Hemp conversion to graphene and diamond. Smart carbon capture?

Hemp has been celebrated and vilified in equal measure over the centuries. It has fantastic properties for textiles and ropes, but it comes from the cannabis plant, so it arouses deep suspicion among some policymakers. What is unarguable though, is that it is an extremely fast growing plant that stores a large amount of carbon. So is it really possible to convert it into graphene and diamond in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way?
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[@rmar127]

There’s a massive cotton farm in western Queensland that uses phenomenal amounts of water and threatens the very life of the Murray-Darling river system. A student at the QUT, did a study on hemp production and found acre of hemp produced 20% more fibre, whist using only a quarter of the water that cotton does. If Cubbi-Cubbi station were to switch just 30% of it production, it would save millions of litres of water. Enough for downstream farmers and for environmental flows.

[@anthonymorales842]

Is it the stigma of the plant that keeps it be used instead of cotton

[@ossieostrich69]

Is there a link available to this study?

[@stevenstart8728]

Cubbi station gets the blame for the basin degradation but in reality it’s the over allocation of water to all the irrigators for the whole river system as well as drier years.

[@GaryBeilby]

Always been utterly ridiculous and short sighted to grow cotton in the Australian environment.

[@bodhisfattva7462]

@@anthonymorales842 no it is the set in there ways farming industry that gets in the way and the vast profits the petrochemical companies want to protect...it is the same reason all farmers/ranchers dont use regenerative agriculture practices...they are cheaper less time consuming and produce a more abundant crop but they dont change due to the conservative nature of the vast number of farmers/ranchers and their learned reliance on chemical/pharmaceutical companies.

[@barbaralindhjem2488]

Hemp in my mind suggests....fabric, biodegradable plastic, building materials, high protien seeds and fodder for animals. Oh and.the duplicity of the Dupont chemical company

[@GR3YS0RG4N1CS]

Can't forget the creators of DDT, Agent Orange, and Roundup, Monsanto.

[@proudchristian77]

What ! It's a natural green plant , natural & green ?

[@GR3YS0RG4N1CS]

@@proudchristian77 that doesn't prevent the likes of Monsanto getting their greedy little fingers on the cannabis/ hemp industry. Hence Botanicare, a subsidiary of Monsanto, specialized for growing cannabis/ hemp. Companies like DuPont and Monsanto are as insidious and duplicitous as it gets.

[@bozo5632]

No ma'am, that's weed.

[@relentlessmadman]

don't for get Randolph Hearst, who wanted to protect his newspaper from trees empire! he bought politicians! lobby lobby lobby$$$$$$>>>>>!!!!!!

[@papacowboy]

Good news here! Hemp is also a good high protein food source as well as the oil with the correct balance of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids. Like bamboo, the fibr can be used for biodegradable textiles and could replace the cutting down of trees for paper products-a much more sustainable alternative!

[@harrickvharrick3957]

thank you for letting us know! I do love how you sum up these aspects of hemp, that make it nothing less than an absolutely superior alternative to those biological resources we are using today.. we, the ignorant, complacent and regrettable types that we are.

[@harrickvharrick3957]

* fibEr.

[@fireanduril]

@@harrickvharrick3957 fibRE

[@harrickvharrick3957]

@@fireanduril damn..!

[@harrickvharrick3957]

@@fireanduril yes, my keyboard is in a Euro language.. and to be completely honest, so is my mind. or at least, it may have been..

[@DoctorJack16]

The cannabis plant is arguably the most amazing plant to our species. Slowly we are waking up to this realization. The power of cannabinoids, namely CBD, has helped so many of my patients. That’s why I’ve dedicated so many videos to this particular plant. Spreading the knowledge! Great video!

[@ohmegakilo]

Definitely Agree Doctor! There's still countless things other than oil it has possibilities for use also :D

[@DoctorJack16]

@@ohmegakilo hemp fiber is very under utilized!

[@Costa_Conn]

Please inform us of the RCTs that back up your comment. As far as I am aware benefits have only been properly demonstrated for those with Dravet syndrome and Parkinson's. There is way too much nonsense and woo surrounding the medicinal benefits of cannabinoids, which endangers it's acceptance and any real benefits it may actually have. To be clear, I don't have an issue with its use but the evidence is weak to moderate at best.

[@theresamprice123]

Yes, I've been working in horticulture for 35 years; I have to say, it seems like the most amazing plant species. As I understand from the sages of the east, the vibration of this plant, if conveyed onto a plate with sand, it forms the geometric pattern that the ancient ancestors said was like 'god', similar to the Sri Yantra. I dream of living in a hemp house. I can imagine the creative flow would be super intense and beautiful to dream in at night.

[@jeffryan813]

I'm a retired Environmental Lab Analyst/ Pretreatment Tech. who served the Upper Guadalupe River in Central Texas, USA. I have been lecturing on the subject of hemp as a solution to addressing the ecological problems related in 'force' growing cotton. My major concern was the run off of many pollutants and water usage. DCS also has been a 'dream seed' for me also to get someone to come up with ideas on technologies in order to ramp up the R&D necessary. Thank you for helping connect the dots. (-:

[@bodhisfattva7462]

getting past the hesitancy of the conservative nature of farmers/ranchers is the real stumbling block...increased profits alone doesnt move them to changing crops or farming practices. It has to start with changing the education of the children so when they take over they can make the changes. Then the economic viability studies have to be made convincing the massive players in aggro business so that their bottom line can be better by moving away from cotton. only $$$ will move factory farming away from the ways of petrochemical industrial farming as well as less efficient/profitable crops so it has to be shown to be a fast/instant switch in crop profitability or they wont make the move as loss of profits even for a year make it near impossible for them to change.

[@garethb5729]

Hemp batteries out perform all other batteries

[@curmudgeon1933]

@@bodhisfattva7462 . Maybe appealing to the idea that handing on a thriving, fertile, sustainable, future-proofed farm to their kids, would be more helpful than passing on a barren, over-exploited, patch of ground. Most independent farmers are family-oriented. Many small farmers are in danger of losing their land to industrial agro-business, due to over-reliance on credit and loans for equipment and fertilisers. banks make huge profits buying up failing farms and selling them to industrial combines, who rely on destructive monoculture to ensure satisfactory shareholder dividends.

[@IvySnowFillyVideos]

@@bodhisfattva7462 it's also about the $. Farming equipment is expensive & many established farmers are locked into crops due to the equipment they have. What would a hemp start-up cost?

