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.
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.
@@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.
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. (-:
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.
@@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.
@@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?
@@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.
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
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 !
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
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.
thankyou, i was having some doubts about the actual ecological friendliness of such factory plants, it doesnt seem to make sense to build them as you clearly expounded upon the drawbacks, iv also got my suspicions about the actual net carbon sequester effect of such closed loop systems which will most likely have alot of hidden energy efficiency losses and costs that arent counted
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
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.
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?
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..
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.
@@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 🇺🇸
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?
@@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.
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.
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?
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
You forgot cotton lobbyists. They, like alcohol producers want the continuation of their monopoly and spend a lot to see the prohibition of competition.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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. 🙂
Yes, I agree. These innovative technologies ARE the hope of the world, for certain. If we wouldn't change all these things, we (as a species), wouldn't be here long.
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.
Negatives?! I see none!! What a fantastic arrangement. The entire future of building (as I see it) is carbon, hemp, and bamboo. You have 2 of 'em en masse!! Very exciting!
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.
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
@@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
@@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
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.
@@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
Sounds like an amazing idea, doing all kinds of useful things in one process, with multiple revenue streams, some of them very valuable. It's these kind of ideas that should get the funding.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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
"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.
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.
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...
@@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/
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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
@@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
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.
wow! Finally someone is proving what Jack Herer said about hemp. We need to utilize this resource to it's full potential. Not only will it solve many problems of industrial waste it is a road to many solutions of our global society. Keep up the good work!
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!
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.
@@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
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.
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 :-))
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.
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...
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
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.
@@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
@@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
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.
@@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?
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.
Enjoyed that video. It seems that it has a simple business plan, but relies quite heavily on subsidies,, not necessarily available in various countries. Can see a few problems and energy used, after all they find illegal grow houses by how much juice they use for heat and light
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.
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.
I love the idea I am into the same industry but using biowaste. I noticed with the simple conservation of energy rule that the energy from carbohydrates shouldn't be enough to provide lighting for the hemp and you will need energy for the pumps and the ventilation. This is hopefully be combined with a green energy grid
It is self-powered, zero-waste, closed loop negative emissions, and manufactures Carbon Negative Bio-char, activated carbon, Bio-Graphene, and Bio-diamonds
I love the perpetual motion machine comments, there is nothing in perpetual motion, Grow LEDs are on 25% of the time, pumps about 10%, plants are growing all the time, photosynthesis in hemp is very efficient. 10 pound plant from seed in 45 days including root ball, which this system uses also.
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?
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
I can't believe I just skimmed through 1.1k of comments and nobody caught what you said just before your titles [@ ~2:44]. You said, "... that'll be essential to keeping our global atmosperic temperature below 1.5° Celsius." I hope not! I hate [near] freezing temperatures! 😨 I think you meant to refer to keeping our global atmosperic temperature below 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels [? I forget what the reference level is supposed to be]. Other than that little blooper [and hints of perpetual motion ], it was a great video, as always. One of my favorite channels. 😘
The magic weed that has many different manufacturing uses, I think it's also a nitrogen fixing crop so good in crop rotation.lets hope it gets grow outside and become part of the agricultural norm and a good sustainable cash crop for farmers around the world.
@@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.
@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 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
@@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
I just spent several minutes looking for this guys name. He doesn’t announce himself and it’s not printed on the videos or website. I finally found it from a different source!
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I can't believe this is the only comment to point it out! I'd be happy to be wrong, but I think that this process can HARDLY be carbon negative! Let's say you input 100kW worth of electricity to make light. You get 90kW worth of light. Photosynthesis transform that in 1.8kW worth of starches oils in the form of a hemp plant, with 2% efficiency . Then you process the hemp and get maybe 1kW worth of fuel You burn this fuel and make electricity to power the whole factory, and you get maybe 0.6kW. So 99.994% of your electricity has to come from the grid. Ultimately, you're spending electricity to pull carbon out of the air, and with a seemingly lower efficiency than thermodynamic machines already in operation. For this to make any sense whatsoever you need to make absolutely sure that the electricity comes from renewables, but even then it looks like a pretty bad use of it. I'm persuaded that plants should only be grown with sunlight.
