{"id":672,"date":"2014-01-13T04:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2014-01-13T04:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T04:50:14","slug":"just-say-no-to-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/just-say-no-to-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No To Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hemp growers cooperatives\u2019 report touts crop\u2019s benefits to coal<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hemp plus coal could equal economic prosperity for Appalachia, according to a new white paper released Wednesday by the Kentucky and West Virginia hemp growers cooperatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about stimulating the hemp economy,\u201d said David Hadland, president of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association and a member of the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission. \u201cThe public needs to know that hemp is viable, and that hemp is not marijuana. This is just another example of its use.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cooperatives advocate blending dry hemp \u201churds\u201d with Appalachian high-sulphur coal to reduce emissions at power plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur results show that hemp biomass is a promising feedstock for power co-generation, a notion supported by recent techno-economic studies,\u201d wrote the study\u2019s authors, Katherine M. Andrews, Alex Donesky, Roger Ford and J. Eric Mathis. \u201cThe introduction of industrial hemp as a biomass energy feedstock can improve the economics of co-firing due to adaptability, high per-acre yield, and potential to be grown on post-mining land and reclamation sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The coal chemical spill in West Virginia is just one more example of a toxic industry that could eventually be replaced by industrial hemp.<\/p>\n

Whether burning hemp in power plants or pellet burning stoves, it is far cleaner and safer than the petrochemical sources we are currently forced to use, not to mention all the dangerous chemicals used in the processing of those toxic petrochemical products, and the only reason we continue to protect these toxic industries is the misguided belief that there are no other alternatives.<\/p>\n

Read more here: http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2014\/01\/08\/3023589\/hemp-growers-cooperatives-report.html#storylink=cpy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hemp growers cooperatives\u2019 report touts crop\u2019s benefits to coal Hemp plus coal could equal economic prosperity for Appalachia, according to a new white paper released Wednesday by the Kentucky and West Virginia hemp growers cooperatives. \u201cIt\u2019s about stimulating the hemp … Continue reading →<\/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-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}