{"id":90067,"date":"2013-05-18T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-05-18T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:24:45","slug":"high-tech-high-price-vs-low-tech-low-price-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/high-tech-high-price-vs-low-tech-low-price-2\/","title":{"rendered":"High Tech &#038; High Price vs Low Tech &#038; Low Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/91\/web\/2013\/05\/Energy-Storing-Nanomaterial-Made-Hemp.html\">Energy-Storing Nanomaterial Made From Hemp<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Part of Mitlin\u2019s research is finding ways to use plant waste as feedstocks for commercial materials. He thought he could transform waste from the cannabis plant (Cannabis sativa) into a carbon nanomaterial that had similar properties to graphene and with a much smaller price tag. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Mitlin and his colleagues focused on a barklike layer of the plant called the bast, which is usually incinerated or sent to landfills during industrial hemp production. \u201cHemp bast is a nanocomposite made up of layers of lignin, hemicellulose, and crystalline cellulose,\u201d Mitlin says. \u201cIf you process it the right way, it separates into nanosheets similar to graphene.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This proves once again that there are many low tech solutions to the biggest problems. Necessity is the mother of invention, and in the world of Corporate Big Science, the simple solutions are often ignored because they won\u2019t make the big profits. <\/p>\n<p>You may think \u201cthe problem\u201d is providing cheap energy to the most people, but the only problem Wall Street cares about solving is how to maximize profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy-Storing Nanomaterial Made From Hemp Part of Mitlin\u2019s research is finding ways to use plant waste as feedstocks for commercial materials. He thought he could transform waste from the cannabis plant (Cannabis sativa) into a carbon nanomaterial that had similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/high-tech-high-price-vs-low-tech-low-price-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90067","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}