Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: 5 Oct 2024 14:35:58 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="12636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1425 Mike Van Pelt wrote: >I hesitate to mention hemp (since my impression is that most >of the people pushing hemp are really more interested in the >wacky tabaky variety) but hemp (the non-psychoactive kind) >does have some seriously good points. It's fast growing, >nitrogen fixing, produces what's apparently a good quality >fiber, and if you grow a big excess and bury the excess... >I think it would be pulling carbon out of the air faster >than trees, which are pretty slow growing. > >There may be other plants that are even better at this. Hemp is good stuff but so are soybeans! --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."