Pretty great show, as usual, except maybe for making it sound like a perpetual motion machine with the various inputs fueled by outputs. And with further commercially valuable outputs besides! You can get away with that with plants grown in natural light but not in this circumstance. Considerably more energy intensive would be my guess. Would like you to have touched on that. Or perhaps you did and I just wasn’t paying enough attention?
Perpetual motion? There is a whole 1/3rd of the video talking about its inputs needed to fuel production. It just happens to take waste inputs and uses the energy locked in that to create its exports. That isn't perpetual motion, that is just recourcefulness.
So, let me see if I understand this. 1. build vertical farm next to toxic waste-water. 2. Grow hemp using toxic waste water. Produce clean drinking water. 3. Use hemp to make fertilizer, graphene, and diamonds. 4. Power the entire operation using fuels produced from the hemp. Where is the downside?
5. ??? 6. Profit! The billion dollar question is, after paying for raw materials and selling all their products and carbon credits, can it turn a profit? Cabortura certainly has some estimates, but real life is always more complex than expected.
I read the comments here, so many people with wholesome first thoughts regarding hemp. I'm afraid my first thought was rather less wholesome - anyway, this was the most exciting video I've watched in a long while.
the closed water system is crucial large scale, and using hemp to filter contaminants needs to go large scale years ago. . nothing wrong with growing it on yer roof too, or even say ,, a spare BR
I like everything you propose, except one thing. I am extremely enthusiastic about using hemp and bamboo as the center of the system. But hydroponics is the most inefficient, expensive, and fragile part of the system. Drop that and I think the rest of the concept is great. In fact, I think it is the future.
You would be correct with any other crop but hemp. Using hemp they are reclaiming toxic waste water. Once the toxic waste ponds are drained, the whole operation can be moved and the land reclaimed for greener purposes than housing toxic sludge.
So I am one of those that have always opposed the legalization of Marijuana and I live in a state here in the US where it was recently passed for recreational use. I also live in an area where since that legalization several companies have started growing facilities for this industry. With that said I really found this video very enlightening and educational, I knew that Marijuana/Hemp had many uses other than as a drug. But now I can start to understand why some refer to it as a super plant, as it really has far more uses than I ever thought it did. I think these concepts could actually be used along side the the medical and recreational Marijuana industry to give something back to those of us that cringe at the thought of fields of drugs being grown just down the street etc.. Combine that with the thought of it providing more good jobs for an area and it seems like a win win?? Especially considering the Graphene production and the idea of Graphene for solid state batteries and how needed it is for the future electrification of our world and suddenly this seems like a no brainer!
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.
This sounds like perpetual motion, there is no way that indoor growing could be carbon neutral and even less of a chance of a chance of it being carbon negative especially when you consider the embodied energy of the warehouse and lighting systems. Let's see the math, until then this is just a pipe dream.
You have to consider the toxic waste removal aspect. Even if the operation is not carbon negative short term, what happens to the land after the toxic waste has been removed and trees can be planted and animals return? Down the line the whole process profits from making the world cleaner.
I just assumed that they'd gain energy from solar panels on top of said warehouse - there's also the fact that the biochar will store a lot of the sequestered carbon in itself.
This is a good point. I looked around at estimates of kwh required to grow a pound of hemp and the low end is around 600, with the high end 2k+. A pound of hemp is only 8000btu burned, and thats a paltry 2.5kwh. It would appear there is absolutely no way they are getting much energy out of this process. They should seemingly greenhouse (sun) at minimum, but land use seems required to bring power use down. Then of course you are going to need solar to cover the balance.
@@grimacester I wonder if they could grow on the toxic water itself? It is one thing to build a hydroponic farm on industrial wasteland, it is another thing to build one that floats.
He said the pyrolyser is supplemented with waste material from other industries. Also the energy of a plant is not wholly derived from the light it absorbs, the light acts as a kind of catalyst that allows it to turn carbon and other elements such as the phosphorous in the waste water into stored energy. Besides, the point of the system is to capture carbon, its doesnt need to be energy neutral, it could be supplemented with green energy.
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.
Is it the stigma of the plant that keeps it be used instead of cotton
Is there a link available to this study?
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.
Always been utterly ridiculous and short sighted to grow cotton in the Australian environment.
@@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.
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. (-:
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.
Hemp batteries out perform all other batteries
@@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.
@@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?
@@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.
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
Can't forget the creators of DDT, Agent Orange, and Roundup, Monsanto.
