Invention UPdate Lignin Test Plants and Robot Farming

Today was a pretty important date times 2, if you are following Scotts Contracting Lignin Removal Test Plants that will be used to test the Lignin Removal Invention.

Scotty has been leaving a breadcrumb trail on this blog and its sister blog on the future aspects that will become an important aspect on not only the Inventions: BioRad Hazardous Waste Removal and Hemp Farming Machinery;  but also future business avenues that will be capitalized and turned into income producing avenues for the company and its shareholders.

Here is why today was a big deal as it relates to Missouri Agribusiness and Robotics (Breadcrumb 1, Breadcrumb 2)  In a prior social media post I highlighted how Tree Planting robots are being used to plant trees.  It is not too much of a stretch of imagination, to see how similar Kenaf Seedlings are very similar to actual Trees check out today's Kenaf Test Plant Animated Images and see how fast these Kenaf Test Plants have come from the early days.

In a few days the transplant experiment will prove how hardy the Kenaf Plants are.  I'll be honest they have not had a luxurious life since they first sprouted in January 2016.  I have purposely let them grow in the little plant trays to demonstrate not only the hardiness of the Kenaf plant; but, also the how easily and carefree they grow.  This semi mimics how adaptable they will be to actual field growing conditions relative to Missouri's Climate.   

I previously stated: 

USE ROBOTS TO PLANT SEEDS FOR PHYTOREMEDIATION ON HAZMAT SOIL AND LAND.  

This eliminates humans coming in contact with Nuclear Rads.  I really like this idea, as a business owner who will have to cover the health hazards of the crew while working on hazmat soils. 

Feel free to contact Scotty by email or contact form about any information related to Investment opportunities for the Hemp and Kenaf Farm Machinery

Invention UPdate Lignin Test Plants

This post has been updated at this link with youtube videos of Robotic Farming Videos added

The Whipping Cheer - 1612 - Hemp Break - Dead Rat Orchestra

Dead Rat Orchestra shows how to operate a Hemp Brake while showcasing their musical talents  The Whipping Cheer



The Whipping Cheer - 1612 - Hemp Break - Dead Rat Orchestra

Hemp Kindly Supplied by Harrison Spinks. 

Hemp Break conceived designed & constructed by David Holcombe

Based on a design by Benjamin Franklin

TYBURNIA is a tour by Dead Rat Orchestra - a live sound track to the film by James Holcombe. A Radical History of 600 years of publc execution. 

Breaking hemp for rope making was one of the labours undertaken by inmates at Bridewell prison. The rope was use for hangings at the Tyburn Gallows in West London. 

More information: 
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@deadratorchestr

Kenaf: Grow it, Recycle It!

Hemp: A Source Biomass Antibacterial Fibers

Cannabis sativa: The Plant of the Thousand and One Molecules

Plant lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant renewable resource, which can provide biopolymers, fibers, chemicals and energy (Guerriero et al., 2014, 2015, 2016). 

Trees are important for the provision of wood, however, also fast-growing herbaceous species, like textile hemp (which has a THC content <0.3%; Weiblen et al., 2015), can provide high biomass quantities in a short time. The stem of this fiber crop supplies both cellulosic and woody fibers: the core is indeed lignified, while the cortex harbors long cellulose-rich fibers, known as bast fibers (Figure 1) (Guerriero et al., 2013).

FIGURE 1

FIGURE 1. Anatomical details of Cannabis stem. (A) Stem of an adult plant (ca 2 months); (B) The stem can be peeled off and shows a lignified core and a cortex with bast fibers. (C) Longitudinal section of hemp stem stained with toluidine blue 

showing the cortex with a bundle of bast-fibers (white asterisk) and the core with xylem vessels (black asterisk).

This heterogeneous cell wall composition makes hemp stem an interesting model to study secondary cell wall biosynthesis, in particular the molecular events underlying the deposition of cortical gelatinous bast fibers and core woody fibers.

Cannabis woody fibers (a.k.a “hurds” or “shivs”) are used for animal bedding because of their high absorption capacity and for the creation of a concrete-like material.

Hemp bast fibers are used in the biocomposite sector as a substitute of glass fibers. The automotive industry is particularly keen on using hemp bast fibers to produce bioplastics: this material is stronger than polypropylene plastic and lighter in weight (Marsh, 2003).

Beyond the applications in the construction and automotive industries, hemp fibers are attractive also in the light of their natural antibacterial property. Hemp bast fibers have been indeed described as antibacterial (Hao et al., 2014; Khan et al., 2015) and their use for the manufacture of an antibacterial finishing agent (Bao et al., 2014), surgical devices (Gu, 2006) or functionalized textiles (Cassano et al., 2013) has been reported. This property is linked to the chemical composition of hemp bast fibers: both free and esterified sterols and triterpenes have been identified, among which β-sitosterol and β-amyrin (Gutiérrez and del Río, 2005). These compounds possess known antibacterial properties (Kiprono et al., 2000; Ibrahim, 2012). Hemp bast fibers were also found to contain cannabinoids (2% of the total metabolite extract) (Bouloc et al., 2013 and references therein). More recently hemp hurd powder showed antibacterial properties against Escherichia coli (Khan et al., 2015). Since the hurd has a higher lignin content than the bast fibers, its antibacterial property may be linked to lignin-related compounds such phenolic compounds, as well as alkaloids and cannabinoids (Appendino et al., 2008; Khan et al., 2015).

