Slashdot Mirror
Canadian Cannabis Car
sykobabul writes "The CBC is reporting: 'An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.' Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis."
here's a youtube clip of the original hemp car, in 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgDyEO_8cI
among other hemp facts:
ford and diesel intended their cars to run on hemp oil
jefferson drafted the declaration of independence on hemp paper
much of the founding fathers grew hemp or processed it
read more:
http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
FFS, people, when will it be understood that Hemp is much more than just Cannabis?
Industrial hemp is just a cultivar of C. Sativa that is bred for fiber and oil production.
There are 3 separate species of Cannabis, and many different cultivars and hybrid varieties.
ALL hemp is Cannabis. But not all Cannabis is hemp. The varieties grown for drug use are generally pretty poor fiber producers.
Remember "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"? Help make it a reality again! http://soylentnews.org
It's already been available as a hardwood floor material for years now. I'm not sure you could make decent plywood out of it, since plywood manufacturing requires shaving the stock into sheets.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
No, seriously .... are you retarded?
He's not, but you might be. At the very least you are pretty ignorant of history.
It's not just nylon, but cotton and other fabrics - and the "war on drugs" started with *ONE* country, which then leveraged its economic muscle to get it banned in all the other countries too.
Maybe instead of ridiculing people who make salient points, you might want to read up on the topic first, to avoid looking like a complete fucking moron.
See, folks, this is what happens when you DON'T smoke pot, you say wholly uneducated nonsense such as this.
We can make parts of the car out of hemp - plastic body panels can be made from the seeds and plant fibers by converting it into bioplastics.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Nothing magical about it - they are all under the influence of multinational conglomerates which have colluded to make money off things other than hemp. Most of the world is what we glibly refer to as "banana republic".
That being said, growing industrial hemp was just re-legalized in Oregon this last year - at least some states are coming to their senses:
http://oregon.gov/ODA/ind_hemp.shtml
It always disappoints me how little hemp is used in industry. It is my understanding that hemp is easy to grow, is a more durable replacement for cotton and can be a more sustainable fibre for paper.
It is. That's why it's illegal.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
It makes great plastic too.
Mind the frickin' laser...