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Elon Musk to Give $100 Million to the First Person Who Can Create This Climate-Saving Technology

Whoever takes up Elon Musk’s latest challenge could be in for a financial windfall — but it would benefit everyone on the planet. On Thursday, Musk — the founder of Tesla and SpaceX — tweeted he would donate $100 million towards a prize for designing effective carbon capture technology, with other details to come at a later date.

On Thursday, Musk — the founder of Tesla and SpaceX — tweeted he would donate $100 million towards a prize for designing effective carbon capture technology,

Musk, who heads Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said he’ll unveil details of the prize next week. But his past statements suggest that one of his key goals is to lower the price of direct-air carbon capture so it can feasibly be used to make synthetic rocket fuel, replacing the fossil fuels used now.

HEMP SOLUTIONS TO ENERGY DEMANDS ALREADY EXIST

Hemp batteries and hemp as a fuel source may sound far fetched to an average consumer, but those who are aware of hemp know the potential. These technologies don’t need to be invented, but like hemp plastics, already exist and are waiting to be adopted by the market. Robert Murray-Smith and Steve have a video from 2016, which shows how they built their hemp battery, and how it compares in performance to lithium batteries. According to the tests they ran in 2016, Murray-Smith was able to find that hemp performed even better than Lithium batteries under stress. In 2019 they have already improved their process in hemp processing and preparation to make even superior batteries. They have improved output by 20% and found how to limit corrosion to the metal of the cell. Another improvement, suggested by Karabetter, was to add some water to hemp ink to one layer of ink and then to layer ink unmixed with water over it. Hemp carbon is then sieved over the ink to add an even coating. All of them are then mixed to make a relatively thick, adherent layer of carbon coating, improving the performance of hemp as a fuel source even further.

WHY DOES HEMP WORK AS A BATTERY OR AS A FUEL SOURCE? Not only is hemp able to conduct electricity, it can be made into materials as hard as steel, hemp is also a valid source of biodiesel fuel. While hemp powered batteries show great promise for the industry of the electric automobile, anything that runs off regular diesel can use biodiesel. While biofuel still deals with emissions and thus a carbon footprint, the process of producing such fuel is much cleaner.

In addition to this, hemp can be used to make ethanol, which is typically produced through using wheat-based crops, including corn. While these substances work to make ethanol, using hemp as the basis for the production of ethanol allows for food stores to be used for supplying food rather than being cut into to produce fuel. Hemp’s ability to perform phytoremediation also poses a great benefit, where other crops need ideal soil to grow in, hemp can perform well in poor soil, and leave it in a better state after every harvest. Instead of taking from the food industry, relying on hemp to produce ethanol will improve soil quality and availability for other crops. This fuel is also versatile and can be used to power a wide range of machines, including conventional consumer vehicles. Although ethanol is an imperfect solution to fossil fuels, at least it leans away from the addiction the world has on fracking. Exxon’s oil spills aren’t news to anyone who has paid attention in the last decade, as they have caused massive pollution, which has killed millions of birds and other wildlife in a single incident. Hemp production has no such effects, although pesticides and other materials used during grows may pose a threat to the surrounding ecosystem. However, if cultivators are responsible, then there is no higher risk than growing any other crop in the agricultural industry.

RELIANCE ON HEMP IS NOT AN INNOVATION, BUT A RETURN TO FORMER INNOVATION

Although hemp led to an economic boom, humans have relied on hemp for thousands of years. It’s not that the modern industries should replace plastic, fuel, cotton, and other materials with hemp, but that they should revert their decision to replace hemp with these unsustainable and non-biodegradable substances. Although biodiesel and ethanol produced from hemp is still being developed, and will likely need to wait for the hemp industry to mature for it to become economically viable, auto manufacturers like Porsche, Ford, and Honda are already incorporating hemp into their production. Hemp only takes months to produce while metals form over thousands of years, making hemp a cheaper substance to source, and because of the lightweight nature of hemp. It is also flexible and ideal for serval parts of manufacturing. Considering that these titans in the car industries are already using hemp to build their cars, it will not be long until they start looking into incorporating hemp batteries into electric automobiles and offering hemp-based biofuel as an alternative to gasoline. It’s profitable, sustainable, and popular, so it’s only a matter of time. The application of this technology is nearly endless, as it could be applied to simple household electronics or general heating. If the automobile industry adopts hemp as an energy source, though, it will significantly hasten the adoption of such energy sources. As soon as it’s proven to be a valid market alternative, the hemp energy market share will likely explode.

