Hemp Is on its Way to Your Car Battery and Many Things You Haven't Yet Imagined

AlterNet

The first digital-age domestic hemp crop is being harvested as I write. The subtle decrease in seismic activity currently puzzling Virginia geologists can be traced to Thomas Jefferson ceasing to spin in his grave for the first time in 77 years. 

For a century USDA biologists conducted taxpayer-funded hemp cultivar research for farmers, after all. They did this in a Virginia meadow that is today the Pentagon. And why wouldn’t they, in support of a key crop supplying the Navy with rope and earning millions for farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky (when millions meant something)? 

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Hemp technology an opportunity for industry - ALCP

Yahoo! News New Zealand
Hemp technology is going to be vital in a high-tech, eco-friendly economy, the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party says.
Bio-polymer made from hemp cellulose is an exciting emerging industry which could be a viable alternative to carbon-fibre.
Graphene super-capacitors are also being made from hemp fibres at a fraction of the cost of traditional processes.
ALCP Industry spokeswoman Sandra Mulqueen said New Zealand farms were ideally suited to growing hemp for production of a variety of high-value end-use technologies.
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/24922881/hemp-technology-an-opportunity-for-industry-alcp/