@feld @sun It is very important to keep these stats in mind. If you don’t you don’t have a grasp of the fundamental limits. There’s always limits, there’s always negative to the positive. I’m not against hemp, I just think perspective is needed.

In a perfect world we would be able to use hemp. However I can’t see producing cubic miles of material to provide cloth, oil and other products to compete with petroleum.

We produced 800 million barrels of seed oil for instance last year. That means we need to increase seed oil by 8x to replace petroleum products just for driving. 8x exceeds the 3x of corn so that means?

You need corn gains plus 2.67x more hemp land to hit the value needed. That’s assuming all 800 million barrels of oil currently came from hemp.

This is mind boggling numbers obviously.