[@earlrobinson5911]

@@bodhisfattva7462 The problem is not with the farmers. It is with government. Going to jail and having your assets seized is a real dis-incentive. The ship is turning, but it takes more than a snap of the fingers. How long ago was the legalization of Marijuana done in colorado? Believe me, if it is easy to grow, makes a profit and contributes positively to Society then Hemp is already in line with small farmer's thinking and values. Family farmers are wiser than their image would suggest.

[@lordcrunk4790]

Hemp can make graphene and graphene is a low energy osmosis sea water filter. Great loop.

[@NewEarthAwakening]

Cool! Good to know!

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@jimjames6112]

beautiful

[@davidboss2160]

cant it be used in battery's too?

[@jpendersen1294]

Hemp on it's own is a wonderful material too. "Hempcrete," is a very interesting building material, when combined with lime the plant material doesn't rot and holds great insulation properties too, it's not as strong as concrete, but does have potential to remove C in place of adding more C into the environment.

[@jean-pierredevent970]

Yes, nice idea, I must look up more about it but the pozzolanic bamboo leaf ash can also be added to cement and contains a lot of silicon so perhaps hemp fibres and ashes and bamboo ash even complement each other so a new material can be made. So many splendid ideas exist no doubt already but then the free market passes and then nothing anymore..We must tax the rich like hell unless they invest in something useful !!! (won't ever happen of course)

[@jamesg2382]

Thanks for the great videos. A few issues with this video: Hemp grows on marginal land and needs very little irrigation, often only to get it started. So using energy intensive and expensive hydroponics just doesn’t make sense, when there is plenty of land that can be rehabilitated by growing hemp. Hydroponics creates it’s own waste water, as it is filled with nutrient waste, which is how the plants are fed. Feed that into rivers and you get algal blooms. Better to have a closed loop with fish farming, as long as you can get a balance. Hydroponics does also produce a lot of waste, as rockwool other growing mediums don’t last long etc.

[@carltaylor4942]

Most of Andalusia used to be under a compulsory order to grow hemp for the Spanish Armada. The soil and climate here are absolutely perfect for its growth. This could aid the Spanish economy greatly and reduce the current dependence on the tourist industry.

[@bodhisfattva7462]

basically any country with a navy or commercial shipping had mandated hemp growing laws as it was vital to shipping.

[@kikin310]

reserve some spots for high times

[@scdm8906]

or cannabis-tourism

[@GerManBearPig]

@@scdm8906 I see this as a win-win situation

[@jonathanrichter4256]

Uncle Sam ran a campaign called Hemp For Victory in WW2. Hemp was used for tents, uniforms, and of course, rope.

[@sigmacentauri6191]

Hemp is a miracle crop we’ve only known this for a hundred years. Not using it is like refusing dinner your grandma cooked for you.

[@RhetoricalSyndicate]

mmm, scone covered casserole

[@mysterymachine6858]

no, weve known this for longer ... people with political comne tions wanted to profit from rsyon and such ... read the emperor has no clothes about the war against hemp / marijuana

[@545el]

The good old vikings wore hemp clothes.

[@hempsaveearth8710]

Love your analogy for it. I look at hemp as Earth's natural defense mechanism against high CO2 levels. The plant literally grows every where super fast and easy.

[@bozo5632]

Thousands of years.

[@pandakees]

Thank you so much Dave, for breaking these amazing, promising, but rather complicated topics down to chewable pieces !

[@richarde.t.sadowski2208]

Thank You for your 'Just Have A Think' channel, it's a great learning and teaching venue. We need to put the 'Reefer madness' mentality to rest, and instead use cannabis to greater potential in addressing everything from the climate crisis to help with physical and mental health issues for those in need.

[@michaelcherven2793]

These are some of the best produced, most informative videos I have found on any subject. Thank you so much for breaking down complex ideas without sounding like a jerk...we appreciate it.

[@invent5540]

100% agreed

[@JoeLambert1000]

Totally agree also.

[@paulwilhelmsen6586]

Worded well. I couldn’t agree more. Props to this guy. The only “complaint “ I have is I live in a desert so his raining intro is kinda a kick in the shorts DONT CHANGE THE INTRO :)

[@JustHaveaThink]

Thanks Michael. I really appreciate that feedback :-)

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@ecospider5]

This looks really promising. Let’s hope the technology works out and the company management is good.

[@ErilynOfAnachronos]

And hope the government can see beyond: "Growing that stuff is illegal! Permit denied."

[@bodhisfattva7462]

once greed sets in from the investors much of the benefits will be drastically reduced. That is why public institutions really can make best use of things like this so profits can benefit more people than just the executives and investors...but regardless of corperate greed getting in the way of true progress this will be good for the environment as long as they dont find a cheaper dirtier way to produce this crop.

[@eddybrevet6816]

Greenhouse plastic or tarp sandwiched between wire mesh such as concrete or cattle panels, with re bar support, with this can build structure fast, cheap, quick and easy!

[@Skoda130]

@@ErilynOfAnachronos Then still. It's not like this process can be used exclusively using hemp. Flax would be very useful as well.

[@yellowcat1310]

bad thing is they will destroy the carbon until there is not enough for plant life. sequestering the carbon in the soil by growing hemp and cover cropping and other Regenerative Agricultural practices that will store the carbon safely out of the atmosphere yet still make it available to plants through their roots. let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.

[@rosemarywessel1294]

Thanks once again for an excellent, accessible description. I work with an environmental non-profit challenging local fossil fuel projects (and now working on pressuring existing fossil fuel plants to convert). The amount of questions popping off from the public is dizzying, so having good, solid intros like yours is a great starting point to having answers. Biomass power plants is a big fight here in Massachusetts as well. Our state administration still incentivizes biomass by qualifying them as "renewable" in the Renewable Portfolio Standard. It's great to see you quote Mary Booth whenever you delve into that subject. She is SUCH a resource and we're lucky to be fighting side by side with her.

[@stevenpeet5009]

Your chanel never fails to give me hope for the future and for my children. Thank you very much.

[@Buzzhumma]

Another product it can be used for is hempcrete. Captures the carbon and is stored forever but even more useful is anybody can fill garden space anywhere in the world and let this wonderful weed grow. I think centralised and decentralised concepts can easily grab tonnes and tonnes of carbon from the air. If done on a global and local scale we may end up with the opposite problem !

