Fibre Alternatives Industrial Hemp Sustainability Report By Dave Seber Narated by Suzanne Seber

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Fibre AlternativesIndustrial Hemp
Sustainability ReportBy Dave SeberNarated by
Suzanne Seber
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Help From Hemp

• This is a wakeup call or maybe, I should say
  re,wakeup call for all of us,,,
• Our Planet is in Jeopardy, our lives are at
  stake, our jobs,
• OH! I forgot,,what jobs?,,,
• we need all of the resources on this planet to
  make this work, Hemp could be a major player ,,
• We are, for lack of better words,,,in Trouble

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Poster Picture

• Poster Picture

• Hemp grown densley (up to 18) with no side
  branching or plant spacing
• Chopped whole green stalk ¼- 1/2 and then
  dried to produce feedstock or furnish which
  can the be made into
• Biofuels and biochar
• Building materials and composites

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• Poster Explanation
• Hemp grown densely (up to 18 tall) with no side
  branching
• or plant spacing and chopped whole green stalk
  ¼- 1/2
• and dried to produce feedstock or furnish
  which can then
• be made into
• Biofuels and biochar
• Building materials and composites

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Why Industrial Hemp?

• Yield Hemp is the only fiber/energy source plant
  that produces enough fiber and biomass in
  temperate regions to replace the biomass
  currently extracted from forests and food
  producing sources on a sustainable basis
• Hemp can produce 10-15 tons of fiber/biomass per
  acre on secondary and tertiary growing areas, and
  many more on primary farmland.

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Hemp Attributes

• Since our forests are the second most important
  carbon sinks on the planet (next to the oceans)
  How can we hope to sequester excess CO2 if we
  keep removing the trees from our forests?
• Hemp plant chemistry (biofraccination) lends
  itself to biofuel, agricultural
  supplements/fertilizers and composite
  manufacture. Stalk 77 cellulose Lignin soluble
  with hydrogen peroxide H202

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Industrial Hemp Products

• Biofuels biochar
• 3 processes are being consideredDistillation,
  Biodigestion, Pyrolysis
• While it is not clear that any scheme to make
  fuels from biomass makes either economic or
  environmental sense, hemp is the best source of
  annually renewable Ag biomass that we have(in
  temperate climates).

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Biofuel Production Methods

• Ethanol production (distillation) using corn has
  already proved itself to be a disaster both
  environmentally and economically
• Biodigestion of cellulosic materials via the use
  of bacterial or algae based agents has not yet
  been practically demonstrated.

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Biofuel and Ag Products Production Methods Contd

• Pyrolysis (non-oxygen combustion) currently has
  the most potential to produce biofuels. However,
  infrastructure investment for pyrolysis is
  prohibitively expensive. The biochar side product
  holds tremendous potential to eliminate nutrient
  runoff in fields, and to supplement and
  eventually replace organicpetroleum based
  fertilizers in agriculture. The combination of
  these two products makes pursuit of this
  technology worthwhile

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Hemps potential for Pyrolysis
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What is pyrolysis
Biochar is produced by heating biomass with
limited air. This process is called pyrolysis

• Simple system improvements allow for the capture
  and use of pyrolytic off-gases (ex Cars/Trucks
  in Sweden were converted to run off wood gas
  during WWII). Pyrolytic conversion does not
  destroy the porous carbon structure created by
  nature. Pyrolysis is natural. Nature has spent
  billions of years building systems and life forms
  that can take advantage conversion of biomass
  created by natural fires. Pyrolysis can offer
  attractive economics for hydrogen (as well as
  bio-oil) production partly because of the options
  for co-product production
• Spath, et al, Update of Hydrogen from Biomass
  -Determination of the Delivered Cost of Hydrogen,
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Milestone
  Report for the U.S. Department of Energys
  Hydrogen Program 2001

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Bark Charcoal and Fertilizer
charcoal
charcoal
NPK
control
NPK
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Effect of bark charcoal and fertilizer on the
plant growth and soil properties in south Sumatra
(Yamato 2004 unpublished)
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3 Year Results Summary
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Hemp for Composite Building Materials

• Hemp is as good or superior to wood fiber in all
• current applications such as Particleboard,
  Medium Density Fiberboard, Oriented Strand Board
  panels or Laminated Veneer Lumber structural
  beams, and can be produced(with minor
  modifications) in the mills as they are.
• Thermoplastic/Resin(fiberglass) applications
• Please see the following link for a report on
  these
• topics Bast_Fiber_Applications_for_Composites
• linkavailable at www.fibrealternatives.com

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Hemp and Lime technologies for Building Materials

• Hemp and lime can be mixed to make a spectrum of
  building materials ranging from blown insulation
  to plasters, panels, structural members and
  aggregates for walls, floors,etc
• These materials create buildings and structures
  that absorb CO2 over time while creating super
  comfortable interior environments/temperatures
  with walls that actually breath

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Hemp-Lime Technology Warehousebuilt in Ireland
with hemp/lime panels and insulation from Lime
Technology Company of Great Brtain
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• 21st Century Applications and Solutions,
• Hemp is an ideal material
• For making biofuels and biochar for
  agriculture,,,
• To mitigate global warming, and forest
  degredation,,
• To stabilize the world economy,
• To revolutionize,, building materials,
  construction technologies, and costs.
• and, To provide Green Collar Jobs, and
  Employment!
• This is not a starting point for Hemp,, it has
  been around for thousands of years,,This is a
  wakeup call to save our planet

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Oregon Senate Testimony Industrial Hemp Bill
676 3-26-09
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