Climate Change Control Using Biology

[Write4U]

Now if the same result can be had from a mineral that absorbs CO2 rather than releasing it that would be interesting-----------and, then comes efficiency and cost effectiveness

Seems to me that any mineral sequestration of CO2 would be limited to a one time uptake and saturation event.

IMO, an active continual CO2 scrubber can only be found in biology, such as trees which use CO2 for growth, affording a continual uptake of CO2 over many years. Hence the "value" of maintaining healthy forests.

But if you want the most efficient CO2 scrubbing system, soil conditioner, low maintenance biological cash crop, which is ten times more efficient than trees, check out the proven value of the industrial (and medicinal) Cannabis plant. This remarkable plant is able to sequester as much CO2 from the air and soil from one acre of Industrial Hemp, than 10 acres of trees (of any kind)!!!

The Role of Industrial Hemp in Carbon Farming

Industrial hemp has been scientifically proven to absorb more CO2 per hectare than any forest or commercial crop and is therefore the ideal carbon sink. In addition, the CO2 is permanently bonded within the fiber that is used for anything from textiles, to paper and as a building material.

Hemp can be grown on a widespread scale throughout Australia, on nutrient poor soils and with very small amounts of water and no fertilisers. Hemp can be grown on existing agricultural land (unlike most forestry projects), and can be included as part of a farm's crop rotation with positive effects on overall yields of follow on crops. It can therefore comply with the Australian Government’s plans to increase employment and improve the economic position of remote areas. This is especially relevant to the holders of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.

Governments around the world have realised that this valuable crop is not a threat and have encouraged widespread planting of hemp as a means of absorbing CO2 and have issued carbon credits to farmers growing the crop. Major producers include Canada, France, and China. In Australia the Department of Primary Industry is encouraging the growth of industrial hemp and is issuing licenses to companies and individuals that meet stringent criteria.

https://hemp-copenhagen.com/images/Hemp-cph-Carbon-sink.pdf

Industrial Hemp, Plants

Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products. It is one of the fastest growing plants and was one of the first plants to be spun into usable fiber 50,000 years ago. Wikipedia

Protein: 31.56 g, Dietary fiber: 4.0 g

Uses;

Hemp is used to make a variety of commercial and industrial products, including rope, textiles, clothing, shoes, food, paper, bioplastics, insulation, and biofuel.[4] The bast fibers can be used to make textiles that are 100% hemp, but they are commonly blended with other fibers, such as flax, cotton or silk, as well as virgin and recycled polyester, to make woven fabrics for apparel and furnishings. The inner two fibers of the plant are woodier and typically have industrial applications, such as mulch, animal bedding, and litter.

When oxidized (often erroneously referred to as "drying"), hemp oil from the seeds becomes solid and can be used in the manufacture of oil-based paints, in creams as a moisturizing agent, for cooking, and in plastics. Hemp seeds have been used in bird feed mix as well.[13] A survey in 2003 showed that more than 95% of hemp seed sold in the European Union was used in animal and bird feed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp[/quote]

 

[The_One]

What's the plant called..?

 

[Write4U]

What's the plant called..?

The plant itself ;

Culture Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products.[1] It is one of the fastest growing plants[2] and was one of the first plants to be spun into usable fiber 50,000 years ago.[3] It can be refined into a variety of commercial items, including paper, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, and animal feed.

This article is about industrial uses of Cannabis. For the genus of plants, see Cannabis. For therapeutic preparations of the plant, see Medical cannabis. For the psychoactive preparation, see Cannabis (drug). For religious use, see Entheogenic use of cannabis. For other uses, see Hemp (disambiguation).

Part of a series on Cannabis


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

Note that one of the main reasons why it is such a wonderful CO2 scrubber is the speed with which it grows. Hemp recovers and fixes enormous amount of CO2

Does Hemp absorb co2?
Excellent carbon sequestration: One hectare of industrial hemp can absorb 15 tonnes of CO2 per hectare. Hemp's rapid growth makes it one of the fastest CO2-to-biomass conversion tools available, more efficient than agro-forestry.

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/fo...ropean Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA).pdf

 

[The_One]

Ohhh. Can-ab-is!

 

[Write4U]

Ohhh. Can-ab-is!

No Cannabis. (Cannabis Sativa)

See results about
Hemp (Plants)
Lower classifications: Cannabis sativa, Marijuana
Scientific name: Cannabis
Medical cannabis (Medicinal)
Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana, is cannabis and ...
Cannabis sativa (Plants)
Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant ...

https://www.surterra.com/learn/types-of-cannabis/

 

[RainbowSingularity]

currently
in the most densely forested areas which are the last remaining Forrest large scale carbon sinks in the world
there is money to be made by burning it down
and...
that money is made by dirt poor people whom have no infrastructure and are governed mostly by corrupt authority

 

[Write4U]

currently in the most densely forested areas which are the last remaining Forrest large scale carbon sinks in the world
there is money to be made by burning it down
and...
that money is made by dirt poor people whom have no infrastructure and are governed mostly by corrupt authority

Yes, tragically. What's worse is that there is actually more money to be made in growing, harvesting and manufacturing industrial hemp products.

