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Hello all,

 I have been aware for some time about the possibility of using biomass for
energy. But recently I am reading The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer,
about all the uses of Indian Hemp (Cannabis Indica/Sativa), why it is illegal
and why it should be legal.  There is quite an extensive coverage of biomass
in there and I am left wondering... why isn't anyone using it?? Even without
the extremely fast growth of Hemp, other plants should be able to be
fairly sucessful.

  Herer believes it is because people with vested interests (for hemp as
biomass, mainly the petrochemical companies) having all the money and
this all the power. But I would have thought that if biomass energy
was as promising as so many people say it is, enough funding would be
available from a public float or something to establish some kind of
pilot operation.

  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!

  Or are they just stuffing round trying to mininize the amount of
natural pesticide present in the plant? (Low-THC strains of hemp, unlike
real hemp, require pest spraying, and have half the biomass yeild
of their natural cousins)

 Plants are like free solar cells.

Russell 
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    Russell Edwards  --  voodoo@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au  --  IRC: VoodChile
 Student of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
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