google news hits the target.

Here is another hemp seed oil,biodiesel link, but this one seemed to have missed the eye of google.

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Re: Community Activism and the Capital Region Energy Forum (Part 2)
08/03/2008 5:40 AM
Extremely excited to catch this blog post.

I am presently finishing up some QA work on the Millennium Pipeline here in Albany, NY.

Ok, secret is out, I am an old Hippie, One of the original Mother Earthers before the trend went cutesy pie. We developed digesters and the like in the 60's and 70's to power homes and cars. Some pretty crude things, but interest was always there and as I progressed in my profession, I worked to provide quality, but never strayed far from those old days.

We waste so much in the way of potential resources here in the USA, that it is disgusting. I have developed a few things thru the years and wonder why we do not use the switchgrass, sugarcane dross, or even wood processing residue for cellulosic conversion. And then, the possibly best of all, hemp.

Hemp, planted in all of the dead and subsidised acreage could alleviate a lot of the need for stock for conversion.

I live near Hempfield Twp. in Westmoreland County, PA, part of George Washington's Plantations and hemp grows wild and freely in many areas there and in places where not much else except scrub trees and grasses proliferate.