Hemp House - Asheville, NC

November, 2009 - Constructing the first permitted home in America built primarily of hemp materials, Hemp Technologies' crew forms eight inch thick hemp block walls using hemp shiv, mixed with a hemp hurd/lime binder, tamped inside recycled plastic forms.
http://Hemp-Technologies.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• green
• building
• cannabis
• hemp
• environment
• sustainable
• farming
• economy

[resteep]

calling this 'hemp-technology' is silly. They're making a paper-crete. The hemp stem matter is incidental, and just about any fiber could be used.

Neat stuff, but the hemp part is a gimmick, and not sustainable when you figure the hemp wasnt grown anywhere near NC. Why not just use straw?

[cannabistv]

Hemp actually is special in several ways: The high silica content in the fibers and hurd binder works with the lime to mineralize, kind of a petrification. A standing bridge in France using this method is reported to be 1,000 years old.

And when it is grown in NC again, the high yield with reduced need for pesticides and herbicides will make it desirable.

[cannabistv]

In Canada, before a hemp farming permit is issued, the farmer has to already have a contract for end use of his hemp. Establishing need, methodology and markets beforehand will be necessary here too, for that reason and others.

[enoughraptor6]

I just realized the Hemp is basically just insulation. Why not use recycled shredded newspaper. This process still kills a lot of trees. Straw set right shouldnt get wet. you dont just leave it out in the weather. The lye thing is interesting though.

[cannabistv]

Interesting you bring up recycled newspapers and saving trees. Recycled paper is touted as environmentally friendly, but contains around 70% virgin tree fibers, as the reused fibers are too short and weak - a mush.

Adding hemp, with its easily accessible cellulose (no dioxin) and long fibers, would enable recycled paper products with no new tree fiber used.

[SarionFetecuse]

@circumarc You know what? If you're just going to bullshit, I'm just going to stop talking to idiots like you.

[circumarc]

@SarionFetecuse Dude, roads are built by the government. You are fucking stoooooooooooooooooooopid.

Who made land a commodity? The wealthy, who still control the world thousands of years later.

[SarionFetecuse]

@circumarc So who did build roads? The communists? The kings of Europe? Tell me? I'll tell you people who bought land out of speculation to make a profit, and build off it!

[SarionFetecuse]

@circumarc Sure, you might have a point a 100% free market, if you're dealing with absolute but in specific cases when the government used to not have enough power to properly carry out an unfree market, like you are so ignorant in history look at the wild west, a lot tamer than. Than what people think it was because there was an almost total lack of government!

[circumarc]

@SarionFetecuse Me pointing out the factual lackings of your claims does not make me a 'socialist'. But it does expose your argument as laughably weak.

[circumarc]

@SarionFetecuse The US is not now, or ever has been a 'Free Market". Your arguments are incredibly half-baked.

[SarionFetecuse]

@circumarc And did the people enjoy the slaves picking the cotton? Was it the only system to ever exist? It's a good comparison, beccause form of slavery was with force, and do you know what replaced it? Machines created by individuals to make profit IN THE FREE MARKET!

[SarionFetecuse]

@circumarc You're ignorant, infrastructure with an average d- rating? And this system is broke, and it only shafts the poor. But you don't question those things.You're also ignorant you only listen to the people you want to listen to, or learned in your government schools. Like Marx Keynes Lenin Hitler, just basically the socialist that are responsible for the death and poverty of millions. You probably don't even know who Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Ayn Rand are.

[circumarc]

@SarionFetecuse Taxes are a part of living in a group of people. They pay for the infrastructure you use and enjoy every day.

The only people who are against taxes are the uber wealthy and 17 y/o's. And you dont seem very wealthy.

[ncsweetpea]

Support your hemp growers, especially in Kentucky. Great video.