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Saturday, January 22, 2022

HEMP BATTERIES

 


The waste fibres from hemp crops can be transformed into high-performance energy storage devices, scientists say.
BBC NEWS.
May be an image of text that says 'Hemp Batteries are Eight Times More Powerful than Lithium, Scientists Discover. HEMP BATTERIES TheGretaEffect A team of American and Canadian researchers have developed a battery that could be used in cars and power tools using hemp bast fiber- the inner bark of the plant that usually ends up in landfill. They "cooked" the woody pulp and processed them into carbon nanosheets, which they used to build supercapacitors "on a par with or better than graphene" -the industry gold standard.'

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