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Did you know that hemp plants can be converted into clean-burning charcoal? Why didn't Obama legalize it?
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Why doesn't trump ? Why didn't Bush or anyone else ?
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I live near coal country and am totally anti-coal. The real reason for loss of coal jobs is the MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL. Rather than hire people to dig coal underground, they just use a few tons of explosives to blow the top off the mountain, then push the debris over the hill- burying thousands of miles of streams. It's disgusting. Coal production has INCREASED with fewer workers.
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Agreed somewhat. I live where they sill mine it. China is not buying as much of our coal. A good bit of what is still mined here is metallurgic coal used for making steel.
But when they were big on the soft coal, the mining safety went out the window as they could not get it out of the ground fast enough. Hence the all those accidents they had 5-10 years ago. Anyone who wants to keep their job does not talk to MSHA when they come.
Coal was at it's peak. Couldn't go anywhere but down when external buyers found other sources and made transports for it to get it to market. Again where there were no safety or environmental concerns.
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The internal combustion engine is NOT THE PROBLEM. It's the petroleum fuel. Rudolph Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on peanut oil. Henry Ford was building cars that ran on clean Ethanol from plants (mainly hemp). Congress outlawed hemp in 1937 after the oil companies lobbied for it. Ford's hemp car was 3 times as green as today's electric cars.
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I have 2 diesels that run on waste veggy oil. One runs a electric generator. The other can run a generator or a host of other implements I made for it. Peanut oil is very expensive if you have ever bought any. Most valuable part of the peanut. Diesels can be converted to burn just about any organic hydrocarbon. It has never been a secrete and many of us have been doing it for many years. It just needs cleaned, de-desalinated and often heated before injection.
So what's the problem with everyone else ?
Every time someone makes good strides to make commercial operations of it, big oil lobbies for regulation to make it more costly, just like solar and wind.
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We need all of the above approaches to energy since it really is a national security issue. Many of you may find out just how much of a issue it is in your lifetime. The goal should always be to be self dependent by whatever means possible. Yes all of the above energy is the only solution.
Everything has hidden cost and effects but some are easier to deal with when you think long term. And they are all possible jobs.
One mans waste can be a mans job, heat, light but only if you let it.
The petro keepers want it as it is.
You want heat ? Pay Master Blaster ! ...LOL...
Personally, I'm not worried. But remember, I'm not sharing my solar or other natural energy with anyone when the hammer falls.
When you are all done playing politics with energy, the vision I just explained is all you have left, but do you have enough time to convert before disaster ?
That's up to you... I'm covered. It's all about 'who do you want to serve' !