Could industrial hemp be part of the future of battery powered vehicles? Fresh research into the efficacy of hemp batteries says yes. There is indeed precedent for this. An iteration of Henry Ford’s original Model T was partially composed of hemp ‘bioplastic’ and powered by hemp biofuel.

Henry Ford’s Hemp Car was made from Hemp Plastic (10 x times stronger than steel).
& Powered by Hemp Ethanol.

In 1941 Ford presented what should have been a groundbreaking invention: a car powered by and largely built by hemp.In 1941, Popular Mechanics described Ford’s work as “ a step toward materialization of Henry Ford’s belief that someday he would “grow automobiles from the soil.” Now, with battery-powered vehicles beginning to supplant those that use combustion engines, researchers are constantly looking for sustainable and efficient ways to create battery power. Late last year, research demonstrated that hemp batteries can be more powerful than commonly used lithium and graphene. Researcher and popular YouTuber Robert Murray Smith discusses the experiment at length in a recent video. He began by observing a Volts by Amps curve of both the lithium and hemp batteries. Much to his surprise, the power beneath the hemp cell 31 times greater than that of the lithium cell. The use of hemp in batteries is not new. In 2014, researchers in the US discovered that unused fibers from hemp can be converted into “ultrafast” batteries that are “better than graphene.” Dr. David Mitlin of Clarkson University, New York led this experiment into hemp tech. Scientists ‘cooked’ waste bark fibers of hemp and transformed them into ‘carbon nanosheets.’ This process has since been dubbed ‘hydrothermal synthesis.’ Subsequently, the team was about to transform fibers into high volume capacitors. Such ‘supercapacitors’ have represented a paradigm shift in the way energy is stored. “With banana peels, you can turn them into a dense block of carbon – we call it pseudo-graphite – and that’s great for sodium ion batteries,” Mitlin explained. “But if you look at hemp fibre its structure is the opposite – it makes sheets with high surface area – and that’s very conducive to supercapacitors.” A peer-reviewed paper ranks the capacitors “on par with or better than commercial graphene-based devices.”

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The USDA Has Released Its Final Rule on Hemp Regulation

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the final rule regulating the production of hemp in the United States.

The final rule incorporates modifications to regulations established under the interim final rule (IFR) published in October 2019. The modifications are based on public comments following the publication of the IFR and lessons learned during the 2020 growing season. The final rule is available for viewing in the Federal Register and will be effective on March 22, 2021.

“With the publication of this final rule, USDA brings to a close a full and transparent rule-making process that started with a hemp listening session in March 2019,” said USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs Under Secretary Greg Ibach. “USDA staff have taken the information you have provided through three comment periods and from your experiences over a growing season to develop regulations that meet Congressional intent while providing a fair, consistent, science-based process for states, tribes, and individual producers. USDA staff will continue to conduct education and outreach to help industry achieve compliance with the requirements.” Shawn Hauser, partner and chair of the Hemp and Cannabinoids Department at Vicente Sederberg LLP

said, “The transition from prohibition to a legal and regulated system takes time, and USDA’s final rule is a historic step forward for hemp in the U.S. Many are justifiably disappointed by the DEA’s continued (and in some ways expanded) role in the agricultural hemp program, but there were also a number of positive improvements. The expanded harvest window, alternative disposal/remediation authorizations, and increase of the standard of negligence to 1% will be critical to building a successful hemp industry, and they indicate the USDA gave meaningful consideration to stakeholder’s comments. We are undoubtedly making progress, and we will continue to work with regulators and through Congress to perfect the regulatory structure for hemp.”

