{"id":163,"date":"2013-03-02T01:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-03-02T01:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T01:25:54","slug":"the-business-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/the-business-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Threat of Energy Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2013\/02\/26\/2532443\/hemp-has-untapped-market-in-biofuels.html\">Hemp has untapped market as biofuel, Pikeville businessman says<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But the advantages from hemp would be exponentially greater, Ford said, because hemp oil from seeds could be used for aviation fuel and biodiesel. Other parts of the plant \u2014 such as the \u201churds\u201d from the woody middle of the stalk \u2014 could be used for cellulosic ethanol.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said the biomass also could be blended with Kentucky\u2019s high-sulfur coal to \u201cgreen\u201d it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working with coal companies right now on a strategy for post-mining land use to add value to the land and create jobs,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ever wonder why hemp is really illegal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemp has untapped market as biofuel, Pikeville businessman says But the advantages from hemp would be exponentially greater, Ford said, because hemp oil from seeds could be used for aviation fuel and biodiesel. Other parts of the plant \u2014 such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/the-business-of-energy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}