What ! It's a natural green plant , natural & green ?
@@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.
No ma'am, that's weed.
don't for get Randolph Hearst, who wanted to protect his newspaper from trees empire! he bought politicians! lobby lobby lobby$$$$$$>>>>>!!!!!!
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!
Definitely Agree Doctor! There's still countless things other than oil it has possibilities for use also :D
@@ohmegakilo hemp fiber is very under utilized!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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@@harrickvharrick3957 fibRE
@@fireanduril damn..!
@@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..
Hemp can make graphene and graphene is a low energy osmosis sea water filter. Great loop.
Cool! Good to know!
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
beautiful
cant it be used in battery's too?
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.
100% agreed
Totally agree also.
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
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Thanks Michael. I really appreciate that feedback :-)
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
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.
basically any country with a navy or commercial shipping had mandated hemp growing laws as it was vital to shipping.
reserve some spots for high times
or cannabis-tourism
@@scdm8906 I see this as a win-win situation
Uncle Sam ran a campaign called Hemp For Victory in WW2. Hemp was used for tents, uniforms, and of course, rope.
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.
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)
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.
This looks really promising. Let’s hope the technology works out and the company management is good.
And hope the government can see beyond: "Growing that stuff is illegal! Permit denied."
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.
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!
@@ErilynOfAnachronos Then still. It's not like this process can be used exclusively using hemp. Flax would be very useful as well.
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.
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 !
The opposite problem is not a danger anytime soon if ever.
@@nathanlewis42 locking up to much oxygen may be a problem for my lungs!
@@nathanlewis42 ummmm thats why they call me Mouron!😂
@@nathanlewis42 the opposite problem was nobody going to work anymore because of all the super important weeding that needs to be done !😂
Hempcrete is brilliant in many ways. Water and fire damage is a huge problem for homes, hempcrete is great for that.
Not sure which is more brilliant, the concept itself or your explanation of it. This one’s a gem!
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
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.
thankyou, i was having some doubts about the actual ecological friendliness of such factory plants, it doesnt seem to make sense to build them as you clearly expounded upon the drawbacks, iv also got my suspicions about the actual net carbon sequester effect of such closed loop systems which will most likely have alot of hidden energy efficiency losses and costs that arent counted
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.
mmm, scone covered casserole
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
The good old vikings wore hemp clothes.
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.
Thousands of years.
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?
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..
Ten years down the line is the problem of the bazzillion ton waste diamond mountain
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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
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.
@@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 🇺🇸
Original jeans were made of hemp and I want them back! Down with cotton denim
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
There’s a pun about down feathers in clothes that I’m too sleepy to make.
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?
@skygh That is actually an urban myth.
Though by now levis is actually allowing hemp jeans with it's branding.
@@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.
Your chanel never fails to give me hope for the future and for my children. Thank you very much.
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.
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.
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?
New Mexico is just like that too.@@davidblair9877
It’s almost 100 ‘Fahrenheit’ where I live by 9 in the morning in June, content like this gives me hope. Thanks man!
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
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
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!
And half baked
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.
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.
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.
Awesome! Well done. Great animation of the microwave plasma pyrolysis. And fun history fact. Thank you.
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.
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.
@ E Mail you know nothing! I say good day to you!
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.
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
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
This is the most informative video I've ever seen on youtube that is also proposing something that provides real solutions to HUGE problems.
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.
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.
Hey, and we COULD be real lucky too, if it could also work to put DeBeers diamonds out of biz. :-)
You forgot cotton lobbyists. They, like alcohol producers want the continuation of their monopoly and spend a lot to see the prohibition of competition.
Like they did in China.
There are hemp lobbyists. Looks like they have different use cases.
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
Educate the public and cotton will go away.
Ah yes the cotton lobbyists, the big planet water thieves. It's a bigger crime than you think.
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.
Imo the winners shouldn't be private companies like Tesla though. The government should do the work itself.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
Thank you so much Dave, for breaking these amazing, promising, but rather complicated topics down to chewable pieces !
Hemp have been used for 1000s of years in Algeria, Mauritania.....as a building material (cement like bricks) to build houses.
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
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.
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.
Agreed, this project looks carbon positive to me and that would be simple way to decrease its emissions.
How much more efficient would the light use be compared to normal farming. Does anyone have numbers?
