How Can Cannabis Sativa Become A Better Fuel Source Than Corn?
Cannabis sativa is the oldest and most resourceful crop sown. In fact, sativa means “useful” in Latin. Industrial hemp could supply most of mankind’s fuel, fiber and food needs and will be the agent of transformation for our economy away from many toxic petrochemical products to nontoxic, agriculturally-based alternatives. Cannabis sativa produces more fuel, fiber and food per land area cultivated than any other plant. Cannabis has been purposely cultivated for over 12,000 years and all archeaologists agree it is among the first few crops purposely cultivated by humans, and could well be the first. Cannabis flowers produce a medicine, sacrament and social drug that mimics newly discovered neurotransmiters, or brain chemicals.
The answer is, it can’t.
Cannabis Sativa is a strain of hemp that has far too many aromatic bioligicals to be a stable fuel.
It has other uses.
Run of the mill hemp, not sativa, is a great source for biofuel, also excellent in the manufacture of fabrics and light plastics.
by pibe
on 10. Feb, 2010
“Up in Smoke, that’s where my money goes” Cheech and Chong
by single occupant
on 10. Feb, 2010
You cant smoke Corn,
Corn Brownies suck
and Duh What was Da Question?
by vladovik
on 10. Feb, 2010
Grow it, pack cow plop on top and it works the same as corn to distill into fuel. Might I jest cars would run better at high altitudes?
by louy lefty
on 11. Feb, 2010
Field corn used in ethenol is very easy to grow, does not require a lot of pesticides, fertilizer or irregation and sells real cheap. Plus you don’t have a whole lot of kids trying to yank it out of the ground thinking they can smoke it or knit handbags out of it or replace it with the real stuff and hope the farmer doesn’t notice that funny smell. So I think its going to be a tough sell. Just out of curiosity, why would you want to?
by RT
on 11. Feb, 2010
the concentrated resin of marijuana is flamable processing involving heat and pressure rather than fermenting
by cme
on 11. Feb, 2010
Cellulose break down, more sugars exist. all Ethanol is, is Grain Alcohol (Sugar).
by T-monste
on 11. Feb, 2010
hello,, would the emissins get the person behind you fried? I’m in favor of a traffic jam, with bread and butter.
by greatlak
on 11. Feb, 2010
I saw a show on that
some kids who smoked too much of it thought it was better to import that and pour in their cars
instead of diesel
they thought it was VERY COOL to buy it for $10 a gallon and use it
by markar
on 11. Feb, 2010