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[–] • 3 pts

I would like to know how these hold up in places with a cold winter, or when it gets wet, freezes, thaws and then freezes again a short time later.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

You'd want a thatch one then since those are proven in Europe for centuries though I'd avoid a wood stove though since one chimney fire and even if the chimney flue doesn't breakup any sparks out of the top are not going to make it a good time.

[–] • 0 pt

Help grows really well in most hard conditions that most other vegetation cannot. It’s great when faced with frost.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Hell a light misting on the outside will windproof it for sure with a very thin layer of ice.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

The problem with hemp on a national scale is the gargantuan amount of acreage that must be taken up to produce the oil and fiber.

For example, let’s just consider hemp as a bio fuel to replace the current ethanol market (only ethanol not all petroleum fuel mind you)...

First, you must start with seeds. Then from those seeds you grow the plant. From the plant you process it into oil and fiber, let’s just say for simplicity’s sake.

Again, just looking at hemp as bio fuel, do you know how much acreage it would take just to replace the current United States ethanol fuel consumption with hemp biofuel/biodiesel fuel for diesel vehicles?

Over 1.2BILLION acres. The entire US is only like 2.2bb acres. So over half of the United States’s entire landmass we need to be taken up just to grow enough hemp for fuel. Just mention the amount of factory space you would need to process the material into oil.

The end product (hemp biofuel) is cheaper, cleaner, and less expensive when produced on a massive scale. But where are you going to get the material from?

SOURCE: In order for hemp biodiesel to replace standard diesel, 50% of ALL land in the US would be needed to fulfill this order.
https://medium.com/@taylorwoods_8780/hemp-mythbusters-can-hemp-biodiesel-replace-standard-diesel-76a3886b0269

[–] • 0 pt

apply this logic to anything in the world and it all becomes impossible.

If every child turning 5 tomorrow stored their birthday balloon in a warehouse in Milwaukee.

every child birthed in China must find an 8x8 place to live in eastern France.

bitcoin mining will steal the energy from etheopia, they will all starve.

[–] • 1 pt

Everything is CO2 negative if you conveniently leave out all the energy consumed in making the product/material usable. That's the same stupid game they play with electric vehicles and it doesn't represent reality.

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yes, ethanol from corn you need to burn 85% to produce any amount for the production. Thing is also negative CO2 means slower plant growth since they need that CO2. It all balances out in the end unless we fuck it up somehow like ripping up land for lithium or other raw materials for electric vehicle batteries.

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I tend to get bored and keep lighting mine of fire. I buy the high resin ones though so it's not a waste of time.

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Wood is also CO2 negative, as long as enough of it ends up buried.