@@PALOMNYK it is negative emissions, is self-energizing, zero-waste closed loop
@@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.
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.
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. 🙂
for the record I'd like to say i watch this channel because it give me hope for the future of humanity!!!!
Yes, I agree. These innovative technologies ARE the hope of the world, for certain. If we wouldn't change all these things, we (as a species), wouldn't be here long.
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.
I always picture 2 inch hemp rope.
Yep, we should be growing massive amounts of hemp, flax and merino for export.
Seems to be a brilliant ecological loop with little footprint and also lucrative 👌what a great idea, hope it spreads.
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
little footprint? seems like a lot of energy is used.
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.
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
Probably the only person on RUclips with a genuinely interesting intro
Negatives?! I see none!! What a fantastic arrangement. The entire future of building (as I see it) is carbon, hemp, and bamboo. You have 2 of 'em en masse!! Very exciting!
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.
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
It is possible in second phase phosphorus cycle development can be commercialized as one another revenue stream.
Could waste water from potash mining be used in the same manner as phosphorus waste water?
@@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
@@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
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.
Plants (land plants) only exist for 400-500 million years. Before it was all cyanobacteria and algae
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
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
@Daniel Cockerill in WA I believe. A government that actually listens to the science, they did brilliantly on the pandemic too.
@@rossmcleod7983 we should be doing so much better we have so many opportunities in this country
Australia has a bit of a problem there- Water scarcity may be a concern
@@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
I have been using hemp for fishing for 72 years and the fish are very happy!
Sounds like an amazing idea, doing all kinds of useful things in one process, with multiple revenue streams, some of them very valuable. It's these kind of ideas that should get the funding.
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.
How about replacing synthetic rope with hemp again?
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.
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.
@@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
@@17hmr243 I'm killing it all so you don't have to purchase anymore nets.
@@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
"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.
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.
@@underhill237 The conversion method isn't inefficient.
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...
@@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/
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.
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?
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!
Nice to know someone is utilizing the greenhouse type of filtration unit.
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.
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.
Carbotura is negative emissions, each facility is the equivalent of 25,000 acres of outdoor growing. with 95% less water use.
Indoor farming allows for more efficient use of resources, thus reducing impact. Less water, less waste, less fertilizer, etc
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
Boondoggle bonanza ! ! ! 🎉💥
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.
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.
Hemp has multitude of uses. It makes sense that we use it.
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.
Hemp fibre is an excellent reinforcement for concrete. Not to replace rebar but certainly to strengthen slabs against cracks.
This all sounds very promising. Maybe now we can stop being so childish over our irrational biases against hemp.
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.
@@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.
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
@@jayjames7055 You Never had heroin withdrawal, have you?
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
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.
Yes but stacking in a smaller space minimizes habitat intrusion and maximizes carbon intake potential. Also land costs money.
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
YOU are a HERO to me
@@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
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.
Hemp can save us all. Wonder why anyone would be against it. Mostly people who make money from what they have not what they do
For reference...See the DOW Chemical history..Very enlightening.
wow! Finally someone is proving what Jack Herer said about hemp. We need to utilize this resource to it's full potential. Not only will it solve many problems of industrial waste it is a road to many solutions of our global society. Keep up the good work!
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!
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.
These require electricity you know
@@aimanrahman5768 I was looking for a comment about electricity, because it’s an important point which isn’t mentioned in the video.
@@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..
@@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
Not if it is handmade
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.
even better, it runs on it's own biomass growth, However, it can run on plastic waste, used tires, and agricultural waste streams
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 :-))
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
@@AllSectorsHearThis Agreed about hemp graphene. But what do you mean by burning plastics?
And I thought that hemp only was good for two things; nearly indestructible shirts and chill weekends. :) Good stuff.
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.
Perfect! Hear, hear! I mean, think, think! And happy Father’s Day. Let’s hear it for the bioneers too!
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.
It’s not, and it’s self energized by the biomass it produces
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...
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
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.
@@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
@@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
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.
@@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?
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.
Enjoyed that video. It seems that it has a simple business plan, but relies quite heavily on subsidies,, not necessarily available in various countries. Can see a few problems and energy used, after all they find illegal grow houses by how much juice they use for heat and light
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.
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.
Thank you
So cool. Always been a big advocate for industrial hemp.