[@nathanlewis42]

The opposite problem is not a danger anytime soon if ever.

[@Buzzhumma]

@@nathanlewis42 locking up to much oxygen may be a problem for my lungs!

[@nathanlewis42]

@@Buzzhumma umm do you understand that plants produce oxygen? They take in CO2 and release O2.

[@Buzzhumma]

@@nathanlewis42 ummmm thats why they call me Mouron!😂

[@Buzzhumma]

@@nathanlewis42 the opposite problem was nobody going to work anymore because of all the super important weeding that needs to be done !😂

[@skygh]

Original jeans were made of hemp and I want them back! Down with cotton denim

[@dunkjf]

The one shirt from my youth I still have is made from hemp still looks like new 30 years on. And it's softer than cotton #bringbackhemp

[@grantlauzon5237]

There’s a pun about down feathers in clothes that I’m too sleepy to make.

[@pseudonayme7717]

I read somewhere that Cannabis OIL also burns hotter, cleaner and longer than all other oils aswell. Maybe you could look into that @Just Have a Think?

[@andreasbucher7717]

@skygh That is actually an urban myth. Though by now levis is actually allowing hemp jeans with it's branding.

[@olsim1730]

@@GR3YS0RG4N1CS yeah....hemp doesn't wear out...it wears IN. Stiff at first but becomes silky with time. The softest most comfortable clothes I own are 100% hemp. Also it cane be "pre-stressed" to softness for sensitive folk.

[@kjw7815]

You just made me a subscriber. That was the best video I've ever seen. The information my head is swimming with right now is incredible. Thank you so much. Really, thank you.

[@tevvya]

Fascinating. I used to live in Bradenton, Florida (the county seat of Manatee County) and I had received no news of the issues of Easter weekend this year. Although it started to sound like an advertisement for Gravitas Carbotura, it was a great video. Thank you!

[@arlenecearns1866]

When you asked “what do you think when you hear hemp” - decades I saw a tv show (possibly on an early ‘Nature of Things’'?) about hemp and how the plastics industry turned hemp into “the evil weed”. They showed a car with hemp fibre door panels (40’s style?), and they smashed it with a sledgehammer, and the dent popped right back out with no damage showing. So, yeah, there are a ton of possibilities to make use of hemp, but the durability of it makes me wonder if it will ever get into the really commercial part of the marked. What will become of planned obsolescence?

[@Only-one-life-68]

I believe it was 1934 when the American government banned the growth of Hemp.. Guess who spent years trying to get it into Congress to ban it as it was Bad. !!!!!! The pharmaceutical industry and the plastic industry… Why we ask would they do this 🤭.. We’ll hemp has brilliant ingredients for our well being. The plastic industry wanted to put plastic in our clothing and hemp was a major problem as it was brilliant in clothing products One day hopefully soon the worlds people will realise we have been dictated to by fraudulent governments “dictatorships” These dictatorships were put there with big corporations that payed for there presidential campaigns.. By the way Donald trump one of the first things he signed when he became inaugurated was to allow Hemp to be grown again in the USA.. He realised that hemp is a old alternative to many used drugs and could help us get away from soooo much plastic in our clothing..

[@TheB1RDY100]

Ten years down the line is the problem of the bazzillion ton waste diamond mountain

[@-LightningRod-]

@@Only-one-life-68 tell the TRUTH brother before there is NO TIME LEFT thank you for posting by the way i did NOT know that about the Orange one

[@privateperson5054]

Hemp was made illegal because it competed with lumber for paper making the lumber guy had more influence. The weed is bad thing is just like probishion.

[@Only-one-life-68]

@@privateperson5054 Read the article I have put on my comment. !!!! Yes hemp also was a threat to the paper industry like it was to the French company DuPont.. By the way DuPont we’re the first company to patent ammunition “gunpowder in the USA 🇺🇸 as well as in France” Believe it was patented in 1811 in France then the family got on a steamship came over to the USA and patented in USA.. They are a very powerful family most people are unaware of there power in the 🇺🇸

[@PaperTools]

Not sure which is more brilliant, the concept itself or your explanation of it. This one’s a gem!

[@reuse_or_die]

Very interesting. Thanks JHAT and patreons. Much appreciated ❤️

[@JohnsonShoreInnHermanville]

Great presentation. as always! What we need are "hempsteads" using this and more conventional tech on a microscale to produce the thousands of products that can come from hemp. Processing has always been the main hurdle because the plant will thrive almost anywhere.

[@albertbrinson4075]

Maybe, this is why China and others are buying up, all farm lands in the US. With the population of China, how much land is left for agriculture.

[@paulwilhelmsen6586]

It’s almost 100 ‘Fahrenheit’ where I live by 9 in the morning in June, content like this gives me hope. Thanks man!

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@richardmcdonald7565]

I guess that you do NOT understand, that PLASTICS are all made from CARBON... mostly carbon derived from GMO corn. However, THIS ARC FURNACE can, and would reduce all plastics, to CARBON, so it doesn't matter whether some plastic is mixed with the hemp, before it is burned in the ARC Furnace. This is NOT some sort of SCAM. It just takes a little re-watching this video, (for those of us who are NOT so technically-based), to UNDERSTAND that there are MANY THINGS made from carbon...However, by THIS technique, we can take ALL CARBON, and turn it into diamonds... What we are doing here is REMOVING CO2 (the largest % greenhouse gas, present in the atmosphere), and REMOVE IT PERMANENTLY ! This and many other shifts in our technology, and our awareness (which will lead to changing our bad habits for good ones), WILL allow us to stop the global warming.@@AllSectorsHearThis

[@toni4729]

If you're going to grow that stuff, grow it where little else will grow. Put cattle on the land to break up the soil (or dust) first and then plant the stuff so we can improve the land where nothing is growing. That's worth a try. That will save desertification. Give us back land that is now useless.

[@email4664]

You go invest tons of capitol to grow a shit crop that is useless, while competition does far better in good loamy river bed soil, with the right balance of red and blue clays in the soil.

[@carlpodrecca5177]

@ E Mail you know nothing! I say good day to you!

[@bluecedar7914]

Hemp needs a reasonable soil/growing medium and a moderate amount of water to grow well and produce a crop of fibre or carbon. To fix carbon rapidly a good supply of water is needed, as the sugars that cellulose is formed from need one molecule of water to fix one molecule of CO2, plus extra water present to enable the reaction and sustain other life processes in the plant. Other slower growing arid tolerant plants would be needed to regenerate these areas.

