Hemp Executives
Posted on 04/23/2006 9:03:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Biodiesel can be made from domestically produced, renewable oilseed crops such as hemp. With over 30 million successful U.S. road miles hemp boidiesel could be the answer to our cry for cheaper fuel. We have spent the last century polluting our beautiful country with our petroleum based fuels that could have easily been replaced with fuels derived from hemp. It would only take 6% of our U.S. land to produce enough hemp, for hemp fuel, to make us energy independent from the rest of the world. Help us teach America the truth. Make yourself a human billboard that speaks only of the truth because the only thing standing between hemp being illegally and legal is ignorance.
What is Hemp Fuel?
Hemp stems are 80% hurds (pulp byproduct after the hemp fiber is removed from the plant). Hemp hurds are 77% cellulose a primary chemical feed stock (industrial raw material) used in the production of chemicals, plastics, and fibers. Biodiesel is the name for a variety of ester based oxygenated fuels made from hemp oil, other vegetable oils or animal fats. The concept of using vegetable oil as an engine fuel dates back to 1895 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel developed the first diesel engine to run on vegetable oil. Diesel demonstrated his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 using peanut oil as fuel.
Why Hemp Fuel?
Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel that runs in any conventional, unmodified diesel engine. It can be stored anywhere that petroleum diesel fuel is stored. Biodiesel is safe to handle and transport because it is as biodegradable as sugar, 10 times less toxic than table salt, and has a high flashpoint of about 300 F compared to petroleum diesel fuel, which has a flash point of 125 F.
Biodiesel can be made from domestically produced, renewable oilseed crops such as hemp.
Biodiesel is a proven fuel with over 30 million successful US road miles, and over 20 years of use in Europe.
When burned in a diesel engine, biodiesel replaces the exhaust odor of petroleum diesel with the pleasant smell of hemp, popcorn or french fries. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel in the US to complete EPA Tier I Health Effects Testing under section 211(b) of the Clean Air Act, which provide the most thorough inventory of environmental and human health effects attributes that current technology will allow.
Biodiesel is 11% oxygen by weight and contains no sulfur. The use of biodiesel can extend the life of diesel engines because it is more lubricating than petroleum diesel fuel, while fuel consumption, auto ignition, power output, and engine torque are relatively unaffected by biodiesel.
The Congressional Budget Office, Department of Defense, US Department of Agriculture, and others have determined that biodiesel is the low cost alternative fuel option for fleets to meet requirements of the Energy Policy Act.
I'm no dope smoker, nor do I support all the nonsense of the "libertarian" wing....but I think they are talking about the kind of Hemp with a THC content that would be more likely to give you a headache than a high.
Again, I'm no expert.....
The Greenies have started their campaigns and are out to convince everyone we can grow (looking for agriculture subsidies, hello) our way out of energy demands in spite of global demands.
Said another way, imagine the plethora of new ways to tax you and re-distribute that wealth in the form of bigger gubmint and higher spending.
I'm just picturing all the teenieboppers sniffing the tailpipes in the school parking lot.
Called my cousin, a long time rope burner, he said he get back with me in a couple of weeks. Next time I see him he'll say he hasn't talked to me in months.
Hemp Executives
The "Greenies" actually "started" this campaign around 30-40 years ago...
many of them pass for sensible conservatives with a Pro-America impulse. They have been in an evil conspiracy working for American energy independence since around 1973.
This particular bunch of wild eyed agitators inhabit such well known subersive institutions as the Univ. of Kentucky Agriculture department.
Yes, some are looking for subsidies...Unlike the noble oil companies, corn farmers, pork producers, milk producers, wheat farmers, steel plants, citrus growers, sugar growers.........
Maybe instead of deisigning tasteless tomatos that ship well, we can use our scientific rescorces to design a variety of hemp that produces a much larger yield of fuel per plant. Hemp can be used to make paper as well, is this not correct?
Whatever we do we must end our dependence on foreign oil, our 60 year pact with the devil and the resulting realpolitk that has gone with it. Further, it constitutes an easily disrupted supply line an equally easy corruption of our principles and ideals. Either we just kick arab ass and take their gas or we become self sustaining and bow to no one. Thereafter, if we want to make a point with China, Iran, N Korea, et al., we can always park several tarmacs in the straights of Hormuz.
But if you actually start building one of the very projects they originally suggested, the Greens will file suit to stop you from doing it. Look what happened to the windmills and fish farms.
For some reason, I doubt this would ever work. I guess because it hasn't been reported by anyone else. This reminds me of those urban myths about ultra efficient motors, and perpetual motion devices.
Wait a second, isn't biodeisel being produced in the US by some plant in Alabama which is processing chicken scraps?
That explains the lack of demand for it.
Too bad the anti-Volstead folks didn't think of this back when it was illegal to consume C2H6O. "Hey, why not alcohol? You can even burn this stuff in your Model T!"
Hemp? Give me a break...there's not enough land to grow what we would need.
Actually, biodiesel works better than I thought.
There was an old episode of Jeremy Clarkson's "Top Gear", where they put pure USED COOKING OIL from a french fry burner into an old Volvo diesel and ran the thing around a track. They had to add a cup of white gas to the tank first, but the thing kept on going and going and going.
The Economist has an article in this week's edition about this. It claims that bio-diesel becomes an economical alternative when oil hits about $80.00 per barrel.
It's actually their 'offspring' that we're dealing with now, lol.
Real greenies wouldn't have offspring.
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