I'm currently constructing a website to address this very issue....with so much documentation, your head will spin....
But in short...yes, Rudolph Diesel had hempseed oil in mind when developing his engine.... As an aside, Henry Ford also was a big supporter of hemp- biodeisel. In 1940 he constructed an entire automobile(save for engine and chasis) from hemp plastics and ran it on hemp fuel... At 10:59 AM 12/10/02 -0700, kirk wrote: >I remember reading Diesels original goal was an engine to run on powdered >coal. >Kirk > >-----Original Message----- >From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:17 AM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition > > >This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to >support it. Anyone know any more about this? > >Best > >Keith > > > >http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html > >Biodiesel > >We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of >biodiesel's 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. Therefore >hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years >after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. > >Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry >requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits >of using biodiesel: > >Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any >diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. 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 byproduct: food. > >Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. > >In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, >centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries >wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they >used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. > > >http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html >CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, >biodeisel! > >Petroleum is Capital Intensive > >It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum >out of the Earth. > >It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility >to Refine Petroleum. > >Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: > >* Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into >communities every day! >* Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment >cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. >* Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen >sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. >* Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous >pollution anywhere. > >We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! > >Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of >Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, >protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. > >Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition > >Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests >-- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of "yellow >journalism"), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of >newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on >racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit >hemp. > >They said that a deadly new drug called "marijuana" caused users to >go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call >that misinformation campaign "Reefer Madness" (click here to see a >Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this >hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and >overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood >that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >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/ > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 11/25/2002 > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! 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