What is a mystery to me is that it is a known fact that Hemp crops actually yield much more usable industrial products than wood forests and at an extremely fast growth rate and crop turnover, as opposed to the very slow growth rate of trees. Yet the vested powers resist opening the US to industrial hemp farming, a very short sighted strategy , IMO.

Keep the remaining mature tree forests and replace the already harvested forests with Hemp, a product that does not require any sophisticated growth strategies and will thrive even in poor soils.

Everyone benefits. Small farmers can create combines and cultivate large and varied areas with different strains to fill specific market requirements and negotiate for favorable profit structures.

 

[sculptor]

<-------oxygen consumer living surrounded by oxygen producers

fyi
The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 was a proposed law to remove hemp (defined as cannabis with less than 0.3% THC) from Schedule I controlled substances and making it an ordinary agricultural commodity. Its provisions were incorporated in the 2018 United States farm bill that became law on December 20, 2018.
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and
Hemp farming is good for the soil.
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personally
I crawled around on my hands and knees 29 years ago and planted 1498 trees and shrubs on my small acreage.....and, now, i have a small forest........I like shade and birdsong.................also good for the soil
First I surveyed the land, studied it's history, got the state ag. dept to analyse the soil .and, in consultation with the dnr forester, laid out a planting plan, ordered the trees, then mowed the grass really short where I intended to plant, then rototilled deep, blending in peat ag.lime and compost--planting complete--and then(next 2 years)----we had a drought, so I had to water all those poor little thirsty trees 4 days a week.....oh, yeh, and weeding around the trees until they were big enough.........(well worth the effort)

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imho the 3% rule is a political act of rampant idiocy
(our legislators may all be bullgoose loonie insane?)

 

[iceaura]

The 0.3% rule came from a Canadian research botanist in 1976. The rationale stuck. It is the same standard used by the European Union, and Canada adopted it in 1998 when it legalized hemp farming. The U.S. codified the 0.3% dividing line in the 2018 farm bill.

imho the 3% rule is a political act of rampant idiocy
(our legislators may all be bullgoose loonie insane?)

Not all of them. These guys https://republicans-agriculture.house.gov plus the Blue Dog "leadership", would have to be overpowered somehow, of course. As would the current Republican administration.
Sample problem: https://www.votehemp.com/hemp-news/texas-farmers-see-new-source-of-green-in-legal-hemp/

House Agriculture Committee chairman U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Midland, has said he is fine with it as long as it doesn’t cost crucial votes on a package that includes contentious work requirements for food stamp recipients that make up the bulk of the five-year spending plan.

“When it was over on the House side because of the food stamp issue the bill passed by only two votes,” Miller said. “They didn’t want to bring up the hemp issue because if it lost two votes then it would kill the bill.”

The AOC wing of the Democratic Party would be on your side of that one, as it has been for decades now.
Elections have consequences. When bad guys win, bad things happen.

btw: It's the .3% rule you are objecting to, I assume.
A proposed 3% rule did exist, but was killed at birth with prejudice, albeit informally (never on the record) by the current Republican administration, the entire Republican Congress, and the entire Blue Dog faction of the Democratic Party (which includes some members of the House Agricultural Committee, the formulator of all such rules). The hemp guys engaged in political advocacy are currently lobbying for a relaxation to 1%. If the Dems can take control of the Senate as well as the House they have a chance - some of the Blue Dogs are movable (such as the chairman of the House Agriculture committee), some of the Republicans are vulnerable to discontent from agricultural interests, and all of the Republicans can be bribed.

 

[RainbowSingularity]

Ohhh. Can-ab-is!

makes fantastic clothing

between hemp and coconut fibers and silk the world doenst need plastic clothes made from dirty petroleum oil(they can save that for circuit boards for new cellphones for the Waring[wall st] savages)

 

[RainbowSingularity]

current Republican administration

Republican cotton farmer slave traders ...

what are they doing now ?
more of the same ?
no surprises

did the republican party get created from slave owners ?

money 1st
themselves 1st & 2nd
ideology 2nd & 3rd
rich people 3rd & 4th
everyone else around 10th place

no surprises
nothing has changed

prior to the reality of peak oil & climate change the idea of making clothes from dirtyold worthles waste oil was probably helcion days for them.

things have changed somewhat with modern science
have they ?
doesn't look like it
though palm-kernal seems to have taken off with a roar all be it exclusively at the cost of wild jungle habitat and endangered plants & animals
equally it would be fair to state that COVID_19 has been caused by humans destroying jungle habitats
(human encroachment on endangered species)

is big oil & the Republican party saving the USA from covid_19 ?
absolutely not
they appear to be going in the opposite direction

 

[billvon]

did the republican party get created from slave owners ?