Let's not forget the hemp production of fiber in the use of paper will save many trees.
I love the idea
I am into the same industry but using biowaste.
I noticed with the simple conservation of energy rule that the energy from carbohydrates shouldn't be enough to provide lighting for the hemp and you will need energy for the pumps and the ventilation. This is hopefully be combined with a green energy grid
It is self-powered, zero-waste, closed loop negative emissions, and manufactures Carbon Negative Bio-char, activated carbon, Bio-Graphene, and Bio-diamonds
@@allenwitters5074 we invented perpetual energy with a net positive???
I love the perpetual motion machine comments, there is nothing in perpetual motion, Grow LEDs are on 25% of the time, pumps about 10%, plants are growing all the time, photosynthesis in hemp is very efficient. 10 pound plant from seed in 45 days including root ball, which this system uses also.
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?
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
@@fatheroffibereconomics I would be interested in using organic fibre as picture frame mouldings.
Great video, what you have presented could be almost be perfection.
I can't believe I just skimmed through 1.1k of comments and nobody caught what you said just before your titles [@ ~2:44]. You said, "... that'll be essential to keeping our global atmosperic temperature below 1.5° Celsius." I hope not! I hate [near] freezing temperatures! 😨 I think you meant to refer to keeping our global atmosperic temperature below 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels [? I forget what the reference level is supposed to be]. Other than that little blooper [and hints of perpetual motion ], it was a great video, as always. One of my favorite channels. 😘
The magic weed that has many different manufacturing uses, I think it's also a nitrogen fixing crop so good in crop rotation.lets hope it gets grow outside and become part of the agricultural norm and a good sustainable cash crop for farmers around the world.
Brilliant as always mate.
The hippies were right after all, weed will save the world 😂
Save the world, smoke more weed. 😎
@@staalwijk smoking it puts the carbon in the weed back into the atmosphere. Eat it instead.
@@nathanlewis42 - I eat it because I developed COPD from smoking weed and tobacco.
Lord Jesus saved the world already , it's done , accept & say, yes please , cause He worthy of it , 💖👣👑
@@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.
One think you haven't mentioned is the insane energy requirements and inefficiencies of artificial lighting even with LEDs
this i think can be avoided with skylights and mirrors
@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
@@orengordon7921 dude he said they will also burn the fuel to actually produce electricity
@@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
@@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
I just spent several minutes looking for this guys name. He doesn’t announce himself and it’s not printed on the videos or website. I finally found it from a different source!
we love this show & spacex. we traveled to Boca Chica to see the starship get built. & we got the S dual motor fsd last Christmas 🎄 😎 still have the cybertruck tri motor or 4 motor fsd on order, i got lots of solar & backup battery system to charge them both. i have tsla too. i just got tired of paying $5 for a gallon for gasoline.
This sort of discussion calls for some 'back of the envelope' calculations. I realize you're not a numbers guy.... ...still...
I can't believe this is the only comment to point it out!
I'd be happy to be wrong, but I think that this process can HARDLY be carbon negative!
Let's say you input 100kW worth of electricity to make light. You get 90kW worth of light.
Photosynthesis transform that in 1.8kW worth of starches oils in the form of a hemp plant, with 2% efficiency .
Then you process the hemp and get maybe 1kW worth of fuel
You burn this fuel and make electricity to power the whole factory, and you get maybe 0.6kW.
So 99.994% of your electricity has to come from the grid.
Ultimately, you're spending electricity to pull carbon out of the air, and with a seemingly lower efficiency than thermodynamic machines already in operation.
For this to make any sense whatsoever you need to make absolutely sure that the electricity comes from renewables, but even then it looks like a pretty bad use of it.
I'm persuaded that plants should only be grown with sunlight.
Yes exactly, nature won't give us any points for trying, if we mismanage green R&D there will be huge consequences.
Great news about hemp graphine. Shame about it being used as a Trojan Horse to sneak in burning plastics.
Pretty great show, as usual, except maybe for making it sound like a perpetual motion machine with the various inputs fueled by outputs. And with further commercially valuable outputs besides! You can get away with that with plants grown in natural light but not in this circumstance. Considerably more energy intensive would be my guess. Would like you to have touched on that. Or perhaps you did and I just wasn’t paying enough attention?
