This week, we explore a question that seems simple… but isn’t:

If hemp can be used as fuel then why aren’t we using it? Particularly during this very planned war and outage of oil with far reaching implications.

In this episode, I break down:

• The history of hemp as an industrial crop
• Henry Ford’s plant-based car and early biofuel exploration
• What hemp fuel actually is (biodiesel + ethanol)
• Whether it really works — and where it falls short
• Why it didn’t scale (policy, infrastructure, economics)
• Where hemp fits in today’s energy conversation
• And the bigger question: how systems decide what gets adopted… and what gets left behind

References & Further Reading

• USDA Hemp for Victory archive
  https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43843001/PDF
• Hemp biomass & biofuel potential (Bioresource Technology)
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096085241830306X
• Industrial hemp for energy (Energies journal)
  https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/21/5810
• Bioenergy crop comparison review
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032118304983
• Hemp and phytoremediation (Frontiers in Plant Science)
  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00359/full

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