Hemp conversion to graphene and diamond. Smart carbon capture?

Hemp has been celebrated and vilified in equal measure over the centuries. It has fantastic properties for textiles and ropes, but it comes from the cannabis plant, so it arouses deep suspicion among some policymakers. What is unarguable though, is that it is an extremely fast growing plant that stores a large amount of carbon. So is it really possible to convert it into graphene and diamond in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way?

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[rmar]

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.

[barbaralindhjem]

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

[jeffryan]

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. (-:

[papacowboy]

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!

[jpendersen]

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.

[lordcrunk]

Hemp can make graphene and graphene is a low energy osmosis sea water filter. Great loop.

[carltaylor]

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.

[sigmacentauri]

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.

[DoctorJack]

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!

[TheVigilantStewards]

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

[ecospider]

This looks really promising. Let’s hope the technology works out and the company management is good.

[Buzzhumma]

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 !

[michaelcherven]

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.

[abbywinters]

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.

[jamesg]

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.

[arlenecearns]

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?

[skygh]

Original jeans were made of hemp<edit:urban myth I learned> and I want them back! Down with cotton denim

[PaperTools]

Not sure which is more brilliant, the concept itself or your explanation of it. This one’s a gem!

[stevenpeet]

Your chanel never fails to give me hope for the future and for my children. Thank you very much.

[richarde.t.sadowski]

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.