Key provisions of the final rule include licensing requirements; recordkeeping requirements for maintaining information about the land where hemp is produced; procedures for testing the THC concentration levels for hemp; procedures for disposing of non-compliant plants; compliance provisions; and procedures for handling violations.Last Friday, January 15th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (the “USDA”) announced today’s publication of its hemp production final rule in the Federal Register, which will go into effect on March 22, 2021. This final rule builds on the interim final rule (the “IFR”) that was published on October 31, 2019. It includes revisions based on three public comment periods (you can read more on this issue here and here) but also takes into account “lessons learned from the 2020 growing season.” These new hemp regulations contain six key provisions, which include:

Licensing requirements; Recordkeeping requirements; Procedures for testing the THC level concentration in the hemp plant; Procedures for disposing of non-compliant hemp (i.e., hemp that exceeds acceptable THC threshold); Compliance provisions; and Procedures for handling violations. The most significant revisions made to the IFR pertain to the procedures for testing the THC concentration and those for disposing of non-compliant hemp.

Below are the highlights. 1. Time of sample collection The USDA agreed with the concerns expressed by commenters regarding the burden of imposing harvest within 15 days of sampling. As a result, the federal agency extended the window within which hemp must be harvest to 30 days following sampling. 2. Sampling method a. Where to sample from the plant The Final Rule maintains the requirement that pre-harvest samples be taken from the flower material of hemp plants. The industry will be disappointed with this decision; many were advocating that samples should be taken from the “whole plant.” Fortunately, the Final Rule does provide more information than the IFR on where to cut the plant material. Specifically, the Final Rule provides that a cut should be made 5 to 8 inches from (1) the “main stem” (includes leaves and flowers, the (2) “terminal bud (occurs at the end of the stem), or (3) the “central cola” (cut stem that has the potential of developing into a bud) of the flowering top of the plants. According to the USDA, this new standard strikes an appropriate balance between the need to collect a sufficiently large portion of the plant’s flower (where THC and other cannabinoids are their most concentrated), and the need to avoid cutting a portion that is so large that it would be logistically difficult to transport, dry, and prepare for lab testing. b. Sampling agents The USDA is working on publishing additional training resources for sampling agents to help ensure consistency in the manner in which samples are collected nationwide. 3. Acceptable THC threshold The Final Rule maintains the total THC limit, which is the sum of the delta-9-THC (“THC”) and THC-acid (“THCA”) content. As we have repeatedly discussed on this blog, the total THC limit is problematic because this testing method tends to increase the THC concentration in the hemp sample, making it difficult not to exceed the allowed threshold. Moreover, because few hemp genetics currently on the market would comply with a total THC testing method, this rule forces producers to carefully select the types of seeds they buy from a limited sample. 4. Negligence threshold Hemp producers are required to dispose of plants that exceed the acceptable THC level. Nevertheless, if the plant tests at or below the newly adopted 1% negligence threshold (the USDA increased it from 0.5%, thankfully), then producers will not have committed a negligent violation. Note that the Final Rule limits the maximum number of negligent violations that a producer can receive in a growing season to one. 5. Registration with DEA The Final Rule maintains the requirement that all hemp testing laboratories be registered with the DEA. However, due to the limited number of DEA-registered labs to test anticipated hemp produced in 2020 and possibly in 2021, the USDA has convinced the DEA to further delay enforcement of this requirement until January 1, 2022 (the original delay extended to October 31, 2020, or the publication of this Final Rule). The USDA continues to argue that this requirement is needed because labs could potentially receive hemp that exceeds the authorized 0.3% THC threshold (i.e., marijuana). 6. Non-compliant hemp disposal The Final Rule affords alternative disposal methods that do not require the use of a DEA-registered reverse distributor or law enforcement. These alternative disposal methods can be found here. 7. State and tribal plan approval Lastly, the Final Rule addresses the potential need for states and tribes to revise and resubmit for approval their plans in order to align with the requirements imposed under the Final Rule. The Final Rule also stipulates that states may continue operating under the 2014 Farm Bill until January 1, 2022. While this option will further delay the establishment of a uniform national hemp program, it will afford states more time to revise their plans and regulations and prepare growers to comply with the Final Rule, which is a good thing.

Hemp will change the way we look at our new 🌎.

