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HEMP
Industrial hemp is unbelievably versatile and is already used for paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, construction, health food, and fuel. The legendary Ford Model T was actually powered by biofuel made from hemp and contained biopolymer materials that were developed from the hemp plant also. With natural fuel resources such as gas and oil under strain in recent years attention has turned away from internal combustion engines with a view to replacing them with battery-powered electric cars. Just when you thought that the capabilities of the hemp plant had been exhausted with bio fuel! we hear the news that Hemp engineering has pulled yet another Ace out of the pack, in the form of hemp batteries. Not only this, but, if recent research is correct, batteries that could be more powerful than either their Lithium or Graphene counterparts! The potential here is incredible as is the positive impact that such a product could have on the environment.
Clarkson University, New York, discovered that waste fibers, or ‘shiv’, from hemp crops could be transformed into ‘ultrafast’ super capacitors that are ‘better than graphene’. Graphene being a unique synthetic carbon material that is lighter than foil, strong enough to be bulletproof and one of the most conductive compounds ever discovered.
What is a capacitor though you may ask? Well a capacitor is a device used to store electric charge on one or more pairs of conductors separated by an insulator. Batteries have amazing energy densities, but they are batteries that could be much more efficient and have a better lifespan when power is drawn slowly and in more powerful than either a controlled manner.
Researcher Robert Murray Smith posted a hemp battery experiment to his YouTube channel in 2016 in order to demonstrate this potential. By observing the Volts by Amps curve of both hemp and lithium their Lithium or Graphene batteries, Smith found that the power underneath the hemp cell was a value of Capacitors are therefore often used to counterparts! 31 while that of the lithium cell had a value assist batteries that are used for of just 4 which shows in the simplest of power-intensive operations in motor terms that the hemp cells outperformed the lithium cells engines, like starting a vehicle up or accelerating. The power a significantly. capacitor can hold depends directly on the material from which it is made and so materials that have high conductivities make for better This is not the only experiment or research that has been conducted capacitors. A Higher level of conductivity means more electrons, either. As far back as 2014, researchers in the US, led by Dr. Mitlin of which means improved charge density.
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