[@geordiew2162]

Thanks for putting this video together as eloquently as you do, Cheers !!!

[@pandapower5902]

This is the most informative video I've ever seen on youtube that is also proposing something that provides real solutions to HUGE problems.

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics. it will never sequester enough carbon to make producing and burning plastic carbon neutral.

[@DaveGee2010]

Going to watch Up in Smoke and have a really good laugh at how much this world we live on has changed in the last 50ish years that I've been around.... lol and I hope you have some 'time off' penciled in in the next few weeks... you really deserve it!

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

And half baked

[@patrickpaterson8785]

I grew up in Vermont and hemp products were everywhere like ~15 years ago. It's cool to see hemp breaking out into the more mainstream.

[@davidblair9877]

Oh, Vermont…why can’t other rural states be like you? No, really, why can’t they? Vermont is great. Other Appalachian states, not so much. Why is that?

[@richardmcdonald7565]

New Mexico is just like that too.@@davidblair9877

[@Lazarosaliths]

Your channel gets more & more interesting by the time!!! Good job!

[@richardmcdonald7565]

This is one of the BEST presentations in your series (my opinion), and I have been sharing this program widely... trying to get local government here in New Mexico interested in creating a facility here. 🙂

[@notlessgrossman163]

This awesome synergy: carbon capture that reclaims clean water from sewage. Add Reclaiming deserts that can also help: self repairing, replicating grass lands, shrubs. Look up the Green Wall project in sub Sahara.. terraforming underway

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@newsgeekus1216]

While others might disagree, this is a great example of where government should help fund/partner/prototype these types of technologies. Some will be winners, others losers. But boy the winners (Bell Labs, Tesla) change the world.

[@brandon9172]

Imo the winners shouldn't be private companies like Tesla though. The government should do the work itself.

[@acchaladka]

There are economists who lay out this chain of events and funding systems in great detail, showing how government research subsidy basically runs US and global “private” innovation. Marianna Mazzucato (sp?) is a leading popularizer of this.

[@newsgeekus1216]

Not sure about. I know there are lots of grants from different government organizations. For those technologies or ideas that seem very risky, sometimes the government needs to step in. You can argue if they are getting the appropriate value for winners when they are then moved forward by companies.

[@CJBwbo766]

Government should just lay out a competition to achieve a goal and the winner comes the spoils. Make it enough that investors put their own money on the line, not the governments on each one. That why one success out of 100 means the government didn’t pay for 99 losers to have ceos golf all day.

[@acchaladka]

@@CJBwbo766 government also does that, with some success. Thing is, with the investment / co-funding programs which hand money to blue sky technologies like Solyndra or Tesla, the government still garmers a small profit through ownership sales or loan repayment. This program is for firms which are aimed at a socially desirable goal but can't qualify for private funding because of length of time to payoff or risk issues.

[@markcluff7104]

you just blew my mind!! thank you for making it easy to understand, good job. I look forward to more videos.

[@mr.incognito2169]

Shout out my good man I love your content, highly informative exactly when i need it. Keep up the amazing work❤. Have a fantastic day people 😁

[@stevemickler452]

They should consider "light pipes" also called Solartubes to use actual sunlight as much as possible. On second thought it seems wrong to grow such a hardy plant indoors in Florida where production would be nearly year round. The hemp can be grown pretty tall so it is already kind of vertical. Hemp fields near the phosphate ponds could still be fertilized by it. The plastic waste could be melted and coated onto woven hemp strands to form structural building panels and framing for housing and other uses Initial cost is much lower in terms of equipment and the potential market huge.

[@ecospider5]

We have learned that plants only need certain wavelengths of light. So you can put solar on the roof and turn that into electricity them convert it back into only the light the plants need. Massively multiplying the original amount of sunlight you started with. This has been perfected growing vegetables in warehouses.

[@PALOMNYK]

Agreed, this project looks carbon positive to me and that would be simple way to decrease its emissions.

[@kajdronm.8887]

How much more efficient would the light use be compared to normal farming. Does anyone have numbers?

[@allenwitters5074]

@@PALOMNYK it is negative emissions, is self-energizing, zero-waste closed loop

[@nacoran]

@@kajdronm.8887 I'm not sure on the light, but the water use can be up to 90% less (and because it's indoors you can pick where to build to be near good water sources without having to worry as much about having lots of land). Like Ecospider5 said, we've also found that you can use solar to generate electricity and then use more narrow wavelengths that the plants grow on for a net gain in the amount of energy you can put on the plants per acre, as well as using the waste material as a biofuel after you've taken what you need. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483736/ Another link says you get 3-10 times the yield in half the the time in the same acre footprint. (Aalthough that seems to be for a fairly basic setup. Theoretically you could build taller, or throw these systems on roofs or in basements of other buildings that you were already going to build). You can also use much less pesticide and have a more consistent crop less likely to get wiped out by weather events.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

You forgot cotton lobbyists. They, like alcohol producers want the continuation of their monopoly and spend a lot to see the prohibition of competition.

[@tywhite7365]

Like they did in China.

[@eworldRick]

There are hemp lobbyists. Looks like they have different use cases.

[@bodhisfattva7462]

the thing is hemp can be grown on those same plots of land cheaper and with a more abundant crop...if you just make it economically unviable to grow cotton instead of hemp they will change on their own

[@galenhaugh3158]

Educate the public and cotton will go away.

[@Nicksbf109]

Ah yes the cotton lobbyists, the big planet water thieves. It's a bigger crime than you think.

[@zeroxcliche]

This is hopeful - so glad channel is doing so well

[@roysmallian2889]

Always makes sense what you research and say. Good for you.

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

Hemp have been used for 1000s of years in Algeria, Mauritania.....as a building material (cement like bricks) to build houses.

[@superhero6297]

Wow I didn’t know that it was used in Mauritania that’s for the heads up bro do you think the richat structure could be made into a hempcrete building

[@Ricky-nq7lu]

New Zealander here Hemp to me is for clothing, fuel, and so many other Purposes. Plus pain relief, sleeping aid, and this list goes on an on.

[@ecospider5]

I always picture 2 inch hemp rope.

