Cannabis of course is termed a marijuana and pot. Always be associated with drug users and stoners. But whenever we can put away that stigma, we find that cannabis has four times the cellulose value as corn, making it a potentially good plant for ethanol production.
Now then, personally I would not do drugs or smoke pot so this article is without consideration of the stoners in the world or their potential support of this plant for ethanol. If cannabis grows so well all over the world it does make sense to look into its use for the making of ethanol.
If cannabis can be made into Ethanol then we need to modify it to make money better and use those genetic differences which provide for low water in production to insure that unfortunately we cannot get price spikes whenever you have drought in the ethanol we use for fuel. Additionally if the plant can be used to “get high” then we need to modify it so which don’t occur or that the leaching into the soil or waterways does not contain high levels of THC as it will be problematic.
If we further modify this cannabis weed then we need to make it with terminating seeds until we know cures have done, other wise it grow to be a “super weed” and take over natural cannabis along with close genetic types of weeds. In a price think tank recently a gentleman mentioned that;
“Ethanol/bio diesel are the fuel regarding the future for that rotary, eccentric crank, 4 and 2 cycle engines running our cars boats trains and generator sets etc. I understand it burns far cleaner than the crude oil based hydrocarbon heavy fuels we use at present, and will minimize the contamination.”
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