Hemp is more than a superior super-food source, hemp is a renewable resource that offers more potential compared to anything else! Almost everything can be made biodegradable from Hemp! Hemp plants breathe in more CO2 compared to trees per acre since you can grow lots of hemp per acre every year, trees take a long time to grow, hemp can create faster results since it grows like a weed! New trees are more likely to catch fire compared to how hemp plants grow faster and create more oxygen, ozone and breathe in more CO2 per acre. Growing lots of hemp can help attract moisture and create rain via evapotranspiration. If you care about the environment and if it's legal in your country, plant cannabis/hemp plants! Biofuels and other forms of cleaner renewable energy can be produced from hemp biomass. Better homes can be constructed from superior hemp building materials with better thermal efficiency.
As living beings we need oxygen, Hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth. Hemp creates ozone and oxygen, along with breathing in CO2 that helps sustains the atmosphere. Hemp energy still burns oxygen, except hemp creates it in the cycle without any sulfur, while other energy sources do not create oxygen in a sustainable cycle.
There is a lot to learn about the hemp plant, also known as cannabis. Hemp is just a strain of cannabis that was selectively bred thousands of years ago for more fiber or more seeds which contain almost no THC, not even close enough to get high. There are many ways to eat hemp as food including the sprouts, eating the raw buds, or eating the hemp seeds. People can live longer, healthier lives with cannabis, and without any meat, no fish and no dairy also help us maintain good health long term. Hemp provides a nutritionally balanced diet to maintain good health. Hemp has more protein by weight and a proper balance of omega fatty acids that is not found in meat or fish. Many people still believe the myth that a vegan diet is unhealthy even when there are professional vegan athletes who are much healthier than most people.
Hemp seeds contain up to roughly 35% protein by weight, the percent of oil by weight can also vary by the variety of Hemp. Some strains have small seeds while other strains have larger seeds. To make some hemp milk you could simply add hemp seeds in a blender with water. Add some vanilla bean or something else to add some extra taste and be creative.
Cannabis has been known through history as the best medicine on earth, unfortunately a lot of information was lost from the Library of Alexandria, Cleopatra had knowledge of ancient medicine lost to history, so it's not out of the question since the plant had been around for a very long time, cannabis is one of the oldest known plants grown by people. Cannabis may well be anti-aging to be honest we need science done but we can prove cannabis has a lot of medical value, thus people can live longer being healthy, cannabis is not uncommon to be used by cancer patients who get relief, so if people can literally be healthier how can that not extend one's lifespan? We all may not have the ability to live long lives due to DNA or external factors but we can do our best to live the best we can since it feels good, healthy body, healthy mind, longer life. Cannabis is full of anti-oxidants with so many medicinal uses.
Its almost endless what Hemp can provide, Hemp can provide superior energy and fuel to alternatives, oil, and tens of thousands of biodegradable products. Hemp fuel can create a cleaner energy source that can make poisonous forms of energy that are poisoning the planet obsolete. Hemp can even remove radioactive waste from the soil. Hemp helps detoxify and regenerate the soil as well, the falling leaves replenish the soil with nutrients, as well as nitrogen and oxygen.
Hemp is a stronger fiber to make clothes with that provide more warmth and are more water absorbent compared to cotton. Hemp clothes last longer compared to regular cotton clothes, even when mixed with cotton.
Basics of Growing
Sprouting seeds is as easy as planting them in the soil and watering them daily, the seeds may take up to a week to sprout or longer. You can also leave seeds in jar filled with water and left away from light.
Hemp biomass has been used for energy for centuries, and even longer. There are many strains of cannabis/hemp that have yet to be tested, with your help cannabis prohibition can come to an end and it will be possible to provide more information how much energy can come from hemp per acre with evidence and strain types.