Hemp Stem: A Source of Fibers with Antibacterial Properties

REVIEW ARTICLE

Front. Plant Sci., 04 February 2016 |http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00019

Christelle M. Andre*, Jean-Francois Hausman and Gea Guerriero

• Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

International Hemp Environment Forum Kyoto Event

English below: 

「第１回世界麻環境フォーラム」は２０１６年７月２日、国立京都国際会館にてHemp Environment Forum という国際ネットワークの立上げとして開催されるもので、ネットワークの公式なキックオフイベントとなります。
２回目以降は開催地国を変えて国際年次イベントとする予定でいます。

ネットワークは世界中の、まさに５大陸をまたいだ参加者による、麻農業者や麻関連企業、麻や環境の専門家グループのネットワークです。
今年の１月に日本を起点に動きが始まり繋がったFacebook上に存在するネットワークです。現在の参加者は２５国以上の国から７０名です。
「世界麻環境フォーラム」Hemp Environmental Forum の結成の目的は「持続可能な未来の創造」です。その為に「麻」Hempの有用性を活用していく為の情報交換の場となっています。この度の「第１回世界麻環境フォーラム」ができる限りの顔合わせの場となります。
達成目的として「国際麻環境基金」の立上げを視野に入れております。環境貢献度の高い麻を活用したプロジェクトや、伝統の麻の技術や文化を保存・継承していくプロジェクトを助成、推進していく為のものです。

This is a whole earth project, from 5 continents, covering earth. No matter in which region or country you live, what jobs or business you are doing, rich or poor or whatsoever, global climate change you are facing to is real. As long as we depends on toxic energy that is killing us, there is no sustainable future. It's time to be aware that Hemp is the champion biomass with its versatile usage, it's so versatile that it can substitute to fossil fuel which causes a lot of environmental problems and also substitute to precious forests which are giving us oxygen that all the animals on earth need by all means. Destruction of forests are exigency level too.

 At "International Hemp Environment Forum", in order to get aware of the value of Hemp and other biomass resources internationally worldwide, and implement to realize the sustainability, starting at KICC where Kyoto protocol was signed which international society has agreed that there ARE environmental problems planetary to share and to have responsible by humankind on this earth, we are allowed to take the title of the book "HEMP Lifeline to the Future". What the author Chris Conrad has predicted in the book has been and being realized, utility of hemp specially in Europe and America. But it's not enough when the matter and issues are global for whole earth. Have to implement it worldwide. That's the reason we get unite here in Kyoto today from all over the world for make balance on us all. Time is now, not later when it would be too late. Having legal issue at each country with each conditions, after international ban on a purpose of industrial colonization or monopolization, we may first need to solve those illogical issue worldwide with our unity too. 

Fortunately, we have all the heroes and heroines who are advocators with all the experiments and professional skills by all means. We can work together. It should not be such a big matter compared with the matter whether we human being can survive sustainably. As you can see, world is moving toward. We don't worry. It's more important to implement hemp thus create sustainable area or region, starting locally and widen internationally. We are honored this movement starts from this island nation, Japan where people are cultivating it and using it for over 10,000 years with evidence thus having a lot of experience and knowledge and also wisdom towards the way for sustainability. But even at here with such long history of using it, after 70 years of ban on it, people are forgetting all the knowledge and methods plus wisdom within. For here too locally, it's time now than later, it cannot be at next generation otherwise all the knowledge will be forgotten forever.

With the new sophisticated ideas and innovated techniques combined with those traditional knowledge and wisdom towards sustainability, we can really implement hemp farming and its utility and can realize sustainable future which is talked in a book "HEMP Lifeline to the Future". This is the matter of survival and hope for all of us living on earth which is a planet with limited resources human can utilize. She can feed all of us if we plow the land and cultivate plants and use it humbly as renewable resource, and we can share all. We get unite, be aware, share the info and knowledge and implement together with worldwide network and cooperation with compassion to each other. It's time to start. We wish 2nd July 2016 in Kyoto will be memorized in a history that we remember the way how to keep surviving all of us with renewable natural resources, specially cannabis HEMP as a symbol of biomass and earth's precious gift we can use for ourselves and for our earth to be healed. 

Thank you very much for your attendance, kind cooperation and uniting with us.

Registered Non Profit Organization (NPO), Japan Hemp Association
together with Hemp Environmental Forum, international network