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Article #2151Re: WHY aren't we using biomass (yet)??
From: Bernard Morey
Date: Sat, 06 May 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 06 May 1995 00:00
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On 6 May 1995, Russell Edwards wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> Here in Australia, there are some studies on industrial hemp being
> conducted, but I don't really understand _why_ we are still testing and
> we're not in production. Isn't the history of thousands of years of
> growing hemp enough information? Henry ford had his own crop of
> hemp on his land and the Ford Corporation had an operational biomass
> cracking plant in the 1930's!
Read the article on this subject in today's _The Weekend Australian_ --
it'll bring you up to date on experimental cropping of hemp in Australia.
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