[@theunknownunknowns5168]

Yep, we should be growing massive amounts of hemp, flax and merino for export.

[@Trimalerus]

Brilliant! Biochar is a great way to drawdown carbon at large scale and has a huge array of uses & applications. I'd LOVE it if you did a video on Biochar's myriad uses, as detailed in the book: Burn Igniting a new Carbon Drawdown Economy to end the Climate Crisis by Albert Bates & Kathleen Draper for a start on the subject

[@abbywinters7751]

Thank you for this!❤ I have been in the hemp clothing industry for 30 years now. Maybe one day it will catch on and states will realize it's TRUE potential.

[@Whippersnapperm]

It certainly seems like a no-brainer in terms of a profitable carbon capture project, one that should be introduced nationally here in the UK.

[@NetZeroTech]

Awesome! Well done. Great animation of the microwave plasma pyrolysis. And fun history fact. Thank you.

[@neilreynolds328]

Great upload. Thank you. There is also the potential to use some of the waste material to be used to rapidly grow the mycelium production to help push out some plastics and insulations.

[@briannacooper2628]

I have come to appreciate your way of communicating about potential climate solutions- I find your analysis fair and valuable. This idea has a ton of merit. It ticks a lot of boxes for Earth Care and I would love to see a project like this run as a cooperative owner/employee model to tick some boxes for people care.

[@richardmcdonald7565]

Hey, and we COULD be real lucky too, if it could also work to put DeBeers diamonds out of biz. :-)

[@danielcockerill3761]

I heard the other day that australia plans to be one of the worlds biggest growers of heap. This would take it to the next level

[@rossmcleod7983]

@Daniel Cockerill in WA I believe. A government that actually listens to the science, they did brilliantly on the pandemic too.

[@danielcockerill3761]

@@rossmcleod7983 we should be doing so much better we have so many opportunities in this country

[@email4664]

Australia has a bit of a problem there- Water scarcity may be a concern

[@danielcockerill3761]

@@email4664 it's a good thing because of our laws most of it is done hydroponically and all the water get recycled in a close loop system. 95% of the water goes back into the system to be reused

[@benedictmarshall7031]

Thank you for your videos. Always fascinating.

[@GermanMic]

Great video like yours get me thinking everything, respect! I been trying to get friends and family to help me build a plastic waste pyrolizing distillation reactor for the last year, they all think I'm too far gone, it's just sad, they don't understand!

[@focusford11]

I find your channel one of the most interesting going

[@orengordon7921]

One think you haven't mentioned is the insane energy requirements and inefficiencies of artificial lighting even with LEDs

[@CliseruGabriel]

this i think can be avoided with skylights and mirrors

[@orengordon7921]

@cliseru nah at that scale that just wouldn't work, especially with the high light intensity that the cannabis require we'll need fusion energy to make this work, because there is also the costs of heat removal

[@aryantaneja2244]

@@orengordon7921 dude he said they will also burn the fuel to actually produce electricity

[@orengordon7921]

@@aryantaneja2244 huge inefficiencies, LEDs are about 60%, plant are about 0.5-4%, and then only a fraction of plant matter would be used for electricity generation

[@TheShadowKnew]

@@orengordon7921 I agree. The claim they are making (@7:50) is that they burn the output gasses and oil in a turbine to provide "all" the energy needed by the process, which is impossible

[@rexcrabb]

Intuitively it strikes me as odd to see them building a facility (carbon intensive) to grow a crop with artificial light (carbon intensive) only to immediately burn it (understood that the microwave process is subtly different than burning, but we're still talking about combustion that emits carbon) just to turn it into ash and other chemicals that are then consumed as fuel (carbon intensive, and still just a fancier way of capturing carbon at the "smokestack"). Compare that to just growing big fields of hemp alongside other products, making enormous quantities of hemp-based products that replace fossil-fuel based pollutants like plastic or water-consuming cotton, while also regenerating the soil through proper coverage (which draws down carbon as well). On the other hand, hopefully the research they're doing on making maximum use of the various chemicals of hemp lead to R&D and new, presently unimaginable products. I'm a little less sold on the carbon capture argument...this seems more like an attempt at carbon neutrality for some advanced industrial processes, which is still very exciting.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Yeah, the only thing I found interesting is the idea of only partially gasifying biomass to produce some energy and biochar. Biochar, unlike natural herbaceous and woody biomass, is resistant to oxidation from rotting, and can be used as a soil additive or dumped in a landfill or ocean to sink carbon to the deep ocean. The indoor farming aspect is just dumb though, at least while renewables+ nuclear don't make up 100% of our energy mix. Though If we're going this far, then we need to talk about ocean fertilization and engineered algal blooms to sink carbon to the deep ocean in the form of marine snow. It has the added benefit of increasing fish yields.

[@tylerwood9585]

Carbotura is negative emissions, each facility is the equivalent of 25,000 acres of outdoor growing. with 95% less water use.

[@Extremekhan24]

Indoor farming allows for more efficient use of resources, thus reducing impact. Less water, less waste, less fertilizer, etc

[@I-Maser]

exactly my thought. Although i think its the Char which a the end will be the Carbon that is captured. If the other prozesses power each other the Carbon there is in a loop, meaning that "only" the extra energy for the cycle will have to be renewable to make the hole thing capture carbon

[@hg2.]

Boondoggle bonanza ! ! ! 🎉💥

[@Kat-fr3jn]

So cool. Always been a big advocate for industrial hemp.

[@davidlillo3392]

I love your open mind. Interesting topic.

[@ralphstern2845]

We need to grow not hundreds of tons but billions upon billions of tons of bamboo and hemp and convert the captured carbon into building materials to sequester the carbon as long as possible. Hempcrete, paper, clothing, rope. We just need the governments to support prices that make it attractive to grow for farmers and the infrastructure to collect and process the plants.

[@aimanrahman5768]

These require electricity you know

[@finnfisch4823]

@@aimanrahman5768 I was looking for a comment about electricity, because it’s an important point which isn’t mentioned in the video.

[@email4664]

@@aimanrahman5768 Nope- A bit of diesel to get them into the ground, but we can start them outside and get them harvested in natural light..

