Is there anything hemp can’t do? A year after hemp became legal to grow in the United States,
we’ve seen its power to make better clothing, better buildings and better medicine.
Now, there’s something else hemp appears to be better at. ✴making batteries✴
Most auto batteries today are made from lithium-ion, an expensive, quickly disappearing material.
A team of American and Canadian researchers have developed a battery that could be used in cars and power tool
using hemp bast fiber – the inner bark of the plant that usually ends up in landfill.
They “cooked” the woody pulp and processed them into carbon nanosheets, which they used to build supercapacitors “on a par with or better than graphene” – the industry gold standard.
Graphene is a synthetic carbon material lighter than foil yet bulletproof, but it is prohibitively expensive to make.
“People ask me: why hemp? I say, why not?” inventor David Mitlin tells the BBC.
“We’re making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price – and we’re doing it with waste.”
Mitlin, a chemical engineer, first published a description of his team’s battery in the journal ACS Nano in 2014.
More recently, a YouTuber put the hemp battery to the test against a lithium-ion battery and found it to be 8 times more powerful!
Tesla’s new million-mile battery is made from lithium-iron phosphate, which is supposed to last twice as long as conventional lithium-ion batteries.
While more abundant and cheaper than lithium-ion, lithium-iron-phosphate still can’t compete with the apparently far-more-powerful (and renewable) hemp!
https://returntonow.net/2022/01/05/hemp-batteries-last-longer-lithium-graphene/
The moment I went from a happy stoner to angry 6th generation American was reading Jack E. Herer's "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" back a couple decades ago. The books was published in 1985 with a $100,000 bounty to anyone that could disprove what the author wrote about the history of Cannabis dating back almost 10,000 years. He passed a few years back but as far as I know no one has claimed that bounty to date.
I have come to the conclusion that the "cabal" demonized this wonderful family of plants to further distance mankind from their spiritual side. I highly (pun intended) recommend it a source of education on this subject.
Henry Ford built an entire car using hemp products that never made it to market.
William Randolph Hearst ran a nationwide yellow journalism campaign to help bring in the prohibition of all things Cannabis related in order to keep his vast timber holdings in the Pacific Northwest as a viable long term cash cow supplying pulp to the paper industries.
Once upon a time in these United States, before they became states or united for that matter, land grants required that Hemp be grown on the lands by decree of the crown.
Cannabis is actually a gift from the creator.