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As BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig was sinking on April 22, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was on the phone with allies in his push for climate legislation, telling them he would soon roll out the Senate climate bill with the support of the utility industry and three oil companies — including BP, according to the Washington Post.
I consider the Carbon Tax our worst enemy at the current moment. It's the actual mechanism to create a global government (that can ENFORCE it's regulations).
It can help a lot of things, but not a huge majority of the high quality plastics & foams, adhesives & paints & epoxy products. You can't build roads with hemp that I've ever seen.
Even bigger: you can't replace the SOLVENTS we get from it. Then there's propane & butane. And so on. Virtually everything we use in the modern world is made from crude, and the abundance of it was what supports the global economy. The more we could try to get away from it, the closer we'd get to never ending economic despair. And then there's the gasoline / diesel issue.
That being said: I support a hemp economy 10,000%!!!
Originally posted by disfugured
What's wrong with the hemp plastics. If you're questioning the durability factor you'd be wrong. There are hundreds of other ways to get your industrial strength adhesives as well.
Here's a prime example
Non petroleum based industrial adhesive
My point is; hemp can replace the majority of the petroleum based products. The ones that cant can via using other non petroleum products.
Have you heard of biofuels?
I'm sure you've heard of biopropane..
Propane, which is currently made from petroleum, has a higher energy density than ethanol, and although it is often used in its gaseous form, it's the cleanest-burning liquid fuel.
That being said: I support a hemp economy 10,000%!!!
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not..
Hundreds? Are you speaking this out of optimism, or do you have some massive data behind that claim?
Wow cool banner method they used.
Interesting product, made with silanes:
Majority is a big word to use.
If there is some resource website(s) that chronicles everything about this, which there should be since this is so deeply pivotal to the green movement, I'd be happy to look at it.
Especially important are replacing polycarbonate, polyethylene, polystyrene, acrylic, teflon, nylon, etc.
Yeah, and food prices have something like almost doubled during the green push for biofuels over the past 10 years. Food prices almost double, yet less than 10% of petro fuel have been supplemented. Then we're supposed to convert massive food croplands over to grow enough hemp on top of that to replace etc et al? That would be economic suicide.
Bitumen made using the GEO320 MRH binder technology can now be manufactured using raw materials such as i.e., sugar, natural rubber (latex), tree resins, gum rosins, lignin, cellulose and edible vegetable oils and materials such as molasses waste, palm, coconut, peanut, canola, oils and potato and rice starches. www.ecopave.com.au...
According to the AASHO Road Test, heavily loaded trucks can do more than 10,000 times the damage done by a normal passenger car. Tax rates for trucks are higher than those for cars in most countries for this reason, though they are not levied in proportion to the damage done.
en.wikipedia.org...
Today, 96% of all paved roads and streets in the U.S. - almost two million miles - are surfaced with asphalt. Almost all paving asphalt used today is obtained by processing crude oils. inventors.about.com...
I wasn't even implying anything negative about silanes. I don't know why you thought that.
Have there been any studies on how much currently 'useless' land there is that can be used for hemp, and then just what kind of impact that much hemp would have on anything like our discussion here?
Riversimple said the prototype did the equivalent of 300 miles per gallon and had a maximum speed of 50 mph (80km/h).