https://returntonow.net/2021/01/05/hemp-batteries-are-eight-times-more-powerful-than-lithium-scientists-discover/?fbclid=IwAR1abMMh_WGcrf4d07f51UYwjUOtp6CJjw8uOxruL5Gn81ilXguq9pF8QvM
Seems the lowly weed now has more purposes than getting high on - or being taxed so state coffers can be filled while some get high on it . See Wisc is not talking about legal sale for recreational use along with MN - can't smoke in public, can't drive when using alcohol, but hay smoke weed and tax it makes it good for everyone (NOT)
Is there anything hemp can’t do? A year after hemp became legal to grow in the United States, we’ve seen its power to make https://returntonow.net/?s=hemp+jeans" rel="nofollow - better clothing , https://returntonow.net/2018/08/27/why-hemp-houses-will-be-the-best-in-the-world/" rel="nofollow - better buildings and https://returntonow.net/2019/03/01/7-reasons-hemp-is-the-most-powerful-plant-in-the-world/" rel="nofollow - better medicine . Now, there’s something else hemp appears to be better at – making batteries. Most auto batteries today are made from lithium-ion, an expensive, quickly disappearing material. A team of American and Canadian researchers have developed a battery that could be used in cars and power tools using hemp baste fiber – the inner bark of the plant that usually ends up in landfill. They “cooked” the woody pulp and processed them into carbon nanosheets, which they used to build supercapacitors “on a par with or better than graphene” – the industry gold standard. Graphene is a synthetic carbon material lighter than foil yet bulletproof, but it is prohibitively expensive to make. “People ask me: why hemp? I say, why not?” inventor David Mitlin https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28770876" rel="nofollow - tells the BBC . “We’re making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price – and we’re doing it with waste.” Mitlin, a professor of chemical engineering at Clarkson University in New York, first published a description of his team’s battery in http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn400731g" rel="nofollow - the journal ACS Nano in 2014. More recently, a YouTuber named Robert Murray Smith, whose https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMurraySmith/about" rel="nofollow - channel is all about batteries and put the hemp battery to the test against a lithium-ion battery and https://www.cannabistech.com/articles/the-hemp-battery-performs-better-than-the-lithium-battery/" rel="nofollow - found it to be 8 times more powerful ! Tesla’s new https://returntonow.net/2020/09/02/tesla-is-about-to-release-a-million-mile-battery-that-will-last-70-years-and-make-electric-cars-cheaper-than-gas/" rel="nofollow - million-mile battery is made from lithium-iron phosphate, which is supposed to last twice as long as conventional lithium-ion batteries. While more abundant and cheaper than lithium-ion, lithium-iron-phosphate still can’t compete with the apparently far-more-powerful (and renewable) hemp!
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Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel.
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