Hemp Fuel/The Hemp Car

[Turcurulin]

There is tumultuous speculation on alternative energy and fuel sources these days. Here is a look at one that's already been put into practice! Hemp fuel is a sustainable, natural resource. The use of it promotes a means of appropriate stewardship of the Earth's resources.

Hemp fuel is a way out of oil! Planting only 6 percent of the continental United States with biomass crops such as hemp would supply all current domestic demands for oil and gas. Hemp fuel is a real alternative.

Did you know the average American spends 33 of 40 working hours to support their need for energy? It's true; 80 percent of the total monetary living expense for everything we do is ultimately wrapped up in energy costs; from the energy it takes to make the food we eat, to fuel for the cars we drive, to the manufacturing, storage and transportation of the products we buy. And 80 percent of solid and airborne pollution in our environment can be blamed on fossil energy sources. It is estimated that America has already exhausted 80 percent of its fossil fuel reserves. Isnt this a recipe for disaster? Hemp fuel is needed.

Industrial hemp is the number one biomass producer on earth, meaning an actual contender for an economically competitive, clean burning hemp fuel. Hemp has four times the biomass and cellulose potential and eight times the methanol potential of its closest competing crop - corn. Burning coal and oil are the greatest sources of acid rain; biomass fuels burn clean and contain no sulphur and produce no ash during combustion. The cycle of growing and burning biomass crops keeps the worlds carbon dioxide level at perfect equilibrium, which means that we are less likely to experience the global climactic changes (greenhouse effect). Hemp oil is the source for hemp fuel.

http://www.hempowered.com/hemp-fuel.html

This video deals more with the body of the vehicle, but there's some good history.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B0qZOF9YS0

I saw the Hemp Car Transamerica on one of it's last stops at the 2001 All Good Festival. It was kind of like a hippie-wagon, but still very alluring.


http://hempcar.org/indexOLD.html

Some different body styles made of Hemp -









Unfortunately (for the US), Hemp is equally as illegally as its equally awesome cousin. Legalize it!

(Note - You cannot 'get high' from smoking Hemp, for any of you that don't know [I just like the 'smoking smilies'] =)

[Turcurulin]

But we may as well legalize both!

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HcXcYlF3_0