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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