Fuel and Fiber Company was formed to promote and develop a biorefinery project using fiber crops such as hemp and kenaf to produce natural fiber for composites, ethanol and other chemicals.
These pages contain Fuel and Fiber Company descriptions, diagrams and plans that may be useful to others seeking to advance a Carbohydrate Economy.
Illustration and Powerpoint presentations outline a proposed biorefinery project.
A report examining the potential of hemp as biomass for energy.
The New Athena Project seeks to promote a Sustainable Energy Policy that has global environmental sustainability as its first priority in answer to similar planning documents being offered by current controlling commercial interests who formulate their plans and goals based on sustaining economic status quo with control and dominance of the world energy marketplace as a first priority, while marginalizing environmental consequences in favor of economic development.
I was thinking about how a steam locomotive could be converted to use solar thermal energy to replace or supplement other fuels to provide the heat and found the following two UK articles that seem to indicate all of the major technical issues have been solved for decades. Imagine if we spent a fraction of what we are spending on war to develop a transit system based on these ideas! Think Simple.
"Our primary goal for 2001 is legislation allowing neutral research into the growth of industrial hemp as a renewable resource in Arizona and the processing and incorporation of its parts into the many beneficial uses of the plant. Therefore, we seek passage of a bill..."
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