Canadian Cannabis Car 120
sykobabul writes "The CBC is reporting: 'An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.' Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis."
a little late: henry ford did that (Score:5, Informative)
here's a youtube clip of the original hemp car, in 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgDyEO_8cI [youtube.com]
among other hemp facts:
ford and diesel intended their cars to run on hemp oil
jefferson drafted the declaration of independence on hemp paper
much of the founding fathers grew hemp or processed it
read more:
http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html [naihc.org]
Hemp IS Cannabis... (Score:5, Informative)
FFS, people, when will it be understood that Hemp is much more than just Cannabis?
Industrial hemp is just a cultivar of C. Sativa that is bred for fiber and oil production.
There are 3 separate species of Cannabis, and many different cultivars and hybrid varieties.
ALL hemp is Cannabis. But not all Cannabis is hemp. The varieties grown for drug use are generally pretty poor fiber producers.
Re:Use more hemp please (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Hemp eh? (Score:1, Informative)
No, seriously .... are you retarded?
He's not, but you might be. At the very least you are pretty ignorant of history.
It's not just nylon, but cotton and other fabrics - and the "war on drugs" started with *ONE* country, which then leveraged its economic muscle to get it banned in all the other countries too.
Maybe instead of ridiculing people who make salient points, you might want to read up on the topic first, to avoid looking like a complete fucking moron.
Re:ur doin it wrong (Score:3, Informative)
See, folks, this is what happens when you DON'T smoke pot, you say wholly uneducated nonsense such as this.
We can make parts of the car out of hemp - plastic body panels can be made from the seeds and plant fibers by converting it into bioplastics.
Re:Hemp eh? (Score:1, Informative)
Nothing magical about it - they are all under the influence of multinational conglomerates which have colluded to make money off things other than hemp. Most of the world is what we glibly refer to as "banana republic".
That being said, growing industrial hemp was just re-legalized in Oregon this last year - at least some states are coming to their senses:
http://oregon.gov/ODA/ind_hemp.shtml
Re:Use more hemp please (Score:3, Informative)
It is. That's why it's illegal.
Re:Only one word to describe it (Score:3, Informative)
It makes great plastic [youtube.com] too.