Hemp grows without any pesticides, herbicides and no chemicals which saves energy, in comparison think of all the dangerous cancer causing pesticides grown with corn that harvests less than hemp
Diesel, Ethanol, methanol, methane gas, and gasoline without sulfur can be derived from biomass made from hemp (Diesel is 129,500 BTU/gal - Ethanol is 84,530 Btu/gal)
Hemp can produce up to 10 tons of biomass per acre every four months (Biomass has a heating value of 5000-8000 BTU/lb)
Hemp harvests the more energy per acre compared to alternatives, hemp has a high cellulose content
Hemp pellets can replace wood pellets for stoves and boilers which are common
Hemp is one of the only plants in the world that can be harvested outdoors around the year in states like California, or Florida for example
Hemp strains can produce more or less biomass, some strains produce more seed compared to others
Hemp can help repair damaged even radioactive soil and can repair some damage by the nuclear industry
"The motor was built for ordinary oils, and without any modification was run on vegetable oil" - Rudolf Diesel
Hemp can make non-toxic biodegradable products that are stronger, and last longer. Hemp grows well in most areas. Hemp seeds, when pressed to extract the oil, can be used for diesel. Fuel grade alcohol could be made by fermenting leftover biomass, including leaves and stalks of cannabis/hemp plants. Some hemp plants with low THC levels produce less seed and ethanol per acre compared to other strains. Autoflower seeds for cannabis have been made but would not really be cost effective for hemp farming. Some strains are literally mature in 60 to 90 days.
Obviously not all hemp biomass should be converted into just ethanol, diesel, gasoline, pellets, I guess the markets would adapt because what if diesel cars get more popular? Hemp batteries have reportedly been made and can compete with lithium but currently a lot of the electric grid is not using renewable energy so electric cars are literally using dirty energy to recharge their EV's. There might be undiscovered ways to use ethanol, diesel and other forms of hemp energy more efficiently which would help offset the lower energy return of energy invested compared to fossil fuels.
Even if hemp can only produce 300 gallons of hemp fuel per acre, hemp can still provide the energy needed with more land needed.
and yes arable land could be left alone, diesel is more efficient than gas.
Hemp crops can use less energy to grow and every part of the hemp plant can be used, the seed oil can be used for biodiesel, the stalk can be used for ethanol, no part of the plant needs to be wasted which is why Hemp is a superior crop to grow. Hemp crops work very well in crop rations since hemp helps replenish nutrients in the soil.
Anyone who does not think there is enough land to grow hemp for fuel and still grow food crops need to take a serious look at all the waste land that can be converted into arable land. Hemp and mushrooms are a great resource to convert land into arable land good for growing food crops.
Until the 1930s most paint and varnishes were made with non-toxic hemp oil
Hemp paint provides a better quality coat of paint, hemp oil is able to soak into the wood and preserve quality. Hemp seed oil has a high resistance to water. Hemp oil is a good base for non-toxic printing inks. Many other sources require more processing.
Hemp plastic is stronger than steel
Biodegradable hemp plastics could reduce landfill waste and display unique strength characteristics. Plastics produced from oils produce biproducts of sulfur and carbon monoxide which do not biodegrade.
Roads, highways and freeways can be made from hemp based concrete called Hempcrete. Hempcrete is superior to concrete in many ways. Hempcrete is fireproof, waterproof, mold and Pest Resistant (NO Termites.) Hempcrete is reportedly not good for building basements, this should be investigated more, maybe Hemp plastic and Hemp fiber can help construct better basements? Hemp can also be mixed with clay to build walls. Hemp plywood is 3 times stronger than regular plywood.
Hemp production could potentially stop deforestation. Hemp paper can be recycled up to 8 times where current wood pulp is only recyclable up to 3 times. Only 1 acre of hemp is said to produce more oxygen than 25 acres of current forest. Wood pellets are very common, however hemp pellets for stoves and boilers are a much better solution. Hemp can be grown locally in virtually any location, and the hemp can be processed into fuel pellets.
Biomass can be grown in Space Settlements, Elevating carbon dioxide levels can increase growth speed of plants. The cannabis plant seems to have evolved when natural CO2 levels were many times what they are today. Cannabis plants can potentially breathe in more CO2 compared to other plants. Plants use CO2 for photosynthesis, creating sugars to build plant tissues.
There is a chance cannabis might be able to counter some of the negative effects that astronauts have from being in space.
The U.S. Treasury began taxing Cannabis in 1937 under the Marijuana Tax Act, one dollar per ounce for medicinal use, recreational was one hundred dollars per ounce. Cannabis was literally removed from the U.S. Pharmacopoeia in 1942, because of "concerns" about it's safety while racist propaganda had been spreading misinformation. In 1937, the same year of the Marihuana Tax Act, DuPont had just so happened to patent processes for making plastics from oil and coal, and a toxic process for making paper from wood pulp. Coincidence?