[@email4664]

@@finnfisch4823 That is because you don't see power cords out in fields, do you? No, farmers grow in fields under the sun- Be it in greenhouses, or as I do- Right out in a big hundred acre parcel, out in the open

[@moderngames8892]

Not if it is handmade

[@craigjamieson5078]

"Bioenergy and Carbon Capture, or BECCS, is disputed...because when the fuels are burnt they release CO2 straight back into the atmosphere" - No David, you're talking about straight bioenergy. Bioenergy with carbon capture - as the name suggests - captures the carbon instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. As a bioenergy specialist for the last 15 years to the UN, UK Government etc, I'd be happy to chat with you if you're ever making another video on the topic.

[@underhill237]

That's good to hear. Though, I'm under the impression that ethanol production for use in cars is a significant proportion of the bioenergy market. In that case, the carbon is released straight back into the atmosphere, and given the inefficient energy conversion more carbon is released than is pulled into the system. That's likely where the "disputed" comes from. I would hope that those disputing the efficacy of BECCS would recognize the difference between inefficient ethanol production and what you are doing.

[@jaredgarbo3679]

@@underhill237 The conversion method isn't inefficient.

[@pauldabinett1308]

BECCS - as proposed but years off implementation at the Drax power plant in N. Yorkshire (in England) - seems to me a waste of investment that could be used to fund energy technologies that do not involve combustion at all. It is a flawed concept designed to 'sweat the assets' in conventional power stations with the uncertain, inefficient and risky 'bolt-on' of carbon capture. To use (as Drax does) wood pellets from tree felling, is to destroy large, existing carbon sinks in the expectation (if the operators actually believe their own hype) that planting replacements for those trees will later capture the CO2. But that process will not even begin for years to come - in the meantime those areas of land will be net emitters of CO2. Adding CCS to this process is, even if reliable methods were already available, would only add cost, complexity and risk, in order to create a system that would in any case be inferior to any sensible mix of renewable energy generation and storage. Investment must be channeled to technologies with the best 'green dividend'. I agree with BioFuelWatch, who say: "In return for trashing forests and fuelling climate change, Drax is receiving massive subsidies, when it should have been closed down years ago." (See www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/axedrax-campaign/#Draxclaime ) Even if faster-growing plants were to be considered, such cultivation would be better put to use by processing them as materials for construction and durable goods, thereby locking away carbon for long periods. In order to get to the point where human activity has become 'carbon negative' there are niche use cases which will be suited to bioenergy from crop wastes that do not displace other agricultural needs. BECCS is neither niche nor useful. Craig, I am sure that having studied this field you can see a way that this can be made to work: and as a transitional technology back in the 80s and 90s it might have had its day. Now? No way. P.S. The video was interesting, but using electric lights? *-Sigh-* Perhaps there's a viable system in there somewhere...

[@craigjamieson5078]

@@pauldabinett1308 my comment here was just a technical clarification on what BECCS is. As with all renewable energy technologies, there are good and bad ways of doing it, leading to controversies and heated discussions, which have been covered in other JHAT videos. For the record, I agree that there are plenty of other exciting things we can do with biomass, such as making materials. Eventually, when those products have been used, reused and recycled, they will come to the end of their useful life. One option is to extract the energy from them, perhaps as heat instead of using fossil fuels, then capture the carbon so it doesn't return to the atmosphere and recycle the nutrients. If we dismiss all BECCS as bad, or too complicated, we take options like that off the table at a time when we need every tool available in our efforts to fight climate change. You mentioned crop residues, and I agree that there's a role for them - but must declare my personal interest, since I run a company in that field. If you're interested, please do check us out here strawinnovations.com/

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics. it will never sequester enough carbon to make producing and burning plastic carbon neutral.

[@weareanimals5189]

Excellent videos including this one, just discovered your channel. Bravo and thank you very much

[@puechmaxime6459]

So much to say about your work ! But just one word: brilliant !

[@BillHartCooks.]

Nice! Plants have been doing carbon capture for billions of years. With a little bit of engineering and for thought we can do this. It is the carbon captured by very very old plant that the Oil and Gas industry is exploiting anyway. With a little "Thinking" We can do this.

[@KateeAngel]

Plants (land plants) only exist for 400-500 million years. Before it was all cyanobacteria and algae

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@sharonsloan]

Hemp has multitude of uses. It makes sense that we use it.

[@JoshKnoxChinnery]

The technology and systems you feature give me great hope for a cleaner future

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics. it will never sequester enough carbon to make producing and burning plastic carbon neutral.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

Love that biochar can be used for graphene and industrial diamond. One thing I'd like to share in my experience as a regenerative agronomist is that the way we produce food artificially to feed to animals for people to eat is a huge part of our emissions. If people were to change their diets to whole food plant based (at least dominantly) and we protected our living soils and started creating more, this has a tidal wave of positive effects, not the least defuncting big pharma for 99% of the chronic illnesses caused by the western diet. If any of this is a new thought, please look into it or message me back and I'd be glad to chat. Hemp growing so well can also be a great use for compost making on the farm and remediating soils. I'm not sure if it picks up arsenic, but they should start cleaning up rice fields with it if it does! Love the channel. Photosynthesis is already a great carbon capture tech! There is smaller bioreactor inventor in the documentary The Need to Grow - which just happens to be viewing for the next week for free. Saw it when it came out... it's a model people could benefit from locally themselves

[@pancakeface5717]

Corbotura's design and system of subsystems is interesting for sure. As trials often do, whether it fails or succeeds, in the end, knowledge will be gained. Personaly, I hope they succeed. We need solutions, and fast.

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@BenOscar-]

Seems to be a brilliant ecological loop with little footprint and also lucrative 👌what a great idea, hope it spreads.

[@aurasvasilica5599]

Maybe in the future you can collect sunlight with solarenergy more efficient and send it optimized to the plant. I am aNoob, just had a think

[@Withnail1969]

little footprint? seems like a lot of energy is used.

[@colincuster6226]

Thank you again! Happy vacation?

[@melissamybubbles6139]

I'm not a stem person, so I have no feedback other than to say that this idea sounds really cool. Thank you for sharing.

[@dennismiller5725]

How about replacing synthetic rope with hemp again?

[@17hmr243]

are yes coz hemp is as strong as amsteel rope. and when its wet and rots i have to buy a 2nd rope to replace it meaning i have to drive to work work drive home adding carbon back into the system.

[@wulver810]

At least it degrades in the waters instead of floating around for decades killing wildlife cause you cut it free and can't be bothered to dispose of it properly.

