Cannabis of course is known as marijuana and pot. Usually associated with drug users and stoners. But whenever we can put away that stigma, we find that cannabis has four times the cellulose value as corn, making it a potentially good plant for ethanol production.
Now then, personally I would not do drugs or smoke pot so this article is without consideration of your stoners in the world or their potential support of this plant for ethanol. If cannabis grows so well all over the world it does make sense to look into its use for the making of ethanol.
If cannabis can be made into Ethanol then we need to modify it to make it work better and use those genetic differences which allow for low water in production to insure that we don’t get price spikes during times of drought in the ethanol we use for sustain. Additionally if the plant can be used to “get high” then i found modify it so it doesn’t occur or that the leaching into the soil or waterways does not contain high levels of THC as it would certainly be problematic.
If we further modify this cannabis weed then we should make it with terminating seeds until we know what we have done, other wise it will become a “super weed” and take over natural cannabis along with close genetic varieties of weeds. In an online think tank recently a gentleman mentioned that;
“Ethanol/bio diesel is to be the fuel regarding the future for the rotary, eccentric crank, 4 and 2 cycle engines running our cars boats trains and generator sets etc. Yes it burns far cleaner than the crude oil based hydrocarbon heavy fuels we use at present, and will minimize the pollution.”
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