Perpetual motion? There is a whole 1/3rd of the video talking about its inputs needed to fuel production. It just happens to take waste inputs and uses the energy locked in that to create its exports. That isn't perpetual motion, that is just recourcefulness.
It's not a perpetual motion machine, you're missing the biggest energy input... the sun. Without the energy from the sun, none of this would work.
So, let me see if I understand this.
1. build vertical farm next to toxic waste-water.
2. Grow hemp using toxic waste water. Produce clean drinking water.
3. Use hemp to make fertilizer, graphene, and diamonds.
4. Power the entire operation using fuels produced from the hemp.
Where is the downside?
Funding and management. Let’s hope they are a good company and not just a good technology.
5. ???
6. Profit!
The billion dollar question is, after paying for raw materials and selling all their products and carbon credits, can it turn a profit? Cabortura certainly has some estimates, but real life is always more complex than expected.
@@ecospider5 considering where they are renting their office space, they have a lot of funding.
@@martir.7653 I guess the million dollar question is can you smoke it?
5. Carbon sequestration
Keep them coming. Knowledge is key; knowledge is power.
I read the comments here, so many people with wholesome first thoughts regarding hemp. I'm afraid my first thought was rather less wholesome - anyway, this was the most exciting video I've watched in a long while.
How about instead of in a warehouse, put them on rooftops, they would cool the building to boot.
the closed water system is crucial large scale, and using hemp to filter contaminants needs to go large scale years ago. . nothing wrong with growing it on yer roof too, or even say ,, a spare BR
I like everything you propose, except one thing. I am extremely enthusiastic about using hemp and bamboo as the center of the system. But hydroponics is the most inefficient, expensive, and fragile part of the system. Drop that and I think the rest of the concept is great. In fact, I think it is the future.
You would be correct with any other crop but hemp. Using hemp they are reclaiming toxic waste water. Once the toxic waste ponds are drained, the whole operation can be moved and the land reclaimed for greener purposes than housing toxic sludge.
Hemp makes great socks. That’s the first thing I thought of.
So I am one of those that have always opposed the legalization of Marijuana and I live in a state here in the US where it was recently passed for recreational use. I also live in an area where since that legalization several companies have started growing facilities for this industry. With that said I really found this video very enlightening and educational, I knew that Marijuana/Hemp had many uses other than as a drug. But now I can start to understand why some refer to it as a super plant, as it really has far more uses than I ever thought it did. I think these concepts could actually be used along side the the medical and recreational Marijuana industry to give something back to those of us that cringe at the thought of fields of drugs being grown just down the street etc.. Combine that with the thought of it providing more good jobs for an area and it seems like a win win?? Especially considering the Graphene production and the idea of Graphene for solid state batteries and how needed it is for the future electrification of our world and suddenly this seems like a no brainer!
The technology and systems you feature give me great hope for a cleaner future
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.
This sounds like perpetual motion, there is no way that indoor growing could be carbon neutral and even less of a chance of a chance of it being carbon negative especially when you consider the embodied energy of the warehouse and lighting systems. Let's see the math, until then this is just a pipe dream.
You have to consider the toxic waste removal aspect. Even if the operation is not carbon negative short term, what happens to the land after the toxic waste has been removed and trees can be planted and animals return? Down the line the whole process profits from making the world cleaner.
I just assumed that they'd gain energy from solar panels on top of said warehouse - there's also the fact that the biochar will store a lot of the sequestered carbon in itself.
This is a good point. I looked around at estimates of kwh required to grow a pound of hemp and the low end is around 600, with the high end 2k+. A pound of hemp is only 8000btu burned, and thats a paltry 2.5kwh. It would appear there is absolutely no way they are getting much energy out of this process. They should seemingly greenhouse (sun) at minimum, but land use seems required to bring power use down. Then of course you are going to need solar to cover the balance.
@@grimacester I wonder if they could grow on the toxic water itself? It is one thing to build a hydroponic farm on industrial wasteland, it is another thing to build one that floats.
He said the pyrolyser is supplemented with waste material from other industries. Also the energy of a plant is not wholly derived from the light it absorbs, the light acts as a kind of catalyst that allows it to turn carbon and other elements such as the phosphorous in the waste water into stored energy. Besides, the point of the system is to capture carbon, its doesnt need to be energy neutral, it could be supplemented with green energy.