kenaf it!

Amazing what you stumble across while surfing...I have read a lot lately about Hemp, but Do you know about kenaf?  It is a plant that grows in southern states that can completely replace tree pulp for paper production!  I have been dreaming of that for years!  They say that the paper is even better than tree pulp paper in color, texture, strength, etc. They can use the tree pulp processing equipment without modification and they use no chlorine processing or dioxins. The paper is recyclable, and does not take 20 years to grow!  Check it out.  http://www.visionpaper.com/aboutvis.htmlKenaf could also supply biomass for cellulosic fuel production.

Not all of the plant can go to paper, so the rest can go to a biofuel processes.  I was reading a couple of weeks ago about duck weed for biofuel... can't use that for paper, but they harvest it with a pump!  It produces the largest amount of captured carbon per hour than any other plant in the world.  There are varieties that live almost anywhere in the world.  Others are looking at algae to use in similar ways too.  (http://push.pickensplan.com/forum/topic/show?id=2187034:Topic:78813)

A cool thing about this biomass stuff is that they only harvest the captured hydro-carbon chain molecules, which basically come from the air.  Not only does that eliminate the carbon footprint, but the part of the plant that comes from the ground, like minerals, can be returned to the ground after the fuel production so that the soil does not become depleted... Kenaf it!

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Nois what....

You know... "nois fopro toa sutafo"!

OK,  don't strain too hard... it means nothing!  It is a shortened version of my favorite saying.  I wanted to be sure that it had no actual meaning... did not want to offend anyone... and it seemed vaguely Portuguese, so I sent it to a friend in Brazil to check.  He assures me that it has no meaning at all, expect that some of the words seem vaguely Portuguese as I thought.  If you are aware of any meaning that I should know about, please let me know!

So why, you may ask, would you pick that silly title???  Well, my favorite saying is "Nothing is Foolproof to a Sufficiently Tallented Fool!"  That is the story of my life!  I love to find a different way to break something that someone thinks is unbreakable!  Or find a way to do something that someone else says can not be done.  Or look at some idea from some crazy perspective.  It gives me endless hours of pleasure to look at a problem in some totally different light.

Then when I try to explain it to someone... their eyes glaze over... my voice becomes a drone...  My wife tells me to listen for someone to start saying "Ah-huh"... "Ah-huh"...  A sure sign that we have parted minds.

With this blog you do not have to say "Ah-huh"... just close it when it starts to drone in your head...