[@17hmr243]

@@wulver810 ok eco warrior and how much sea life and river life u killing buying dye hemp rope if u claim im dumping nylon rope in oceans im claiming that you are dyed hemp rope is pollutants the same waterway with cadmium cobalt chromium arsenic

[@wulver810]

@@17hmr243 I'm killing it all so you don't have to purchase anymore nets.

[@christopherlee7334]

@@17hmr243 as a member of the military, I, for one, am proud to support an organization dumping millions of tons of radioactive waste, pollutants, plastics, lead, mercury, and other toxins into the seas, skies and land for decades, both intentionally and through laziness! /s

[@philwoodfordjjj8928]

It is a wonderful plant. As you have said, the products that can be made from hemp are many and varied. It can be grown more or less anywhere and as you also remarked, with the industrial hemp strains it would take a spliff the size of a telegraph pole to get a buzz. Add that to "hot air technology" and it becomes self sufficent.

[@petersimmons3654]

Hemp flowers are a source of CBD, so there's another crop apart from the fibre, making the plant very profitable. This fear some have of 'getting high' is insane, yet they happily get off their face on alcohol, knowing the damage it does. Since the medicinal uses of cannabis are huge, one would think this silliness would have died away, it's good for body and mind.

[@jwvandegronden]

Love your content! How on earth do you keep tap on all these developments? Must be mind boggling at times!

[@terrywilkinson1570]

Surely a sister factory should be growing hemp for all cotton clothes, rope, plastic bags , boxes all canvases as well as removing heavy metals from the soil and improving water purity. Love your research and keeping it understandable.

[@mrjoecurr6147]

This particular system and proposal seems very promising & intriguing (no doubt down to your excellent presentation). I wonder though, if future iterations of these facilities could be water-based? Imagine huge flotillas & barges created from the very graphene these factories subsequently produce? Deployed in regions of high plastic pollution and economic stryfe?

[@nolan4339]

While utilizing phosphorous rich waste water may be a good thing, where does that phosphorous end up? Surely there is not much left within the biochar. Does it go up a smokestack or is it captured or recycled somewhere? I'd love the hear a bit about the phosphorus cycle, its different forms, and how it cycles through our industries from mineral to biomatter and back to mineral.

[@brianmeadows1137]

Basically it's absorbed by the plant, used to help cell growth and as it does that photosynthesis breaks it down into different chemicals which aren't toxic to the environment

[@pvsnrj]

It is possible in second phase phosphorus cycle development can be commercialized as one another revenue stream.

[@JoelElder2013]

Could waste water from potash mining be used in the same manner as phosphorus waste water?

[@brianmeadows1137]

@@JoelElder2013 potash used to be spread on our garden all the time, as long as the soil PH levels are correct it's a very cheap fertilizer, Hemp is great at detoxifying soil as it is a "weed" and will use anything it gets to help it grow

[@olegil2]

@@brianmeadows1137 The problem with phosphorous is that it's a fertilizer, not that it's toxic. So it needs to be captured from waste water and put in use as fertilizer

[@Jeremy-ms3bd]

Nice to know someone is utilizing the greenhouse type of filtration unit.

[@Cryogenics12]

Fascinating stuff. I love your videos

[@johngault8688]

This all sounds very promising. Maybe now we can stop being so childish over our irrational biases against hemp.

[@jayjames7055]

so many are so anti hemp but pro alcohol, which is a seriously hard drug which leads to physical withdrawals on a par with heroin. Strornry.

[@pablomax3045]

@@jayjames7055 That comes from decades of brainwashing. It's interesting that people in the west like to point out how brainwashed folks are from China, yet cannot see their own brainwashing or propaganda and take umbrage to any suggestion that they are.

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@craigboyd1888]

@@jayjames7055 You Never had heroin withdrawal, have you?

[@marvenlunn6086]

The thing I find funny is how alcohol is consider different than drugs I don't know how many times I heard people say they don't do drugs while drinking beer

[@Oliverg8sr]

Great video (yet again), thanks. If it runs on solar and/or wind energy this looks like a winner, if the maths stack up as well as suggested. Even if they don't it's a brilliant concept that can be built on.

[@tylerwood9585]

even better, it runs on it's own biomass growth, However, it can run on plastic waste, used tires, and agricultural waste streams

[@chrishoward4638]

Thank you for your continuing sanity in our complicated evolution

[@seanbell6371]

Brilliant. Very clear and I am excited about this technology. I just love closed loop systems.

[@tonydeveyra4611]

2:10 or you could just plant hemp in fields. It will be far cheaper and have a far less environmental impact than constructing and powering warehouses. I am a farmer in California doing fiber trials with hemp. We planted in March and our plants are >12' tall now will probably grow until August. Hoping to get 10 ton an acre.

[@LindaWestCellos]

Yes but stacking in a smaller space minimizes habitat intrusion and maximizes carbon intake potential. Also land costs money.

[@jaywalker02]

Do you know if hemp helps soil like buffer crops and how does it impact your farming practice? Eg machine harvesting and navigating around the hemp plants for your regular business

[@-LightningRod-]

YOU are a HERO to me

[@tonydeveyra4611]

@@LindaWestCellos you know how many millions and millions and millions of acres are already farmed? Or that a hemp field is a habitat in of itself? Add biodiversity hedgerows and a cover crop rotation as part of a no till management and you have no fertilizer inputs or runoff either

[@MichaelJessen]

It would compete with food production at scale, in a world with ten billion mouths to feed. By industrialising the process maybe we can keep the Amazon.

[@kellygracern6874]

This was an amazing episode and I would be very very interested in being a major part of expanding some of the elements mentioned in this video. Is this facility fully operational?

[@fatheroffibereconomics]

Sad how no one even answered you. I have the solutions you really wanna be part of. All you gotta do is look at me and connect with me. I'm a figure, not at all hard to reach

[@davidvanberckel2900]

@@fatheroffibereconomics I would be interested in using organic fibre as picture frame mouldings.

[@Jitster619]

Man, I wish I could present my thoughts and observations in such a great manner.

[@purityhealthproducts1728]

What a brilliant and informative video, thank you so much sir. As of now I am a subscriber 💚👌🙏

[@SoilMatrix_Biochar]

Perfect! Hear, hear! I mean, think, think! And happy Father’s Day. Let’s hear it for the bioneers too!

