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Hemp Batteries are Eight Times More Powerful than Lithium, Scientists Discover
returntonow.net ^ | JANUARY 5, 2021 AT 6:46 PM | Sara Burrows

Posted on 02/07/2021 3:17:14 PM PST by mabarker1

Waste fibers from hemp crops out-perform graphene for a thousandth of the cost, according to new research

Is there anything hemp can’t do? A year after hemp became legal to grow in the United States, we’ve seen its power to make better clothing, better buildings and better medicine.

Now, there’s something else hemp appears to be better at – making batteries.

Most auto batteries today are made from lithium-ion, an expensive, quickly disappearing material.

A team of American and Canadian researchers have developed a battery that could be used in cars and power tools using hemp bast fiber – the inner bark of the plant that usually ends up in landfill.

They “cooked” the woody pulp and processed them into carbon nanosheets, which they used to build supercapacitors “on a par with or better than graphene” – the industry gold standard.

Graphene is a synthetic carbon material lighter than foil yet bulletproof, but it is prohibitively expensive to make.

“We’re making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price – and we’re doing it with waste.”

Mitlin, a professor of chemical engineering at Clarkson University in New York, first published a description of his team’s battery in the journal ACS Nano in 2014.

More recently, a YouTuber named Robert Murray Smith, whose channel is all about batteries and put the hemp battery to the test against a lithium-ion battery and found it to be 8 times more powerful!

Tesla’s new million-mile battery is made from lithium-iron phosphate, which is supposed to last twice as long as conventional lithium-ion batteries.

While more abundant and cheaper than lithium-ion, lithium-iron-phosphate still can’t compete with the apparently far-more-powerful (and renewable) hemp!


TOPICS: Agriculture; Science
KEYWORDS: advocacyjournalism; batteries; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; fakenews; globalwarminghoax; graphene; greennewdeal; hempbatteries; kmg; liberaltarian; liberaltarians; lithium; notabattery; pieinthesky; potheads; supercapacitors; technology
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To: mabarker1

And this is the last we will ever hear of it.


21 posted on 02/07/2021 3:38:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: Excellence

Good point.


22 posted on 02/07/2021 3:39:37 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: mabarker1

somebody was consuming the study materials rather than doing science...


23 posted on 02/07/2021 3:41:46 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: mabarker1

Nice find ! On my list


24 posted on 02/07/2021 3:48:30 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: marktwain

“Experts say”
NEVER question the experts. They are experts, we are little people.


25 posted on 02/07/2021 3:53:55 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

energty density matter less for grid storage. If the price wper kilo is cheaper, it may be superior. of course then you get into cycles etc.


26 posted on 02/07/2021 4:05:42 PM PST by orionrising
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To: mabarker1

Hey Ma, who knew that cannibus sativa would save the world?

5.56mm


27 posted on 02/07/2021 4:05:58 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: DouglasKC

“The pot propaganda is strong in this one...”

*****

Weed’s staying power as the snake oil of the day, in various forms, is quite impressive.


28 posted on 02/07/2021 4:11:35 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: PIF
Pyrolysis.... Industrially very common. It's used for example, to make steel grade coke from anthracite coal, the Coker unit in oil refineries, coal gasification for synthetic natural gas and liquid fuels, wet air oxidation to destroy complex, hazardous organics, etc.

These researchers likely have petrochemical companies beating on their door to license the technology and hire them directly.

29 posted on 02/07/2021 4:11:54 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: mabarker1

Fake news.


30 posted on 02/07/2021 4:12:49 PM PST by rexthecat (nks!)
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To: Jonty30
"That’s all good, but there isn’t enough landmass to grow hemp to do everything it is alleged that it can do

Dude! They only need to grow like half as much herb as lithium, no wait-- it's like 1/8 as much! 1/8! Think how many natural resources... Oh #@*&^! #@*&^! I dropped my #@*&^!joint and burned my #@*&^!...

31 posted on 02/07/2021 4:16:49 PM PST by tsomer
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To: mabarker1

What do you feed a battery when it gets the munchies?


32 posted on 02/07/2021 4:16:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: mabarker1

Five minutes later, the car wants its fluids topped off.


33 posted on 02/07/2021 4:19:18 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
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To: mabarker1

We've known this for decades!

34 posted on 02/07/2021 4:20:10 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: Jonty30

Don’t worry if this works Kentucky will grow enough to power all of America.


35 posted on 02/07/2021 4:25:57 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: Hootowl99

Building super capacitors ain’t cheap


36 posted on 02/07/2021 4:59:55 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Army Air Corps

Dave’s not here. 😉


37 posted on 02/07/2021 5:19:55 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: mosesdapoet

A Friend of Mine sent it to Me in a Text, I just passed it on here.


38 posted on 02/07/2021 5:22:05 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: M Kehoe

Cheech and Chong.


39 posted on 02/07/2021 5:23:31 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Lysergic acid diethylamide ?


40 posted on 02/07/2021 5:26:07 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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