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Growing hemp is easier than many other plants. The plant is efficient, bred to improve quality, yield, stress tolerance and decreased cost per ton. Furthermore, hemp grows quickly while also requiring less energy and fertilizer, and doesn’t require chemicals after planting. It can even help the farm by breaking the disease cycle of other crops. Sica considers it "a perfect crop to offset the carbon currently produced by fossil fuels."
Bast crops are a highly efficient mop crop and can use most types of waste or even brackish water. Between 1.7 and 1.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere for each tonne of bast crop cellulose produced.
We typically grow 10-14 tonnes of crop straw per hectare. Another 2-3 tonnes of cellulose mass is produced and stored in the root system. Each hectare of hemp can sequester about 22 tonnes of greenhouse gases. Industrial hemp crops are able to sequester more carbon than trees in a short 150 day season cycle and leave arable land available for food and other crops during the remainder of the year.
Pyrolytic conversion Organic plants are converted into pyrolytic fuel using a thermo-chemical process. Using the same technology as fossil fuels, the conversion of plants into renewable energy is the most efficient method of producing charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas or methanol.
Pyrolysis occurs whenever solid organic material is heated strongly in absence of oxygen, e.g. when frying, roasting, baking, toasting. The process also occurs when burning compact solid fuel, like wood.
An ancient industrial use of anhydrous pyrolysis is the production of charcoal through the pyrolysis of wood. More recently, pyrolysis has been used on a massive scale to turn coal into coke for metallurgy, especially steel making.
Anhydrous pyrolysis can also be used to produce liquid fuel similar to diesel from solid biomass or plastics. Pyrolysis of wood for charcoal was a major industry replaced by coal during the 1800’s Industrial Revolution.
We typically grow 10-14 tonnes of crop straw per hectare. Another 2-3 tonnes of cellulose mass is produced and stored in the root system. Each hectare of hemp can sequester about 22 tonnes of greenhouse gases. Industrial hemp crops are able to sequester more carbon than trees in a short 150 day season cycle and leave arable land available for food and other crops during the remainder of the year.
Pyrolytic conversion Organic plants are converted into pyrolytic fuel using a thermo-chemical process. Using the same technology as fossil fuels, the conversion of plants into renewable energy is the most efficient method of producing charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas or methanol.
Pyrolysis occurs whenever solid organic material is heated strongly in absence of oxygen, e.g. when frying, roasting, baking, toasting. The process also occurs when burning compact solid fuel, like wood.
An ancient industrial use of anhydrous pyrolysis is the production of charcoal through the pyrolysis of wood. More recently, pyrolysis has been used on a massive scale to turn coal into coke for metallurgy, especially steel making.
Anhydrous pyrolysis can also be used to produce liquid fuel similar to diesel from solid biomass or plastics. Pyrolysis of wood for charcoal was a major industry replaced by coal during the 1800’s Industrial Revolution.
