|
Rudolph
Diesel
Diesel originally conceived the diesel engine as a convenience, readily
adaptable in size and costs and utilizing locally available fuels, to enable and mechanize independent craftsmen and artisans
better to endure the powered competition of large industries that then virtually monopolized the predominant power source-the
oversized, expensive, fuel-wasting steam engine.
Entry into the biofuel market has very low capital
entry requirements, therefore these are among the many benefits of using biomass:
Start an economic boom!
Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel).
Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion.
Make biodiesel
from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil.
Save family farms.
Return economic
control to the people!
Naturally decentralize wealth.
Stop global warming.
Stop a lot of
toxic pollution.
Create a useful by-product: FOOD.
|
Henry Ford and his Resin Stiffened, Hemp Fiber
Car that ran on ethanol produced from hemp.
Biomass, ethanol alternatives to gasoline, and especially Homegrown Biodiesel
Fuel.
We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biomass potential. The first diesel engines
(by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over
a decade thereafter. Hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first
internal combustion engines.
Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and
seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decorticating'
machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp.
Ford recognized the utility of the hemp plant. He constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on
ethanol made from hemp. Ford knew that hemp could produce vast economic resources if widely cultivated.
Evidence suggests
a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's
major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp.
Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources.
DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum
companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution
was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. In 1937
DuPont, Mellon and Hearst were able to push a "marijuana" prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which
destroyed the domestic hemp industry.
The Virginia Law Review analysis of the 1937 hearings on the Marijuana Tax Act
described them as "a near comic example of dereliction of legislative responsibility" and "a case study in legislative carelessness."
It noted that "no primary empirical evidence was presented about the effects of the drug...(only) hearsay and emotional pleas
from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and a few state law enforcement agents." The law "was tied neither to scientific study
nor the law enforcement need." The legislative review concluded that Congress has been "hoodwinked."
In that same year,
1937, DuPont filed its patent on nylon, a synthetic fiber that took over many textile and cordage markets that would have
gone to hemp. More than half the American cars on the road between 1922 and 1984 were built by General Motors, which guaranteed
DuPont a captive market for paints, varnishes, plastics, rubber, etc. The DuPonts were able to use their control of the entire
sphere of the auto and fuel industries to keep out incompatible technologies. It made little difference to them that Henry
Ford built a hemp-mobile and secretly grew fields of hemp to become independent of the oil industry. He could not keep it
up long under the state and federal bans.
Petroleum is out of balance. Biofuels are sustainable and in balance.
In
comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and requires the maintenance of market share. The petroleum and petrochemical
industries have always wanted to prohibit hemp.
The major advantages of natural vegetable oil are:
High
calorific value, High energy density,
Liquid in form and thus easy to handle.
When burned it emits less soot
When
burned it has high energy efficiency.
It is neither harmful nor toxic to humans, animals, soil nor water
It is neither
flammable nor explosive, and does not release toxic gases
It is easy to store, transport and handle,
It does not cause
damage if accidentally spilled
Its handling does not require special care.
It is produced directly by nature: It does
not have to be transformed
It does not have adverse ecological effects when used, It is a recyclable form of energy
It
does not contain sulphur: It does not cause acid rain when used
When burned it is neutral in C02: No contribution to the
greenhouse effect.
freetheplant.net encourages:
|
|
- Promoting peace and working to end the prohibition
of cannabis hemp, the oldest and most resourceful crop ever sown, as well as to equally promote justice, freedom, and international
peace through political action and education.
- The fact that Benjamin Franklin, an idea man,
started one of America's
first paper mills with cannabis. He allowed and operated a colonial press free from British control. We should be supporting
ideas about making our paper from non-wood sources today as well. - Hemp Seeds, and the knowledge that they contain
protein
and the highest source of essential fatty acids in the plant kingdom!
Hemp is an excellent source of protein
and nutrition, and it should be used to fortify the nutrition value of other foods. - Industrial Hemp, and the knowledge
that it is Legal
in many countries throughout the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the
Russian Federation, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Thailand, and China. - Clothing and Industrial uses alike,
as they are too numerous to detail.
- Medical Resources and Devices.
- Legal Resources being Re-Prioritized,
- Having
Politcal Resources Prioritized.
- Enacting Reform, and allowing adults to grow their own and farmers to grow industrial
hemp without license; while letting doctors prescribe untaxed cannabis to patients suffering from a variety of illnesses and
injuries.
- Reducing the need for more prisons and police, freeing other financial resources to be used for the public
good. Diverting non-violent substance abuse offenders to treatment instead of incarceration.
|