Nope. Back in the day the democrats were the racists. That didn't change until the 1960's or so. David Duke (KKK Grand Wizard or something like that) was a democrat until the parties switched sides, then switched over to republican. Once he switched over to the GOP he handily won elected office with his "white purity" message.

 

[sculptor]

c.indica, c. sativa, or c. ruderalis?

 

[iceaura]

did the republican party get created from slave owners ?

The modern Republican Party is a coalition of its long time base in the prosperous capitalists of American business with a newly amenable population of fundamentalist Christians and disaffected heirs of the Confederacy.

Basically, around 1964 the KKK switched Parties in national campaigns - that way the Republicans could win national elections again.

 

[Write4U]

This may be of interest in relation to climate change.

Glacier Ice Worms

Although a glacier might not strike you as the best place to call home, the ice worms of the Pacific coast of North America would have it no other way. They are obligate inhabitants of glacier ice (they cannot live anywhere else). In fact, their bodies are so specifically adapted to this cold, harsh environment that they “melt” at room temperature due to liquefaction of their cell membranes.

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/learnglaciericeworms.htm

 

[Dennis Tate]

The plant itself ;
Part of a series on Cannabis


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

Note that one of the main reasons why it is such a wonderful CO2 scrubber is the speed with which it grows. Hemp recovers and fixes enormous amount of CO2

Interesting!!!!!

There is certainly no obvious contradiction with this theory.

Carbon Farming: Harnessing The Power of The Soil

or with.....

Soil carbon -- Putting carbon back where it belongs -- In the Earth | Tony Lovell | TEDxDubbo

 

[Write4U]

I am not sure about the current restrictions on Hemp farming in view of the relaxed restriction on marijuana in general.
But it is high time that industrial Cannabis becomes a major component of productive an environmentally friendly agriculture.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP PRODUCTION IN MICHIGAN

Cannabis sativa is among the earliest and most widely cultivated plants, and was once a globally important fiber crop (Barber, 1991). It is believed that Spaniards brought hemp to the Americas in the mid-16th century, and by 1619, Native Americans and British colonists were growing hemp for fiber in New England (McIlwaine & Kennedy, 1905). The fiber was especially well-known to early mariners, whose sails were commonly made of canvas, a material once derived from and named after cannabis.

Prominent American agriculturalists and innovators, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, were interested in hemp as a raw material for the manufacture of rope, textiles, and paper. Industrial hemp became a common farm crop in the 18th and 19th centuries, moving west with American settlers. The peak years of U.S. hemp production were 1840 to 1890, with production concentrated in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/hemp/uploads/files/industrialhempinfosheet_2019-05-24.pdf

 

[RainbowSingularity]

Seems to me that any mineral sequestration of CO2 would be limited to a one time uptake and saturation event.

IMO, an active continual CO2 scrubber can only be found in biology, such as trees which use CO2 for growth, affording a continual uptake of CO2 over many years. Hence the "value" of maintaining healthy forests.

would be good to see some real science on things like algae CO2 exchanges
then compared against other short cycle & long cycle stuff

 

[Write4U]

would be good to see some real science on things like algae CO2 exchanges
then compared against other short cycle & long cycle stuff

Algae might be a secret weapon to combatting climate change

Trees and algae sequester carbon dioxide naturally. ... Algae replicates the same process but “absorbs” the carbon in the form of more algae.

Algae can
consume more carbon dioxide than trees because it can cover more surface area, grow faster, and be more easily controlled by bioreactors, given its relative size.Oct 1, 2019

Not just good wrapped around your sushi.

Trees alone will therefore not save us from the current crisis. We must look to our oceans for solutions that are more effective and scalable. Say hello to algae sequestration.

Algae can be utilized in a number of ways to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Other than it being the most efficient solution for storing carbon dioxide, it can be easily used in a variety of other sustainable and commercial products or materials, from tennis shoes to steel alternatives to veggie burgers........more

https://qz.com/1718988/algae-might-be-a-secret-weapon-to-combatting-climate-change/

 

[Dennis Tate]

I am not sure about the current restrictions on Hemp farming in view of the relaxed restriction on marijuana in general.
But it is high time that industrial Cannabis becomes a major component of productive an environmentally friendly agriculture.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP PRODUCTION IN MICHIGAN
https://www.canr.msu.edu/hemp/uploads/files/industrialhempinfosheet_2019-05-24.pdf

Just about the only relevant comment that I can make on that is that I know of family and friends who have nothing but good things to say about CBD oil which can be produced from a type of hemp that has zero...... or nearly zero THC left in the plants.

I assume that the only reason for governments to restrict the types of hemp that have zero or nearly zero THC would be because they could be used to disguise plants that have a high level of THC?