__ In sum, the Final Rule contains improved regulations that suggest another step towards full implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill. Nevertheless, regulations such as the testing of hemp plants using DEA-registered labs are bound to cause more headaches for the industry. This is a shame given the numerous challenges with which hemp stakeholders have been faced for the past two years. At this point, all we can wish for is that the Biden administration, including incoming Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, will promptly tackle the lingering issues that may further hinder the growth and development of this promising industry.

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Cannabosides – Cannabis Global Files Patent on Animal-Based Cannabosides

Cannabis Global, Inc.: Cannabis Global Files Patent on Animal-Based Cannabosides – A New Form of Animal Processed Cannabinoids for Food and Beverages

Cannabis Global, Inc.: Cannabis Global Files Patent on Animal-Based Cannabosides – A New Form of Animal Processed Cannabinoids for Food and Beverages LOS ANGELES, CA /

Cannabis Global, Inc. (OTC PINK:CBGL), an innovation-oriented company investing in disruptive cannabis and hemp-related technologies

/ January 19, 2021 / Cannabis Global, Inc. (OTC PINK:CBGL), an innovation-oriented company investing in disruptive cannabis and hemp-related technologies, today announces the filing of a new patent on a unique method to produce water-soluble cannabinoids. The patent announced today relates to a composition comprising one or more cannabosides and a method of producing one or more cannabosides. In particular, by feeding an insect a cannabinoid and harvesting the insect, excluding honey bees, to improve aqueous solubility and stability of cannabinoids. The patent claims coverage of both the process to create the compounds, and the use of the compounds in foodstuffs and pharmaceutical preparations. Cannabinoids are basically oil and thus hydrophobic, meaning these don’t mix well with water. Of course, the human body is mainly made of water. In the most simple of terms, this issue of cannabinoids being oils and our bodies being made mostly of water presents a significant challenge relative to formulation and delivery for the cannabis and pharmaceutical industries. “Our corporate research program was specifically designed to address issues relating to the absorption of cannabinoids,” commented Arman Tabatabaei, CEO of Cannabis Global. “The results have been the filing of three patents on cannabinoid delivery technologies, two of which specifically address using life forms to process and alter cannabinoids. We believe what we have invented represents a new form of cannabinoids processing with a host of positive implications for cannabinoid delivery in foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals.”

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South Carolina Farmers Can Apply January 1 – February 28th to Grow Hemp in 2021

COLUMBIA – The South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) will accept applications for hemp farming permits for the 2021 growing season from Jan. 1 through Feb. 28, 2021.

The state’s Hemp Farming Program has grown from 20 farmers in 2018 to 265 farmers in 2020 – and each year, the program has changed as state and federal laws changed. When the federal government approved South Carolina’s State Hemp Plan in April 2020, the program entered a new period of regulatory stability, one that SCDA expects to continue in 2021. The agency now has six full-time staffers devoted to hemp regulation.

Requirements to receive a hemp farming permit include:

  • Proof of South Carolina residency
  • Criminal background check (A new check is required each permit year.)
  • FSA (Farm Service Agency) farm number
  • $100 nonrefundable application fee and $1,000 permit fee
  • GPS coordinates of all locations on which hemp will be grown
  • Submitting application and all required materials by the February 28, 2021 deadline
  • Attending an SCDA orientation and signing a Hemp Farming Agreement before possessing any hemp, including clones and seeds

All farmers must apply through SCDA’s online portal at agriculture.sc.gov/hemp. There are no paper or printable applications. Because it may take several weeks for farmers to obtain FSA farm numbers and background checks, applicants should review requirements and begin the process as soon as possible.

Permits are only good for the current year, so 2020 permit holders who wish to farm in 2021 must apply for a new permit. SCDA will not award a 2020 farmer a 2021 permit unless he or she has reported his or her 2020 hemp acreage to the FSA by the 2021 application deadline.

For information about the South Carolina Hemp Farming Program, visit agriculture.sc.gov/hemp or email hempstaff@scda.sc.gov.

SCDA is tasked with regulating hemp farming. At present, our agency cannot provide training, information or grants for growing or processing hemp. Those with questions about hemp farming practices should contact their Clemson Cooperative Extension agent.

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