Cannabis of course is known as marijuana and pot. It is associated with drug users and stoners. But if you can put away that stigma, we find that cannabis has four times the cellulose value as corn, making it a potentially good plant for ethanol production.
Now then, personally I would not do drugs or smoke pot so this article is without consideration of the stoners in the world or their potential support of this plant for ethanol. If cannabis grows so well all over the world it does make sense to look into its use for the making of ethanol.
If cannabis can be generated into Ethanol then we will need to modify it to succeed better and use those genetic differences which allow for low water in production to insure that unfortunately we cannot get price spikes whenever you have drought in the ethanol we use for oil. Additionally if the plant can be used to “get high” then we have to modify it so which don’t occur or that the leaching into the soil or waterways does not contain high levels of THC as it would be problematic.
If we further modify this cannabis weed then we will have to make it with terminating seeds until we know cures have done, other wise it grow to be a “super weed” and take over natural cannabis as well close genetic kind of weeds. In a web think tank recently a gentleman mentioned that;
“Ethanol/bio diesel will likely to be the fuel source of the future for the rotary, eccentric crank, 4 and 2 cycle engines running our cars boats trains and generator sets etc. I see it burns far cleaner than the crude oil based hydrocarbon heavy fuels we use at present, and will minimize the pollution.”
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