Hi There I'm looking at the possibility of 300 acres of hemp for a research and development project. I'm needing information on the cost of processing hemp to methanol and maybe on to bio diesel, any info?
Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 3:00 PM Subject: Hemp & Destructive Distillation was Re: [biofuel] NEW can you help? > > Methanol out of hemp - > > No figures available - too impractical. > > Anyone disagree? > > Perhaps too impractical at the moment, but not in the "clear" future. > > Impracticality in this case is the lack of hemp acreage in industrial > nations. The limited supplies of industrial hemp that exist are already > dedicated to oil and fiber end uses. > > There is a residual celulosic "hurd" remaining after fiber and oil harvest. > Given enough initial acreage within a specific radius, it would make > reasonable sense to establish a destructive distillation facility adjacent > to a processing plant. > > Todd > Appal Energy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
