Posted on 11/24/2022 5:45:52 PM PST by algore
Cannabis plants could be the missing player in human's fight against climate change, as hemp can absorb carbon dioxide from the air more than twice as effectively as trees.
Numerous studies have shown that hemp captures up to 16 tons of greenhouse gas annually, while trees suck up about six tons.
The carbon dioxide also becomes permanently encased within hemp fibers that are used in a range of products - from textiles to medicines and car parts.
Hudson Carbon, a New York research center that studies carbon storage, found that one acre of cannabis plants can store up to three tons of carbon, removing more than seven tons from the atmosphere. While the US only accounts for five percent of the global population, the nation is responsible for 28 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
Ben Dobson, founder and president of Hudson Carbon in Hudson, told Lancaster Farming: 'Roughly speaking, if [the US] did 50 million acres of hemp, we would be sequestering a couple hundred million tons of carbon per year on that acreage.'
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant but contains deficient levels of the psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) compared to marijuana, which is another variety.
The plant is considered 'nature's purifying,' pulling toxins from the air and permanently trapping them within its fibers, Pebble Mag reports.
And it also absorbs carbon from the air as it grows, making it a carbon-negative crop.
Other crops, such as cotton, need at least 1,500 gallons of water for every pound produced.
At the same time, hemp requires less than half yet creates more than 200 percent more fibers on the same land, according to Rebekah Shaman, Managing Director at the British Hemp Alliance
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The plant being discussed is not the marijuana that gets people high. And there have been groups advocating the use of hemp for many things long before the issue of excess carbon came along. Is probably worth considering.
I've been using hemp protein in a protein shake for years
It was used for rope.
You’ve never seen kudzu, have you?
Allah
In America we used to grow a lot of hemp but Hearst who owned newspapers and timber to make the paper wanted it banned. The cotton farmers also lobbied against hemp.
Hemp is strong and fast growing and can be used for rope and all kinds of products.
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TPTB want 20 stoners living in every house. 1 or 2 will work and the rest can stay home and collect UBI
Bahahahahaha….is there anything pot cannot do???
You sure cotton needs 1500 gallons of water for every pound produced? Seems it is grown in semi-arid places without irrigation such as West Texas.
As I recall it was not just the Hearst news organization but DuPont came up with nylon 6,6 about the time hemp because illegal. It competed with hemp.
What seems to be missing in this story is what happens to hemp when it decomposes. Methane is released.
So just growing hemp and composting it doesn’t help. It would have to be made into food and durable goods to reduce “greenhouse gases”.
What about that guy who said he ‘never inhaled?’
They’re obsessed and possessed by their weed. That’s why we call it dope.
Hmmm, can we cut down all the forests then, and replace them with weed?
There is no “climate change”.
Now that’s funny right there. I wonder if Hemp has the same effect. A lot of useful things are made from Hemp.
And I see the article talks about hemp, interesting. A lot nicer stuff to deal with than old poisonous solar panels.
Ya..I could picture that.
Satisfying to think about really.
Were the researchers drug free when they came to their conlusions?
Fine, let client hysteria idiots get high on pot, maybe locked up on pot farms. Problems solved: No more pot idiots, no more client hysteria.
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Newsflash: Trees thrive on carbon dioxide.
And Windmills chop up birds and bats 24 x 7
“The general balanced reaction for Photo’synthesis Formula according to Kamen and Ruban (1941) is
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O
(Carbon dioxide) (Water) (Glucose) (Oxygen) (Water)
Photosynthesis is the process of converting the energy in which solar energy is converted into the form of light which is used in the production of carbohydrate molecules.”
I imagine that 7 tons of co2 is used 3 tons of carbon is retained and 4 tons of o2 is released into the air.
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