Hemp & renewable energy archive
Historical CCGUIDE material on hemp biomass, pyrolysis, methanol and energy farming.
Archive source
The original page drew on material attributed to Lynn Osburn's Energy Farming in America and reproduced in Jack Herer's The Emperor Wears No Clothes.
The archive argues that crops can be grown specifically as biomass feedstock, with carbon taken up during plant growth and later released when the resulting fuel is used.
It presents this idea as an alternative to relying entirely on fossil resources, while describing high-yield crops as potentially useful for dedicated energy farming.
Pyrolysis heats organic material with little or no oxygen. Depending on the process, it can produce charcoal, gases and liquid products. The historical text proposed adapting such conversion methods to agricultural biomass.
The page also linked biomass conversion with possible production of methanol and other fuels.
The original campaign material described hemp as a fast-growing, woody crop with a high cellulose content and argued that it could be harvested, compacted and transported as a biomass feedstock. It further claimed environmental and economic advantages over coal and oil.
Historical campaign report
The second part of the legacy page cited Kenn and Joanna d'Oudney's Report of the FCDA Europe, Fourth Edition (ISBN 0 9524421 1 6).
Working CCGUIDE links
The legacy external fuel links have been removed. These CCGUIDE pages remain useful for navigating the site's hemp and biomass archive.
The surviving CCGUIDE page summarising FCDA biomass-energy claims.
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CCGUIDELink maintenance
Bibliographic references are preserved as text even where the old web destination no longer provides a reliable page.
Jack Herer. The legacy page cited ISBN 0 9524560 0 1 and attributed its biomass passage to an excerpt from Lynn Osburn's Energy Farming in America.
The former Amazon affiliate URL has been removed because it no longer resolves reliably to the intended product page.
Kenn and Joanna d'Oudney, Fourth Edition, ISBN 0 9524421 1 6. The archive's related CCGUIDE page remains linked above.
The old WestHemp fuel page, Artistic VT Treasure “Hemp For Fuel” page and Uncle Nicks fuel page have been removed because they no longer provide dependable access to the named material. Their absence does not remove the historical source context preserved above.
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