$580 Million US Market in 2014 22% Market Growth
Seed
Bast Fiber
Core Fiber
Industrial Hemp is Four Crops
Greens
24% 240,000 PPM
Mari- juana
Hemp vs Marijuana
It’s been said that all crows are blackbirds,...
but not all blackbirds are crows.
Marijuana is a man-made cultivar of hemp specifically bred to be high in THC.
Industrial Hemp has been bred for centuries to be low in THC - so low it is virtually not there.
Standard for THC in Industrial Hemp
The same can be said for industrial hemp and its hallucinogenic cousin marijuana.
0.30% Marijuana 3,000 PPM
is hemp, but Industrial Hemp is not Marijuana.
0.005%
0.001% 50 PPM
10 PPM
THC in commercial hemp oil
for Canadian Standard
hemp oil
Vote Hemp.
A modified harvester can remove seed and stalk at the same time.
Hemp has been called the plant of 25,000 uses - as long as you don’t use it in the United States. Many of its traditional markets have shrunk or gone overseas since it was banned in 1937. It is unlikely they will come back.
But a new generation has discovered the powerful nutritional benefits and the new markets for biocomposites that make a strong case for hemp’s valuable contributions to our health, environment and economy.
The Hemp Seed is rich in Omega-3 oil and amino acids. In all the plant kingdom, nothing so matches the brain’s Omega oil profile as hemp seed.
Packaged Nut Hemp Milk Hemp Butter
Hemp Nut
Hemp is Highly Nutritious Food
Cracking
Shell
Oil
Food Fiber
Food Personal
Care
Industrial
Soap Shampoo Lotion Salad Oil EFA Supplement
Paints Lubricants Margarine
Bio Diesel
Pressing
Seed Cake
Animal Feed Protein Powder
Scutching Hackling Carding Combing Sizing
Hemp is Two Fibers
Different Retting Methods
Ground Enzyme
Water Steam Different retting processes may be used to separate fiber from stalk
Retted stalks are baled and shipped for
Long
Decorticator
Decorticating
Plant Fibre
Fiber Waste (20%)
Core
Geotextiles
Fuel Pellets Insulation Cordage Textiles Paper Fiber Reinforced Plastics
Animal Bedding HempCrete Particle Board Wood Flour
The Long and Short of it
Pressboard, Fiberboard and Chipboard
Short Fibre
Breaking Sizing Cleaning Packaging
Which Fiber Should be Banned?
Of the 46 pesticides used, 20 are moderately hazardous, 8 are highly hazardous and 5 are extremely hazardous
Hemp requires little input, but it loves nitrogen. It works well
Worldwide Everything
Cotton Else Combined Pesticide Market Share per Acre
in rotation with vegetables using their leftovers.
Hemp likes a good rain now and then. It can protect waterways by absorbing nutrients with strong roots to hold farm runoff.
Hemp is good for soil. Its roots go deep to find water and aerate the soil. Farmers leave the stubble as a soil conditioner.
Farmers leave the stalks on the ground to dry and ret. The leaves fall off returning nitrogen and adding tilth.
Hemp grows so tall and dense it drives out weeds. Farmers employ it in rotation to remove weeds naturally for organic crops to follow.
24% of the world’s pesticides are applied to cotton, and only a quarter of that lands on target. Worse, it’s not much land.
Cotton is the world’s thirstiest crop depleting ground water and polluting river basins.
Cotton depletes the soil and heavy irrigation poisons the land with salts.
Cotton uses defoliants before harvest.
Cotton requires chemical weed control.
Hemp is called Evil. Cotton is called Natural.
Hemp vs Cotton
Cars must eliminate their landfill requirement, increase their recyclability, reduce their weight and reduce their carbon footprint.
Hemp fiber added to bio-plastic resins does all that.
Lotus made the whole car of hemp composites.
The Mercedes C-class uses 20 kilograms of hemp to make reinforced plastic panels for doors, headliners, trunk liners, glove boxes and consoles.
Bio-Resin
Fillers Additives
Wood Flour Ground Glass Glass Bubbles
Mixer
A wide range of products are possible for Sheet Molding Compound.
Pultrusion Molding
Cord Belt or Sheet
UV or Heat Curing
Produces Rods, Strips, Sheets or Custom Profiles (eg. Decking)
Sheet Molding and Pultrusion are two plastic molding methods that are readily converted to Bio-Resins and natural fibers. At End of Life, the parts can be chipped and molded into large objects such as highway furniture.
BioResin
To
Warehouse
Bio-Composites Stronger & Lighter
Takeup Reel
Top Film
Chopper
Bottom Film
Sheet Molding Compound Machine
Hemp Fiber Roving
Hempcrete is a biocomposite
formed with Lime and Hemp Shiv. It is renewable, recyclable and sustainable. It makes quiet, energy efficient housing (R30-R50 insulation) with no synthetic materials and an excellent 2-hour fire rating.
The walls breathe inhibiting the formation of mold and mildew causing no asthma or allergies. No “sick building syndrome” forcing premature demolition.
$65,000 of hemp shiv, lime binder and lime render were imported from England - money that could go to American farmers and producers. Approximately 4 acres of hemp were used.
Water, Lime and Shiv are lightly mixed in a conventional mortar mixer. The mixture is lightweight and easily skidded around the site.
When dry, a special lime-based hard render exterior is applied similar to stucco.
The brick face was specially designed to maintain breathability.
Annual energy savings is about $900 per year.
When dry, hempcrete is about a seventh of the weight of cement. It floats in water. Material is poured between forms and tamped down. It sets up sufficiently to pull forms in as little as an hour. The material is light and can be passed bucket-brigade fashion to workers on scaffolding.
With forms removed, the walls are protected from rain for a week and kept moist to control the curing.
Hempcrete can be applied as loose-fill insulation. The attic is filled 12” of loose fill. The mixture uses less binder, but the lime continues to provide the fire rating.
The curtains are removed and the walls are left to dry and cure.
Tarpon Springs, FL
The house absorbed about 14 tons of CO2. Hempcrete can last a thousand years sequestering carbon all the while.
Hemp Makes Healthy Efficient Houses
Hemp for Phytoremediation
Hemp roots go deep to pull contaminants up into the canopy.
Hemp absorbs heavy metals like Lead, Cadmium and even radioactive Cesium.
The metals concentrate in the leaves. Stalks and seed are little affected.
Dried leaves can be crushed to reduce volume and trucked away for disposal.
Stalks can be processed in the conventional manner for fiber. Seed might be safe for animal feed.
Hemp is being used to remediate Radioactive Cesium at Chernobyl. Fukushima is also studying it.
America’s Hanford, WA site is not allowed to use Hemp.
Containment Booms
Florida has experienced oil spills on our beaches just from shipping accidents in our ports. Many Floridians filed claims in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Spill.
Hemp is very absorbent. The hemp core can be blown into simple netting material to make containment booms from all natural fiber for about a quarter of the price of synthetic booms.
Florida can produce enough hemp to make a hundred thousand miles of 12” boom - enough to surround many Deepwater Horizon spills. It can be stored and shipped on large reels and cut to size for the immediate need. It is lightweight and can be flown to disasters.
There is no reason barges of inexpensive boom material can’t be stored in all our ports ready for immediate deployment.
The used material can be incinerated or composted depending on the material contained. But Paul Stamets, a noted mycobiologist, has shown that the best way to remove oil is to plant wood eating fungii. Oyster mushrooms work the best, and hemp core is woody material. Paul uses hemp rope inoculated with oyster mushroom spores as the starter medium for his mushroom farm.
It’s possible you could eat the next oil spill. Or maybe you’d rather eat the last one...
