Cannabis of course is termed a marijuana and pot. Usually associated with drug users and stoners. But after 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 will not do drugs or smoke pot so this article is without consideration for the stoners in the world or their potential support of this plant for ethanol. If cannabis grows so well all around the world it does make sense to look into its use for the making of ethanol.
If cannabis can be made into Ethanol then came across modify it to make it work better and use those genetic differences which provide for low water in production to insure that we don’t get price spikes in times of drought in the ethanol we use for principal interest. Additionally if the plant can be used to “get high” then we have to modify it so that will not occur or that the leaching into the soil or waterways does not contain high levels of THC as it will be problematic.
If we further modify this cannabis weed then we need to make it with terminating seeds until we know what you may have done, other wise it develop into a “super weed” and take over natural cannabis along with close genetic species of weeds. In a price think tank recently a gentleman mentioned that;
“Ethanol/bio diesel is going to be the fuel source of the future for the rotary, eccentric crank, 4 and 2 cycle engines that run our cars boats trains and generator sets etc. I see it burns far cleaner than the crude oil based hydrocarbon heavy fuels we use at present, and will minimize the polluting of the environment.”
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