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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Hemp is very useful. Ropes and shirts are made from it.
Hemp will grow where trees don’t do well.
They didn't even have the decency to provide data regarding how much CO2 a cannabis plant absorbs when growing vs. how much it releases when burned.....
Heads will use any excuse to get high and stay that way!
Depends on what your definition of is is.
They can be forgiven for referring to algae as plants.
And, actually, the H2O absorbs the CO2. There is namely a lot more water than algae in the Earth's oceans.
Regards,
Yeah, a bunch of stoned out Americans are going to save the world.
These people are missing a lot of brain cells. Makes some sense of Joe and Kamala, I guess.
so instead of bugs
we will be eating pot brownies
Maybe it's too much Scotch Whiskey but you clowns don't even know the difference between hemp and pot.
I agree the ocean absorbs CO2 but algae (I misspelled this word last time) converts it to O2 through photosynthesis.
I guess that is why I was more focused on the algae since that is the cycle of life where plants and algae play a role in regulating these gases.
Thanks for the reply.
You are the carbon they want to eliminate.
Cheech was right, pot is going to save the world.
LOL.
5.56mm
None that has been found. We in the South keep hoping.
If you believe the numbers given in the article, then yes. So how much area is 50,000,000 acres? It is a square measuring about 280 miles by 280 miles. Roughly the size of the state of Iowa.
That's a lot of dope.
I believe the oil from the hemp seed was a versatile one, with many applications.
It was also in competition with the cotton industry.
https://www.greenlifeorganics.com/cbd-blog/why-was-hemp-outlawed-in-the-united-states
Interesting article. Thank you.
For the record, I support hemp much more than I do marijuana.
But I don’t have a big problem with legalization - freedom from government control over a weed seems, to me, common sense.
And puts it back when the smoke it.
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