boaters what they do for a living.

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Hemp thrives with far less agricultural inputs (less fertilizer, water, and pesticides) than corn.