Research Shows Industrial Hemp Is More Versatile Than We Thought

The latest research from Denmark shows how industrial hemp can efficiently make chemicals normally produced from petroleum. New developments could push hemp to the forefront of a new wave of biorefinery technology that aims to use plants to produce fuel and chemicals that, up until now, we have extracted from fossil fuels.

The shift away from fossil fuels as a source of energy and raw materials means scientists and engineers have started to eye fast-growing, high-yielding crops to replace them. Petroleum goes much further than just gasoline and has made itself indispensable for modern society. Disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the market shift toward tar sands make it obvious that oil companies have to go deeper and deeper into the Earth to get petroleum, and it never gets any easier. With so much technology invested into extracting chemicals from petroleum, the industry is reluctant to make a...

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