Subj : Re: ah, college newspapers...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 21:46:36

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Tyler Trafford wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/cgpu3

There are lots of reasons to explore Hemp the fiber and the plant for 
both use in textiles, and as a biomass fuel.

The problem is you need someone who isn't a pothead to champion hemp oil 
energy, and they need a lobby big enough to make a difference in energy 
policy.

You know this would also reduce emissions drastically, CO2 released from 
the burning of hemp biofuel would be CO2 that was until recently absorbed 
by the plant. Dinosaur biofuel releases CO2 that was generated millions 
of years ago.

I wonder if they could replace the opium economy in Afghanistan and the 
we've got nothing but dirt economies in parts of Africa with cash crop 
hemp.

Its not as if you couldn't surround the fields with fences and make sure 
the farm workers don't remove their 'crops' until harvest time.

I used to work for a Hitachi memory fab when RAM was $30 per megabyte, 
they had to be absolutely certain nobody left with RAM in their pants. 
There were adequate securuity controls there.

Its not like we had the advantage of chip sniffing dogs.

Its another viable energy alternative that doesn't rely on miracle 
technology that we have right now, but somebody has to have the will to 
bring it about.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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