Cannabis of course has the name marijuana and pot. It is associated with drug users and stoners. But after we can put away that stigma, we find that cannabis has four times the cellulose value as corn, making it a potentially good plant for ethanol production.
Now then, personally I will not do drugs or smoke pot so this article is without consideration of this stoners in the world or their potential support of this plant for ethanol. If cannabis grows so well all over the world it does make sense to look into its use for the making of ethanol.
If cannabis can be made into Ethanol then we will need to modify it to make money better and use those genetic differences which permit low water in production to insure that we do not get price spikes whenever you have drought in the ethanol we use for oil. Additionally if the plant can be used to “get high” then we need to modify it so which don’t occur or that the leaching into the soil or waterways does not contain high levels of THC as it that i see problematic.
If we further modify this cannabis weed then we need to make it with terminating seeds until we know the things we have done, other wise it turn out to be a “super weed” and take over natural cannabis along with close genetic type of weeds. In a shopping think tank recently a gentleman mentioned that;
“Ethanol/bio diesel are the fuel involving the future for your rotary, eccentric crank, 4 and 2 cycle engines that run our cars boats trains and generator sets etc. Probably it burns far cleaner than the crude oil based hydrocarbon heavy fuels we use at present, and will minimize the contamination.”
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