[@petehunter8268]

Thank you

[@jordanwood5992]

Probably the only person on KZbin with a genuinely interesting intro

[@benpaynter]

Another really interesting video, thanks for posting

[@mickwilson127]

Brilliant as always mate. The hippies were right after all, weed will save the world 😂

[@staalwijk]

Save the world, smoke more weed. 😎

[@nathanlewis42]

@@staalwijk smoking it puts the carbon in the weed back into the atmosphere. Eat it instead.

[@carltaylor4942]

@@nathanlewis42 - I eat it because I developed COPD from smoking weed and tobacco.

[@proudchristian77]

Lord Jesus saved the world already , it's done , accept & say, yes please , cause He worthy of it , 💖👣👑

[@sfmc3000]

@@proudchristian77 and in the bible it says ''to utilise the seed bearing herb'Jeremiah In Jeremiah 6:20, God expresses displeasure with the material sacrifices His followers have been offering to atone for their sins. “Incense from Sheba and the sweet cane from a far country” are specifically mentioned as unacceptable offerings in this context. It is believed that both the incense and sweet cane mentioned in this verse may have been cannabis. Ezekiel Ezekiel 34:29 speaks of a “plant of renown,” which some translations have interpreted to be a reference to hemp. However, there is some argument that this passage is actually talking about a fruitful land for planting, not a particular plant. Exodus The most notable cannabis references in the Old Testament are in the book of Exodus. Moses begins conversing with God after he goes to investigate a bush that he observes to be on fire, but not burning up (Exodus 3:2-5). God then instructs Moses to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, where they had been living in oppression. After Moses successfully accomplishes this feat, God continues to come to him with divine information and further instructions. However, it has been speculated that this communion took place under the influence of weed. God is even described throughout Exodus as making His earthly appearances in clouds of smoke. In Exodus 19:9, God tells Moses, “I will come to you in a dense cloud so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Moses was instructed by God to set up an altar inside his tent for the sole purpose of burning incense (which may have been cannabis) in Exodus 30:1-9. When the cloud of smoke could be observed at the door, his followers would assemble outside the tent in prayer.

[@nck87]

420 to the rescue! This is amazing and exactly the kind of initiatives we need for this problem. Very effective use of existing technology to make a profitable carbon capture solution.

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics. it will never sequester enough carbon to make producing and burning plastic carbon neutral.

[@AndreasLudwigPhD]

Really enlightening story again. Sounds almost too good to be true. Thanks so much!

[@cymag]

Great video, what you have presented could be almost be perfection.

[@RWBHere]

Where does the energy come from to produce the artificial lighting, heating of the distillation column, running the CVD system, pumping, and transporting of materials? This sounds like a closed system which will run out of energy very quickly, unless a Carbon-neutral electricity generating source can be provided.

[@justinpearman9]

The process produces syngas & bio-oils that fuel the process.. as covered by the video. 'Most' pyrolysis processes utilize between 5% to 15% of the energy produced to continue the process. Obviously some feedstocks are more hydrogen dense than others (tires tend to be the densest/5% with mixed-feedstock biomass tending to be on the lower end of the spectrum at the ~15% number. That leaves a remaining net gain of energy available for other processes.. including providing the electricity needed to power the lighting. Keep in mind, LEDs are pretty darn efficient.

[@SpiritusBythos]

If I hear HEMP i think of the most useful plant humans have ever discovered. Food fiber medicine building materials etc. One of the biggest disinfo campaigns ever. The chemical companies wanted to get rid of the competition after they invented the synthetic fabrics. Thank you for your video

[@davmole]

Before the chemical companies hemp was demonised by the US wood pulp industry who wanted the monopoly to supply paper to the newspaper presses. Even though hemp fibre makes superior paper. Needless to say the wood pulping industry won out - by lobbying governments and creating lies about hemp, as well as feeding anti Mexican xenophobia at the same time - and so the massive loss of trees. This then became successive government doctrine which informed other countries view of hemp. That it was a worthless drug. In effect the governments became the protection racket.

[@SpiritusBythos]

@@davmole yes my friend. The list is long and full of sorrows. There are people moving and shaking in the hemp industry let's see if they can make it thrive without giant heartless companies try to bulldoze all of the progress! Take care

[@email4664]

@@SpiritusBythos many of these farmers are heartless former methheads and other various shitbags that could not cut it in any other industry, but there are a few good ones in there too- Very few though. Most are absolute crooks

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics. it will never sequester enough carbon to make producing and burning plastic carbon neutral.

[@SpiritusBythos]

@@AllSectorsHearThis ok. Burning things tends to be messy.. Sources? Do you know by chance how much biomass is left in the ground when growing and harvesting such plants?

[@Spec62]

Keep them coming. Knowledge is key; knowledge is power.

[@frankronald5761]

I really appreciate your films. Thank you.

[@anders21karlsson]

This is a great idea, just do it!!!!!! It is also a very good insulation product. Then the carbon stay in the walls of the houses for hundreds of years (about :-))

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.

[@paul-wq2rd]

@@AllSectorsHearThis Agreed about hemp graphene. But what do you mean by burning plastics?

[@selbalamir]

Watching this again - I can’t help but wonder how much energy is needed to power the plasma oven to convert the graphene. Sounds energy intensive.

[@tylerwood9585]

It’s not, and it’s self energized by the biomass it produces

[@richardmcdonald7565]

THAT electricity, must come from a renewable source, such as Wind or Solar power. That must be a part of each one of these facilities... (or... at least a nearby source of renewable energy, should power the entire thing)... I guess you just have no idea exactly how much energy can be produced, using those two sources. The ARC furnace, and the number of units (either windmills, or solar panel arrays), should be matched, with the amount of electrical power, needed to run the warehouse facility, the arc furnace, and the electro-plating, simultaneously... and there should be room for planned expansion, as is possible... (at least until we can prove that our state (NM), is now sequestering AS MUCH or MORE, of the CO2 pollutant, which has been produced in the gas and oil business. Even more sequestration, (to pull CO@ out of our shared atmosphere, could be reimbursed (similar to a carbon credit?)... which would allow NEW MEXICO to be paid to pull CO@ out of the atmosphere, FOR other states, or countries, which cannot manage to do so yet...

[@captainkenno]

Great video. Thanks for sharing and let's hope more places follow suit. UK I'm looking at you!

[@samuelcookphippen]

Awesomeness! We have got to get past “refer madness” and start utilizing the humble hemp plant for its many beneficial qualities.